30 Aug - 1 Sep 2010
Berlin, Germany
Phlox continues the venerable Hollywood tradition of producing sequels. Please see below for a call for papers for /Because II/. Fabrice Correia and Benjamin Schnieder, together with the research group /Phlox/, invite submissions on grounding and non-causal explanation for the conference /Because II /(the conference is a follow-up to /Becaus e/, which took place in Geneva in 2008). The keynote lecture will be given by Kit Fine. (Further invited speakers will be announced in due course.) Issues that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: - Accounts of Grounding - Varieties of Non-causal Explanations - The Semantics of 'Because' - Applications of Notions of Grounding and Non-causal Explanation (e.g. in the Debate on Dependence, Truthmaking, Constitution) - General Issues About Explanation - On the format of the conference: _ a. Date and Place_ /Because II/ will take place from the 30th of August 2010, to the 1st of September, 2010, at the Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin (Germany). _ b. Submissions_ Submissions should consist of longer abstracts of the paper to be presented, not exceeding 1.000 words. The abstract should outline the topic and the main arguments of the paper. The deadline for submissions is the 6th of June 2010. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the 4th of July 2010. _ c. Presentations_ From the submissions, six papers will be selected for the conference. The accepted papers should be made available (through the conference webpage) t o all participants two weeks before the conference. Presentations should not take longer than 40 minutes. _ d. Travel and accommodation_ Phlox will provide accommodation for the selected speakers; additionally, t hey will receive a moderate travel grant. If there are any questions, please write to: justbecause[AT]gmx[DOT]de justbecause@gmx.de For information on /phlox /please visit: http://phloxgroup.wordpress.com <http://phloxgroup.wordpress.com/> In due course, more information on /Because II/ will be provided at: http://because2.wordpress.com/