CFP: Thirty-Third International Social Philosophy Conference

Thirty-Third International Social Philosophy Conference

Sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy

Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

July 21-23, 2016

Proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome, but special attention will be devoted to:

Power and Public Reason

Some possible paper topics include:

• “Nudging”; rhetoric/persuasion and public reason
• Psychology/social psychology of public reasoning
• Decision making (democratic/deliberative/otherwise)
• Neoliberalism and public reason
• Human rights and power
• Power and race/ethnicity
• Critical theory and power in the public sphere
• Public reason and civic virtue
• Hate and the public sphere
• The requirements of justice
• Domination and political power
• Deliberative democracy
• Soft and hard power
• Rawls and social movements
• Religion in the public sphere
• Media and power/public reasoning
• Technology and power/public reasoning

We welcome submissions from both members and non-members, but we require that all presenters join the North American Society for Social Philosophy if their papers are accepted and if they present at the conference.

Submission Deadline:  February 15, 2016. Please submit a 300 word abstract below.

Questions? [email protected].

The Program Committee:

Joan Woolfrey, West Chester University of Pennsylvania (chair)

Devora Shapiro, Southern Oregon University (Ashland, OR)

Kyle Thomsen, St. Francis University (Loretto, PA)

Local hosts:  Jay Drydyk and Christine Koggel, Carleton University

Members of the Program Committee may be reached at:
[email protected]

NASSP Support for International Presenters

The NASSP will waive fees for conference registration and for the banquet for those participants traveling from outside of the United States and Canada.

NASSP Conference Awards for Graduate Students:

The North American Society for Social Philosophy has established the NASSP Awards for Best Graduate Student Papers to promote new scholarship in social philosophy and to encourage student participation in our Conference.

The winners of the annual prizes each receive $300. The prizes are awarded only to conference attendees, though there is no obligation to use the money for conference-related costs. Any graduate student enrolled in a program towards a degree beyond the B.A. or first university diploma is eligible.

The paper may address any topic in social philosophy. Papers should be no more than 3,000 words (include a word count with submission), and they should conform to the requirements set out by the APA for colloquium submissions to annual Divisional meetings.

Those who want to be considered for this award should send their full papers on or before February 15 to [email protected] – and they should also submit abstracts to the site by February 15, 2016.