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Call for Chapters: Global Issues and Ethical Concerns in Human Enhancement Technologies

Editors
Dr. Steven John Thompson (Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland University College, USA)

Proposals Submission Deadline: June 15, 2013

Full Chapters Due: September 1, 2013

Submission Date: November 30, 2013

Society is struggling with issues regarding rapid advancements in Human Enhancement Technologies (HET), especially in terms of definition, effects, participation, regulation, and control. These are global matters that legislators must sufficiently address, as was evidenced partly by debate within the 2008 European Parliament’s Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA), among other discussions; yet, relevance must not be relegated entirely to scientists, legislators, and lobbyists who may gain power and control at the expense of those parties most affected by these life-changing technologies. Since current and future HET initiatives should be in the best interests of those who will eventually participate, research into critical pragmatic elements of HET must expand beyond government and scientific experimentation for eventual societal adoption to incorporate deeper relevant inquiry from within the humanities.

Objective of the Book

While much of the realm of HET is in a state of growing experimentation, there is benefit to exploring ground that may be covered regarding universal concerns, ethics, objectives, and principles in aspects of HET as viewed through the humanities. This compendium will include contributions of professional researchers and others working with HET issues today and into the future. It will also provide a well-rounded composite of the HET field in emerging technologies.

Target Audience

The target audience of this book will be composed of researchers, graduate students, practitioners, and professionals in academe and the medical industry who should all find value in this publication. The recent surge in academic course offerings associated with the role of the body in the humanities and computer science will benefit, as will some persons engaged in a humanities approach to study of metasystems, new artificial life, and robotics. This book will merge some of the leading allied field voices regarding HET into a singular compelling voice of inquiry on the topic of human enhancement technology. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support executives concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge, information and organizational development in different types of work communities and environments.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Theory and Definition

• Body and Machine

• Cyborg Creation

• Enhancement and Modification

• Uses in Medicine and Science

Ethics and Philosophy

• Internet Brain Implants and Related Interfaces

• Human Rights and Requisite Modification

• Human Values and Freedom in Experimentation

• Safety Concerns

Policy and Regulation

• Control and Threat

• Corporations, Governments, and Military Axes

• Issues in Science, Technology, and Society

Digitality and Neuronics

• Access, Availability and Privilege

• Technological Production and Purposed Results

• Ubiquity

Levels of Participation

• Current Trends

• Freedom, Requisite Implementation and Universal Adoption

• Future and The Collective Hive

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 15, 2013, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concern of the proposed chapter. All authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 1, 2013 about status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 1, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published in 2014 by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

Important Dates

June 15, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline

July 1, 2013: Notification of Acceptance

September 1, 2013: Full Chapter Submission

September 30, 2013:  Review Results Returned

November 30, 2013: Final Chapter Submission

January 31, 2014: Final Publication Deadline

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):

Dr. Steven John Thompson (rhetorist@jhu.edu)

Call for Papers: Shaping Identity: The Ethical and Legal Implications of Medical Interventions for Individuals with Disabilities

Within the context of ongoing debates about medical and social models of disability, the Journal of Philosophy, Science, and Law invites authors to submit new manuscripts that address the ethical and legal implications of interventions aimed at modifying the bodies of individuals with physical or mental impairments or disabilities.

Topics suitable for this Call for Papers include but are not limited to ethical and legal issues emerging from:

The use of bionic eyes

The use of cochlear implants

Prosthetics for everyday use or competitive sports

“Normalizing” surgery for individuals with Down Syndrome

Limb lengthening surgeries (e.g., for individuals with achondroplasia)

The use of growth hormones

The use of “neuroenhancement” drugs (e.g., to improve focus, memory, or other cognitive functioning)

Laws that influence decision making on behalf of disabled children (e.g., the Swedish law requiring parents to consult with member of the Deaf community prior to agreeing to cochlear implant surgery for their child)

Growth attenuation procedures

Familial or community pressure to modify or refuse modifications of one’s body

Manuscripts submitted for inclusion in this special issue must be original work and should not be under consideration with any other journal. The word count for submitted manuscripts, including references and notes, should not exceed 5000 words. Manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words.

Authors should adhere to the Journal’s publication guidelines: http://www.miami.edu/ethics/jpsl/submission.html.

Authors should submit their manuscripts and abstracts via email attachments no later than June 1, 2013 to Dr. Yvette Pearson:
ypearson(at)odu(dot)edu

Please write “JPSL Disability” in the email subject line.

Accepted manuscripts will be published online in October 2013.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Philosophical Papers: Philosophy’s Therapeutic Potential

Guest Editor: Dylan Futter (University of the Witwatersrand)

One difference between ancient and contemporary philosophy centres on philosophy’s capacity for bringing about moral and psychological improvement. Philosophy is today a theoretical discipline; philosophers do not, as a rule, think that they will become better people by doing philosophy. But such was the view of the ancient Greek philosophers, for whom the goal of philosophy was nothing less than moral goodness or an enlightened state of being.

Contemporary philosophy is an activity of rigorous, reasoned analysis and argumentation in an attempt to build a systematic body of knowledge. By contrast, ancient philosophers adopted a more expansive conception of philosophical practice, into which they incorporated various kinds of spiritual or contemplative exercises (Hadot 2002). Even when ancient philosophers employed techniques recognisably similar to those of contemporary philosophy, they seem to have rationalised the use of such techniques by markedly therapeutic goals. For example, the Socratic Method involves the analysis of concepts; but, strikingly, Socrates links such “conceptual analysis” with the moral improvement of himself and his interlocutors (Apology 38a). This point generalises to all philosophers in the Socratic tradition: philosophical analysis was regarded as a necessary element in the morally worthwhile life.

Aside from a few relatively isolated examples, belief in philosophy’s moral and therapeutic significance has been lost. The aim of this special issue of Philosophical Papers is to explore the idea that philosophy is or could be a component in the good life.

Topics for discussion include, but are not limited to: – The nature of the distinction between theoretical and therapeutic philosophy – The goals of therapeutic philosophy – The role of theory in philosophical therapy – Techniques for practicing therapeutic philosophy – Modern attempts to work within a broadly therapeutic framework. – The modes of communication appropriate for therapeutic philosophy. – Genres of philosophical writing in relation to the distinction between theoretical and therapeutic philosophy

The deadline for receipt of submission is 1 October 2013.

This special edition of Philosophical Papers, which will contain both invited and submitted papers, will appear in March of 2014. Authors should submit manuscripts electronically, prepared as a PDF or Word document attachment, and emailed to <philosophical.papers@ru.ac.za>. Authors should include their full name, affiliation, and address for email correspondence with their submission.

Further enquiries can be addressed to Dylan Futter (Dylan.Futter@wits.ac.za) or Ward Jones, Editor, Philosophical Papers (w.jones@ru.ac.za).

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Hypatia: New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies

August 15, 2013 submission deadline

Volume 30, Issue 1, Winter 2015
Edited by Kim Q. Hall

Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking new work for a special issue on disability with the general theme of New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies. In 2001 Hypatia published its first special issue on feminist philosophy and disability. Since that time, there has been a great deal of disability scholarship in feminist and queer theory. A new special issue provides the opportunity to consider interventions, innovations, and transformations in feminist theory occasioned by theories and concepts that animate feminist disability studies, disability studies, queer disability studies/crip theory.

Within philosophy, much of the discussion of disability has occurred in the areas of bioethics, ethics of care, and social and political philosophy. This work remains crucial for furthering philosophical understanding of disability. In addition to these areas of philosophy, this special issue seeks to provide a space for new feminist philosophical analyses of disability, as well as new feminist, queer, and feminist queer crip conversations between scholarship on disability in ethics and social and political philosophy and scholarship on disability in epistemology, science studies, environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, queer ecology, aesthetics, critical race theory, metaphysics, phenomenology, and queer theory. Papers on any topic pertaining to feminist or feminist queer crip analyses of disability are welcome, including (but not limited to) the following:

-Disability and Phenomenology

-Disability and epistemologies of ignorance

-Disability, gender, race, class, and sexuality

-Disability, national identity, and nationalism

-Disability and/as “assemblage”

-Disability and the question of “the animal”

-Disability and posthumanism

-Disability, ethics, and politics

-Disability and globalization

-Access, accommodation, quality of life

-Bodies and borders

-Able-bodiedness and able-mindedness

-Disability and environmentalism, ecology, ecofeminism, and/or queer ecology

-Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”

-The relationship between impairment and disability identity

-Illness, disease, impairment, bodily limitation, pain, failure

-Disability and the meaning and/or experience of sex and gender, transgender, and intersex

-Disability and orientation/ reorientation/ disorientation of
understandings of time and space

-Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”

-Disability and critical analyses of science, scientific knowledge, nature, and human nature

-Feminist/queer/crip perspectives on the Occupy Movement and other global movements for economic, environmental, social, and political justice

-The meaning of art and aesthetic concepts through the lens of disability

-Rethinking the canon of western philosophy through the lens of feminist disability studies

Deadline for submission: August 15, 2013.

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For details please see Hypatia's submission guidelines http://depts.washington.edu/hypatia/submission_guidelines.html

Please submit your paper to manuscript central (Wiley-Blackwell) website:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hypa.

When you submit, make sure to select “Disability” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor, Kim Q. Hall: hallki@appstate.edu, indicating the title of the paper you have submitted.

Kim Q. Hall
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Appalachian State University
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Call for Papers for a Special Symosium of Reason Papers: The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Emergencies

Fall 2014 Symposium: The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Emergencies

The Editors of Reason Papers are soliciting submissions of manuscripts for a special symposium on emergencies (due by March 1, 2014). Send submissions to reasonpapers@gmail.com. Inquiries welcome.

Submissions may grapple with any of a wide variety of issues related to emergencies (not an exhaustive list): How is “emergency” to be defined? How do we know when we enter/exit an emergency? How should moral and legal norms be formulated so as to take stock of emergencies–if they should? Are moral norms defeasible in the face of emergencies, or specially contextualized so as to preserve their indefeasibility? Who has special authority for decision-making in an emergency? How best to guard against abuses of power or corruptions of norms in emergency situations?

We’re looking for submissions across the broadest spectrum of relevant disciplines–philosophy, political science, legal studies, history, sociology, anthropology, medicine, criminology/police studies, strategic/military studies, etc.

Reason Papers is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal appearing annually each fall. It features book reviews and review essays along with full-length articles, symposia, and discussion notes of previously published articles. All manuscripts submitted for consideration as Articles are subject to a blind peer-review process (see Submissions page for instructions), and all contributions are subject to internal editorial review. Not limited to philosophy, we publish work by economists, legal scholars, political scientists, historians, and others, provided the content is normative in the philosophical sense. In addition to articles on moral, social/political, and legal philosophy, we also run essays on epistemology, aesthetics, art history, and classics.