Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:42:48 -0500 Subject: SPOON-ANN: PLI VOL.12 CALL FOR PAPERS: WHAT IS MATERIALISM? From: Cecile Ramirez <celivan-AT-earthlink.net> [Spoon-Announcements is a moderated list for distributing info of wide enough interest without cross-posting. To unsub, send the message "unsubscribe spoon-announcements" to majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] Editorial Board PLI: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pli: 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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