CFA FOR NASSP AT THE 2022 EASTERN DIVISION APA
The North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP)
is seeking proposals for a panel on:
Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and
Democracy in the Disinformation Age
for its group session at the Eastern Division APA to be held from Jan. 5th-8th, 2022, in Baltimore, MD. (The specific date and time of the session will be announced later in the fall.)
We welcome submissions from both members and non-members, but we require that all presenters join the North American Society for Social Philosophy if their papers are accepted and if they present at the conference.
Individual abstracts of 300-400 words should be sent to the panel organizers, Jennifer Bulcock jenn.bulcock@gmail.com and Erik Anderson erik.anderson@furman.edu, by Sept. 15th, 2021. (Please email us with any questions.)
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Propaganda, disinformation, misinformation
- Public argumentation
- Rhetoric and reason in the public sphere
- Social media & democracy
- Political polarization
- Reasonable and unreasonable disagreement
- Free speech on campus
- Politics in the college classroom
- Contemporary controversies over academic freedom
- “Cancel culture”
- Building inclusive campuses
- Hate speech
- Libel laws
- Populism/Trumpism
- COVID skepticism
- Climate denialism
- Crises of epistemic authority
- Procedural justice
- Civil disobedience
- Voting rights and the preservation of democracy