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The 10th Principia International Symposium will be held in Florianópolis, Brazil, from August 14th to 17th, 2017.

Latest update of this page: September 22nd, 2017

This time our central theme is going to be The Construction of Experience. Ever since empiricism emerged as a live philosophical option, there has been a growing awareness that experience is somehow constructed — and, so, philosophical curiosity has been directed to diverse inquiries regarding the notion of experience as a construct, besides the process of constructing. Our theme, therefore, can be approached from a broad variety of points of view in debates that ramify towards diverse areas, such as epistemology, philosophy of mind, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of perception, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. We welcome contributions that address any aspect of the construction of experience, as well as critical assessments of historical and contemporary stances on the matter.

The nine previous symposia in this series have been devoted, respectively, to Principles in Philosophy and in the Sciences (1999), The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell (2001), The Philosophy of Willard van Orman Quine (2003), The Philosophy of Donald Davidson (2005), The Philosophy of Bas van Fraassen (2007), Charles Darwin and his impact on philosophy and the sciences (2009), The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman (2011), The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam (2013) and Possible Worlds and their Applications in Philosophy and the Sciences (2015).

This Symposium is being organized by the Epistemology and Logic Research Group (NEL-UFSC), in association with Principia, and supported by the Graduate Program in Philosophy and the Philosophy Department of Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil.

Invited Speakers

Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania)
Osvaldo Pessoa Jr. (University of São Paulo)
Otávio Bueno (University of Miami)
André Leclerc (University of Brasília)
Rodolfo Gaeta (University of Buenos Aires)
Mariana Broens (São Paulo State University)
Anjan Chakravartty (University of Notre Dame)
Luiz Henrique Dutra (Federal University of Santa Catarina)

Organizing Committee

Ivan Ferreira da Cunha (chair)
Jonas R. Becker Arenhart (secretary)
Cezar A. Mortari

Scientific Committee

Gary Hatfield
Otávio Bueno
Rodolfo Gaeta
Osvaldo Pessoa Jr.
Luiz Henrique Dutra
Ivan Ferreira da Cunha
Anjan Chakravartty
Décio Krause

General Program

As usual, besides the main sessions discussing the Symposium's central theme, we also plan to have parallel sessions dealing with the following subjects:

• Philosophy and History of Science
• Logic and Philosophy of Language
• Epistemology
• Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind
• Ethics and Applied Ethics

Submissions

Contributed papers to the symposium may be written in English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish. An extended abstract (at most 500 words, in any of these languages) of the paper must be submitted by March 20th, 2017 to the organizing committee. Submissions must be made by e-mail only to the following address: principia2017@contato.ufsc.br.

Abstracts must give enough detail to allow the scientific committee to assess the merits of the work. Please, do not include pictures or graphics in the abstract. References to other works should be avoided, but if necessary, must be included in the body of the text. Authors using mathematical symbols are encouraged to submit tex versions of their abstracts. Also include a separate identification page with the author's name, e-mail, professional category (professor, associate professor, researcher, or student), and full institutional address. Please, when submitting, send both the source file (.doc, .rtf, .tex, etc.) and a pdf version.

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by April 14th, 2017. Abstracts will be available for participants by the time of the conference. Papers having more than one author must have at least one of the authors registered for presentation.

Contributed papers will be invited for submission (in full version) to a special issue of Principia. A call for papers with further information will be released during the Symposium.

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Registration and Payment

Click here to access the Registration form and the instructions regarding payment of the participation fee.

Venue

The Symposium will be held at the Castelmar Hotel – Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.

Transportation and hotels

For information about flights and hotels in Florianópolis, please get in touch with our travel agent, Campus Turismo.

For further information, please contact the organizing committee (principia2017@contato.ufsc.br).