CFP: Society for Ricoeur Studies
Our friends at the Society for Ricoeur Studies have announced the CFP for their upcoming annual conference, which will be held on-line this year.
NASPH 15th Annual Meeting
The CFP for the 2020 NASPH Annual Meeting can be found here.
The conference is scheduled to be held October 29-31 at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers, FL. The deadline for submissions is July 15, and we will let authors know whether their submissions have been accepted by August 1. By this date we will also make a determination as to whether or not to hold the conference in person as planned. If we are unable to meet in person, our plan is to host the conference on-line using Zoom or some other virtual meeting platform. Either way, we are looking forward to an engaging dialogue this fall.
NASPH at SPEP 2020
NASPH will be holding a satellite session at SPEP 2020 in Toronto. The CFP is here.
Note that since submissions are due soon (May 1), we are requesting only abstracts, not full papers.
Hope to see you in Toronto!
2019 NASPH APA Pacific Session
The NASPH Session at the APA Pacific will take place in April, 2020. The speakers for this session are:
- Rachel Cicoria (Texas A&M University) “Who Has a Say?: Heidegger and Gadamer on the Death of the Other”
- Carlo DaVia (Fordham University), “Gadamer on Essences”
- David Vessey (Grand Valley State University), “On Beiser’s Reading of Gadamer: Historical Facts and Aesthetic Truths”
- Georgia Warnke (University of California, Riverside), “Identity, Experience, and Understanding”
Hermeneutical Movements
For those interested, some of our members have launched a new site, Hermeneutical Movements, which is devoted to hermeneutic philosophy. The site is still “in flux,” but new content will be added regularly.
Words Underway by Carolyn Culbertson
One of our members, Dr. Carolyn Culbertson, has recently published her first book, Words Underway: Continental Philosophy of Language. Congratulations, Carolyn. Below is a brief description of the book from Rowman and Littlefield.
Words Underway offers the first full account of the important contributions the Continental tradition has made to the philosophy of language. Carolyn Culbertson examines the vital work of a range of thinkers, including Heidegger, Gadamer, Blanchot, and Kristeva. The book argues that Continental theorists are particularly helpful in recognizing our unique potential for becoming alienated from some discourse. At the same time, Culbertson argues that Continental philosophy of language tends not to treat the alienated relationship to language as something absolute. For most Continental theorists, at least, language is a living system, that is, a system maintained by undergoing constant expansion and transformation by language users. The book goes on to explore the attention Continental theorists have given to the way that forms of political power, for example, gender dynamics in communication, can sometimes thwart this process and thus reinforce alienation. This book will transform the reader’s sense of what the philosophy of language is about and will attract the attention of students and scholars of both philosophy of language and the Continental tradition.