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29th meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy “Justice Centering Marginal Voices” May 22–24, 2025 in person at Denison University

(with hybrid online access by Zoom)

DEADLINE for submissions: 1 March 2024.

NOTICE OF DECISION: 30 March 2024.

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The IAEP Executive Committee is excited to announce our 2025 annual meeting. To reduce the environmental impact of our environmental philosophy, we hold conferences in-person/hybrid in odd-numbered years, and fully remotely in even-numbered years. But we recognize the value of in-person conferences. This year, perhaps more than ever, we are grateful to gather in-person to strategize and energize around how our work can better pursue justice and support for our human and more-than-human kin.

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Our conference this year will include opportunities for exploration of the local environment, including to the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in central Ohio recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and time to build connections with one another in between sessions.

For this in-person conference, we invite proposals for individual papers and organized panels on any aspect of environmental philosophy, but will give priority to those engaged with questions of liberation and justice. 

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Papers should be limited to 20 minutes reading time, with an additional 20 minutes for discussion.

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Individual Paper proposals: Please send a single-spaced Word document (prepared for blind review) including a proposal (500–600 words) PLUS a short abstract (75–100 words, for the conference program). In the body of the email, please include detailed contact information (including physical and electronic addresses) and academic affiliation(s) of the author(s).

Panel proposals (max. 3 papers): Please send one single-spaced Word document (prepared for blind review) including a title for the panel followed by titles, proposals and both paper proposals (500–600 words) and short abstracts (75–100 words) for each paper as described above. The body of the email should include contact information and affiliations for each author. Paper proposals will also be judged individually and may be accepted individually without acceptance of the entire panel.

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ALL SUBMISSIONS and ENQUIRIES should be sent to iaepsecretary@gmail.com. Authors may submit only one proposal for consideration. Papers previously published or under review for publication will not be accepted. Review will prioritize in-person participation. Accepted authors must be members of IAEP and registered for the conference by 30 April  2025 or they will be removed from the program.

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$250 PRIZE FOR BEST STUDENT ESSAY: Students, please indicate in your email if you wish to be considered for this prize. The winner will be announced during the conference.

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CFA: Philosophy in the Wild Conference, July 25-27, 2025 

Deadline for submissions: March 16, 2025
 

Philosophy in the Wild invites abstract submissions for presentations at our fifth annual conference, on the topic of Environmental Philosophy, broadly construed. Philosophy in the Wild conferences are motivated by the idea that a shift in environment can engender a shift in perspective. Doing philosophy outside affords a new relation to the world we theorize, and opens new avenues for philosophical thought. Check out our photos from past events!

 

Our conference takes place July 25-27, 2025, at Sideling Hill Creek State Park, MD. Sideling Hill Creek is one of Maryland's healthiest stream systems, and–for the plant nerds in the audience–is home to the rare harperella plant (Ptilimnium nodosum)! This event is a small, outdoor, wifi-free (i.e., low-tech) event focused on fostering philosophical community and engagement. We are open to a wide range of presentation types, including experimental presentations or other creative proposals. 

 

Our keynote speaker is TBA

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Topics may include, but are not exhausted by:

 

• Environmental ethics; environmental aesthetics

• Environmental political philosophy; environmental justice

• Environment and capitalism

• Postdevelopment and postcolonial theories

• Philosophy of nature and metaphysics

• New Materialisms

• Environment and social identities; ecofeminism

• Social ecology and ecoanarchism

• Climate change; sustainability; future generations

• Philosophy of environmental science, ecology, geology and related fields

• Environment and technology

• Urban ecology 

• Environment and religion

• Animal ethics and critical animal studies

• Environment and human flourishing

• Wilderness philosophy and rewilding

From July 25th-27th, 2025, participants will camp at Sideling Hill Creek State Park, MD, USA. Activities will include (though will not be limited to) presentations and discussions, debating the best way to pitch a tarp (mandatory) and hiking (optional). No prior camping experience is necessary.
 
Please note that there will be a registration fee associated with participation in this conference to cover food and campsite costs. Philosophy in the Wild has some camping gear to lend out on a first-come, first served basis; once this runs out we will work with participants to help arrange gear rentals if needed, the cost of which may be added to the registration fee. Please contact us with questions about accessibility.
 
Abstracts should be approximately 500 words. Please submit your abstract in .pdf format, prepared for anonymous review, to philosophywild@gmail.com. In the body of the email, please include your name, university affiliation, and paper title. Submissions from members of underrepresented groups in philosophy are especially encouraged. 
 
Depending on interest, there may be an opportunity to publish selected papers in the Public Philosophy Journal's Philosophy in the Wild collection. The current collection can be seen here: https://pubhub.lib.msu.edu/projects/public-philosophy-journal-vol-5-no-2.

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Call for Papers: The Philosophy of Biodiversity

Deadline for Submissions: 15 June 2025

The Monist invites submissions for an upcoming thematic issue of the journal on the philosophy of biodiversity. Publication date: January 2027

Advisory Editors: Markku Oksanen (University of Eastern Finland) & Helena Siipi (University of Turku)

Ever since the term ‘biodiversity’ was coined in the mid-1980s, it has become a synonym for the diversity of life. It does not only include the multitude of different species but also genetic diversity within those species as well various forms of different ecosystems and habitants. The purpose of this conceptual innovation was to increase the general awareness of human-caused rapid loss of variety in living beings. Thus, biodiversity was not a neutral term but an expression of concern about the permanent loss of something valuable and crucial to human well-being.

The philosophical approaches to biodiversity can increase our understanding of biodiversity as a science construct. There are normative issues such as whether human-created forms of life (for example the outcomes of synthetic biology) count as biodiversity, what are its components and how they are to be measured. How should we understand species and subspecies? How to distinguish between different types of ecosystems? There are tough ethical issues such as what ultimately makes extinction or the reduction of biodiversity wrong or right and how biodiversity is valuable. Clearly, some components of biodiversity are instrumentally valuable for human beings. But can instrumental value be attributed to biodiversity itself or could it have intrinsic value? Is relational value to biodiversity a meaningful category? Finally, there are policy issues such as whether biodiversity provides a meaningful goal for conservation and how different understandings and valuations of biodiversity be integrated into environmental decision-making. What role do considerations of justice play in biodiversity conservation policies? These are among the possible topics to be covered by the thematic issue.

The scope of the thematic issue is not limited to any philosophical tradition. The focus is not only on ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of biology but all approaches are welcome, including aesthetics, metaphysics and philosophy of history.
 

Submission Information: All submissions should be prepared for anonymous review and sent to the Advisory Editors: markku.oksanen@uef.fi and helena.siipi@utu.fi.

Manuscripts received from the call will first go through a pre-selection by the Advisory Editors. The manuscripts passing it will be sent for full double-blind review process.

World limit: 8000 words, including notes and references. Please follow the journal’s Author Guidelines.

https://academic.oup.com/monist/pages/cfp-philosophy-of-biodiversity

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