The Philosophy of Privacy

Call for papers: 

The Salzburg Ethics Group (https://salzburgethics.com/) invite submissions for their second conference for the three-year project ‘The Source View on the Right to Privacy’. 

The topic of the conference will be 'The Philosophy of Privacy'. 

The conference will provide a platform for scholars to present their work in plenary sessions, to share their ideas with colleagues, and to explore the ways that privacy intersects with other areas of philosophy.

As the first workshop took place online, this one will take place in-person at The University of Salzburg, from the 22nd to 23rd of September. There will be talks by Annabelle Lever, Asja Ahatović, Leonhard Menges and Elizabeth Ventham.

We would like to invite submissions of abstracts of up to 500 words for the conference.

Possible topics include:

• How does the value of privacy contrast with values like sharing and being known?
• Is privacy a pro tanto good? 
• Or is privacy only ever instrumentally good?
• How does privacy relate to values like equality and social justice?
• What can theorising about privacy tell us about digital ethics?
• What domains can we have privacy over?
• Can groups have privacy?
• Can privacy get in the way of empathy?
• Is privacy about access, control, or both?

If you would like to present at the conference, please prepare an abstract of up to 500 words for blind review and send it in an email to [email protected] by April 28th.

We are committed to equality along all axes, and submissions from members of under-represented groups in philosophy are especially welcome.

The Source View on the Right to Privacy is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), project number P 36226-G. We are also grateful to the GAP (Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie) who have contributed towards the costs of this event. 

All the best,

Lizzy Ventham, Asja Ahatović, and Leonhard Menges