InterPhil: CFA: Research Fellowships in Philosophy
__ Call for Applications Type: Research Fellowships in Philosophy Institution: Global Priorities Institute (GPI), University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: 2023–2027 __ The Global Priorities Institute (GPI) offers openings for both Postdoctoral Research Fellows (Oxford's academic grade 7) and Senior Research Fellows (Oxford's academic grades 8 and 9). Applicants to each role will be considered for all available philosophy Fellowship roles, so you need only apply to one position. Successful applicants will conduct advanced research in philosophy. At least 50% of your time will be spent on topics directly relevant to the Global Priorities Institute’s research agenda, which you will help to set. The role requires no teaching load and only minor supervision responsibilities, although teaching may be arranged if the fellow would like to do so. The Global Priorities Institute is an interdisciplinary research centre, which aims to develop and promote rigorous, scientific approaches to the question of how appropriately motivated actors can do good more effectively. GPI formally sits within the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University. Postdoctoral Research Fellow (grade 7) applicants are required to either have, or be close to finishing, a PhD either in philosophy or in a closely related discipline and combined with equivalent experience and expertise in philosophy. Senior Research Fellow (grades 8 and 9) applicants are expected to have more research experience and a stronger track record of producing research suitable for publication in top philosophy journals. Also essential for all posts is outstanding academic ability and an interest in global priorities research. All positions are full-time with the University of Oxford. We welcome applications from researchers who might prefer to complete a one- or two-year position at GPI before starting a new job elsewhere or returning to an existing position.. Visa support is also available for successful applicants from overseas. We particularly encourage applications from women, black and ethnic minority candidates, as these groups are underrepresented in philosophy. Details Contract type: 4 years fixed term (with a possibility for extension) Start date: September 2023 (flexible) The posts are visa eligible - candidates of all nationalities are encouraged to apply. - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy: Salary: £34,308 - 42,155 p.a, depending on experience (Grade 7) - Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy (Grade 8): Salary: £43,414 - 51,805 p.a., depending on experience - Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy (Grade 9): Salary: £50,300 - 58,284 p.a., depending on experience Application Applications are to be made online, where detailed job descriptions are available - we will post links to these applications once the positions open. Referees will be asked for letters of recommendation for candidates that are longlisted. Longlisted candidates will be asked to complete a questionnaire. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to the last stage of the application process, which will include submission of a research proposal, a work trial and an interview (which will be conducted online). If you have any questions about this role, please contact: gpi-off...@philosophy.ox.ac.uk (Do not send your application material to this email address, applications can only be submitted via the University of Oxford application portal.) Further information: https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/vacancies-research-fellows-in-philosophy/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Human Community and Common Values in the 21st Century
__ Call for Papers Theme: Human Community and Common Values in the 21st Century Type: International Conference Institution: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP) Fujen Catholic Univeristy Location: Taipei (Taiwan) Date: 5.–6.7.2023 Deadline: 20.1.2023 __ Thematic Description A human community is obviously and inevitably about human beings who live together in time and space and share something in common, e.g., cultures, traditions, religions, etc. Although human communities vary in sizes, locations, formations…, they are all based on certain principles. Gradually human civilizations emerged through historical processes. Civilizations engage sets of cultures which are founded on major religions. This indicates that cultures and cultural traditions consist of sets of values and virtues developed by people of communities regarding how to cultivate their life in their particular geographical and historical circumstances. Such sets of values and virtues are developed through long-term experiences and struggles according to which each people have their own preferences. A community can be as small as a group of people or as large as the entire humanity. But people in each community undertakes their own history and lifeworld unfolded in different kinds of relationships. All communities are formed by their members who are interconnected yet different from one another. What bring them all together are shared common values. The word "common" itself presupposes the connotation of a community in which a vision of shared common values are produced by its members. However, each community has its own value preferences due to each one’s own circumstances. Today in our complex and pluralist 21st century, in order to live together peacefully among different cultural traditions, civilizations, religions and to construct a human community in its best form, it seems rather urgent and necessary to look for common values that can be shared by all. Is this possible? This conference will focus the following issues: - Is it possible to pursue common values among diverse communities? - What are the common values that can be shared by all? - How to achieve diversity in unity or unity in diversity? - What are fundamental principles for forming human communities? - How to achieve mutual recognition among different communities? - How to implement cross-cultural and cross-religious dialogues and communications in order to find consensus? - What are traditional value systems? Can they still function in the 21st century? - What are new values that should be produced in the new challenging world? Logistics Conference participants will cover the costs of their own travel, the conference organizer will provide room and board during the conference. Detailed abstract should be sent to kati...@hotmail.com and cua-...@cua.edu by January 20, 2023 and full paper by June 20, 2023. The conference will be conducted in English. Contact: Katia Lenehan Fujen Catholic University Email: kati...@hotmail.com Web: http://www.crvp.org/conferences/2023/Taipei.html __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Transcendental Africanity
__ Call for Publications Theme: Transcendental Africanity Subtitle: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa Publication: Edited Book Deadline: 31.1.2023 __ The scope of this book project is fourfold: 1. It explores the conceptual, historical, and contemporary meaning(s) of Africanity and transcendental Africanity as an identitary paradigm. 2. It scrutinizes Afrophobia, a contemporary outcome of the ages-old racialistic biases leveled at Africans and Afro-descendants. 3. It identifies and analyzes critical reasons why transcendental Africanity is the key to defeating Afrophobia in the 21st century and how this key can and must be leveraged to that end. 4. The book argues that (a) Global Africa, that is, the worldwide collectivity of Africans and Afro-descendants generically referred to in the foreign-generated narrative as “Black people”, must be steadfast in re/building itself and empowering its constituents from within in order to defeat Afrophobia and advance together toward the bright horizons it ambitions to reach. Hence, the book is envisioned as an interdisciplinary, multiperspectival study of what, in primordial and quintessential terms, makes Africans and Afro-descendants who they are and what they are as a global collectivity, beyond all the nuances and differences that the peripeties of history, geography, and culture have created among and between the multiple communities in which they exist. The book delves into transcendental Africanity, which is posited as that which underlies the identitary nexus that makes all Africans and Afro-descendants worldwide one primordial collectivity and triggers an instinctive drive for intra- and inter-communal bonding, whether conscious or subconscious, whenever core components of the shared identity are under assault anywhere in the world. The self-invigorating responses of Africans and Afro-descendants of the Western world to the birth of Pan-Africanism in the 19th century and its growth into a transcontinental movement in the early 20th century is a case in point. Another is the fraternal pride and support that far-away communities such as Africans in the continent and Afro-descendants in India (locally referred to “Untouchables” or “Dalits” and relegated to the dehumanizing bottom of India’s caste-based stratification) responded to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States of America. A third and more recent case in point is the spontaneous solidarity that Global Africa lent to the African American community’s Black Lives Matter movement that erupted across the United States following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Furthermore, the book is an equally interdisciplinary and multiperspectival study of the multifaceted racialism that Global Africa has endured from various “non-Black” forces over the centuries and that has culminated into the phenomenon that we call here Afrophobia. Afrophobia is understood in this study as an admixture of hate, resentment and, quite significantly, fear toward Global Africa whose challenges to racism and slow but assertive breaking of glass ceilings toward meaningful progress and steady collective self-empowerment alarm those for whom “Black people” are only good for enslavement, colonization, neo-colonization and now, meta-colonization. Among the core hypotheses made in this book is that unless and until Africa attains the degree of self-empowerment, development, and respectability it needs and deserves on the world stage by virtue of its immense human and natural resources, the freedom, dignity, and well-being of every person of African descent around the world will remain vulnerable to the worldwide recrudescence of Afrophobia. Another dialectically related hypothesis is that Global Africa is the only genuine and legitimate force that can and should help the African continent free itself from meta-colonialism and become the true base from which the worldwide collectivity of Afro-descendants will launch their offensive for complete liberation and steady advancement. Scholars interested in contributing to this book project are invited to submit chapter proposals along with their short bios to Professor Mohamed Saliou Camara by January 31, 2023: mohamed.cam...@howard.edu Each proposal is expected to include the following: 1. A clear statement of what the author plans to study in the chapter; 2. The hypothesis or assumption upon which the study will be based; 3. The theoretical framework of the study; 4. The central questions to be addressed; 5. The research methodology to be used. Proposers will be notified of acceptance or decline within a month of submission. Those whose proposals are accepted will receive detailed author guidelines to follow while writing their chapters. Also, they will have until July 31, 2023, to submit the completed chapters. The maximum
