Shaun Gallagher: keynote at The Future as a Present Concern – Online Sept 2021

Prof. Shaun Gallagher’s keynote paper is titled ‘The Future of Action’. Abstract just released on the FPC2021 Online conference website.

Registration is open for the online international conference between the National University of Ireland Galway, The Irish Philosophical Society, and the British Society for Phenomenology. Six exceptional keynotes and some 70 panel speakers.

Prof. Shaun Gallagher will be a keynote speaker at ‘The Future as a Present Concern’, Online, 1-3 September 2021. Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy at The University of Memphis (USA); and Professorial Fellow, SOLA, University of Wollongong (AU). His keynote paper for this year’s conference is titled ‘The Future of Action’.

Read Shaun Gallagher’s abstract for ‘The Future of Action’.

The Future as a Present Concern (FPC2021) explores the question of the future from phenomenological and other philosophical perspectives. There will be papers on various aspects of this question, whether ontological, ethical, aesthetical, epistemological, and in relation to political theory, gender theory, critical race theory, ecology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, and analytic philosophy.

For more information on the conference, including format and registration, check out the FPC2021 website.