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Call for Papers

Abstract Submissions Invited

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Timeline

June 1st: Launch of the Call for Papers 
June 27th: Registration opens. 
July 15th 31st: Abstract submission deadline 
August 5th: Notification of acceptance. 
September 11 14th: Registration closes.

  • What is ‘philosophising in Mary’? 
  • Does it run the risk of making philosophy subordinate to theological presuppositions? 
  • What could philosophy learn from Mariology? 
  • How is philosophy’s autonomy guaranteed? 
  • Are there specific problems posed by modern philosophy that a Marian turn could resolve?
  • What if Mary, and only Mary, is Descartes’s epistemic subject without presuppositions, pride and prejudice, in virtue of her humility? 
  • What if she experienced Godn as asked for by Hume’s empiricism?

Other topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Concrete philosophical examples and applications of ‘philosophising in Mary’. 
  • Theological approaches to Mary as the figure of created wisdom.
  • Historical approaches to the role of the Sedes Sapientiae.
  • Historical approaches to philosophy as a feminine figure. 
  • Contemporary approaches from feminist philosophy and theology. 
  • Comparisons and tensions between philosophy as the Sedes Sapientiae and the Ancilla Theologiae.