Please distribute the following Call FOr Papers.
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$100 PRIZE for BEST PAPER*****$100 PRIZE for BEST PAPER
for
the 1st Annual University of Kentucky
Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
COMMUNITY, REASON, AND POLITICS
Friday and Saturday April 10 - 11
Keynote Speaker:
Professor David Ingram of Loyola University
Professor Ingram has written _Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason_ (1987),
_Critical Theory and Philosophy_ (1990), and _Reason, History and Politics:
The Communitarian Grounds of Legitimation in the Modern Age_ (1995).
He will speak on:
"Culture, Reason, and Communitarianism"
$100 PRIZE for BEST PAPER*****$100 PRIZE for BEST PAPER
Suggested Topics:
Communicative Rationality Sociology of Knowledge
Reason and its Other Is Authority Rational?
What is the Political? Incommensurability
Modernity/Postmodernity Feminist Critiques of Reason
Multiculturalism and Racism Aesthetic Rationality
Critical Theory Is Community Necessary for
Rationality?
Suggested Figures:
Habermas Rawls Kant Foucault Kuhn
Putnam MacIntyre Hegel Fraser Critical Theory
Those interested in commenting or moderating, please send name and address
if interested.
Papers should be submitted in full.
Presentation time should not exceed 20 minutes, or 12 pages.
All approaches encouraged.
While priority will be given to those papers addressing the topics
above, we encourage submission of papers in all areas of philosophy.
Submission Deadline: MARCH 13th, 1998
Submissions and inquiries should be directed to:
Jeffery L. Nicholas
Department of Philosophy
1415 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
Email: jlnich1@xxxxxxxxxxx