Call for Papers

2010 Syracuse Graduate Student Conference
April 16 & 17
Keynote Speakers: Ted Sider (NYU) & Ben Bradley (Syracuse)
Paper submission deadline: Jan 1, 2010
Send submissions to: suphilgradconf@gmail.com

Papers should be suitable for a 25-30 minute presentation (no more than 4000 words).

Submissions must be prepared for blind review and sent as either a PDF or Word file.

In the text of your email, please include your name, contact information, and short abstract (max 150 words).

We welcome submissions in all areas of philosophy.

Call for Papers

The 18th Annual Harvard-MIT
Graduate Student Philosophy Conference

Conference Date: Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Derek Parfit, All Souls College, Oxford

Commentary provided by Harvard and MIT faculty

Submission Deadline: Sunday, January 10th, 2010


We seek submissions from graduate students in any area of philosophy.
Submissions should be suitable for a 40-minute presentation. As guidance, a 4000-word paper usually takes about 40 minutes to read.

All submissions must be accompanied by an abstract of 400-500 words (roughly one single-spaced page). No identifying information should appear in the body of the paper or the abstract. Instead, please include a cover sheet with the submitter´s name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, name of his or her institutions, and title of the paper.

Please submit papers by e-mail to harvardmit2010@gmail.com in one of the following formats: .pdf, .rtf, .doc. We can only accept one submission per applicant.

If you have any questions, please contact us at harvardmit2010@gmail.com.

NYU/Columbia Grad Conference

The deadline for submissions is in a month. Looks like an awesome time!

Philosophical Friday

Esa Diaz Leon
University of Manitoba
Department of Philosophy

Will give a talk on

“How to Be a Realist about Race”


DATE: Friday, November 27th, 2009
LOCATION: 384 University College
TIME: 2:30 p.m.

* All are welcome *

Call for Papers

The School of Thought

The University of Western Ontario

Call for Papers

Undergraduate Philosophy Conference:

The Mind/Body Problem

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Frances Egan

March 12 & 13, 2010

Submission deadline: February 10, 2010

The mind/body problem can be summarized as the problem of how physical things like brains are related to sensations, concepts, intentions, desires, memories, and other psychologically characterized phenomena. The School of Thought is encouraging undergraduate students to submit essays written on any aspect of the mind/body problem. Papers in any other area of philosophy will also be considered.

Papers should not exceed 3000 words in length. Please do not include any personal identifiers immediately before or after your paper. Name, affiliation, and contact information should be included on a separate page at the end of the document (i.e. well below the body of your essay). Please include a 150 word maximum abstract of your paper. The authors of selected papers will receive $100.00 to present their work at the conference. Frances Egan will be presenting in the afternoon of the 12^th, and student papers will be presented throughout the 13^th.

Submissions are to be sent to think@uwo.ca in Word, RTF, PDF or Plain Text format.

Papers must be received by February 10, 2010.

Dylon McChesney, Adam Mantha

School of Thought Coordinators

Department of Philosophy

The University of Western Ontario

University of Miami Grad Epistemology Conference

University of Miami Annual Grad Epistemology Conference final cfp. Deadline is Nov. 13.

philosophical zombies, colon, the movie

Or at least, the script for the movie.