CFP: Community and Philosophy (Open Court)

Submission deadline: October 31, 2014

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Community and Philosophy

Edited by Courtland Lewis

Abstracts and subsequent essays must be accessible to a lay audience as well as philosophically substantial. All writing should be engaging and directly relevant to Community and its Six Seasons and a Movie. The chapters must be clear and direct, engaging philosophical concepts and theories to highlight the merits and the flaws of Community. This collection will be published by Open Court Publishing as a volume in its successful Popular Culture and Philosophy Series (http://www.opencourtbooks.com/categories/pcp.htm)

Contributor Guidelines:

Abstracts should be 100-500 words, and contain a precise and clear thesis.

Abstracts are Due: October 31, 2014

Submit abstract and CV by email to: Courtland Lewis at [email protected]

Final Papers should be 10 to 12 pages, written in a conversational style.

Topics:

Topics in area of Philosophy will be accepted, but possible topics include…

  • You Can’t Play!

The dangers of exclusion and why Pierce and Chang are Evil

  • Is the Study Group a Community?

The nature of community

  • Annie’s Boobs

Deception and using sexuality to get what you want

  • You Can’t Disappoint a Picture!

Disappointment and disappointing others: Sartre’s Psychology of Being

  • Not Everything is Meta

What is Metaphysics, is it valuable, and why does Abed care so much about it?

  • Is that a New Stereotype?

The nature and logic behind stereotypes, and why they’re so funny (sometimes!)

  • I’m Not Just a Fan, I’m an Academic

What’s the role of academia play in examining pop culture?

  • Are “Blow Off” Courses Good?

What’s the proper way to engage and educate?

  • Do You Want that Toasted: If Subway Ran Education

Should schools be publically or privately funded?  What’s the proper way to run a school?

  • Don’t Roll that Dice!

The Nature of Possible Worlds and Evil/Prime Timelines

  • The First to Untie Me Gets an ‘A’

Cornwallis and the Prisoner’s Dilemma

  • Can We Do Something About the Mold in the East Stairwell?

Environmental Ethics through the eyes of Green-dale

  • If You Think That’s Insensitive, then Listen to This

The goods and evils of political correctness

  • “I’m a Human Being!”

The nature of being human

  • E Pluribus Anus

What our community symbols say about us; or Pledging allegiance to the butt

  • Life Makes More Sense in Pop Culture

- Why Abed’s the most sane person at Greendale; or

- Living with reality through self-deception

  • The Meaning of Life

How pop culture brings meaning to life, and makes life more interesting

  • We Just Want to Belong

Why do so many want to be part of the study group?

  • Excuse Me, I Have Changnesia

Personal identity and trying to change to become better

  • Why Care About Friendship

Friendship is difficult, so why go to so much trouble?

  • Religion, Acceptance, and Difference

When should Shirley stop trying to save her friends’ souls and just let them burn in hell

  • Pierce, You’re Old

Growing old, fitting in, and remaining useful

  • Cool, Cool, Cool

The Philosophy of Abed

  • Abed, We’re Not in an Episode of Inspector Spacetime

The nature and role of Imagination

  • Who Garfunkled Whom?

Can we learn anything from the communal fallout of Harmon and Chase

  • Dissecting a Debate

Which school should’ve of won the debate: Is Man Evil? And why is sex evil?

  • The Ethics of Drunk-Calling

Friendship, sex, and repressed feelings

  • Whether You Leave the Jacket on, or Take it Off; You’ve Done if For Others

Do we ever do anything for ourselves, or is it always for others?

 

Please visit http://www.opencourtbooks.com/categories/pcp.htm and http://www.popularcultureandphilosophy.com/ for more information on Open Court’s Pop Culture and Philosophy series.

To propose ideas for future volumes in the Open Court series please contact the Series Editor,

George A. Reisch, at: [email protected].   

Please post this CFA or forward to anyone writing or working in fields closely related to philosophy who might be interested in contributing.

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