Call for papers

The next triennial SOPHA (Société de philosophie analytique) congress will take place on May 4-6 2012 in Paris.

Plenary talks

• Anouk Barberousse (Université de Lille 1), "Données empiriques et simulations numériques"
• Allan Gibbard (university of Michigan), TBA
• Katherine Hawley (university of St Andrews), "Trust and Distrust"
• Christian List (London School of Economics), "Free will, determinism, and the possibility of doing otherwise"
• François Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), TBA
• Galen Strawson (University of Reading, et EHESS, Paris), TBA

Sessions will be organized in the following categories

• History of philosophy
• Philosophy of science
• Epistemology
• Philosophy of mind
• Philosophy of language
• Logic, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics
• Metaphysics
• Moral philosophy, ethics, philosophy of action
• Aesthetics
• Political philosophy, philosophy of law, social philosophy
• Philosophy of religion

We invite all researchers working in one of these fields and who wish to contribute to the congress to submit their proposals.

PhD students are particularly encouraged to submit a proposal.

Language

Presentations can be in French or English.

Submission format

All contributions must include a short and a long abstract written in French or in English. Short abstracts will be entered directly on the submission platform in the appropriate input field. Long abstracts must be uploaded as an attached file. Both .pdf and .doc format are accepted.

Individual contributions

• short abstract (200 words maximum)
• long anonymous abstract (1000 words maximum)

Thematic sessions (symposia)

• short abstract (500 words maximum) describing the general topic
• long anonymous abstract containing a brief description of each talk (4 participants maximum, 2000 words maximum)

Submission guidelines

All submissions must be made exclusively electronically via the website: https://sopha2012.sciencesconf.org/

The heading “Submission” appears only after having registered on the SciencesConf website.

Important: for authors affiliated to a French institution, during the submission procedure, under the heading “Affiliation”, the authors will necessarily have to provide the EPST code of their laboratory (e.g. for the CNRS and the university, it will be of the form UMRxxxx, EAxxxx, etc.).

Mode of evaluation

Reviewers will evaluate all contributions anonymously. Therefore, it is important for the abstracts not to mention the authors’ names, affiliations or any other personal information.

Important dates

NEW submission deadline

Individual contributions and symposium propositions will have to be submitted before 15 November 2011.

Notification of acceptance

Information about acceptance of submitted papers and symposia will be available before 15 January 2012.