Call for Papers
Abstract Submissions Invited
Check out the CFP on PhilEvents.
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.