6th Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference

I am pleased to announce a call-for-papers for the 6th Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference, which will be held at University of Tampa on Saturday October 13th-Sunday October 14th, 2018. If you're curious about what the conference has been like in past years, see here.

As in the past, the Cocoon conference will be unique in several respects:

1. Although conference attendance will be open to all, paper presenters must be early-career philosophers (graduate students, post-docs, untenured faculty, independent scholars, etc.). 
2. Because early-career philosophers may have challenges securing travel funding, several sessions will be reserved for Skype presentations.
3. Although commentators and audience members are encouraged to present objections, the conference theme will once again be constructive engagement, where the primary intent is to help authors to improve their work.
4. Because the conference aims to help participants improve their work for publication, the conference welcomes full-length articles (10-30 pages double-spaced). As a rule of thumb, the longer the paper, the higher the standards for acceptance to the conference. Extremely long papers are discouraged.
5. Submission to the conference involves an agreement to serve as a commentator on another paper during the conference should your paper be accepted and you accept your invitation to attend.

To submit a paper to present, please email the following to me at [email protected] by June 1, 2018:

1. An anonymized paper.
2. A separate title page with the author's name, contact information, early-career status (e.g. grad student, post-doc, untenured faculty, independent scholar), and brief paper abstract.
3. A statement concerning whether you intend to attend the conference in person or only via Skype.

Decision emails indicating whether your paper has been accepted should be sent out in July or August. Finally, please bear the following in mind. In order to ensure the conference is well-attended, there will be relatively few Skype sessions -- so the probability that your paper will be accepted is higher should you state in your submission email that you can attend in person.