Call for Abstracts: Back to Phenomenology Itself?
Panel held at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC), May 31-June 2, 2016, Calgary, Alberta
Organizers: Christine Daigle (Brock University) and Marie-Eve Morin (University of Alberta)
Deadline for submissions of abstracts: December 18, 2015
The new movements in contemporary Continental philosophy that fall under the labels of Speculative realism (SR) and object-oriented ontology (OOO) pose a serious challenge to phenomenology. By ranging phenomenology under the heading of correlationism, they attempt to move away from epistemological questions of access, and to renew interest in metaphysical inquiry. According to these new realists, phenomenology by definition limits access to things as they are experienced by us, that is, insofar as they are correlate of our experience, and cannot speak of things as they are in themselves in any way. According to SR and OOO, this reduction of things to things-for-us leads to disastrous consequences not only philosophically but also for the world we inhabit (technological exploitation, environmental crisis, etc.).
The goal of this panel is to initiate a dialogue between these new movements and thinkers in the phenomenological tradition broadly construed. We are interested in exploring the resources found within phenomenology, including feminist and realist phenomenology, to take up the challenge posed by SR and OOO, and contribute to the renewed focus on matter and objects. As a result we hope to discuss relevance and limits of phenomenology in the contemporary philosophical landscape.
The languages of the panel are English and French. Authors are invited to submit a 750-word abstract (in English or in French) for a paper of 20-25 minutes reading time. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Friday December 18, 2015. Abstracts can be emailed to Christine Daigle (cdaigle@brocku.ca) or Marie-Eve Morin (mmorin1@ualberta.ca).
Selected authors will be required to submit full papers for review by February 15, 2016.