“Call for Abstracts

2^nd Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University

26^th – 27^th January 2023

The theme for 2023 is open. So, please write on anything you philosophically desire!

Fellow undergrads – whether you’re in your First Year or Second Year or Final Year –, please submit an abstract of 200-250 words to us by 5th December 2022. We will inform you by 23rd December 2022, if you have been chosen to present.

Undergrad students selected to present at the conference will speak for 20 minutes. So, papers should be between 1500 and 2000 words.

Conference Information: https://undergradconferenc.wixsite.com/undergradconfmmu

4 Keynote Speakers

Prof. Adrian Moore (University of Oxford)

Adrian Moore is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. His publications include: The Infinite (Routledge, 3rd edition, 2019); Points of View (OUP, 1997); Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant’s Moral and Religious Philosophy (Routledge, 2003); The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things (CUP, 2012); Language, World, and Limits: Essays in Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics (OUP, 2019); and Gödel’s Theorem: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2022). Moore is Bernard Williams’s literary executor. He is Philosophy Delegate to Oxford University Press, and Co-Editor of MIND.

Dr. Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (University of Sheffield)

Komarine Romdenh-Romluc is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Sheffield. Her principal research interests are in the body, and what it is to be the sort of embodied creatures that we are. That led her quite early on in her academic life to the phenomenological tradition, and its rich history of thinking about embodiment. Romdenh-Romluc has written extensively about Maurice Merleau-Ponty,and is currently writing a book about Frantz Fanon’s philosophy.

Prof. Yujin Nagasawa (University of Birmingham)

Yujin Nagasawa is H.G. Wood Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Co-Director of the Birmingham Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Maximal God: A New Defence of Perfect Being Theism (OUP, 2017), Miracles: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2017), The Existence of God: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2011) and God and Phenomenal Consciousness (CUP, 2008). Nagasawa currently leads the Global Philosophy of Religion Project, a major research initiative funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

TBC!”

Give a talk at the largest conference in Europe devoted to continental philosophy. Or at least come along to listen and debate.

Apply before April 15th by clicking here: https://societyforeuropeanphilosophy.com/2022-conference/

Research Group for Critical Theory and Practice & Department of Philosophy

Events

Spring/Summer 2022

Term 3

Week 1 —Wednesday 27th April 2022 – Tom Greaves (UEA), ‘The Elemental and the Ephemeral’, 5pm–7pm, HDB3.76

Week 2 — Wednesday 4th May – Isabel Millar (Kent/GCAS), 5pm–7pm, HDB3.76

Week 4 — Wednesday 11th May 2022 – Arthur Bradley (Lancaster), ‘In the Theatre of Sovereignty’, 3pm–5pm [n.b. the earlier time], HDB3.76

Find more details about the Research Group in Critical Theory and Practice here: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuhri/research/faculty-research-groups/

Subscribe to the mailing list for the Research Group here: https://lists.ncl.ac.uk/wws/info/critical-theory-practice

For the Department of Philosophy: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/philosophy/

Dear All,
Just to let you know, for anyone interested in theory, continental philosophy, and so on, that the Faculty Research Group in Critical Theory and Practice is now up and runnning, with its own website https://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuhri/research/faculty-research-groups/

Do subscribe to the mailing list, if you want to keep abreast of our activities, and to contribute something or get help with something you want to organise or see happen, https://lists.ncl.ac.uk/wws/info/critical-theory-practice.

And for a first event, we have Frank Ruda visiting us on the 9th February, in the late afternoon. More precise details pinned up around the Philosophy department, and to be announced via the subscription list soon.

Newcastle is hosting the British Postgraduate Philosophy Associations’s annual conference, entitled ‘Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Philosophical Thought’ on
25th and 26th November 2021. Please visit the society’s website for more information: https://bppa2021interdisciplinaryconf.org/

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

Epistemai, the University of Minnesota’s undergraduate philosophy journal, is now accepting paper submissions for our 2021 edition.

We’re looking for excellent undergraduate papers from any philosophical tradition and discipline. Selections will be made based on originality, engagement with the source material, depth of argument, maturity of vocabulary, clarity, conciseness, and accessibility of thoughts and language. We welcome submissions from diverse philosophical backgrounds and on a broad variety of topics.

Submission criteria and process:
• Must be written by an undergraduate.
• Max length of 15 pages or 3,000 words.
• Include a 100-200 word abstract summarizing your paper and page numbers.
• Chicago style citations are preferred.
• Cannot be published elsewhere.
• Include a cover page with all personal information (do not include name anywhere else in the paper): your name, your email, and your undergraduate institution name.
• Submit your paper electronically by February 1, 2022 by filling out and uploading a .docx or .docs (must be editable) to our google form [https://forms.gle/8C8G3nosGDhgLxBr9].

Papers will be selected by early spring. You will be notified as to our decision at that time.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Contact Wangechi Mwaura at mwaur006@umn.edu with any questions.

MA IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE, INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY – DISTANCE LEARNING

STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY

AVAILABLE FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME (START IN SEPTEMBER OR JANUARY)

The MA in the Philosophy of Nature, Information and Technology is a new programme taught by senior staff with extensive experience of distance learning. The course examines approaches to understanding the world as a complex network of material relations. It will combine an introduction to ontological perspectives on information and communication with work on new materialisms and posthumanism, and will address work by philosophers including Michel Serres, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, Stacy Alaimo, Rosi Braidotti, N Katherine Hayles, Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze, and others. Its aim is to encourage new thinking on the material world and the connections between nature, knowledge, and social and political life. Students will be encouraged to address contemporary problems such as the climate crisis, the relation between science and politics, and data-driven surveillance culture.

We welcome students from around the world and offer an intellectually challenging but friendly and supportive environment in which to study.

Further details: https://www.staffs.ac.uk/course/philosophy-nature-information-technology-ma

If you have any queries, please contact David Webb, d.a.webb@staffs.ac.uk.

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