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Call for Papers
Theme: Learning To Be Human
Type: XXIV World Congress of Philosophy
Institution: International Federation of Philosophical Societies
(FISP)
Department of Philosophy, Peking University
Location: Beijing (China)
Date: 13.–20.8.2018
Deadline: 1.10.2017
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The World Congress of Philosophy is organized every five years by the
International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) in
collaboration with one of its member societies. The XXIV World
Congress will be held in Beijing, China, from August 13 to August 20,
2018, under the auspices of the Chinese Organizing Committee. The
complementary aims of the 2018 Congress include an emphasis on
exploring dimensions of the human and inquiring into the challenges
facing humanity:
- To globalize philosophical investigations to encompass the diverse
forms of philosophizing by past and present thinkers across cultures,
with special attention to critical reflections on philosophy itself
and the tasks and functions of philosophy in the contemporary world.
- To open the philosophical area to enable philosophers to address
emerging global issues through fruitful interactions with other
disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences,
with other activities in economic, social, political, and religious
spheres, as well as with diverse cultures and traditions.
- To encourage philosophical reflections to become public discourses
on recurrent human concerns, such as ecology, justice, and peace.
Endowed with arguably the longest history of cultural continuity but
deeply challenged by severe ruptures in its modern transformation,
China provides a unique locale to raise fundamental questions about
self, community, nature, spirituality, traditions, and modernity,
evoking the idea of philosophy as practice as well as theory.
The 2018 Congress invites discussions on the nature, roles, and
responsibilities of philosophy and philosophers to enhance a common
awareness of “learning to be human.” It is committed to attending to
problems, conflicts, inequalities, and injustices connected with the
development of a planetary civilization that is simultaneously
techno-scientific and multicultural.
PLENARY SESSIONS
1. Self
2. Community
3. Nature
4. Spirituality
5. Traditions
SYMPOSIA
1. Ren, Ubuntu, Love, and the Heart
2. Mind, Brain, Body, Consciousness, Emotions
3. Philosophy at the Margins: Domination, Freedom, and Solidarity
4. Rights, Responsibility, and Justice
5. Human, Non-human, Post-human
6. Science, Technology, and the Environment
7. Creativity, Symbol, and Aesthetic Sense
8. Reason, Wisdom, and the Good Life
9. Expressibility, Dialogue, Translatability
10. Differences, Diversities, and Commonality
SECTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
1. Aesthetics and philosophies of art
2. African philosophy
3. Africana philosophy
4. Ancient Greek philosophy
i. Presocratic philosophy
ii. Classical Greek philosophy
iii. Hellenistic philosophy
iv. Neo-Platonic philosophy
5. Bioethics
6. Buddhist philosophy
7. Business ethics
8. Byzantine philosophy
9. Chinese philosophy
i. Pre-Qin philosophy
ii. Philosophy from Han to Qing
iii. Modern Chinese philosophy
iv. Contemporary Chinese philosophy
10. Christian philosophy
11. Comparative philosophy
12. Conceptual history
13. Confucian philosophy
14. Contemporary philosophy
15. Contemporary philosophies in China
16. Cosmopolitanism
17. Daoist philosophy
18. East Asian and Southeast Asian philosophies
19. Environmental philosophy
20. Ethics
21. Ethics in research
22. Existential philosophy
23. Experimental philosophy
24. History of analytic philosophy
25. History of philosophy
26. Humanism and post-humanism
27. Human rights
28. Indian philosophies
29. Intercultural philosophy
30. Islamic philosophy
31. Jewish philosophy
32. Latin American philosophy
33. Logic
34. Marxist philosophy
35. Medical ethics
36. Medieval philosophy
37. Metaphilosophy
38. Metaphysics
39. Mystical traditions in philosophy
40. Moral psychology
41. Ontology
42. Phenomenology
43. Philosophical anthropology
44. Philosophical counseling and therapy
45. Philosophical hermeneutics
46. Philosophical issues about race
47. Philosophy and cinema
48. Philosophy and linguistics
49. Philosophy and literature
50. Philosophy and popular culture
51. Philosophy and oral traditions
52. Philosophy and psychoanalysis
53. Philosophy at the margins
54. Philosophy for children
55. Philosophy of action
56. Philosophy of architecture
57. Philosophy of argumentation
58. Philosophy of artificial intelligence
59. Philosophy of cognitive neurosciences
60. Philosophy of communication
61. Philosophy of culture
62. Philosophy of death
63. Philosophy of development
64. Philosophy of economics
65. Philosophy of education
66. Philosophy of family
67. Philosophy of food
68. Philosophy of gender
69. Philosophy of globalization
70. Philosophy of history
71. Philosophy of indigenous cultures
72. Philosophy of information and digital culture
73. Philosophy of language
74. Philosophy of law
75. Philosophy of liberation
76. Philosophy of logic
77. Philosophy of mathematics
78. Philosophy of mind
79. Philosophy of music
80. Philosophy of nature
81. Philosophy of physics
82. Philosophy of religion
83. Philosophy of science
84. Philosophy of sex and love
85. Philosophy of sport
86. Philosophy of technology
87. Philosophy of the axial age
88. Philosophy of the body
89. Philosophy of the human and social sciences
90. Philosophy of the life sciences
91. Philosophy of values
92. Political philosophy
93. Postmodernism
94. Renaissance and early modern philosophy
95. Russian philosophy
96. Social philosophy
97. Sociology of philosophy
98. Teaching philosophy
99. Theories of knowledge and epistemology
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
All persons who want to participate in the Congress are welcome to
submit their abstract and paper.
Abstract and paper should be intended to one of the 99 Sections for
contributed papers.
There are three ways of submitting the abstract and paper:
(1) Online submission at the Online Submission Page:
http://wcp2018.pku.edu.cn/WCP/IC/UploadIndex
(2) As attachment to an email message:
secretar...@wcp2018.pku.edu.cn
(3) the archaic way of sending the documents by post:
Chinese Organizing Committee
24th World Congress of Philosophy
Secretariat
Department of Philosophy—Peking University
No.5 Yiheyuan Road Haidian District,
Beijing, P.R.China 100871
We strongly recommend all participants to use the online abstract and
paper submission for their convenience and for reduction of costs.
Submissions should not exceed 1800 words (or 3000 characters for
papers submitted in Chinese), and should be accompanied by a maximum
200-word abstract (500 characters in Chinese). The submission should
include an indication, prominently displayed, of the section for
which the contributed paper is intended and shall be written in one
of the official languages of the Congress.
OTHER SESSIONS
The International Program Committee will decide specific topics of
invited sessions, upon proposals by CD members.
Proposals are invited for round-tables on more specific philosophical
topics. Organizers of round-tables should take into consideration
that round-tables should usually include speakers from as least three
different countries and that the participants must be registered for
the Congress. The organizers and the themes of round-tables are
subject to the approval of the International Program Committee.
Proposals are also invited for thematic workshops and student
sessions.
IMPORTANT DATES
October 1, 2017 is the deadline for the receipt of contributed papers
and for proposals for round-tables, workshops and student sessions.
Papers and proposals received after this deadline, but before
February 1, 2018, may be accepted, if space is still available.
Congress website:
http://wcp2018.pku.edu.cn
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