Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers

Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (Feb 25-26) University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. Papers on any subject in early modern philosophy are welcome for presentation. Reading times should be approximately 45 minutes. The deadline for abstracts (of roughly 750 words) is 1 November 2005. Email submissions are highly encouraged and can be sent to Mary Domski (mdomski@unm.edu) or Donald Rutherford (drutherford@ucsd.edu).

3rd Annual University of Miami Graduate Student Conference in Epistemology (Jan 20-21) Miami, Fl. We welcome all graduate submissions in any area of epistemology, broadly construed. We are especially interested in papers that address epistemological issues regarding fallibilism.

Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (Feb 25-26) Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006 (Apr 4-8) Tuscan, AZ. An interdisciplinary conference on all aspects
of the problem of consciousness. Scholars and
researchers from throughout the sciences and
humanities and members of the general public
will gather.

Sixth Annual Independent Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society (Apr 20-22) DePaul Univeristy, Chicago. Papers on any topic in ancient Greek philosophy are invited. Papers should be no more than 15 pages in length, 30 minutes reading time. Panel proposals will also be considered, though they should be as complete as possible. Inquiries and submissions (4 paper copies and 1 electronic copy are requested) should be directed to: William McNeill, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, 2352 N. Clifton Ave., Chicago, IL 60614 Email: wmcneill@depaul.edu.

University of South Florida Graduate Student Conference (Jan 13-15) The Philosophy Graduate Student Organization, in conjunction with the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida, will be accepting papers for presentation at a Graduate Student symposium on Hisotry and Historiography of Early Modern Philosophy. Download their Call for Papers (pdf) for more information, or email Tom Brommage at brommage@freeshell.org or Mike Thompson at micthom@hotmail.com.

A Collection on Disability and Philosophy In recent years, an increasing number of philosophers (including political philosophers, feminist philosophers, and cognitive scientists) have begun to think and write more critically about disability, about how philosophical discourses represent disabled people, how these discourses impact on this socially constituted and disadvantaged group, and how the discipline of philosophy must be modified in order to include disabled philosophers. These critical reflections have coincided with, and to a large extent have been motivated by, worldwide political changes with respect to disabled people’s participation in and access to society. Furthermore, this new philosophical work on disability seems to have been influenced by, and to have influenced, the work of disability theorists and researchers in the growing field of Critical Disability Studies.

This call seeks detailed abstracts of 500-750 words for an edited collection on disability and philosophy that aims to bring together some of this exciting and path-breaking philosophical work. Topics suitable for inclusion in the collection include (but are not limited to):

• bioethics meets biopolitics
• feminist analyses of disability
• reconsidering prenatal testing, selective abortion, assisted suicide?
• what does equality for disabled people require?
• taking another look at Rawls, Dworkin, Sen, etc. on disability and distributive justice
• situated knowledges, epistemic privilege, and disability
• disability and intersectional approaches to oppression
• the ethics and politics of disabled people’s narratives and the approaches of cognitive science
• phenomenological analyses of disability and shame, self-respect, and self-esteem
• disability and aesthetics, conceptions of beauty, ugliness, wholeness, and the abject
• philosophy of biology and the very idea of normal species-typical functioning
• integrating disability theory into philosophy

Notification of acceptances by January 15, 2006. Completed papers due by May 15, 2006.

Abstracts and all enquiries about the collection should be directed to: Dr. Shelley Tremain at stremain@utm.utoronto.ca OR stremain@porchlight.ca.