Aberdeen - Conference on the A Priori

On June 16-17 2012, at the Northern Institute of Philosophy (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/nip/index.php) at the University of Aberdeen we will be having a conference on the A Priori. This conference will be the final event in the five-year AHRC-funded Basic Knowledge Project (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/nip/page?id=17). The following people are confirmed speakers:

Paul Boghossian, New York University
Laurence BonJour, University of Washington
Albert Casullo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
David Chalmers, The Australian National University
Carrie Jenkins, University of British Columbia
Ian Rumfitt, Birkbeck College, University of London
Crispin Wright, New York University and the University of Aberdeen

We will have two additional speakers, who will be chosen through an open call for papers. They will have their travel to our conference reimbursed (up to a maximum of £500). Lodgings in Aberdeen will be booked for and paid on their behalf.

Speakers will be given 1 hour (including Q&A) to present their paper.

We invite philosophers who have not earned their PhD prior to 2005 (including graduate students) to submit papers or abstracts to d.dodd@abdn.ac.uk.

Submissions should not be longer than 5,000 words and prepared for blind review.

Deadline for submission:  March 31, 2012.
Notification of acceptance:  May 1, 2012.

Dylan Dodd
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Northern Institute of Philosophy
University of Aberdeen
http://aberdeen.academia.edu/DylanDodd/Papers

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