CFP: 4th Annual Austin Graduate Ethics and Normativity Talks

Submission deadline: September 18, 2016

Conference date(s):
November 11, 2016 - November 12, 2016

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Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin
Austin, United States

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Austin Graduate Ethics and Normativity Talks is an annual conference for graduate students, hosted by the graduate students in the philosophy department at the University of Texas at Austin. We aim to offer a forum for philosophical papers on ethics and normativity.

Our fourth annual conference will be held this year on November 11th and 12th, 2016 at Waggener Hall. We’re delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Elizabeth Harman, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.

We welcome high-quality paper submissions from graduate students in any area of philosophy related to normativity and value broadly construed, including but not limited to:

  • Aesthetics
  • Applied Ethics
  • Disability Theory
  • Epistemology
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • History of Ethics
  • Normative Ethics
  • Metaethics
  • Philosophy of Gender
  • Philosophy of Race 
  • Philosophy of Law
  • Political Philosophy
   
  • We also encourage submissions from other philosophical subfields as they relate to normativity, such as (but not limited to) philosophy of language, mind, logic, mathematics, epistemology, and metaphysics.

Submission Deadline: September 18, 2016

We especially encourage submissions from members of groups underrepresented in the philosophy profession. All submissions must be 4000 words or less and prepared for blind review. Please submit all documents (in .pdf, .docx, or .doc format) to [email protected] the subject ‘AGENT 2016 submission’. Please use your paper title as the document’s name (e.g., InterestingPaper.pdf). One Submission per author. In addition, please include a cover letter with:

  1. Paper Title
  2. Author’s Name
  3. Author’s institutional affiliation
  4. Author’s email
  5. Paper Word Count (≤ 4000 words)
  6. Abstract  (≤ 300 words)

Send further questions to [email protected]

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