The Metaphysics of Consciousness, the collected papers of an RIP conference held at Edinburgh, has just been published by the CUP.
Conferences: Conditions of Sponsorship
1. Conference funding is for speakers’ expenses, general administration and advertising costs. This would, of course, include accommodation and meals for the speakers where appropriate, but not a general hospitality fund.
2. The topic agreed for the conference may not be changed except by consent of the Director of the Institute. The detailed arrangements of the conference programme are, however, entirely at the discretion of the host department.
3. The host department is expected to produce the proceedings of the conference ready for publication in the year following the conference, both in manuscript form and in a suitable electronic format. An editor of the volume should be appointed as well as a conference organiser – although one person might do both jobs. The royalties from the sale of the volume will accrue to the Institute. However, an honorarium of £500, additional to the subvention paid to the department, will be paid to the editor of the volume.
It should be made clear to speakers at the time they are invited that it is intended that the papers presented at the conference will be suitable for publication as a special supplement to Philosophy. The host department is expected to ensure that papers selected for publication are of the high professional standard, and delivered in the house style, of papers appearing in the Institute’s journal.
4. The conference must be known and advertised as a Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference. The Editor of Philosophy will be pleased to accept a call for papers (if this is envisaged) and an advertisement of the programme for the conference. It is expected that the conference will be widely advertised.
5. It is assumed that the Institute will be the main sponsor of the conference, though it may be appropriate to look for additional financial assistance elsewhere. The Institute must be a consenting party to any co-sponsoring arrangement and reserves its right to withdraw sponsorship.
