Aberdeen


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Paul Tomassi Memorial Lecture

In honour of Dr. Paul Tomassi, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen is organising a ‘Paul Tomassi Memorial Lecture'.

This event will take place on November 22nd 2006 in the Linklater Rooms on the Old Aberdeen Campus (in King's College). The programme for this event looks as follows:


3.30 ­ 4.15 Welcoming Reception
Welcoming Speech by Professor Robert Frost, Head of School, School
of History, Divinity, and Philosophy.

4.15 ­ 5.45 “Paul Tomassi Memorial Lecture”, by Professor Crispin Wright
(Universities of St. Andrews and New York):
The Perils of Dogmatism

All are invited to attend this event. If you intend to come, it would be
helpful if you could let Martijn Blaauw know in advance for catering
purposes. He can be reached at:

Phone: 01224 272798
Snail mail: Martijn Blaauw, Department of Philosophy, University of
Aberdeen, Old Brewery, High Street, AB24 3UB, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

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Moral Contextualism
Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen

international conference

July 4-5 2006

confirmed speakers:


Berit Brogaard
John Greco
John Hawthorne
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Alan Thomas
Ralph Wedgwood



For more information on this event, also on how to register, please visit the conference homepage

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the conference organisers:


Peter Baumann: p.baumann@abdn.ac.uk
Martijn Blaauw: m.blaauw@abdn.ac.uk



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Philosophy, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy
University of Aberdeen · Old Brewery · High Street · Aberdeen · AB24 3UB · Scotland (UK)
Phone: +44 (0)1224 27 2366 Fax: +44 (0)1224 27 3620 email: philosophy@abdn.ac.uk

 

 


Dundee


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Ethics and Demandingness

University of Dundee
July 14-16 2006


The AHRC Scottish Ethics Network's international conference on the problem of demandingness in ethics will take place at the University of Dundee, July 14-16 2006. Plenary speakers confirmed so far include:


Confirmed plenary speakers:

Elizabeth Ashford
(St Andrews)
John Cottingham (Reading)
Garrett Cullity (Adelaide)
Brad Hooker (Reading)
Keith Horton (ANU)
Tim Mulgan (St Andrews) 
David Sobel (Bowliing Green)
Christine Swanton (Auckland)
Alan Thomas (Kent)

Submitted papers from:

Timothy Chappell (The Open University)
Alison Hills (University of Bristol)
Robin Lawlor (University of Leeds)
Jennie Louise (University of Adelaide)
James Mahon (Washington and Lee University)
Michelle Mason (University of Minnesota)
Soran Reader (University of Durham)
Theo van Willigenburg (Free University of Amsterdam)

Graduate papers from:

Susan Hawthorne (University of Minnesota)
Brian McElwee (University of St Andrews)
Attila Tanyi (Central European University)*
Mariette van den Hoven (University of Utrecht)

To register: email t.d.j.chappell@dundee.ac.uk stating any dietary or other special needs you may have.

Registration for the conference is free if you are based in a Philosophy Department in Scotland, or are giving a paper; there is a £30 registration fee for other delegates.


Further information, including a full timetable, a list of suitable guest houses and hotels, and instructions on how to get to Dundee can be downloaded here

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Workshop on Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze
Philosophy Department, Room 3.1 Tower Extension
University of Dundee
Tuesday March 28, 3-6 pm

AHRC European Philosophy and Culture Training Network


All participants welcome, but please contact j.r.williams@dundee.ac.uk
so we can monitor numbers (Network postgraduates can apply for travel
funding)

Speakers:

Jack Reynolds (University of Tasmania) and Jonathan Roffe (University of Melbourne)
'Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze on l'habitude, coping, and learning in
skill acquisition'


This paper will consider the divergent analyses of Merleau-Ponty (along
with Hubert Dreyfus) and Gilles Deleuze on the inter-related themes of
habit, coping, and trauma, paying particular attention to how they are said to manifest themselves in learning and skill acquisition. Given that these philosophers base quite different ethico-political injunctions on their understandings of these phenomena, the aim will also be to shed some light on the following enigmatic comment by the Marquis de Sade (as cited by Deleuze in 'Coldness and Cruelty') - 'the state of a moral man is one of peace and tranquility, while the state of immorality is one of perpetual unrest' - as well as to venture a conclusion as to who is right.

The paper will be followed by a roundtable discussion.

Dr. James Williams, Reader in Philosophy, University of Dundee, Scotland j.r.williams@dundee.ac.uk

 

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Department of Philosophy
University of Dundee ·
Perth Road · DD1 4HN · Scotland (UK)

Phone: +44 (0)1382 34 4538   Fax: +44 (0)1382 34 8274 email: l.d.gallacher@dundee.ac.uk

 


Edinburgh




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MIND2006: A Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

University of Sussex


15th - 16th June 2006


a graduate conference in the Philosophy of Mind and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science organised jointly by the graduate students of the Department of Philosophy at Edinburgh and the Department of Informatics at Sussex


Following the success of MIND2005 the graduate students of the department of Philosophy at Edinburgh and the department of Informatics at Sussex are inviting submissions for MIND2006: A graduate conference on the Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science. MIND2006 will be hosted at the University of Sussex on June 15th/16th 2005.


Keynote Speakers:

Professor David Papineau (Kings College London)
Professor Susan L. Hurley (University of Warwick)


Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts from postgraduate students on any area within Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Cognitive Science. Papers should present a philosophical argument rather than an exposition of an area and should make for a reading time of between 30-40 minutes. Facilities for PowerPoint presentations will be provided. 500-word abstracts should be submitted by 1st April. Please email submissions to Mind2006@sussex.ac.uk in Word or PDF format for blind refereeing.

You will be informed by 1st May whether your abstract has been accepted.

Responses to all graduate papers will be delivered by members of the department of Philosophy at Edinburgh and the department of Informatics at Sussex. Speakers must submit full texts of their papers by 1st June so that responses can be prepared.


Organisers

Conor McHugh (University of Edinburgh)
Ezio Di Nucci (University of Edinburgh)
Mog Stapleton (University of Sussex)

To contact us please email Mind2006@sussex.ac.uk

Registration/attendance is free

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One Day Workshop on the Philosophy of the Enlightenment

Thursday 25th May

Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Hope Park Square, Edinburgh

Speakers:

M.A. Stewart (Aberdeen)

John P. Wright (Edinburgh and Michigan)

Hannah Dawson (Edinburgh)

James Harris (St Andrews)

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One Day Conference on The Demandingness of Morality

The AHRC Scottish Ethics Network  

University of Edinburgh

 

Tuesday, 16th of May, 9:30am- 5pm

Chaplaincy, Room 2, Pleasance Building, University of Edinburgh Campus

 


Programme:  


09:30-10:00 Welcome/Set-up


10:00-11:30 Elinor Mason (University of Edinburgh)

First world apathy: Are we mistaken, irrational, or just plain bad?


11:30-11:40 Break


11:40-13:10 Robert Goodin (Australian National University, RSSS)

Demandingness as a Virtue
download Goodin's paper


13:10-14:00 Short Lunch Break


14:00-15:30 Thomas Pogge (Columbia)

Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation

download Pogge's paper


15:30-17:00 Rowan Cruft (Stirling University)

Rights, Fellowship, and Needs


19:00          Dinner




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11th A.E. Taylor Lecture in Ancient Philosophy

5.15pm, Friday, 5th May, 2006
Conference Room, David Hume Tower

Professor Christopher Gill
Professor of Ancient Thought
Department of Classics, University of Exeter

"Holism in Stoic Psychology and Ethics"

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Truth and Proof: Kurt Gödel and the Foundations of Mathematics
Philosophy Department, University of Edinburgh (UK)
25-26 March 2006

The year 2006 is the centenary of Kurt Gödel's birth.


This two-day conference will discuss some topics related to Kurt Gödel's
work.

PROGRAMME

Saturday 25 March

12.00 - 1.00pm
      Registration

1.00 - 2.30pm
       John Dawson (Pennsylvania State University):
       Taking Truth Seriously

3.00 - 4.30pm
       Hannes Leitgeb (University of Bristol):
       Type-Free Necessity, Truth, and Informal Provability

5.00 - 6.30pm
       Richard Zach (University of Calgary):
       Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem and
       Mathematical Instrumentalism

Sunday 26 March

11.00am - 12.30pm
       Philip Welch (University of Bristol):
       Games for Supervaluation and Dependency Fixed Points

Lunch

2.00 - 3.30pm
       Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State University / St Andrews):
       We Hold These Truths to be Self-evident: But What Do We
       Mean by That? The Rationalism of Frege and Zermelo

4.00 - 5.30pm
       Panu Raatikainen (University of Helsinki)
       Indefinite Extensibility of Mathematics and the Powers
       of the Human Mind

Registration fee: £15 (£5 student / unwaged)
(Postgraduate Travel Bursaries up to £50 are available.)

For further information, contact Jean-Louis Hudry: jl.hudry@ed.ac.uk

The conference is supported by:

Mind Association,
London Mathematical Society,
British Society for the Philosophy of Science,
British Logic Colloquium,
Scots Philosophical Club
The Analysis Trust.


Conference Website

 

 

Department of Philosophy
University of Edinburgh ·
David Hume Tower · George Square · Edinburgh  EH8 9JX · Scotland (UK)

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3661 Fax: +44 (0)131 650 3660 email: philosophy-department@ed.ac.uk

 


Glasgow





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Public Lecture on the demands of morality by Baroness O'Neill

An AHRC Scottish Ethics Network event

University of Glasgow
30 November

Further enquiries to:


Timothy Chappell (The Open University) or Dudley Knowles (University of Glasgow)

This is a free and public event. All welcome.

(SEN members wishing to attend dinner after the event should notify Dudley Knowles in advance d.knowles@philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk)

(SPC members might also be aware that the event precedes the Scots Philosophical Club Winter meeting, which will also be held at the University of Glasgow on the subsequent two days (1st and 2nd Dec))


Previously held event (in 2006)

Art & The Senses

CSPE workshop in Sheffield
Saturday, October 7th 2006

10 am to 5.30 pm

University of Sheffield

Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow)
Synaesthesia and Art: Scope and Limitations

Andrew McGonigal (Leeds)
Art and Discernibility

Catharine Abell
(Manchester)
The Perceptuality of Pictures

Robert Hopkins (Sheffield)
Sculpture and Visual Perspective

Venue:

Club 197, Brook Hill, University of Sheffield (map via website below)

Some student travel bursaries may be available.

Registration:


For information, and to register, please email Rob Hopkins (r.hopkins@shef.ac.uk)

Generously supported by Sheffield Philosophy Department, British Society of Aesthetics and the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (Glasgow).

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Department of Philosophy

University of Glasgow · 67-69 Oakfield Avenue · Glasgow G12 8QQ · Scotland (UK)

Tel: +44 (0)1224 330 5692 Fax: +44 (0)1224 330 4112 email: A.Southall@philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk




St Andrews

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Truth and Truthfulness
Edgecliffe, The Scores, University of St Andrews

Wednesday, 6th December 2006


10.30 Jens Timmermann (St Andrews)
The Murderer at the Door – A Kantian Dilemma?
Respondent: Peter Baumann (Aberdeen)

2.00 David Owens (Sheffield)
The Wrong of Untruthfulness
Respondent: Ralf Bader (St Andrews)

4.15 Tamar Schapiro (Stanford)
Kantian Rigorism and Mitigating Circumstances
Respondent: Carolyn Benson (St Andrews)

Contact:

Jens Timmermann (jt28@st-andrews.ac.uk) for further details.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Scots Philosophical Club.

 

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Third Arché Graduate Conference
University of St Andrews
17-19 November 2006


Arché, the AHRC Research Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind in St Andrews is pleased to announce the third in a
series of graduate conferences aimed at showcasing graduate work in contemporary analytic philosophy.

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Graham Priest (University of Melbourne)
Prof. Jason Stanley (Rutgers University)
Prof. Diana Raffman (University of Toronto)


Call for Papers:


Papers by graduate students are invited on any topic in the philosophy of
logic, language, mathematics and mind, epistemology, metaphysics and related areas.

Deadline for submission: 16th August 2006

For further information please visit the Conference Website

or contact us on archephimail@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

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Previously Held Event (in 2006)

Symposium in Honour of J.S. Mill
Lord Rector of the University, 1865-68
University of St Andrews, Philosophy Departments
September 15th, 2006


Programme

Symposium Sessions (Senate Room, St Mary's College, South St):

- 9.30: John Skorupski (University of St Andrews):
''The Proper Function of an University''

- 11.30: Peter Berkowitz (George Mason University and Hoover Institution):
John Stuart Mill's Idea of the University

Respondents: Dudley Knowles (University of Glasgow), Rowan Cruft
(University of Stirling)

- 2.30: Round Table Discussion (Chair: John Haldane, University of St Andrews)


The JS Mill Bicentenary Lecture (School III, St Salvator's College, North St):

- 5.00: Philip Kitcher (Columbia University):
Mill, Education, and the Good Life


Travel bursaries for PhD students are available, thanks to the support
of the Analysis Trust. The organisers also acknowledge the support of
the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, and of
the University's Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs.

For information, or to apply for travel subsidies, contact Enzo Rossi

The event is free and open to the public. However, those intending to
attend the symposium sessions are kindly encouraged to notify Enzo



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The H.J. Paton Colloquium in Kantian Ethics

University of St Andrews

Wednesday, 5 July

Speakers

Barbara Herman (UCLA)

Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh)

further details (pdf)

Contact

Jens Timmerman: jt28@st-andrews.ac.uk 

 

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The Summer Reflectorium 2006

Seminar Room (104), Edgecliffe, University of St Andrews

Monday, 12 June

* Informal Talks about Research in Progress *

Departments of Logic & Metaphysics
and Moral Philosophy, St Andrews

09.30 Paul McCallion: Has the Caesar Problem Gone Away?
10.45 Berys Gaut: Opaque Pictures
12.00 Dan López de Sa: Rigidity and Over-Generalization

2.30 Amber Carpenter: Pleasure in the 'Philebus'
3.45 Andrew Jorgensen: Holism, Communication and Money
5.00 John Haldane: The Argument (for God) from Desire

All welcome!

Katherine Hawley (kjh5@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Jens Timmermann (jt28@st-andrews.ac.uk)

 

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Arché Modality Conference

University of St Andrews

7-9 June 2006


The Leverhulme Arché research project on the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Modality is staging a conference to mark the end of the project, which has been running at the University of St Andrews since
January 2003.

Speakers:


John Divers (Sheffield)
Kit Fine (NYU)
Dominic Gregory (Sheffield)
Frank Jackson (ANU)
Gideon Rosen (Princeton)
Ian Rumfitt (Birkbeck College)
Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
Stephen Yablo (MIT)

Each paper will be accompanied by a response from an invited commentator. There will also be places for four submitted papers, which will be selected by a panel of referees. The conference will result in a
volume of collected papers.


Registration


All conference sessions and accommodation will be in David Russell Hall, St Andrews.

Registration fee (deadline 15 May): £230.
Late registration fee (after deadline or on-site): £25.

Registration is now open, you can download a registration form at the Conference webpage in the Arché site




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DISTRIBUTING HEALTH CARE

Principles, Practices and Policies

 CENTRE FOR ETHICS, PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Tuesday April 11th, 2006


All sessions will be held in St Mary's College Hall, South Street

Lunch will be served in Department of Moral Philosophy, Edgecliffe, The Scores.

Registration and coffee 9 – 9.30am

 

Introduction (9.30-10.00am)


Philosophical issues in the allocation of health care

Speaker: Dr Niall Maclean, Research Fellow,

Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, St Andrews

 

Session I (10.00-11.30am).

The current system of health allocation in the UK

Speaker: Prof. Howard Glennerster, London School of Economics

 

Discussion (10.45-11.30am)

 

Lunch (11.30-12.45pm).

 

Session II (12.45-2.15pm)

Reforming the UK ' s health allocation system

Speaker: Prof. John Appleby, Kings Fund, London

 

Discussion 1.30-2.15pm


Coffee (2.15-2.30pm)

 

General discussion (2.30-3.30)

 

THE EVENT IS WITHOUT CHARGE AND ALL ARE WELCOME. However, if you are interested in attending please contact Dr Niall Maclean at ndm10@st-and.ac.uk.


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The Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy (NAAP), 2006

University of  St Andrews

Thursday 30th and Friday 31st of March


Speakers:


Amber Carpenter (St Andrews)
‘Putting the Philebus’ Indispensable Method to Use’

Thu, 16.30 - 17.45

 
Ursula Coope (Birkbeck)
‘Aristotle on Self-Movement’

Thu, 18.00 - 19.15

 
Jamie Dow (St Andrews)
‘Emotion-arousal in Aristotle’s Rhetoric: a Contradiction?’
Fri, 09.00 - 10.15
 
David Sedley (Cambridge)
‘The Teleology of Anaxagoras’
Fri, 10.45 - 12.00
 
Stephen Makin (Sheffield)
‘Aristotelian Habits: How Can We Acquire Abilities By Practice?’
Fri, 12.15 - 13.30
 


All sessions will be held in Edgecliffe on The Scores (the St Andrews main Philosophy building).

Tea and coffee will be available in Edgecliffe from 3.30 pm on Thursday, 30 March. There will be a dinner Thursday evening at North Point in North Street. Buffet lunch will be available in Edgecliffe at 1.30 pm on Friday.

We can still sign people on as non-residential participants. The full non-residential rate is £32.50 (dinner £21.50; lunch £6.00; conference fee £5.00). There are some half-rate places available for post-graduate students.

Please direct all inquiries to the organizer, Sarah Broadie:

sjb15@st-andrews.ac.uk

The NAAP gratefully acknowledges support for this meeting from:

The Classical Association, The Hellenic Society, The Mind Association, The Scots Philosophical Club, and The University of St Andrews School of Philosophical and Anthropological Studies


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The Winter Reflectorium 2006

Seminar Room (104), Edgecliffe, University of St Andrews

Tuesday, 10th January


Informal talks about research in progress.


09.30 Niall Maclean: Equality of Opportunity and Health Care
10.45 Patrick Greenough: The Open Future
12.00 Lisa Jones: Revisiting Imaginative Resistance


14 .30 Joseph Diekemper: Thisness and Events
15 .45 Katherine Hawley: Parthood
17 .00 Amber Carpenter: Pleasure in the 'Philebus'


Everyone welcome!


Katherine Hawley: kjh5@st-and.ac.uk
Jens Timmermann: jt28@st-and.ac.uk

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Philosophy Departments

Edgecliffe, The Scores · University of St Andrews · St Andrews KY16 9AL · Scotland (UK)
tel: +44 (0)1334 46 2486 fax: +44 (0)1334 46 2485 email: philosophy@st-and.ac.uk




Stirling


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Epistemic Value
Conference and Pre-Conference Workshop
Stirling Management Centre
University of Stirling

August 18th-20th



Speakers:

Jason Baehr
(Loyola Marymount)

Berit Brogaard (Missouri)
Pascal Engel
(Geneva)
Stephen Grimm
(Notre Dame/Montana)
Ward Jones
(Rhodes, South Africa)
Mark Kaplan (Indiana)
Martin Kusch (Cambridge)
Jonathan Kvanvig
(Missouri)
Alan Millar (Stirling)

Christian Piller (York)
Wayne Riggs (Oklahoma)
W. Jay Wood (Wheaton)
Matt Weiner (Texas)


Inquires about registration should be made to Alison Scott (alison.scott@stir.ac.uk). All other inquiries should be directed to Professor Duncan Pritchard (d.h.pritchard@stir.ac.uk).


Further details and registration




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