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American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting Call for Papers 2025

Call for Papers | American Philosophical Association Pacific Division

  • Olav Bryant Smith
We are excited to share three calls for paper proposals for the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting the spring of 2025! 
 
If you are interested in participating in one of the following three sessions at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division conference at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, CA from Wednesday, April 16th – Saturday, April 19th, please send an email to Olav Bryant Smith at olav320@gmail.com.
 
Please include a paper title and a brief description of what you’re proposing to present. The deadline for a proposal and commitment to attend is September 15, 2024.
 
Here are the three calls for papers which may be of interest to those working in process studies:
 
  1. Society for the Philosophy of Creativity: anything related to creativity

  2. Personalist Discussion Group: on any personalist, very broadly understood—not just Boston Personalists—any and all who resisted impersonalist philosophies; to me this includes everyone from Emerson to Hartshorne and those who have followed in the classical American tradition in resisting impersonalism

  3. Society for the Study of Process Philosophy: on any process philosopher from Heraclitus on; this would include James and Bergson and temporalists generally… very broadly considered

About the Author(s)

Olav Bryant Smith

Olav Bryant Smith

Dr. Olav Bryant Smith was born in Washington, DC, and earned his PhD at Claremont. Currently, he teaches at California State University, Chico and Butte College in Northern California. Dr. Smith’s first book, Myths of the Self: Narrative Identity and Postmodern Metaphysics, examined a trajectory from Kant through Heidegger and Whitehead, to Ricoeur. He has taught a wide variety of courses, including a historical Intro to Philosophy that he designed at Butte College. His interest in recent years has turned to ethics.

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