Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers

Florida State University

With the advancement of evolutionary biology, cosmology, and the shift in religious and cultural studies the context of the concept of what it means to be human has changed dramatically in the last century and a half. InterCulture is looking to the intersections between science, cultural, and literary studies as a fruitful space for investigating such key topics that transform our own mediated understanding of ourselves. With a push for interdisciplinarity, transdiciplinarity, and crossdisciplinarity as part of the attempt to create overarching and broader perspectives for contextualizing the human, modern disciplines are finding themselves responsible to one another in their portrayal of the human. In particular, InterCulture is looking to publish articles that deal with theoretical perspectives from the humanities to the life sciences that specifically discuss “human” as it can be categorized and mediated OR the debate about the conception of the human and what it means to us in the 21st century. InterCulture is seeking papers that discuss the new context of the human from any interdisciplinary perspective.

The door is not only open to critiques that pit disciplines against each other in a continued “culture war” mentality. The possibility also exists of treating the notion of “human” in a non-reductionist manner that illuminates conditions necessary for the possibility of treating this notion. In other words, consideration of conjunctions of disciplines as a basis for the concepts of “human” that are interdependent upon one another and usually overlooked are also welcome topics.

For example, consider the following questions: What does it mean to be human? Is there some form of inherent priority to the disciplinary structures that present notions of the human? Do disciplines rest circularly upon one another for the conception of “human”? In which direction are the conceptions of the human developing? How do the ways in which we mediate the human reflect themselves in our conceptions? Does economics affect our conception of the human? Is there a Red Shift or a Blue Shift in the articulation of the human? In other words, are we coming closer to a unified perspective or are the conceptions becoming irretrievably separated? Is the old literary conception of the human lost to scientific authority? If so, can we reshape the category of the human to make it viable again for literary and cultural studies? How have methodological practices affected our notions of ourselves?, etc.

Articles and essay that deal with all such questions and more are welcomed.
Other possible topics include:

• How do we know who we are? Standard interdisciplinary views of
  mediated humanity.
• Media and the human. How does the public view itself?
• Economics and human behavior.
• Science and Culture and their objects of study.
• Consilience: Can it work?
• Gould vs. Dawkins and the idea of NOMA.
• Foucault 2.0 and the future of discourse theory.
• From homo.sapiens to the Human.
• The Challenge of Evolutionary Psychology

Submission Guidelines

InterCulture publishes material on a rolling basis; please allow 1-3 months for review. Articles should be submitted in MSWord format and be between 3-8K words in length; book, film, and music reviews should be between 750-1250 words.

All regular text in submissions must be in 12 point font, Times New Roman, unless artistic license requires that it be different. In such a case, please send notification with submission so that the fonts are not lost during reformatting.

MLA and Chicago citations are considered best for Liberal Arts submissions. Should the interdisciplinary text require specific citations dependant upon field of study, please make note of this in your submission.

All submissions are peer-reviewed.

For creative work, video and images should be submitted in commonly utilized formats. (e.g., .SWF, MP3, AVI, Real Media, Windows Media, .JPG, .GIF, .WAV, etc.)

All submissions must include “InterCulture” in the subject heading.

Please send submissions via email to:

Thomas Philbeck
Managing Editor
tdp0761@fsu.edu