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NWPC is October 9-10, 2015 in Couer d’ Alene

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North Idaho College in Couer d’ Alene

2015 NORTHWEST PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE “Conference by the Lake”

North Idaho College is hosting this year’s Northwest Philosophy Conference October 9-10, 2015

The conference has no specific focus; all topics are welcome. Papers may be submitted by professionals as well as graduate students. Please submit papers bySept. 1 (decisions by Sept. 10). Submissions by Aug. 15,  will have acceptance notifications sent by Sept. 1, 2015.

If you are interested in chairing a paper session, please email your interest as soon as possible to:

Dr. Ed Kaitz / eekaitz@nic.edu or John Jensen / jdjensen@nic.edu

This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Mark Bauerlein from Emory University. His talk is title “Why Are the Humanities Deteriorating?” He is probably most well-known for his 2009 bestseller, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.  More recently, he served as editor for The Digital Divide: Arguments For and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking (2011) as well as The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism (2015).

To register, submit papers, find hotels, etc., just visit the conference website:

www.nic.edu/nwphilosophyconference .

For information please contact Dr. Ed Kaitz ekaitz@nic.edu or John Jensen / jdjensen@nic.edu

North Idaho College, Philosophy Dept., 1000 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814