[PHILOS-L] CFP: The City Is Too Hot! – A Special Issue of Philosophy and Urban Affairs

[Shane Epting]

CFP: The City Is Too Hot! – A Special Issue of Philosophy and Urban Affairs

 

Extreme temperature increases and fluctuations challenge city living, creating unbearable conditions resulting in deaths, economic hardships, widespread discomfort, energy demands, and myriad other problems. While numerous disciplines have made significant contributions to understanding and mitigating urban heat, philosophers can contribute to the needed efforts by focusing on issues particular to the discipline. This special issue aims to bring these perspectives together in a volume, illustrating that the love of wisdom can make significant contributions to such dreadful conditions. The list of topics is open, but the following options indicate the kind of papers that might yield insights and further investigations. 

 

Heat and perceiving the city

Environmental justice and resource distribution: energy, water, infrastructure, and beyond

Urban heat, morality, and nonhuman considerations

Heat and the ethical dimensions of urban sustainability

The experience of urban heat

Extreme temperatures and community coherence

Heat and the aesthetic experience of the city and/or its elements

What does it mean to be a “hot city?”

Municipal governance and heat mitigation strategies

Extreme heat and intergenerational justice

The epistemology of urban heat

Mental life in the hot city

Heat and the urban condition

Extreme case studies: Manila, Las Vegas, and beyond

 

Submissions will be published on a rolling basis. The cutoff date for new submissions is September 23, 2027. Articles should be 5,000 – 6,000, excluding references. See Philosophy and Urban Affairs for more information and submission instructions.

Send questions to Shane Epting, shane....@mst.edu.

 

 

Shane Epting, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Editor-in-Chief, Philosophy and Urban Affairs

New Book: Creating Future Cities: Technology, Ethics, and the Fight for the Good Life

Shane Epting, in Creating Future Cities, insightfully analyzes complex normative challenges in urban planning and design—from organizing urban residents' political power to building for resilience—and passionately argues that citizens of cities must fight for their cities and their futures. - Ronald R. Sundstrom, University of San Francisco, USA

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