1st Annual On-line Philosophy Conference

I wanted to let everyone know that for the past few weeks Thomas Nadelhoffer (with some help from Adam Feltz and I) has been organizing the 1st Annual On-line Philosophy Conference (OPC)--which will tentatively run from April 14th to 27th (2006) and which will be hosted on the newly created OPC blog.  Thomas has received incredibly positive feedback from the people he invited and put together a remarkable list of invited speakers, including a few from our ranks (Fischer, Mele, Vargas, Levy) plus 18 other well-known philosophers from a wide-range of fields. 

While the first installment of OPC is a mostly invited affair (since so many people accepted), we are nevertheless issuing a call for papers for both junior philosophers (PhD in the past five years) and graduate students (the call for papers and directions for submissions can be found on the OPC blog).  Hopefully, some of you will be interested in (a) submitting a paper for the conference, (b) offering to give commentary on some of the invited papers, or (c) both (a) and (b). Minimally, I hope all of you will participate in the comment threads once the conference begins. Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions concerning the format of the conference, etc. Hopefully, others are as excited as I am about the line-up and the tentative format. Tomorrow will be the first day that the blog and the call for papers become publicly available, but I figured it would be OK for me to give the readers of this blog a head's up.

Comments

[Neal Tognazzini]

What a cool idea! Especially for philosophers, who tend to be a rather introverted bunch...

I'll be sure to spread the word.