British Postgraduate Philosophy Association

Useful advice here.

An excerpt from the article:

What is a thesis? It is a proposition, expressed in a declarative sentence. Here are some examples of theses:

Contrary to popular opinion, David Hume and Immanuel Kant have almost identical views on the role of the mind in empirical knowledge. [This is the thesis of my doctoral dissertation]

God is dead.

God is not dead; he has just been on vacation.

In all situations, I am morally obliged to choose the act that will produce the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.

Here are some examples of things that are not theses:

Kant and Hume on the role of the mind in empirical knowledge

Nietzsche's view of religion

Act utilitarianism

Each of these is a topic, not a thesis. You cannot write a dissertation defending a topic.

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The Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant

25-26 September 2010, University of St Andrews

Speakers: Joachim Aufderheide (St Andrews), Ralf Bader (NYU), Rachel Barney (Toronto), Sarah Broadie (St Andrews), Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh), Robert Louden (Maine), Christopher Shields (Oxford), Jens Timmermann (St Andrews).

Contact: ja253@st-andrews.ac.uk or rmb35@st-andrews.ac.uk

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Mind Association, the Scots Philosophical Association, the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, the Aristotelian Society, and GradSkills.

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Call for Papers: 14th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference

We invite submissions of papers by graduate students to the 14th annual Oxford Graduate Philosophy Conference, to be held on the weekend of 20 – 21 November 2010. Papers should be approximately 4000 words in length, and may be on any topic in academic philosophy. We encourage papers that are accessible to a general audience, and hope to represent a diverse range of philosophical interests in our selections.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 14 August 2010

Keynote Speakers:
- Philip Pettit (Princeton)
- Ted Sider (NYU)

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