*2013 AUSTRALASIAN POSTGRADUATE PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE*

4-6 October, 2013
University of Melbourne

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On behalf of the Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP), the University of Melbourne will be hosting the *2013 Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference (APPC)* from the 4th to the 6th of October. The conference is designed to bring together postgraduate philosophy students giving them the opportunity to present and discuss papers in all areas of
philosophy.

*Registration for this year's APPC is now open.*
Registration is free for presenters and non-presenting attendees.
All attendees must register in advance through our e-mail
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   - Presenters by 31 August 2013;
   - And non-presenters by 14 September 2013.

Limited funding is available to assist presenters travelling from Singapore, New Zealand, and Australian states and territories other than Victoria. For details, please visit the conference website, blog, or Facebook event.

*Confirmed keynote speaker:*
   -  Prof. Mark Colyvan (University of Sydney)
   -  And Prof. James Franklin (University of New South Wales)

*Other academic events that we will offer:*

   - Discussion panel on Early Academic Career. Panellists: Dr. Dana Goswick (University of Melbourne) and Dr. Daniel Nolan (Australian National University).
   - Presentation: “Getting Published in Philosophy”, Prof. Stewart Candlish, editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (AJP)

The deadline for abstract submissions is the 31st of August 2013. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should include the presenter’s name and academic affiliation, as well as the title and area of specialisation of the paper

Please send all abstract submissions, registrations, requests, and any
other queries to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Feel free to contact the
organisers with any questions you may have.

*APPC 2013 Organising Committee*
*School of Historical and Philosophical Studies*
*University of Melbourne*

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Deleuze. Guattari. Schizoanalysis. Education.

Where:   Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
When:   Monday 9th December –Wednesday 11th December 2013
Abstracts Due:     Monday 29th July 2013
Convener:  Greg Thompson ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

http://www.murdoch.edu.au/School-of-Education/Research/Deleuze-Conference-2013/

We’re in the midst of a general breakdown of all sites of confinement – prisons, hospitals, schools, families. The family is an “interior” that’s breaking down like all other interiors – educational, professional and so on. (...) Educational reforms, industrial reforms, hospital, army, prison reforms; but everyone knows these institutions are more or less in terminal decline. (...) It is not a question of worrying or hoping for the best, but of finding new weapons.Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on Control Societies” p.178

University of Western Sydney,
Parramatta Campus, 3-5 December, 2013

The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy aims to provide a broad intellectual forum for professional academics and postgraduates researching topics in Contemporary European philosophy, and it is the premier reference point for people working within the diverse fields of Continental/European Philosophy in the Australasian region.

ASCP 2013 Conference Site >

Keynote addresses by:

• Graham Harman
• James Martel
• Elizabeth Rottenberg
• Gianni Vattimo
• and a plenary panel on the work of Rosalyn Diprose.

Keynote Abstracts Available Here

Followed by the one-day International Symposium on Hegel and Heidegger (6th December)

Call for Papers

We invite proposals for papers for the ASCP annual conference, which will be held at the University of Western Sydney in December 2013. We encourage papers in the broadly-defined field of Continental Philosophy, including but not limited to German Idealism, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics, Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Film, and relationship between Continental Philosophy and other philosophical approaches. We especially welcome papers from postgraduate students.

Presenters may select either a 30-minute or a 45-minute slot (20-minute presentation plus 10-minute discussion, or 35-minute presentation plus 10-minute discussion).

The deadline for the submission of conference abstracts is Friday 30 August 2013, and confirmation of selection will be forwarded approximately within 2 weeks of this date.

Abstracts should be less than 200 words and should be submitted through the Abstract Submission System Here

Information about conference registration fees will be posted by August 30th, 2013.

For further information, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Call for Panels

We invite proposals for thematic and book panels for the ASCP annual conference (2013).

Proposals for thematic panels should include two or three proposed speakers, and, if possible, a chair and/or a respondent. We will consider a number of panels to form a stream.

Proposals for book panels are also welcome. Proposals should be for books published within the last two years in the area of Continental Philosophy and should include at least the author, one commentator and, if possible, a chair.

To submit a proposal for a thematic or book panel, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . The deadline for the submission of panel proposals is Friday 30 August 2013.

Please note that even if your paper is part of a panel, you still need to submit your paper through the Abstract Submission System, indicating the panel title in the relevant field.

The conference organising committee Diego Bubbio (Chair), Charles Barbour, Alex Ling, Dimitris Vardoulakis, Mariana Fragueiro.

Call for Publications

Publication: Journal of Japanese Philosophy
Date: Vol. 2 (2014)
Deadline: 31.7.2013

The Journal of Japanese Philosophy (JJP hereinafter, published by State University of New York Press) is the first and only international peer-reviewed journal on Japanese philosophy, an academic area that has been receiving increasing global attention for some time now. By enhancing the quality of research through a worldwide, recognized consortium of scholars, this journal intends to provide an international platform for Japanese philosophy, and to further establish an academic status that other philosophical traditions such as Chinese and Indian philosophies already enjoy.
 
With internationally established and renowned scholars of Japanese philosophy on the editorial and advisory boards, this annual journal is devoted to scholarly engagement with open discussions of a wide variety of philosophical texts and discourse. The journal aims to demonstrate the relevance of Japanese philosophy for all fields of contemporary philosophizing. It welcomes rigorous academic papers on all time periods and all areas of Japanese philosophy, classical to contemporary, from a variety of perspectives, including interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and comparative studies.
 
The entire article does not have to be focused on a Japanese philosophy or philosopher as long as some Japanese philosophy or philosopher plays a significant role in the article.
 
Having no preference for any particular religious tradition or philosophical school, it will also provide a new platform for scholars in the field of area studies or Japanology. The journal strongly encourages dedicated young researchers to submit their papers, and will provide critical feedback to this indispensable part of the development of Japanese philosophy.
 
Articles should not exceed 8,000 words and follow the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Book reviews should not exceed 2,500 words. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two specialists. Please send your inquiries and submissions to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
 
For details refer to:
https://sites.google.com/site/journalofjapanesephilosophy/

Evental Aesthetics is an independent, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to philosophical perspectives on art and aesthetics.

We are pleased to invite submissions for two forthcoming issues, to be published in Fall and Winter 2013. We welcome both full-length articles (4,000-10,000 words) and Collisions (1,000-2,500 words). More information on Collisions is available at eventalaesthetics.net.

Each issue will have two parts, one dedicated to a specific theme, and the other devoted to aesthetic, philosophical questions of any kind. The Editors therefore seek submissions in two categories for each issue.

(Fall and Winter) Aesthetics and philosophy: This section will be devoted to philosophical matters pertaining to any aesthetic practice or experience, including but not limited to art and everyday aesthetics. Both issues will include a section of this type. If you would like your submission to be considered for the Fall issue, please get it to us by July 15, 2013. If you would prefer to be considered for the Winter issue, please send your submission by August 31, 2013.

(Fall 2013 only) Animals and aesthetics: The themed section of the Fall 2013 issue will focus on aesthetic matters relating to animals. Submissions to this section will be accepted until July 15, 2013.

(Winter 2013 only) Asceticism and poverty: The themed section of the Winter 2013 issue will explore the diverse relationships between aesthetic practices and various kinds of poverty and asceticism. Submissions to this section will be accepted until August 31, 2013.

All categories may be freely interpreted, however all submissions must engage philosophical perspectives.

Please ensure that your submission meets our formatting requirements, which are available at http://eventalaesthetics.net/for-authors/

PhaenEx: journal of existential and phenomenological theory and culture

Call for papers for special edited issue: Judgement and Embodiment (volume 9.3, to be published in Fall/Winter 2014)

Editors: Alexis Shotwell (Carleton University) and Ada Jaarsma (Mount Royal University)

Feminist judgements about embodiment tend to be normative, identifying and undermining social prescriptions about bodily practices that limit flourishing and intensify oppression; conversely, feminist judgements are also often pragmatic, modeling forms of embodiment that aspire to emancipatory ways of living in the world. Embodiment can be seen, then, as an object of critique as well as a method of transformative critique, and both aspects of embodiment are animated by modes of judgement. Bodily practices that align with feminist resistance may make new capacities of judgement possible: for example, the cultivation of senses that are allergic to prejudicial forms of power and are attuned to non-oppressive relational dynamics. Might we affirm judgement itself as an embodied practice? Such a claim would be somewhat at odds with prevailing liberal scripts about judgement which warn us that judging another’s bodily practices might be impolite or impolitic. Existential and phenomenological approaches to critical theory call such liberal formulations into question, making way for more open-ended and positive conceptions of the intersections of judgement with embodiment.

This special issue will elaborate and explore the problem of embodiment, specifically from the vantage point of feminist concerns about domination and discrimination, on the one hand, and creative and affirmative becoming, on the other. We are especially interested in articles that reflect on particular—or even exemplary—cases that stage the problem of judgement and embodiment.

Deadline: September 5, 2013

Papers should be prepared for anonymous review, and they can be sent to Alexis Shotwell ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or Ada Jaarsma ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).

CFP: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences: The Phenomenology and Science of Emotions

Submission deadline: Thursday, August 15 2013

Details

Guest Editors:

Andreas Elpidorou ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Lauren Freeman ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Phenomenology, perhaps more than any other single movement in philosophy, has been key in bringing the emotions to the foreground of philosophical consideration. This is in large part due to the ways in which emotions, according to phenomenological analyses, are revealing of basic structures of human existence. Indeed, it is partly, and to some phenomenologists, primarily through our emotions that the world is disclosed to us, that we become present to and make sense to ourselves, and that we relate to and engage with others. A phenomenological study of emotions is thus meant not only to help us to understand ourselves, but also to allow us to see and to make sense of the meaningfulness of our worldly and social existence.

Within the last few decades, the emotions have re-emerged more generally as a topic of great philosophical interest and importance. Philosophers, along with psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists have engaged in inter- and intra-disciplinary debates concerning the ontology and phenomenology of emotions, the epistemic and cognitive dimensions of emotions, the rationality of emotions, the role that emotions play in moral judgments, the role that our bodies play in the experience and constitution of emotions, the gendered dimension of emotions (and whether or not there is one), the temporality of emotions, and the cultural specificity of emotions, to name just a few.

Contemporary phenomenological and scientific considerations of the emotions, however, have treated and continue to treat them differently. The former takes a first-personal approach to the emotions that is guided by, rooted in, and engaged with our experiences in the world, where the felt quality of emotional states provides important insights into the meaningfulness of human experiences. The later often takes a third-personal and sub-personal approach to the emotions and focuses on their cognitive architecture and neurobiological mechanisms, which can be detached from and unconcerned with the way that emotions are experienced in and connected to contextual, complex worldly human experiences. Both kinds and levels of analysis are important for understanding the emotions, but at the same time, seem to be at odds with one another.

It is at this juncture that we would like to take up and explore the question of the emotions in this special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the journal, we invite papers on the phenomenology and science of emotions that cross the disciplinary boundaries of phenomenology, psychology, and the cognitive sciences. Papers can engage both continental and analytic traditions and can take an historical, contemporary, applied, or a theoretical approach to the emotions. Our aim is to consider how these different fields and approaches can inform and influence one another to shed light on contemporary debates about the emotions.

Some suggested topics include:

    Critical engagement with historical phenomenological approaches to the emotions.
    Critical engagement with contemporary phenomenological approaches to the emotions.
    Phenomenological accounts of specific emotions such as grief, anxiety, love, lust, joy, anger, shame, guilt, or disgust.
    Consideration of whether and how phenomenological approaches to the emotions can and do engage with scientific and conceptual approaches.
    Phenomenological and scientific considerations of:

o   Emotions and disorders

o   The temporality of emotions

o   The embodiment of emotions

o   Gender and emotion

o   Emotions and oppression

o   Individual and collective or group emotions

o   The difference between mood, affect, feeling, and emotion

o   The rationality/irrationality of emotions

o   The controllability of emotions

o   The relationship between morality and emotions

o   The relationship between emotions and judgments

    A consideration of how and whether phenomenological accounts of emotions can engage with:

o   Perceptual theories of emotion

o   Cognitivist theories of emotion

    Critiques of first personal accounts of the emotions
    Critical account of the difference between emotional states and embodied feelings

Submission information

Word limit: 8000 words

Deadline for submissions: August 15, 2013

Publication is expected in 2014/15

There will be a small number of invited contributions, thus leaving a generous space for submitted papers.

Peer review: all submissions will be subject to a double blind peer-review process. Please prepare your submission for blind reviewing.

Submissions should be made directly to the journal’s online submission website?(http://www.editorialmanager.com/phen) indicating: special issue “The Phenomenology and Science of Emotions.”

For any further questions regarding the special issue please contact either Andreas Elpidorou ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or Lauren Freeman ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

For further details, please check the website of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences:
http://www.springer.com/philosophy/philosophical+traditions/journal/11097

Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy

Special Issue on New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies

August 15, 2013 submission deadline

Volume 30, Issue 1, Winter 2015
Edited by Kim Q. Hall

Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking new work for a special issue on disability with the general theme of New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies. In 2001 Hypatia published its first special issue on feminist philosophy and disability. Since that time, there has been a great deal of disability scholarship in feminist and queer theory. A new special issue provides the opportunity to consider interventions, innovations, and transformations in feminist theory occasioned by theories and concepts that animate feminist disability studies, disability studies, queer disability studies/crip theory.

Within philosophy, much of the discussion of disability has occurred in the areas of bioethics, ethics of care, and social and political philosophy. This work remains crucial for furthering philosophical understanding of disability. In addition to these areas of philosophy, this special issue seeks to provide a space for new feminist philosophical analyses of disability, as well as new feminist, queer, and feminist queer crip conversations between scholarship on disability in ethics and social and political philosophy and scholarship on disability in epistemology, science studies, environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, queer ecology, aesthetics, critical race theory, metaphysics, phenomenology, and queer theory. Papers on any topic pertaining to feminist or feminist queer crip analyses of disability are welcome, including (but not limited to) the following:

• Disability and Phenomenology
• Disability and epistemologies of ignorance
• Disability, gender, race, class, and sexuality
• Disability, national identity, and nationalism
• Disability and/as “assemblage”
• Disability and the question of “the animal”
• Disability and posthumanism
• Disability, ethics, and politics
• Disability and globalization
• Access, accommodation, quality of life
• Bodies and borders
• Able-bodiedness and able-mindedness
• Disability and environmentalism, ecology, ecofeminism, and/or queer ecology
• Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”
• The relationship between impairment and disability identity
• Illness, disease, impairment, bodily limitation, pain, failure
• Disability and the meaning and/or experience of sex and gender, transgender, and intersex
• Disability and orientation/ reorientation/ disorientation of understandings of time and space
• Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”
• Disability and critical analyses of science, scientific knowledge, nature, and human nature
• Feminist/queer/crip perspectives on the Occupy Movement and other global movements for economic, environmental, social, and political justice
• The meaning of art and aesthetic concepts through the lens of disability
• Rethinking the canon of western philosophy through the lens of feminist disability studies

Deadline for submission: August 15, 2013.

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For details please see Hypatia's submission guidelines

Please submit your paper to manuscript central. When you submit, make sure to select “Disability” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor, Kim Q. Hall: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. indicating the title of the paper you have submitted.

http://depts.washington.edu/hypatia/cfps.html#disabilitystudies