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The Bellingham Summer Philosophy
Conference is an annual festival of philosophy, featuring several days of
formal philosophy sessions, informal discussions, and various
non-philosophical activities, all in and around scenic Bellingham, Washington,
in the beautiful northwest corner of the U.S.
The BSPC is a general philosophy conference, with no particular philosophical
theme. BSPC 2009 will feature nine formal philosophy sessions, taking place
over three days, and various informal philosophical and recreational
activities, taking place over a span of about five days. Each of the formal
philosophy sessions will be devoted to a single paper. Each paper will be a
"pre-read", which will have been made available to conference
participants in advance. Each of these sessions will consist of the
presentation of prepared comments on the relevant paper followed by a
discussion of that paper. For the past seven years, Philosophical Studies
has agreed to publish selected papers from the BSPC, and it will do so again
this year.
In addition to numerous exciting philosophy
papers, previous BSPCs have featured barbecues, enjoyable meals and
late-night revelry, and various other activities including basketball,
ultimate frisbee, hiking, and sea kayaking.
BSPC participants are encouraged to bring their families and friends, to
arrive early and stay late, and to take advantage of the many recreational
activities in the region, including hiking, biking, boating, island-hopping,
and visits to Vancouver and Seattle.
Bellingham, Washington
is located on Puget Sound, 55 miles from Vancouver
and 85 miles from Seattle.
It is a pleasant town of about 80,000, with lots of nice scenery,
restaurants, bookstores, and coffee shops. In the immediate vicinity there
are beaches, mountains, lakes, numerous local and state parks, all manner of
biking and hiking trails, ferries to Victoria and the San Juan Islands, and
opportunities for kayaking, sailing, and whale watching.
Please note that BSPC 2009 is not open to the general public. Attendance is
by invitation only and space is primarily limited to those on the conference
program. This is partly due to funding and logistical constraints, and partly
due to the fact that the BSPC is a workshop-style conference that involves
in-depth discussions of works-in-progress.
For more information contact Dennis Whitcomb (conference organizer) at <dennis.whitcomb@wwu.edu>.
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