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Two Eidyn Postdocs (Edinburgh)

From Duncan Pritchard (Edinburgh):

Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity
Department of Philosophy
University of Edinburgh
Postdoctoral Positions
Extended Knowledge
As part of a major AHRC-funded research project on the topic of ‘Extended Knowledge’, there are
two three-year postdoctoral positions available at the Eidyn Research Centre, both starting January
1st 2013. Further details about these positions, including how to apply, can be found here:
For more details about the ‘Extended Knowledge’‚ research project, go to:
Informal inquiries about these posts, and this research project, should be directed to Prof. Duncan
Pritchard (duncan.pritchard@ed.ac.uk). Please note that the deadline for applications is *12th October*.
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Modal Logic in the Middle Ages

22nd – 23rd November 2012

St Andrews

Speakers:

  • Wilfrid Hodges (formerly, Queen Mary London), “Permanent and necessary in Ibn Sina”
  • Saloua Chatti (Tunis), “Existential import in Avicenna’s modal logic”
  • Tony Street (Cambridge), “On Translating Katibi’s Epistle for Shams al-Din on the Rules of Logic”
  • Paul Thom (Sydney), “The early reception of Robert Kilwardby’s modal syllogistic”
  • Sara Uckelman (Tilburg), “Epistemic and Higher-Order Modalities in Obligationes“
  • Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen), “Ockham and Buridan on the semantics of divided modal propositions”
  • Spencer Johnston (St Andrews), “John Buridan’s Divided Modal Syllogistic”
  • Stephen Read (St Andrews), “Contingency syllogisms in Buridan’s Treatise on Consequences“
  • Riccardo Strobino (Bochum and Cambridge), “Having one without the other: inseparability and logical consequence”

Inquires to Lynn Hynd

Conference website

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Visiting Speakers, 1st – 5th October

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Mark Jago (Nottingham), “Objects and Essence,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 2nd October.
  • Mike Wheeler (Stirling), “Thinking Without the Box: Extended Cognition or Existentialist Externalism?,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 3rd October.
  • Philip Ebert (Stirling), “Knowledge, Closure, and Risk,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 3rd October.
  • Mark Jago (Nottingham), “Objects and Essence,” at Stirling on Thursday, 4th October.
  • Jennifer Saul (Sheffield), “Lying, Misleading, and What is Said,” at Edinburgh’s Linguistics Circle on Thursday, 4th October.
  • Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), “The Space of Sensory Modalities,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 5th October.
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Visiting Speakers, 24th – 28th September

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Alexandra Plakias (Aberdeen), “How Moral Disagreement is a Problem for Realism,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 24th September.
  • Murray Shanahan (Imperial College London), “Connectivity and Consciousness,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group, Wednesday, 26th September.
  • Walter Pedriali (Stirling), “Understanding Inference,” at Stirling on Thursday, 27th September.
  • Nick Denyer (Cambridge), “The Political Craft of Protagoras,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 28th September.

 

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CFP: The Gettier Problem at 50

Deadline: 10th January 2013

Conference: 20th – 21st June 2013

Edinburgh

Description: Since the publication of Edmund Gettier’s paper “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?,” in June of 1963, a central epistemological issue has been the problem – known as the “Gettier problem” – of supplementing or replacing the traditional tripartite theory of knowledge, by developing a theory of the nature of knowledge not subject to counterexamples of  the sort described in that paper.  In addition to a vast literature explicitly devoted to this task, the Gettier problem has impacted numerous other areas: the internalism/externalism debate about epistemic justification, the question of the value of knowledge, and work on epistemic intuitions and philosophical methodology (among other areas).  This conference, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Gettier’s landmark paper, will bring together leading researchers to reflect on the Gettier problem and its legacy.

Questions to be examined include:

  • Is the Gettier problem in some sense “unsolvable”?  What does this mean for epistemology?  For philosophical methodology more generally?
  • What, if anything, can experimental philosophy tell us about the Gettier problem?
  • In what way, if any, do different people’s intuitions about “Gettier cases” differ?  What explains the difference?
  • What, if anything, do “Gettier cases” have in common?  What, if anything, is their common structure?
  • Does the Gettier problem suggest that the concept of knowledge can’t be analyized?
  • Does the problem suggest that knowledge isn’t more valuable than that which falls short of knowledge (e.g. justified, true belief)?
  • Can other epistemic statuses (understanding, wisdom) be “Gettierized”?

Authors of papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit their papers for consideration for publication in a special issue of Philosophical Studies on “The Gettier Problem at 50: Methodological and Metaphilosophical Issues.”

Keynote speakers: Mark Kaplan (Indiana University), Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto), Erik Olsson (Lund Universitat), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh), Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University), Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford).

Call for papers: Submissions, in the form of an abstract (of no more than 1,000 words), of a paper to be presented in 45-60 minutes, should be sent to allanhazlett@gmail.com no later than 10th January, 2013.

Conference website

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Three postdocs at Edinburgh

Three positions have just been advertised: two 3-year Postdoctoral Research Assistantships for the “Extended Knowledge” project, and one 3-year Postdoctoral Research Assistantship for the “Kant and the Laws of Nature” project.

Extended Knowledge
As part of an AHRC-funded major research project on the topic of ‘Extended Knowledge’, there are two three-year postdoctoral positions available at the Eidyn Research Centre (http://www.eidyn.org/), both starting January 1st 2013. Further details about these positions, including how to apply, can be found here:

http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3016303

For more details about the ‘Extended Knowledge’ research project, go to:

http://eidyn.ppls.ed.ac.uk/extended-knowledge-2013-2015-0

Informal inquiries about these posts, and this research project, should be directed to Prof. Duncan Pritchard (duncan.pritchard@ed.ac.uk).

Kant and the Laws of Nature

As part of a three-year Leverhulme-funded international network project on the topic of ‘Kant and the Laws of Nature’, there is a three-year postdoctoral position as a network facilitator available at the Eidyn Research Centre (http://www.eidyn.org/), starting November 1st 2012. Further details about this position, including how to apply, can be found here:

http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3016228

For more details about the ‘Kant and the Laws of Nature’ project, go to:

http://eidyn.ppls.ed.ac.uk/kant-and-laws-nature-2012-14

Informal inquiries about this post, and this research project, should be directed to Dr. Michela Massimi (michela.massimi@ed.ac.uk).

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Visiting Speakers, 17th – 21st September

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Jonathan Cohen (UC San Diego), “Ecumenicism, Comparability, and Color, Or: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 18th September.
  • Ben Saunders (Stirling), “Fairness, Outcomes, and the Basic Structure,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 19th September.
  • Joe Kuntz (Edinburgh), “Communitarian Agreement,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 19th September.
  • Chris Donald (Melbourne), at Stirling on Thursday, 20th September.
  • Campbell Brown (Edinburgh), at Edinburgh on Friday, 21st September.

Other events next week:

  • Workshop on Billboards, Indexicals, Context and Interpreters, St Andrews, 16th – 17th September.  Speakers: Andy Egan (Rutgers/Arché), Barry Smith (Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London), Seth Yalcin (Berkeley), Wayne Davis (Georgetown), Chris Barker (NYU), Jonathan Cohen (UC San Diego).
  • Workshop on the Philosophy of John Perry, St Andrews, 18th – 19th September.  Speakers:Ruth Millikan (Connecticut), Josh Dever (Texas), Dilip Ninan (Tufts), Daniel Morgan (Oxford), Andy Egan (Rutgers), Herman Cappelen (Arché), John Perry (Stanford and California – Riverside).
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2012 Scots Philosophical Association Annual Meeting

7th – 8th December 2012

Aberdeen

This is the annual meeting of the SPA; all philosophers in Scotland are invited to attend.   Registration is now open; cheaper early registration closes 2nd November.

Speakers:

  • Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto),  “From Practice to Theory: Rethinking the Nature of Philosophical Questions”
  • Douglas Edwards (Aberdeen), “The Goal(s) of Inquiry”
  • Elise Crull (Aberdeen), “Can There Be Metaphysically Robust Interlevel Relations?”

Inquires to Guido Bacciagaluppi.

Conference website

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Ancient Cosmologies

2nd – 4th November 2012

St Andrews

Speakers:

  • Gábor Betegh (Central European University, Budapest)
  • Dorothea Frede (Hamburg)
  • Andrew Gregory (UCL)
  • Charlotte Köckert (Heidelberg)
  • Alex Long (St Andrews)
  • Karla Pollmann (St Andrews)
  • Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Notre Dame)
  • Catherine Rowett (UEA)
  • David Sedley (Cambridge)
  • Chiara Tommasi (Pisa)
  • James Wilberding (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Inquires to classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

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New research centre at Edinburgh

A new philosophical research centre was launched this week at Edinburgh: Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity.

This new centre is devoted to several areas of existing strength at Edinburgh: epistemology, ethics,  and philosophy of mind and cognitive science. The centre will be home to  the recently awarded major AHRC project on ‘Extended Knowledge’, among others. There will also be postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting professorial fellows attached to the centre.

Centre website: www.eidyn.org.  Inquiries about Eidyn should be directed to the Centre Director, Prof Duncan Pritchard (duncan.pritchard@ed.ac.uk).

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CFP: Arché/CSMN Philosophy Graduate Conference

Deadline: 1st September 2012

Conference: 17th and 18th November 2012

University of Oslo

Keynote speakers: John Hawthorne, Delia Graff Fara

Call for papers: We invite graduate students to submit papers to the Sixth Annual Graduate Conference in Philosophy co-hosted by Arché, Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology, and CSMN, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature. Papers should be no longer than 4,200 words, and should include an abstract of no more than 200 words. Papers that make a contribution to contemporary debates in philosophy and that focus on the research interests of Arché and CSMN are particularly welcome.  ACCOMMODATION AND TRAVEL EXPENSES FOR ALL SPEAKERS WILL BE COVERED, and all talks will have a respondent from an Arché or CSMN faculty member.  Deadline: 1st September 2012.  Notification of acceptance by 1st October.

Conference website

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Visiting Speakers, 9th – 13th July

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia), “Justification is Potential Knowledge,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 11th July.
  • Frances Kamm (Harvard University), “Justice After War,” at Edinburgh on Thursday, 12th July (11:00).

Other events next week:

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Visiting Speakers, 2nd – 6th July

Events next week:

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Visiting Speakers, 25th – 29th June

Events next week: