Executive Committee

President
Helen S. Lang
Villanova University
Department of Philosophy
Villanova, PA 19085-1699
(610) 519-7467
helen.lang@villanova.edu

Vice-President
Timothy Noone
The Catholic University of America
School of Philosophy
Washington, D.C. 20064
noonet@cua.edu

Secretary-Treasurer
Jon McGinnis
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Department of Philosophy
599 Lucas Hall (MC73)
One University Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63121-4400
(314) 516-5439 mcginnis@umsl.edu

Program Chair
Donald Duclow
1914 Nectarine St.
Philadelphia, PA 19130 donduclow@earthlink.net

Publications Chair/Newsletter Editor
Charles Bolyard
James Madison University
Department of Philosophy and Religion MSC 8006, 61 East Grace Street
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
(540) 568-2626
bolyarcr@jmu.edu

Executive Committee

Mary T. Clark
Manhattanville College (ex-officio)

Richard Cross
Notre Dame University

Donald F. Duclow
Gwynedd-Mercy College

Mark Henninger
Georgetown University

Julie Klein
Villanova University

Robert Pasnau
University of Colorado, Boulder

James South
Marquette University

Eileen Sweeney
Boston College

Edith Sylla
North Carolina State University

Gordon Wilson
University of North Carolina at Asheville (ex-officio)

 

 

 

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy was founded in December 1978 to foster research and teaching in the field, to organize scholarly meetings and conferences, to publish a newsletter and a monograph series, and to cooperate with other learned societies in projects of common interest.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Thérèse-Anne Druart’s 2007-2008 Brief Bibliographical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology is now available here

Website: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

A project of the Medieval Institute of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland:

  • accessible at: www.e-codices.ch
  • follow-up project of CESG - Codices electronici Sangallenses.
  • high resolution digital images: over 138'000 facsimile pages
  • regularly updated: now 363 complete manuscripts from 16 Swiss manuscript collections
  • new web application
  • manuscript descriptions, browse and search functions
  • sponsed by the Mellon Foundation and E-lib (Digital Library of Switzerland)

accessible in German, French, Italian and English
English: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en
German: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de
French: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/fr
Italian: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/it

Website: Meister Eckhart

There is also an ongoing Eckhart bibliographical site here

Grant: M.A. students in Medieval Philosophy

The Martin Chair of Medieval Philosophy (currently held by Mark Henninger) in the philosophy department of Georgetown University, is offering a tuition grant to graduate students in medieval philosophy who are or will be enrolled in terminal MA programs. Applications must be received by August 1, 2009. Send applications, along with one letter of recommendation to: Prof. Mark Henninger, Department of Philosophy, Room 236, Georgetown University, Washington DC 20057

Job Posting: Editor, Journal of the History of Philosophy

Applications and nominations are invited for the position of Editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. The Editor will serve a five-year renewable term beginning July 1, 2010. The Journal, an international quarterly, publishes articles, notes, discussions, and reviews devoted to the history of Western philosophy, broadly conceived. The Editor must be a leading scholar in an area of the history of Western philosophy. It is also expected that the Editor's home institution will provide operating support that supplements that from the publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press, and the Board of Directors. The Editor is responsible to the Board of Directors for the editorial process of the Journal, which includes supervision of the refereeing process for submitted manuscripts, issue composition, and relations with the publisher.

Initial expressions of interest should be made by September 30, 2009. Complete applications, including a copy of the applicant’s C.V., must be received by December 31, 2009, to be considered. Send all correspondence preferably by e-mail to martinich@mail.utexas.edu, or by post to:

Prof. Al Martinich, Search Committee Chair
Department of Philosophy
1 University Station
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
USA

The Journal of the History of Philosophy is committed to equal opportunity and affirmative action in all appointment decisions.

Prize Announcements: Journal of the History of Philosophy

The JHP Board of Directors has instituted an annual prize of $3000 for the best published book in the history of philosophy. The winner of the prize for 2007 is Terence Irwin’s The Development of Ethics: A Historical and Critical Study, Volume I: From Socrates to the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2007).

The JHP Board of Directors has instituted an annual prize of $1500 for the best contribution to the Articles section of the Journal. The prize for 2008 is Richard Foley’s “Plato’s Undividable Line: Contradiction and Method in Republic VI” (vol. 46: 1–24).

For more information, please visit the Journal’s website, http://philosophy.duke.edu/jhp.


 

 


American Philosophical Association
(December 2008)