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Tennessee Philosophical Association
44th Annual Meeting: Nov. 9-10, 2012
Vanderbilt University
 

 Keynote Speaker: Robert Kane, University of Texas (Austin)

"Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom: Seeking Common Ethical Ground in a Pluralist World."

Friday, 7:30 P.M., 114 Furman Hall, followed by a spirited reception

Sessions: Saturday, Furman Hall

9:00 am through 4:20 pm

Complete program to be posted in late October

Call for Papers

Paper Submissions: Deadline for receipt of submissions is Friday, October 5, 2012.

Papers are welcome on topics in any area of philosophy.  Maximum length is 3,500 words for the body of the paper (approximately 12 double-spaced pages). Head your paper with a short abstract of no more than 100 words. Please use Times New Roman or other suitable 12 point font.

Electronic submissions are strongly preferred. Rich text (.rtf) or plain text (.txt) formats are strongly preferred. Word format is also suitable. PDF should only be used if it is necessary for preserving appearance (in which case an abstract should also be submitted in rich or plain text formats). If you cannot submit electronically, mail two hardcopies to the association president; be sure to include an email address for follow up communication.

If you know of someone who might be willing to comment on your paper, please provide his or her name. Also indicate whether you would be willing to comment on other papers.

Submissions should be sent directly to our President:

Manning Garrett
glmnning@memphis.edu

Snail mail:
        Dr. L. Manning Garrett III
        University of Memphis-Lambuth Campus
        Office 319: Varnel Jones Hall
        705 Lambuth Boulevard
        Jackson, Tennessee 38301

Commentators:  We will issue a call for commentators shortly after the deadline for paper submission.  The call normally includes abstracts of the papers needing responses.  It is often difficult to find commentators, so please help us by volunteering.  Please provide your name, address, phone, email, areas of interest, and status (faculty, graduate student, independent scholar, or ????) and a preference ranking of the papers that you would be willing to comment upon.

Accommodations

Information on accommodations will be posted in early October, 2012

Program

 Keynote Speaker: Robert Kane, University of Texas (Austin)

"Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom: Seeking Common Ethical Ground in a Pluralist World."

Friday, 7:30 P.M., 114 Furman Hall, followed by a spirited reception

Robert Kane (Ph. D. Yale University) is University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Professor of Law at The University of Texas at Austin.  Author of seven books and more that sixty articles on the philosophy of mind and action, ethical theory and social ethics, the theory of value and philosophy of religion, including Free Will and Values (1985), Through the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World (1994), The Significance of Free Will (Oxford, 1996) A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will (Oxford, 2005) and most recently Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom (Cambridge, 2010). Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (2002) among other anthologies and a multiple contributor to the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. His lecture series, The Quest for Meaning: Values, Ethics and the Modern Experience, appears in The Great Courses on Tape Series (of The Teaching Company, Chantilly, Virginia).  The Significance of Free Will was the first annual winner of the Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Book Award. The recipient of fifteen major teaching awards at the University of Texas, including the Friar Society Centennial Teaching Award, the President's Excellence Award for teaching in the University's Honors Program, and the Liberal Arts Council Teaching Award, he was named in 1995 one of twelve initial members of the University's Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Sessions: Saturday, Furman Hall

9:00 am through 4:25 pm

Complete program to be posted in late October

9:00 – 9:55

10:00 – 10:55

11:00 – 11:55

 12:00 – 12:05

Very Brief Business Meeting – Election of President and Secretary
Furman 109

1:30 – 2:25

2:30 – 3:25.

3:30 – 4:25

Abstracts of papers

Abstracts to be posted in late October

A map and directions to Furman Hall are available on the Vanderbilt Website.  You will need to click the "Back" button to return to the TPAWeb site after you go to Vandy's  map and directions to Furman Hall.

Furman Hall --Photograph by Neil Brake

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