CFP Junior
Scholars Workshop
Submission deadline: Jan 13, 2020
The Center for Ethics in Society will host
the third annual Junior Scholars Workshop at Stanford University
on June 7-9, 2020. The workshop will feature the
work of early career scholars in political philosophy,
political theory, and moral philosophy and is open to graduate
students, postdoctoral fellows, and untenured junior faculty.
This workshop seeks to highlight the work of emerging scholars,
and to advance the Center’s mission of bringing ethical
reflection to bear on pressing social problems.
We are especially interested in scholarship in what
might be called “interdisciplinary ethics.”
Normative scholarship focused on issues like immigration, basic
income, climate change, global poverty, and the governance of
new technologies, such as AI and gene editing, can benefit
from engagement with the social sciences, law, engineering, and
life sciences. We especially encourage submissions that bring
relevant empirically-oriented scholarship to bear on normative
questions and analysis. Yet we welcome submissions from
political philosophers, political theorists, and
moral philosophers that address any normative issue, whatever
the methodological approach or topic. Papers will be evaluated
by multiple readers and on the basis of quality alone.
Papers selected for the workshop will be pre-circulated and read
in advance by all participants. We aim to select 8-10 papers,
and each paper will be assigned one discussant.
Submission Details: Authors must be graduate
students, postdoctoral fellows, or untenured junior
faculty within five years of their Ph.D. We want the workshop to
benefit scholars who are not current or former Stanford graduate
students or postdocs, so individuals with those Stanford
affiliations are ineligible to present at the workshop. Papers
should be unpublished manuscripts not under review at the time
of the workshop, must centrally address a normative issue, and
be no longer than 10,000 words, including a brief abstract,
notes, and references. Papers will be reviewed by a committee
of philosophers and political theorists. Applicants will be
notified of the outcome of the review by mid-March 2020. Funding will be provided to pay for participants’
travel expenses and accommodations.
Postdoc
Positions
For 2020-21, the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in
Society at Stanford seeks to appoint up to
two postdoctoral
fellows. Selected fellows will be designated as either
General Ethics Fellows or Interdisciplinary Ethics Fellows. The
two types of fellows have some distinct training opportunities
and responsibilities, but they form a common community at the
Center and participate together in the Center’s intellectual
life. All applicants will be considered for both types of
fellowships and do not need to tailor their application for one
or the other fellowship.
For additional eligibility requirements and application
information, please visit:
http://bit.ly/ethicspostdoc