[ecrea] cfp - International Association for the Integrational Study of Language & Communication

A Conference sponsored by the International Association for the Integrational Study of Language&  Communication (IAISLC)

Integrationism and Humanism
June 23-26, 2014
Oberägeri, Central Switzerland

    			Philosophically, integrationism is a form of existentialism. More exactly, it is a form of humanism in the Sartrian sense. (Roy Harris, 2013)

In recent years intellectuals and educators have called for a new humanism based on rationality, secularism, and scientific knowledge. The university curricula and schools thus conceived are to enable their students to become responsible citizens as well as independent critical thinkers. This conference intends to explore the (present-day) concept of humanism and its concomitant models of ‚the human‘ from an integrational perspective. It seeks to propose answers to the following questions (among others): Is integrationism a form of humanism? How does it differ from other (current) humanistic accounts? How ‚human-friendly‘ is integrationism? What do integrationists have to say about human creativity, human reason, human authenticity, freedom (of speech), or the idea of science as a guarantor of a more humane society? What kind of ethics does integrationism promote? What role are the Humanities to play in the future, according to integrationists? Paper topics of particular int
erest for this conference are hence the following:
Humanism and anti-humanism
Liberal Arts curricula
Critical thinking
Science and pseudo-science
Science and/vs. religion
The pedagogy of the Language Myth
Human flourishing
The question of “reality”
Human rationality
Demythologising the human mind
Teaching integrationism and integrational linguistics
Integrationism as therapeutic philosophy
Neurosciences and determinism
Human agency
Signs and ownership
Linguistics and the Language Myth

Members and non-members are invited to submit an abstract (not longer than 500 words) by December 2, 2013 to the following email address:(apable /at/ hku.hk). Notification of acceptance by December 16.

Conference organizer: Dr Adrian Pablé (Secretary IAISLC)





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