Second European Pragmatism Conference

Paris September, 9-11, 2015

PRAGMATA (Association française d’études pragmatistes) is pleased to announce the Second European Pragmatist Conference.

The conference is organized in partnership with The European Pragmatism Association, The Nordic Pragmatist Network, PRAGMA (Associazione Italiana di studi pragmatisti), and CEPF (Central European Pragmatist Forum).

The conference aims to advance our understanding of the relevance of pragmatism to contemporary debates in philosophy, the humanities, the social and the natural sciences as well as in communities of practice. Pragmatism is here broadly considered as a tradition of thought stemming from philosophy but now clearly present in a number of academic fields such as sociology, politics, art, physics, mathematics, anthropology, history, and literature.

The conference will be held in Paris, September 9th –11th, 2015.

The Conference language will be English.

Further information can be found on the conference homepage at http://epc2.sciencesconf.org

Call for panels

The submission period for thematic panels is now open. Contributions are expected to highlight both differences and convergences between pragmatism and other fields as well as new creative perspectives stemming from the background of pragmatism. Contributions are welcomed from any scholar or practitioner who has an interest in pragmatism and can relate its lines of philosophical thinking to either other philosophies or other disciplines.

The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2014. Notification of acceptance will be sent out before January 31st, 2015. Proposals should be submitted following the guidelines below.

Submission Guidelines

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Pulling From Pragmatism: Interdisciplinary Approaches
The Fourteenth Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
The New School for Social Research
March 20th and 21st 2015

Keynote Addresses:
“Dialectical Pragmatism and Public Reason” Jeffrey Stout (Princeton University)
“Beyond Thomas Piketty’s Pragmatism: Why Transformative Economic Theory Needs Philosophical Pragmatism” Judith Green (Fordham University)

Philosophy stands in a relation of historical importance to many other disciplines. The driving questions, historical figures, and even contemporary literature of numerous fields of study often overlap with philosophy. Philosophers of biology, literature, feminism, mathematics, moral psychology, and critical race theory all study and have produced significant scholarship for those working primarily in these disciplines. Often enough, the interdisciplinary work of philosophers and non-philosophers alike are motivated by an interest or even full-fledged commitment to the tenets of pragmatism.  Among the approaches to philosophical inquiry, pragmatism has proven its import for the humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences. Inquiry itself is central to the philosophical project of pragmatism, and questions about the distinct methods of inquiry proper to other disciplines are shared by pragmatists. Pragmatism’s relevance to other disciplines is strengthened by its interests in the relationship between theory and practice, fallibilism, anti-foundationalism, historical contingency, revisability, pluralism, and the demand for practical import.  Consequently, we ask what it is about pragmatism and its conception of inquiry that make it amenable to interdisciplinary research? How have the social sciences, the humanities, and the natural sciences appropriated pragmatic themes? What has been the response of pragmatists to the appropriation of their own tradition?

This year’s NSSR Graduate Student Philosophy Conference aims to foster an in-depth conversation about the relationship pragmatism has to other modes of inquiry. We believe that placing different voices of pragmatism in dialogue with those of other disciplines will continue to deepen and develop pragmatism as a resource within the larger intellectual conversation. This will then serve to strengthen the tradition of pragmatism within philosophy itself.

We welcome and encourage papers from all disciplines, as well as from interdisciplinary perspectives. Some topics for submissions are suggested but not limited to:

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