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How many market anarchists does it take to change a lightbulb?

In a freed market, without patent restrictions, government electrical cartels, or state capitalist infrastructure subsidies, the lightbulbs would be free to organize and change themselves.

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Call for Papers: Anarchy at the APA – Molinari Society 2011 Symposium on Philosophical Anarchy

The Molinari Society

MolinariSociety.org

Call for Papers

for the Society's Symposium to be held in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting December 27-30, 2011, Washington, D.C.

Symposium Topic:

Explorations in Philosophical Anarchy

Submission Deadline:

May 18, 2011

The past two decades have seen a resurgence of interest, both in activist and academic circles, in Anarchist politics and theory, with new and challenging work from several differ­ent directions. Renewed academic interest in Anarchism has drawn attention to the import­ance, vitality and philosophical fruitfulness of key Anarchist arguments and concepts – such as the conflict between authority and auto­nomy; tensions between collectivism and individualism; critical challenges to hier­archy, centralized power, top-down control and author­itarian conceptions of represent­ation; and the development of concepts of spontaneous social order, decentralized consensus, and the knowledge problems and ideological myth­olog­izing inherent in relations or structures of domination.

Most of this discussion has, naturally enough, taken place within the field of political and moral philosophy. But Anarchist theory (like marxist or feminist theory) embodies more than a policy orientation or a system of moral or political theses. The Anarchist tradition offers a wide-ranging, diverse and vigorously argued literature, con­cern­ing the nature and foundations of human society, with impli­cat­ions for every aspect of philosophy, including not only political and moral theory but also aesthetics, social-science methodology, epistemology, and the philosophies of science, religion, history, lang­uage and logic. We are looking for papers that address possible connections, approaches, chal­lenges or insights that anarchy and its concept­ual environs may suggest for philosophy broad­ly – or that philosophy may suggest for anarchy – beyond the familiar territory of polit­ical and moral theory, espec­ially in such areas as epistemology, philosophy of language, philo­sophy of logic, and metaphilosophy or philosophical method. Papers from all analytical and critical standpoints (both with regard to philosophy and with regard to Anarchism) are welcome.

Please submit complete papers of 3,000-6,000 words for consideration for the 2011 Symposium by May 18, 2011. Papers should be of appropriate scope and length to be presented within 15-30 minutes. Submitting authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their papers by May 31, 2011.

Submit papers as e-mail attachments, in Word .doc format or PDF, to cfp@molinarisociety.org

For any questions or information, contact us at info@molinarisociety.org

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You can download a PDF of the Call For Papers to print and post on a bulletin board near you.

Some possible topics include — but are by no means limited to:

  • Authority and Epistemology
  • Anarchy and Logic
  • Illusions of control in philosophy
  • Decentralism or spontaneous order in philosophy of language
  • Philosophical implications of the work of canonical Anarchist theorists (Godwin, Proudhon, Molinari, Tucker, Spooner, Kropotkin, Tolstoy, De Cleyre, Goodman, Bookchin, Rothbard, Wolff, Zerzan…)
  • Anarchy and Rationality
  • Hierarchy, legibility and knowledge problems
  • Philosophical Method and Anarchism
  • Claims of representation and claims of knowledge
  • Etc.

Please spread the word to anyone who you think would be interested in the symposium topic!

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