PRAGMATISM TODAY – CfP
CALL FOR PAPERS
Summer Issue 2025
Special Issue:Thinking the Global with Feminist Pragmatism
In her path-breaking work, Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric (1996), Charlene Haddock Seigfried provides concrete directions for articulating a distinctively feminist pragmatism. Generations of scholars have now been engaged in reviving the work of women philosophers to reimagine the pragmatist canon, expanding the imagination of pragmatism through a feminist lens, bringing the perspective of pragmatism to bear on feminist issues, and developing feminist pragmatism in dialogue with other critical traditions.
This issue focuses on exploring both the possibilities and challenges of thinking the global with feminist pragmatism. The project would entail imagining the feminist pragmatist canon beyond the narrow boundaries of American philosophy and with a more global orientation. We also wish to explore ways in which feminist pragmatist commitments to pluralism, fallibilism, ideals of community and social transformation, among others, can contribute to issues of global significance. In fact, conceptual resources within feminist pragmatism might provide concrete directions for evolving an anti-imperialist and pluralist understanding of the global itself. We are also interested in questions such as: What do feminist pragmatists think about the global? What sort of lineages and points of connection can be established with philosophical traditions from diverse locations that can contribute to a more global vision for feminist pragmatism? What are the possibilities and challenges of cross-cultural philosophical exchanges for the feminist pragmatist canon? These questions are not exhaustive, but hope to provide a vision for this issue.
Potential themes to be explored include, but are not limited to:
- Feminist pragmatism as global philosophy
- Feminist pragmatism on global issues
- Feminist pragmatism as anti-imperialism
- Feminist pragmatism and cross-cultural philosophy
- Expanding the feminist pragmatist canon from a global perspective
- Alternative genealogies into feminist pragmatism
- Feminist pragmatism in dialogue with other critical traditions
We invite papers that are between 15-20 pages (6000-9000 words).
The deadline for paper submission is February 15, 2025. The guidelines for authors can be found on the journal webpage.
Papers for this issue should be sent to Amrita Banerjee and Kristina Bosáková at abanerjee.phi@iitb.ac.in and kristina.bosakova@upjs.sk