Due to an urgent and unfortunate family emergency, Professor Ruth Chang is unable to attend the conference Saturday, March 10. We extend our heartfelt sympathies and hope that all will be well for Professor Chang and her family.
In Professor Chang's stead, we have invited and confirmed UTM's Andrew Sepielli as our keynote presenter. Professor Sepielli's research interests include moral psychology, moral realism, moral uncertainty, normative ethics, phenomenology, philosophy, and practical rationality. He will be delivering a talk entitled, "Disagreement and the Structure of Epistemic Normativity."
Dr. Chang's research interests concern fundamental questions about values, reasons, and agency. She is currently writing a book, Making it Matter, which explores and develops a view of the will according to which agents can, under the appropriate circumstances, quite literally will considerations to be reasons.
This view presents itself as the most plausible expression of the central Kantian idea that rational agents do not simply passively receive reasons by discovering or recognizing them but have a more active role in determining what reasons they have. It thus provides an alternative—and, I suggest, plausible—way of understanding the autonomy and freedom of rational agency.
Congratulations to Augie Faller (Reed College), Trystan Goetze (University of Waterloo), Bill Kowalsky (Harvard University),and Ben Waltmann (Oxford University) our presenters for this year's conference. We'd like to thank everyone for the excellent submissions!
Several of the presenters have offered to make the presented versions of their papers available to conference attendees (or those who were unable to attend). Please find links to the PDF files below.
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University of Toronto Scarborough
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David Balcarras, Mike Derewonko, Tyler Dilnot, Robyn Forman, Heather Hutchinson, Danielle Lediard, Ryan Khan, Jem Rosario, Rixin Wang, Kevin Wang.
If you are presenting at this year's conference, or just planning on attending, we recommend the following hotels, located in downtown Toronto.
We also encourage presenters or attendees flying into Toronto to consider Porter Airlines for direct flights into Toronto from select destinations.
Undergraduate presenters are eligible for $500 reimbursement for travel and accommodations expenditures. Please see our Reimbursement Policies for additional information or email us to make inquiries.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30.04.2012
Download: Submission Guidelines (PDF)
Selection for papers presented at this year's conference is now complete, but we are still accepting submissions for Noumena. If you submitted a paper to the conference (and to the journal), please be aware that we have not yet settled on selections for the journal.
Submissions should be between 3,000–5,000 words and may not exceed 6,000 words. All papers must be submitted with a title page that incorporates the following:
Papers selected for publication must be made available in .DOC or .DOCX format, and are subject to additional requirements. Authors should consult our editorial policies.