NOTE: Due to COVID-19 public health restrictions, and the cancellation of this year’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities meeting, the CS-IVR meeting in London, Ont. is also cancelled. However, an online (Zoom) meeting will be held. The abstracts are listed below. Further details of the May 31st online meeting will be posted here.

The Canadian Section of the IVR (International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) accepts papers devoted to subjects in law and legal theory and moral and political philosophy. Submitted papers (and commentaries on them) are circulated (password protected) via the IVR Website (http://phil.uregina.ca/cs-ivr) and the authors and commentators briefly summarize their points to open discussions at the meeting. See http://phil.uregina.ca/cs-ivr/about.html for further information about CS-IVR meetings.

Papers on subjects in moral, legal, and political philosophy are welcome. We especially encourage papers on important contemporary issues including threats to democracy, dishonesty in politics, the climate emergency, growing inequality of wealth.

Deadlines for the London Meeting

Friday, March 13, 2020: Commitment to send a principal paper or commentary.

To help with organizing, please send nbrett@dal.ca a note indicating that you intend to present a principal paper or commentary. Brief abstracts of principal papers should also be sent at this time. These abstracts will be refereed before the end of March. A reminder notice will be sent in early February. A link to Dropbox (to upload papers) will be provided to participants.

Friday, April 24: All principal papers should be uploaded with a copy sent to David Elliot (elliotda@uregina.ca). Principal papers should be no more than 10,000 words.

Friday, May 22: All commentaries be uploaded with a copy sent to David Elliot (elliotda@uregina.ca). Commentaries should be no more than 1200 words.

Meeting on Sunday, May 31: University Western Ontario (Building and room TBA)

Nathan Brett, Executive Director

Please forward this call for papers to others who may be interested. If you wish to post this call for papers please print the attached copy.

Papers Received

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Brett, Nathan: “Taking Climate Change Seriously.”
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Johannsen, Kyle. “Helping Wild Animals: Beneficence, Egalitarian Distributive Justice, or Rectification?.”
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Lee, Corina. “Our Attitudes toward Psychopathic Behaviours: Reconceptualizing the ‘Psychopath.’”
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Macleod, Alistair M. “Voting without Voice: How Votes Can Be Counted Without Counting [or Democracy and the Wasted Vote Problem]”
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Melkevik, Åsbjørn. “If You’re a Classical Liberal, How Come You’re Also an Egalitarian?”
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Molas, Andrew. “Counterstories, Narrative Repair, and Rewriting the Harmful Stereotypes of Mental Illness.”
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Murray, Robert. “Rawls on Conflict, Abstraction, and Coordination.”
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Nelson, Benjamin. “Finding Written Law.”
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Phillips, Otto. “The Rule of Law’s Implication in Civil Litigation against Government.”
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Shiner, Roger. “Mens Rea, Neuroscience and the Problem of Other Minds.”
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Szende, Jennifer. “Collective Environmental Responsibility.”
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Wellington, Alex. “Fidelity to Law and the Executive Branch.”
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Commentaries

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CS-IVR2020.Comment on AsbjornMelkevic.21May2020.docx

CSIVR 2020 Abstracts.docx

Nelson_ Alistair Macleod.docx

Nelson_Andrew Molas.docx

Nelson_Corina Lee.docx

Nelson_Jennifer Szende.docx

Nelson_Nathan Brett.docx

Nelson_Roger Shiner.docx

Shiner comment on Nelson.docx

Shiner comment on Phillips.docx

Shiner response to Nelson comment.docx

Wein on Macleod – IVR coomentary.docx