Call For Papers University of Toronto Graduate Conference in Philosophy April 15-16, 2011

 Call For Papers 
Freedom and Freedoms: Uniting State, Responsibility, and Will
The 11th Annual University of Toronto Graduate Conference in Philosophy
April 15-16, 2011 
Keynote Speaker: Philip Pettit, Laurence S. Rockefeller University  
Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University
What is freedom? Is there (or ought there be) a single, unified  
understanding of 'freedom' across all areas of philosophical inquiry,  
or does the meaning (and perhaps also the importance) of 'freedom'  
depend on one's particular philosophical starting point? Why, to what  
extent, and in what respects, should we be concerned with freedom? Who  
has a sufficient degree of freedom and how ought we enhance the  
freedom of those who don't have enough?
The philosophy graduate students of philosophy at the University of  
Toronto invite papers exploring these issues for their 11th annual  
graduate conference. We welcome perspectives from all fields in  
philosophy, as well as those making connections to other disciplines.  
Submissions engaging the history of philosophy are especially  
encouraged. Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to:
- The relationship between metaphysical freedom and moral or political
   responsibility
- The place of free-will with regard to reactive attitudes,  
praiseworthiness or
   determinism
- The relationship between the metaphysical, psychological, ethical, and
   political senses of 'freedom'
- The relationship between freedom (or particular freedoms and democratic
   governance)
- Early modern accounts of the relation between freedom, reasons and  
necessity.
- The relationship between freedom (or particular freedoms) and justice
- The interaction between Kant's accounts of metaphysical and ethical freedom
- Feminist conceptions of freedom, violence, and the other
- How ancient Greek philosophical notions of liberty (eleutheria), the
   voluntary (hekousia), and what's up to us (eph'hemin) shed light on our
   contemporary notion of freedom
The deadline for submissions is JANUARY 22, 2010.
Papers should be sent as an email attachment in either .doc(x) or .pdf  
format to torontophilgradconf@gmail.com. Submitted papers should not  
exceed 4000 words (30 minutes) and must be prepared for blind review.  
In a separate attachment, please include your name, academic  
affiliation, email address, paper title, word count, and an abstract  
of no more than 300 words. Limited travel stipends are available, with  
special funds for exceptional papers in ancient and medieval  
philosophy. Only one submission per author.
Website: /www.philosophy.utoronto.ca/gpsu/conf/
For more information, please contact the conference chair, Mark  
Schranz, at torontophilgradconf@gmail.com.