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Workshop topic: \;our lives are pervaded by commitments: you might be committed to meeting a friend for dinner\, exercising four times per week\, learning a language\, being considerate\, sustaining a friendship\, promoting a political cause. \; Some commitments are relatively trivial and readily set aside. \; Others are deeper and more resistant to change. \; When people display extreme degrees of commitment\, we sometimes describe them as \;devoted. \; \;Devotion \;seems to involve a particularly robust form of commitment\, which might differ from standard forms of commitment in its intensity\, stability\, resistance to compromise\, epistemic status\, or deliberative weight. \; \;

This conference seeks to explore the relationship between devotion and \;meaning in life. \;How does devotion connect to our desire for a meaningful or purposeful life? \; What needs\, longings\, or motivations drive us to express devotion? \; Do different objects of devotion (such as devotion to fitness communities\, to sports teams\, to political causes\, etc.) fulfill these needs in different ways? \; Is devotion linked in important ways to our identity? \; To our sense of what is important?
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Keynotes:

Ruth Chang \;(Oxford\, Philosophy/Jurisprudence) \;

Joshua Hicks \;(Texas A&\;M\, Psychology)

Antti Kauppinen \;(Univ. of Helsinki\, Philosophy)

Crystal Park \;(UConn\, Psychology)
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Speakers:

Kaitlyn Creasy \;(CSU San Bernardino)
&ldquo\;Meaning at the Limits of Practical Agency&rdquo\;

Casey Doyle \;(Binghamton University)
&ldquo\;Meaning\, Self-Deception\, and Dialectical Invulnerability&rdquo\;

Errol Lord \;(Univ. of Pennsylvania) \;
&ldquo\;Devotion to Beauty and the Authoring of Our Selves&rdquo\;

Simon May \;(King's College London)
&ldquo\;The Child as the Archetypal Object of Devotion in Late Modernity&rdquo\;

Thaddeus Metz \;(Univ. of Pretoria)
&ldquo\;Beyond Devotion as a Source of Meaning&rdquo\;

Sanjeev Sikri \;(Indian Institute of Technology)
&ldquo\;Ekrūpatam and Sakhyabhakti: Finding Identity through Committed
Friendships in Ancient Indian Philosophy&rdquo\;

Justin White \;(Brigham Young University)
&ldquo\;Devotion\, Fragile Meaning\, and the Selves of Merleau-Ponty&rdquo\;

Jules Wong \;(Penn State)
&ldquo\;Devotion\, Dissipation\, and Gender&rdquo\;

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