Flickers of Freedom

Final CFP: 4th Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference

This is a final call-for-papers for the 4th Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference (PCPC), which is provisionally scheduled to be held at University of Tampa from Saturday October 8th to Sunday October 9th, 2016. If you're curious about what the conference has been like in past years, see here!

As in the past, this year's conference will be unique in several respects:

1. Although conference attendance will be open to all members of the profession, paper presenters must be early-career philosophers (i.e. anyone who doesn't have tenure--grad students, post-docs, Assistant Profs, independent scholars, etc.)
2. Due to travel-funding challenges that early-career philosophers often face, several sessions will be reserved for Skype presentations in which the author will be projected, and field audience questions, in real time over the internet (note: this has worked very well in past years!).
3. Although commentators and audience members are encouraged to present objections to papers, the conference theme will be "constructive engagement", i.e. helping authors to improve their work (e.g. by not only raising objections, but offering and discussing possible solutions).
4. Because successfully navigating the publishing world is one of the most difficult capacities for early-career philosophers to develop, the conference welcomes submissions of a typical full-length journal article (20-30 pages double-spaced) -- the aim being to help early-career philosophers develop full-length papers into publishable quality. As a rule of thumb, the longer the paper, the higher the standards for acceptance to the conference. Extremely long papers are discouraged.
5. In order to defray costs of attendance (once again out of concern for the needs of early-career scholars), there will only be a small suggested (but non-mandatory) $5 registration "donation" (to help pay for snacks), and consequently no official banquet, etc. (though there will be snack!). Tampa is awesome, and there are many affordable places to meet, eat, and congregate around the university.
6. Finally, please note that submission to the conference involves an agreement to serve as a commentator on another paper during the conference should your paper be accepted and you accept your invitation to attend.

To submit a paper to present at the PCPC, please email the following to me at [email protected] by May 1st, 2016:

1. An anonymized paper,
2. A separate title page with the author's name, contract information, and brief paper abstract.
3. A statement in your email and attached cover page concerning whether you intend to attend the conference in person or only via Skype.

Decision emails indicating whether your paper has been accepted should be sent out around July 1st (yes, papers will undergo peer-review!).  Finally, please bear the following in mind: In order to ensure that the conference is well-attended, there will be relatively few Skype sessions -- so the probability that your paper will be accepted is higher should you state in your submission email that you can attend in person.

I look forward to receiving some great submissions (hopefully from some Flickers readers and/or contributors), and to another great conference!

Free Will and Consciousness -- Summer School in Riga, Latvia

The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies (MCCS) will be hosting a summer school, in Riga, Latvia, on the topic of Free Will and Consciousness from July 10 – 23, 2016. The summer school will be led by Derk Pereboom (Cornell University). Leigh Vicens (Augustana College) and Patrick Todd (University of Edinburgh) will participate as instructors. Graduate students and recent PhDs are invited to submit applications to participate.

MCCS will provide accommodation and breakfast, and will compensate 50% of the cost of a round trip ticket to Riga. Two applicants will be provided with full travel expenses to and from Riga.

To apply for admission, submit (1) a ten-page writing sample (2,500 to 3,000 words) that demonstrates your knowledge of current work on free will or on the relation between free will and consciousness, (2) two letters of recommendation from philosophers working in the area (e.g., your supervisor or other qualified people who know your work), and (3) your cv. The deadline for submitting applications is April 3, 2016. Send your materials to Artem Besedin at [email protected]. Decisions will be announced by May 1.

For further information about the MCCS and its activities, see http://www.Hardproblem.ru.

CFP: NUSTEP

I have been asked by the Northwestern University Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (NUSTEP) to post a notice about our call for papers. The CFP for NUSTEP's Tenth Annual Conference is attached. The conference will be held at Northwestern University on May 19–21, 2016 and will feature keynote addresses by Nomy Arpaly and Pamela Hieronymi.

Please let me know if you are willing to post our CFP on your blog, or if there are further steps we need to take. If you would like more information about our conference, please contact Kyla Ebels-Duggan at:

[email protected] 

Or you can visit our website.

CfA: Gothenburg Responsibility Project

Call for Abstracts*, Gothenburg Responsibility Project Conference #1, 24-27 August 2016, University of Gothenburg.

We are pleased to announce the first of our biennial conferences on agency and responsibility. These conferences will bring together philosophers working on agency and responsibility, including both established figures and those early in their careers and those working in both "theoretical" and "applied" areas of these topics. 

Below the fold are our confirmed keynote speakers:

 

Final CFP: Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference

This is just a quick reminder that the August 1st submission deadline for the 3rd Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference (November 7th-8th at the University of Tampa) is fast approaching! For the full CFP, see here.

Call for Papers: Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy is calling for papers for its second volume. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2016.

Work on free will and moral responsibility has played an important role in experimental philosophy thus far, and this therefore seems like an obvious outlet for the Flickers community. (Note that both x-phi friendly and x-phi critical papers are very welcome.)

CFP: 3rd Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference

I am pleased to announce this call-for-papers for the 3rd Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference (PCPC), which will be held at University of Tampa on Saturday November 14th and Sunday November 15th, 2015. It would be great to have some submissions by Flickers readers or contributors. For the full CFP, please see here!

CFP: Society for Ethics and Theory of Politics

CALL FOR PAPERS

FROM FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS

 

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

 

SOCIETY FOR THE THEORY OF ETHICS AND POLITICS (NUSTEP)

 

NINTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

 

MAY 21 – 23, 2015

 

Keynote Addresses: Frances Kamm and Joseph Raz

 

Reminder: NOWAR CFP

This is a call for abstracts for the third biennial New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR), to be held in New Orleans, LA at the Intercontinental Hotel on November 5-7, 2015.  Abstracts are welcome on any topic having to do with agency and/or responsibility.  Perspectives beyond just those from moral philosophy (e.g., psychology, legal theory, neuroscience, economics, metaphysics, and more) are welcome.  (To see more about the workshop’s general aims and other details, see here.)

Abstracts should be no more than 3 double-spaced pages and are due no later than March 15, 2015.  They do NOT need to be prepared for blind review.  Please send abstracts by e-mail to David Shoemaker: [email protected].  A program committee will evaluate submissions and make decisions by early May.  The authors of all accepted abstracts will be expected to provide drafts of their essays for distribution to NOWAR attendees four weeks prior to the workshop, present their ideas at the workshop, and then commit the final versions of their essays (subject to external review) to the fourth volume of Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility (which is expected to be published in early 2017).  Those who presented at the second NOWAR (in 2013) are ineligible to present at the third (in 2015).

The workshop, sponsored by the generous support of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University, will involve 11 presentations (including two keynote speakers), from which will be drawn the papers contributing toOxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility.

Keynote Speakers, 2015:

Julia Driver, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis

Derk Pereboom, Susan Linn Sage Professor in Philosophy and Ethics; Stanford H. Taylor '50 Chair of the Sage School, Cornell University

NOWAR 3, CFA

This is a call for abstracts for the third biennial New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR), to be held in New Orleans, LA at the Intercontinental Hotel on November 5-7, 2015.  Abstracts are welcome on any topic having to do with agency and/or responsibility.  Perspectives beyond just those from moral philosophy (e.g., psychology, legal theory, neuroscience, economics, metaphysics, and more) are welcome, as are interdisciplinary projects.  (To see more about the workshop’s general aims and other details, follow this link.)