6th April 2013
Glasgow
Speakers:
Inquires to Jennifer Corns.
**SPA sponsored**
Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):
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19th June 2013
Edinburgh
Speakers:
Inquires to Lee Whittington.
**SPA sponsored**
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Other events next week:
Stephen Menn (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will be visiting Scotland later this month, and speaking at:
Prof Menn has written about Plato, Aristotle, PreSocratics, Stoicism, Plotinus, Augustine, Suarez, and Descartes.
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12th February 2013
Edinburgh
Speakers:
Topic: “Implicit and Explicit Mind Reading”
Inquires to Till Vierkant
20th – 21st June 2013
Edinburgh
Speakers:
Inquires to Allan Hazlett
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Deadline: 1st September 2013
Conference: 6th – 7th December 2013
Stirling
We’re pleased to announce a new postgraduate session at the Scots Philosophical Association’s Annual Meeting. The call is open (see below) to third year (and later) PhD students.
Call for papers: We invite submissions of papers to be presented at the Scots Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, to be held 6th – 7th December at the University of Stirling. This call is open (and only open) to students at Scottish universities who are in at least the third year of a philosophy PhD programme. Papers of no more than 3,000 words, on any area of philosophy, should be prepared for blind review and sent to the Secretary (A.Hazlett@ed.ac.uk) by 1st September, 2013. Up to two papers will be selected for presentation at the meeting.
The date for the 2013 Scots Philosophical Association Annual Meeting has been set for 6th and 7th December, 2013. The meeting will be held this year at the University of Stirling.
Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):
5th – 6th June 2013
St Andrews, School II
Speakers:
Inquires to arche@st-andrews.ac.uk
In the first half of 2013 the Eidyn network project Emerging Themes in Meta-Ethics will be hosting a seminar series at Edinburgh, the aim of which is to to promote cutting edge work on evaluative language. The lineup:
Inquires to Mike Ridge
With the 2012 Annual Meeting concluded, we need to agree to a date for the 2013 Annual Meeting, to be held at the University of Stirling. In the past, this has been held on the first weekend in December; if this precedent were followed, the 2013 meeting would be held at Stirling on 6th – 7th December. However, the idea of changing the date of the Annual Meeting was mooted at the recent AGM, e.g. to the first weekend in November. I would like to solicit feedback on this proposal.
Here’s what was mentioned in favour of moving the meeting from December:
One thing that is important: we need to have a meeting date that is firm and settled and the same from year to year. Once we have this in place, I can advertise the date widely and request that other philosophy events at the six departments not be scheduled at the same time as the Annual Meeting. (I made the mistake this year of not having a firm and settled date this year, with the result that several conferences were held at the same time as the Annual Meeting.)
If you’ve feedback on this, can you please pass it on your departmental representative on the SPA committee: Jesper Kallestrup, Sarah Broadie, James Williams, Ben Colburn, Peter Sullivan, or Guido Baccigaluppi. Thank you!
Some snapshots from the 2012 SPA Annual Meeting, held 7th – 8th December at the University of Aberdeen.
King’s Chapel, University of Aberdeen
A former member of the Association, perhaps?
King’s Chapel
The Duncan Rice Library
Inside the library
Margaret Morrison delivers the keynote address, “From Practice to Theory: Rethinking the Nature of Philosophical Questions”
Mark Sprevak
Dinner is served
Guido Bacciagaluppi
Douglas Edwards presents on “The Goals(s) of Inquiry”
Nathaniel Jezzi
Elise Crull presents her paper “Can There Be Metaphysically Robust Interlevel Relations?”
An atom is drawn
Margaret Morrison
The delegates
A reminder that a call for papers is now open for the 3rd Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference:
http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/events/view/graduate-epistemology-conference-1
The conference will take place on 31st May – 1st June, 2013, and the keynote speakers will be Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma) and Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University).
Deadline: 14th January 2013
Conference: 24th – 25th June 2013
Stirling
Description: The theme of the meeting is “Combining Theory and Practice.” Papers are welcome in any substantive area of legal, social, or political philosophy (justice, democracy, rights, liberalism, communitarianism, punishment, etc) and from any philosophical methodological approach, but we particularly welcome those addressing the conference theme. These may be primarily either theoretical or practical in nature, but should seek to connect or combine the theoretical and the practical realms. They might, for instance, demonstrate how theoretical contributions can inform practice or illustrate how practice (and empirical study of practice) has implications for theory. Both individual papers and proposals for panels on related topics are welcome.
Keynote speakers: Bob Goodin (ANU/Essex), Serena Olsaretti (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra)
Call for papers: Please send paper/panel proposals to alsp2013@stir.ac.uk by 14th January 2013. Submissions should consist of a title and 400-500 word abstract (for each paper, in the case of panels). These may be sent in the body of the email or as an attachment (.doc, .docx, .pdf), but please ensure that they are prepared for blind review (i.e. author’s name and affiliation should appear in your email but not with the abstract).
