CfA: BPPA conference June 23-25 2015, University of Southampton

First Call for Abstracts

British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Annual Conference

23rd-25th June 2015

University of Southampton, UK

We invite submissions to the 2015 BPPA conference, to be held in the University of Southampton on the 23rd-25th June, 2015. The conference will provide a platform for postgraduate philosophy students to present their research and share ideas in a supportive and collegial environment. It will also include, on the 25th, a careers day with vocational advice.

Please send anonymised abstracts of between 500 and 800 words for papers of 20-25 minutes to Mr James Camien McGuiggan at bppa.soton.2015 by 1 May 2015. Queries are welcome and should be directed to the same address. Submissions are welcome in any area and tradition of philosophy, and should be in a standard file format (e.g., .doc, .docx, .pdf, .odt). We also invite volunteers to give brief, c.-5-minute, responses to the papers. A small bursary is available from the British Philosophy of Sport Association (BPSA) for any papers accepted on the philosophy of sport.

We will try to secure funding to cover expenses for as many participants as possible. However, participants are encouraged to apply for funding from their home institution.

There will be two keynotes, one of whom is confirmed to be Prof. Stephen Mulhall (Oxford).

The University of Southampton is committed to equality along all axes, and submissions from under-represented groups are especially welcome. The conference will be held in an accessible building, and if you have any particular requirements, including dietary requirements, we will do all we can to accommodate. All abstracts will be double-blind reviewed.

We are maintaining a website (www.ocs.soton.ac.uk/index.php/bppa) with news regarding the conference.

We gratefully acknowledge the British Philosophical Association’s (BPA) and the University of Southampton’s support in hosting this event.

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University of Calgary’s 4th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference: Philosophy of Science

University of Calgary’s 4th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference

Philosophy of Science

Friday, March 13th and Saturday March 14th, 2015.

Keynote speakers: John Norton (Pittsburgh) and C. Kenneth Waters (Calgary)

The conference theme is ‘Philosophy of Science’. This theme was chosen to follow the successful Calgary Summit of Philosophers of Science held in September, 2014. Papers considered will include work in scientific explanation, methodology and practice, induction, realism, values in science, causation, and more. As such, applications from philosophy of biology, physics, chemistry, neuroscience, social science, and philosophy of mathematics will be welcomed.

The deadline for paper submissions is January 1st, 2015. Responses can be expected by January 15, 2015. Please ensure your paper is prepared for blind review. Papers should be no longer than 3000 words. A cover page is required with the following information: Author’s name, institutional affiliation, contact information, title of the paper and abstract. Submissions and any inquiries should be sent to: uofcphilgradconf2015

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Reminder for CFP: 2015 Pitt-CMU Graduate Philosophy Conference

Call For Papers

17th Annual Pitt-CMU Graduate Philosophy Conference
"Varieties of Rationality"
The graduate students of the University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University invite graduate students to submit papers to our 17th annual graduate philosophy conference, on "Varieties of Rationality" co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University.

Conference setting: 20-21 March, 2015 at the Carnegie Mellon University.

Keynote speaker:
Cristina Bicchieri
Professor of Philosophy and Psychology
University of Pennsylvania

Faculty speaker:
Karl Schafer
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh

Submission deadline:
11 January, 2015

Submission information:

Submissions of high quality in any area of philosophy will be considered. This year we encourage papers focused especially on the topic of Rationality. Rationality has a central place in areas as diverse as ethics, decision theory, philosophy of science, philosophy of action, epistemology, philosophy of mind and feminist philosophy. The idea has also been of paramount importance to a variety of figures throughout the history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Aquinas, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Habermas, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn, to name just a few. What is it to be rational? Is there a formal model for the behavior of rational agents? Is rationality an individual or a collective notion? This conference aims to explore the varieties of rationality at play within philosophy, their connections, and their differences.

– All submissions must be prepared for blind review. The paper must have no identifying information and must include at the top an abstract of no more than 250 words.
– Submitted papers must be no more than 4500 words in length.
– Submitted papers must be received as .doc, .docx or .pdf files no later than 11 January, 2015.

To submit papers, follow instructions at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pitthpscmu15.

Questions may be directed to PittCMUConference

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CFP: Waterloo 22nd Graduate Conference in Philosophy

Call for Papers: University of Waterloo 22nd Annual Graduate Conference in Philosophy, March 12 & 13 2015

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Gillian Russell

Washington University in St. Louis

Submission Deadline — December 30, 2014

We welcome high quality submissions in all areas of philosophy. Papers in the areas of logic, philosophy of language, 20th century analytic philosophy, and questions in epistemology related to the previous topics will be given special consideration, given Dr. Russell’s work.

Submissions should be between 3000 and 4000 words. They must be prepared for blind review and should include, on a separate cover sheet, the following information:

Paper title

Author’s name

Institutional affiliation

E-mail address

Telephone number

Word count

A short abstract

Please e-mail your submissions in either .doc, .docx or .pdf format to <pgsa>

For more information about the University of Waterloo Philosophy Graduate Student Association and its conferences, please visit:

https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/current-graduate-students/philosophy-graduate-student-association

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