The Philosophy Graduate Student Association of West Chester University, in collaboration with the West Chester University Philosophy Department, invites submissions by graduate students for our eighth annual conference to be held on Saturday, April 20, 2013.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gordon Marino is a professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. His primary areas of specialization include History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Kierkegaard. Professor Marino is the author of Kierkegaard in the Present Age and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard. His articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, American Poetry Review, and many other periodicals. Marino is also the Curator of the Hong Kierkegaard Library.
Submission Guidelines:
• Graduate Students may submit papers on any philosophical topic, with preference given to those concerning the work of Søren Kierkegaard
• Papers should be a maximum of 4,000 words (for a thirty-minute presentation)
• Paper format: 12-point, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 1-inch margins
• Students may submit more than one paper for consideration
• Please prepare for blind review: remove all contact information and identifying marks from the body of the paper
• Please create a cover sheet and submit it, with your finished paper, to WCUPhilosophyConference@gmail.com by March 22, 2013 (if submitting more than one paper, please include additional cover sheets for each paper)
• Your cover sheet must include the following: Name, Email, Phone, Institution, Title of Submission, and a 3-5 sentence Abstract
• Notification will occur by April 5