CFP: Seventh Annual Mid-Hudson Valley Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Marist College will host the Seventh Mid-Hudson Valley Undergraduate Philosophy Conference November 4-5, 2016. 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 fourth volume of the annual Marist Undergraduate Philosophy Journal.

The keynote speaker this year will be Jessica Berry, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University. Professor Berry specializes in late 18th through 20th Century German Philosophy and Ancient Philosophy. She is the author of Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2011) and numerous book chapters and journal articles. She is presently working on a book entitled Marx, Nietzsche, Freud: The School of Suspicion to be published by Routledge.

Please send papers of no more than 3,000 words (not including footnotes and bibliography) on any topic in philosophy by September 16, 2016. We are accepting electronic submissions by attachment in PDF or MS Word format. Please send submissions to Andrei Buckareff at [email protected].

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