<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Please circulate:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>Dear members of the European Pragmatism Association,</div><div>after the closure of the call for panel, we are opening now the call for individual papers, that you will find below and in the attached file. Please, circulate widely around you. We ask people who have already submitted a panel to wait for the official reply before submitting (in case they so wish) and individual proposal.</div><div>Deadline for submissions is February 15h, 2015.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">Conference Announcement</span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:18px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large"><b>Second European Pragmatism Conference</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">Paris September, 9-11, 2015</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large"><b>PRAGMATA</b> (Association française d’études pragmatistes) is pleased to announce the Second European Pragmatist Conference. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">The conference is organized in partnership with The European Pragmatism Association, The Nordic Pragmatism Network, PRAGMA (Associazione Italiana di studi pragmatisti), and CEPF (Central European Pragmatist Forum).</span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">The conference aims to advance our understanding of the relevance of pragmatism to contemporary debates in humanities, the social and the natural sciences as well as in communities of practice. Pragmatism is here broadly considered as a tradition of thought stemming from philosophy but now clearly present in a number of academic fields such as sociology, politics, art, physics, mathematics, anthropology, history, and literature. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">The conference will be held in Paris, September 9th –11th, 2015. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">The Conference language will be English. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">Further information can be found on the conference homepage at <a href="http://epc2.sciencesconf.org" target="_blank">http://epc2.sciencesconf.org</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:12px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large"><b>Call for individual papers</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">The submission period for individual papers is now open. Contributions are expected to highlight both differences and convergences between pragmatism and other fields as well as new creative perspectives stemming from the background of pragmatism. Contributions are welcomed from any scholar or practitioner who has an interest in pragmatism and can relate its lines of philosophical thinking to either other philosophies or other disciplines.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">The deadline for submissions is <b>February 15th, 2015</b>. Notification of acceptance will be sent out before March 1st, 2015. Proposals should be submitted following the guidelines below.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">In order to address some of the economic obstacles associated with presenting at international conferences, six scholarships covering accommodation costs for the duration of the conference have been offered by the conference's sponsoring institutions. They will be awarded according to the economic circumstances of candidates. Accordingly, priority will be given to young scholars and scholars whose circumstances (such as country or origin) indicate significant needs need for assistance.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large"><b>Submission Guidelines</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">Proposals should be prepared for blind review. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">The submission should include a title and a 500-1000 words abstract.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">Multiple submissions are not allowed.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">To facilitate the review process, in the submission procedure authors will be asked to indicate to which of the following sections the panel belongs:</span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>1. epistemology and metaphysics</span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>2. ethics and politics. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>3. art and aesthetics, </span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>4. social and political sciences</span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>5. natural sciences</span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:14px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">Proposals should be submitted exclusively through the conference website <a href="http://epc2.sciencesconf.org" target="_blank">http://epc2.sciencesconf.org</a> using the specific submission procedure.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">For more information on the conference, </span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">please visit the conference homepage at <a href="http://epc2.sciencesconf.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0433ff">http://epc2.sciencesconf.org</span></a> </span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">or contact one of the organizers: </span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville;min-height:13px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">Alexandra Bidet (Centre <i>Maurice Halbwachs</i> CNRS-EHESS-ENS) <a href="mailto:alexandra.bidet@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0433ff">alexandra.bidet@gmail.com</span></a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">Mathias Girel (ENS Paris, République des Savoirs, USR3608)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="mailto:mathias.girel@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0433ff">mathias.girel@gmail.com</span></a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">Roberto Frega (Institut <i>Marcel Mauss</i>, CNRS-EHESS)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="mailto:fregarob@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1844f5">fregarob@gmail.com</span></a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:11px;font-family:Baskerville"><span style="font-size:large">Barbara Formis (Institut <i>ACTE</i>, Univ. Paris 1-CNRS)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="color:#0433ff"><a href="mailto:barbara.formis@univ-paris1.fr" target="_blank">barbara.formis@univ-paris1.fr</a></span></span></p><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span>Roberto Frega<br>CEMS-IMM/CNRS<br>190, Av. de France<br>75013 Paris<br><div><br></div><a href="http://cems.ehess.fr/index.php?2533" target="_blank">http://cems.ehess.fr/index.php?2533</a><br><a href="https://cnrs.academia.edu/robertofrega" target="_blank">https://cnrs.academia.edu/robertofrega</a><span name="x"></span><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>