Call for Papers

The 11th Annual Louisiana State University Graduate Philosophy Conference

April 20 & 21, 2018

Keynote Speakers:

Diane Perpich

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Women’s Leadership

Clemson University

"Challenging the Primacy of the Individual: Phenomenological Contributions to Social Ontology"

Donald Hubin

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics and Human Values

The Ohio State University

"Analytic Philosophy as Conceptual Engineering: Some Case Studies from Ethics"

Submission deadline: February 15

Notification of decisions will be sent by March 15.

This is an open themed event. In keeping with the pluralistic commitment of the LSU department, we invite papers that reflect the full diversity of philosophical traditions including, but not limited to, environmental ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, philosophy of language, critical race theory, feminism, and eastern philosophy.

We will give special consideration to papers that complement the speakers' areas of research including: contemporary continental philosophy, ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, gender and sexuality studies, and feminist theory.

Presentation time slots will be 20 minutes each, with an additional 10 minutes for Q&A

Papers should be no more than 3,500 words and prepared for blind review as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file. Please include a separate document with your name, academic affiliation, email address, paper title, word count, and an abstract of no more than 250 words.

Email submissions to: lsuphilconference2018@gmail.com

Questions may be sent to: Joe Larios at jlario1[at]lsu.edu or Michael Wickham at mwickh2[at]lsu.edu