CFP: New Work on Discrimination

We invite submissions of abstracts for a workshop on New Work on Discrimination. 

The workshop will have four talks selected from submitted abstracts and four talks by the following invited speakers: 

-              Debbie Hellman (University of Virginia); 

-              Adam Hosein (Northeastern); 

-              Renee Jorgensen (Michigan); and,

-              Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus).

We will consider papers on any aspect of discrimination theory. This includes papers on general issues about what discrimination is and/or what makes it wrong, as well as papers on more specific issues such as affirmative action or algorithmic discrimination. 

The workshop will be held at Yale University on April 17–19. There will be limited funds available to cover travel and accommodation. We will send a form assessing participants’ needs and available funds shortly after we have confirmed the conference attendees.  

Papers accepted to the workshop will be eligible for publication in a special issue of Philosophical Studies. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged, but not required, to submit their papers to this special issue.

Abstracts should be no greater than 2,500 words (inclusive of all footnotes but exclusive of the bibliography) and should clearly explain the main issue and central contribution of a paper that can be presented in 45 minutes. The title of the paper should be the file name of the submission, as well as included within the document above the abstract. Abstract should be anonymized and submitted as .pdfs by August 31, 2025 to [email protected]. There is a limit of one submission per person. 

Authors of especially strong abstracts not selected for the workshop will be invited to serve as commentators for a session. In order to facilitate this, we expect authors of accepted papers to send their commentators a draft of their full paper by March 1st.