CFP: Austin Graduate Ethics and Normativity Talks

Submission deadline: September 14, 2015

Conference date(s):
October 23, 2015 - October 24, 2015

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Conference Venue:

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, United States

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Austin Graduate Ethics and Normativity Talks (AGENT) is an annual conference for graduate students, hosted by the graduate students in the philosophy department at the University of Texas at Austin. We aim to offer a forum for philosophical papers on ethics and normativity.

Our third annual conference will be held this year on October 23rd and 24th, 2015 at Waggener Hall. We’re delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Stephen Darwall, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.

We are currently accepting paper submissions from graduate students.

We welcome high-quality paper submissions from graduate students in any area of philosophy related to normativity and value broadly construed, including but not limited to:

  • Aesthetics
  • Applied Ethics
  • Disability Theory
  • Epistemology
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • History of Ethics
  • Normative Ethics
  • Metaethics
  • Philosophy of Gender
  • Philosophy of Race
  • Philosophy of Law
  • Political Philosophy
  • We also encourage submissions from other philosophical subfields as they relate to normativity, such as (but not limited to) philosophy of language, mind, logic, mathematics, epistemology, and metaphysics.

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2015

Notifications of Acceptance: October 1, 2015

We especially encourage submissions from members of groups underrepresented in the philosophy profession. All submissions must be 4000 words or less and prepared for blind review. Please submit all documents (in .pdf, .docx, or .doc format) to [email protected] with the subject ‘AGENT 2015 submission’. Please use your paper title as the document’s name (e.g., InterestingPaper.pdf). One Submission per author. In addition, please include a cover letter with:

  1. Paper Title
  2. Author’s Name
  3. Author’s institutional affiliation
  4. Author’s email
  5. Paper Word Count (≤ 4000 words)
  6. Abstract  (≤ 300 words)

Send further questions to [email protected]

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