75th ANNUAL MEETING OF
THE SOUTHWESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

UPDATED HOTEL INFORMATION:The hotel for this year's annual meeting is the Radisson Hotel & Suites Town Lakes/Downtown Austin. The society has negotiated rates of $129.00/night (excluding applicable taxes). Conference attendees must make their own reservations by October 28 to secure these rates!! One can do so either by calling the reservations department directly with the hotel at (512) 478-9611 or with Radisson's toll free reservation center line at (800) 333-3333, by Friday 10/28/2011 at 12:00 CST. Please reference the Southwestern Philosophical Society room block. Reservations can also be made via the Internet at www.radisson.com/austintx/ using internet promotional code ‘SWPS'. All reservations must be guaranteed to a credit card or a deposit of one night's room and tax. All reservation cancellations must be received by 6:00 PM on the day of arrival to avoid a charge of one night's room and tax.

Overview: Papers on any theme or problem in philosophy are welcome. Presented papers will be published in the Society’s journal, Southwest Philosophy R eview. The Society gives an annual award of $100 to the best paper accepted for the program written by a graduate student or recent Ph.D. (degree granted within three years of the meeting). Authors who are eligible for the prize should indicate this on the cover page of their submission.

Submissions: Electronic submissions are required and should be sent to swpssubmissions@gmail.com. Papers must be in MS Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Papers submitted in any other format cannot be processed. Papers may not exceed 3000 words in length. Submissions should include a word count and 150 word abstract (not counted in total word count) on the title page. Papers exceeding this length will not be considered. Papers should not contain any information identifying the author of the submission.

Submission deadline: Papers must be received by Friday, 15 July 2011.

In a separate title page document, please submit the following: title of the paper, abstract of the paper, author’s name, affiliation, email address and phone number.

Membership: You must be a member to present. To join the society, send inquiries to:
Deborah K. Heikes, Secretary/Treasurer SWPS -- heikesd@uah.edu
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL 35899
(256) 824-2335

Questions or comments: Dave Beisecker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, beiseckd@unlv.nevada.edu

2011 Conference Hotel Location: 2011 Conference Hotel Location: Radisson Hotel & Suites Austin - Town Lake -- 111 Cesar Chavez at Congress -- Austin, TX For reservations call 800/395-7046 or visit: http://www.radisson.com/austin-hotel-tx-78701/txaustdt. Tell the reservation clerk that you are with the Southwestern Philosophical Society to receive the conference rates.

2010 Meeting: Memphis, TN,
November 12-14. 2010
Local arrangements: Hoke Robinson
Program Chair:Eva Dadlez
Registration and Banquet Details:

Hotel/Reservations: 901-525-5491 Mention this conference for the conference rate ($99/single or double, $109/triple or quad) which expires on 10/12/10.

Registration fee for the conference is  $60. Annual membership dues are $40 for faculty and $20 for graduate students. Banquet cost is between $32 and $25 (depending on entree).

PAYMENT: Please be prepared to  pay for  the conference registration, banquet fees (if you are attending the banquet) and membership fees (if you have not done so already) at the conference registration table. The Society is not equipped to handle credit cards. Please bring a check or  cash.

Even if you aren't attending the conference, we still need the financial support that your membership dues provide. Please send your dues  (check made out to SWPS) to Anne Bowery, Department of Philosophy, Baylor University, Box 97273, One Bear Place, Waco TX 76798.

BANQUET DETAILS: Our banquet will be held at Cafe 1912, 243 South Cooper Street. Because this is two or so miles from the hotel, we are organizing car pools to the banquet in advance. If you plan to rent a car once you get to Memphis, or if you are traveling under your own steam to get to the conference, we hope you'll volunteer to help ferry banquet-goers to Cafe 1912 on Friday night.

Participants should have gotten an email with a list of banquet menu options and a non-binding questionnaire about transportation information (i.e., whether you'll need a ride or be able to give one). Please forward your responses to Hoke Robinson, our local arrangements chair, at hrobinsn@memphis.edu

NOTE: The 2010 Presidential Address will be given by David Hildebrand (Univ. of Colorado Denver)

Program Chair: Eva Dadlez, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Oklahoma, edadlez@gmail.com

Websites:

SWPS: http://www.southwesternphilosophical.com/
2010 Conference Location: http://www.magnoliahoteldallas.com/dallas.aspx

Papers on any theme or problem in philosophy are welcome. Presented papers are published in the Society’s journal, Southwest Philosophy Review. The Society gives an annual award of $100 to the best paper accepted for the program written by a graduate student or recent Ph.D. (degree granted within three years of the meeting.) Authors who are eligible for the prize should indicate this on the cover page of their submission.

Submissions: Electronic submissions to swpssubmissions@gmail.com are required. Papers may not exceed 3000 words in length, and submissions should include a word count and 150 word abstract (not counted in total) on the title page. Papers exceeding this length will not be considered. Papers should not contain any information identifying their authors.

On a separate document, please submit the following: author’s name, affiliation, email address and phone number. If submitting electronically, any identifying information must be on a separate file. NOTE: Word documents can sometimes reveal the author's identity through word tags. Microsoft explains how to change or erase these here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100240611033.aspx#1

Membership: You must be a member to present. To join the society, send inquiries to:

Anne Marie Bowery, Secretary/Treasurer, SWPS, Department of Philosophy, Box 97273, One Bear Place, Baylor University Waco TX 76798. Anne_Marie_Bowery@baylor.edu

Deadline: Papers must be received by end of the day, July 1, 2010, Central Time.

Format: Electronic submissions to swpssubmissions@gmail.com are required. They MUST be in Word (.DOC), or .RTF format; papers submitted in any other format cannot be processed.

Questions or comments:. Eva Dadlez, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Oklahoma. Email: edadlez@gmail.com
SWPS: http://www.southwesternphilosophical.com/
2010 Conference Location: http://www.hisdowntownmemphis.com/

2009 Meeting: Dallas, TX

Date: 13-15, November 2009

Local arrangements: Scott Bartlett
Program Chair: David Hildebrand

Registration: $50; banquet $32 additional

Photos from the meeting are HERE.
And there is another set, HERE