Call for Papers 

Annual Meeting of The Canadian Philosophical Association 

From 1-4 June 2025 

George Brown College, Toronto, ON 

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers and abstracts for its 2025 annual meeting, which will be held as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. This year, the meeting will take place at George Brown College in Toronto, marking the first time it will be hosted at a college. The Congress is scheduled from 30 May 30 to 6 June 2025, with the CPA meeting from 1-4 June 2025. 

The event will include concurrent colloquia and symposia, along with a plenary keynote address by a distinguished philosopher, sponsored by the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. For the third consecutive year, special sessions will feature pairs of prominent philosophers engaging in discussions on topics of mutual interest.

To ensure the schedule is finalized in a timely manner, the submission deadlines will align with last year’s timeline. The deadline for submitting abstracts and papers is 15 November 2024, at 11:59 pm ET.

The program committee will conduct an anonymous review of both abstracts and full papers. Submissions are encouraged from all areas of philosophy, and the CPA is committed to making the meeting accessible and inclusive.

There are two formats for individual paper submissions:

1. Submit a completed paper of no more than 3,000 words (excluding bibliography, notes, and abstract). The paper must include an abstract of no more than 50 words. Accepted papers will be scheduled for one-hour sessions (30-35 minutes for the presentation, followed by comments and discussion).

2. Submit an abstract of 500-750 words (excluding bibliography), providing a clear summary of the central theses and the arguments supporting them. Accepted abstracts will be scheduled for half-hour sessions (20 minutes for the presentation, followed by discussion). Abstracts are not eligible for essay prizes.

Please note that symposium submissions will not be accepted this year.

How to submit

All submissions will be managed through FourWaves. As part of the submission process, you will be prompted to choose an area of philosophy. Please choose the area that best fits your submission. Even imperfect matches will help the Program Committee find appropriate referees for your submission.  

Detailed instructions are available on the submission platform at  https://event.fourwaves.com/acpcpa/pages

Submissions must be made by an active member of the CPA. New member enrollment and membership renewals for 2025 opened on 1 October 2024. Visit www.acpcpa.ca/join for more information.

Please note that participants may only appear in one primary role in the program (either as a symposium speaker or as the author of a paper, whether full or abstract-based). However, participants are encouraged to serve as commentators or chairs in other sessions.

Volunteer

We invite volunteers to serve as referees, chairs, or commentators at the meeting. If you are interested in volunteering for any of these roles, please click here.

Prizes

Several prizes are awarded by the Association for essays submitted for the Annual Meeting: two faculty essay prizes (one tenured, one non-tenured) and up to three student essay prizes (one student prize is reserved for each official language). The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences will again offer the Congress Graduate Merit Award (CGMA) program to support graduate students at Congress. 

In each year’s December issue of Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, prize winners from that year's Annual Meeting will be announced and a short list of exceptional papers that have been vetted by journal reviewers will be published. Prize winners are encouraged to submit their publication-ready papers to Dialogue early. 

More information

For more information about the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, please visit https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2025.

For any inquiries, please contact the Co-Program Chairs, Nicole Ramsoomair at Nicole.ramsoomair@dal.ca, and Martina Orlandi at martinaorlandi@trentu.ca.

Special Issue on ‘Artificial Intelligence Safety and Public Policy in Canada’ in Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de politiques

Sponsors: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the University of Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI)

Managing Guest Editor and contact email: Anindya Sen, Professor of Economics (University of Waterloo) and Acting Executive Director, Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI), asen@uwaterloo.ca

Guest Editorial Committee

• Amanda Clarke, Associate Professor and Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair,  School of Public Policy & Administration, Carleton University
• Jocelyn Maclure, Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology and Professor of Philosophy, McGill University
• Juan Morales, Associate Professor, Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Jonathon Penney, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
• Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy and Professor of Law, University of Ottawa

REVISED Deadline for final paper submissions: 2 April 2025
The deadline for paper submission has been extended to April 2nd to ensure high-quality submissions. 
 

We are also pleased to announce that authors of selected submissions will be invited to present their papers at a conference organized by CIFAR in Toronto on 28 May. CIFAR will cover travel expenses of one presenter for each invited paper. Conference invitations to presenters will be extended before the end of April.   

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping the world around us, changing how industries operate and deliver goods and services, creating new jobs, revolutionizing public services such as healthcare and education, and influencing public opinion. The past decade has witnessed an exponential rise in the sophistication of AI methods, including the widespread popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their use by businesses, governments, and individuals.

Given AI’s sweeping impacts, it is critical to have policy and governance frameworks that can be used to evaluate societal safety with regard to AI development and deployment. However, there are still considerable knowledge gaps on how best to regulate AI and the pace of AI regulation in Canada has lagged behind international regulation, such as the European Union AI Act. Recently, calls to accelerate the pace of AI regulation have come across civil society, academia, government, and computer science.  There is a need to speed up conversations through interdisciplinary research that can address the technical and policy challenges related to AI, including attention to the short-term and long-term risks of AI.

In response to the need for more research on governance and regulations on AI Safety, CIFAR and the University of Waterloo CPI have sponsored a special issue of Canadian Public Policy. All papers are expected to discuss gaps in public policies, regulatory frameworks, and governance mechanisms on AI safety in Canada, lessons from other jurisdictions (if relevant), along with possible solutions and paths forward. We take inspiration from the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, chaired by Canadian computer scientist Yosuha Bengio, which identified systemic risks that include AI’s impacts on the labour market, global AI divide, market concentration, environmental concerns, privacy, and copyright.

We invite submissions from researchers across a range of disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, law/legal studies, and STEM disciplines, with a preference towards multidisciplinary collaborations. The editorial committee is especially interested in papers that address the following questions, grouped according to three main pillars.

Governance and regulation

• What government policies could help Canada exploit the benefits of AI with respect to increasing innovation, productivity, and economic growth?

• How should policymakers consider the balance of long-term and short-term risks from AI systems?

• What are the necessary conditions to ensure that AI development/deployment is ‘Safe’ from a societal perspective? How might regulators arrive at a societal welfare model that can help policymakers to identify appropriate levels of AI safety, balancing with the economic benefits of AI innovation?

• What is a possible regulatory framework that can be used by government/public agencies to evaluate the costs and benefits and net societal effects of AI development and deployment?

• What lessons can Canada take from global AI regulation, such as the EU AI Act?

•  Ontario has introduced Bill 194 to address cybersecurity in the public sector. What federal or provincial policies need to be implemented to ensure enhanced cyber safety for Canadians, given the threats from advanced AI systems?

Market competition and economics of innovation

• AI development has been dominated by a few firms with vast market power. What government policies should be considered to encourage more Canadian AI startups which should lead to more choices for businesses and consumers?

• Does the Competition Act of Canada need to be amended to account for market power generated by data collection/possession and AI use by a few firms?

• What regulatory initiatives are needed to ensure that data collected for AI purposes is done ethically and does not infringe on the intellectual property of other firms?

Trust, privacy, and misinformation

• How do we combat the threats of misinformation and disinformation, given the potential of AI-generated content to accelerate these threats?

• Synthetic data offers exciting possibilities for AI innovation. What specific policies should be implemented to encourage their safe use? 

• Do current existing and proposed federal and provincial initiatives adequately regulate the use of machine learning algorithms from the perspective of public safety? What new legal or policy frameworks need to be developed or adapted to account for privacy in advanced AI systems?

• From a regulatory perspective, how can we integrate the concepts of fairness, explainability, and trustworthiness with AI safety? How can we develop and enforce standards that are consistent with fairness, explainability, trustworthiness, and safety?

Details on collection of papers

Full papers should be a maximum of 7000 words, in English or French, and conform to the guidelines of Canadian Public Policy.
Submissions must be made under the option - Special Issue: "Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy in Canada"

All submitted papers will go through the journal’s standard editorial peer review process.

Call for papers:

Special Issue on ‘Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy in Canada’
in Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de politiques

Sponsors: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the University of Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI)

Deadline for final submissions: March 1st , 2025

Managing Guest Editor and contact email: Anindya Sen, Professor of Economics (University of Waterloo) and Acting Executive Director, Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI), asen@uwaterloo.ca

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping the world around us, changing how industries operate and deliver goods and services, creating new jobs, revolutionizing public services such as healthcare and education, and influencing public opinion. The past decade has witnessed an exponential rise in the sophistication of AI methods, including the widespread popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their use by businesses, governments, and individuals.

Given AI’s sweeping impacts, it is critical to have policy and governance frameworks that can be used to evaluate societal safety with regard to AI development and deployment. However, there are still considerable knowledge gaps on how best to regulate AI and the pace of AI regulation in Canada has lagged behind international regulation, such as the European Union AI Act. Recently, calls to accelerate the pace of AI regulation have come across civil society, academia, government and computer science.  There is a need to speed up conversations through interdisciplinary research that can address the technical and policy challenges related to AI, including attention to the short-term and long-term risks of AI.

In response to the need for more research on governance and regulations on AI Safety, CIFAR and the University of Waterloo CPI have sponsored a special issue of Canadian Public Policy. All papers are expected to discuss gaps in public policies, regulatory frameworks, and governance mechanisms on AI safety in Canada, lessons from other jurisdictions (if relevant), along with possible solutions and paths forwards. We take inspiration from the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, chaired by Canadian computer scientist Yosuha Bengio, which identified systemic risks that include AI’s impacts on the labour market, global AI divide, market concentration, environmental concerns, privacy, and copyright.

We invite submissions from researchers across a range of disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, law/legal studies, and STEM disciplines, with a preference towards multidisciplinary collaborations. The editorial committee is especially interested in papers that address the following questions, grouped according to three main pillars.

Governance and regulation

• How should policymakers consider the balance of long-term and short-term risks from AI systems?
• What are the necessary conditions to ensure that AI development/deployment is ‘Safe’ from a societal perspective? How might regulators arrive at a societal welfare model that can help policymakers to identify appropriate levels of AI safety, balancing with the economic benefits of AI innovation?
• What is a possible regulatory framework that can be used by government/public agencies to evaluate the costs and benefits and net societal effects of AI development and deployment?
• What lessons can Canada take from global AI regulation, such as the EU AI Act?
• Ontario has introduced Bill 194 to address cybersecurity in the public sector. What federal or provincial policies need to be implemented to ensure enhanced cyber safety for Canadians, given the threats from advanced AI systems?

Market competition and economics of innovation

• AI development has been dominated by a few firms with vast market power. What government policies should be considered to encourage more Canadian AI startups which should lead to more choices for businesses and consumers?
• Does the Competition Act of Canada need to be amended to account for market power generated by data collection/possession and AI use by a few firms?
• What regulatory initiatives are needed to ensure that data collected for AI purposes is done ethically and does not infringe on the intellectual property of other firms?

Trust, privacy, and misinformation

• How do we combat the threats of misinformation and disinformation, given the potential of AI-generated content to accelerate these threats?
• Synthetic data offers exciting possibilities for AI innovation. What specific policies should be implemented to encourage their safe use? 
• Do current existing and proposed federal and provincial initiatives adequately regulate the use of machine learning algorithms from the perspective of public safety? What new legal or policy frameworks need to be developed or adapted to account for privacy in advanced AI systems?
• From a regulatory perspective, how can we integrate the concepts of fairness, explainability, and trustworthiness with AI safety? How can we develop and enforce standards that are consistent with fairness, explainability, trustworthiness, and safety?

Details on collection of papers

Full papers should be a maximum of 7000 words, in English or French, and conform to the guidelines of Canadian Public Policy.
Submissions must be made under the option - Special Issue: "Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy in Canada"

All submitted papers will go through the journal’s standard editorial peer review process.

Dear CPA Members,

The editorial team of the journal Dialogue, affiliated with the Canadian Philosophical Association, reminds its members that the submission of articles in French is always welcome.

Established in 1962 and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Dialogue publishes articles and special issues in all areas of philosophy. The journal meets the highest academic standards and is published by Cambridge University Press. It has 3 issues per year and offers accelerated publication times once articles have been reviewed and accepted.

Dialogue also subscribes to Cambridge University Press' Green Open Access policy, which allows for the distribution of certain versions of articles published on multiple platforms, and aims to make its modes of publication compatible with the open access requirements now imposed by many granting agencies.

Manuscripts can be submitted online on the ScholarOne platform at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dia.

For more information on submitting articles, visit our website: https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/dialogue-submissions.

If you have any questions or would like to propose a special issue project, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at dialogue.francais@acpcpa.ca.

Looking forward to reading your contributions,

Charles Côté-Bouchard

Collège Montmorency

Francophone Editor of Dialogue

Cécile Facal

French-speaking editorial assistant

Dialogue. Canadian Journal of Philosophy

The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking [AILACT] invites submissions for the 2025 AILACT Essay Prize

This is the Prize’s 21st anniversary

Essays related to the teaching, theory, or normative practice of informal logic and critical thinking will be considered—prize: $500 U.S.

There are no restrictions on authorship, except that no current Essay Prize Official or Member of the AILACT Board is eligible.  Authors do not need to be members of AILACT, but are encouraged to be dues-paying members, so that the prize award can continue.  

Only original, unpublished papers are eligible for submission. Maximum length: 6,000 words (excluding abstract, footnotes, and bibliography)—include the word count of your essay on the Title page. Authors submitting a paper previously submitted are encouraged to have made substantial revisions and improvements.

Entries will be judged on the basis of their cogency, scholarship, style, creativity, and importance to the field. There is a limit of one entry per author.

The jury members for the 2025 AILACT Essay Prize are, as approved by the AILACT Board of Directors: Sally Jackson, Professor of Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Tim Kenyon, Vice-President of Research, Brock University; and Jose Gascon, Universidad De Murcia. The jury's decision is final.

To submit an essay, attach a PDF or MS Word document to an email, with AILACT ESSAY ENTRY in the “subject” line, and send it to the AILACT Essay Prize Administrator, Andrei Moldovan: mandreius@usal.es. Include in your email your name and mailing address.  Submit the paper ready for blind reviewing: the author must not be identified in the paper or the file containing the paper or in the description of the document’s properties that is part of the file; and self-identifying references must be removed from the text, notes, and bibliography. Each page should be numbered.

The deadline for receipt of submissions is 1 September 2025.  The winner will be announced by 15 December 2025. AILACT will publicize the name of the winner on its website and at AILACT sessions held at American Philosophical Association divisional meetings in 2026.

The prize-winning paper, and any "honorable mention," will be eligible for consideration for publication in Informal Logic if it has not since been considered or accepted for publication elsewhere and if the author consents to its consideration. The editors of IL will arrange for blind review of the paper if these conditions are met. The author will be expected to revise the paper in light of the IL reviewers' suggestions, or to justify not doing so. Similarly, authors of such papers that are focused on the subject of critical thinking might also consider INQUIRY: Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum as a journal for publication.

For information about AILACT and past Prize winners, visit our website: https://ailact.wordpress.com

Call for Papers: The 9th Meeting of the Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy/ Société Canadienne de  Philosophie Environnementale

17-19 October at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

in conjunction with the 61st annual meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association

With WCPA Keynote Speakers:

• Amy Kind, Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
• Amandine Catala, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency

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.

Papers should be no more than 4,000 words (excluding notes), presentable in 25-30 minutes to allow for commentary and discussion, and prepared for anonymous review. The submission deadline is 30 July 2025.

Please submit papers in electronic form (PDF) and a brief abstract (no more than 150 words) via

EasyChair. Please indicate if you are submitting for the CSEP/SPCE at the top of your abstract. Please note: papers and panels/symposia submitted to the CSEP/SCPE will also be considered for presentation on the WCPA program.

Proposals for panels or symposia are also welcome. Please submit the proposed title of the symposium as well as a collection of abstracts in electronic form (PDF), and a brief abstract (no more than 150 words) indicating that you are proposing a panel/symposium via EasyChair (in the same way as you would submit a paper). Symposia are allotted 2 hours.

The CSEP will be awarding a Student Essay Prize, so if you are a student, please indicate this.

For more information, and a link to the EasyChair submission page, please visit:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcpa2025

Call for Papers

The 61^st annual meeting of the

Western Canadian Philosophical Association

in conjunction with the 9^th annual meeting of the

Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy/ Société Canadienne de Philosophie Environnementale

will be held 17-19 October at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta

Keynote Speakers

Amy Kind, Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College

Amandine Catala, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal, ​Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency

Submission Details

Submissions of papers from all areas of philosophy are welcome. Papers should be no more than 4,000 words (excluding notes), presentable in 25-30 minutes to allow for commentary and discussion, and prepared for anonymous review. The submission deadline is 30 July 2025.

Please submit papers in electronic form (PDF) and a brief abstract (no more than 150 words) via EasyChair:

Proposals for panels or symposia are also welcome. Please submit the proposed title of the symposium as well as a collection of abstracts in electronic form (PDF), and a brief abstract (no more than 150 words) indicating that you are proposing a panel/symposium via EasyChair (in the same way as you would submit a paper). Symposia are allotted 2 hours.

Colloquium papers and panels/symposia on environmental topics may be submitted for presentation either on the WCPA main program or the program of the CSEP/SCPE but will automatically be considered for presentation on both programs. Please indicate if you are submitting with the CSEP/SPCE in mind at the top of your abstract.

Both the WCPA and CSEP will be awarding a Student Essay Prize, so if you are a student, please indicate this.

For more information, and a link to the EasyChair submission page, please visit: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcpa2025

Call for Papers: "Philosophical Issues in Artificial Intelligence" — 2025 UofA Graduate Conference

We invite graduate students and postgraduates to submit papers to this year’s Philosophy Graduate Student Group Conference taking place in person on May 3rd & 4th 2025, at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 

The topic of the 2025 UofA Graduate Conference is philosophical issues concerning artificial intelligence, broadly construed. With the rise of AI in classrooms, workplaces, and our private technology, several issues come to light regarding its accessibility, security, bias, and traceability (among others). This raises several important questions about what citizens can do and what researchers should investigate at the intersection of ethics, science, technology, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and political philosophy. The aims of the conference include: 

• Discussing and proposing solutions to potential threats AI could pose for private and public security;
• Understanding and criticizing the relationship between human labour and AI; 
• Considering the need for legislation pertaining to AI (its availability, possible weaponization against individuals, corporations, and/or governments);
• Defining “intelligence” and whether or not this is an accurate description of what we consider AI to possess; and
• Examine the limits of our exploration into how sophisticated we can or should make AI given the worry of the danger it could pose to humans

The application of these issues pertains to but is not limited to, intelligence, consciousness, free will, morality, personhood, trust, scholarship and academia, art and authorship, etc.  

Keynote Presentations

Dr. Geoffery Rockwell, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Professor from the University of Alberta.

‘Title TBA’

 Dr. Luke Kersten, Assistant Professor from the University of Alberta.

‘Title TBA’

To ensure a rewarding discussion, we strongly encourage submissions from all areas of philosophy and related disciplines including the digital humanities, psychology, technology, and political studies (among others). We especially encourage submissions from groups underrepresented in the profession. Funding may be available for accepted speakers.

Submission Guidelines: Submissions are to be received no later than 1 March 2025. Papers should not exceed 3000 words. Papers should be prepared for anonymous review and include a bibliography. Please send your paper as a PDF to pgsg@ualberta.ca. In a separate PDF file, please include your name, academic affiliation, e-mail address, paper title, and an abstract of no more than 150 words.

PhilEvents Links: 

Main conference: https://philevents.org/event/show/132006
CFP: https://philevents.org/event/show/132010

*Call for Papers*

The Canadian Philosophical Association

2022 Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

May 17-20, 2022

Online

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and Invited Symposium proposals for the 2022 annual meeting. This meeting is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and will take place alongside meetings of other learned societies. The CPA meeting will take place May 17 – 20  and will include up to ten concurrent sessions. Every area of philosophy is represented, with several hundred philosophers attending from across the globe. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy sponsors a plenary keynote given by a distinguished philosopher. The program committee anonymously referees abstracts as well as full papers and will consider proposals for Invited Symposia. Submissions in all areas of philosophy are welcome. The Association is committed to organizing an accessible and inclusive meeting.

The 2022 Congress will be virtual. For more information, visit https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/congress-2022.

The deadline for symposium proposals, abstract and paper submissions has been extended to 11.59PM on Monday, January 17, 2022 (PST). For detailed instructions, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit.

Volunteers to chair are encouraged. To volunteer, please click here.

Call for Papers: 2025 University of Calgary Annual Philosophy Graduate Conference

The theme of this conference is Justice in an Unequal World. We are looking to feature papers on both applied and theoretical topics within the philosophy of justice, law, politics, and related areas. 

Paper topics in the areas of epistemic (in)justice, distributive justice, relational justice, global justice, and political justice are acceptable. Subtopics may include but are not limited to: 

• Testimony 
• Agreement and negotiation 
• Implications of social policy 
• Marginalization 
• Health inequality 
• Immigration, globalization, climate justice 

Other topics in applied justice such as autonomy, agency, free speech, responsibility, privacy, and related concepts will also be considered. We are especially interested in papers that address marginalization, systemic inequality, and testimonial injustice. 

Dates: 1-2 May 2025 

Location: Philosophy Department, Social Sciences Building, University of Calgary AB 

Format: This conference will be held in person. If you have accessibility concerns, please contact Christina Leach (cfleach@ucalgary.ca) to discuss potential accommodations such as remote access. We are committed to making this an inclusive event, and welcome submissions from graduate students at all levels of study. 

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Allen Habib (University of Calgary) and Dr. Susan Dieleman (University of Lethbridge). 

This conference is generously supported by the University of Calgary Department of Philosophy and by the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 

Papers must be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ucgc25 

Submissions should be no more than 3,000 words (excluding footnotes and bibliography), prepared for blind review, and suitable for a 20-minute presentation. Submissions should also include a short (200 word) abstract. 

Deadline for submission is 15 February 2025. 

Please direct all inquiries to calgarypgsaconf@gmail.com 

Preliminary Call for Papers 

Annual Meeting of The Canadian Philosophical Association 

From 1-4 June 2025 

George Brown College, Toronto, ON 

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers and abstracts for its 2025 annual meeting, which will be held as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. This year, the meeting will take place at George Brown College in Toronto, marking the first time it will be hosted at a college. The Congress is scheduled from 30 May 30 to 6 June 2025, with the CPA meeting happening from 1-4 June 2025. Further details, including submission instructions, will be provided in a subsequent email.

The event will include concurrent colloquia and symposia, along with a plenary keynote address by a distinguished philosopher, sponsored by the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. For the third consecutive year, special sessions will feature pairs of prominent philosophers engaging in discussions on topics of mutual interest.

To ensure the schedule is finalized in a timely manner, the submission deadlines will align with last year’s timeline. The deadline for submitting abstracts and papers is 1 November 2024, at 11:59 pm ET.

The program committee will conduct an anonymous review of both abstracts and full papers. Submissions are encouraged from all areas of philosophy, and the CPA is committed to making the meeting accessible and inclusive.

There are two formats for individual paper submissions:

1. Submit a completed paper of no more than 3,000 words (excluding bibliography, notes, and abstract). The paper must include an abstract of no more than 50 words. Accepted papers will be scheduled for one-hour sessions (30-35 minutes for the presentation, followed by comments and discussion).

2. Submit an abstract of 500-750 words (excluding bibliography), providing a clear summary of the central theses and the arguments supporting them. Accepted abstracts will be scheduled for half-hour sessions (20 minutes for the presentation, followed by discussion). Abstracts are not eligible for essay prizes.

Please note that symposium submissions will not be accepted this year.

All submissions must be made by an active member of the CPA. Detailed submission instructions will be provided in a subsequent email.

Several prizes are awarded by the Association for essays submitted for the Annual Meeting: two faculty essay prizes (one tenured, one non-tenured) and up to three student essay prizes (one student prize is reserved for each official language). The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences will again offer the Congress Graduate Merit Award (CGMA) program to support graduate students at Congress. In each year’s December issue of Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, prize winners from that year's Annual Meeting will be announced and a short list of exceptional papers that have been vetted by journal reviewers will be published. Prize winners are encouraged to submit their publication-ready papers to Dialogue early. 

Additionally, we invite volunteers to serve as referees, chairs, or commentators at the meeting. If you are interested in volunteering for any of these roles, please click here.

Please note that participants may only appear in one primary role in the program (either as a symposium speaker or as the author of a paper, whether full or abstract-based). However, participants are encouraged to serve as commentators or chairs in other sessions.

For more information about the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, please visit https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2025.

For any inquiries, please contact the Co-Program Chairs, Nicole Ramsoomair at Nicole.ramsoomair@dal.ca, and Martina Orlandi at martinaorlandi@trentu.ca.

Symposium: MAiD in Canada: A Sober Second Look

Memorial University, Signal Hill Campus

St. John’s, Canada

September 27-28, 2024

In the eight years since Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) became legal in Canada, Canada has become one of the most liberal MAiD regimes in the world. The Centre for Bioethics at Memorial University is hosting an international symposium to consider what has been happening in this space, how we as a country got to where we are in this regard, and what if anything we should be doing differently moving forward. We welcome abstracts on any aspect of this topic.

Plenary speakers for this event include Trudo Lemmens (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto), Isabel Grant (Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia), and Scott Kim (Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA). Symposium proceedings will be published in a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Bioethics.

Those wishing to present a paper should submit an abstract in Word format (300 words max) by June 7th, 2024.

Abstracts should be prepared for blind review, with name, institutional affiliation, and contact information on a separate title page. Please send abstracts to bioethics@mun.ca, with “MAiD Symposium” in the subject line. Decisions will be made by June 30th, 2024.

The symposium will take place at Memorial’s Signal Hill campus, against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean and the iconic Signal Hill National Historic Site.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Region Philosophers' Association (ARPA) 2024

October 4-5, 2024

Memorial University

St. John's, Newfoundland

Theme: Social Minds, Animal Minds & Ethics

Keynote Speaker: Kristin Andrews, York Research Chair in Philosophy of Animal Minds

• Papers from all areas of philosophy are welcome
• Submissions should assume the form of an abstract no longer than 300 words and should include the author's name, institution, affiliation, and contact information.
• Abstracts should be sent as Word or PDF files to 2024arpa@gmail.com

Deadline for submission of abstracts is August 1, 2024

*Call for Papers - Extended Deadline!*

The Canadian Philosophical Association

2021 Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

May 31- June 3 2021

University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and Invited Symposium proposals for the 2021 annual meeting. This meeting is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and will take place alongside meetings of other learned societies. The CPA meeting will take place May 31 – June 3 and will include up to ten concurrent sessions. Every area of philosophy is represented, with several hundred philosophers attending from across the globe. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy sponsors a plenary keynote given by a distinguished philosopher. The program committee anonymously referees abstracts as well as full papers and will consider proposals for Invited Symposia. Submissions in all areas of philosophy are welcome. The Association is committed to organizing an accessible and inclusive meeting.

The 2021 Congress will be virtual. For more information, visit https://congress2021.ca/congress-2021-announcement. 

The deadline for Invited Symposium proposals is midnight, November 30, 2020. The deadline for abstract and paper submissions is midnight, January 18, 2021. For detailed instructions, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit

Volunteers to chair or comment are encouraged. To volunteer, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/volunteer

*Call for Papers*

The Canadian Philosophical Association

2020 Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

June 1 – 4, 2020

Western University

London, ON 

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The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and Invited Symposium proposals for its 2020 Annual Meeting in London, Ontario. This meeting is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and will take place alongside meetings of learned societies representing many sub-disciplines of philosophy as well as other disciplines of interest to philosophers. 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. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy sponsors a plenary keynote given by a distinguished philosopher. The program committee anonymously referees abstracts as well as full papers and will consider proposals for Invited Symposia. Submissions in all areas of philosophy are welcome. Child care is available and the Association is committed to the accessibility of its Annual Meeting. Partial subsidies of travel costs are available to students and underemployed philosophers.

The deadline for Invited Symposium proposals is midnight, November 3, 2019. The deadline for abstract and paper submissions is midnight, January 12, 2020. For detailed instructions, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit

Volunteers to chair or comment are encouraged. To volunteer, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/volunteer

*Appel de Communications*

L'Association canadienne de philosophie

Le Congrès 2020 des Sciences humaines

Le 1 au 4 juin

L'Université Western

London, ON

L'Association canadienne de philosophie invite les soumissions d'articles, de résumés et de propositions de symposiums invités pour son congrès annuel de 2020 à London, en Ontario. Cette réunion fait partie du Congrès des sciences humaines et sociales et aura lieu en marge des réunions de sociétés savantes représentant de nombreuses sous-disciplines de la philosophie ainsi que d'autres disciplines intéressant les philosophes. La réunion de l'ACP aura lieu du 1 au 4 juin avec jusqu'à dix sessions simultanées. Chaque domaine de la philosophie est représenté, avec plusieurs centaines de philosophes du monde entier. Le Canadian Journal of Philosophy commandite une allocution plénière donnée par un philosophe distingué. Le comité de programme arbitre de manière anonyme les résumés, les résumés complets et examinera les propositions de symposiums invités. Les soumissions dans tous les domaines de la philosophie sont les bienvenues. Des services de garde sont disponibles et l’Association s’est engagée à rendre son congrès annuel accessible. Des subventions partielles pour les frais de voyage sont offertes aux étudiants et aux philosophes sous-employés.

La date limite pour les propositions de symposiums invités est minuit le 3 novembre 2019. La date limite pour la soumission des résumés et des communications est minuit le 12 janvier 2020. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez visiter https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit

Les  bénévoles pour présider ou commenter sont encouragés. Pour faire du bénévolat, veuillez visiter https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/volunteer