2025 Call for Papers

The North Texas Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the call for papers for its 54th annual meeting. This year’s NTPA will take place March 28th-29th, 2025 at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas. Our keynote speaker this year will be Linda Martin Alcoff (Hunter College). Walter Brogan (Villanova University) will give our Robert E. Wood Memorial Address, and our Presidential Address will be given by Charles Bambach (University of Texas at Dallas). We will also offer two workshops, one on Merleau-Ponty and one on Deleuze, as well as two special sessions, one on The Future of Latin American Philosophy and one on Global Conflicts.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Linda Martin Alcoff, Hunter College

ROBERT E. WOOD MEMORIAL ADDRESS

Walter Brogan, Villanova University

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

Charles Bambach, University of Texas at Dallas

INVITED SPEAKERS

Babette Babich, Fordham University

Benjamin P. Davis, Texas A&M University

Jessica S. Elkayam,Sam Houston State University 

Rick Elmore, Appalachian State University

Leah Kalmanson, University of North Texas

Alberto Moreiras, Texas A&M University

Richard Velkley, Tulane University

WORKSHOPS

Merleau-Ponty

Facilitated by Don Beith, University of Maine

Deleuze

Facilitated by A. Janae Sholtz, Alvernia College 

SPECIAL SESSIONS                            

The Future of Latin American Philosophy

Hanging onto Humanity as an Act of Resistance: Global Conflict in Context

BOOK SESSION

Katherine Davies, Heidegger’s Conversations: Toward a Poetic Pedagogy (SUNY 24)

AFFILIATE SESSIONS

International Association for Environmental Philosophy

Radical Philosophy Association                


SUBMISSIONS

The NTPA welcomes papers from all philosophical perspectives although it is especially amenable to the continental philosophical tradition. We invite both individual and two-person panel submissions. Individual submissions should include a completed paper of 3,000-3,500 words and an abstract of 150 – 200 words. Two-person panel submissions should include a title and proposal for the panel of 250-500 words, along with completed papers and abstracts. The NTPA employs a blind review process for non-invited papers, consequently authors names and institutional affiliations should not appear on their proposals, papers, and footnotes, and rather only be included on a separate cover sheet.

Individual Submission:

  • Cover sheet with author’s name, title, institutional affiliation, and title of paper
  • Abstract of 150-200 words
  • Completed paper of 3,000-3,500 (author’s name and affiliations removed) 

Two-person Panel Submission:

  • Cover sheet with both authors names, titles, institutional affiliations, and title of panel
  • Proposal for panel of 250-500 words
  • Abstracts for both papers of 150-200 words each
  • Both completed papers of 3,000-3,500 (authors names and affiliations removed) 

DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS

January 26, 2025

As space will be limited, we anticipate the opportunities for presenting papers to be very competitive. You may email your submission to submission@ntxpa.org

If you are interested in participating in one or both workshops, please indicate this in your email.


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