CFP: Spring 2012 Meeting + Student Essay Contest

Kentucky Philosophical Association Spring 2012 Meeting

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Centre College

Danville, Kentucky

Keynote Address

Anita Superson

University of Kentucky

“Moral Bindingness”

CALL FOR PAPERS (printer-friendly pdf here)

Submission: Submissions on any philosophical topic are welcome. Papers should be no longer than 3,000 words, suitable for reading aloud, and prepared for blind review. Include the following information as a cover page in a separate file:

1) Title of paper.
2) 150-word abstract.
3) Author’s name.
4) Author’s institutional affiliation.
5) Author’s email address.
6) Indicate whether you would be willing to serve as a commentator should your paper not be accepted.

Please send submissions by email to Minh Nguyen at Minh.Nguyen@eku.edu, with ‘KPA SUBMISSION’ appearing in the subject line. Deadline: March 1, 2012.

Contact: Minh Nguyen, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Eastern Kentucky University, 268 Case Annex, 521 Lancaster Avenue, Richmond, KY 40475; 859-622-8667; Minh.Nguyen@eku.edu.

2012 KPA STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST

$100 PRIZE

Eligibility: Contest open to any undergraduate student who attends a college or university in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Only one essay may be submitted by each entrant.

Topic: The essay may be on any topic within the field of philosophy. Regardless of the topic, it should exhibit an appropriate degree of sophistication becoming of an advanced undergraduate student in philosophy.

Submission: The essay should be no longer than 3,000 words, suitable for reading aloud, and prepared for blind review. Include the following information as a cover page in a separate file:

1) Title of paper.
2) 150-word abstract.
3) Author’s name.
4) Author’s institutional affiliation.
5) Author’s email address.
Please send submissions by email to Dr. Bob Sandmeyer at bob.sandmeyer@uky.edu, with ‘KPA STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST’ appearing in the subject line. Deadline: March 1, 2012.

Awards: First Place Winner will receive $100 and read the essay at the KPA Spring 2012 Meeting, to be held on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. Runner-Up will receive a letter of recognition from the Kentucky Philosophical Association.

Women and Philosophy Resources (From Fall 2011 Meeting)

A Presidential Panel was held at the Fall 2011 meeting of the KPA on the topic, "Women and Philosophy." Thanks to panelists Nancy Hancock (Northern Kentucky University), Laura Newhart (Eastern Kentucky University), Pamela Ryan (Morehead State University, Panel Chair), and Erin Tarver (Georgetown College) for putting together a fruitful session. A handout listing various resources pertaining to women in/and philosophy, including organizations, workshops, and print and electronic media, can be found here.

KPA Fall 2011 Meeting Program

Full program (with abstracts) here.

The Fall 2011 Meeting of the Kentucky Philosophical Association will convene at:

Northern Kentucky University
Science Center 302 and 304
Highland Heights, KY 41099

On:

Saturday, October 22, 2011
8:30 am-4:30 pm

Keynote Address: Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern University)
Presidential Panel: "Women and Philosophy"

Program as follows:

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8:30-9:00 am Registration, Breakfast, Welcome

9:00-10:00 am Concurrent Session I

Audrey Anton, Western Kentucky University
“Willing, Unwilling, and Binding Addiction”
Commentator: Zachary Purdue, Kent State University

Elaine Blum, Kent State University
“Queering Kristeva’s Subjectivity”
Commentator: Benjamin Norris, The New School for Social Research

10:00-11:00 am Concurrent Session II

Ryan Comeau, Kent State University
“Incommensurability and Anti-Realist Worries: Thomas Kuhn’s Underlying
Semantic Commitments”
Commentator: Joseph Spino, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Peter Murphy, University of Indianapolis
“Justified, Despite an Unjustified Pedigree”
Commentator: Audrey Anton, Western Kentucky University

11:00-Noon Concurrent Session III

Benjamin Norris, The New School for Social Research
“Harm as a New Approach to Ugliness in the Critique of Judgment”
Commentator: Jerome Langguth, Thomas More College

Ruth Poproski, Carnegie Mellon University
“Cooperativity and the Role of Common Interest in Gricean Pragmatics”
Commentator: Ian Schnee, Western Kentucky University

Noon-1:30 pm Lunch

1:30-2:30 pm Concurrent Session IV

Henry Southgate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Hegel and the Identity of Indiscernibles”
Commentator: Daniel Kirchner, Centre College

Morey Williams, Boston College
“Asking the Right Questions: A Discussion of the Role of Women in
Book V of Plato’s Republic”
Commentator: Erin Tarver, Georgetown College

2:30-3:30 pm Keynote Address

Sandy Goldberg, Northwestern University
“Mutuality and Assertion”

3:30-4:30 pm Presidential Panel

Nancy Hancock, Northern Kentucky University
Laura Newhart, Eastern Kentucky University
Pamela Ryan, Morehead State University (Chair)
Erin Tarver, Georgetown College
“Women and Philosophy”

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REGISTRATION
The meeting is open to the public. A $5 registration fee is required, for both KPA members and nonmembers.

DIRECTIONS AND PARKING
For directions and parking, please click here or here. Visitor parking: maximum $5 per day.

HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS
The nearest accommodations to the NKU campus would be either the Hampton Inn & Suites at 10 Hampton Lane, Wilder KY 41076 (859-441-3049) (website) or the Country Inn & Suites at 10 Country Drive, Wilder KY 41076 (859-441-3707) (website).

CONTACT
Local Contact: Dr. Nancy Hancock, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Northern Kentucky University, Nunn Drive, Highland Heights, KY 41099, hancockn@nku.edu, 859-572-6401.
KPA Contact: Dr. Minh Nguyen, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Eastern Kentucky University, 521 Lancaster Avenue, Richmond, KY 40475, minh.nguyen@eku.edu, 859-626-2335.

CFP: Fall 2011 Meeting

Kentucky Philosophical Association Fall 2011 Meeting:

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Northern Kentucky University (Highland Heights, KY)

Keynote Address:
Sandy Goldberg, Northwestern University, “Mutuality and Assertion”

Presidential Panel:
Panelists TBD, “Women and Philosophy”

CALL FOR PAPERS (Click here for a printer-friendly version.)

Submission: Submissions on any philosophical topic are welcome. Papers should be no longer than 3,000 words, suitable for reading aloud, and prepared for blind review. Include the following information as a cover page in a separate file:

1. Title of paper.
2. 150-word abstract.
3. Author’s name.
4. Author’s institutional affiliation.
5. Author’s email address.
6. Indicate whether you would be willing to serve as a commentator should your paper not be accepted.

Please send submissions by email to Minh Nguyen at Minh.Nguyen@eku.edu, with ‘KPA Submission’ appearing in the subject line.

Submission Deadline: September 22, 2011.

Contact: Minh Nguyen, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Eastern Kentucky University, 268 Case Annex, 521 Lancaster Avenue, Richmond, KY 40475; 859-622-8667; Minh.Nguyen@eku.edu.

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Spring 2011 Meeting Wrap-Up

The spring meeting was held April 9, 2011, at the University of Kentucky. Congratulations to the winner of the 2011 KPA Student Essay Contest, Callie Phillips (University of Kentucky), for her essay, "Possible Worlds Analysis of the Ontological Argument."