Topics for submissions focusing on the theme’s first dimension—texts-- include, but are not limited to: How do the text's concluding thoughts stand in relation to the remainder of the work? How do they inform or deform the coherence of the philosophical project at hand? How does one properly end a philosophical work? Is it important to attend to the last chapter? Papers may treat specific texts or specific oeuvres: e.g., the Critique of Pure Reason or Kant's oeuvre, Tractatus 7 or Wittgenstein's oeuvre, Leviathan or Hobbes’s oeuvre. Submissions are welcome on any period of philosophy or employing any method of following philosophical inspiration.
Papers focusing on the
second theme dimension might address such questions as these:
Does or should philosophy see itself as aiming for a concluding
chapter or as eventually reaching an end? Is our enterprise
necessarily interminable? If not a conclusion, what other ends,
if any, does or should philosophy seek? How does or might
philosophy distinctively address the end(s) or endings in other
disciplines or domains of life?
Electronic submission of detailed abstracts (750-1000 words) should be in MSWord or pdf format. Reading time for presented papers is 30 minutes.
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Department of Philosophy
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 18015
http://philosophy.cas2.lehigh.edu/