Scots Philosophical Association

25th – 27th May 2013

St Andrews

Speakers:

• Scott Soames (USC)
• Robert van Rooij (Amsterdam)
• Brian Rabern (ANU)
• Barbara Partee (Massachusetts)
• Kathrin Gluer-Pagin (Stockholm)
• Andy Egan (Rutgers)
• Derek Ball (St Andrews)
• Ray Jackendoff (Tufts)
• Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
• Seth Yalcin (Berkeley)
• Jason Stanley (Rutgers)
• Peter Ludlow (Northwestern)

Inquires to arche@st-andrews.ac.uk

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31st May – 1st June 2013

Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building

Speakers:

• Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University), “What is Justified Group Belief?”
• Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma),  ”A Defense of Epistemic Authority”
• Andy Yu (Oxford University), “Knowledge, Probability and Action”
• Michael Hannon (University of Cambridge) “Is Knowledge True Belief Plus Adequate Information?”
• Andrew Peet (Arché, University of St Andrews) “Testimony in Context”
• Paul Poenicke (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) “A Genealogical Resolution of the Swamping Problem”
• Nicholas Laskowski (University of Southern California) “Practical and Evidential Epistemic Reasons”
• Daniel Fogal (New York University) “Rational Requirements and the Primacy of Pressure”
• Elena Derksen (Ryerson University) “The Possibility of Believing at Will”
• Nick Hughes (Arché/CSMN) “E=K? (How Williamson’s Arguments Fall Short)”

Inquires to L.H.M.Watson@sms.ed.ac.uk

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**SPA sponsored**

Deadline: 1st June 2013

Conference: 22nd – 23rd July 2013

Edinburgh

Description: The purpose of this conference is to stake out the possibilities of a distinct research field for embodied music cognition. Over the past few decades, developments in cognitive science – especially the 4E paradigms of understanding cognition as an embodied, enactive, extended, and embedded process – have slowly but surely reshaped our understanding of the relationship between the brain, body, and world. While these movements have developed concurrently with experimental and theoretical work on “embodied” human activities, such as various forms of artistic practices and sensorimotor tasks, they must also be understood in a broader context. For instance, important historical and contemporary roots of embodiment research include philosophical traditions such as phenomenology and pragmatism, psychological traditions such as psychoanalysis and ecological psychology, and a move away from “music in itself” towards the conditions in which we listen to music in musicological studies.

Keynote speakers:

• Tom Cochrane (Philosophy, Sheffield University)
• Marc Leman (Musicology, University of Ghent)
• Nikki Moran (Music, University of Edinburgh)
• Rebecca Schaefer (Music, University of Edinburgh)

Call for papers: We are now accepting submissions for both paper and poster presentations. Papers will consist of a 20-25 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute discussion period. Posters will be displayed and browsing times scheduled after final selections have been made.  All submissions should be prepared for blind review in either PDF or Word form and sent to EMuCogSubmissions@gmail.com with the subject title “Embodied Music Conference Submission” along with the following:

1. A cover letter containing:
   1. the author’s name and status(student, postdoctoral researcher, etc.)
   2. institutional affiliation
   3. contact information
   4. title of submission
   5. Specify if submission format is a poster or paper
2. Selection shall be based on submission of an abstract, between 500-750 words for papers and 250-350 words for posters.

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Deadline: 1st June 2013

Conference: 29th June – 1st August 2013

St Andrews, Burn House, Angus

Description: The sixth annual St Andrews/Stirling Kant Reading Party will be dedicated to Kant & Adam Smith and take place at Burn House in Angus on 29 July through 1 August 2013. The location of the Reading Party, Burn House, is approximately one hour away from St Andrews and offers excellent opportunities for hiking, and many other leisure activities. The theme of the reading party will be honor and respect in Kant and Smith. We will examine how Kant and Smith understand respect for the law/ respect for general rules, and explore links between their treatment of respect and their views on honor. In doing so we will discuss texts from Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, Kant’s Second Critique, The Metaphysics of Morals, and Lectures on Ethics.

Keynote speakers: TBA

Call for papers: The number of participants is limited to 25. To secure your place on the list of participants please send an email with an informal application to Martin Sticker ms752@st-andrews.ac.uk.  Postgraduate students are invited to submit abstracts of not more than 500 words for talks related to our theme. The deadline for the call for papers is the 1st of June. The abstracts should be prepared for blind review and sent to Martin Sticker ms752@st-andrews.ac.uk.

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5th – 6th June 2013

St Andrews

Speakers:

• Michael Smith (Princeton)
• Ruth Chang (Rutgers)
• Stew Cohen (Arizona and St Andrews)
• John Skorupski (St Andrews)
• John Broome (Oxford)
• Ralph Wedgwood (USC)

Inquires to arche@st-andrews.ac.uk

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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:

• 01 Feb 2013: Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California)
• 13 Mar 2013: Jennifer Carr (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• 20 Mar 2013: Daniel Whiting (University of Southampton)
• 10 Apr 2013: Nate Charlow (University of Toronto)
• 17 Apr 2013: Stefano Predelli (Nottingham University)
• 01 May 2013: Pekka Vayrynen (University of Leeds)
• 10 May 2013: Janice Dowell (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
• 29 May 2013: James Dreier (Brown University)
• 30 May 2013: Mark Richard (Harvard University)
• 07 Jun 2013: Ralph Wedgwood (University of Southern California)

Inquires to Mike Ridge

Seminar website

14th – 15th June 2013

Edinburgh

Speakers:

• Natalie Ashton (University of Edinburgh)
• Cameron  Boult (University of Edinburgh)
• Sarah Schoonmaker (University of Edinburgh)
• Sebastian Köhler (University of Edinburgh)
• Matthew Chrisman (University of Edinburgh), “Making Up Our Mind and What We Ought to Believe.”
• Graham Hubbs (University of Idaho), “Saying ‘So’: Transparency and Transition.”
• James O’Shea (University College Dublin), ”On Non-Inferential Perceptual Knowledge.”
• Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University), ”Knowledge: What’s the Use?”

Inquires to Cameron Boult and Sebastian Köhler

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19th June 2013

Edinburgh

Speakers:

• Nathan Ballantyne (Fordham)
• Steven Hales (Bloomsburg)
• Joe Milburn (University of Pittsburgh)
• Wayne Riggs (University of Oklahoma)
• Sabine Roeser (TU Delft and University of Twente)
• Lee Whittington (University of Edinburgh)

Inquires to Lee Whittington.

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**SPA sponsored**

18th – 20th June

Glasgow

Speakers:

Inquires to jencorns@gmail.com

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20th – 21st June 2013

Edinburgh

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)
• Yuri Cath (University of East Anglia), “Revisionary Intellectualism and Gettier”
• Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales), “Gettierism and Luck”
• Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia), “Knowledge Metaphysically First”
• Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds), “What Kind of Problem is the Gettier Problem?”
• Lisa Miracchi (Rutgers University), “Competence to Know”
• Christian Piller (University of York), “Practical Philosophy and the Gettier Problem”
• Amber Riaz (Lahore University of Management Sciences), “Moral Understanding and Knowledge”

Inquires to Allan Hazlett

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**SPA sponsored**

21st – 22nd June 2013

St Andrews, School II, St Salvator’s Quad

Speakers:

Inquires to Dan Cavedon-Taylor or Miguel F. dos Santos

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**SPA sponsored**

22nd – 23rd June 2013

Stirling

Speakers:

• Robert May (UC Davis), “What’s Not Special About Axioms”
• Øystein Linnebo (Birkbeck), “Frege’s context principle and our knowledge of abstract objects”
• Peter Sullivan (Stirling)
• Joan Weiner (Indiana)
• Erich Reck (UC Riverside), “Frege, Dedekind, and the Laws of Thought”
• Gottfried Gabriel (Jena), “Frege on the Justification of Basic Logical Laws”
• Fraser MacBride (Glasgow), Adam Rieger (Glasgow), Marcus Rossberg (UConn), and Stewart Shapiro (Ohio/St Andrews)

Inquires to  Philip Ebert and Walter Pedriali

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**SPA sponsored**

24th – 25th June 2013

Stirling

Speakers:

• Bob Goodin (ANU/Essex)
• Serena Olsaretti (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra)

Inquires to Ben Saunders or Rowan Cruft

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**SPA sponsored**

23rd – 25th June

Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building

Speakers:

•  James Shaw (Pittsburgh), “The Combinatorics of Conscious Experience”
• Michael Hannon (Cambridge/Fordham), “Stabilizing Knowledge”
• Japa Pallikkathayil (Pittsburgh), “The Truth About Deception”
• Josh Parsons (Oxford), “Conditional Imperatives”
• Sinan Dogramaci (UT Austin), “The Varieties of Validity”
• Maya Eddon & Chris Meacham (UMass Amherst), “No Work for a Theory of Universals”

Inquires to Nick.Treanor@ed.ac.uk

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**SPA sponsored**

24th – 27th June 2013

Glasgow

Speakers:

• Professor Helen Beebee (University of Manchester)
• Professor Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)

Inquires to bppaglasgow@gmail.com

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**SPA sponsored**

27th – 28th June 2013

Edinburgh

Speakers & commentators:

• Prof. Andrew Chignell (Cornell)
• Prof. Michael Friedman (Stanford)
• Prof. Peter McLaughlin (Heidelberg)
• Prof. Konstantin Pollok (South Carolina)
• Prof. Eric Watkins (California, San Diego)
• Dr. Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge)
• Dr. Alix Cohen (York)
• Dr. Michela Massimi (Edinburgh)
• Prof. Marius Stan (Boston College)
• Prof. Catherine Wilson (York)

Inquires to Michela Massimi

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Deadline: 1st July 2013

Conference: 13th – 15th September 2013

Glasgow

Description: The central questions to which the conference will be addressed include:

1. Are there good reasons for thinking that evaluative perception is possible? Is this limited to any particular sensory modality/ies?
2. Is there anything distinctive about evaluative perception, or particular types of evaluative perception?
3. What are the epistemological consequences of evaluative perception?

As well as these questions, the topic of the conference will connect with broader discussions and debates in aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of perception, e.g., the possibility of cognitive penetration, amodal perception, and cross-modal perception, the admissible contents of experience, the relationship between imagination and perception, the impact of so-called ‘framing effects’ on perceptual experience, whether perception can be said to be rational and whether perception could be the conclusion of an argument, the role of experience in aesthetic appreciation, and the prospects for various approaches in ethics, e.g., ethical intuitionism and virtue ethics.

Keynote speakers:

• Professor Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame)
• Professor Robert Hopkins (University of Sheffield)
• Professor Dominic Lopes (University of British Colombia)
• Dr Jack Lyons (University of Arkansas)
• Dr Sarah McGrath (Princeton University)
• Dr Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex)
• Dr Dustin Stokes (University of Toronto)
• Dr Pekka Väyrynen (University of Leeds)

Call for papers: Submissions should:

1. be in English
2. include an Abstract (no more than 250 words) and a Paper that can be presented in approximately 45 minutes
3. be prepared for blind review
4. be sent as a PDF to evaluativeconference@gmail.com no later than July 1st 2013 (all submissions will be acknowledged).

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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.