Unlike the John McCain campaign, Arche sends it announcements out through the intertubes, not by “Betamax tape”:http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/20/republicans_betamax_media_stra.html. So I can happily announce this
*Call for Papers: Philosophical Methodology: 25-27 April*
The AHRC Project on ‘Intuitions and Methodology Project’ at the Arché Philosophical Research Centre will host a major Conference on Philosophical Methodology 25-27 April, 2009, at the University of St. Andrews.
_Invited keynote speakers_:
David Chalmers (Australian National University)
Jonathan Schaffer (Australian National University, Arché)
Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)
Tamar Szabó Gendler (Yale University)The purpose of the conference is to explore questions about philosophical methodology. Potential topics include:
- The nature of philosophical intuitions
- The role of intuition in philosophical methodology
- The bearing of experimental philosophy on philosophical methodology
- Comparisons between approaches to methodology in various subfields of philosophy
- The subject matter of philosophy
- The significance of disagreement in philosophy
- Comparisons between philosophy and other disciplines
- Apriority
- The epistemology of modality
- Scepticism about philosophy
- The role of linguistics in philosophical inquiry
We hope to consider both methodological questions about philosophy at large and considerations specific to subfields of philosophy (e.g., metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of language, etc.).
_Submitted Papers_:
We now invite submissions for 40 minute talks on any area of philosophical methodology. Please send an abstract (400-word maximum) and a CV (1-page) via email to Jonathan Ichikawa by 1 January, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 February, 2009._Further Details_:
Contact Jonathan Ichikawa or Yuri Cath or visit the conference website.
Naturally, I’ll be getting to St Andrews about two weeks after this, so I’m not sure I’ll be able to go. But it looks like it should be a great conference.