Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers

Organized by Philip Brey (chair), Adam Briggle, Ed Spence, Johnny Soraker

Department of Philosophy, University of Twente and 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology, the Netherlands.

Maximum number of participants: 32

This workshop will consider the implications of contemporary technology for the quality of life, and will examine approaches from philosophy and social and behavioural science for studying the quality of life in a technological age. Since the industrial revolution, modern technology has seriously impacted day-to-day life and has engendered changing ideals of the good life. In recent years, new technologies in the information, medical, industrial, and other sectors have further impacted everyday life. In this workshop, different disciplinary perspectives, from philosophy, psychology, economics and other fields, will be employed to interpret and evaluate contemporary relations between technology and the quality of life.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Philip Brey
Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Netherlands

Luigino Bruni
Department of Economics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

Charles Ess
Interdisciplinary studies, Drury University, USA

Anna Croon Fors
Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden

Jeroen van den Hoven
Department of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Neil Levy
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, Australia

Don Slater
Sociology Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Anton Tupa
Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, USA

Ruut Veenhoven
Department of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Peter-Paul Verbeek
Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Netherlands

More invited speakers will be announced on http://ceptes.nl/glita

TOPICS INCLUDE:

Philosophical and empirical methods for studying the good life and quality of life in a technological culture
Implications of modern technology for the quality of life
Hedonist, desire-satisfactionist and objective list accounts of contemporary life
Quality of life, consumer culture and consumer technologies
Quality of life, political philosophies and technology policy
Quality of life, sustainability and the environment
Quality of life and information technology
Quality of life and biomedical technology
New technologies and changing ideals of the good life
Welfare economics and technology
Happiness studies and technology

We are looking for contributions that employ conceptions of the quality of life or well-being that go beyond traditional social-economical quality-of-life indices, and that consider either the subjective preferences and psychological states of persons (as in psychology and welfare economics) or particular normative ideals of the good life (as developed in philosophy).

Call for Papers

March 15, 2008
The 1st Annual Symposium at Scarborough
An undergraduate philosophy conference hosted by the Philosophy Club at the University of Toronto at Scarborough

Keynote Speaker: Diana Raffman, University of Toronto
Conference Location: University of Toronto at Scarborough (UTSC)

The Philosophy Club at the University of Toronto Scarborough invites submission of high quality papers in any area of philosophy for the inaugural Symposium at Scarborough, an undergraduate philosophy conference. Papers should be approximately 2000-3000 words, suitable for presentation in 20 minutes, and accessible to philosophy students at the undergraduate level. Each paper will be commented on by a UTSC undergraduate, and there will be an opportunity for general discussion.

Please submit papers in pdf or rtf format to utsc.philosophy@gmail.com. Papers should be prepared for blind review, with no identifying information in the paper itself. A cover sheet, attached as a separate file, should contain author name, title, address, school affiliation, email, phone number, word count, and abstract of approximately 125 words.

We hope to be able to help defray travel expenses for presenters from outside the Greater Toronto Area.

Submissions deadline: February 5.

Philosophy Graduate Student Conference: University at Albany, SUNY

Epistemology

Date: April 12th, 2008

Keynote: Dr. Hilary Kornblith,University of Massachusetts Amherst

The graduate students at the University at Albany, SUNY cordially invite the submission of excellent papers in the area of epistemology for presentation; papers may debate issues belonging to epistemology proper or examine how problems in epistemology bear on other areas of philosophy (such as philosophy of mind or metaethics). Papers should be suitable for a 25 to 30 minute presentation (approximately 15 pages).

All submissions should be suitable for blind review (no identifying marks in the body or title of the paper) and should include a separate cover page containing the following information: your name, paper title, an abstract of no more than 100 words, institution of affiliation, email address and phone number. Please submit papers via email, as a MS Word document, rich text format file, or PDF file, to AlbanyGradConference at gmail.com

If submission by email is not possible, please mail to: University at Albany SUNY, Department of Philosophy, UAPA President, Humanities 257, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222.

For more information about the conference, please contact John Milanese at johnrmilanese at yahoo.com

Deadline for Submission: February 1, 2008