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:: Calls :: The LUISS University in Rome will host a roundtable on “Constitutional Adjudication: Traditions and Horizonts” on May 5-6, 2017. Interested PhD candidates and young scholars are invited to submit an abstract (500 words) addressing the theme “Constitutional Adjudication, between Pluralism and Unity” by January 16, 2017 to pfaraguna@luiss.it . (more…)
:: Calls :: The College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, is offering 20 scholarships to study for a PhD in an area of research linked to the college’s school/subject areas. Applicants must identify a potential supervisor prior to submitting an application, in order to secure a reference and develop a research proposal. DL February 3, 2017.
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This year’s third and last issue of Revus. Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law (2016) 30 includes a rich discussion of Bruno Celano‘s paper on Pre-Conventions as normative facts, as well as Alberto Puppo’s contribution Reasonable stability vs. radical indeterminacy. A disanalogy between domestic rule of law and humanity-based international law. Discussants of Celano’s paper in this issue are Marco Brigaglia, Dale Smith, Federico Arena, and José Juan Moreso. See all contributions here.
Capone & Poggi (eds.), Pragmatics and Law. Vol. 2: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives (Springer 2016) includes contributions by Kasia Jaszczolt, Marina Sbisà, Damiano Canale, Hrafn Asgeirsson, Pierluigi Chiassoni, Nicola Muffato, Ekkehard Felder, Michael S. Green, Teresa Marques, Alessio Sardo, Leticia Barrera, Pompeu Casanovas, Victor Rodríguez-Doncel and Jorge González-Conejero, Mauro Barberis, Louise Cummings, Federico José Arena, Sune Sønderberg Mortensen and Janus Mortensen, Florencia Rimoldi and Hernán Bouvier. For the list of contents and further info click here.
Reason(s), Reasonableness and Law (Papers)
:: Events :: Five papers of the conference “Reason(s), Reasonableness and Law” are now available: Reasons, Rules, Exceptions: Towards a Psycological Account; Brigaglia-Celano. Economic Concepts in the Analysis of Proportionality Reasoning; Esposito. Models of Rational Law-Giving; Ratti. On Reasonableness and Evidence; Reyes Molina. The Rationality in the Cognitive Approach to Legal Reasoning; Zambon.
Check the last issue of Revus. Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law (2016) 29 with three individual contributions of TiLPh members and more: Mauro Barberis, For a truly realistic theory of law; Cristina Redondo, A legal order’s supreme legislative authorities; Vojko Strahovnik, Defeasibility, norms, and exceptions: normalcy model; Pierluigi Chiassoni, Legal interpretation without truth; Jan Woleński, How deontic logic contributes to the analysis of legal (more…)
:: News :: El Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (CEPC) ha instituido el premio “Luis Díez del Corral”, para tesis doctorales en Historia de las Ideas y de las Formas Políticas, Teoría Política Normativa y Filosofía Política. La dotación del premio es tres mil euros y se pueden presentar tesis doctorales (presentadas entre el 1 de enero y el 31 de diciembre de 2016), leídas y calificadas con Sobresaliente Cum Laude en las universidades españolas o su equivalente de máxima calificación en las universidades extranjeras. Deadline: 20 de enero de 2017 a las 14:00 horas (huso horario español). (more…)
:: Events :: The Department of Philosophy (State University Milan) will host the Casalegno Lectures, given by Professor Robert Stalnaker, addressing the theme “Counterfactuals and Practical Reason”. The event will take place in May 22-26, 2017, 2.30 pm, room 431 in Milan, Via Festa del Perdono, 3.
:: Calls :: The Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities is seeking full submissions for a symposium section of the Spring 2017 issue. The journal seeks submissions that employ methods of philosophy to investigate practical legal issues. Please submit papers prepared for anonymous review to yjlh@yale.edu by December 31, 2016. (more…)
:: Calls :: The European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP) invites contributed papers and proposals for symposia to be presented at ECAP9 (9th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy), which will take place at LMU Munich, Germany, from August 21-26, 2017. Submissions of both a short abstract (max. 100 words) and an extended abstract (500-1000 words) by January 8, 2017. (more…)