Call for Papers 

Annual Meeting of The Canadian Philosophical Association 

From 1-4 June 2025 

George Brown College, Toronto, ON 

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers and abstracts for its 2025 annual meeting, which will be held as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. This year, the meeting will take place at George Brown College in Toronto, marking the first time it will be hosted at a college. The Congress is scheduled from 30 May 30 to 6 June 2025, with the CPA meeting from 1-4 June 2025. 

The event will include concurrent colloquia and symposia, along with a plenary keynote address by a distinguished philosopher, sponsored by the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. For the third consecutive year, special sessions will feature pairs of prominent philosophers engaging in discussions on topics of mutual interest.

To ensure the schedule is finalized in a timely manner, the submission deadlines will align with last year’s timeline. The deadline for submitting abstracts and papers is 15 November 2024, at 11:59 pm ET.

The program committee will conduct an anonymous review of both abstracts and full papers. Submissions are encouraged from all areas of philosophy, and the CPA is committed to making the meeting accessible and inclusive.

There are two formats for individual paper submissions:

1. Submit a completed paper of no more than 3,000 words (excluding bibliography, notes, and abstract). The paper must include an abstract of no more than 50 words. Accepted papers will be scheduled for one-hour sessions (30-35 minutes for the presentation, followed by comments and discussion).

2. Submit an abstract of 500-750 words (excluding bibliography), providing a clear summary of the central theses and the arguments supporting them. Accepted abstracts will be scheduled for half-hour sessions (20 minutes for the presentation, followed by discussion). Abstracts are not eligible for essay prizes.

Please note that symposium submissions will not be accepted this year.

How to submit

All submissions will be managed through FourWaves. As part of the submission process, you will be prompted to choose an area of philosophy. Please choose the area that best fits your submission. Even imperfect matches will help the Program Committee find appropriate referees for your submission.  

Detailed instructions are available on the submission platform at  https://event.fourwaves.com/acpcpa/pages

Submissions must be made by an active member of the CPA. New member enrollment and membership renewals for 2025 opened on 1 October 2024. Visit www.acpcpa.ca/join for more information.

Please note that participants may only appear in one primary role in the program (either as a symposium speaker or as the author of a paper, whether full or abstract-based). However, participants are encouraged to serve as commentators or chairs in other sessions.

Volunteer

We invite volunteers to serve as referees, chairs, or commentators at the meeting. If you are interested in volunteering for any of these roles, please click here.

Prizes

Several prizes are awarded by the Association for essays submitted for the Annual Meeting: two faculty essay prizes (one tenured, one non-tenured) and up to three student essay prizes (one student prize is reserved for each official language). The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences will again offer the Congress Graduate Merit Award (CGMA) program to support graduate students at Congress. 

In each year’s December issue of Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, prize winners from that year's Annual Meeting will be announced and a short list of exceptional papers that have been vetted by journal reviewers will be published. Prize winners are encouraged to submit their publication-ready papers to Dialogue early. 

More information

For more information about the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, please visit https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2025.

For any inquiries, please contact the Co-Program Chairs, Nicole Ramsoomair at Nicole.ramsoomair@dal.ca, and Martina Orlandi at martinaorlandi@trentu.ca.

Special Issue on ‘Artificial Intelligence Safety and Public Policy in Canada’ in Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de politiques

Sponsors: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the University of Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI)

Managing Guest Editor and contact email: Anindya Sen, Professor of Economics (University of Waterloo) and Acting Executive Director, Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI), asen@uwaterloo.ca

Guest Editorial Committee

• Amanda Clarke, Associate Professor and Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair,  School of Public Policy & Administration, Carleton University
• Jocelyn Maclure, Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology and Professor of Philosophy, McGill University
• Juan Morales, Associate Professor, Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Jonathon Penney, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
• Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy and Professor of Law, University of Ottawa

REVISED Deadline for final paper submissions: 2 April 2025
The deadline for paper submission has been extended to April 2nd to ensure high-quality submissions. 
 

We are also pleased to announce that authors of selected submissions will be invited to present their papers at a conference organized by CIFAR in Toronto on 28 May. CIFAR will cover travel expenses of one presenter for each invited paper. Conference invitations to presenters will be extended before the end of April.   

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping the world around us, changing how industries operate and deliver goods and services, creating new jobs, revolutionizing public services such as healthcare and education, and influencing public opinion. The past decade has witnessed an exponential rise in the sophistication of AI methods, including the widespread popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their use by businesses, governments, and individuals.

Given AI’s sweeping impacts, it is critical to have policy and governance frameworks that can be used to evaluate societal safety with regard to AI development and deployment. However, there are still considerable knowledge gaps on how best to regulate AI and the pace of AI regulation in Canada has lagged behind international regulation, such as the European Union AI Act. Recently, calls to accelerate the pace of AI regulation have come across civil society, academia, government, and computer science.  There is a need to speed up conversations through interdisciplinary research that can address the technical and policy challenges related to AI, including attention to the short-term and long-term risks of AI.

In response to the need for more research on governance and regulations on AI Safety, CIFAR and the University of Waterloo CPI have sponsored a special issue of Canadian Public Policy. All papers are expected to discuss gaps in public policies, regulatory frameworks, and governance mechanisms on AI safety in Canada, lessons from other jurisdictions (if relevant), along with possible solutions and paths forward. We take inspiration from the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, chaired by Canadian computer scientist Yosuha Bengio, which identified systemic risks that include AI’s impacts on the labour market, global AI divide, market concentration, environmental concerns, privacy, and copyright.

We invite submissions from researchers across a range of disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, law/legal studies, and STEM disciplines, with a preference towards multidisciplinary collaborations. The editorial committee is especially interested in papers that address the following questions, grouped according to three main pillars.

Governance and regulation

• What government policies could help Canada exploit the benefits of AI with respect to increasing innovation, productivity, and economic growth?

• How should policymakers consider the balance of long-term and short-term risks from AI systems?

• What are the necessary conditions to ensure that AI development/deployment is ‘Safe’ from a societal perspective? How might regulators arrive at a societal welfare model that can help policymakers to identify appropriate levels of AI safety, balancing with the economic benefits of AI innovation?

• What is a possible regulatory framework that can be used by government/public agencies to evaluate the costs and benefits and net societal effects of AI development and deployment?

• What lessons can Canada take from global AI regulation, such as the EU AI Act?

•  Ontario has introduced Bill 194 to address cybersecurity in the public sector. What federal or provincial policies need to be implemented to ensure enhanced cyber safety for Canadians, given the threats from advanced AI systems?

Market competition and economics of innovation

• AI development has been dominated by a few firms with vast market power. What government policies should be considered to encourage more Canadian AI startups which should lead to more choices for businesses and consumers?

• Does the Competition Act of Canada need to be amended to account for market power generated by data collection/possession and AI use by a few firms?

• What regulatory initiatives are needed to ensure that data collected for AI purposes is done ethically and does not infringe on the intellectual property of other firms?

Trust, privacy, and misinformation

• How do we combat the threats of misinformation and disinformation, given the potential of AI-generated content to accelerate these threats?

• Synthetic data offers exciting possibilities for AI innovation. What specific policies should be implemented to encourage their safe use? 

• Do current existing and proposed federal and provincial initiatives adequately regulate the use of machine learning algorithms from the perspective of public safety? What new legal or policy frameworks need to be developed or adapted to account for privacy in advanced AI systems?

• From a regulatory perspective, how can we integrate the concepts of fairness, explainability, and trustworthiness with AI safety? How can we develop and enforce standards that are consistent with fairness, explainability, trustworthiness, and safety?

Details on collection of papers

Full papers should be a maximum of 7000 words, in English or French, and conform to the guidelines of Canadian Public Policy.
Submissions must be made under the option - Special Issue: "Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy in Canada"

All submitted papers will go through the journal’s standard editorial peer review process.

Call for papers:

Special Issue on ‘Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy in Canada’
in Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de politiques

Sponsors: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the University of Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI)

Deadline for final submissions: March 1st , 2025

Managing Guest Editor and contact email: Anindya Sen, Professor of Economics (University of Waterloo) and Acting Executive Director, Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI), asen@uwaterloo.ca

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping the world around us, changing how industries operate and deliver goods and services, creating new jobs, revolutionizing public services such as healthcare and education, and influencing public opinion. The past decade has witnessed an exponential rise in the sophistication of AI methods, including the widespread popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their use by businesses, governments, and individuals.

Given AI’s sweeping impacts, it is critical to have policy and governance frameworks that can be used to evaluate societal safety with regard to AI development and deployment. However, there are still considerable knowledge gaps on how best to regulate AI and the pace of AI regulation in Canada has lagged behind international regulation, such as the European Union AI Act. Recently, calls to accelerate the pace of AI regulation have come across civil society, academia, government and computer science.  There is a need to speed up conversations through interdisciplinary research that can address the technical and policy challenges related to AI, including attention to the short-term and long-term risks of AI.

In response to the need for more research on governance and regulations on AI Safety, CIFAR and the University of Waterloo CPI have sponsored a special issue of Canadian Public Policy. All papers are expected to discuss gaps in public policies, regulatory frameworks, and governance mechanisms on AI safety in Canada, lessons from other jurisdictions (if relevant), along with possible solutions and paths forwards. We take inspiration from the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, chaired by Canadian computer scientist Yosuha Bengio, which identified systemic risks that include AI’s impacts on the labour market, global AI divide, market concentration, environmental concerns, privacy, and copyright.

We invite submissions from researchers across a range of disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, law/legal studies, and STEM disciplines, with a preference towards multidisciplinary collaborations. The editorial committee is especially interested in papers that address the following questions, grouped according to three main pillars.

Governance and regulation

• How should policymakers consider the balance of long-term and short-term risks from AI systems?
• What are the necessary conditions to ensure that AI development/deployment is ‘Safe’ from a societal perspective? How might regulators arrive at a societal welfare model that can help policymakers to identify appropriate levels of AI safety, balancing with the economic benefits of AI innovation?
• What is a possible regulatory framework that can be used by government/public agencies to evaluate the costs and benefits and net societal effects of AI development and deployment?
• What lessons can Canada take from global AI regulation, such as the EU AI Act?
• Ontario has introduced Bill 194 to address cybersecurity in the public sector. What federal or provincial policies need to be implemented to ensure enhanced cyber safety for Canadians, given the threats from advanced AI systems?

Market competition and economics of innovation

• AI development has been dominated by a few firms with vast market power. What government policies should be considered to encourage more Canadian AI startups which should lead to more choices for businesses and consumers?
• Does the Competition Act of Canada need to be amended to account for market power generated by data collection/possession and AI use by a few firms?
• What regulatory initiatives are needed to ensure that data collected for AI purposes is done ethically and does not infringe on the intellectual property of other firms?

Trust, privacy, and misinformation

• How do we combat the threats of misinformation and disinformation, given the potential of AI-generated content to accelerate these threats?
• Synthetic data offers exciting possibilities for AI innovation. What specific policies should be implemented to encourage their safe use? 
• Do current existing and proposed federal and provincial initiatives adequately regulate the use of machine learning algorithms from the perspective of public safety? What new legal or policy frameworks need to be developed or adapted to account for privacy in advanced AI systems?
• From a regulatory perspective, how can we integrate the concepts of fairness, explainability, and trustworthiness with AI safety? How can we develop and enforce standards that are consistent with fairness, explainability, trustworthiness, and safety?

Details on collection of papers

Full papers should be a maximum of 7000 words, in English or French, and conform to the guidelines of Canadian Public Policy.
Submissions must be made under the option - Special Issue: "Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy in Canada"

All submitted papers will go through the journal’s standard editorial peer review process.

Dear CPA Members,

The editorial team of the journal Dialogue, affiliated with the Canadian Philosophical Association, reminds its members that the submission of articles in French is always welcome.

Established in 1962 and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Dialogue publishes articles and special issues in all areas of philosophy. The journal meets the highest academic standards and is published by Cambridge University Press. It has 3 issues per year and offers accelerated publication times once articles have been reviewed and accepted.

Dialogue also subscribes to Cambridge University Press' Green Open Access policy, which allows for the distribution of certain versions of articles published on multiple platforms, and aims to make its modes of publication compatible with the open access requirements now imposed by many granting agencies.

Manuscripts can be submitted online on the ScholarOne platform at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dia.

For more information on submitting articles, visit our website: https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/dialogue-submissions.

If you have any questions or would like to propose a special issue project, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at dialogue.francais@acpcpa.ca.

Looking forward to reading your contributions,

Charles Côté-Bouchard

Collège Montmorency

Francophone Editor of Dialogue

Cécile Facal

French-speaking editorial assistant

Dialogue. Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Call for Papers: "Philosophical Issues in Artificial Intelligence" — 2025 UofA Graduate Conference

We invite graduate students and postgraduates to submit papers to this year’s Philosophy Graduate Student Group Conference taking place in person on May 3rd & 4th 2025, at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 

The topic of the 2025 UofA Graduate Conference is philosophical issues concerning artificial intelligence, broadly construed. With the rise of AI in classrooms, workplaces, and our private technology, several issues come to light regarding its accessibility, security, bias, and traceability (among others). This raises several important questions about what citizens can do and what researchers should investigate at the intersection of ethics, science, technology, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and political philosophy. The aims of the conference include: 

• Discussing and proposing solutions to potential threats AI could pose for private and public security;
• Understanding and criticizing the relationship between human labour and AI; 
• Considering the need for legislation pertaining to AI (its availability, possible weaponization against individuals, corporations, and/or governments);
• Defining “intelligence” and whether or not this is an accurate description of what we consider AI to possess; and
• Examine the limits of our exploration into how sophisticated we can or should make AI given the worry of the danger it could pose to humans

The application of these issues pertains to but is not limited to, intelligence, consciousness, free will, morality, personhood, trust, scholarship and academia, art and authorship, etc.  

Keynote Presentations

Dr. Geoffery Rockwell, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Professor from the University of Alberta.

‘Title TBA’

 Dr. Luke Kersten, Assistant Professor from the University of Alberta.

‘Title TBA’

To ensure a rewarding discussion, we strongly encourage submissions from all areas of philosophy and related disciplines including the digital humanities, psychology, technology, and political studies (among others). We especially encourage submissions from groups underrepresented in the profession. Funding may be available for accepted speakers.

Submission Guidelines: Submissions are to be received no later than 1 March 2025. Papers should not exceed 3000 words. Papers should be prepared for anonymous review and include a bibliography. Please send your paper as a PDF to pgsg@ualberta.ca. In a separate PDF file, please include your name, academic affiliation, e-mail address, paper title, and an abstract of no more than 150 words.

PhilEvents Links: 

Main conference: https://philevents.org/event/show/132006
CFP: https://philevents.org/event/show/132010

*Call for Papers*

The Canadian Philosophical Association

2022 Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

May 17-20, 2022

Online

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and Invited Symposium proposals for the 2022 annual meeting. This meeting is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and will take place alongside meetings of other learned societies. The CPA meeting will take place May 17 – 20  and will include up to ten concurrent sessions. Every area of philosophy is represented, with several hundred philosophers attending from across the globe. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy sponsors a plenary keynote given by a distinguished philosopher. The program committee anonymously referees abstracts as well as full papers and will consider proposals for Invited Symposia. Submissions in all areas of philosophy are welcome. The Association is committed to organizing an accessible and inclusive meeting.

The 2022 Congress will be virtual. For more information, visit https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/congress-2022.

The deadline for symposium proposals, abstract and paper submissions has been extended to 11.59PM on Monday, January 17, 2022 (PST). For detailed instructions, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit.

Volunteers to chair are encouraged. To volunteer, please click here.

Call for Papers: 2025 University of Calgary Annual Philosophy Graduate Conference

The theme of this conference is Justice in an Unequal World. We are looking to feature papers on both applied and theoretical topics within the philosophy of justice, law, politics, and related areas. 

Paper topics in the areas of epistemic (in)justice, distributive justice, relational justice, global justice, and political justice are acceptable. Subtopics may include but are not limited to: 

• Testimony 
• Agreement and negotiation 
• Implications of social policy 
• Marginalization 
• Health inequality 
• Immigration, globalization, climate justice 

Other topics in applied justice such as autonomy, agency, free speech, responsibility, privacy, and related concepts will also be considered. We are especially interested in papers that address marginalization, systemic inequality, and testimonial injustice. 

Dates: 1-2 May 2025 

Location: Philosophy Department, Social Sciences Building, University of Calgary AB 

Format: This conference will be held in person. If you have accessibility concerns, please contact Christina Leach (cfleach@ucalgary.ca) to discuss potential accommodations such as remote access. We are committed to making this an inclusive event, and welcome submissions from graduate students at all levels of study. 

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Allen Habib (University of Calgary) and Dr. Susan Dieleman (University of Lethbridge). 

This conference is generously supported by the University of Calgary Department of Philosophy and by the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 

Papers must be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ucgc25 

Submissions should be no more than 3,000 words (excluding footnotes and bibliography), prepared for blind review, and suitable for a 20-minute presentation. Submissions should also include a short (200 word) abstract. 

Deadline for submission is 15 February 2025. 

Please direct all inquiries to calgarypgsaconf@gmail.com 

Preliminary Call for Papers 

Annual Meeting of The Canadian Philosophical Association 

From 1-4 June 2025 

George Brown College, Toronto, ON 

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers and abstracts for its 2025 annual meeting, which will be held as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. This year, the meeting will take place at George Brown College in Toronto, marking the first time it will be hosted at a college. The Congress is scheduled from 30 May 30 to 6 June 2025, with the CPA meeting happening from 1-4 June 2025. Further details, including submission instructions, will be provided in a subsequent email.

The event will include concurrent colloquia and symposia, along with a plenary keynote address by a distinguished philosopher, sponsored by the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. For the third consecutive year, special sessions will feature pairs of prominent philosophers engaging in discussions on topics of mutual interest.

To ensure the schedule is finalized in a timely manner, the submission deadlines will align with last year’s timeline. The deadline for submitting abstracts and papers is 1 November 2024, at 11:59 pm ET.

The program committee will conduct an anonymous review of both abstracts and full papers. Submissions are encouraged from all areas of philosophy, and the CPA is committed to making the meeting accessible and inclusive.

There are two formats for individual paper submissions:

1. Submit a completed paper of no more than 3,000 words (excluding bibliography, notes, and abstract). The paper must include an abstract of no more than 50 words. Accepted papers will be scheduled for one-hour sessions (30-35 minutes for the presentation, followed by comments and discussion).

2. Submit an abstract of 500-750 words (excluding bibliography), providing a clear summary of the central theses and the arguments supporting them. Accepted abstracts will be scheduled for half-hour sessions (20 minutes for the presentation, followed by discussion). Abstracts are not eligible for essay prizes.

Please note that symposium submissions will not be accepted this year.

All submissions must be made by an active member of the CPA. Detailed submission instructions will be provided in a subsequent email.

Several prizes are awarded by the Association for essays submitted for the Annual Meeting: two faculty essay prizes (one tenured, one non-tenured) and up to three student essay prizes (one student prize is reserved for each official language). The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences will again offer the Congress Graduate Merit Award (CGMA) program to support graduate students at Congress. In each year’s December issue of Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, prize winners from that year's Annual Meeting will be announced and a short list of exceptional papers that have been vetted by journal reviewers will be published. Prize winners are encouraged to submit their publication-ready papers to Dialogue early. 

Additionally, we invite volunteers to serve as referees, chairs, or commentators at the meeting. If you are interested in volunteering for any of these roles, please click here.

Please note that participants may only appear in one primary role in the program (either as a symposium speaker or as the author of a paper, whether full or abstract-based). However, participants are encouraged to serve as commentators or chairs in other sessions.

For more information about the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, please visit https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2025.

For any inquiries, please contact the Co-Program Chairs, Nicole Ramsoomair at Nicole.ramsoomair@dal.ca, and Martina Orlandi at martinaorlandi@trentu.ca.

Symposium: MAiD in Canada: A Sober Second Look

Memorial University, Signal Hill Campus

St. John’s, Canada

September 27-28, 2024

In the eight years since Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) became legal in Canada, Canada has become one of the most liberal MAiD regimes in the world. The Centre for Bioethics at Memorial University is hosting an international symposium to consider what has been happening in this space, how we as a country got to where we are in this regard, and what if anything we should be doing differently moving forward. We welcome abstracts on any aspect of this topic.

Plenary speakers for this event include Trudo Lemmens (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto), Isabel Grant (Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia), and Scott Kim (Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA). Symposium proceedings will be published in a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Bioethics.

Those wishing to present a paper should submit an abstract in Word format (300 words max) by June 7th, 2024.

Abstracts should be prepared for blind review, with name, institutional affiliation, and contact information on a separate title page. Please send abstracts to bioethics@mun.ca, with “MAiD Symposium” in the subject line. Decisions will be made by June 30th, 2024.

The symposium will take place at Memorial’s Signal Hill campus, against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean and the iconic Signal Hill National Historic Site.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Region Philosophers' Association (ARPA) 2024

October 4-5, 2024

Memorial University

St. John's, Newfoundland

Theme: Social Minds, Animal Minds & Ethics

Keynote Speaker: Kristin Andrews, York Research Chair in Philosophy of Animal Minds

• Papers from all areas of philosophy are welcome
• Submissions should assume the form of an abstract no longer than 300 words and should include the author's name, institution, affiliation, and contact information.
• Abstracts should be sent as Word or PDF files to 2024arpa@gmail.com

Deadline for submission of abstracts is August 1, 2024

*Call for Papers - Extended Deadline!*

The Canadian Philosophical Association

2021 Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

May 31- June 3 2021

University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and Invited Symposium proposals for the 2021 annual meeting. This meeting is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and will take place alongside meetings of other learned societies. The CPA meeting will take place May 31 – June 3 and will include up to ten concurrent sessions. Every area of philosophy is represented, with several hundred philosophers attending from across the globe. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy sponsors a plenary keynote given by a distinguished philosopher. The program committee anonymously referees abstracts as well as full papers and will consider proposals for Invited Symposia. Submissions in all areas of philosophy are welcome. The Association is committed to organizing an accessible and inclusive meeting.

The 2021 Congress will be virtual. For more information, visit https://congress2021.ca/congress-2021-announcement. 

The deadline for Invited Symposium proposals is midnight, November 30, 2020. The deadline for abstract and paper submissions is midnight, January 18, 2021. For detailed instructions, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit

Volunteers to chair or comment are encouraged. To volunteer, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/volunteer

*Call for Papers*

The Canadian Philosophical Association

2020 Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

June 1 – 4, 2020

Western University

London, ON 

 Le français suit.

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and Invited Symposium proposals for its 2020 Annual Meeting in London, Ontario. This meeting is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and will take place alongside meetings of learned societies representing many sub-disciplines of philosophy as well as other disciplines of interest to philosophers. The CPA meeting will take place from June 1 – 4, with up to ten concurrent sessions, and every area of philosophy is represented, with several hundred philosophers attending from across the globe. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy sponsors a plenary keynote given by a distinguished philosopher. The program committee anonymously referees abstracts as well as full papers and will consider proposals for Invited Symposia. Submissions in all areas of philosophy are welcome. Child care is available and the Association is committed to the accessibility of its Annual Meeting. Partial subsidies of travel costs are available to students and underemployed philosophers.

The deadline for Invited Symposium proposals is midnight, November 3, 2019. The deadline for abstract and paper submissions is midnight, January 12, 2020. For detailed instructions, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit

Volunteers to chair or comment are encouraged. To volunteer, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/volunteer

*Appel de Communications*

L'Association canadienne de philosophie

Le Congrès 2020 des Sciences humaines

Le 1 au 4 juin

L'Université Western

London, ON

L'Association canadienne de philosophie invite les soumissions d'articles, de résumés et de propositions de symposiums invités pour son congrès annuel de 2020 à London, en Ontario. Cette réunion fait partie du Congrès des sciences humaines et sociales et aura lieu en marge des réunions de sociétés savantes représentant de nombreuses sous-disciplines de la philosophie ainsi que d'autres disciplines intéressant les philosophes. La réunion de l'ACP aura lieu du 1 au 4 juin avec jusqu'à dix sessions simultanées. Chaque domaine de la philosophie est représenté, avec plusieurs centaines de philosophes du monde entier. Le Canadian Journal of Philosophy commandite une allocution plénière donnée par un philosophe distingué. Le comité de programme arbitre de manière anonyme les résumés, les résumés complets et examinera les propositions de symposiums invités. Les soumissions dans tous les domaines de la philosophie sont les bienvenues. Des services de garde sont disponibles et l’Association s’est engagée à rendre son congrès annuel accessible. Des subventions partielles pour les frais de voyage sont offertes aux étudiants et aux philosophes sous-employés.

La date limite pour les propositions de symposiums invités est minuit le 3 novembre 2019. La date limite pour la soumission des résumés et des communications est minuit le 12 janvier 2020. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez visiter https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit

Les  bénévoles pour présider ou commenter sont encouragés. Pour faire du bénévolat, veuillez visiter https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/volunteer  

Call for Papers 

Annual Meeting of The Canadian Philosophical Association 

2024 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

McGill University, Montreal

June 12 - 21, 2024

*CPA Meeting Dates June 18 - 21, 2024*

Call for papers now closed

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and symposium proposals for its 2024 annual meeting. This meeting is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences taking place June 12 - 21 at McGill University in Montreal, QC.  The CPA annual meeting, held June 18 - 21, will feature concurrent colloquia and symposia, and a plenary keynote given by a distinguished philosopher and sponsored by the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. And, for the second year in a row, there will be a series of special sessions, each of which will pair two prominent philosophers on a topic of shared interest. Each session will approach the topic from a historical and a contemporary perspective as follows:

- Feminist Philosophy: Lisa Shapiro (McGill) & Lynne Tirrell (U Connecticut).

- Moral Psychology: Sarah Stroud (UNC Chapel Hill) and Jennifer Whiting (Pittsburgh).

- Philosophy of Language/Mind: Claude Panaccio (UQAM) & Francois Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod).

The program committee anonymously referees abstracts as well as full papers and will consider proposals for symposia. Submissions in all areas of philosophy are welcome. The CPA is committed to organizing an accessible and inclusive meeting. 

In an effort to finalize the schedule in a timely manner, the deadlines for the 2024 meeting are earlier than in previous years: The deadline for symposium proposals is October 16, 2023 at 11:59pm ET. The deadline for abstract and paper submissions is midnight, November 1, 2023 at 11:59pm ET. 

Please note that the rules for symposia and abstract submissions have changed:

- Symposia submissions must be 500-750 words, and must include (i) a description of the topic of the symposium and its importance (recommended: a brief 100-200 word description for each presentation); and (ii) a list of participants who have confirmed attendance.  

- Abstract submissions must be 500-750 words. They should give a clear idea of the central theses defended, and, more importantly of the arguments to defend them. (Rules for full-paper submissions will be the same as in previous years).

All submissions will be managed through EasyChair. Upon submission, you will be prompted to choose two areas of philosophy. Please choose the areas that best fit your submission. Even imperfect matches will help the Program Committee find appropriate referees for your submission.  For further, detailed instructions, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit. Submissions must be made by an active member of the CPA. New member enrollment and membership renewals for 2024 will be accepted starting October 2, 2023. Please visit www.acpcpa.ca/join for more information.

A number of prizes are awarded by the Association for essays submitted for the Annual Meeting: two faculty essay prizes (one tenured, one non-tenured) and up to three student essay prizes (one student prize is reserved for each official language). In each year’s December issue of Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, prize winners from that year's Annual Meeting will be announced and a short list of exceptional papers that have been vetted by journal reviewers will be published. Prize winners are encouraged to submit their publication-ready papers to Dialogue early. 

Finally, we extend a Call for volunteers to referee papers, or to chair, and/or comment at the meeting. If you are interested in volunteering for these roles, please click here.

Participants can show up in the program only in one primary role, either as a speaker in a symposium, or as an author of a paper (either full or based on abstract). However, participants can and are encouraged to also comment and chair other sessions.

For more information about the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, please visit https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2024. 

Any inquiries should be directed at the Program Chair, Juan S. Piñeros Glasscock, at  cpameeting24@gmail.com.

Raconter à l'époque moderne: le récit et ses usages, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle

Le XXII^e Colloque jeunes chercheurs du CIREM 16-18, qui se tiendra les 25-26 mai 2023 à l’Université d’Ottawa, aura pour thème le récit et ses usages à la période moderne. Afin d’accueillir des chercheurs et chercheuses de divers horizons, nous avons retenu une définition large du récit comme acte de relater des évènements factuels ou fictifs.

Fidèle à la tradition du CIREM 16-18, ce colloque cherche à réunir en un même lieu différentes disciplines : histoire, littérature, philosophie, théâtre et histoire de l’art. Le thème du colloque invite précisément à des formes de décloisonnement et permet d’interroger la frontière poreuse entre ces nombreuses disciplines à l’époque moderne.

Par exemple, dans le récit littéraire se tissent des liens étroits entre philosophie et littérature. Sous l’impulsion d’une rationalité réfléchissante qui éclot dans le courant de l’humanisme, les récits fictifs connaissent une grande effervescence, ainsi que le montrent au XVIII^e siècle les contes philosophiques de Voltaire. Les écrits irrévérencieux se mettent à foisonner et on voit s’éployer un éveil nouveau à l’orientalisme et à ses infinies potentialités narratives et philosophiques. Le théâtre est aussi le lieu d’un usage renouvelé des récits bibliques que la Réforme et la Contre-Réforme convoquent à leurs fins. C’est alors que naît, au confluent de l’imitation des Anciens et des exigences de l’époque, la tragédie biblique qui jouira d’une fortune exceptionnelle jusqu’au XVIII^e siècle. Ces exemples invitent à explorer les manières par lesquelles différents acteurs et actrices se saisissent du récit et l’investissent à l’époque moderne. Certains portent, par ailleurs, à réfléchir aux stratégies de vulgarisation et de diffusion de savoirs spécialisés ou encore à la position intermédiaire que peut occuper le récit entre réalité et fiction. Tel est le cas par exemple de nombreuses formes — canards, histoires tragiques, causes célèbres — qui émergent à la croisée du droit et de la littérature.

Nous encourageons ainsi des communications portant sur le récit dans son acception plus restreinte (conte de fées, récit de voyage, récit biblique, conte philosophique, etc.), ou mettant en valeur la part de récit dans d’autres types de sources (par exemple le récit de soi dans la correspondance ou la place du récit dans une théorie picturale fondée sur l’ut pictura poesis), mais aussi sur des questions plus théoriques. À l’époque moderne, différentes possibilités d’expérimentation s’entrouvrent à la fois dans les formes que peut prendre le récit et dans les objets qui peuvent être racontés. Les modernistes se retrouvent ainsi devant des enjeux méthodologiques (comment traiter ou vérifier de telles sources ?), épistémologiques (que peut-on connaître par le récit ?), esthétiques (quelle expérience esthétique se déploie dans le récit mis en mots, en images ou en scène ?), politiques (quelles critiques peuvent se faire par le truchement du récit ; comment peut-il être utilisé comme outil politique ?) et rhétoriques (comment aide-t-il ou non à vulgariser ou à convaincre ?). Nous invitons aussi les chercheurs et chercheuses à renouveler notre compréhension du récit et à s’interroger sur son rôle au sein de leur propre démarche. Comment raconte-t-on l’histoire à l’époque moderne et comment raconter l’histoire de cette période ? Qu’est-ce que l’usage du récit apporte aux écrivain.e.s et aux philosophes de l’époque ou encore aux chercheurs et chercheuses contemporain.e.s ?

Ce colloque accueillera les communications de jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses (à la maîtrise ou au « master », au doctorat ou au postdoctorat) qui travaillent dans différents champs des sciences humaines : histoire, philosophie, littérature, théâtre, histoire de l’art, etc. Les communications, inédites et en français, ne devront pas dépasser les vingt minutes allouées à chaque participant.e. Les propositions de communication (titre et résumé de 250 mots, niveau d’études, ancrage institutionnel) doivent être envoyées au comité organisateur avant le 17 février 2023 à l’adresse suivante : cirem.jeunes.chercheurs@uottawa.ca

Les actes du colloque seront publiés dans la collection de la République des Lettres (Hermann, Paris).

Comité organisateur :

Maud Brunet-Fontaine

Pascale Couturier-Rose

Elena Chudzia-Conde

Béatrice Leblanc-Martineau

Anderson Magalhães

Alexis Tétreault

Comité scientifique :

Mawy Bouchard

Geneviève Boucher

Sébastien Côté

Michel Fournier

Louise Frappier

Sylvie Perrier

Mitia Rioux-Beaulne

Call for Papers

Canadian Jacques Maritain Association

Spring Conference

May 29-30, 2023 (to be confirmed)

York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In association with

the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences

and 

the Canadian Philosophical Association

Theme: Maritain Today – After 50 Years

The Canadian Jacques Maritain Association (CJMA) will meet for its 2023 spring conference at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, under the auspices of the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Canadian Philosophical Association. The bilingual conference is scheduled for May 29-30, 2023. The deadline for abstract submissions is January 31, 2023.

The theme for this conference will be “Maritain Today – After 50 Years”. 2023 marks the 50^th anniversary of Jacques Maritain’s death in 1973. To commemorate this event we wish to bring together scholars who will speak about Maritain’s enduring legacy for modern and postmodern culture and society and to expound on the many ways that his ideas can help us to address the important challenges of life in the 21^st century.

To this end, we invite paper proposals in English or in French that deal with some aspect of Jacques Maritain’s writings in relation to current trends and developments in the world. Since Maritain wrote on many diverse subjects, from ethics and politics, to metaphysics and aesthetics, to logic and history, the scope of the conference is framed intentionally broadly.

Please send by e-mail a presentation abstract of no more than 500 words and any correspondence regarding the conference to: 

Dr. Nikolaj Zunic

President, Canadian Jacques Maritain Association

Department of Philosophy, St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

nzunic@uwaterloo.ca

The deadline for abstract submissions is January 31, 2023.