Calls for Papers
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) is holding its annual conference as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in London, ON, May 30-June 1, 2020.The Program Committee invites scholars working on the history and philosophy of science to submit abstracts for individual papers or proposals for sessions. We particularly encourage scholars to engage with the theme for Congress 2020 – “Bridging Divides: Confronting Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism”. Unrelated topics and themes are also welcome.Individual papers may be given in English or French. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: The General and the Particular in the Contemporary World: Philosophical, Anthropological, Theological, Aesthetic and Political-Economic Implications. Announcement of an international conference entitled to be held at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario on May 8th and 9th 2020. In the age of globalization and transcultural networking, and of growing nationalism and isolationism, the dichotomy of universalism and particularism becomes a central focal point for scientific, cultural, political, religious and social debates. Read more...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Milano, Italy, 29 June – 1 July 2020. Measurement at the Crossroads 2020 is an interdisciplinary conference that explores the philosophy and history of measurement. Read more...
APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS: Congrès 2020, Western University, London, ON., 30 mai – 5 juin. ATELIER 10 La « guerre des épistèmes » :
le rapport entre littérature et science dans la fiction francophone contemporaine. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Open Theology invites submissions for the topical issue "Phenomenology of Religious Experience IV: Religious Experience and Description", prepared in collaboration with the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Any paper that relates to the theme of “Ethics in Action,” broadly construed, will be considered. Topics might include, but are not limited to, trends in ethics, interpersonal ethics, social ethics, ethics within and across disciplines and specialties, the intersection of ethics and politics, applied and professional ethics, metaethics, and ethical theory. Read more...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 14TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HANNAH ARENDT CIRCLE. April 16-18, 2020, The Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College, Washington DC. The Arendt Circle meets annually to share research on any aspect of Hannah Arendt’s work. Read more...
APPEL DE PROPOSITIONS: Du 4 au 8 mai 2020, des milliers de personnes issues du milieu scientifique se donneront rendez-vous à Sherbrooke afin de prendre part au 88e Congrès annuel de l’Acfas, un événement d'envergure qui sera accueilli conjointement par l’Université de Sherbrooke et l’Université Bishop’s. Sur le thème Du jamais su, l’Université de Sherbrooke et l’Université Bishop’s inviteront la communauté universitaire et le grand public à être témoins des plus récentes avancées scientifiques touchant tous les domaines scientifiques : sciences de la santé, sciences naturelles, mathématiques et génie, lettres, arts et sciences humaines, sciences sociales et éducation. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and Invited Symposium proposals for its 2020 Annual Meeting in London, Ontario. The CPA meeting will take place from June 1 – 4, with up to ten concurrent sessions, and every area of philosophy is represented, with several hundred philosophers attending from across the globe. Read more...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Open Philosophy journal (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opphil) invites groups of researchers, conference organizers and individual scholars to submit their proposals of edited volumes to be considered as topical issues of the journal for 2020. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: In an increasingly polarized world and faced with a public debate that is often hostile and unproductive, it is necessary to develop a robust theory of adversariality and its place in argument. Yet, authors in the debate often seem to be lacking a common understanding of what adversariality means, or in what sense it is or is not important/essential/productive. This special issue aims to bring different perspectives on adversariality in argument together and thereby both invigorate and focus an already lively debate. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: King’s University College at Western University invites abstract submissions for an interdisciplinary symposium aimed at researchers engaged in the political, cultural, and social legacies of the Weimar Republic.“Weimar in 20/20” tackles the insistent presence – in politics, culture, and social identities – of the Weimar Republic, whose foundational revolutionary impulses reach us today filtered through an intervening century of memory, nostalgia, regrets, and unfinished business. Weimar in the year 2020 is an urgent inspiration and warning: an uncertain blueprint for contemporary politics and values that even in hindsight, we struggle to evaluate clearly, with “20/20” vision. Read more...
APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS: 9e Séminaire québécois en philosophie moderne / 9th Quebec Seminar in early modern philosophy. SVP envoyez une proposition de communication d’environ une demie-page (simple interligne) à syliane.charles@uqtr.ca avant le 13 août pour participer au 9e Séminaire québécois en philosophie moderne qui se tiendra du 10 au 12 septembre à l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Les propositions peuvent porter sur tous les aspects de l’histoire de la philosophie moderne (de Montaigne à Kant), en vue de présenter une communication de 40 minutes. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of The Canadian Jacques Maritain Association. In 1979, a small group of philosophers, led by Jean Louis Allard, and including Léon Charette, Fr. Lawrence Dewan, Leslie Armour, and Fr Jacques Croteau, established the Association in order to keep alive the kinds of questions and issues discussed in Maritain’s work. Read more...
ESSAY PRIZE: The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) invites submissions for the 2019 AILACT Essay Prize in informal logic/critical thinking/argumentation theory. This will be the 15th year in which the prize (now $700 U.S.) has been offered. Submissions are due by September 1, 2019. Details are available at: https://ailact.wordpress.com/essay-prize/.
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy/ Société Canadienne de Philosophie Environnementale Annual Meeting October 25th-27, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta. Submissions requested on Canadian and global environmental issues in all their philosophical dimensions; including (but not limited to) aesthetic, ethical, metaphysical, ontological, phenomenological, social/political, scientific, and spiritual welcome. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS *Extended*: Please note that the submissions deadline has been extended to July 15 The 56th annual meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association in conjunction with the 4thannual meeting of the Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy/ Société Canadienne de Philosophie Environnementale will be held October 25th-27th at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Read more…
CALL FOR PAPERS *Extended*: (Please note that the submissions deadline has been extended to June 7, 2019). The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy will hold its annual conference from September 26 to 28, 2019 at Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec. We invite submissions on any theme relevant to the broad concerns of Continental philosophy. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Open Theology invites submission of papers dedicated to the phenomenologically determined themes of imagination, image-consciousness, appearance and the non-apparent, phenomenological ontology, and genetic phenomenology, with regard to religious experience. We further invite innovative philosophical and theological reflections on image, imagination, and creativity in religious experiencing, as well as reflections on a reverse problem of how religious experience contributes to the above mentioned faculties examined in the psychological horizon. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Aitéo, Memorial University of Newfoundland's undergraduate journal of philosophy, has extended the submission deadline for the Winter 2018/19 Edition! The current deadline is February 12, 2019. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS:The PHILOsurfer Convergence is an annual conference that aims to bring together philosophy professors and graduate students who share a passion for philosophy and surfing. This year's Convergence will provide opportunities for the philosopher/surfer to present a paper, socialize, and surf with like-minded individuals at the many breaks in and around the Orange County/San Diego area. Read more...
APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS: Le Centre de recherche en immigration, ethnicité et citoyenneté (CRIEC) invite les étudiant.es des cycles supérieurs, ainsi que les chercheur.es en début de carrière à participer à son colloque international et interdisciplinaire. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Open Philosophy is an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal covering all areas of philosophy. The objective of Open Philosophy is to foster free exchange of ideas and provide an appropriate platform for presenting, discussing and disseminating new concepts, current trends, theoretical developments and research findings related to the broadest philosophical spectrum. The journal does not favour any particular philosophical school, perspective or methodology. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics invites submissions for papers and presentations on any topic in applied ethics and applied politics, broadly understood. Interdisciplinary papers and panel proposals are welcome. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, prepared for blind review, and are due by January 20, 2018. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Association for Political Theory (APT) invites proposals from faculty members, independent scholars, and ABD graduate students for its annual conference to be held October 24th-26th, 2019, at the campus of the University of California, Irvine. We will consider papers on all topics in political theory, political philosophy and their cognate disciplines, from scholars working in any field at any institution. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Second Bochum Early Career Researcher Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and of Cognitive Science. This workshop offers early career researchers in philosophy of mind and cognitive science an opportunity for in-depth discussion and feedback on their work. Each accepted speaker will be paired with an early career researcher from the RUB working on a connected topic. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS/APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS: The Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy invites papers and panel proposals from all areas of philosophy and all philosophical approaches, including and not limited to analytic, continental, and historically oriented philosophy. La société canadienne pour les femmes en philosophie vous invite à soumettre vos propositions de communications ou de tables rondes dans tous les domaines de la philosophie et incluant mais ne se limitant pas aux approches analytiques, continentales ou historiques. Read more...
APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS: Le Centre de recherche en immigration, ethnicité et citoyenneté (CRIEC) invite les étudiantes et étudiants des cycles supérieurs, ainsi que les chercheur.e.s en début de carrière à participer à son colloque international et interdisciplinaire. Les communications pourront aborder un large éventail de questions liées à l’immigration, la diversité ethnoculturelle ou la citoyenneté. Plus largement, les propositions qui s’inscrivent dans un des principaux champs d’intérêt de du Centre seront privilégiées. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND CONTRIBUTED SYMPOSIA: The conference EuroCogSci 2019 aims at providing a platform for discussing the most recent developments in Cognitive Science. It will feature contributed papers, symposia, and posters covering all subfields of cognitive science, bringing together a large number of experts from Europe and overseas. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: The University of Toronto Scarborough’s Annual International Undergraduate Philosophy Conference showcases undergraduate work in philosophy. We will be selecting four papers for presentation at the 2019 conference. The papers are selected through a blind review process by University of Toronto undergraduates at the Scarborough Campus. If selected you will be expected to present a 20-30 minute talk followed by comments from a UTSC student and a Q&A period. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Canadian Climate Narratives: Resilience and Planetary Thinking. ACQL 2019, UBC, June 1-3 2019. This panel will examine Canadian climate narratives in literature and film and their engagement with planetary thinking. We ask how creative works (re)imagine universality, ecological trauma and “pre-trauma” (Ann Kaplan), vulnerability and resilience, planetarity and indigeneity, cross-species collectivities, climate justice and reproductivity, planetary capital and the Anthropocene. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: The West Network, an international and multidisciplinary research network coordinated from the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, is organizing its 2nd international conference titled: The End of Western Hegemonies? University of Jyväskylä, Finland,June 5-7, 2019. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS/APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS: Canadian Philosophical Association. Call for Papers, Symposia, Round tables and Workshops 2019 Annual Congress. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC June 1 to June 4, 2019. Association canadienne de philosophie. APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS, DE PROPOSITIONS D’ATELIERS, DE SYMPOSIUMS ET DE TABLES RONDES. Congrès annuel 2019. The University of British Columbia Vancouver, C-B du 1 au 4 juin 2019. Read more...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Thirty-Sixth International Social Philosophy Conference sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy with the Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco July 11-13, 2019. Proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome, but special attention will be devoted to the theme: Home: Sanctuary, Shelter, and Justice. Read more...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The Hannah Arendt Circle invites abstract submissions for our 13th Annual Meeting, to take place at the University of Alberta between April 11-13, 2019. The deadline for abstract submissions (~750 words) is December 1st, 2018. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Founded in 2003, the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) is a Canadian-based international academic society that aims to promote rigorous scholarship drawn from the traditions of existentialism and phenomenology, broadly construed. Our 2019 meeting will be held in the first week of June at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, in conjunction with the annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Read more...
CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS: Founded in 2003, the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) is a Canadian-based international academic society that aims to promote rigorous scholarship drawn from the traditions of existentialism and phenomenology, broadly construed. Our 2019 meeting will be held in the first week of June at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, in conjunction with the annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Culture and Dialogue is an international peer reviewed print and electronic journal of cross-cultural philosophy and humanities.The first issue of 2019 (Volume 7, Number 1) will focus on the theme of Dialogue and Creativity. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Culture and Dialogue is an international peer reviewed print and electronic journal of cross-cultural philosophy and humanities.The next 2018 issue (Volume 6, Number 2) will focus on the theme of Dialogue and Globalisation. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS: Annual Symposium, THE CANADIAN JACQUES MARITAIN ASSOCIATION / / L'ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE JACQUES-MARITAIN, Friday/Saturday, November 16-17, 2018. Dominican University College, Ottawa. Is Philosophy at a Crossroads in Education? Proposals for papers dealing directly with the role of philosophy in education, classical liberal education, or the contribution of trends, such as postmodernism, to education, are welcome. Proposals dealing directly with Maritain’s philosophy of education are especially welcome.
We invite papers, in English or French, relating to the conference theme. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) invites submissions for the 2018 AILACT Essay Prize in informal logic/critical thinking/argumentation theory. This will be the 14th year in which the prize ($500 U.S.) has been offered. Submissions are due by September 1, 2018. Details are available at: https://ailact.wordpress.com.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Back To The Things Themselves! BTTTT! is part of the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC), which meets annually and concurrently with the Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The 2019 meeting of the Congress will take place at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The dates for this meeting will be 1-7 June 2019. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS | APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS: Revisiting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a symposium sponsored by Canadian Jacques Maritain Association in association with the Canadian Philosophical Association. Un colloque international co-parainé par l'association canadienne Jacques Maritain en collaboration avec l'Association canadienne de philosophie. June 6-7 juin, 2018. Read more...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The Universitatae de Stat din Moldova and the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation at an international, interdisciplinary conference for scholars, development practitioners, government policy makers, and representatives from local and regional marginalized groups. Read more...
APPEL DE PROPOSITIONS: Le Séminaire québécois en philosophie moderne est un colloque annuel bilingue en histoire de la philosophie moderne (couvrant, approximativement, la période allant de Montaigne à Kant) qui vise à favoriser l'échange intellectuel entre spécialistes francophones et anglophones de la philosophie moderne, particulièrement ceux provenant du Canada, des États-Unis et d'Europe. La prochaine édition de l'événement se tiendra à Trois-Rivières, du 31 mai au 2 juin 2018. Read more...
CALL FOR POSTERS: We are happy to announce a Call for Poster Presentations open exclusively to graduate students at Canadian universities. The selected posters will be presented at an international conference on Consenting, Promising, and Ordering: Normative Powers in Morality, Politics, and Law, to be held in Montreal in May 2018. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Association for Political Theory (APT) invites proposals from faculty members, independent scholars, and ABD graduate students for its annual conference to be held October 18-20, 2018, at the campuses of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. We will consider papers on all topics in political theory, political philosophy and their cognate disciplines, from scholars working in any field at any institution. Read more...
APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS: Le huitième congrès de la Société de philosophie analytique (SoPhA) se tiendra du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2018 à Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique), à l’invitation de l’Institut supérieur de philosophie (ISP) de l’Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), organisateur de l’événement. Le thème principal de ce congrès sera « Le continu et le discret » Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: The University of Toronto Scarborough’s Annual International Undergraduate Philosophy Conference showcases undergraduate work in philosophy. We will be selecting four papers for presentation at this year’s conference. Presenters will be expected to facilitate a 30 minute seminar on their selected paper on the topic of political philosophy. Read more...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 35th International Social Philosophy Conference, sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy with the Department of Philosophy, Oakland University, Rochester MI July 19-21 2018. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2018 PHILOsurfer Convergence, Hotel Indigo, Del Mar, California April 19-21, 2018. An annual conference that aims to bring together philosophy professors and graduate students whose passion for philosophy is matched by a passion for surfing. Read more...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: PHILOSOPHY IN AND FOR SOCIETY: DEVELOPING BEST PRACTICES FOR ENGAGEMENT Symposium at the Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Montreal, June 4-7, 2018. LA PHILOSOPHIE DANS ET POUR LA SOCIÉTÉ: DÉVELOPPER DES PRATIQUES EXEMPLAIRES D’ENGAGEMENT Symposium dans le cadre du Congrès annuel de l’Association canadienne de philosophie, Montréal, 4-7 juin 2018. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Feminist Phenomenology After Beauvoir: "Undutiful" Phenomenology. Panel held at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) in conjunction with the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP). May 28-30, Regina, Saskatchewan. Read more...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: LSNA/SELLF CONGRESS, MONTREAL 2018.The Twelfth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America and the Third Congress of the Société d’études leibniziennes de langue française will be a joint event held at the Université de Montréal, on October 12-14, 2018. Read more...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: CSHPS Annual Conference / Congrès annuel de la SCHPS Regina, May 26-28, 2018 Proposals due January 12th, 2018 / Date limite de soumission 12 janvier 2018. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: 18th Annual University of Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference. PsyPhi: Philosophy meets Psychology
Monday, May 7 - Tuesday, May 8, 2018. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: “Searching for Reason and Accountability in Health Care". Humanities inquiries have been at times met with scorn from the hard sciences and from experts and practitioners in healthcare. While theoretical and ethical approaches in the humanities are often contested and at times inconsistent (just like any approach put forward in any discipline), they remain crucial for adequate and ethical practices in both medicine and care. Read more...
CALL FOR PAPERS: “What is Canadian Philosophy? Reflections on the 150th Anniversary of Confederation”. The University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University will host, at Fredericton, the first international conference dedicated to exploring the meanings of a uniquely Canadian philosophy (Nov. 23-25, 2017). Read more…
CALL FOR PAPERS: A World United: Allies in Ethical Development. Organized by International Development Ethics Association and Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée in Bordeaux (France), June 25 – 27, 2018. Read more…
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association 2017 Conference. This year’s conference will be held on 13 and 14 October, at Saint Mary’s University, in Halifax. Submissions from all areas of philosophy are welcome until August 21, 2017. Detailed information here.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Public Issues and Public Reason, Graduate student conference, Carleton University. The Public Issues and Public Reason conference (PIPR) is a multidisciplinary conference at which graduate students from a variety of programs and disciplines will present papers analyzing current social and global challenges. Read more…
Back to the Things Themselves! CALL FOR PAPERS 2018: Critical Phenomenology. BTTTT! is part of the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC), which meets annually and concurrently with the Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Next year, the meeting will take place at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan (May 26th-June 1st, 2018). Papers for BTTTT! 2018 should be submitted by January 10, 2018. Details here...
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS: The Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC/TCEP) invites submissions of panel proposals and papers for its 2018 meeting in Regina. Read more...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — Shaping A More Just Bioethics: A Celebration of the Work of Susan Sherwin. Read more...
MESSAGE TO MEMBER SOCIETIES, ASSOCIATIONS, AND INSTITUTES OF FISP. Information about the 24th World Congress of Philosophy which will take place in Beijing, RP China, on August 13-20, 2018. Read more...