Dear all:
Please
find attached the CFP for the University of Alberta Philosophy Graduate
Student Conference "Disagreement," May 10-12, 2013. I would be very
happy if you could distribute it to the graduate students in your
department.
In the meantime, I hope this finds you well.
Kind regards,
Yasemin Sari
Publication Support Group, Co-President,
Department of Philosophy
University of Alberta
Call
for Papers:
Disagreement
University of Alberta Philosophy Graduate Conference
May 10-12, 2013
Edmonton,
Alberta
Keynote Speakers:
Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona
Adam
Morton, University of British Columbia
We
invite submissions of papers by graduate students and postgraduates
(who were awarded their PhDs no earlier than 2007) to the graduate
philosophy conference to be held on May 10-12, 2013 at the University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
At
first, one might take ‘disagreement’ to be merely a matter of
subjective opinion. Nevertheless, disagreement is a pervasive and
genuine phenomenon of and in our experience which calls for
philosophical reflection. This conference focuses on the notion of
disagreement broadly construed. We invite papers that discuss the
nature, value of, and attitudes towards disagreement. Papers from both
the analytic and continental traditions, as well as from disciplines and
traditions of investigation other than philosophy are welcomed.
Possible questions for consideration include but are not limited to:
What constitutes disagreement? What distinguishes private from public
disagreement; internal from external disagreement; or intra- from
inter-personal disagreement? Are all disagreements resolvable, and on
what grounds? Are disagreements structured by power dynamics? Is
reconciliation always desirable or is there value in perennial discord?
Can there be faultless or harmless disagreements in the realms of
ethics/politics/aesthetics/epistemology, etc.? If so does this entail
some sort of relativism or pluralism, and if it does is this a bad
thing?
Deadline for
submissions: January 30, 2013 (Extended from January 10, 2013)
Submission
Guidelines: Papers should not exceed 3000 words. They should be
prepared for blind review and sent as a PDF file to
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include your name, academic affiliation, e-mail address, paper title,
and an abstract of no more than 150 words.
For
more information, please contact us at [log in to unmask]
We
would like to thank the following organisations for their generous
support: the University of Alberta Faculty of Arts, the Graduate
Student Association, and the departments of Comparative Literature,
English and Film Studies, Philosophy, and Psychology.
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