CFP: Special Issue on "World-Building" // Numéro Spécial sur « World-Building » - Voir Dire: Journal of Philosophy / Revue de philosophie

Today’s global community is at a critical juncture in the wake of increasing environmental, political, social, cultural, and economic crises. Worlds, as we know them, are becoming destabilized and fractured and the futures of individual nations as well as their geopolitical relations are uncertain. However, from this uncertainty and rupture, opportunity arises to build a better world.

The theme for this special issue of Voir Dire: Journal of Philosophy / Revue de philosophie is “World-Building”, inviting graduate students and scholars to share their research on questions of transformative, collaborative, and cooperative processes and practices that envision worlds in their possible futures and the conditions for their realization.

We welcome articles and book reviews from all areas of philosophy, written in either English or French, engaging with scholarship on topics including but not limited to:

• Transformation, solidarity, and community.
• Rights, dignity, and freedom: Relationships between human, animals, and nature.
• Positive and negative roles of dystopian/utopian thinking, of hope/hopelessness, of nihilism/fatalism, and of future studies.
• Alienation, reconciliation, and reparation.
• Relation between theory and practice; justice; moral and institutional responsibility.
• Policy, commensurability, feasibility, and sustainability.

Fully anonymized articles and book reviews can be submitted online at the following link: https://forms.gle/v4eyjwgc3AUAPAf27.

Articles must be no longer than 7000 words, and book reviews no longer than 2000 words. Complete guidelines for submissions are found at the beginning of the form.

Voir Dire: Conference & Journal / Colloque & Revue is a joint initiative between graduate students from the philosophy departments at the University of Ottawa, Saint-Paul University, and Carleton University.

For any questions, please email us at [email protected].

Download the bilingual English/French CFP here: