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SUMMARY:Devotion\, Existential Commitment\, and Ethics
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LOCATION:43 Hawes Street\, Room 202\, Boston\, United States\, 02215
DESCRIPTION:<p><br><strong>Conference topic: the ethical significance of devotion and robust commitment</strong></p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p>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.&nbsp\; Some commitments are relatively trivial and readily set aside.&nbsp\; Others are deeper and more resistant to change.&nbsp\;They persist through doubt and difficulty\, giving shape to a person's life.</p>\n<p>When people display extreme degrees of commitment\, we sometimes describe them as&nbsp\;<em>devoted.&nbsp\;</em>&nbsp\;Devotion&nbsp\;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</p>\n<p>This interdisciplinary conference investigates the ethical significance of devotion and other robust forms of commitment. Topics might include:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>the nature and structure of deep commitment</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>existential\, ethical\, or political forms of commitment</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>devotion as a source of meaning\, purpose\, or identity</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>connections between devotion and love\, responsibility\, or integrity</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>the impact of devotion and robust commitment on individual or collective flourishing</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>the way in which devotion might interact with epistemic virtues and vices</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>pathological or problematic forms of devotion/commitment\, such as fanaticism</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>devotion\, commitment\, and responsibility&nbsp\;</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><strong>We will have five invited speakers and approximately five speakers selected on the basis of abstract submissions.&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Invited speakers: Sharon Street (NYU\, Philosophy)\, David Shoemaker (Cornell\, Philosophy)\, Fiery Cushman (Harvard\, Psychology)\, Kimberly Rios (Univ. Illinois Urbana Champaign\, Psychology)\, Jennifer Herdt (Yale\, Religious Studies).</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Funding: we can offer partial (approximately $500) travel funding for speakers selected on the basis of abstract submissions.</strong></p>\n<p><strong>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:</strong></p>\n<p>Please submit a brief abstract (approximately 500 words\, prepared for blind review) to&nbsp\;DevotionConf@gmail.com.&nbsp\; In the body of your email\, include your paper title\, name\, institutional affiliation\, and contact information.&nbsp\; We will also have space for commentators: if you are interested in being a commentator\, please indicate this in your email.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Submissions are due by October 31\, 2025.&nbsp\; We hope to issue acceptances by the end of November.&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p>Funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the Boston University Center for the Humanities.</p>
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