DERRIDA TODAY
Special Issue on "Deconstruction and Science"
Deadline for submission of 300-word abstract:
30 June 2009
Deadline for submission of paper (no more than 6000 words):
30 November 2009
Co-edited by:
Nicole Anderson
Critical and Cultural Studies Department
Macquarie University, Australia
General Editor, Derrida Today
H. Peter Steeves
Professor of Philosophy
DePaul University, Chicago
All submissions should be prepared for blind review and emailed to
DTJEditors@scmp.mq.edu.au
with the title "Deconstruction and Science" as the subject title of the email.
Special Issue Topic
In this special issue of Derrida Today, the editors wish to address the
question of the meeting of deconstruction and science, the latter broadly
defined. Since the 1960s and '70s, poststructuralist thought has garnered a
reputation for being at odds with science and the Enlightenment worldview
upon which modern science is based. This is understandable if for no other
reason than the fact that the last four decades can historically testify to
this tension. From the Sokal debate to the general sense within the
scientific community that deconstruction is basically just a form of
relativism that attacks science's empirical method and the basic assumption
that reason can have access to the world, there has been little attempt to
find ways in which a positive dialogue can be had. One of the goals of this
special issue is to allow the voices that might contribute to such a
dialogue to come to the fore.
Although any and all approaches to the topic will be considered, including
essays dealing with the ways in which deconstruction calls the general
project of science into question, the editors are especially interested in
investigating what can be positively said rather than what can be
criticized. That is, how might the insights of deconstruction change the
way in which science is practiced? How might individual science practices
(e.g., chemistry, physics, biology) be affected by an encounter with
deconstruction? And, indeed, how is deconstruction altered by its encounter
with science? Essays that are of a theoretical as well as a practical
nature are thus welcome, and authors from any discipline are encouraged to
submit.
Review Process
All articles will be peer reviewed through a blind reviewing process. All
identifying marks should be removed from submissions. Do not include the
author's name anywhere in the article (in running headers and footers, for
example), and author's should try as much as possible to remove this
information from the file Properties as well.
Preparation of Manuscripts
Articles should be approximately 6000 words. Authors should include an
abstract of 300 words, plus 5-7 keywords with their submission.
Notes should be kept to a minimum, and should appear at the end of the text,
before the references section. Details about notes, quotations, and other
formatting issues can be found in the Edinburgh University Press Journals
Style Guide.
Please remember to number the pages of the submission.
Derrida Today uses the author-date system (see EUP Journals Style Guide),
for both in-text referencing and the comprehensive list of references at the
end of the article.
