September 7, 2020

The Honesty Project at Wake Forest University and Carnegie Mellon University, funded by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation, is seeking proposals for its philosophy of honesty competition. We hope to inspire much further work on this relatively neglected virtue by focusing on five Big Questions:

• What is the definition and value of honesty? What are the behavioral and motivational requirements for being honest or exceptionally so?
• To what extent are people honest? How does this vary by culture?
• What contextual and internal factors encourage honesty and shape its development in individuals, groups, organizations, and institutions?
• What are the consequences of honesty and dishonesty for relationships, groups, organizations, and institutions?
• Under what conditions is dishonesty justified, if any? What factors lead people to be receptive to or offended by honesty? 

Our $400,000 dollar philosophy of honesty competition allows for requests between $40,000 and $100,000 for projects lasting up to one year. The requests would be primarily for research leaves to write a book or series of articles. 

The website and press release are here: 

https://honestyproject.philosophy.wfu.edu/

May 1, 2020

Bold.org has a scholarship opportunity available to graduate and undergraduate philosophy majors. The scholarship amount is $1000, and the application deadline to be considered for this scholarship is May 22, 2020. The winner will be announced on June 22, 2020.

To participate in this opportunity, please write an essay of about 500-800 words addressing all of the following questions:

1. How will your degree in philosophy prepare for a life after your studies?
2. What do you plan on doing after you graduate?
3. Why are you passionate about philosophy?

Please visit https://bold.org/scholarships/philosophy-scholarship/for more information. Thank you.

 March 1, 2020

The Gabriel Marcel Society is now accepting submissions for a session to be held at this year’s ACPA meeting in New Orleans, LA. Papers on any area of Marcel’s thought are welcome. The Society especially encourages submissions that interact with the broader theme of this year’s ACPA meeting: the Good, the True, and the Beautiful: Through and of the Ages—e.g., papers that explicate, or creatively retrieve and apply, Marcel’s thought on these and related topics. The Society also encourages submissions that put Marcel in dialogue with other philosophers—whether his own influences, his contemporaries, or philosophers working today.

Submit papers by e-mail to Joseph Gamache at jgamache@marian.edu. Papers should be a maximum of 12 pages, double-spaced with 12-point font (approximately 25 minutes reading time). In lieu of full papers, the Society also welcomes longer abstracts (about 500 words) proposing a paper for consideration.

 Submissions are due by May 1, 2020.

 Authors of papers or abstracts not selected for presentation will be invited to serve as commentators during the session.  

March 1, 2020

The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (SMRP) awards an annual prize of $500 for the best paper on Medieval or Renaissance philosophy by a younger scholar. Eligibility is restricted to graduate students and recent PhDs (within the last five years).

The award recipient will be invited to present a paper at a SMRP session at conference of one’s choice in the year of the competition.  The recipient may apply for up to $500 to assist with travel expenses.  In recent years, SMRP has sponsored sessions at the annual meetings of the American Philosophical Association, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo), as well as at several other conferences.

Submissions, which should generally be limited to 9,000 words, may include:

- The text of a lecture delivered within the last year or to be delivered (though short, informal talks are not suitable)

- Unpublished Essays

- Articles or chapters submitted for publication or forthcoming but not yet in print.

Entries should be submitted to Dr. Thomas Osborne at osborntm@stthom.edu by May 1.

In your email, please include your name, affiliation, title of your paper, contact information, and date of PhD.  The file you submit must be prepared for blind review (including the elimination of meta-data from the electronic file) and should include an abstract of not more than 200 words.

Gloria Frost, PhD

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Assistant Editor, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (ACPQ)

University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Office: JRC #236

Websites: http://gloriafrost.wordpress.com/
http://stthomas.academia.edu/GloriaFrost

January 29, 2020

This summer we will hold the first Thomistic Summer Conference at Thomas Aquinas College, California, on June 18-20, 2020. The theme for this summer’s conference is “Faith & Reason.” Featured speakers include Michael Sherwin, OP (University of Fribourg), John O’Callaghan (University of Notre Dame), Steven Long (Ave Maria University), and Michael Augros (Thomas Aquinas College). Please see the attached conference flyer. More information about the conference, including a Call for Papers, can be found on our website at www.thomasaquinas.edu/tsc.

Thanks,

John J. Goyette, Dean

Thomas Aquinas College

California | New England

805-525-4417 ext. 5916

January 14, 2020

ACPA International Collaboration and Outreach Grants

Call for Proposals

Members of the ACPA are invited to submit grant proposals for projects relating either to (a) international collaboration or to (b) outreach within the USA and Canada. Proposed projects in the first category should aim at supporting philosophical communities in countries other than the USA and Canada, or at the dissemination of philosophical ideas to a broader public in countries other than the USA and Canada. Proposed projects in the second category should aim at the dissemination of philosophical ideas (tied to the Catholic intellectual tradition) either to a broader public in the USA or Canada or to faculty and students at institutions in the USA or Canada where the Catholic intellectual tradition is underrepresented.

The ACPA has set aside up to $12,000 for proposals submitted in 2020.

Eligibility:

Any ACPA member associated with an institution of higher learning is eligible to submit a proposal to have a project funded. (Grants will be made to institutions, not to individuals.)

Deadline for proposals:

Proposals should be emailed to Michael Rota at mwrota@stthomas.edu by July 10^th, 2020. Decisions will be announced by December 1, 2020.

Criteria of evaluation:

Proposals focused on international collaboration will be evaluated on their potential either to strengthen philosophical communities in countries other than Canada and the USA, or to disseminate philosophical ideas to a broader public in those countries. Other things being equal:

1)      projects that focus on topics of special interest to Catholic philosophers will be preferred to those that do not,

2)      proposals that will primarily benefit philosophers (including students of philosophy) in countries with comparatively fewer funding opportunities for philosophical work will be preferred to proposals which will primarily benefit philosophers (including students of philosophy) in countries with comparatively greater funding opportunities, and

3)      a less expensive project will be funded over a more expensive project.

Proposals focused on outreach within Canada and the USA will be evaluated on their potential to disseminate philosophical ideas from the Catholic intellectual tradition to a broader public or to an academic community where the Catholic intellectual tradition is currently underrepresented. Other things being equal, a less expensive project will be funded over a more expensive project.

Application process:

Projects should have a single project director who submits the proposal and who will take responsibility (if the project is funded) for reporting back to the ACPA upon completion of the project. The project director must be a member of the ACPA at the time of submission of the project and during the duration of the project. Projects can have 1-3 co-directors.

A proposal should include:

(a)   The name and contact information of the project director, and, if applicable, of the project co-director(s).

(b)   A narrative statement of no more than 2000 words explaining the project. This statement should specify a start-date and end-date for the project, not to exceed 2 years, and should identify one or more outputs, which are concrete events the project will be expected (if funded) to bring about (e.g. a conference on topic X in location Y, or a series of 3 lectures by so-and-so in region R, or a short-term seminar taught by philosopher X at university or seminary U).

(c)   A budget, not to exceed $12,000.

(d)   CVs of the project director and, if applicable, co-director(s).

Financial process and reporting:

By an approved project’s start date, funds will be sent by the ACPA to the project director’s institution, and from that point on distribution of funds will be carried out by the project director through his or her institution. The project director will be expected to submit a report to the ACPA upon completion of the project. The report should, at a minimum, (a) state whether the output(s) was(were) achieved, (b) state whether all funds were used (if not, unused funds should be returned to the ACPA), and (c) describe any salient details about the perceived success or failure of the project.