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Visiting speakers, 1st – 5th April

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Jules Holroyd (University of Nottingham) at Edinburgh on Friday, 5th April.

Other events next week:

  • Deviant Pain, Glasgow, 6th April.  Speakers: Clare Allely (Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow), Luis Garcia-Larrea (Neuroscience, University of Lyon), Valerie Hardcastle (Philosophy, University of Cincinatti), Richard B.  Krueger (New York State Psychiatry Institute, Columbia University), Joanna McParland (Psychology and Allied Health Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University).
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Philosophy of Semantics

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

Workshop website

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Visiting speakers, 25th – 29th March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Colin Davis (Royal Holloway, University of London), “Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: The Temporality of Trauma,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 27th March.
  • Aidan McGlynn (University of Edinburgh), “De Facto IEM,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 27th March.
  • Antony Hatzistavrou (Hull), “Reconsideration and the epistemic dimension of exclusionary reasons,” at Stirling on Thursday, 28th March.
  • Zoe Drayson (University of Stirling), “Perception, Prediction, and Penetration,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 29th March.
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CFP: Philosophy and Museums

Deadline: 15th May 2013

Conference: 24th – 26th July 2013

Glasgow

Description: There has been much interest lately on the part of academics, museum professionals and policy makers on interactions between universities and museums. Critical theory, influenced by Continental philosophy, has had a shaping role on the discussions which have taken place; however, so far there has been little attention to what the insights of philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition might bring to the table. This conference will highlight the scholarship of philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition who have engaged with museums and taken seriously the philosophical questions they raise.

Keynote 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’

Call for papers: Papers should take 30 minutes to present and be submitted in a form suitable for blind review. Our aim is to involve speakers with a variety of perspectives. It is intended that papers presented at the conference should be suitable for publication as a special supplementary volume of Philosophy (scheduled to appear with Cambridge University Press in 2014). It is a condition of accepting the invitation to participate in the conference that we would have the first right of refusal on a final version of any paper delivered at the conference.

The deadline for submissions of papers is 15th May 2013. The conference fee will be waived for accepted speakers and lunch and dinner for three days will be provided. Speakers are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.

Papers should be submitted, and enquiries addressed, to Dr Anna Bergqvist (a.bergqvist@mmu.ac.uk).

Conference website

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CFP: British Postgraduate Philosophy Association 2013

Deadline: 25th April 2013

Conference: 24th – 27th June 2013

Glasgow

Description: The BPPA Annual Conference began in 1997  and will reach its 17th successive year in 2013. Our conference has the dual aim of showcasing the highest quality postgraduate work in philosophy and finding creative ways to meet the needs of current graduate students. Our format combines a traditional two-day postgraduate philosophy conference with an entire day devoted to career preparation. To our knowledge, this is a combination offered by no other graduate philosophy conference in the world.

Keynote speakers:

Call for papers: We invite papers in all areas of philosophy. Speakers must be postgraduates, or have been recently (within 6 months) awarded their PhD. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to bppaglasgow@gmail.com by 25th April 2013.

Conference website

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Kant and the Lawfulness of Nature

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

Workshop website

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CFP: Midsummer Philosophy Workshop

Deadline: 15th April 2013

Conference: 23rd – 25th June 2013

Edinburgh

Description: We invite submissions for the first annual Midsummer Philosophy Workshop. This year the workshop will be hosted by Eidyn at the University of Edinburgh. The aim of the workshop is to discuss new work in analytic philosophy. We welcome submissions by anyone from anywhere, but we particularly encourage early career researchers to submit.  Essays on any topic are welcome but since the workshop will be attended by participants in a range of areas of specialization, papers that are broadly accessible and shorter papers (up to 8000 words, including footnotes) will have a better chance of getting accepted.  We also invite volunteers for comments and to serve as session chairs, and there are a limited number of spaces available for other people interested in attending.

Call for papers: To submit a paper, volunteer to comment or chair, or for information on registering, please email the 2013 Midsummer Philosophy Workshop Program Committee at midsummerphilosophy@gmail.com by April 15, 2013.  

Conference website

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Visiting speakers, 18th – 22nd March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • William Mander (Oxford) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 19th March.
  • Zoe Drayson (Stirling), “Perception, Prediction, and Penetration,” at Stirling on Thursday, 21st March.
  • Sarah Sawyer (University of Sussex), “The Importance of Fictional Properties,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 22nd March.
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Visiting speakers, 11th – 15th March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Ulrike Heuer (University of Leeds) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 12th March.
  • Dermot Moran (University College Dublin), “Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Flesh: The Chiasm,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 13th March.
  • Qassim Cassam (University of Warwick), “Self-Knowledge for Humans,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 13th March and at Stirling on Thursday, 14th March.
  • Jon Altschul (Loyola University, New Orleans), “Epistemic Deontology and Feldman on Role-Oughts,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 13th March.
  • Kent Hurtig (University of Stirling), “Conditionalism about the Normativity of Rationality,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 15th March.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 4th – 8th March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Christopher Hookway (University of Sheffield) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 5th March.
  • Pierre Cassou-Nogues (CNRS, Lille), “An Impossible Problem: Reading the Brain of a Disembodied Subject,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 6th March.
  • Anil Seth (Sussex), “Interoceptive predictive coding, conscious presence, and the experience of body ownership,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 6th March.
  • Jacopo Martire (Stirling), “A genealogy of modern law: from sovereignty to normalization,” at Stirling on Thursday, 7th March.
  • Matthew Smith (University of Leeds) at Edinburgh on Friday, 8th March.
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Visiting speakers, 25th February – 1st March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Marcia Baron (St Andrews), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 26th February.
  • Adrienne Janus (University of Aberdeen), “Boxes and Bubbles: Serres and Sloterdijk,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 27th February.
  • Chris Belshaw (Open University/CEPPA Fellow), “Death, Pain, and Animal Life,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 27th February.
  • Guy Longworth (Warwick University), “Testimony, Trust, and Virtue,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 27th February.
  • Crispin Wright (NIP, Aberdeen / NYU), “Alethic Relativism and Faultless Disagreement,” at Stirling on Thursday, 28th February.
  • Derek Ball (University of St Andrews), “Philosophy Without Truth,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 1st March.
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Visiting speakers, 18th – 22nd February

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Franz Berto (Aberdeen), “Either the World is Digital or it is Not,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 20th February.
  • David Carmel (Edinburgh), at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 20th February.
  • Suilin Lavelle (Edinburgh), “Understanding Normativity in Folk Psychology,” at Stirling on Thursday, 21st February.

Other events next week:

  • Stephen Menn (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), “The Problem of the Poetics; why does Aristotle have no theory of Lyric poetry?,” St Andrews, 21st February (4:15pm, 104 Edgecliffe)
  • 18th A.E. Taylor Lecture in Ancient Philosophy, Edinburgh, 22nd February.  Speaker: Stephen Menn (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), “Wisdom as the Science of the Four Causes?”
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The Philosophy of Luck

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.

Workshop website

**SPA sponsored**

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Visiting speakers, 11th – 15th February

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Julien Deonna (Geneva) & Fabrice Teroni (Bern), “Emotions as attitudes,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 12th February
  • Guy Stock (formerly University of Dundee), “The Precedence of Historical Knowledge and our Consciousness of Time and Self,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 13th February.
  • Mikko Tolonen (Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at St Andrews), “Hume, Pride, and Moral Worth,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 13th February.
  • Karol Polcyn (University of Szczecin/KCL), “The Mystery of Consciousness and Modal Intuitions,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 13th February.
  • Doug Edwards (University of Aberdeen), “The Norm(s) of Inquiry,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 15th February.

Other events next week:

  • 17th PPLS Interdisciplinary Lecture, Edinburgh, 12th February.  Speakers: Prof Stephen Butterfill (Warwick), Prof Johannes Roessler (Warwick), and Dr Suilin Lavelle (Edinburgh), “Implicit and Explicit Mind Reading.”
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Stephen Menn in Scotland

Stephen Menn (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will be visiting Scotland later this month, and speaking at:

  • St Andrews, on Thursday, 21st February, 4:15pm, 104 Edgecliffe.  Title: “The Problem of the Poetics; why does Aristotle have no theory of Lyric poetry?”
  • Edinburgh, on Friday, 22nd February, 1pm, Dugald Stewart G.06.  Title: “Aristotle on the Many Senses of Unity” — please read in advance Metaphysics Delta 6 and Iota 1.
  • Edinburgh, on Friday, 22nd February, 5:00pm, McEwan Hall.  This will be the 18th A.E. Taylor Lecture in Ancient Philosophy.  Title: “Wisdom as the Science of the Four Causes?”

Prof Menn has written about Plato, Aristotle, Pre­Socratics, Stoicism, Plotinus, Augustine, Suarez, and Descartes.