The new book series “Criminal Justice and Philosophy” edited by Blake Wilson aims to canvas innovative, critical, and global/international debates addressing the intersection of criminal justice and philosophy (social, political, ethical, and legal). ‘Criminal Justice’ is broadly understood to include formal institutional responses to crime and misconduct, as well as informal and non-institutional responses which […]
CFP: Representations of Disability in Science Fiction (deadline: Oct. 1, 2020)
Vernon Press invites book chapter proposals for a forthcoming scholarly volume on representations of disability in science fiction, a peer-reviewed collection of essays that will examine how disability identity and experience have been shaped through the science fiction genre. Science fiction texts—defined broadly to include written text as well as newer media—typically grapple with concepts […]
CFP: Sixth Conference of the Latin American Association for Analytic Philosophy, Santiago, Aug. 24-26, 2021 (deadline: Jan. 15, 2021)
INVITED SPEAKERS Susanna SiegelHarvard University Amalia AmayaUniversity of Edinburgh/UNAM David PapineauKing´s College London – City University of New York Graduate Center Diana PérezUniversidad de Buenos Aires – Conicet Andrés PáezUniversidad de Los Andes, Colombia Liza SkidelskyUniversidad de Buenos Aires, Conicet The Sixth ALFAn conference is designed to provide a forum for new work in any area of […]
CFP: Migration and Mobility (deadline: Sept. 1, 2020)
Special Issue of Essays in Philosophy Migration and MobilityVolume 22, Number 1Issue Date: January 2021 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 1, 2020 General Editor: Ramona Ilea, Pacific UniversityIssue Editor: Alex Sager, Portland State University Essays in Philosophy is currently accepting submissions for a special issue called “Migration and Mobility.” For this issue, we seek articles on migration and […]
CFP: EurSafe Conference 2021: Justice and Food Security in a Changing Climate, Fribourg, Jun. 24-26, 2021 (deadline: July 2, 2020)
The EurSafe Conference 2021 in Fribourg focuses particularly on the key concerns of ethics and justice with regard to food security and climate change. We encourage papers exploring the areas of climate mitigation and food security; geoengineering, agriculture and land; adapting agriculture to sustain food security; and animal ethics, veterinary ethics and food security. Find the full description of […]
CFP: What Is Gender and What Do We Want It To Be? Manchester, Sept. 9-11, 2020 (deadline: May 15, 2020)
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory The subject of this workshop is metaphysics of gender. For the three days the participants of the workshop will concentrate on studying together what is gender, what are genders, and closely related phenomena. Politics invariably involves gender. Even when this is not apparent, just scratch the surface and there it is, […]
CFP: Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and AI (deadline: Mar. 30, 2020)
Modern philosophers such as Rene Descartes, William Amo, and Patricia Churchland, have all sought to unravel the mind-body dilemma in many ways. What is immediately noticeable is the fact that the salient perspectives of modern African philosophers like Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye and Jonathan Chimakonam – are rarely engaged. Furthermore, the 21st century has seen the […]
Reminder CFP: Special Issue: Diversity in Philosophy (deadline: Apr. 30, 2020)
We are soliciting papers for a special issue of Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences, for publication in November 2020, on the broad topic of diversity in philosophy. Symposion is a fully open-access journal, which we hope will mean that the contributions will reach a wide audience including those with no or limited access […]
CFP: Reconsidering Forms of Enslavement and Subjection Across Disciplines, University of Warwick, Jun. 19-20, 2020 (deadline: Apr. 20. 2020)
We invite abstracts on topics including, but not limited to: Forms enslavement across time from Antiquity to today. Figuration and representation of enslaved people and/or slavery and more broadly subjugation in the arts (music, visual and performing arts, film, tv and media studies, theatre and drama, literature and graphic novels, etc.) (Hi)Stories of slavery and […]
CFP: Canadian Philosophical Perspectives: Diversity, Particularity, and Universality, Queen’s University, Mar. 21-22, 2020 (deadline: Feb. 6, 2020)
Keynote Speaker: Will Kymlicka Philosophy both relies upon and interrogates the norms, practices, institutions, and histories of the societies we inhabit. It seeks both to provide an ecumenical account of these social features and to pay close attention to questions facing particular societies. Philosophy in the Canadian context might thus face a dual mandate to […]