San Raffaele School of Philosophy 2020 - SRSP

San Raffaele School of Philosophy 2020 - SRSP

Digital Identities, Digital Ways of Living: Philosophical Analyses

Special issue of the journal Phenomenology and Mind and San Raffaele School of Philosophy 2020

Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan

October, 12th 2020

 

New deadline for submissions: July 20th, 2020

 

COVID-19 Update

Accepted papers selected from the present cfp, as well as papers by invited speakers of the San Raffaele School of Philosophy 2020, will be published on a special issue of the journal Phenomenology and Mind (publication date: July 2021).

 

Due to the COVID-19 global situation, the San Raffaele School of Philosophy 2020 will be held in live streaming on October 12th, 2020 and will host the lectures of our invited speakers: Helena De Preester (University College Ghent), Jose Luís Martí (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona), Damiano Palano (Catholic University of Sacred Heart - Milan), Viviana Patti (University of Turin).

Call for papers

The massive use of digital technologies today and the way they are prominently taking part in several of our everyday activities makes a philosophical reflection on this phenomenon particularly needed. Indeed, digital technologies are not just facilitating accomplishing several different tasks – from tracking our physical activities, to finding the right directions while driving, to communicating with others. Such technologies are also shaping and re-defining the way in which we make our activities and conceive our lives, while also affecting the sense of our identities and ourselves.

Let us think, for instance, to the way the constitution and the evolution of our personal, embodied and gender identity can be affected by the usage of social networks and, for instance, by the massive role of pictures on the social media (Facebook, Instagram, twitter etc.) or by profiling mechanisms used by some online platforms. Let us also consider the way language and communication acquire new forms on the web and can even have more relevance than before based on the augmented possibilities of fruition by web-users. Moreover, we should not forget the crucial way in which the usage of digital technologies is transforming the political identities of citizens, the forms of their participation in the public life, and the structures of collective political subjects and institutions (parties, parliaments, states).

 

The special issue “Digital Identities, Digital Ways of Living: Philosophical Analyses” seeks to investigate these and related issues by hosting both invited papers and contributions by PhD students, post-docs, and experienced researchers selected by a double-blind peer review process.

The special issue will be published on the journal Phenomenology and Mind, which is indexed in Scopus and The Philosopher’s Index among others (publication date: July 2021).

 

The special issue will feature three sections, each of whom is dedicated to a specific topic of interest in the philosophical debate about digital technologies and digital identities, with a particular focus on gender identities and their constitution in a digital era.

A (non-exhaustive) list of possible questions to investigate

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