The Call for Abstracts for Understanding Value Seven is OPEN
Understanding Value VII
18th-20th July 2018
Keynote Speakers:
Lisa Heldke (Gustavus Adolphus College)
Havi Carel (University of Bristol)
Megan Blomfield (University of Sheffield)
Maria Alvarez (King's College London)
18th-20th July 2018
Keynote Speakers:
Lisa Heldke (Gustavus Adolphus College)
Havi Carel (University of Bristol)
Megan Blomfield (University of Sheffield)
Maria Alvarez (King's College London)
It is our pleasure to invite abstracts for submission to the seventh annual Understanding Value conference, a three day graduate conference, to be held on the 18th - 20th of July 2018 at the University of Sheffield (UK). The seventh in a line of highly successful conferences on the topic of value, Understanding Value provides a stimulating and supportive environment for primarily postgraduate students to share and discuss their work.
Traditionally, discussions of value have ranged over whether moral and aesthetic evaluative statements are objective or subjective, whether or not facts external to our psychology can be reasons, and how reasons can motivate us at all. But, at Understanding Value, we are interested in papers addressing much broader questions relating to value as well as the more traditional ones. For example, topics may include, but are by no means limited to, discussions of:
We invite submissions from those who are currently postgraduates at any level, or who have completed a PhD less than two years before the conference date. Speakers will be allotted 20 minutes for their presentation, followed by 10 minutes of questions.
Traditionally, discussions of value have ranged over whether moral and aesthetic evaluative statements are objective or subjective, whether or not facts external to our psychology can be reasons, and how reasons can motivate us at all. But, at Understanding Value, we are interested in papers addressing much broader questions relating to value as well as the more traditional ones. For example, topics may include, but are by no means limited to, discussions of:
- The putative fact-value gap;
- The ethics of art;
- Feminism, postcolonial studies and critical philosophy of race;
- Disability Studies;
- Philosophical questions about interpersonal relationships like friendship;
- Philosophical problems concerning value theory in political economy;
- Moral, aesthetic, and political disagreement;
- Social norms and obligations;
- The epistemology of logic;
- Reasons, rationality, and action;
- Epistemic normativity;
- Oppression, marginalisation and society;
- Nihilism;
- Testimony and trust;
- Philosophy of sex and sexualities;
- Climate Change;
- Celebrity and Popular Culture.
We invite submissions from those who are currently postgraduates at any level, or who have completed a PhD less than two years before the conference date. Speakers will be allotted 20 minutes for their presentation, followed by 10 minutes of questions.
Submissions
Please submit abstracts of 500 words or fewer. Prepare your abstract for blind review (i.e., remove all content that may identify you as the author), and send it to valueconference@sheffield.ac.uk. Our deadline has been extended to the 12th of April.
Submissions must be accompanied by a cover sheet, attached as a separate file, which provides the author(s)'s name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliation(s), and the title of the proposed paper.
The organizers are eager to assemble a demographically diverse program. To aid in this, if you are a member of a group that is underrepresented in professional philosophy and wish to identify yourself as such, please include this information on your cover sheet as well.
Both files must be in one of these formats: DOC, DOCX, PDF, RTF, or TXT.
There is a limit of one submission per author.
Important Dates:
Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2017
Notification of acceptance: by 11th of May 2017
Date of conference: 18th-20st of July 2017
Other Information
We are hoping to be able to provide a number of travel, accommodation and childcare bursaries for those who need them, as well as sourcing funding to make any necessary accommodations for disabled conference participants. Details will be available closer to the conference date. Details will be available closer to the conference date.
Please submit abstracts of 500 words or fewer. Prepare your abstract for blind review (i.e., remove all content that may identify you as the author), and send it to valueconference@sheffield.ac.uk. Our deadline has been extended to the 12th of April.
Submissions must be accompanied by a cover sheet, attached as a separate file, which provides the author(s)'s name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliation(s), and the title of the proposed paper.
The organizers are eager to assemble a demographically diverse program. To aid in this, if you are a member of a group that is underrepresented in professional philosophy and wish to identify yourself as such, please include this information on your cover sheet as well.
Both files must be in one of these formats: DOC, DOCX, PDF, RTF, or TXT.
There is a limit of one submission per author.
Important Dates:
Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2017
Notification of acceptance: by 11th of May 2017
Date of conference: 18th-20st of July 2017
Other Information
We are hoping to be able to provide a number of travel, accommodation and childcare bursaries for those who need them, as well as sourcing funding to make any necessary accommodations for disabled conference participants. Details will be available closer to the conference date. Details will be available closer to the conference date.
