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1. Call for papers: History of Psychiatry Special 
Issue: 'A Hundred Years of Evolutionary 
Psychiatry (1872-1972).' This Special Issue seeks 
to explore the history of evolutionary accounts 
of mental disorders. For convenience, it will 
focus on the period 1872-1972 marked by the 
publication of Darwin's The Expression of the 
Emotions in Man and Animals and Tinbergen's Early 
Childhood Autism - An Ethological Approach, 
respectively.  Deadline for proposals: 1 November 
2008. 
<http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-1.html>http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-1.html

2. The Darwin Correspondence Project will award a 
prize of £1000 for the best student essay on a 
specific topic in the field of science and 
religion. The essay should use materials from the 
Darwin correspondence, but need not be based 
exclusively on such materials. The prize essay 
will be published on the Darwin Correspondence 
Project's website.  Deadline for submissions: 1 
June 2008. 
<http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-2.html>http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-2.html

3. The Philosophy Department of the University of 
Nevada, Reno, seeks candidates for a postdoctoral 
teaching position beginning July 1, 2008.  AOS: 
Open. AOC: Open. The successful applicant must be 
able to teach upper-level courses in Theory of 
Knowledge and Metaphysics.  The ability to 
contribute to areas of curricular interest, such 
as environmental philosophy, history of political 
philosophy, philosophy of religion, or philosophy 
of biology, is desirable.  Deadline for 
applications: April 3, 2008. 
<http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-3.html>http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-3.html

4. Biology Letters invites submissions in the 
area of entomology, one of their key focus areas. 
<http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-4.html>http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-4.html

5. Call for papers: "Making Mutations: Objects, 
Practices, Contexts," Cultural History of 
Heredity Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for 
the History of Science, Berlin, 13-15 January 
2009.  Analytical approaches to be employed may 
include the study of mutations as objects 
(mutants), as technical and social practices 
(mutagenesis, models, and networks), and in their 
many varied political and cultural contexts, from 
the dawn of genetics through the atomic era. 
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2008. 
<http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-5.html>http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-5.html

6. Call for abstracts: The First Roskilde Science 
Sunrise Conference 2008: "Surviving Ourselves: 
The Human Condition," August 13-15, 2008, 
Roskilde University, Denmark.  What might be the 
impact on the human condition of two major 
scientific breakthroughs about to be announced: 
(1) the laboratory creation of primitive life, 
and (2) the possibility of genetic recreation of 
dead DNA ("awakening the dead")?  Deadline for 
abstracts: May 15, 2008. 
<http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-6.html>http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-6.html

7. Cambridge University Press has just published 
Elliott Sober's book Evidence and Evolution -- 
The Logic Behind the Science.  Sober investigates 
general questions about probability and evidence 
and shows how the answers he develops to those 
questions apply to the specifics of evolutionary 
biology.<http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-7.html> 
http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080327-7.html


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