CFP: Understanding Value 2013

Following the great success of the first Understanding Value conference, we once again invite the submission of abstracts for Sheffield University’s second graduate conference on the theme of value.  A great many areas of philosophy are concerned with questions about value.  From the areas traditionally conceived as a part of ‘value theory’ – ethics, meta-ethics, aesthetics, social and political philosophy – to epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language, mind and psychology, there is a need to understand what value is, what it does and how it can best be conceived of. To this end, we invite submissions of high quality abstracts of 500-1000 words from graduate students with an interest in value, broadly construed. We welcome papers taking an analytic, continental, historical or cross-disciplinary approach to any of the many problems surrounding value, from graduate students working in any area of philosophy.  

We welcome papers from graduate students, or those who have submitted a PhD in the last two years. All enquiries and submissions should be emailed to [email protected] by 1st February 2013. 

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