Call for Abstracts
Seminar in Phenomenology and the History of Philosophy (SIPHOP)
Third Annual Meeting
Topic: Phenomenology and Early Modern Philosophy
20-21 September 2014
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Keynote Speaker: Steven Crowell (the Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor of Philosophy, Rice University)
Submission Deadline: 1 July 2014 by e-mail to jreid12@msudenver.edu.
Organizers:
James D. Reid (Metropolitan State University of Denver): jreid12@msudenver.edu
Matthew Shockey (Indiana University, South Bend): shockey2@iusb.edu
Clinton Tolley (UC San Diego): ctolley@ucsd.edu
Description:
For the third meeting of SIPHOP, we invite papers that explore the philosophical significance of early modern philosophy in the development of phenomenology. Submissions on Kant will be considered, but because Kant has been the focus of previous seminars, preference will be given to papers focusing on other figures. Husserl’s and Heidegger’s various engagements with Descartes and Kant are clear choices, but papers dealing with less obvious topics and lines of influence are also welcome—Scheler’s Pascalian inheritance, e.g., or Husserl’s indebtedness to Hume. Presenters will have approximately 45 minutes to read, followed by 30 minutes of discussion. Completed papers should consequently be 4500-5000 words, excluding notes. Please send abstracts of no more than 750 words prepared for blind review to James D. Reid (jreid12@msudenver.edu) by 1 July 2014. Steven Crowell (Rice) is this year’s keynote speaker, and there will be slots for 6-8 additional papers. The meeting will be held at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, 20-21 September 2014.
Purpose of SIPHOP:
From the beginning, phenomenology has sought to formulate its methods and present its findings in ways that simultaneously draw upon and challenge influential figures and currents in the history of philosophy. While this ongoing engagement with the history of philosophy has been a constant source of vitality for phenomenology, it has also led to fruitful re-investigations of the history of philosophy itself, allowing familiar concepts, texts, and thinkers, even entire movements, to be interpreted in fresh ways. The Seminar in Phenomenology and the History of Philosophy (SIPHOP) means to provide a venue for rigorous scholarly work that is focused on phenomenology’s engagement with the history of philosophy, with the goals of (1) fostering discussion of enduring philosophical issues from a phenomenological perspective and (2) situating phenomenological interpretations of key texts in the history of philosophy within the broader tradition of historically oriented philosophy. SIPHOP meetings will continue the tradition of allowing 8-10 junior and senior scholars to present work in progress in longer sessions than one typically finds at larger philosophical meetings.