CFP: International Conference on the Philosophy of Criminal Punishment

Keynote speakers:

T. M. Scanlon, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civic Polity, Harvard University; author of What We Owe to Each Other.

Tommie Shelby, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard
University; author of "Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto," Philosophy & Public Affairs (2007).

Themes:

• Punishment & Social Justice
• Why Punish? How Much?
• Should the Death Penalty be Implemented or Abolished?
• Any other topic.

Submission:

• There will be a limit of 15 papers. No parallel session. Each paper allotted an hour for presentation & discussion.
• Please submit abstract (250-500 words) by March 15, 2013.
• Decision will be made as soon as (days after) an abstract is received, or by April 1, 2013.
• Submissions will be considered after April 1 if there are still vacancies.
• Papers due on June 1, 2013.
• Send to Joyce Cheung at [email protected] AND to Hon-Lam Li at [email protected]

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