CFP: The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity: Reconciling ‘The Three Narratives’—Art, Science, and Philosophy

Submission deadline: April 15, 2012

Conference date(s):
July 2, 2012 - July 6, 2012

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Conference Venue:

University of Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus

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Language—and by extension our story telling activities in general—enables usto confront the contingencies of life by answering the immediate question: what’s happening and what is going to happen next. Science also attempts to answer this question. However, there appears to be—at least in the western cultural tradition—a fundamental tension between the literary-artistic and the scientific projects: whereas the artist seeks to recreate human experience, thereby evoking basic ethical issues, the scientist seeks ethically-neutral, evidence-based facts, as the constituents of our knowledge of reality. It is thus left to others—to the philosopher, theologian, critic, or historian—to bridge the theoretical and ethical gaps between the world of ‘fiction’ and the world of ‘fact’, of art and science. Among other things, the ever increasing rate of production of scientific data in the modern age poses a new multidisciplinary challenge: how to address the unresolved/unresolvable tensions between the language of normativity and the language of facticity.

If you would like to participate in the conference by presenting a paper in one or more of the workshops please note the following:

Length of Paper

Papers should not exceed 3000 words or 10 double spaced pages, including Notes. Notes need not be included in the presentation of the papers but they should be in the version intended for the proceedings.

Deadline

The deadline for submitting your abstract to a Workshop Chair is April 15, 2012.

To whom shall I submit my paper?

On the conference website, http://issei2012.haifa.ac.il/  you will find a list of approximately 80 workshops with Chairs from over 30 countries. Papers should be submitted directly to the workshop Chair. If you are not sure for which Workshop(s) your paper(s) would be most suitable please send a short abstract to Prof. Ezra Talmor ([email protected]).  He will then suggest a workshop Chair for you to contact.

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