The North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP) is seeking proposals for a panel on: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Democracy in the Disinformation Age for its group session at the Eastern Division APA to be held from Jan. 5th-8th, 2022, in Baltimore, MD. (The specific date and time of the session will be announced later in the fall.)
We welcome submissions from both members and non-members, but we require that all presenters join the North American Society for Social Philosophy if their papers are accepted and if they present at the conference.
Individual abstracts of 300-400 words should be sent to the panel organizers, Jennifer Bulcock jenn.bulcock@gmail.com and Erik Anderson erik.anderson@furman.edu, by Sept. 15th, 2021. (Please email us with any questions.)
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Propaganda, disinformation, misinformation
Public argumentation
Rhetoric and reason in the public sphere
Social media & democracy
Political polarization
Reasonable and unreasonable disagreement
Free speech on campus
Politics in the college classroom
Contemporary controversies over academic freedom
“Cancel culture”
Building inclusive campuses
Hate speech
Libel laws
Populism/Trumpism
COVID skepticism
Climate denialism
Crises of epistemic authority
Procedural justice
Civil disobedience
Voting rights and the preservation of democracy
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