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We are currently accepting submissions for the next volume (5) of Dialectic on Mind and Matter.

Understanding the relation between the mental and the material is one of the most challenging problems of philosophy. Descartes built his philosophy around this problem and, insofar as subsequent philosophers have tended to locate themselves in relation to Cartesianism, the issue of the relation between mind and matter lies at the heart of modern philosophy.

The distinction between mind and matter is bound to various similar distinctions: mind and world, subject and object, thought and being. The next volume of Dialectic provides a forum for the exploration of philosophical issues concerning to any of these related distinctions.

Possible essay topics include (but are not exhausted by):

• The possibilities for a scientific theory of consciousness.
• The coherence of the concept of ‘matter’ and of ‘materialism’.
• The status of the cogito.
• The viability of functionalism.
• Self and world in Kant.
• The dependence of the world on the mind, or vice versa.
• The anomalism of the mental in Davidson.
• The possibilities for idealism in contemporary philosophy.
• The relation between philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
• The congruence (or incongruity) of ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ approaches to the theorising of the mind.
• The status of psychoanalysis as a philosophical theory of mind.
• The possibilities for the dissolution of the mind/matter distinction.
• The nature of subjectivity in the phenomenological tradition.
• Theories of embodied cognition.
• The future of folk psychology.

The deadline for submissions is Friday 8^th May (end of 2^nd week of summer term).

Submissions should be sent to dialecticsubmissions@googlemail.com and be no more than 1000 words. Please refer to ‘Submission guidelines’ for more details.