Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers

This volume is to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishing as part of a series on Feminist Philosophy. The series will include five separate books on: Feminism and Aesthetics; Feminist Philosophy of Religion; Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science; Feminist History of Philosophy; and Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy.

Series Editor: Elizabeth Potter

Volume Editor: Heidi Grasswick

Having enjoyed more than twenty years of development, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science are now thriving fields of inquiry, offering current scholars a rich tradition from which to draw. In addition to a recognition of the power of knowledge itself and its effects on women’s lives, a central feature of feminist epistemology and philosophy of science has been the attention they draw to the role of power dynamics within knowledge-seeking practices and the implications of these dynamics for our understandings of knowledge, science, and epistemology. This volume seeks to collect new works that address today’s key challenges for a power-sensitive feminist approach to questions of knowledge and scientific practice. Welcome themes to be taken up include:

-how does a feminist analysis of the power dynamics of knowledge-seeking alter conceptions of epistemic agency and responsibility?

-how are democracy and diversity implicated in good knowing and/or good scientific practice?

-how can a naturalized approach to epistemology and/or philosophy of science best be harnessed to address the questions of normative importance for feminists?

-how do studies of our embodiment and our differently-bodied natures reveal the politics of knowledge-seeking, and what are the epistemic implications of our embodiment?

-how are key concepts of epistemology such as rationality, objectivity and truth to be reconceptualized within a power-sensitive epistemology?

-how are feminists to understand the relationship between various forms of science (natural or social) and other forms of knowing?

-how do feminist analyses of specific sciences contribute to a feminist epistemology?

Those interested in submitting an essay for this volume should send a 200 word abstract by Nov 20th, 2006, to be followed by a preliminary draft of the submission by February 28th, 2007. Acceptance decisions will be based on the preliminary draft. Authors whose submissions are accepted on the basis of the preliminary draft will have until approximately September 2007 to complete their essays (8500 words maximum). Inquiries, abstracts and submissions should be sent electronically to Heidi Grasswick at grasswick@middlebury.edu.