CFP: West Coast Plato Workshop on the Philebus
Submission deadline: September 30, 2015
Conference date(s):
May 7, 2016 - May 8, 2016
Conference Venue:
Department of Philosophy, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff,
United States
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Call for Abstracts: West Coast Plato Workshop on the Philebus
The West Coast Plato Workshop will meet in Flagstaff at Northern Arizona University May 7-8, 2016 to discuss ten papers on the Philebus. All participants will read the papers before the workshop. Authors will give a ten-minute summary. A commentator will then speak for ten minutes, followed by a five-minute reply by the author and about forty minutes of discussion.
Keynote speakers are:
Mary Louise Gill, Brown University: “The Fourfold Division of Kinds at Philebus 23b-27c”
Fernando Muniz, Universidade Federal Fluminense: “Is There a Method of Division in the Philebus?”
Instructions for submission of abstracts:
Send 500-word abstract to Julie Piering ([email protected]) for blind review. Referees will seek coverage of different parts of the dialogue as they rank the abstracts.
Deadline for submission of abstract is September 30, 2015.
Referees’ reports due October 30, 2015.
Authors notified by November 10, 2015.
Completed papers of accepted abstracts are due to organizers and commentators February 15, 2016.