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Call for Abstracts
Lost and Philosophy
Sharon M. Kaye, Editor ([log in to unmask])
William Irwin, General Editor ([log in to unmask])
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
To propose ideas for future volumes in the Blackwell series please
contact William Irwin, <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Abstracts and subsequent essays should be philosophically substantial
but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader.
Contributors of accepted essays will receive an honorarium.
Possible themes and topics might include, but are not limited to, the
following:
Is "John Locke" John Locke?; Socrates and Sawyer on egoism; Hurley,
Descartes, and Skepticism; Kate, Kant, and the value of good will;
Would Aristotle see Jack as a man of virtue?; Prisoners' dilemma
strategies among the islanders; Nietzsche, survival, and salvation;
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the noble savage; Jean-Paul Sartre's Other
and The Others; Dharma, free will, and fate; Hobbes and the state of
nature; The metaphysics of tropical polar bears; The ethics of
deception, torture, incest, drug use, and experimentation on human
subjects; The Lost women and feminism; Flashback selves: continuity
or reinvention?; Foucault, power, and insanity; Aquinas and Rose on
faith and reason; Lost numerology; Bootstrapping society:
communitarianism vs. liberalism.
Contributor guidelines:
1. Abstract of paper (100-500 words).
2. CV or resume for each author and co-author.
3. Submission deadline for abstracts: July 10, 2006
4. Submission deadline for first drafts of accepted papers: October 10, 2006
5. Submission deadline for final papers: February 1, 2007.
6. Submissions should be sent by e-mail, with or without Word attachment to:
Sharon Kaye, Associate Professor, John Carroll University ([log in to unmask])
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