CFP: Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy/Société canadienne de philosophie environnementale

Call for Papers:     (Deadline Extended to July 15, 2016)

The Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy/ Société Canadienne de Philosophie Environnementale 

in conjunction with The Western Canadian Philosophical  Association 53rd Annual Meeting 

October 28-30, 2016 

University of Alberta

Keynote Speaker:  Jeannette Armstrong (Canada Research Chair in Okanagan Indigenous Philosophy, UBC-Okanagan)

Submissions of colloquium papers on Canadian and global environmental issues in all their philosophical dimensions; including (but not limited to) aesthetic, ethical, metaphysical, ontological, phenomenological, social/political, scientific, and spiritual welcome  Colloquium papers should be no more than 4,000 words (text), presentable in 25-30 minutes to allow for commentary and discussion, and prepared for blind review.

Please submit papers by email as electronic attachments (.docx, .doc, .rtf, .txt, or .pdf), providing your name, e-mail address, academic affiliation (if any), and a brief abstract (no more than 150 words). The CSEP/SCPE and WCPA will each be awarding a Student Essay Prize, so if you are a student please indicate this in the body of your e-mail.

Proposals for panels or symposia all areas of environmental philosophy are welcome. Please submit the proposed title, abstracts of presentations, and names of all participants. Colloquium papers and panels/symposia on environmental topics may be submitted for presentation either on the program of the CSEP/SCPE or the WCPA main program, but will automatically be considered for presentation on both programs.

Please send submissions to [email protected] by July 15, 2016. Conference information can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/csep-scpe/ and https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/wcpa2016/.