Thus chatted Zarathustra

this seems timely, sort of:

brown bag lunch

The SPEL program's first brownbag article discussion meeting will take place from 11:45 am to 1pm on Thursday, February 28th, in the IASH conference room.  The Philosophy Department will provide lunch (thanks, Max.)  The article to be discussed is

The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason

Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer

Ethics , Vol. 123, No. 1 (October 2012), pp. 9-31

SPEL Colloquium tomorrow

SPEL Colloquium

Robert Guay
Binghamton University

Thu 21 Feb
11:45-1:00
UUW 324

read the paper in advance!

yes, that, but also ..

I think they also know some people with a lot of money.

(from NYT)

holy shit

on the 3/5 Compromise

this is a University President

UPDATE:

Missouri ratifies 13th amendment.

so we're caught up to 1865 now.

Dworkin died

here's one obit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/feb/14/ronald-dworkin

(not the cover illustration for justice in robes)

IASH Fellowships

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH).

IASH offers Faculty Fellowships, Graduate Student Fellowships, Undergraduate Student Fellowships, and Visiting Faculty Fellowships. All IASH fellowships are residential. They involve a commitment on the fellow's part to present his or her work in the Fellows' Seminar, which is open to the public. Seminar meetings are weekly, on Wednesdays, noon to 1:30pm in the IASH Conference Room, LN-1106, and fellows are expected to attend it regularly.

Please visit the IASH website for more information http://www2.binghamton.edu/iash/

Application Deadlines

March 8, 2013 ..............	BU Faculty Fellowships
March 29, 2013 .............	BU Graduate Student Fellowships BU Undergraduate Student Fellowships Visiting Fellowships

Graduate Student Fellowships

IASH offers two types of of Graduate Students Fellowships to Binghamton University Ph.D. students. Up to two stipended Graduate Student Fellowships a semester fund a competitive merit based Dissertation Fellowship (DF). Students applying for the IASH DF will be ABD, their funding from Binghamton University including the IASH DF will not exceed 10 semesters if entered with BA/BS, or 8 semesters if entered with MA/MS, and expect to be working full time on their dissertations in the semester of the fellowship. Up to two unstipended Graduate Students Fellowships are available to students who are released to full time research by a departmental DF or an external grant.

2013-2014 Graduate Fellowship Application Form (.doc, 240kb)

oops forgot.

I didn't post for Job Candidate #2 and Job Candidate #3, but Job Candidate #4 is coming up:

Tues, 14 Feb
5-7pm
UUW 324

w/ grad student meeting time presumably the same as with the previous ones