CFA for NASSP at Central Division APA

The North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP) is seeking proposals for a panel on:

Democracy, Populism, and Truth

for its group session at the Central APA

February 20-23, 2019 in Denver Colorado

 

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

The politics of truth and “post-truth”

Epistemic borders and imagined communities

Science and values in the age of denial

Democratic alternatives to “alternative facts”

Democracy and standpoint theory

Climate change denial

Popular education

Democratic deliberation, Reason, and Power

Propaganda, Spin, and Transparency

Democracy and epistemic trust

The politics of “free speech”

Political epistemic gaslighting

Historical memory and democratic deliberation

Current challenges to democracy

 

Please send individual abstracts of 300-400 words to

nasspcentral@gmail.com by August 15, 2018