FPA 2009, Gainesville
55th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association
Conference Talks
Registration
Pre-registration is now closed. Please register on-site. Only $5 for undergraduates. Complete fee schedule is here.
How to Get There
Directions for reception and banquet: The reception (Thursay night 6-11pm) and banquet (Friday night 7pm) will be held at the Best Western Gateway Grand Hotel. Directions can be found here.
Directions to conference location: The conference itself will be held at Santa Fe College. We will be serving a continental breakfast from 8-9am. All sessions will be in Building P. [Find building P] [Find the campus]
Conference Hotel Information
The Gateway Grand Hotel is offering a reduced group rate to people attending the FPA meeting. The rate is $84 per night.
TO MAKE A ROOM RESERVATION, PLEASE CALL (352) 331-3336. ASK FOR THE FLORIDA PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION GROUP RATE.
Deadline for Conference Rate Reservations: October 14, 2009.
The FPA will host a welcoming reception at the Gateway Grand on Thursday evening November 12th.
Call for Papers
Sorry, the deadline for paper submissions has passed.
Paper submissions are invited for the 55th annual meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association which will be held in Gainesville, November 13-14, 2009. Program Coordinator: Dr. Gene Witmer (UF). Local Organizer, Dr. Marin Smillov (Santa Fe).
1. Regular Submissions:
Submission Deadline: * August 31, 2009 *
Papers in all areas of philosophy are welcome. All papers should be prepared for blind refereeing. Please include a cover sheet with:
- • Name
- • Email address
- • Affiliation
- • Paper title
The cover sheet should also indicate if the paper is to be considered:
- • For publication in The Florida Philosophical Review (as described below)
- • For the graduate student paper award (as described below)
Paper Length: Papers submitted for inclusion in the regular program should be limited to a reading time of 30 minutes, that is, approximately 12 double-spaced pages. Presentation time on the regular program is 45 minutes (30 minutes reading time and 15 minutes discussion).
Electronic submission of papers is requested. Papers in PDF, RTF, Word formats are preferred. Submissions should be sent to the Program Coordinator, . Please indicate “Submission” in the subject line of email submissions and include two attachments as follows:
- • Attachment 1: the paper (with title please)
- • Attachment 2: just the cover sheet.
Please also paste the details from the cover sheet into the body of your email.
Postal paper submissions may be sent in triplicate with cover sheet to: Prof. Gene Witmer, Department of Philosophy, PO Box 118545, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611-8545
2. Graduate Paper Award Competition:
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2009
Graduate students submitting papers for the regular program may also elect to have their papers considered for the Outstanding Graduate Paper Award, and should so indicate on their cover page. The winning paper will be published in The Florida Philosophical Review and the author receives a monetary award. Only students at Florida colleges are eligible.
3. Undergraduate Paper Awards Competition:
Submission Deadline: September 14, 2009
Undergraduate students may submit papers for special award consideration. Eligible undergraduates should indicate which one of the following award competitions they are submitting for:
- • The Gerrit and Edith Schipper Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Philosophy Paper in a Four-Year College or University
- • The Outstanding Undergraduate Philosophy Paper in a Two-Year College
Papers may be any length, but 15 double-spaced pages is recommended. The winning papers will be published in The Florida Philosophical Review and the authors will receive a monetary award. Only students at Florida colleges are eligible.
Note that the submission deadline for the undergraduate awards competition is later than the general deadline for paper submissions.
4. Florida Philosophical Review
A selection of the papers from the FPA meeting will be published in the annual conference issue of The Florida Philosophical Review. If you would like your submission to be considered for publication, please follow these additional instructions:
- • Indicate your interest in the cover page of your submission,
- • Submit your paper to the FPA electronically, and
- • Make the file format and content of your submission for the FPA conform to the guidelines of the journal.
All members are encouraged to take this opportunity. The FPR is an anonymously refereed journal indexed by Philosopher's Index and Noesis.
Call for Symposium Abstracts
FPA 2009 Teaching Symposium: “Philosophical Readiness”
Sorry, the deadline for symposium abstract submissions has passed.
Presentation abstracts are invited for a symposium on teaching philosophy to be part of the main program of this year's FPA conference.
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2009
Symposium organizer: Charlotte Pressler, South Florida Community College
Abstracts of presentations are sought to round out what we hope will be the first annual symposium on teaching philosophy at the FPA. The theme of this symposium, “Philosophical Readiness,” applies the more general concept of college readiness to the philosophy classroom.
Topic Desciption:
The concept of college readiness includes both cognitive and non-cognitive traits and dispositions that contribute to success in higher education. A student lacking in college readiness may have considerable raw talent and may have done well in a less demanding high school. However, the student will have at best a sketchy idea of what is expected and valued in higher education. Often, the student's previously acquired intellectual and work habits will actively interfere with learning and college success. This is often the condition of students who are non-traditional or first-generation college students and have no previous acquaintance with the culture of higher education.
What we are here calling "philosophical readiness" is often an issue in introductory philosophy classrooms. Students’ difficulties with course material may be indexes to their underlying discomfort with a disciplinary culture that values logic, rational argument and conceptual clarity, discounts unsupported authority and subjective emotion, and believes that the way an argument is made is more important than the truth or falsity of its individual premises. Acculturating naive students to the values of philosophical argumentation sometimes seems to be the primary task of an introductory class.
Presentations should offer concrete methods, with examples, used to address the problem of philosophical readiness in the classroom. The presentation should last the length of a standard conference paper—that is, about 20 minutes. Only an abstract needs to be submitted, but the abstract should reflect on a presentation that is, if not in fact finished, substantially prepared already. The format of the symposium will be flexible and allow for a good amount of discussion in addition to the presentations.
How to Submit a Symposium Abstract
Please include with your abstract information on your teaching background.
Abstracts may be sent by post or email, but must arrive by the above deadline. Please send submissions to the FPA program organizer. Abstract submissions for this symposium may be emailed to the Program Coordinator, . Please indicate “Abstract” in the subject line. Or send by postal mail to D. Gene Witmer / Department of Philosophy / P. O. Box 118545 / University of Florida / Gainesville, FL 32611-8545.
Fee Schedule
- Conference Fee:
- Faculty: $25
- Grad Student: $10
- Undergraduate Student: $5
- Other: $25
- Banquet Fee (pre-registration required):
- $30
- FPA Membership:
- Full: $15
- Associate: $10
- Retired Full: $0
