CFP Posted on University Web Site

The Call for Papers has also been posted on the University Web site now. This same call for papers can also be accessed at http://www.southalabama.edu/philosophy.

Interested parties can check either site for updates and information.

Call for Papers

1st annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Philosophical Issues Conference (2008)

Hosted by the University of South Alabama

This year’s theme will be “At the Crossroads of Philosophy and Psychology”
Sponsored by University of South Alabama Philosophy Department

September 2008 (exact date TBA)

Keynote speaker: Joshua Knobe, University of North Carolina

Professional and student submissions are welcomed. The conference will be hosting both a student session and a professional session.

Submissions are due no later than August 1. Early submissions are encouraged.

Presentations should be 20 to 30 minutes in length. Presentations will be followed by commentary and audience discussion.

Papers should be prepared for blind review.

The cover page should include the following:

1) author's name
2) professional or student submission (advanced grad student are welcomed to submit "upwards")
3) institutional affiliation
4) email address
5) telephone number
6) the paper's title
7) an abstract - 150 words maximum

Papers should be emailed to jss310@jaguar1.usouthal.edu no later than August 1.
Questions can be emailed to jss310@jaguar1.usouthal.edu.

Papers in any area of philosophy are welcome, but papers in the area of philosophy of psychology, broadly construed, will be given special consideration. Philosophy of psychology, broadly construed, includes, but is not limited to, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of moral psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, action theory, artificial intelligence, rationality, philosophical psychology, etc. We encourage papers from across all disciplines, as long as the papers are philosophical in nature.

For student submissions, there will be a $15 conference fee, payable at the conference. For professional submissions, there will be a $25 conference fee, payable at the conference. An award will be granted to the best student paper.