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Highlights
Maurizio Ferraris is the keynote speaker for DOCAM 17 in Bloomington
Bloomington, 29-30 September, University of Indiana, Department of Information and Library Science,107 S Indiana Ave
The Document Academy 2017 Annual Meeting
DOCAM17 is the fourteenth meeting of the Document Academy. The Document Academy is an international network of scholars, artists and professionals in various fields who are interested in the exploration of the concept of the document as a resource for scholarly, artistic, and professional work.
The aim of The Document Academy is to foster a multi-disciplinary space for exploratory and critical research on the document in the widest sense, drawing on scholarship, traditions and experiences from the arts and humanities, social sciences, education, and from such diverse fields as information, media, museum, archival, cultural, and science studies. The Document Academy originated as a co-sponsored effort by the Program of Documentation Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway, and the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. The first DOCAM conference took place in Berkeley in 2003 and since then has toured around to Madison, Wisconsin; Denton, Texas; Växjö, Sweden; London, Ontario; Tromsø, Norway; Kent, Ohio; Sydney, Australia; and now Indiana University.
The 2017 conference is hosted by the Department of Information and Library Science in the School of Informatics and Computing at the University of Indiana, in Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. The conference co-chairs are Carol Choksy and Ron Day.
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Maurizio Ferraris: The Documedial Revolution
Rethinking Calvino’s Norton Lectures
Harvard University, Oct. 3, 5-7 pm
Romance Languages and Literatures
This week
Gunter Figal, Metaphysics
Pic Course, 25 September - 31 October
Program
Understand the metaphysical character of philosophy as its concern with truth. From Parmenides on the quest of truth has been the leading motif of philosophy that entails all other basic philosophical questions. Since something can only be true if it really is as what it appears, the quest of truth leads to the question how ‘real being’ can be conceived and thus to ontology. Insofar as ‘real being’ can be contrasted with ‘appearance’ or ‘mere appearance’ the question of being belong together with a clarification of appearance and thus with – whatever version of – phenomenology. An orientation to truth and thus to being, however, is not self-evident. In order to orient oneself to true being one must not be entrapped in misleading ‘mere appearances’ and thus free for true being. This freedom, again, requires a way of life that makes it continuously possible so that metaphysical philosophy includes ethics.
Clarify the interrelation between truth, being, and appearing and discuss the question of freedom only at the margins.
Readings
Passages from:
Parmenides, On Nature
Plato, Republic, books 5-7
Aristotle, Metaphysics, books 7-9
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics,6th book
Heidegger, On the Essence of Truth.
Husserl, Ideas I and Cartesian Meditations.
Schedule
From September 25th until October 31st, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, from 4pm to 6pm. Classroom: TBA
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Maurizio Ferraris: Opera aperta
Puntata 8, 25 settembre
Paura senza coraggio?
E’ vero come affermato da Hobbes che l’unico sentimento provato è la paura? E la paura è autentica, non si può fingere di avere paura? Mentre il coraggio è davvero una virtù? Ne parlano con Maurizio Ferraris Giacomo Marramao, filosofo, Marisa Fiumanò, psicoanalista, Filippo La Porta, critico e saggista, Germano Dottori, docente di studi strategici. All’interno della puntata, registrata nello studio virtuale TV 4 del Centro di produzione TV di Roma, sono inserite “Interferenze” brevi riflessioni di Valerio Magrelli per la regia di Sandro Vanadia.
Da “Opera Aperta” di Umberto Eco alla “Recherche” di Proust al “Faust” di Goethe passando da “Robinson Crusoe”, “Dracula” e le “Meditazioni Metafisiche” di Cartesio. Ci sono opere che servono molto di più dei tanti manuali di “self help”. Lo racconta Maurizio Ferraris nel nuovo programma di Rai Cultura “Opera Aperta”, realizzato con la collaborazione di Claudio Del Signore e di Gino Roncaglia, in onda da lunedì 22 maggio alle 23.05 su Rai5. In dodici puntate, ciascuna dedicata a un testo che introduce temi come la verità, il segreto, la felicità, la memoria, Maurizio Ferraris dialoga con quattro ospiti.
“Il tempo della nascita”. Donne che partoriscono dai Cinquant'anni
Torino, 28 settembre
Collegio delle Ostetriche di Torino e Asti, Via Norberto Rosa 13/A, Salone Ecomuseo , piano terra, ore 16.30
Interverranno Maurizio Balistrieri e Vera Tripodi.
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Forthcoming
Two conferences in Philosophy of Biology - Lisbon, October 2-3-4
University of Lisbon, Faculty of Science, Anfiteatro da Fundação (Campo Grande, FCUL, C1)
Oct. 2 at 5pm: Sahotra Sarkar "What is Biodiversity?"
Introduction Elena Casetta
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Oct. 3-4: "On the nature of variation: random, biased, and directional". Invited speakers: Eva Boon, Pietro Corsi, Leonore Fleming, Philippe Huneman, Gerd Müller, Sahotra Sarkar, Arlin Stoltzfus.
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Convenors: Elena Casetta, Silvia Di Marco, Jorge Marques da Silva, Carina Vieira da Silva, Davide Vecchi.
The conferences are organized by the CFCUL research group "Philosophy of life sciences" and Biodecon and are funded by the FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia).
Filosofia e letteratura in dialogo a partire dal romanzo di Mariagrazia Pia “Come una Nuvola” (Leone Editore, 2016)
Torino, 3 ottobre
Circolo dei Lettori,Via Bogino 9, ore 18
Insieme all’autrice interverranno Gabriele Ferraris (giornalista, La Stampa), Carola Barbero (docente di filosofia del linguaggio, Università di Torino), Alessandro Perissinotto (docente di sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi e scrittore).
News on New Realism
Biblioterapia. Come curarsi (o ammalarsi) coi libri, 2017. REALTÀ… e mondi possibili
Rimini, 1 ottobre-2 dicembre 2017
Sala del Giudizio – Museo della Città, ore 17
Cos’è la realtà? E quali strategie e tattiche mettiamo in opera per comprenderla, o per adattarla al nostro desiderio?
La nona edizione di Biblioterapia - Come curarsi (o ammalarsi) coi libri, curata da Oriana Maroni per la Biblioteca Gambalunga di Rimini, con la collaborazione dell’Ufficio scolastico di Rimini, il contributo di SGR e il sostegno di IBC, muove quest'anno da due domande, e con “REALTA’… e mondi possibili” intreccia un altro nodo della sua mappa concettuale in progress. I dieci appuntamenti in calendario dal primo ottobre al 2 dicembre, tra lectio e narrazioni, raccolgono infatti l’incitamento del poeta filosofo a interrogare la realtà, la sua stessa imponderabilità, coltivando la libertà di pensiero e la meraviglia, lo stupore di fronte all’impensato. Consapevoli della nostra finitudine, ma capaci in quell’orizzonte di trovare il desiderio, che coincide con il respiro stesso dell’uomo.
Uno sconfinamento “oltre la siepe” dell’immaginazione che scardina ciò che è stabile e apre alla dimensione del possibile, che comporta la capacità di vedere e pensare altrimenti.
Sabato 7 ottobre
Guido Tonelli, fisico, Cercare mondi. Esplorazioni avventurose ai confini dell’universo
Domenica 22 ottobre
Vito Mancuso, teologo , Lectio humana, lectio divina
Sabato 4 novembre
Silvano Tagliagambe, filosofo, Cosa significa vedere
Domenica 12 novembre
Maurizio Ferraris, filosofo, Fare la verità
Sabato 18 novembre
Claudio Bartocci, matematico, Scrittori matematici
Sabato 25 novembre
Luigi Zoja, psicanalista, La morte del prossimo: eccesso di virtualità
Sabato 2 dicembre
Luca Serianni, linguista, Le parole e le cose: due realtà che cambiano nello spazio e nel tempo
Scarica il programma completo cliccando QUI
Dialoghi di Estetica | Rubrica di filosofia e arte
Pubblicati su Artribune i dialoghi di Davide Dal Sasso con: Alessandro Armando e Giovanni Durbiano, Paolo D’Angelo, Francesca Chiacchio, i Ludosofici.
 Parola ad Alessandro Armando e Giovanni Durbiano | Architetti e docenti di Progettazione architettonica al Politecnico di Torino Armando e Durbiano hanno scritto il recente volume “Teoria del progetto architettonico. Dai disegni agli effetti” (Carocci, 2017), che riapre la discussione sulla produzione teorica attraverso una riflessione sistematica sull’essenza del progetto e la sua portata. Il dialogo affronta alcuni dei principali temi del libro: la proposta di una teoria del progetto di orientamento oggettivo, la sua dimensione politica, il ruolo delle narrazioni, la produzione degli effetti e le possibili ricadute sul rapporto tra tecnica e cultura.
Leggi il dialogo: http://www.artribune.com/professioni-e-professionisti/who-is-who/2017/09/dialoghi-di-estetica-alessandro-armando-giovanni-durbiano/
Parola a Paolo D'Angelo | Professore ordinario di Estetica all’Università degli Studi Roma Tre, D’Angelo si occupa di estetica ambientale, filosofia tedesca, filosofia italiana contemporanea, estetica delle arti visive. Il dialogo verte in particolare su tre temi: la relazione tra estetica, poetica e arte, il ruolo dell’esperienza estetica, il rapporto tra estetica, produzioni artistiche contemporanee e pratiche di intervento ambientale.
Leggi il dialogo: http://www.artribune.com/professioni-e-professionisti/who-is-who/2017/08/dialoghi-di-estetica-paolo-dangelo-filosofia/
Parola a Francesca Chiacchio | Coordinatrice di situazioni, Chiacchio ha realizzato il 21 giugno 2017 la performance Noi, tondi pirotecnici negli spazi di Cenni di Cambiamento, complesso di social housing della zona ovest di Milano. L'evento è stato l’occasione per approfondire la sua idea di ‘coordinazione’ e il suo progetto ilpalinsesto, basato su un proficuo scambio tra le dimensioni teorica, pratica e relazionale.
Leggi il dialogo: http://www.artribune.com/professioni-e-professionisti/who-is-who/2017/07/dialoghi-di-estetica-intervista-francesca-chiacchio/
Parola ai Ludosofici | Nel 2010 Ilaria Rodella e Francesco Mapelli hanno dato inizio al progetto Ludosofici: attività e laboratori aperti ai pubblici di tutte le età, progettati attraverso strumenti di filosofia e didattica dell’arte. I principali temi del dialogo con loro sono: il rapporto fra teoria e pratica, la relazione tra domande e riflessioni critiche, le potenzialità delle attività di laboratorio.
Leggi il dialogo: http://www.artribune.com/professioni-e-professionisti/didattica/2017/05/dialoghi-di-estetica-ludosofici/
LabOnt Informs
 Le falsità in atti. La tutela penale della documentalità nel sistema dei reati contro la fede pubblica
di Vito Mormando e Filippo Bottalico
Cacucci 2017
Fin troppo nota è la metafora di von Liszt, il quale assimila la fede pubblica agli «animali marini che, guardati da lontano seducono lo sguardo per la loro fosforescenza, mentre presi in mano si sciolgono in una massa gelatinosa». La metafora si è propagata nella nostra letteratura, tanto che Carrara ritiene la falsità in atti un «tenebroso argomento», simile ad una «sfinge», mentre Antolisei, nell’esordio della sua trattazione, ammonisce come sia «incontestato e incontestabile che la materia dei reati che ci accingiamo a studiare è la più complessa, delicata ed ardua della Parte speciale del diritto penale.
Post-verità e democrazia - Maurizio FERRARIS, Luca TADDIO
Festival della Politica 2017 - Mestre 09 settembre 2017
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Festival Mediterraneo della Laicità: a Pescara la decima edizione. Intervista a Maurizio Ferraris
A cura di Valentina Stella | www.confronti.net
Dal 20 al 22 ottobre si terrà a Pescara la decima edizione del Festival Mediterraneo della Laicità sul tema “The Documedial Revolution”. Mobilitazione totale. Culture, libertà, conoscenza nell’era digitale. Le problematiche aperte dalla rivoluzione del web alla costituzione dei saperi. Per cominciare a scaldare il dibattito abbiamo posto alcune domande al professor Maurizio Ferraris, direttore scientifico del Festival.
Professore per incamminarci verso il cuore della decima edizione del Festival, partiamo dal termine “laicità”. Rodotà nel 2009 scriveva che non si tratta di un polo oppositivo, dell’idea di dividere i credenti dai non credenti. Oggi cosa significa essere laici?
Avere un progetto esistenziale che differisce in qualche punto da quello di un non laico, termine con cui designo il credente, non solo nel cristianesimo, ma nell’islam, nel new age, nel veganesimo, nel comunismo. Visto che sono certo che anche nella mia vita ci sono elementi non dichiarati di credenza, cioè cose che reputo vere senza avere delle prove, e magari per semplice abitudine o appartenenza a un ambito sociale, familiare, professionale, essere laico significa per me anche riuscire a riconoscere le mie credenze non dichiarate, e farci i conti. [continua a leggere]
Calls
Jobs
Postdoc Position "Aesthetics of Performative Environments: Immersivity, Agency, Avatar” - University of Milan
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan offers a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on “Aesthetics of Performative Environments: Immersivity, Agency, Avatar”. The Fellow will carry out the activities at the Department of Philosophy of the Università degli Studi di Milano under the supervision of Andrea Pinotti and Chiara Cappelletto.
Description of the research project: Immersive environments impact on artistic practices, professional applications, and everyday life. They convey a sense of embodiment, presence, and augmented existence. Interactivity via avatars opens up new affordances and agencies: novel forms of subjectivity are performed by theatrical and fictional experiences. Drawing on image-theory, theatre and performance studies, the candidate shall explore the phenomenological and epistemological implications of performative environments.
Knowledge of Italian is not required.
The DEADLINE for applications is OCTOBER 16th, 2017 at noon. All documents must be received by this date.
Duration: Two-year renewable.
Grant: €21.000 gross per year. This sum is tax free.
Application forms: the candidates must fill in the application form available on-line at https://air.unimi.it/rm/public/postDocFellowship.htm?&rand=0.38724092993364034
All the application details may be found at the following link http://www.unimi.it/ricerca/assegni_ricerca/1260.htm
For further information please contact: Chiara Cappelletto (email: chiara.cappelletto@unimi.it) and Andrea Pinotti (e-mail: andrea.pinotti@unimi.it)
Conferences
International Society of Nietzsche Studies
Third annual workshop
London, March 16–17
Deadline: November 1, 2017
The ISNS Executive Committee invites papers for presentation and discussion at its annual workshop to be held next at Birkbeck – University of London (March 16–17, 2018). Papers are welcomed on any aspect of Nietzsche’s philosophical thought.
Workshop attendance and participation will both be limited by invitation, but anyone, irrespective of rank, is eligible to submit a paper, and we particularly welcome submissions from women and minorities. ISNS will fund the travel and lodging of those whose papers are selected. The format of the workshop will favor discussion; papers will be circulated to attendees in advance, and two-hour sessions will begin with a brief summation, after which they will be devoted to discussion among participants.
All submissions should adhere to the following guidelines:
- Since selected papers will be published in a special issue of the journal Inquiry, submissions should be in English.
- Papers should not exceed 10,000 words (including footnotes) and should be formatted in a standard font, double-spaced, with one-inch margins. Consult The Chicago Manual of Style on other matters of style and citation.
- Authors should send TWO files: (1) Use file name 'LASTNAME cover' for a one-page document containing only (i) the title of the paper, (ii) author's name, (iii) institutional affiliation and (iv) e-mail address, and (v) a 250-word abstract. (2) Use file name 'LASTNAME CFP' for the main submission; please include the title and abstract on the first page of the paper.
- Papers should contain nothing that identifies either author(s) or institution(s), including any references in the endnotes or bibliography that would betray the identity of the author. Submissions not suitably anonymized will be returned or rejected.
- Send papers as either Word (.doc or .docx) or Adobe (.pdf) attachments to internationalnietzsche@gmail.com.
Deadline: November 1, 2017
Notification: The Committee will endeavor to notify authors of accepted papers by December 31, 2017.
Center for Logic, Language, and Cognition (LLC), Turin
Topoi Conference - Foundational Issues in Philosophical Semantics
Turin May 31-June 1 2018
Topoi ( http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245) is an international journal of philosophy based in Rome, Italy.
Every other year, Topoi funds a conference in a different city, that purports to focus on foundational issues in some subfield of analytic philosophy. Previous Topoi conferences were Rome 2012 (“Intentions: Philosophical and Empirical Issues”); Oxford 2014 (“The Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics”); Munich 2016 (“New Trends in Rational Choice Theory”). Following the conference, contributions are then selected for publication on Topoi.
Next year (2018), Topoi conference will happen at the Center for Logic, Language, and Cognition ( https://www.llc.unito.it ) in Turin and will focus on foundational issues in philosophical semantics. The event will take place for 2 days on May 31-June 1. It will involve a 6 keynote speakers (listed below) as well as several other speakers selected through a call for abstract.
Keynote Speakers
Emma Borg (University of Reading)
Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University)
Hannes Leitgeb (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Paul Pietroski (Rutgers University)
Francois Recanati (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris)
Frank Veltman (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
Call for Abstracts
Foundational Issues in Philosophical Semantics
The last 15 years have seen an explosion of renewed philosophical interest in semantics and its foundations. This renewed interest is partly due to an unprecedented collaboration between philosophers of language, linguists, computer scientists, and psychologists. This interdisciplinary effort that has led to breakthroughs on specific topics, such as, notably, the semantics of conditionals, of epistemic modals, deontic modals, imperatives, de se reports , non-factual language such as predicates of taste, moral language, and so on. In addition to specific results in the semantics of natural languages’ fragments, the exchange with linguists, computer scientists, and psychologists has also led to the widening of a discussion of foundational questions about the nature of meaning, such as:
- Whether the meaning of sentences is to be modeled as static and truth-conditional, as traditionally understood, or dynamically, as an update on context.
- Whether conventional meaning, plus eventually saturation of hidden variables, suffices to determine truth-conditional content, at least a “minimal” one, or whether it provides just a semantic potential that must be freely enriched with contextual information in order to get truth conditional content.
- Whether the content that is conventionally encoded by a sentence coincides or not with its truth conditional/at issue meaning, or whether it exceeds its truth conditional content to include presuppositions, conventional implicatures and more generally “non-at-issue content”.
- How to understand the semantics/pragmatics divide in the light of the complexity of the at issue/non-at-issue distinction, in the light of the phenomena of sarcasm and metaphor, and in the light of the debate between static and dynamic approaches to the study of languages
- The nature of linguistic conventions and the study of their game-theoretical underpinnings.
- The effect of question-sensitivity on the nature and structure of content.
- Whether a sufficiently fine-grained notion of semantic content can be construed using the notion of truth-making.
- Whether notions such as truth and reference, at the core of truth-conditional semantics, are really suitable for doing semantics of natural languages or whether one should abandon them in favour of other notions, such as use and instructions, assertibility conditions, inferential and conceptual role.
The aim of this conference is to bring together experts of the field to discuss and to assess some of these most recent advances on foundational issues in philosophical semantics.
Guidelines for submissions
Deadline: 17 November 2017, at midnight.
Abstract should be prepared for blind review and emailed, as PDF documents, to the following address:
topoiturin2018@gmail.com
Please include your name, affiliation, and contact information in the body of the e-mail.
Abstracts should not be longer than 1000 words and should fall within the broad topics described above.
Verdicts will be communicated by the end of December 2017.
After the conference, the best papers will be selected for publication on a Topoi special issue.
Scientific Committee
Stefano Caputo (University of Sassari)
Vincenzo Crupi (University of Turin)
Andrea Iacona (University of Turin)
Carlotta Pavese (Duke University/University of Turin)
For additional information, write to: topoiturin2018@gmail.com
Congresso Internazionale. “60 anni de La Struttura Originaria (60SO)”
Brescia 24‐26 febbraio 2018
Deadline: 30 settembre
Direzione scientifica
Ines Testoni, Vincenzo Milanesi, Giulio Goggi, Ilario Bertoletti.
Referees
Giorgio Brianese, Massimo Donà, Giulio Goggi, Leonardo Messinese, Davide Spanio, Luigi Vero Tarca, Ines Testoni.
Comitato scientifico
Francesco Altea, Giuseppe Barzaghi, Enrico Berti, Francesco Berto, Sara Bignotti, Giorgio Brianese, Hervé Cavallera, Piero Coda, Umberto Curi, Nicoletta Cusano, Biagio de Giovanni, Massimo Donà, Adriano Fabris, Maurizio Ferraris, Umberto Galimberti, Giulio Giorello, Sergio Givone, Giulio Goggi, Luca Illetterati, Natalino Irti, Paul Livingston, Romano Madera, Giacomo Marramao, Leonardo Messinese, Giuseppe Micheli, Vincenzo Milanesi, Salvatore Natoli, Federico Perelda, Ugo Perone, Arnaldo Petterlini, Bruno Pinchard, Graham Priest, Gennaro Sasso, Carlo Scilironi, Italo Sciuto, Pierangelo Sequeri, Davide Spanio, Andrea Tagliapietra, Luigi Vero Tarca, Francesco Totaro, Gianni Vattimo, Mauro Visentin, Vincenzo Vitiello.
Call for Papers
Coloro che sono interessati, devono inviare un abstract entro il 30 settembre all’indirizzo: ggoggi@libero.it
La struttura degli abstract deve essere la seguente:
Cognome Nome
Professione (o studi in corso) e indirizzo email
Titolo
Testo (carattere: Times New Roman; dimensione carattere: 12; numero caratteri, spazi inclusi: minimo 4000, massimo 8000; interlinea singola)
Bibliografia (corrispondenza tra citazioni nel testo e voci bibliografiche: massimo 10 voci)
L’accettazione dei contributi sarà resa nota agli autori entro il 15 ottobre
La programmazione sarà predisposta entro il 30 novembre
Iscrizioni entro il 31 dicembre
Per ulteriori informazione, scarica la call cliccando QUI
World Congress of Philosophy 2018. Learning to be human
Deadline: October 1, 2017
Beijing, August 13-20, 2018
The World Congress of Philosophy is organized every five years by the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) in collaboration with one of its member societies. The XXIV World Congress will be held in Beijing, China, from August 13 to August 20, 2018, under the auspices of the Chinese Organizing Committee. The complementary aims of the 2018 Congress include an emphasis on exploring dimensions of the human and inquiring into the challenges facing humanity:
To globalize philosophical investigations to encompass the diverse forms of philosophizing by past and present thinkers across cultures, with special attention to critical reflections on philosophy itself and the tasks and functions of philosophy in the contemporary world.
To open the philosophical area to enable philosophers to address emerging global issues through fruitful interactions with other disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, with other activities in economic, social, political, and religious spheres, as well as with diverse cultures and traditions.
To encourage philosophical reflections to become public discourses on recurrent human concerns, such as ecology, justice, and peace.
***Submissions should not exceed 1,800 words (or 3,000 characters for papers submitted in Chinese), and should be accompanied by a 200 words abstract (500 characters in Chinese). The submission should include an indication, prominently displayed, of the section for which the contributed paper is intended and shall be written in one of the official languages of the Congress.
Online submission is open now.
All persons who want to participate in the Congress are welcome to submit their abstract and paper. Abstract and paper should be intended to one of the 99 Sections for contributed papers announced in the tab menu "Sections for Contributed papers"
WAYS OF SUBMISSION
There are three ways of submitting the abstract and paper:
(1) Online submission
Click here to reach the Online submission Page.
(2) As attachment to an email message: secretariat@wcp2018.pku.edu.cn
(3) the archaic way of sending the documents by post:
Chinese Organizing Committee
24th World Congress of Philosophy Secretariat
Department of Philosophy—Peking University, No.5 Yiheyuan Road Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.China 100871
We strongly recommend all participants to use the online abstract and paper submission for their convenience and for reduction of costs.
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Journals
Call for Papers: Linguistic Justice and Analytic Philosophy
Special issue of _Philosophical Papers_
Deadline: October 1st, 2017
Website
*Guest editors*: Filippo Contesi (Jean Nicod Institute), Moti Mizrahi (Florida Tech) and Enrico Terrone (Turin)
Expected contributors include *Eric Schwitzgebel* (University of California, Riverside), *Hans-Johann Glock* (Zurich), *Elisabetta Galeotti* (Eastern Piedmont) and *Eric Schliesser* (Amsterdam)
The topics of linguistic discrimination and linguistic justice have received little attention from contemporary analytic philosophers despite the fact that there is a growing body of evidence in linguistics and social psychology about implicit negative biases towards speakers and writers perceived as non-native. In fact, issues of linguistic discrimination and justice are particularly urgent in analytic philosophy because English is undoubtedly the lingua franca of contemporary analytic philosophy. For this reason, it is important to think about what it means to be a person for whom English is not a first language and who tries to participate in the academic life of contemporary analytic philosophy.
The aim of this special issue of _Philosophical Papers_ is to consider the circumstances of being a non-native speaker and writer of English in analytic philosophy. In addition to philosophical and meta-philosophical perspectives, we also encourage submissions from different approaches and disciplines, including psychology, linguistics and the social sciences.
Possible questions for discussion include:
- Is there linguistic discrimination or injustice in analytic philosophy? If so, what should we do about it?
- Are the percentages of non-native-speaker faculty members of the most reputable analytic philosophy departments comparable to those in arts and humanities and STEM departments? What should any differences teach us?
- How can diversity of native languages and cultures be beneficial, if at all, to analytic philosophy?
- Are perceived linguistic fluency and eloquence important factors in philosophical writing and presenting? Should they be?
- Is it true, as is sometimes claimed, that publishing philosophical work in the most reputable venues in contemporary analytic philosophy only requires linguistic competence of a level that is reasonably easy for a non-native writer to achieve?
- Should English (or any other language) be the lingua franca of contemporary analytic philosophy?
- Should study and research in analytic philosophy be a global and cosmopolitan enterprise?
- What if any extra policies can or should professional journals or institutions adopt to address any specific difficulties faced by non-native speakers and writers?
- Are there any precedents in the history of intellectual communities, including contemporary ones and those in different philosophical traditions, that can provide a useful model of how to approach the language issue in analytic philosophy?
- How does the language issue intersect with issues of race, ethnicity or nationality (or other issues)? How important are such intersections (or lack thereof)?
The deadline for receipt of submissions is 1 October, 2017. This issue of _Philosophical Papers_, comprising both invited and submitted articles, will appear in *March 2018*.
Authors should submit manuscripts electronically, as a PDF or MS Word document attachment, to the Managing Editor at Philosophical.Papers@ru.ac.za. Authors must include their full name, affiliation, and address for email correspondence with their submission.
Further inquiries may be addressed to Filippo Contesi (filippo.contesi@york.ac.uk) or Ward Jones (w.jones@ru.ac.za).
RIVISTA DI ESTETICA
Website
(3/2018) "Empirical Evidence and Philosophy"
Advisory Editors: Petar Bojanic (University of Beograd), Samuele Iaquinto (University of Milano), Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milano)
Mail to: giuliano.torrengo@gmail.com and rivista.estetica@gmail.com
Deadline for submission: September 30th, 2017
(1/2019) "The science of futures. Promises and previsions in architecture and philosophy"
Advisory Editors: Alessandro Armando (Politecnico di Torino), Giovanni Durbiano (Politecnico di Torino)
Mail to: alessandro.armando@polito.it; giovanni.durbiano@polito.it; rivista.estetica@gmail.com
Deadline for submission: January 30th, 2018
(2/2019) "Philosophy and Literature"
Advisory Editors: Carola Barbero (Università di Torino), Micaela Latini (Università di Cassino)
Mail to: carola.barbero@unito.it; m.latini@unicas.it; rivista.estetica@gmail.com
Deadline for submission: April 30th, 2018
(3/2019) "Bridging Traditions. Chinese and Western Philosophy in Dialogue"
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Deadline for submission: September 30th, 2018
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