13-15 Sep 2012
Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy: SOPhiA 2012 September 13-15, 2012 Department of Philosophy (Humanities), University of Salzburg, Austria Aim The organizers aim to provide the opportunity for students and doctoral candidates of Philosophy to get in touch with other prospective or well established philosophers, take a first peek into the philosophical business, or simply to attend interesting presentations. Contributions in every discipline of philosophy (epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of religion etc.) are welcome. As customary in analytic philosophy, contributors should make use of understandable language as well as rational argumentation. Beside the conference presentations there will be two symposia, one on "causality" and one on analytic philosophy of religion. Plenary lectures Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg University) Jeffrey Ketland (LMU Munich) Charlotte Werndl (London School of Economics) Affiliated Symposium: Causality Michael Baumgartner (University of Konstanz) Andreas Huettemann (University of Cologne) Gerhard Schurz (University of Duesseldorf) Affiliated Symposium: Analytic Philosophy of Religion Adam Green (University of Innsbruck) Patrick Todd (University of Innsbruck) Call for papers Students and doctoral candidates (pre-doc) of philosophy are hereby encouraged to submit an abstract not exceeding 2000 characters in German or English which should be suitable for a presentation of approximately 20 minutes in length (plus 10 minutes discussion). Please submit your abstract with a biographical note and a short CV attached in a seperate document at http://www.sophia-conference.org/ until May 31 2012. Attendees are asked to apply at the same site before the conference. Deadline: May 31 2012 Notification until: June 10 2012 Website: http://www.sophia-conference.org/