You are warmly invited to this year’s Scots Philosophical Association Annual Conference to be held at the University of Stirling, on the 8-9th December. The line up and schedule are below.

If you plan to attend, we would be grateful if you’d fill in this registration form for catering purposes: https://forms.gle/ZLGvHZVH76fQvgfF8

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Monday 8th December, Seminar Room 3.04 in Campus central (for directions see here: https://link.mazemap.com/PCIIBONg)

2-3.15: Ten-Herng Lai, University of Stirling: “Resisting moral blackmail”

Coffee

3.45-5: Pekka Väyrynen, University of Leeds: “Make It Right”

Drinks at the Westerton Arms, Bridge of Allen 

7.30 Dinner 

Tuesday 9th December: Seminar Room 3.04 in Campus central (for directions see here: https://link.mazemap.com/PCIIBONg)

9-10.30 SPA committee meeting

Coffee

10.45-12 Marion Boulicault, University of Edinburgh: “Sex in the medical machine: How algorithms can entrench bioessentialism in precision medicine” 

Lunch

1.-2.15 Jade Fletcher, University of St Andrews: “??Realism and Error about Socially Constructed Kinds’’

Coffee

2.45-4 Crispin Wright, University of Stirling: “Timothy Williamson meets the New Evil Demon”

4-6 June, 2025 in Glasgow

We will have a range of philosophy talks on all things sensory that have been core to the work at the CSPE, such as perception, illusion, hallucination, imagination, and the senses. We will particularly hear from those who have worked, visited, and contributed to, the CSPE and its projects and events over the years. The speaker list is below.

We will have lots of time for informal discussion, and to facilitate this, we will have a poster session and would encourage all attendees to exhibit a poster summarising a paper that you are working on.

We are also offering a variety of sensory experiences for you to try, including experiencing the content for VR that we and others have created in our multi-person VR labs, and a talk about our work on VR by Prof Neil McDonnell. We hope that other experiences will be announced soon.

Attendance at the conference is free and includes free tea, coffee, conference lunches, and food at the after party. Conference dinners are available to purchase when you register for the conference. The number of places at the conference are strictly limited so we would encourage those that wish to come to register for the conference as soon as possible. In any event, registration will close on 19th May 2025.

If you have any questions, please e-mail j.harber.1@research.gla.ac.uk<mailto:j.harber.1@research.gla.ac.uk>.

Old Senate Room, King’s College, University of Aberdeen

5th-6th of December

• Speakers include Eilidh Beaton (Aberdeen), Jack Shardlow (Edinburgh), Mahrad Almotahari (Edinburgh),Petronella Randell (St Andrews), and David Boylan (Glasgow).