NASSP at the Central APA – CFP

North American Society for Social Philosophy Central APA Group Session

Call for Abstracts

Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, Kansas City, Missouri

March 01-04, 2017

Proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome, but special attention will be devoted to:

Power and Public Reason

Some possible paper topics include:

  • “Nudging”; rhetoric/persuasion and public reason
  • Psychology/social psychology of public reasoning
  • Decision making (democratic/deliberative/otherwise)
  • Neoliberalism and public reason
  • Human rights and power
  • Power and race/ethnicity
  • Critical theory and power in the public sphere
  • Public reason and civic virtue
  • Hate and the public sphere
  • The requirements of justice
  • Domination and political power
  • Deliberative democracy
  • Soft and hard power
  • Rawls and social movements
  • Religion in the public sphere
  • Media and power/public reasoning
  • Technology and power/public reasoning

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 group session.

Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2016.

Please submit a 300 word abstract to gpohlhaus@miamioh.edu or nollsama@msu.edu

The Group Session Organizers:

Gaile Pohlhaus, Miami University, gpohlhaus@miamioh.edu

Samantha Noll, Haverford College, nollsama@msu.edu

 

 

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