Under this heading, the Caribbean Philosophical Association will expand on its organizing theme, when it focused on the broad impact of the rise of Africana and other “third world” philosophies from geographical notions, metaphors, and assumptions that have long been associated with modern concepts of philosophical reason. For 2006, we will look more closely at the places of aesthetics (which here includes performance and literary work), science, and language within these rising post-European philosophies as well as their impact on the still changing geography of reason.  In this spirit of reshaping guage thatthe geography of reason, we invite the submission of papers on the philosophical aspects of aesthetics, science, and lan are present in the texts and practices of Native Caribbean, Afro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, Euro-Caribbean, African, Latin-American, African-American, Indian, and European thinkers, or in radically new formulations.  We will also welcome papers addressing the unique relationship between Canadian intellectual institutions and Caribbean ones, especially regarding their development along the themes of this conference.  Proposals may be submitted and papers may be presented in English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese since members of this organization are encouraged to work in these languages with and in indigenous and creolized New World languages as well.

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Click here for the 2006 CPA program.

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Wednesday, June 28 - Friday, June 30| Temple University Anderson Hall, Room 1123 6TH ANNUAL PHENOMENOLOGY ROUNDTABLE East Indian and Afro-Caribbean Phenomenology: The Work of J.N. Mohanty and Paget Henry Click here for the 2006 Phenomenology Roundtable schedule (updated 6/20/06). Please check the Phenomenology Roundtable website for more information.