Call for papers
The Mount Holyoke Summer Philosophy Conference
June 21 – 25, 2020, South Hadley, Massachusetts
The Mount Holyoke Summer Philosophy Conference will take place from June 21 – June 25, 2020, on the Mount Holyoke College campus in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Everyone in the world is invited to submit a paper, or to volunteer to be a commentator or session chair, but conference attendance is limited to those on the conference program (and also to members of the conference program committee, the assistant conference organizers, and members of the MHC philosophy department). This is partly due to funding and logistical constraints, and partly due to the fact that the MHSPC is a workshop-style conference that involves in-depth discussions of works-in-progress.
To submit a paper
Submissions must be in PDF format, and they must be prepared for anonymous review. They should be emailed to the MHSPC 2020 Program Committee at [email protected]. Please include an abstract and a word count, including footnotes and bibliography, on the first page of the paper.
Papers on any topic are welcome, but the conference program committee will be looking for papers that are of interest to all MHSPC participants, regardless of AOS. Papers of any length will be considered, but shorter papers (under about 8,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography) will have a better chance of being accepted than longer papers. The MHSPC is a workshop-style conference, and the papers on the program will be read in advance by all conference participants. So please submit a paper only if you are certain that, if your paper is on the program, you will have a chance to incorporate feedback from the MHSPC in any subsequent, for-publication version of your paper.
The deadline for submissions is January 15th, 2020 (at midnight EST). Authors will be notified of the Program Committee's decisions by mid-March.
To volunteer to be a commentator or chair
Everyone who submits a paper will automatically be considered to have volunteered to be a commentator or chair. Any other volunteers should fill out this volunteer form. The deadline for volunteering is January 15, 2020 (at midnight EST). Volunteers will be notified of the Program Committee's decisions by mid-March.
Please note
The MHSPC is a workshop-style conference whose participants are expected to read all of the papers in advance, to attend all of the sessions, and to come prepared for discussion. You should not submit a paper, or volunteer to comment or chair, unless you plan on reading all of the papers in advance and attending all of the sessions.
There will be a registration fee of approximately $200 that will cover venue fees, all breakfasts and lunches, and one conference dinner. The organizers plan to be able to waive the registration fee for a limited number of participants who do not have access to funds through their home institution.