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Subject: SPOON-ANN: PLI VOL.12 CALL FOR PAPERS: WHAT IS MATERIALISM?
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Editorial Board PLI: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy
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The Warwick Journal Of Philosophy

Call For Papers

Vol. 12: What Is Materialism?


It has become something of a commonplace that Kant's critical revolution
consigned philosophical  materialism, along with all other varieties of
rationalist dogma, to the metaphysical scrapyard. Beyond the narrow confines
of academic Marxism, materialism has long remained vulgar, undeserving of
serious philosophical scrutiny. Why then should we feel the need to raise
anew the question of materialism?

It might be argued that contemporary innovations in both the "analytical"
(from Wittgenstein to McDowell and Brandom) and post-phenomenological (from
Gadamer to Derrida) domains, regardless of their variety and sophistication,
remain variations on a Kantian theme. Whether the constituting instance be
hermeneutic or normative, whether it appeal to différance or to
intersubjectivity, contemporary philosophy continues to operate within the
ambit of a certain post-Kantian imperative: to determine and circumscribe the
conditions of intelligibility for the possible.

The challenge of a genuinely critical - as opposed to dogmatic - materialism,
by way of contrast, would be to construct a form of philosophical speculation
that, refusing to reiterate the Kantian gesture, would sever the bond between
the possible and the intelligible; or, between the versatility of the
material and the strictures of philosophical subjectivity. Materialism might
thus be defined by its capacity to dispense with the age-old juridical
pretensions of philosophy vis-a-vis science, politics, and art, whilst at the
same time opening philosophy to new horizons well beyond the endless
triangulations of Man, Meaning and World.

With these stipulations in mind, this issue of PLI would like to invite
contributions (in the form of essays or theme-related review articles)
towards the elaboration of a rigorously critical and contemporary
materialism. Possible areas of investigation would include:

o Can materialism do without a concept  of matter? o What is the relationship
between materialism and the sciences           of matter? Or, what is the
relationship between materialism,
physicalism, and naturalism? o Does materialism still require the concept of
the                       transcendental? o Are the theoretical agendas of
materialism and (post-)                  phenomenology irreconcilable? o What
is at stake in the eliminative materialist debate in the           philosophy
of mind? o In what way are radical politics and materialism wedded in
theory? o What is the relationship between materialism, history, and
structure? What is materialism in aesthetics?

Submissions in the form of completed articles (of no more than 10,000 words
in total) - one hard copy and one copy on disk in RICH TEXT FORMAT - should
be sent to the address below by May 1, 2001 at the latest. Submissions should
follow the guidelines outlined in the MHRA Style Book. An e-mail address
should be included if possible for future correspondence.

PLI, Department of Philosophy University of Warwick Coventry, CV4 7AL UK

For further information e-mail: pli_journal-AT-hotmail.com or
pyrfx-AT-csv.warwick.ac.uk
   

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