CFP: Austin Graduate Ethics and Normativity Talks

Submission deadline: August 1, 2014

Conference date(s):
October 9, 2014 - October 11, 2014

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Conference Venue:

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, United States

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The second annual Austin Graduate Ethics and Normativity Talks (AGENT) is pleased to host Professor Ruth Chang for this year's keynote address. 

In addition, we welcome submissions of high-quality papers from graduate students in any area of philosophy related to normativity and value broadly construed, including but not limited to: 

Aesthetics

Applied Ethics

Feminist Philosophy

History of Ethics

Political/legal Philosophy 

Philosophy of Gender 

Philosophy of Race 

Philosophy & Disability

Normative Ethics

Metaethics 

We also welcome papers addressing normativity from traditionally "non-normative" subfields such as Epistemology, Metaphysics, Language, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind. and Philosophy of Science.

We especially encourage submissions in underrepresented areas of philosophy, and from authors from underrepresented backgrounds. 

Submission Deadline: August 1, 2014

All submissions must be prepared for blind review. Please submit the following two documents (in .pdf, .docx, .doc, or .rtf format) to [email protected] with the subject ‘AGENT 2014 submission’. Please use your paper title as the document’s name (e.g., InterestingPaper.pdf). In addition, please include a cover letter with:

1. Paper Title

2. Author’s Name

3. Author’s institution

4. Author’s email

5. Paper Word Count (≤ 4000 words)

6. Abstract (≤ 300 words)

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