CALL. 15.07.2019: The Second Annual St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy: The Soul i
FECHA LÍMITE/DEADLINE/SCADENZA: 15/07/2019
FECHA CONGRESO/CONGRESS DATE/DATA CONGRESSO: 11-12/10/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Department of Philosophy, Edgecliffe, University of Saint Andrews (Saint Andrews, Scotland)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Manlio Fossati; Andrés Hernández Villarreal; Lorenzo Lazzarini; Julia Pfefferkorn; Wolfgang Sattler; Matthew Shelton.
INFO: web - sagcap2019@gmail.com
CALL:
The soul has been of central importance in the ancient philosophical tradition, from the earliest Greek thinkers to the Neoplatonists. For ancient philosophers, the soul helps to account not only for various kinds of life on earth, such as human, animal, or even plant-life, but also the heavenly movements of the stars and planets. While the soul is often viewed as a principle of motion, in humans it is associated with a wide range of important phenomena, such as cognition, love, death, reason, emotions, and feelings. Moreover, the soul is sometimes seen to have a life of its own apart from the body, so that a distinction can be drawn between embodied and disembodied existence and experience. In this way, the soul naturally brings together a range of different philosophical concerns, including epistemology, ethics, psychology, the natural sciences, cosmology, and eschatology.
The soul has received considerable attention in recent scholarship, and new studies have advanced the discussion in a variety of directions. Some have focussed on the world-soul, others on the partitions of the soul (and on its ‘non-rational’ parts), others on the soul and emotions, and others on the soul as self-motion. These are all prominent aspects of the soul in particular contexts, but rather than treating any single field of enquiry in isolation, our intention is to bring together young researchers from different areas of ancient philosophy who work on various concepts of soul, with the aim of producing a more holistic perspective.
We invite graduate students and recent graduates (who have completed their PhD degree up to 2 years before the submission deadline) to submit extended abstracts on any topic on the soul in ancient philosophy. The final papers should be suitable for a presentation of no more than 40 minutes followed by 20 minutes of questions and discussion.
Deadline for submission: Abstracts are due by the 15th of July. Candidates will be notified of the outcome by mid-August.
Submission requirements: We seek extended abstracts of between 800 and 1000 words. Only one abstract per person will be accepted. Abstracts should be suitable for blind review and submitted through EasyChair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sagcap2019