10th International Conference on Philosophical Practice -- Call for papers

[Shlomit C. Schuster]

EXPERIENCE IN PHILOSOPHICAL
PRACTICE
10th International Conference on
Philosophical Practice
Leusden, The Netherlands
August 11 – August 14, 2010
www.icpp10.org
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Dutch Association for Philosophical Practice (VFP) is proud to
organize the 10th International
Conference on Philosophical Practice. In her closing meeting on the
9th ICPP in 2008 the
philosophical practitioners, gathered in Carloforte (Italy), agreed
with the proposal of the VFP that the
theme of the 10th ICPP should be
‘Experience in Philosophical Practice’.
From the first days of philosophical practice in the ‘80ties, the
dutch approach had and still has above
all the ambition to be practical. Philosophical practice is supposed
to create experiences, insight, and
new possibilities of being or acting. True to this Dutch tradition,
the 10th ICPP will be first of all a
community of inquiry in philosophical practice. The aim of the
conference is to deepen and improve
our practice by sharing and discussing our experiences in
philosophical practice. Our challenge is,
not just to talk about philosophical practice, but to make the 10th
ICPP an happening of
philosophical practice itself in which we will learn from each other’s
practices.
Learning implies reflection. But reflection without experience could
easily lead to discussions without
practical value for our philosophical practice. To avoid this, we ask
you not only to talk about your
practice and your experience, but to show us what you do in ‘your’
philosophical practice. We also
ask you to create reflective experiences in which the minds of the
conference could meet.
During the conference, practices will be shown and discussed in
workshops and seminars centered
around three main areas:
Experience in philosophical counseling (‘Beratung’): this refers to
the most common way
philosophical practice is understood, as counseling with individual
clients or small groups working
on major life questions.
Philosophical practice in the public, institutional and business
spheres: this refers to the growing field
of philosophizing in political and governmental institutions, business
environments, and civil
communities working on questions of justice, emancipation, quality of
life etc.
Philosophical practice in education: this refers to philosophical
practice in schools, educational
institutions working on moral, vocational, professional and
intellectual education.
In these three area’s we wish to address three kinds of questions:
Experiences in philosophical practices. What kind of experiences are
brought into your practice by
the clients? What happens in the interaction between the clients and
you, the practitioner?
Experience oriented working. What kind of experience do you, as a
practitioner, want to create in
your practice? And how do you work to realize this?
Reflection on experiences in philosophical practices. How can
‘experience’, in the context of
philosophical practice, be considered ‘philosophical’? How do you
justify your practice for the
outcome of your interventions?
The conference committee kindly invites you to send us your paper
with a proposal for a workshop or seminar.
The conference will take place in workshops and seminars. There are
two kinds of these:
(A) Practice in action. Share your practice with the participants.
Show it in a live session, or on video,
or in another way. Give a demonstration with one client/participant,
or with a group. Do it real or
in a simulation. Find your own creative way to show how you work, and
have the participants
experience this practice.
(B) Reflections on practice. Realize a (practical or theoretical)
reflection on philosophical practice
with the participants. Do it in a way, that the participants can
experience the practice you want to
reflect on. This is possible because you use audiovisuals or tell
about striking examples. Also the
way you arrange the seminar can be helpful for the participants to
experience situations of the
topic you are discussing.
Your workshop or seminar should contribute to the above mentioned
areas and questions.
Your proposal must include the following information:
• Your name (both first and last name)
• Your address
• Your email address
• Your relation to philosophical practice
• Is your contribution ‘practice in action’ or ‘reflection on
practice’?
• A short description of the main idea of your workshop or seminar
• An outline of the program
In addition we would like you to refer to the following questions:
• How will you involve the participants into your workshop or seminar?
• What kind of experience do you want to create?
• How will you have the participants reflect on this experience?
• What do you want to be the result of your workshop or seminar?
• How does it enhance the quality of philosophical practice?
The maximum size of the proposal is 2000 words.
Send in your proposal to the conference committee:
prop...@icpp10.org.
The term of submitting papers ends at February 1st, 2010.
More information: in...@icpp10.org.
Leusden, the Netherlands
September 30th, 2009
The conference committee of the 10th ICPP:
Ruud Meij, president of the committee
Reinskje Talhout, secretary
Maaike Merckens Bekkers, treasurer
Leon de Haas, project manager
Ronald Wolbink
Wieger van Dalen