Wednesday, July 9, 2008

WCPA Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS
2008 Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference

October 24-26th 2008
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Keynote Speaker: Stephen Darwall, Yale University (who was here http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sdarwall/ and now is here http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/7272.htm)

Papers on any philosophical topic are welcome.

Electronic submissions only, .pdf is preferred. Please include in your submission the paper(maximum 4000 words), a short abstract (maximum 150 words), and your name, e-mail, and academic affiliation (if any).

We also welcome, and indeed encourage, proposals for panels and author-meets-critics sessions. All such proposals should include a theme and abstracts of proposed papers (abstracts for panel papers should be 750-1000 words). Please also include the email addresses and affiliations of potential participants. All participants must be committed to attending if the proposal is accepted.

We will present a student essay prize for the best student paper presented at the meeting. If you are eligible for the prize, please mention this with your submission.

Please send submissions to wcpa08@ualberta.ca by JULY 15, 2008.

We will also be soliciting commentators, so we welcome self-nominations at the same address.

http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~wcpa08