CFP: BPPA Annual Conference 2012 at The University of Edinburgh

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 

THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE BRITISH POSTGRADUATE PHILOSOPHY ASSOCIATION& THE BPPA CAREERS DAY 

3 - 6 September 2012 

The University of Edinburgh, UK 

www.bppa-online.org 

[email protected] 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 

Sarah Broadie (Professor of Moral Philosophy & Wardlaw Professor, University of St. Andrews)  

Brad Hooker (University of Reading) 

Christopher Peacocke (Columbia and UCL) 

Duncan Pritchard (Chair of Epistemology, University of Edinburgh & Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)  

CAREERS DAY SPEAKERS 

Michael Brady (University of Glasgow)  

Guy Fletcher (University of Edinburgh)  

Katherine Hawley (University of St. Andrews)  

Jesper Kallestrup (University of Edinburgh)  

Mike Ridge (University of Edinburgh)  

Alasdair Richmond (University of Edinburgh)  

Paul Snowdon (UCL)   

Dave Ward (University of Edinburgh) 

Plus more TBC. 

THE POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE 

Now in its sixteenth successive year, the annual conference of the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BPPA) is the largest, most prestigious and longest running graduate philosophy conference in the United Kingdom. This year’s conference is to be held at the University of Edinburgh from 3-6 September.  

Speakers and respondents will have the option of having their papers published in a special issue of Philosophical Writings. Bursaries will be offered to all speakers and respondents.

THE BPPA CAREERS DAY 

Following the success of last year's inaugural BPPA Careers Day, the BPPA has decided to run it a second time. The Careers Day is a full day of talks and symposia given by leading academics on topics related to careers in philosophy. 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 

We welcome papers in all areas and traditions of philosophy, from graduate students all over the world. Authors of papers who make it to the final stage of reviewing but are not accepted will be given the opportunity to respond to accepted papers at the conference. Decisions on whether papers have been accepted will be made by mid-July. 

• Word limit: 3,000 words (including footnotes, but excluding reference bibliography).  

• Papers should be prepared for blind review. 

• Submission deadline: 6rd June.  

• Please submit papers as Microsoft Word documents by email [email protected].  

• Please put ‘Conference Paper Submission’ as the subject of your email. 

• Please include in a separate document a cover sheet containing your name, departmental affiliation, email address, contact telephone number and the title of your paper. 

Bursaries are available to all speakers and respondentsin the form of a partial reimbursement of the conference fees, thanks to the generous support of the Analysis Trust. In addition to this, we are able to offer specific bursaries to graduate students submitting papers on logic, awarded on a competitive basis. These bursaries have been made thanks to generous sponsorship from the British Logic Colloquium (BLC). Successful papers that receive these must meet with the guidelines on the BLC website: 

• BLC:http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr/blc/ 

For all enquiries please [email protected] 

We would like to acknowledge kind and generous support from our sponsors:  

• The Analysis Trust 

• The Scots Philosophical Association 

• The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies (PRS)  

• The University of Edinburgh Department of Philosophy  

• The University of Edinburgh School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences  

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE 

Cameron Boult (Secretary) 

Hasse Hamalainen (Treasurer) 

Sebastian Kohler (Funding Coordinator) 

Robin McKenna (Event Coordinator) 

Selina Sadat (Committee Chair & Funding Coordinator) 

Richard Stoeckle-Schobel (Funding Coordinator) 

Lauren Ware (Event Coordinator) 

Sam Wilkinson (Publicity & Advertising Coordinator)