Monday, March 10, 2025

Call for Papers, Proposals, and Participation

 Call for Papers, Proposals, and Participation:

The 2025 Josiah Royce Society Virtual Conference
Fri Oct 11, Sat Oct 12, Fri Oct 18, Sat Oct 19, 2025

The Josiah Royce Society announces its plan to hold a virtual conference in October 2025.

With the aim of increasing participation among scholars worldwide, the tentative plan is for the conference to take place in three-to-four-hour blocks across two Fridays and Saturdays in October 2025 (Fri Oct 11, Sat Oct 12, Fri Oct 18, and Sat Oct 19). We welcome traditional paper presentations, presentations of work-in-progress, and participants in possible sessions such as:

 Traditional papers or works-in-progress: Present your research and works-in-progress to our community of supportive Royce scholars.

 Honoring John Clendenning, Jackie Kegley, and Mary B. Mahowald—great Royce scholars whose contributions the JRS would like to recognize. Papers/presentations on their work are welcome, however, participation is not limited to this format. For example, participants could share personal reflections of ways in which these scholars have been influential to them.

 Royceana Show-and-Tell: Share your unique or rare Royce items and tell us the story behind it and how it came into your possession.

 Breakout Sessions: Work in groups to decipher perplexing passages in Royce’s work, apply Royce’s theories to contemporary issues, or some other creative activity that takes advantage of the virtual environment.

The Society may award one or both of the Harry Todd Costello Prize and John J. McDermott Prize at this conference:

The Harry Todd Costello Prize

To be awarded approximately annually to a graduate student or recent PhD presentation at a conference or other event sponsored by the Society. Prize Amount: $300

The John J. McDermott Prize

To be awarded approximately every 2 years to an undergraduate, graduate student, or recent PhD no more than 5 years out of graduate school for a substantive paper on Royce's philosophy of loyalty and community. Prize Amount: $300

Papers (up to 3,000 words) and proposals (abstracts, up to 300 words) should be prepared for anonymous review with identifying information appearing only on a cover page. If applicable, please also describe on the cover page your eligibility for the Costello and/or McDermott Prizes. To submit a paper or proposal, or to express your interest in participating in this conference in any other way, please notify Mat Foust, President of the Josiah Royce Society: foustma@appstate.edu. To facilitate planning, we ask for all such communications by June 1, 2025.

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Absolute pragmatism. The Harrison Lectures of 1911

 


Il pragmatismo assoluto. 

Le Harrison Lectures del 1911


Josiah Royce

Edited by Rocco Monti


Thursday, February 29, 2024

Philosophy of Loyalty Now Available in Bulgarian!



Congratulations to Aleksandar Feodorov, JRS grant recipient, for publishing a translation of The Philosophy of Loyalty in Bulgarian

https://iztok-zapad.eu/en/filosofia-na-predanostta

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

CFP: JRS at 2023 Eastern APA

 The 2023 APA Eastern Division Meeting will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, January 4-7. If you are interested in attending and presenting, please submit a short proposal (title and up to 250 word abstract) to daniel.brunson@morgan.edu by June 13th.

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

CFP: JRS at 2023 APA Central

The 2023 APA Central Division Meeting will be held in Denver, CO, February 22-25. If you are interested in attending and presenting, please submit a short proposal (title and up to 250 word abstract) to daniel.brunson@morgan.edu by August 1st.


Thursday, December 16, 2021

The Problem of Job: Josiah Royce’s Theology and Theistic Finitism

The Problem of Job: Josiah Royce’s Theology and Theistic Finitism


https://www.katholische-akademie-berlin.de/veranstaltung/the-problem-of-job-josiah-royces-theology-and-theistic-finitism-2021-12/

Sunday, December 5, 2021

The First Phase of the Royce Edition Website Completed

The First Phase of the Royce Edition Website Completed  

The Royce Edition website (royce-edition.iupui.edu) now includes all available published writings of Josiah Royce. In this work, the Ignas Skrupskelis bibliography was the guide.  Bibliographical entries fill fifty-five pages, with 282 separate entries. Some items are brief notes, and some items are two volume books. Seven short essays in The Berkeleyan, a University of California student publication, from 1874 and 1875 cannot be found. These essays were likely lost in the fire that took place at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980. Seven articles on the history of the state of California are ignored, because, while Royce is listed as a contributor to the articles, his contributions cannot be identified or separated out.  Several articles are ignored, because, while Royce’s name is included in the contributors, whether he contributed anything is not clear. Published notes of “thank you” and “congratulations” are ignored.  Six articles are added from other bibliographic resources. Several posthumous collections and publications are included.  

While I am adept at finding material online, I could not complete this project without the assistance of experts and supportive library staffs. Teodora Durbin, interlibrary loan specialist, at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, was extremely helpful in locating obscure items. This work could not be completed without her expertise and extra efforts. The library staffs at Brown University, The Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University graciously went beyond their normal duties to obtain copies of Royce articles in publications which are located in deep storage or off-site. These libraries held the only known copies of the publications. The extra efforts are greatly appreciated.  

The next phase of the project is to post reviews of Royce’s books and specific responses to Royce’s writings by his contemporaries. John Shook kindly provided links to reviews and articles. This phase of the project has begun. The website has a transcription of Royce’s handwritten Ph.D. dissertation and transcriptions of fourteen sets of unpublished lectures. The transcription work will continue under the supervision of Scott Pratt, University of Oregon, Director of the Josiah Royce Edition.

The Royce Foundation generously provided a grant of $500.00 for the purchase from Rutgers University Press of a license to post Josiah Royce's Seminar, 1913-1914: As Recorded in the Notebooks of Harry T. Costello. Edited by Grover Smith. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1963, xxiii, 209 pp.  on the Edition website as an open access volume, which means that individuals may download and read the volume, use it in research, and quote from it in scholarly publications, but not redistribute the volume or use it in any manner for profit. This book is significant in that the notes made by Harry Costello provide a unique insight into the teaching of Josiah Royce. This book will be posted on the Edition website within the category “Transcribed Manuscripts,” because the book is not a publication by Royce himself, but a transcription of what Royce presented verbally.  

Of course, website errors and omissions are likely.  Your assistance in making corrections is welcomed. Please email me.  May you find the website useful in your exploration of the work of Josiah Royce.  

David Pfeifer 

Website Administrator 

depfeife@iu.edu 

Friday, December 3, 2021

JRS at 2022 Eastern EPA

Thursday, January 6th, 09:00-10:50 AM
BALTIMORE MARRIOTT WATERFRONT

G5E. Josiah Royce Society 

Chair: Daniel Brunson (Morgan State University) 

Speakers: 

Daniel Brunson (Morgan State University) “Arguments from the Possibilities of Errors” 

Carl Sachs (Marymount University) “The Importance of Being Wrong: Davidson’s Roycean Roots”

 Kara Barnette (Westminster College of Salt Lake City) “It’s Not Me, It’s You: Royce’s Conception of Error and Cognitive Behavior Therapy”

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Josiah Royce's 1909 Pittsburgh Loyalty Lectures

Josiah Royce's 1909 Pittsburgh Loyalty Lectures

Edited and Introduced by Mathew A. Foust

https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-7416-8