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http://goyopappas.com/SAAP_Conference_2019.html GR)
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
47th Annual Meeting
March 5-8, 2020
The Significance of the Event
Location
The conference will be the first time that a SAAP conference will take
place “south of the US border." It will be in international event as will
feature invited speakers from Mexico, the USA, and other parts of the
Americas and Europe. Representatives from the State of Guanajuato and the
United States are expected to participate in the opening ceremonies.
Growth
The conference will demonstrate the growth and vitality of the field of
American Philosophy, broadly conceived to include North American and Latin
American Philosophy. It seeks to foster and expand a Pan-American dialogue
in Philosophy in a new and promising area of research and teaching in
Philosophy. We will accommodate bi- or tri-lingual scholars, and we will
designate some sessions to be conducted in Spanish or Portuguese.
Filling a Void
The conference fills a void in research in the humanities and will
challenge traditional canons of scholarship. Many of the papers and
discussions will explore how different philosophies from the Americas offer
tools and resources for solving contemporary social, ethical, and political
problems across the Americas; and Latinx generations in and outside the
United States.
International
The conference will stimulate further research, translations, and
international collaborations. The Pluralist, the journal of SAAP, will
publish the award winning papers of the conference. Furthermore, in light
of the conference theme, The Inter-American Philosophy Review, a journal
hosted by Texas A&M University, is committed to publishing articles based
on papers presented at the conference.
Texas A&M
The conference will enhance the national and international visibility of
Texas A&M University, and it will draw welcome attention (both nationally
and internationally) to the (uniquely inter-disciplinary) Philosophy Ph.D.
program at Texas A&M. The conference will include scholars from Latin
America and Europe, thus placing Texas A&M as a premier American
institution within the Hispanic world. It also will expand the
international reach and profile of the Philosophy department at Texas A&M
University.
Call for Papers
The central theme of the conference is *Inter-American Philosophy*.
Representative topics may include the following:
(1) Past, present and possible future philosophical connections between
philosophers and philosophic traditions in different parts of the Americas,
especially with the Classical American philosophical traditions
(2) North American and Latin American Philosophy: explorations of the
mutual influence of philosophy done in the north and the south or fruitful
comparisons of the philosophical insights of prominent philosophers on both
sides of the continent
(3) Examination and elaboration of the important contributions of
philosophers in the Americas (e.g., Pragmatism, Mexican Existentialism) to
past and present problems in the Analytic and Continental traditions
(4) Philosophers on the common ideals and common socio-political problems
of the Americas. *For example*:
(a) democracy and decolonialism, its nature, prospects and challenges
in the Americas;
(b) How can philosophy contribute to the amelioration of the common
problems of North and South America
(5) Philosophical ideas and debates about the identity of the Americas and
their ideal relationships with other nations, regions, and cultures
(6) Philosophy of technology and science in the Americas
(7) Environmental practices and movements throughout the Americas
(8) Philosophy of Education (e.g. philosophy for children) in and
throughout the Americas
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Please direct any other questions or comments to:
Gregory Fernando Pappas, [email protected], (+1) 512-459-5267
*Gary Richmond*
*Philosophy and Critical Thinking*
*Communication Studies*
*LaGuardia College of the City University of New York*
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