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FPA Newsletter

Conference Program

All talks take place in Baxter and Dabney Halls (bldgs #77 & #40) on the CalTech campus.

The conference schedule is here. As always, be sure to consult the final program when you arrive for any schedule changes. [Posted May 25]

Registration

Fee Schedule

Speakers and Talks

A roster of talks and poster sessions is here.

Fee Schedule

Local Information

Parking

Please note: Parking is limited at the conference venue. Attendees may have to find streetside parking spots.

Limited on-campus parking is available at the UF Visitor Welcome Center parking garage, located just south of the Reitz Student Union at the corner of Museum Road and Reitz Union Drive. (map) Conference attendees will need to print and display a copy of this dowloadable parking permit. There will be a parking attendant at the garage who will begin reserving the 25 spaces at 7:30 a.m. on both days to ensure the spaces will be available. The attendant will reserve those spaces until 9:00 a.m. each morning. Vehicles may remain parked as long as need. There are 25 spaces reserved for each day. Note: These passes are intended only for our out-of-town conferees. Thank you

Although the reserved spaces will be released after 9 a.m. each day, attendees arriving on campus later may still be able to find parking in the garage. This garage is an unrestricted pay facility available to campus visitors and all members of the University community; it offers short-term and all-day parking options. Attendees without a UF parking pass should not park elsewhere on campus at the risk of being ticketed or towed.

Public parking: Alternative parking is available at the public parking garage just north of campus. Its entrance is on NW 2nd Avenue between NW 12th Street and 13th Street and can be accessed from either direction. (map) This garage has reasonable daily rates, plenty of available spaces, and accepts payment by credit card. This garage is just north of University avenue and just north of the A.C. Hotel.

Locations

All talks take place at St. Petersburg College, Downtown Center (244 2nd Ave. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33701) Google map

Hotel Accommodations

Information on hotel accomodations. We have made arrangements for fine accomodations at a discounted rate at the Hilton Pasadena. If you are looking for lower budget accomodations, we also list several suggestions.

A small selection of rooms at the Royale Terrasse hotel has been reserved. Accommodations at the Studio Hotel (student residence) is also available. Both locations are very close to the conference venue. If you prefer accommodations downtown a list of venues has been provided.

Essential information on these lodging options as well as transportation and campus info is now available here.

Conference Hotel

  The Nathan Hale

Conference Rates are available at the following hotels. If none of these options are appealing, downtown St. Pete has myriad hotels within walking distance of the SPC Downtown Center.

  1. Courtyard, St. Petersburg Downtown (Marriott) -- $279/night
    Book your group rate for "St. Pete College"
  2. Hyatt Place. St. Petersburg Downtown -- $249/night
    • Group Name: St. Pete College-FPA
    • Group Code: G-SPC4
    • Use link or call 1-888-492-8847 and ask for the "St. Pete College-FPA" rate
  3. Hampton Inn & Suites, St. Petersburg Downtown -- $259/night
    • 80 Beach Drive NE / St. Petersburg, FL 33701
    • The Hampton Inn is also the location for the conference cocktail mixer on Friday night.


Other Lodging Options

Alternative options for nearby off-campus lodging include:

Budget Accomodations

Here are three budget hotels which offer rooms in the $65-$70 range:

  Student Lodging

  • Graduate student conferees seeking cheap lodgings should contact the conference organizers for more information. Some local hosting with Manitoba students may be possible.

Note for FEW Attendees:

If you plan to attend the FEW conference in the days (20th-21st) prior to the start of the SEP, you may wish to take accomodations closer to USC. There is plenty of time on the Sunday schedule to transfer from lodgings there to lodgings here in Pasadena. We aim to arrange car pools to transport people from Downtown/USC to Pasadena.

Transportation

UConn is located approximately 45 minutes away from the Bradley International Airport (BDL) and Hartford Union Train Station (HFD). Information on a shuttle service will be provided closer to the date of the conference.

If you are driving, it is located on HWY 195, off of I-84. See the UConn website for driving directions. UConn is about an hour and a half drive from Boston (including BOS) and from Providence (including PVD).

UConn can also be reached via the Peter Pan Bus Company. The bus can be used to get to/from UConn and a variety of other nearby cities, including Boston (including BOS), Hartford and New Haven.

Theme:

Paper submissions on this theme are of special interest, but papers in all areas of philosophy are encouraged. Papers in all areas of analytic philosophy are encouraged. [[CALL FOR PAPERS PATTER GOES HERE]] A selection of papers from the conference will be published in a special volume of journal. Guest-editor: name (affil).

1. Regular Program Submissions:

Early Submission Deadline: * July 31, 2011 * (Papers submitted by this early deadline, will receive first review and acceptance.)

Papers in all areas of philosophy are welcome. The FPA seeks especially to broaden the subdisciplines of philosophy represented at its conference in order to truly represent the many kinds of philosophy that Florida philosophers practice. See complete submission instructions below.

2. Graduate Paper Award (GPA) Competition:

The author of the winning paper will receive a monetary award and will be invited to present their paper at a special session at the conference. Only graduate students at Florida colleges are eligible for this award. See complete submission instructions below.

2b. FPA Award in Public Philosophy (GPUB):

This year, we will also give the FPA Award in Public Philosophy, made possible via a generous donation from Regina Rini (York). The award will be attributed to the best graduate essay addressing an issue of contemporary public significance. Graduate students submitting papers for the regular program (see above) may elect to have their papers considered for this Award.

The author of the winning paper will receive a monetary award and will be invited to present their paper at a special session at the conference. Only graduate students at Florida colleges are eligible for this award. See complete submission instructions below.

3. Undergraduate Paper Awards (UPA) Competition:

Undergraduate students may submit papers for special award consideration, depending on which of the following awards they are competing for:

  • • The Gerrit and Edith Schipper Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Philosophy Paper in a Four-Year College or University
  • • The Outstanding Undergraduate Philosophy Paper in a Two-Year College

Undergraduate papers may be any length, but 15 double-spaced pages (approx 5200 words) is recommended. The winning papers will be published in The Florida Philosophical Review and the authors of the winning papers will receive a monetary award (TBA). Only undergraduate students at Florida colleges are eligible. See complete submission instructions below.

4. Panel Session Proposals:

Proposals for special panel sessions are also welcome. To submit a proposal for a panel session, the panel organizer should prepare and submit a panel proposal document with the following components: i) panel title, ii) participants, iii) a panel abstract which constitutes an overview statement of the theme of the panel, and iv) a panel brief by each of the proposed panel members. A panel brief is text that is (or would be the basis of) the panelist's intended presentation.

6. Concurrent Sessions

The FPA also welcomes other philosophy organizations with significant Florida membership to arrange concurrent sessions at the annual FPA meeting.

5. Florida Philosophical Review

Authors who wish to have their papers considered for publication in the Florida Philosophical Review should visit the journal website for submission instructions (requires separate submission).

Submission Instructions

    1. Paper title
    2. Author Information (name(s), affiliation(s), contact email)
    3. Abstract of paper (max words)
    4. Subject category of your paper
    5. Whether paper is to be considered for a student award (and which)
  1. Your paper:
    1. Must be prepared for anonymous review — remove all author- and institution- and status-identifying information. Only one paper submission per person.
    2. Length:
  2. Papers must be submitted electronically as an attachment to an email to:

    1. Please put "FPA Submission" in the subject line of the email.
    2. Attached paper should be .pdf, .rtf, .doc, or .docx file format.
    3. In the body of the email include:
      • Paper title
      • Author Name
      • Affiliation
      • Indicate if the paper is to be considered (also) for the GPA award.
      • Indicate if the paper is being submitted for the UPA paper award competition.

Call for Abstracts

Annual Teaching Symposium

Length

You should plan on having minutes presentation time. We suppose this to be the principal guide in judging the length of the paper you send. It is the norm at SEP meetings for speakers to present rather than read their papers (and this is a virtue), so it is to be expected that presentation time and page length will only loosely correlate.

That said, do please bear in mind that a referee needs to both grasp the content of your paper and be able to readily envisage how you could present it in the available time. So, if your paper runs long, you might for this reason want to prepare a shortened version.

Getting There

UConn is located approximately 45 minutes from the Bradley International Airport (BDL) and Hartford Union Train Station (HFD). Information on a shuttle service will be provided closer to the date of the conference.

If you are driving, it is located on HWY 195, off I-84. See the UConn website for driving directions. UConn is about an hour and a half drive from Boston (including BOS) and from Providence (including PVD).

UConn can also be reached via the Peter Pan Bus Company. The bus can be used to get to/from UConn and a variety of other nearby cities, including Boston (including BOS), Hartford, New Haven, and New York City.

Additional Information

Local Setting

The University of Calgary is located in the north-west quadrant of Calgary, about 7km from downtown. The areas of the city surrounding it are mainly residential. Although there are food options on campus, there are few amenities within walking distance of the campus. There is a train station on campus, which will take you downtown in about 15 minutes.

Travel Information

Please note that international travellers may now require an Electronic Travel Authorization prior to entering Canada.

Below are some links to travel and tourism information on Calgary and Alberta. Note that Calgary is located about 1.5 hours east of the Rocky Mountains and Banff National Park. The mountains can be reached by rental car or shuttle from Calgary International Airport, or Greyhound from downtown Calgary.

Transport & Parking

From the Airport: A Taxi will cost approximately $90 from LAX, and $50 from Bob Hope Airport in Burtbank. There are two shuttle companies that run out of each airport: Prime Time and Super Shuttle. The fare is $30 + $9/additional person from LAX, and $23 + $9/additional person from Bob Hope. It is possible, but slow, to travel by Metro. Consult www.metro.net. >From LAX, the FlyAway bus goes to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles (see below).

From Downtown: The Gold Line light rail system runs from Union Station downtown to Pasadena. The Del Mar station is 3 blocks west of the Pasadena Hilton. The Memorial Park station is 2 blocks from Colorado Blvd. and several bus lines that serve Pasadena: 180, 267, and the Pasadena ARTS 10 (does not run on Sunday). On weekdays, the 485 express bus runs from Union Station to Pasadena.

Parking on campus: On Sunday, you can park in any space for free. On Monday and Tuesday, park in the North Wilson parking structure -- building 123 on the campus map (www.caltech.edu/map). You can park in any unmarked space. Parking costs $6/day, and there is a pay station on the second floor.

Information for Speakers & Poster Presenters

Talks: Sessions are one hour, including Q&A, so you should plan to speak for 40 minutes or less.

Posters: Poster presenters will each have a space on a bulletin board approximately 36 inches (90 cm) high and 40 inches (100cm) wide. Plenty of push pins will be provided. You may use your space however you wish. The goal is to convey information about the research, but also to lure people into discussion about the work.



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