Announcing the British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference 2020:
‘Engaged Phenomenology’, at the University of Exeter, UK, in September 2020.

The British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference is a longstanding and respected feature of the UK academic scene, providing a friendly and supportive forum for inter-disciplinary discussion. This year we are partnering with Egenis at the University of Exeter (UK) who will host the 2020 conference under the theme of ‘Engaged Phenomenology’. The conference will be co-sponsored by the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health. Together, we will seek to explore the interface between the theory and history of phenomenology and its practice by academics and professionals of many fields.

Further information and dates for your diary:

Location: University of Exeter, UK.
Date: Thursday 3 September – Saturday 5 September 2020.

Knowledge-that/knowledge-how: between phenomenology and analytic philosophy – Thematic dossier of Studia UBB Philosophia (Issue 3/2020)

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• The (in)sufficiency of linguistic arguments for establishing theories about knowledge and cognition
• The relation between knowledge (-how, -that, or knowledge in general) and skill. The relation between knowledge, intelligence, and intelligent action. Can we have non-propositional knowledge that is nevertheless intelligent in its manifestation? What determines when something is propositional?
• The role of representations in defining knowledge and mediating between knowledge and action. Modes of presentation. Are modes of presentation fit to provide the interface between knowledge and action, as the intellectualist would want?
• Accounts of knowledge in general and of various types of knowledge. What are the perspectives for compositional counterarguments to intellectualism? Should the difficulties encountered in specifying a strict demarcation between types of knowledge reflect back on the concept of knowledge itself?

Papers should be written in English. Their length should be between 5000 and 8000 words. The papers should be accompanied by a short abstract written in English (maximum 300 words), 3-8 keywords and a short biography of the author(s).

Deadline for submission: Sept. 15^th, 2020.

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7th Annual International Conference of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa

Philosophy and Eschatology,
Or: thinking of/from the end of the world

11-12 September 2020
University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Organized by Paul Slama, Carien Smith, Justin Sands, Rafael Winkler, and Abraham Olivier


Eschatology, the narrative of the end of time or the world, is an integral aspect of various intellectual traditions. From the Western theological tradition to Afro-pessimism, it also underlies the modern idea of progress and its dialectical counterpart in Hegel and Marx, as well as the works of authors such as Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Bataille, Blanchot, Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy. It has inspired some authors in the phenomenological tradition to rethink the transcendental reduction in order to recover the genesis of the world prior to the birth of consciousness. One of the contributions of eschatology to phenomenology is the insight that the world be thought, in its integrity, unity, or meaning, from the standpoint of its eventual collapse. For Levinas in Totality and Infinity, by contrast, it provides the subject with the standpoint of justice beyond history. Eschatology offers philosophy with (among other things) a way of thinking about the final end or outermost limit, what is most extreme and unsurpassable. It is in its way, much like philosophy, concerned with the limit of the thinkable.

International Colloquium CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFRICAN PHENOMENOLOGY

5-6 March 2020, Crawford Beach Lodge in Chintsa, South Africa
Organisers: Abraham Olivier (UFH), Justin Sands (NWU), M. John Lamola (UP), Keo Mbebe (UP)


African phenomenology is an emerging subfield within the broader domain of African and Africana philosophy. The phenomenological method, with its various approaches to studying the meaning of human experience, has been a cornerstone in the thought of African Philosophers such as Paulin Hountondji, Tsenay Serequeberhan and D.A. Masolo, and proponents of Africana Philosophy such as Frantz Fanon, Lucius Outlaw and Lewis Gordon. While this philosophical approach has most evidently informed such thinkers, their contributions are often ‘siloed’, separated from, or neglected in the larger discursive terrain of African/Africana philosophy, postcolonialism/decolonisation, and the global phenomenology movement. The purpose of this colloquium is to explore contributions of African phenomenology to African/Africana philosophy, postcolonial/decolonial discourse, and deliberations within the international phenomenological community.

Subjectivity and Emotion in the Individual and the Group

"Subjectivity and Emotion in the Individual and the Group" - special theme of Danish Yearbook for Philosophy.
Guest Editor: Peter Hertel-Storm (University College Lillebaelt)

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy invites submissions to a special theme that will review trends in the current philosophical discussions and theories of the emotions, with special focus on social aspects and embodiment. Much contemporary philosophical research incorporates insights from the sciences. This special theme aims at integrating state of the art scientific results into the philosophical discussions of subjectivity and emotion. Confirmed contributions from Dan Zahavi and Achim Stephan.

Deadline for submissions is June 1st, 2020.