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Les bureaux de l'ACP se trouvent au sein de la Faculté de philosophie à l'Université Saint-Paul.

Nous remercions grandement l'Université pour son soutien continu.
The CPA office is located in the heart of the Faculty of Philosophy at Saint Paul University

We gratefully acknowledge the University's continuing support.

CALL FOR PAPERS: PHILOSOPHICAL PROFILES IN THE THEORY OF COMMUNICATION

We are seeking contributions for a forthcoming volume on the philosophy of communication, with plans to be published by McGill-Queen's University Press. Tentatively titled, Philosophical Profiles in the Theory of Communication, the volume is intended to introduce advanced students and scholars of communication to philosophical figures whose work addresses communication as a key area of philosophical enquiry, but who as yet lack a significant presence in the discipline of communication studies. Each chapter in the volume will address a particular philosopher's work.

Below is a description of the project. We are currently seeking contributions for chapters on female and non-Western philosophers. If you are interested in participating in this project, please send us an abstract of no more than 200 words by April 30th. Those whose abstracts are accepted will be asked to submit their proposed chapter by August 1st, 2010.

Please direct all submissions and enquires to Jason Hannan (jasonhannan@hotmail.com).

PROJECT GUIDELINES

A. Aim

The proposed volume, tentatively titled, Philosophical Profiles in the Theory of Communication, is designed to make explicit the link between philosophy and communication theory. The volume will present a set of expository essays examining the place of communication in the work of key twentieth-century philosophical thinkers whose thought remains either under-appreciated or altogether unrecognized in the discipline of communication studies.

B. Target Audience

The proposed book will primarily serve advanced students and scholars of communication studies. Although the discipline of communication studies draws to a limited extent on the work of key American and Continental philosophical figures (e.g. John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas), there remains a large number of twentieth century academic philosophers whose contributions to the theory of communication remain either under-appreciated or entirely unrecognized in the discipline of communication studies. The proposed volume aims to fill this gap. It aims to provide both advanced students and scholars in the field with untapped intellectual resources for communication enquiry.

C. Scope, Content, and Methodology

The proposed volume tentatively includes fifteen chapters. Each chapter will feature a "profile" of one philosophical figure from the twentieth century. The questions that each chapter will seek to answer are the following:

  1. Who is this figure and what was/is his or her intellectual context? This will feature a brief intellectual biography.

  2. What is this figure's contribution to the theory of communication? This part will examine the place of communication, implicit or explicit, in his or her thought.

  3. What has the impact of this figure's work on communication been? Who has he or she influenced? Why does his or her work on the theory of communication matter? The aim here is to make explicit the difference this work makes to our understanding of communication.

Each chapter will therefore have three basic parts: a brief intellectual biography, an account of the contribution to communication, and a statement the significance of that contribution. The author will be given the liberty to structure the essay as he or she wishes, provided that these three main components, preferably in that order, are present in the chapter.

D. Editorial Guidelines

  1. Word length: Between 6000 and 9000 words
  2. Please include a brief bio of between 150 to 200 words.
  3. Contact information: Please include your name, affiliation, mailing and email addresses for official contact purposes.
  4. Citation style: Please follow the Chicago Manual of Style
  5. Please use MS Word, Times New Roman, and a 12-point font size.

E. Tentative Deadline

August 1st, 2010

F. Tentative List of Philosophical Figures

The following is a list of the philosophical figures to be included in the proposed volume.

  1. Karl-Otto Apel
  2. Hannah Arendt
  3. Richard Bernstein
  4. Robert Brandom
  5. Ernst Cassirer
  6. Donald Davidson
  7. Daniel Dennett
  8. Enrique Dussel
  9. William James
  10. Thomas Kuhn
  11. Emmanuel Levinas
  12. Niklas Luhmann
  13. Alasdair MacIntyre
  14. Charles Peirce
  15. Michel Serres

The above is obviously not intended to be a comprehensive or exhaustive list. The volume will not cover those philosophers whose thought already enjoys considerable prominence in the discipline. Certain thinkers (Dewey, Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault, Derrida, and Habermas) have therefore been deliberately excluded from this project. Part of the goal of the proposed volume is to spark a discussion about the relevance of philosophy to the study of communication and, therefore, about which other philosophical figures might also be counted in the community of communication theorists. It is therefore hoped that the proposed volume will encourage similar such projects exploring the link between philosophy and communication theory.