Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Australasia - UPJA

29/07/2024

📻 New podcast episode! 📻

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7cbKScbsKZlnkclY8asvXS?si=ca2fb806e3314048

This episode we spoke to Dr Bryan Mukandi about the importance of non-Western philosophical traditions and fostering philosophical community (read more here: https://upja.online/podcast/ )

This podcast is an extension of our existing interview series, which consists of conversations with academic philosophers who are from or currently working in Australasia or whose work has had a significant impact on philosophy in the region—in a less formal and more accessible way! For each episode, we will invite them to sit down with our editors and share their own ideas, experiences, and advice.

🔔 You can subscribe to us through
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Podcast · [object Object] · Conversations from the Region is a new podcast by the Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Australasia (UPJA) as as an extension of our interview series. In each episode, we'll interview with academic philosophers who are from or currently working in Australasia, or whos...

03/06/2024

ONLY 1 WEEK LEFT TO SUBMIT PAPERS! ⏳

We're looking for contributors to Volume 6! If you'd like to submit an original essay or critical reply to anything UPJA has previously published, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/e8Cq8mjSpDggC23L7

Or to participate in UPJA's peer-review process, apply to be a referee by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/bqoi4kHFXZ3uTzyp6

All applications close on June 10th at 11:59pm AEST (UTC+10).

30/05/2024

Editorial Announcement:

Hi everyone, we are very excited to introduce our new UPJA editorial team for volume 6!

Congratulations to Leon Yin and Billie Angus for their new editor-in-chiefship positions and thank you for your hard work and dedication as members of the UPJA team up to this point.

We would also like to welcome our two new associate editors: Grier Rollinson and Beau Kent.
Grier is an undergraduate student at Te Herenga Waka: Victoria University of Wellington and Beau is a recent philosophy graduate from the University of Melbourne.

For more information about our editors, check out our editorial team page on the UPJA website: https://upja.online/about-2/editorial-team/

Regards,
The UPJA Team

27/05/2024

2 weeks left to submit your papers!

Call for Papers and Referees for Volume 6 now open!
We're looking for contributors to Volume 6! If you'd like to submit an original essay or critical reply to anything UPJA has previously published, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/e8Cq8mjSpDggC23L7

Or to participate in UPJA's peer-review process, apply to be a referee by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/bqoi4kHFXZ3uTzyp6

All applications close on June 10th at 11:59pm AEST (UTC+10).

13/05/2024

🔔 Call for Papers and Referees for Volume 6 now open!

We're looking for contributors to Volume 6! If you'd like to submit an original essay or critical reply to anything UPJA has previously published, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/e8Cq8mjSpDggC23L7

Or to participate in UPJA's peer-review process, apply to be a referee by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/bqoi4kHFXZ3uTzyp6

All applications close on June 10th at 11:59pm AEST (UTC+10).

10/04/2024

🔔 3 DAYS left to apply to be part of the UPJA editorial team! 🔔

Application deadline for new editors for 2024 wiil be closed on the 12th of April! ONLY 3 DAYS TO GO! Apply now by filling out the Google form below!
https://forms.gle/uxpXVkCzTTqxNiRB8

This is a great opportunity to gain experience working on a peer-reviewed journal, putting on conferences, interviewing philosophers, and promoting philosophy for undergraduates especially in Australasia.

Extended dealine closes on Friday the 12th of April at 23:59 AEST (UTC +10).

08/04/2024

🔔 Editor application deadline now only 5 DAYS to go🔔
Application deadline for new editors for 2024 wiil be closed on the 12th of April! ONLY 5 DAYS TO GO! Apply now by filling out the Google form below!
https://forms.gle/uxpXVkCzTTqxNiRB8
This is a great opportunity to gain experience working on a peer-reviewed journal, putting on conferences, interviewing philosophers, and promoting philosophy for undergraduates especially in Australasia.
Extended dealine closes on Friday the 12th of April at 23:59 AEST (UTC +10).

03/04/2024

🔔 Call for editors deadline extended 🔔

Application deadline for new editors for 2024 has been extended till 12th of April! Apply now by filling out the Google form below!

https://forms.gle/uxpXVkCzTTqxNiRB8

This is a great opportunity to gain experience working on a peer-reviewed journal, putting on conferences, interviewing philosophers, and promoting philosophy for undergraduates especially in Australasia.

Extended dealine now closes on Friday the 12th of April at 23:59 AEST (UTC +10).

20/03/2024

🔔 Call for editors 🔔

We've just opened applications for new editors for 2024. Apply by filling out the Google form below!

https://forms.gle/uxpXVkCzTTqxNiRB8

This is a great opportunity to gain experience working on a peer-reviewed journal, putting on conferences, interviewing philosophers, and promoting philosophy for undergraduates especially in Australasia.

Applications close on Tuesday the 9th of April at 23:59 AEST (UTC +10).

18/03/2024

📻UPJA is happy to announce that our new podcast, Conversations from the region, is offically launched today!📻

This podcast is an extension of our existing interview series, which consists of conversations with academic philosophers who are from or currently working in Australasia or whose work has had a significant impact on philosophy in the region—in a less formal and more accessible way! For each episode, we will invite them to sit down with our editors and share their own ideas, experiences, and advice.

Subscribe now to listen to our first episode with Dr Sam Shpall on philosophy of s*x and love! (read more here: https://upja.online/podcast/ )

🔔 You can subscribe us through
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/e9dfab44/podcast/rss
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5NAh4ljoaN9QV5vcVl0CPs
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-from-the-region/id1734587350
Google Podcasts:
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lOWRmYWI0NC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw

‎Society & Culture · 2024

11/03/2024

Volume 5 is OUT now! 🎉

Check it out here: https://upja.online/volumes/volume-5/

Volume 5 is our largest volume thus far, with 9 papers published! Thanks to all the contributors who have made this very volume possible!

Special congratulations to Beau Kent who has been awarded Best Paper, and Jemma Cusumano who has been awarded Best Paper (Member of an Underrepresented Group in Philosophy)!

Papers featured in this volume:

Ned Block’s Homunculi-Headed Robot and Functionalism | Jack Blackman, Victoria University of Wellington

Diotima’s Laughter: Towards a Philosophical Approach Which Centres Ethics | Jemma Cusumano, University of Queensland

Optimism for the Value of Philosophy under Equilibrism | Johnny Kennedy, Cambridge University

“I’m the same – but I’m not”: Transracial Adoptees, Hermeneutic Injustice, and Coalitional Politics | Beau Kent, The University of Melbourne

Literature as a Pre-Philosophy: Exploring Julian Marias’s Notion of Dramatismo and Narrative | Francisco Silayan Pantaleon, University of Asia and the Pacific

AI and the Value of Explanations | Benjamin Robinson, Australian National University

Two-Dimensional Modal Semantics and the Zombie Intuition | Charlotte Senior, The University of Sydney

Epistemic Peerhood and the Epistemology of Disagreement | Chow Zhen Yi, Nanyang Technological University

Robustness Analysis as a Procedure for Determining Difference-Makers | Jan Zebrowski, University of Cambridge

25/10/2023

🔔UPJA's first-ever Hybrid conference will be held at ANU tomorrow! Here's the programme for tomorrow's conference! We are looking forward to seeing you either on Campus or Zoom!

22/10/2023

🔔Volunteering EOI for ASCP!

The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP), one of the region's biggest professional organisations for those interested in philosophy, is holding its annual conference in Sydney this year - and it needs some volunteers! UPJA is delighted to help spread this opportunity for undergraduate philosophers to be involved:

The ASCP conference will be held at the University of Sydney (Camperdown Campus) from the 27th to the 29th of November.

A couple of hundred philosophers from around the world will be attending to present their research, share ideas, make contacts, and generally just have fun. If you're interested in philosophy, it's a great way to get a sense of what the field is like today, learn new things, and meet new people.

We are looking for student volunteers to help us during the event. The kinds of things a volunteer might do include putting together nametags, staffing the reception desk, giving directions, turning computers on & off, and handing out mics during bigger sessions. Note: you will decide which of these you do; we would never ask you to do something that you don't want to do. You would be asked to do one shift (around three hours) at a time that works for you - you can do more if you want, of course. The rest of the time is yours. In return, you get access to the whole conference, including catering, as well as membership in the Society.

If you're interested, please complete this form and we'll be in touch: https://forms.gle/Jhfct8a7f9rmFyhP9

If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected]

Thanks for your interest in volunteering! Please complete this form - we'll get in touch over the next few weeks with more details about times, locations, training, etc. In the meantime, please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions! You can reach us at [email protected]

19/10/2023

Our first-ever hybrid conference is one week away! Be sure to register either through the QR code in the picture or the link here: https://forms.gle/xj6uW9P2XfYXdb847

We are also delighted to announce that Professor Alan Hajek from the Australian National University will be the keynote speaker of our conference, presenting a paper on "Consequentialism, Cluelessness, Clumsiness, and Counterfactuals".

The full programme will be announced earlier next week!

05/10/2023

⏳Only ONE day left to get your Volume 5 submissions in! The deadline for our volume 5 Call for Papers/Referees will be closed at tomorrow 23:59 AEDT!

Please find the links to our Call for Papers & Referees below:
Call for Papers: https://forms.gle/HiQTqQ3LJhbcQp5z5
Call for Referees: https://forms.gle/vrwpyi5yv3zLKseXA

03/10/2023

🔔 Just a reminder that only three days left to go to get your Volume 5 submissions in! Please find the links to our Call for Papers & Referees below:
Call for Papers: https://forms.gle/HiQTqQ3LJhbcQp5z5
Call for Referees: https://forms.gle/vrwpyi5yv3zLKseXA

26/09/2023

UPJA is delighted to announce our first-ever hybrid conference for philosophy, which will be hosted at the Australian National University on the 26th of October. As a hybrid event, those who cannot make the event in person can also attend online. We will be announcing our keynote speaker in the next coming weeks, as well as our full program. You can expect a day full of interesting philosophy presented by your fellow peers.

Submissions for papers are still open, and close on the 6th of October. Please follow this link to submit a paper: https://forms.gle/3b5VRR8grnPmyMxf6

Attendance to the conference is free, and registration is currently open: https://forms.gle/tkVTny8ewitHKsLfA

We look forward to seeing you there!

The UPJA Team.

22/09/2023

Two weeks left to go to get your Volume 5 submissions in! Please find the links to our Call for Papers & Referees below:
Call for Papers: https://forms.gle/HiQTqQ3LJhbcQp5z5

Call for Referees: https://forms.gle/vrwpyi5yv3zLKseXA

19/09/2023

We at UPJA want to express our solidarity with the ACU's humanities department and all its students and workers. Upon hearing the news of the disestablishment of the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, and the general gutting of the humanities, UPJA wants to show its support to all our fellow philosophers and philosophy students who will be impacted. This comes after a long effort by Australian universities to underfund, cut, and deprioritise philosophy departments around the country.

For anyone who wants to show their support for the Dianoia Institute, we encourage you to sign these two petitions:

https://www.change.org/p/save-the-humanities-at-australian-catholic-university

https://act.newmode.net/action/nteu/acu-senate-dont-make-staff-pay-acus-overspending

ACU Senate: Don't make staff pay for ACU's overspending To The Chancellor, The Hon. Martin Daubney AM KC and the members of the Senate of the Australian Catholic University This petition of members of the Australian Catholic University and other interested parties draws to the attention of the Senat...

14/09/2023

Meet our Editorial Team! We have launched our new team, who come from a broad range of philosophical backgrounds. Read more about them here:

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10/09/2023

Call for Papers and Referees!
We're looking for contributors to Volume 5. If you'd like to submit an original essay or critical reply to anything UPJA has previously published, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/HiQTqQ3LJhbcQp5z5
Or to participate in UPJA's peer-review process, apply to be a referee by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/vrwpyi5yv3zLKseXA

All applications close on October 6th at 11:59pm AEST (UTC+10).

31/07/2023

We're extending the deadline to our call for editors until Monday August 7! You can apply through the following Google form up until 11:59pm AEST (UTC+10) that day: https://forms.gle/yr9JyBwv4qvRPSb49

More information on what the role involves is contained in the form. Please get in touch with any questions.

And thanks to everyone who has applied so far!