Western Canadian Philosophy Association WCPA

Call for Papers

EXTENDED submission deadline: August 15.

NOTE: As of August 9, fully vaccinated Americans and residents of the US will be able to enter Canada without quarantine.

Call for Papers

The 56^th annual meeting of the

Western Canadian Philosophical Association

in conjunction with the 4^th annual meeting of the

Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy/ Société Canadienne de Philosophie Environnementale

will be held October 25^th-27^th at the University of Lethbridge

in Lethbridge, Alberta

Keynote Speaker:

Andrew Light (George Mason University)

Paul Thompson (Michigan State University)

Submissions of papers from all areas of philosophy are welcome. Papers should be no more than 4,000 words (excluding notes), presentable in 25-30 minutes to allow for commentary and discussion, and prepared for anonymous review. The EXTENDED submission deadline is JULY 15^st 2019.

Please submit papers in electronic form (PDF) and a brief abstract (no more than 150 words) via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcpa2019conference

Proposals for panels or symposia are also welcome. Please submit the proposed title of the symposium as well as a collection of abstracts in electronic form (PDF), and a brief abstract (no more than 150 words) indicating that you are proposing a panel/symposium via EasyChair (in the same way as you would submit a paper). Symposia are allotted 2 hours.

Colloquium papers and panels/symposia on environmental topics may be submitted for presentation either on the WCPA main program or the program of the CSEP/SCPE, but will automatically be considered for presentation on both programs. Please indicate if you are submitting with the CSEP/SPCE in mind at the top of your abstract.

Both the WCPA and CSEP will be awarding a Student Essay Prize, so if you are a student, please indicate this.

For more information, and a link to the EasyChair submission page, please visit: http://www.uleth.ca/artsci/philosophy/western-canadian-philosophical-association-wcpa-conference

You can find the schedule for the 2018 WCPA-CSEP meeting here.

If you have not already done so, please register for the conference and banquet at

regonline.ca/WCPA-CSEP2018

If you don’t register by Monday October 22 we won’t be able to guarantee capacity at the banquet, availability of a boxed lunch on Saturday, or be able to accommodate dietary restrictions.

You can now register for the 2018 WCPA/CSEP meeting at regonline.ca/WCPA-CSEP2018.

The registration fee includes a catered reception on Friday and boxed sandwich lunch on Saturday, so please indicate your dietary preferences even if you do not plan to attend the banquet.

Information on booking at the conference hotel are provided on the WCPA website. Note the group rate is only available until October 9.

While you’re at it, consider signing up as a reviewer for an account on the WCPA Open Conference system site. This way we’ll have your contact information when we send out announcements about, or assign reviewers for, submissions to future WCPAs.

Review of papers is now complete, and accepted submissions are posted at

https://ocs.ucalgary.ca/index.php/WCPA/WCPA2018/schedConf/presentations

If you would like to volunteer to comment on an accepted paper, please email rzach@ucalgary.ca with the author/title of the paper(s) you’d be interested in.