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The Hocking-Cabot Seminar
The purpose of the Hocking-Cabot Seminar is to foster original systematic philosophy. In recent decades, the trend in professional philosophy has been toward increasingly specialized discussion of minutely portioned problems, or endless scholarly commentary upon figures long past. The Hocking-Cabot Seminar is designed to encourage bolder, more comprehensive, more systematic, and more speculative projects.
Call for Abstracts and Proposals
Eligibility
Scholars in early stages of their careers, i.e., persons holding Ph.D.’s for less than ten years, and advanced graduate students will also be considered. We seek philosophical work, but the Ph.D. held (or sought) need not be in philosophy strictly interpreted.
Proposals
Submit a one page (single-spaced) summary of your interest in systematic philosophy, including your sense of the term “systematic philosophy,” and your plans for developing such a philosophy. Include in this proposal a separate abstract of 100 words for a paper, to be written if the proposal is accepted, that will employ in original ways either the philosophical and scientific ideas of Jaakko Hintikka, and/or the philosophical, theological, and social thought of Robert Cummings Neville. If your proposal and abstract are accepted, you will receive general guidelines for writing the paper, but the paper will ultimately be presented in a time period of 40 minutes at our seminar. Proposals and abstracts should be sent as one document to proposals@hocking-cabot.org
Acceptance
The ten best proposals will be accepted. These ten authors will receive a generous travel allowance and have all expenses paid while attending the five day Seminar, led by Professors Hintikka and Neville, who will also present their own latest work. The discussions, morning and afternoon, will be intense examinations of how the participants’ current work may be furthered in original directions, with an eye to their systematic development. Since Professors Neville and Hintikka are among the best living systematic philosophers, our belief is that others who share their temper and philosophical ambition will benefit greatly from the opportunity to work closely with them and to discover how a systematic philosophy is created.
Publication
A prominent publication of all the presented papers is expected, including the papers of Hintikka and Neville.
July 12-16, 2010
Setting
The setting is the comfortable Little Grassy Lodge in the beautiful Shawnee National Forest. The Lodge is part of a larger complex called “A Touch of Nature,” affiliated with Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, which is the institutional host of the Hocking-Cabot Seminar.
Seminar Leaders
Robert Cummings Neville
Robert Cummings Neville writes in the fields of philosophy, religion and theology, and is the author of over twenty books. His thought has been widely written on...read more
Jaakko Hintikka
Dr. Hintikka is known as the main architect of game-theoretical semantics and of the interrogative approach to inquiry, and also as one of the architects of distributive normal forms...read more