CALL FOR PAPERS 

TRANSHUMANISM AND JUSTICE, ed. Dominic Garcia, PhD

ABOUT THE BOOK 

Although we read about justice, rights, property, politics and its relation to transhumanism/posthumanism, the need to consider the philosophy of punishment and the prison in transhumanistic/posthumanist times has not yet been fully explored.

This book seeks to shed some light on the validity of having a retributive justice system at a time when the world is moving towards a new understanding of the human or, rather, the posthuman. The aim will be to fill the gaps in a system of retributive justice that is perhaps unsuitable for a changing mentality; a mentality moving away from the idea of punishment as a form of vengeance against those who created the victim. This book will strongly argue against the mentality of reprisal, namely a kind of mentality that derives satisfaction from either knowing that the offender is now suffering as a result of his/her unlawful deeds or from egregiously witnessing (and even, perhaps, relishing) the offender’s suffering as a form of spectacle.

This book will advocate (and perhaps provoke the reader to formulate) an understanding on the reality of this topic, to fill one more gap, between the notion of transhumanism/posthumanism and the realities of the traditional prison.

SUBJECTS

Suitable topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

– philosophy of justice

– ethics

– politics within the precincts of transhumanism/posthumanism

SUBMISSIONS AND DEADLINES

Submit your full paper by 10th of March 2025 to Dr. Dominic Garcia at dga@risemalta.org.mt. For any questions about the book and its publication, please contact the editor or the publisher (publishing@trivent-publishing.eu).

PUBLICATION

The volume will be published in the Transhumanism and Philosophy book series, ed. Prof. David Edward Rose.

STANCE

an international undergraduate philosophy journal

CALL FOR PAPERS

Stance seeks original philosophical papers authored by current undergraduates.

Submission Guidelines:

Stance welcomes papers concerning any philosophical topic. Current undergraduates may submit a paper between 1500 and 3500 words in length (footnotes may extend the word limit 500 words at most). Stance asks that each undergraduate only submit one paper for the journal per year. Papers should avoid unnecessary technicality and strive to be accessible to the widest possible audience without sacrificing clarity or rigor. They are evaluated on the following criteria: depth of inquiry, quality of research/academic rigor, creativity, lucidity, struggle, significance, and, most importantly, originality.

Submission Procedures:

This year, Stance is utilizing a new system to better manage paper submissions and correspondence with authors. As such, we have updated our submission procedures. Please refer to the instructions below when submitting your paper:

1.     Go to https://openjournals.bsu.edu/stance

2.     If you have not previously set up an account with the OJS system, click on “Register” in the upper right hand corner. Otherwise proceed to step 4.

3.     Follow the steps to register an account

a.     Input the information you would like associated with your account

b.     Verify your account through the email link

c.     Return to https://openjournals.bsu.edu/stance to complete the submission process

4.     Click on “Make a Submission” in the upper right-hand corner

5.     Click on “Make a New Submission” in the box above “Submission Preparation Checklist”

6.     Verify that your submission meets the submission requirements listed. If it does, check all corresponding boxes.

7.     Click “Save and Continue”

8.     Select “Article Text” from the dropdown menu under “Article Component”

9.     Upload your submission as a Word document 

10.  Review the file information and click continue

11.  Click complete to finish the upload

12.  Click Save and continue

13.  For meta-data, enter the title in the following format: “FirstInitialLastname_Submission” (ex. RSmith_Submission)

14.  For the abstract, enter your first and last name, the title of your submission, the name of your institution and an email address you can be easily reached at.

15.  Click “Save and Continue”

16.  Click “Finish Submission”

17.  Click “Ok”

Please be sure to double check your paper before submitting. Once you finalize your submission, you will not be able to go back and edit it. Please keep the following in mind:

•  Manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word (.doc) format and should not be submitted in .pdf format.

•  Manuscripts should be double-spaced (including quotations, excerpts, and footnotes). The right margin should not be justified.

•  Papers, including footnotes, should have no identifying markers. Footnotes should follow Chicago Manual of Style. A style sheet with examples is available on our website under “More about Stance – Information for Authors.” • Please use American spellings and punctuation, except when directly quoting a source that has followed British style.

For further concerns, please visit Stance on the web at http://stancephilosophy.com/ or contact us at ballstatestance@gmail.com. You can also follow us on Instagram and Twitter @stance_journal and on facebook at bsustance.

Deadline: December 17, 2021

Welcome back from the break and hope you are well. If you are interested, The Guardian has an overview article on free will this morning. Not great, a little simple but a good revision/overview. Enjoy over Lucky Charms or croissants, but definitely with coffee.

Just click here.

Who was Michel Foucault? Why is he still influential? A half-hour introduction to the French philosopher and historian of ideas from Thinking Allowed. https://bbc.in/3h4syp7 | @BBCSounds

Then write to Liz Truss…

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

“I’ve studied philosophy. What now?!” is an event on non-academic career paths for philosophers.
Date: 11.07.2020, 4pm BST / 11am ET
Website:  http://letsphi.com/ (Reserve your spot now!)

A virtual event by philosophers for philosophers! 10 speakers will share their non-academic journeys. We challenge the stereotype that philosophy is purely academic or just teaches you transferable ‘soft’ skills. We will have industry experts from legal, government, tech, finance and entrepreneurship. The gathering will strongly focus on interactions between participants with chats in smaller groups to exchange experiences.

https://youtu.be/NfFrW4yDubc

 

To test your critical thinking, please show the logical error of Mark Francois below and then email him some help. He obviously needs it.

 

When I was doing the student inductions, I thought about looking for an app to help with referencing. I was lazy and went with the first one I found, MYLibrary (android) which allows you to scan barcodes of books and it then adds all the details required for your bibliography. This is useful and allows you to add comments on the texts. I am sure there are better ones out there.

For my own note taking I use Google Keep, and I write using their Docs so that I open Keep directly from within the word processor with a couple of bibliography add-ons. This means I can take pictures of quotations for later with my phone, add in thoughts when I am on the bus and so on. I know others use Evernote for the same reasons.

But I want to open this further. I am leaning Spanish by both private lessons and using the Duolingo app to reinforce vocabulary. I would really like to know if others have any specific apps they use which they find useful. Those directly to the learning of philosophy do, of course, interest me most.

I’d really appreciate if you would tell me which apps you use and which you find more useful, or what you would like to be able to do with your phones/tablets.  Please just add in below. This is so we can build and share a list of useful tools to improve the learning environment. Bear in mind these apps are supposed to facilitate thinking (like a word processor does) rather than replace it.

You can either put in a comment below or just email me directly.

David

 

I would be grateful if you would draw the attention of your best students to the postgraduate scholarships being offered by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University London, for 2018–19.

MA SCHOLARSHIPS

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The Book of Change (your abstracts and “adverts” from stages 2 and 3) for your dissertations is online. You can access it by clicking here.   The address is: http://bookofchange.ncl.ac.uk/index.php

The Book of Change, Philosophy@Newcastle, represents the research interests of students engaged on the BA (Hons.) in Philosophy, which they pursue through personalised context-driven projects. It is an ongoing reflection on contemporary life and consists of one-page outlines or ‘adverts’ for the projects undertaken by students. Each contribution is unique, but they all share common elements: the key concepts that are addressed and the territory of exploration in which those concepts are applied.