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Visiting speakers, week of 23rd September

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Jane Heal (University of Cambridge), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 24th September.
  • Aidan McGlynn (University of Edinburgh), “Factoring Knowledge,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 25th September.
  • Alasdair Isaac (University of Edinburgh), “Psychophysics and Skepticism: Müller’s “Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 24th September.
  • Jennifer Saul (University of Sheffield), “Truth, Ideology and Politics,” at Stirling on Thursday, 26th September.

Other events:

  • Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society, 25th September.
  • Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society, 26th September.
  • Thom Brookes (Durham University) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society, 26th September.
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Themes from Wlodek Rabinowicz

5th October 2013

Glasgow

Description: The University of Glasgow, with support from the Scots Philosophical Association, is honoured to be hosting Wlodek Rabinowicz as a Centenary Fellow during September and October, 2013.  Prof Rabinowicz’s broad-ranging research covers many topics in ethics, value theory, decision theory, and political philosophy, among others.  This workshop will be devoted to discussing some themes from his work.

Further details of papers will be made available shortly.

Registration fee £25 (£10 for students). Includes lunch and refreshments

Speakers:

  • Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund)
  • Alex Voorhoeve (LSE)
  • Jonathan Way (Southampton)
  • Ulrike Heuer (Leeds)
  • Kent Hurtig (Stirling)
  • Campbell Brown (Glasgow)

Inquires to hugh.lazenby@glasgow.ac.uk

**SPA sponsored**

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2013-14 David Hume Fellow Peter Fosl, “Hume and the Promise of Philosophy”

Edinburgh, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

Tuesday, 19 November, 4 pm.

“Hume and the Promise of Philosophy”

Peter Fosl (Transylvania University)

Peter S. Fosl is Professor of Philosophy at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky.  He is currently the 2013-14 David Hume Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh.  The Fellowship has been made possible by the generous support of The Hume Society, the Scots Philosophical Association and IASH Fellows and supporters.

As space is limited, please email iash@ed.ac.uk to book a place.

More information.

**SPA sponsored**

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Visiting speakers, week of 16th September

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Adrienne Janus (University of Aberdeen), “Boxes and Bubbles: Serres and Sloterdijk,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 18th September.
  • Nick Jones (University of Oxford), “The Fundamentality of the Familiar,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 18th September, and at Stirling on Thursday, 19th September.
  • Ross Cameron (University of Leeds), “How Can You Know You’re Present?,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 18th September.
  • Peter Vickers (University of Durham), “Magic and Miracles in Physics,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science seminar on Thursday, 19th September.
  • Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina) at Edinburgh on Friday, 20th September.
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CFP: 7th Arché/CSMN Graduate Conference

Deadline: 19th August 2013

Conference: 2nd – 3rd November 2013

St Andrews

Description: The conference will be held on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2013 at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.  Accommodation and travel expenses for speakers will be covered. All papers will have Arché, CSMN or University of St Andrews staff respondents and will be followed by open discussion.

Keynote Speakers:

  • Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck)
  • Roger White (MIT)

Call for papers: We invite graduate students to submit high-quality papers in analytic philosophy to the Seventh Arché/CSMN Graduate Conference 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. Submission in the core research areas of Arché and CSMN are particularly welcome, i.e., Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Methodology, Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action/Rationality and Moral Philosophy. We especially encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in philosophy.  Deadline for submissions: 19th of August 2013.  Notification of acceptance by 23rd of September 2013.  For submitting papers and further information, please visit the conference website: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/acgc/index.shtml

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Kant in Progress

2nd August 2013

St Andrews, Hebdomadar’s Room

  • Kate Moran (Brandeis): “Lies, Pranks and Surprises”
  • Anita Leirfall (Bergen): “Kant on Directions, Inner Feeling of Difference and Real Oppositions”
  • Nele Schneidereit (Dresden): “Scepticism and Intuitionism in Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason”
  • Alice Pinheiro Walla (Dublin): “Common Ownership of the Earth and Provisional Right”
  • Joe Saunders (Sheffield): “From Reason to Freedom to the Moral Law”
  • Ruth Boeker (SUNY–Albany): “Locke and Hume on Persons and Personal Identity”

Inquires to ms752@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Visiting speakers, week of 22nd July

Events next week:

  • Embodied Music Cognition, Edinburgh, 22nd – 23rd July.  Speakers: Tom Cochrane (Philosophy, Sheffield University), Marc Leman (Musicology, University of Ghent), Nikki Moran (Music, University of Edinburgh) Rebecca Schaefer (Music, University of Edinburgh).
  • Philosophy and Museums, Glasgow, 24th – 26th July.  Speakers: David Brown (St Andrews), Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York), Garry Hagberg (Bard College, New York), Eileen John (University of Warwick), Michael Levine (University of Western Australia), Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen), Graham Oddie (University of Colorado at Boulder), Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes), Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf, Minnesota) and Jil Evans (Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts, Minneapolis), Philip Tonner (Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow).
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Visiting speakers, week of 8th July

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Nikolaj Pedersen (Yonsei University), “All the many, many things we know: extended knowledge,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Tuesday, 9th July.

Other events next week:

  • Relativism and Rational Tolerance III, Aberdeen, 10th – 11th July.  Speakers: Alex Plakias (NIP), Filippo Ferrari (NIP), Dan Lopez de Sa (Barcelona), Carl Baker (NIP),  Paula Sweeney (NIP), John MacFarlane (Berkeley).
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Relativism and Rational Tolerance III

10th – 11th July 2013

Aberdeen, Sir Duncan Rice Library

Speakers:

  • Alex Plakias (NIP)
  • Filippo Ferrari (NIP), ‘The value of Deflationary Truth’
  • Dan Lopez de Sa (Barcelona), ‘For the Likes of Me’
  • Carl Baker (NIP), ‘Tolerating Faultless Disagreement’
  • Paula Sweeney (NIP)
  • John MacFarlane (Berkeley), ‘Objective and Subjective Oughts’

Inquires to Sharon Coull

Conference website

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Visiting speakers, week of 24th June

Events next week:

  • Midsummer Philosophy Workshop, Edinburgh, 23rd – 25th June.  Speakers: James Shaw (Pittsburgh), Michael Hannon (Cambridge/Fordham), Japa Pallikkathayil (Pittsburgh), Josh Parsons (Oxford), Sinan Dogramaci (UT Austin), Maya Eddon & Chris Meacham (UMass Amherst).  
  • British Postgraduate Philosophy Association, Glasgow, 24th – 26th June.  Keynote speakers: Helen Beebee (University of Manchester), Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University).
  • Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, Stirling, 24th – 25th June.  Keynote speakers: Bob Goodin (ANU/Essex), Serena Olsaretti (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra).
  • 2013 St Andrews Summer Reflectorium, St Andrews, 24th June.  Speakers: Brian McElwee, Leslie Stevenson, Patrick Greenough, Stewart Shapiro, Jessica Brown, Jens Timmermann.
  • Kant and the Lawfulness of Nature, Edinburgh, 27th – 28th June.  Speakers: Andrew Chignell (Cornell), Michael Friedman (Stanford), Peter McLaughlin (Heidelberg), Konstantin Pollok (South Carolina), Eric Watkins (California, San Diego), Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge), Alix Cohen (York), Michela Massimi (Edinburgh), Marius Stan (Boston College), Catherine Wilson (York).
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2013 St Andrews Summer Reflectorium

The Summer Reflectorium 2013
“Informal Talks about Research in Progress”
Monday, 24th June 2013
Seminar Room (104), Edgecliffe
University of St Andrews

9.30 Brian McElwee: The Demandingness of Morality
10.45 Leslie Stevenson: Three Levels of Human Mentality
12.00 Patrick Greenough: Soft Facts

2.30 Stewart Shapiro: Frege vs Cantor and Dedekind
3.45 Jessica Brown: Contextualism about Evidence?
5.00 Jens Timmermann: What’s Wrong with ‘Deontology’?

All welcome!
Organisers: Katherine Hawley & Jens Timmermann
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Visiting speakers, week of 17th June

Events next week:

  • Pain Conference, Glasgow, 18th – 20th June.  Speakers: Speakers: Colin Allen, Murat Aydede, David Bain, Michael Brady, Victoria Braithwaite, Jennifer Corns, Valerie Hardcastle, Richard Krueger, Siri Leknes, Jennifer Radden, Adam Shriver, Frédérique de Vignemont.
  • The Philosophy of Luck, Edinburgh, 19th June.  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).
  • The Gettier Problem at 50, Edinbrugh, 20th – 21st June.  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), Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales), Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia), Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds), Lisa Miracchi (Rutgers University), Christian Piller (University of York), Amber Riaz (Lahore University of Management Sciences).
  • The Philosophy of the Philosophy of Art, St Andrews, 21st – 22nd June.  Speakers: Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham), David Davies (McGill University), Stacie Friend (Heythrop College, London), Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews), Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland), Dominic Lopes (University of British Columbia), Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham University), Dan Cavedon-Taylor (University of St Andrews).
  • Frege’s Epistemology of Basic Logical Laws, Stirling, 22nd – 23rd June.  Speakers: Robert May (UC Davis), Øystein Linnebo (Birkbeck), Peter Sullivan (Stirling), Joan Weiner (Indiana), Erich Reck (UC Riverside), Gottfried Gabriel (Jena), Fraser MacBride (Glasgow), Adam Rieger (Glasgow), Marcus Rossberg (UConn), and Stewart Shapiro (Ohio/St Andrews).
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Philosophy and Museums

24th – 26th July 2013

Glasgow

Website

Speakers:

  • David Brown (St Andrews), ‘Contexts and Experiencing the Sacred’
  • Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York), ‘The Museum of Big Ideas’
  • Garry Hagberg (Bard College, New York), ‘Word and Object’
  • Michael Levine (University of Western Australia), ‘Museums and the Nostalgic Self’
  • Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen), ‘“A Sudden Surprise of the Soul”: Wonder in Museums and Early Modern Philosophy’
  • Graham Oddie (University of Colorado at Boulder), ‘What do we see in Museums?’
  • Julia Rosenbaum (Bard College, New York), ‘A Curious Case of Collecting’
  • Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes), ‘Replicas and the Role of Museums’
  • Charles Taliaferro (St Olaf, Minnesota) with Jil Evans, ‘How to Get into a Work of Art’
  • Philip Tonner (Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow), ‘Museums, Ethics and Truth’

Inquires to Victoria.Harrison@glasgow.ac.uk

**SPA sponsored**

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Visiting speakers, 3rd – 7th June

Events next week:

  • Reasons and Rationality: Epistemic and Practical, St Andrews, 5th – 6th June.  Speakers: Michael Smith (Princeton), Ruth Chang (Rutgers), Stew Cohen (Arizona and St Andrews), John Skorupski (St Andrews), John Broome (Oxford), Ralph Wedgwood (USC).
  • Workshop in Kantian Ethics, St Andrews, 7th June.  Speakers: Jens Timmerman (St Andrews), Melissa Seymour Fahmy (University of Georgia), Seiriol Morgan (University of Bristol).
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The Philosophy of Tyler Burge

15th – 16th June 2013

Glasgow

Speakers:

  • Erin Taylor (Cornell) and Andrew McGonigal (Leeds), ‘Natural Norms and Conventional Norms’
  • Walter Pedriali (Stirling), ‘On Frege’s Alleged Commitment to Individual Representationalism’
  • Peter Sullivan (Stirling), Discussion: Burge and Frege on Foundational Knowledge
  • Sean Crawford (Manchester), ‘Semantical Considerations on Demonstrative De Re Belief’
  • Ted Parent (Virginia tech), ‘Infallibilism about Self-Knoweldge II: Autological Judgment’
  • Ned Block (NYU), ‘Seeing-As: How can we find out whether seeing is representational, and if so, what representations are involved?’
  • Gabriel Rabin (UCLA), ‘Toward a Theory of Conceptual Mastery’
  • Joey Pollock (Edinburgh), ‘Social Externalism and the Problem of Communication’
  • John Haldane (St. Andrews), Discussion: ‘Causation, Representation, and Materialism’
  • Sarah Patterson (Birkbeck) – paper tbc
  • Tyler Burge (UCLA), ‘Perception: Where Mind Begins’

Inquires to thomas.mcclelland@glasgow.ac.uk

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

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Midsummer Philosophy Workshop

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

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**