Fifth Mid-Hudson Valley Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

Call for Papers

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Marist College will host the Fifth Mid-Hudson Valley Undergraduate Philosophy Conference November 14-15, 2014. Undergraduates are encouraged to submit papers on any topic in philosophy. The conference is selective, accepting at most six papers. There are no concurrent presentations. Each paper presentation includes comments from another undergraduate from either Marist College or another one of the colleges in the Mid-Hudson Valley Region of Upstate New York.

Papers accepted for presentation are eligible for consideration for publication in the second volume of the annual Marist Undergraduate Philosophy Journal. More information about the journal can be found at http://www.marist.edu/liberalarts/philrel/mupj/index.html.

The keynote speaker this year will be Joshua Knobe, Professor in the Program in Cognitive Science and the Department of Philosophy at Yale University. Professor Knobe is a leading figure in experimental philosophy. Using experimental methods employed in work on social cognition, he has made significant contributions to our understanding of the intuitions of ordinary people about some of the central problems with which philosophers are preoccupied. In particular, his work has revealed connections between the moral judgments of ordinary people and their intuitions about causation, consciousness, free will, and other phenomena.

Professor Knobe’s work has been published in leading philosophy, psychology, and interdisciplinary cognitive science journals as well as edited collections in these fields. He co-edited the collections, Experimental Philosophy, Volumes 1 and 2 (Oxford University Press, 2008 and 2014), and is the co-editor of the annual, Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, the first volume of which will appear in 2015.

Please send papers of no more than 3,000 words by September 22, 2014. We are accepting electronic submissions by attachment in PDF or MS Word format. Please send submissions to Andrei Buckareff at [email protected].