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CFP: Aristotle Reading Party

Deadline: 21st January 2013

Event: 29th April – 1st May 2013

St Andrews

Description: The Aristotle Reading Party is both a graduate conference and a reading event. In our six reading sessions, each introduced by a distinguished scholar, we will discuss the dichotomy of energeia (actuality) and dunamis (potentiality) informed by a close reading of Metaphysics Theta 1-10. We will finish with a final session on Physics Gamma 1-3, in which change is defined in terms of energeia and dunamis.  The event will take place from 29 April to 1 May 2013 at the Burn House in Angus (http://www.goodenough.ac.uk/the_burn0.html). Transport from St Andrews will be organised. Thanks to generous support by the Aristotelian Society, GRADskills Innovation grant (University of St Andrews), Mind Association and Scots Philosophical Association the costs for accommodation at the Burn House (full board for two nights) will be fully covered for successful applicants.

Participants: Andreas Anagnostopoulos (Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München), Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews), Ursula Coope (University of Oxford), Klaus Corcilius (University of California, Berkeley), Marko Malink (University of Chicago)

Call for papers: We invite graduate students to submit papers on any topic related to Aristotle’s distinction between energeia and dunamis. Submissions can be either directly on Metaphysics Theta or on any related topic such as change, soul, happiness or mathematical objects. Extended abstracts should not exceed 1,000 words (or 35 minutes presentation time) and should be prepared for blind review. The abstract must have no identifying information. Abstracts should be submitted as a PDF file via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arp2013 Deadline is 21st January 2013.  A call for participation for the remaining places will be made in February 2013.

Conference website

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Visiting speakers, 3th – 7th December

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • John Bishop (Auckland), “Concepts of God and Problems of Evil,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 4th December.
  • JC Beall (UConn), “Shrieking towards recapture”, at Arché, St Andrews on Tuesday, 4th December.
  • David Bain (Glasgow), “An Evaluativist Account of Pain,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 5th December.
  • Graham Priest (NYU/St Andrews), “Plurivalent Logic”, at Arché, St Andrews on Thursday, 6th December.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 26th – 30th November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Darryl Gunson (University of the West of Scotland), “Moral Enchantment,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 27th November.
  • Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Texas), “From Thought to Action,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 28th November.
  • Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge), “Respecting All the Evidence,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 28th November.
  • Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Texas), “On Knowing One’s Reasons,” at Stirling on Thursday, 29th November.
  • Chris Heathwood (University of Colorado), “Irreducibly Normative Properties,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 30th November.

Other events next week:

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Myles Burnyeat seminar

1st December 2012

St Andrews

Myles Burnyeat

“Plato, Republic I: A Bigger, Bolder Version.”

This seminar will run from 10.30 to 12.30, in Edgecliffe 104, with coffee beforehand from 10.00.  Participants should bring a copy – text or translation – of the Republic for ease of reference in the seminar.  Everyone who attends is welcome to stay for lunch, which will be provided in Edgecliffe.  Everyone is welcome, and there is no registration: but if you are coming, please inform Sarah Broadie, sjb15@st-andrews.ac.uk, no later than 26 November.

Further information

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Visiting speakers, 19th – 23rd November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Jessica Leech (Sheffield): “Essence and Mere Necessity,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 20th November, at St Andrews on Wednesday, 21st November, at  Stirling on Thursday, 22nd November, and at Edinburgh on Friday, 23rd November.
  • Ulrich Stegmann (Aberdeen), “Natural information and receiver content,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 21st November.

Other events next week:

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SPA Annual Meeting registration

The SPA Annual Meeting is less than four weeks away (December 7th – 8th), and registration is now open.  You can register online via Aberdeen’s website:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/research-innovation/events/1660/

Registration by post, fax, and email are also available.

Note that registration for students is free.  So please pass this information on to any of your students who might be interested.

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Relativism and Rational Tolerance II

17th – 18th December 2012

Aberdeen

Speakers:

  • Mike Ridge (Edinburgh), ‘Expressivism, Relativism, and Disagreement’
  • Paula Sweeny (Northern Institute of Philosophy), ‘Realism and retraction’
  • Robert Stern (Sheffield), ‘Autonomy and Scepticism as Challenges to Moral Realism’
  • Carl Baker (Northern Institute of Philosophy), ‘Aesthetic Realism and the Epistemology of Disagreement’
  • Alex Plakias (Northern Institute of Philosophy), ‘Moral Relativism, Realism, and Pluralism: Disputed Metaethical Terrain’
  • Jimmy Lenman (Sheffield)

Inquires to  Sharon Coull

Conference website

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Visiting speakers, 12th – 16th November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Luke Russell (Sydney), “Is Forgiveness Elective?,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 13th November.
  • Jac Saorsa (Cardiff School of Art & Design), “Artology: Interventions and Intersections between Philosophy, Art Practice and Biomedical Science,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 14th November.
  • Ephraim Glick (St Andrews), “Practical Modes of Presentation,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 14th November.
  • Stewart Cohen (Arizona), “Self-undermining inference rules and the problem of disagreeing about how to disagree,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Thursday, 15th November (4pm, Dugald Stewart 3.10).
  • Guy Fletcher (Edinburgh), “Expressivism or Cognitivist Sentimentalism?,” at Stirling on Thursday, 15th November.
  • Susan James (Birkbeck), “Spinoza on Learning how to Live,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 16th November.

Other events next week:

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SPA Annual Meeting: early registration closes today

A reminder that early registration (£15; free for students) closes today for the Scots Philosophical Association’s annual meeting, being held this year in Aberdeen, 7th – 8th December.  For registration information:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/research-innovation/events/1660/

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Visiting speakers, 5th – 9th November

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Michael Sollberger (Lausanne/Oxford), “Causation in Perception: A Challenge to Naïve Realism,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 6th November.
  • Jennifer Corns (Glasgow), “Are painful emotional episodes pains?,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 7th November.
  • Ben Sachs (St Andrews), “Distribution doesn’t Matter Morally,” at Stirling on Thursday, 8th November.
  • Suilin Lavellle (Edinburgh) at Edinburgh on Friday, 9th November.

Other events next week:

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Visiting Speakers, 29th October – 2nd November

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Mark Sprevak (Edinburgh), “Is the extended mind hypothesis nonsensical?, at Glasgow on Tuesday, 30th October.
  • John Protevi (Louisiana State University), “Human Nature,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 31st October.
  • Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), “The Space of Sensory Modalities,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 31st October.
  • Ben Jarvis (Queen’s University, Belfast), “The Objective Nature of Propositional Justification,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 31st October.
  • Stephen Penn (Stirling), “Terminism and Truth: John Wyclif on Late Medieval Logic,” at Stirling on Thursday, 1st November.
  • Timothy Rosenkoetter (Dartmouth College), “Kant on the Semantics of Moral Terms,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 2nd November.

Other events next week:

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New Hume Fellowship at IASH (Edinburgh)

The SPA is sponsoring a new Hume Fellowship at Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities.  This will be an annual six-month fellowship, starting in 2013-14, and applications are invited from anyone working in Hume studies.  For more information:

http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/davidhume.fellowship.html

This Fellowship will be a tremendous opportunity to bring leading philosophers (and others) to Scotland.  Please do forward this information to any international scholars that might be suitable candidates for the Fellowship.  The deadline for applications is 28th February, 2013.

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SPA Annual Meeting: registration now open

Registration for the SPA’s annual meeting, taking place Friday 7th – Saturday 8th December at the University of Aberdeen, is now open:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/research-innovation/events/1660/

The deadline for discounted registration (£15; free for students) is 2nd November.  The conference website also has information about accommodation in Aberdeen.

I’d like to remind you that the SPA increased it’s grant to your department last year, to £4,000 (from £2,000), with the intention that departments make some of these funds available to faculty in the form of travel grants for the SPA annual meeting.

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CFP: 3rd Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference

Deadline: 1st March 2013

Conference: 31st May – 1st June 2013

Edinburgh

Description: We invite submissions of high quality papers from graduate students to the 3rd Annual Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference, which will take place from the 31st May – 1st June 2013.  A distinguishing feature of this graduate conference is that all graduate presentations will have respondents from expert epistemology faculty members at Edinburgh and other neighbouring universities.

Keynote speakers: Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma) and Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University).

Call for papers: Essays within any area of epistemology (broadly construed) are welcome. Essays should be approximately 4000 words. The submission deadline for the conference is 1st March 2013.

Please send the following to uofe.epistemology@gmail.com in .doc, .rtf, or .pdf format:

  1. A cover letter containing:
    1. the author’s name and institutional affiliation
    2. the author’s contact information
    3. word count
    4. the area(s) of epistemology the paper deals with
  2. The paper itself, including the title and a short abstract (no more than 200 words), with no other identifying information.

We strongly encourage submissions from under-represented groups in philosophy.

Conference website

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Visiting Speakers, 15th – 19th October

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Alexander Logvinenko (Glasgow Caledonian University), “What colours do the colour blind really see?,” at Glasgow’s Mind & Psychology Research Seminar on Monday 15th October.
  • Chris Tucker (Auckland). “If Dogmatists Have Cognitive Penetration Problems, then You Do Too,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 16th October
  • Ian James (Cambridge), “Immanence and Technicity,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 17th October.
  • Chris Tucker (Auckland). “If Dogmatists Have Cognitive Penetration Problems, then You Do Too,”at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 17th October.
  • Alexandra Plakias (NIP, Aberdeen), “How Moral Disagreement is a Problem for Realism,” at Stirling on Thursday, 18th October.
  • Jessie Prinz (CUNY), “Psycho-ontology,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group on Thursday, 18th October. 
  • Joel Smith (Manchester), “What is Empathy For?,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 19th October.

 

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Visiting Speakers, 8th – 12th October

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Jenann Ismael (University of Arizona), “What Entanglement Might be Telling Us,” at Aberdeen on Monday, 10th October
  • Aaron Cotnoir (Aberdeen, NIP), “Parts as Counterparts,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 9th October.
  • Jan Westerhoff (Durham), “Actual Ontological Nihilism,” at Stirling on Thursday, 11th October.
  • Tim Bayne (Oxford), “Multisensory Objects,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 12th October.

Other events next week: