CfP: “Humans and Nature”
The History of Philosophy curriculum of the
North-Western Italian Philosophy Consortium (FINO) and the Collegio Giasone del
Maino di Pavia are pleased to announce the 5th edition of the International
Graduate Conference in History of Philosophy, which will take place on Sept.
17-18, 2018, in Pavia. The topic of the 2018 edition is “Humans and Nature”.
Submissions are invited that engage with the philosophical question of
naturalism, in particular with the attempts, and refusals of a naturalistic
explanation of the human realm from antiquity to the mid 19th-Century. Both the
metaphysical and the methodological meaning of naturalism will be taken into
account; special attention will be paid to its materialistic developments, to
the criticisms of supernaturalistic issues, and of teleological investigations.
The invited presenters include Sabrina
Ebbersmeyer (University of Copenhagen),
Ann Thomson (European University Institute, Florence), and Stéphane
Toussaint (CNRS-LEM-PSL, Paris). Invited speakers will give plenary lectures,
and discuss the presentations of the PhD students in their section.
Papers can be in English or French, and
should not exceed 30 minutes presentation time (and followed by approximately
20 minutes of discussion).
SUBMISSIONS
Graduate students (Master, PhD students and
those who have defended their doctoral thesis not earlier than 2016) can submit
proposals for papers of approximately 30 minutes.
The submission deadline is June 15th, 2018.
Successful applicants will be notified by July 1st, 2016.
Please send the following to paola.rumore@unito.it in .doc(x), .rtf,
or .pdf format:
(1.) A cover letter containing the
following information: (a) author’s name (b) institutional affiliation (c)
contact information, (d) title of the paper.
(2.) The title and a detailed abstract (in
English or French, one page in length) of the paper. This should be prepared
for blind refereeing, i.e. showing no information identifying the author or the
author’s institutional affiliation.
Participants will be offered accommodation
in the Collegio Giasone del Maino in Pavia (via Luino, 4). Travel expenses cannot be covered. No registration fees are required.
Conference organizers: Carla Casagrande
(Università di Pavia), Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte orientale),
Paola Rumore (Università di Torino).