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Northern Graduate Philosophy Conference
The 17th Annual Northern Graduate Philosophy Conference will be held November 15-16, 2024, on the campus of Northern Illinois University. Professor Kris McDaniel (University of Notre Dame) will deliver a keynote address to open the conference on Friday, November 15.
The conference is generously supported by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School and the Department of Philosophy.
Please direct questions about the conference to the NIU Graduate Student Advisory Council in Philosophy at niugsac@gmail.com.
Call for Papers
Submission deadline: July 31, 2024
We invite graduate students to submit papers of approximately 3,000 words in length on any topic in mainstream analytic philosophy. Submissions accessible to a general philosophical audience will be favored. Only one submission per person will be considered. Philosophers from underrepresented or historically disadvantaged groups are particularly invited to apply. Please note that we will require all papers to be delivered in person and that, unfortunately, we cannot offer funding for travel to accepted speakers.
Submission Guidelines
Please send the following as two separate attachments in PDF, DOC or DOCX format to niugsac@gmail.com:
- A cover page, containing the following information:
- Author’s name
- Institutional affiliation
- Contact information (email, phone number)
- Title of paper
- Topic area of paper
- Word count
- An abstract (no more than 150 words), followed by the paper itself, is free from all identifying information.
Decisions regarding submissions will be sent by September 15, 2024.
