CFP: British Society for Ethical Theory Conference 2015

Call For Papers

British Society for Ethical Theory conference 2015

University of Southampton
13 - 14 July 2015


Keynote Speakers
Baroness Onora O'Neill (Cambridge and House of Lords)
Professor Shelly Kagan (Yale)


Papers are invited for the 2015 annual conference of the British Society for Ethical Theory, to be held at the University of Southampton following on directly from the Joint Session. We welcome philosophical discussion of any branch of ethics, including the history of ethics, applied ethics, ethical questions in the critical philosophy of race, gender, and disability, moral psychology, normative ethics, and metaethics.

BSET operates a fully anonymised refereeing system. The Chief Referee, who organizes the process of refereeing and decides the programmes, is unaware of authorship. A submitted paper must contain no information identifying its author. If the author is a postgraduate student, this should be indicated in the accompanying email, since we aim to have at least one postgraduate speaker at the conference (and we often have more). Postgraduate status will not be passed on to the Chief Referee until the submissions have been ranked in order of preference.

Papers must be unpublished at the time of submission. Submissions should be in English, no longer than 6500 words, and fully anonymised. Those who submitted papers for our previous conferences - successfully or otherwise - are welcome to submit again, although not the same papers.

BSET is keen that papers will be communicated clearly to its conference audience. Please bear in mind that all sessions are plenary, so the venue will be more like a lecture hall than a seminar room.

Papers selected for the conference are eligible for publication in the journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Speakers at our conference do not need to decide on whether to take up this offer until just after the conference itself.

The Society cannot cover costs of speakers, although we normally make some bursaries available for speakers and other attendees. Eligible costs include childcare. The local organisers will also help with the organisation of childcare. Further particulars will be available from the following web page once the papers have been selected:
http://www.bset.org.uk/2015.html

The deadline for submissions is strictly Monday 1st December 2014 at 5pm GMT. Submission will be via the email address that will appear on the following web page when submissions open on Monday 3rd November:
http://www.bset.org.uk/2015.html

Submissions must be in PDF or Word format, be fully anonymised, and include an abstract of 200-300 words.

Note that ONLY electronic submissions will be accepted.

Further particulars regarding registration will be available once the conference lineup is announced.