CFP: Tenth Annual Meeting on Environmental Philosophy: Thinking and Acting Ecologically

The conference programme includes: 

• A reading of Steve Water’s play The Contingency Plan
• Guided walk around UEA Wildlife Trail
• Open air picnic
• Film screening
• Papers delivered via weblink and other measures to reduce our carbon footprint

We invite submissions on any topic in environmental philosophy / ecophilosophy broadly conceived. The focus of the tenth annual meeting will be on developing ideas and concepts that are not only thematically concerned with the environment but are themselves contributions to ecological action.

Topics might include:

• methods and principles that make for specifically ecological ways of thinking and acting
• the relation of style to content in ecological thought and practice
• connections between philosophy and green politics / art practice/ science policy
• the significance that specific environments have for ecological thought and action
• the connections between ecological practices (e.g. walking, observing, gardening, direct action etc.) and ecological thought
• theory and practice of environmental justice and our relationship with future generations
• ecosophy/ ecophenomenology and/or ecologism
• problems and opportunities facing interdisciplinary environmental studies

There will be a reduced conference fee for all speakers.

• Submit 250 word abstracts for 20 minute papers by 31st January 2013.
• Please anonymize all abstracts (inc. PDF submissions)

Academic Inquiries: Dr Tom Greaves, School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, UK, [email protected]  +44 (0)1603 593187

Administrative Inquiries: Natalie Mitchell, Arts & Humanities Events Office, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, UK [email protected]   +44 (0)1603 592810