The following events are upcoming at St Andrews:
Self-Control through Accountability to Others Workshop, 8th – 9th May 2017 School V, St Andrews
Proofs of Propositions in 14th-Century Logic Workshop, 23rd – 24 May 2017 Hebdomadar’s Room, St Salvator’s Quad, St Andrews
Blame and Norms Workshop, 15th – 16 June 2017 School II, St Andrews
Slurring and Swearing Workshop, 3rd – 4th June 2017 School II, St Andrews
PHILOSOPHERS AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE
Lecture Room 3, The Gateway, University of St. Andrews
All welcome
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Thomas Stern (UCL) 1.30-2.00 “‘We asked a philosopher if it’s okay to punch Nazis in the face'”
Beth Lord (Aberdeen) 2.00-2.30 “Philosophy and Allegiance”
Ben Colburn (Glasgow) 2.30-3.00 “Pathological Aspects of the Philosophical Ideal of Autonomy”
BREAK 3.00-3.20
Sarah Broadie (St Andrews) 3.20-3.40
Dory Scaltsas (Edinburgh) 3.40-4.00
Patrick Greenough (St Andrews) 4.00-4.20
Theron Pummer (St Andrews) 4.20-4.40
Alex Douglas (St Andrews) 4.40-5.00
BREAK 5.00-5.15
Justin Smith (Paris 7) 5.15-5.45 “Can One Be a Philosopher Without Knowing It?”
Concluding discussion 5.45-6.15
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For further information, contact James Harris (jah15) or Tom Jones (tej1)
The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its next lecture:
Dr Aaron Meskin (Leeds)
“Aesthetic Testimony: An Experimental Investigation”
(written with Dr Shen-yi Liao (Puget Sound) & Dr James Andow (Reading))
Tuesday, 31 January, 2017, 4:15 – 6:00pm
Room G04, 50 George Square,
University of Edinburgh
The lecture is free and open to all!
Abstract: Ordinary testimony transmits knowledge. But aestheticians have been sceptical of whether aesthetic testimony transmits aesthetic knowledge. Although the debate in the philosophical literature focuses largely on normative and conceptual questions, empirical claims about folk resistance to aesthetic testimony play a significant role in that debate. Our studies explore folk attitudes towards aesthetic testimony. We argue that experimental results do not support pessimism about the epistemic value of aesthetic testimony.
About the speaker: Aaron Meskin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leeds. His current research interests include experimental aesthetics, the philosophy of food, and the aesthetic issues raised by comics, graphic novels and improvisational dance. In addition to the foregoing topics, Aaron Meskin’s publications span aesthetic testimony, bad art, the definition of art, the imagination, and video games. He is former Treasurer and Officer of the British Society of Aesthetics and a former Trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics. From 2009-2013 he was co-investigator on the AHRC project “Method in philosophical aesthetics: the challenge from the sciences”. More information on Aaron Meskin, including a complete list of his publications, can be found on his website: https://aaron-meskin.org.
Additional information: The lecture will be followed by a dinner with our speaker. If you would like to attend the dinner, please contact the organisers by Wednesday, 25 January.
*** There are limited funds to cover dinner expenses for two students, offered on a first-come-first-served basis. ***
• To contact the organisers: scottishaestheticsforum@gmail.
• For more information: http://www.saf.ppls.ed.ac.uk
• Or find us and like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
SAF is generously supported by the
British Society of Aesthetics & the Scots Philosophical Association.
The Scots Philosophical Association Annual General Meeting: Schedule and Information
University of Dundee
Information:
There is no registration required, but if you would like to attend the dinner (details below) – so that we know the numbers – we ask that you indicate this in advance by emailing Ms Amelie Berger Soraruff: a.a.l.bergersoraruff@dundee.
(Please also indicate if you will require a vegetarian option, and any other specific dietary requirements.)
Dinner will be held from 7:30 on Thursday the 1st Dec at Rishi’s Indian Aroma (http://www.rishisdundee.co.uk
The conference will be held at the Dalhousie building – Room 2F14 on Thursday 1st, and Room 2F13 on Friday 2nd. (‘2’ indicates the side of the building, and ‘F’ indicates First Floor.)
You can find a campus map here:
You can also find directions to get to Dalhousie Building from Dundee railway station here:
Some suggested nearby accommodation
(in rough descending order of price):
Apex Hotel: https://www.apexhotels.co.uk/
Malmaison: https://www.malmaison.com/
Holiday Inn Express: https://www.ihg.com/
Queens Hotel: http://www.queenshotel-dundee.
Travelodge Dundee Central: https://www.travelodge.co.uk/
Dundee Backpacker: http://www.hoppo.com/dundee
For any questions, please contact Ashley Woodward: a.z.woodward@dundee.ac.uk or Amélie Berger Soraruff: a.a.l.bergersoraruff@dundee.
Schedule:
Thursday Dec. 1:
Dalhousie 2F14
10:30 Refreshments
11:00 – 1:00 Philosophy Careers Seminar (for Postgraduates)
1:45 – 2:45 Paper 1 TBA
3:00 – 4:00 Annual General meeting (SPA members only)
4:00 Refreshments
4:30 – 6:00 Keynote Address: Prof Jack Reynolds (Deakin): ‘Embodied Cognition, Naturalism and Emergence’
6:00 – 7:30 Drinks
7:30 Conference Dinner
Friday Dec. 2:
Dalhousie 2F13
9:30 Refreshments
10:00 – 11:00: Dr Kevin Scharp (St Andrews) Title TBA
11:00 – 12: Paper 3 Prof Nicholas Davey (Dundee): ‘Notes Towards a Relational Hermeneutics’
SCOTTISH PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHIATRY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
ANNUAL ACADEMIC MEETING
PROGRAMME
DATE: Friday, 25th November , 2016
VENUE: The Oak Room, Golden Lion Hotel, Stirling
9-15 am: Registration/Tea and coffee
10am: Morning Session: Chair: Dr.Iain Smith, Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist, Glasgow
10-05am: Reductionism: truly, madly, deeply.
Dr.Peter J. Gordon, Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, NHS Forth Valley.
Peter will present for half an hour some concerns he has over Health Improvement Science with reference to the work of the philosopher Mary Midgley among others.He will conclude by showing his short film on the Red Road Flats as a form of warning against grand projects undertaken without careful thought. The remainder of the session will be open for round table discussion. In preparation for this it is suggested you might read: – The Ethics of Using Quality Improvement Methods in Health Care (2007) by Lynn et al which can be downloaded from: – http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=734470
11-15am: Tea/Coffee
11-30am: Journal Club: Facilitated Round Table discussion of: –
Lessons from akrasia in substance misuse: a clinicophilosophical discussion (2016)
By Lubomira Radoilska, and Keron D. Fletcher
Download from:- http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/22/4/234
12-30pm: Two course Lunch in hotel restaurant followed by business meeting (1-30pm)
Afternoon Session: Chair: Dr Tom Russ, Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, NHS Lothian.
2-00pm Mental Illness and Therapy in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction
Jamie Redgate, PhD Candidate, University of Glasgow
Jamie is a student in Medical Humanities at University of Glasgow. He will present to us from a completed section of his ongoing PhD work. The working title of his PhD is:- Cognition, Consciousness, and Dualism in the Fiction of David Foster Wallace.
For those unfamiliar with Foster Wallace he was a modern US novelist who was trained in philosophy and mathematics. He hung himself,age 46 years, in September 2008.
3-15pm Tea and coffee and depart
To confirm your place please e-mail me at Iain.Smith@ggc.scot.nhs.uk to register and be prepared to pay £40-00 on the day.(Receipts will be available on the day along with CPD certificates for 4 hours of CPD Activity).
Also e-mail me if you have difficulty accessing the papers. It is not essential to have read them to come along as they will be summarised on the day.
Please let me know if you are coming as soon as possible and by the end of Thursday 15th November, 2016 at the very latest.
For the location of the hotel along with how to travel (it is close to the Stirling Train and Bus Stations), parking and access go to: –
Kant in Progress Workshop
7th July 2016
University of St Andrews (St Mary’s College Hall)
9.00 – 9.55am
Katharina Naumann (Justus Liebig University Giessen) Self-Perfection, Self-Knowledge, and the Supererogatory
10:00 – 10.55am
Anita Leirfall (University of Bergen/Norwegian University of Life Sciences) Kant on the Perception of Force
11.00 – 11.15am: Tea and Coffee (provided)
11.15am – 12.10pm
Claudi Brink (University of California, San Diego)
The Role of The Fact of Reason in Kant’s Account of Practical Cognition
12.15 – 1.45pm: Lunch (provided)
1.45 – 2.40pm
Martin Sticker (University of Go?ttingen), Joe Saunders (University of Leeds) Time for School: Moral Education and Transcendental Idealism
2.45 – 3.40pm
Max Edwards (University College London)
The Distinction between Empirical and Transcendental Content
3.45 – 4.40pm
Lucas Sierra (University of St Andrews) Kantianism and Animal Dignity
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The Kant in Progress workshop is made possible by the support of the St Andrews Philosophy department
Manipulation and Moral Responsibility in Ethics and Philosophy of Religion
The University of Edinburgh
July 15 and 16, 2016
Schedule:
Friday, July 15
9:15 – 10:30. Maria Alvarez (King’s College London), “Becoming who we are”
10:35 – 11:50. Alfred Mele (Florida State University), “Radical Reversals and Original Designs”
Lunch
1:00 – 2:15. Patrick Todd (University of Edinburgh), “God and the Moral Standing to Blame”
2:20 – 3:35. Gunnar Björnsson (Umeå University), “Generalization arguments”
3:45 – 5:00. John Fischer (University of California, Riverside), “Responsibility, Autonomy, and the Zygote Argument”
Saturday, July 16
9:15 – 10:30. Michael McKenna (University of Arizona), “Resisting Todd’s Defense of Manipulation Arguments”
10:35 – 11:50. Jean-Baptiste Guillon (Collège de France), “Prophecy of Free Action: Does Molinism lead to Compatibilism?”
Lunch
1:00 – 2:15. Sofia Jeppsson (University of Gothenburg), “Presupposing what ought to be proved: why a certain kind of compatibilism is immune to classic incompatibilist arguments”
2:20 – 3:35. Derk Pereboom (Cornell), “How manipulation arguments work”
3:45 – 5:00. Helen Beebee (University of Manchester), TBA
All events in Rooms 3.10/3.11 of the Dugald Stewart Building, University of Edinburgh
Location and accessibility information about the building can be found here.
No registration required, but space is limited, so please email Patrick Todd (ptodd@staffmail.ed.ac.uk) if you would like to attend.
Sponsored by:
The John Templeton Foundation
Eidyn at the University of Edinburgh
The Scots Philosophical Association
4th Glasgow Philosophy of Religion Seminar: 26-27 May, 2016
Forum for Philosophy and Religion, Philosophy (School of Humanities), University of Glasgow
The biennial Seminar provides an international platform for discussion of work in progress in analytic philosophy of religion.
Refreshments will be provided on both days, and there will be a buffet lunch and evening wine reception on the 26th. Dinner and accommodation are by own arrangement. Places are limited so advance registration is essential. To register please email Victoria Harrison by Monday 23rd May: Victoria.Harrison@glasgow.ac.
A registration fee of £12 (£6 for postgraduates) will be payable at the door.
This event is sponsored by Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and by the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Confirmed speakers and paper titles:
Dani Adams (University of Leeds), ‘Divine Conservation and Space-Time Substantivalism’
Robert Anderson (University of Notre Dame, Australia), ‘Proper Basicality… with Feeling’
Max Andrews (University of Edinburgh), ‘Quantum Indeterminism in a Theistic Universe’
Michael Antony (University of Haifa), ‘Public Knowledge about God’
Mikel Burley (University of Leeds), ‘Prioritizing Practice in the Study of Religion: Normative and Descriptive Orientations’
Elizabeth Burns (Heythrop College), ‘Philosophy as Prayer: Muhammad Iqbal on Pantheism and the Purpose of Prayer’
T. Ryan Byerly (University of Sheffield), ‘Ordinary Morality does not Imply Atheism’
Ian Kidd (Durham University), ‘What is a Religious Exemplar? Religion, Emulation, and the Cosmos’
Finlay Malcolm (University of Manchester), ‘Can the Religious Fictionalist Have Faith?’
Tyler McNabb (University of Glasgow), ‘An Epistemic Defeater for Islamic Belief?’
Emily Paul (University of Leeds), ‘Can a Timeless God ‘Become’ Incarnate?’
Michael Roberts (University of Birmingham), ‘Bare Attention: On Buddhist Soteriology and Perceptual Experience’
Walter Schultz (University of Northwestern- St. Paul, Minnesota), ‘Against Possibility Constructivism’
Marciano Spica (State University of Midwest-Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil), ‘Language, Belief and Plurality: a Contribution to Understanding Religious Diversity’
Patrick Todd (University of Edinburgh), ‘Theism and Naturalism in Debates about Moral Responsibility’
Seminar website: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/
Monday May 9th from 9am to 5:30pm in DSB 3.10. For more information see the conference website.
9:00: coffee
9:15-10:30: Wolfgang Schwarz; Truth at a context
10:45-12:00: Joey Pollock; Holism conceptual role, and conceptual similarity
12:00-1:30: lunch
1:30-2:30: Bryan Pickel; Propositions and non-trivial compositionality
2:45-3:45: Brian Rabern; Binding the bound
3:45: coffee
4:00-5:30: Janice Dowell; Methodology for semantic theorizing: the case of deontic modals
post-workshop drinks and dinner
organizers:
brian rabern <brian.rabern[at]gmail.com>
joey pollock <joeykpollock[at]googlemail.com>
bryan pickel <bryan.pickel[at]ed.ac.uk>
The H. J. Paton Colloquium in Kantian Ethics at St Andrews
Wednesday, 4th May 2016
St Salvator’s Quadrangle, North Street
The Hebdomadar’s Room
10:30, Violetta Waibel (Universitat Wien) “On the Relation of Spontaneity and Freedom in Kant’s Critique”
2:30, Katrin Flikschuh (LSE), “Kant’s Innate Right: Foundational, Relational, or Presuppositional?”
Respondents: Wolfgang Ertl (Keio) and Michael Walschots (Halle)
Contact J. Timmerman (jt28@st-andrews.ac.uk) for further details. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Paton Fund and the Scots Philosophical Association
Kant’s Scots – One-day workshop
Friday 27 May 2016
University of Edinburgh (dugald stewart building, room 4.01)
10.15 – Jens Timmermann (St Andrews)
The Emergence of Autonomy
11.45 – Lucas Sierra Velez (St Andrews)
Kantianism and Animal Dignity
2.15 – Ido Geiger (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Kant on Mechanistic Explanation
3.45 – Yoon Choi (Marquette University)
Kant on Unities of the ‘I’
Organised by Alix Cohen (alix.cohen@ed.ac.uk) – No registration necessary
Tue 29th March 2016 to Wed 30th March 2016
Parliament Hall, South Street, St Andrews
Tuesday 29 March:
Workshop Talks:
3:30pm – 4:10pm: Sebastian Farquhar (The Centre for Effective Altruism)
4:20pm – 5:00pm: Michelle Hutchinson (Giving What We Can)
5:00pm – 5:40pm: Emily Clough (Harvard University)
Networking Dinner:
6:00pm – 8:20pm: funded by British Academy; attendees include speakers, organizers, GWWC members, and early career researchers who were awarded travel bursaries; location TBA
Public Keynote (separate venue: Buchanan Lecture Theatre)
8:40pm: Peter Singer (Princeton University), TED Talk Viewing: The Why and How of Effective Altruism
9:00pm: Q&A with Peter Singer over Skype
Wednesday 30 March:
St Andrews Sightseeing (optional):
09:30am – 12:40pm: meet outside Parliament Hall, will go for a walk around campus and the beach, and then grab an informal lunch in town (pay your own way)
Workshop Talks:
1:00pm – 1:40pm: James Lenman (University of Sheffield)
2:00pm – 2:40pm: Mark Budolfson (Princeton University)
3:00pm – 3:40pm: Stephanie Collins (University of Manchester)
4:00pm – 4:40pm: James Snowden (Giving What We Can)
Coffee/tea/snack break:
4:40pm – 5:40pm (pay your own way)
Public Keynote:
6:00pm – 7:00pm: Hilary Greaves (Oxford University)
Informal dinner/pub (optional):
7:00pm (pay your own way)
Organizers: Theron Pummer, Rufaida Al Hashmi, and Oscar Westerblad. Please email Oscar Westerblad to RSVP and if you have any questions (ow5@st-andrews.ac.uk).
Sponsors: We are grateful to the British Academy and the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs (CEPPA) at St Andrews for their support.
Theme of Conference: The Philosophical Foundations of Effective Altruism
‘Effective altruism is a growing social movement founded on the desire to make the world as good a place as it can be, the use of evidence and reason to find out how to do so, and the audacity to actually try’ (from the Centre for Effective Altruism). We are interested in exploring philosophical questions surrounding this movement, including its philosophical foundations.
Interested in attending? Please email Oscar Westerblad (ow5@st-andrews.ac.uk ) so we can keep track of the audience size as well as provide you with any key updates (e.g. venue updates). There is a possibility we will be able to provide small bursaries to postgraduates and early career researchers wishing to serve as discussants at the conference. Please let us know if you or anyone you know might be interested in this.
I’m pleased to announce a conference this summer, July 15 and 16, 2016, in Edinburgh, Scotland, on topics relating to free will, moral responsibility, manipulation, and philosophy of religion. The conference brings together philosophers working on related themes: manipulation (and manipulation arguments) in debates about free will and moral responsibility, and issues regarding divine providence in philosophy of religion.
Confirmed speakers include:
Helen Beebee
Maria Alvarez
Gunnar Björnsson
Jean-Baptiste Guillon
Sofia Jeppsson
Alfred Mele
Patrick Todd
John Martin Fischer
Derk Pereboom
Travel funds available:
We have a limited amount of travel funding available for early career researchers (graduate students and those who received their PhD in 2010 or later) who might benefit from participation in the conference and chairing a session. If you wish to apply for such funding, please send an email (with subject line “request for travel funding”) to Patrick Todd (at pat.c.todd at gmail.com) with (a) a CV (b) 200 words explaining your interest in the topics of the conference and (c) a rough estimate of how much funding would be required in order to make your participation possible.
Funding can be used for travel to the conference and accommodation in Edinburgh. International applications are welcome.
The deadline for requests for travel funding is Monday, April 3. Decisions will be made by April 25.
Topic:
There is a natural connection between manipulation arguments and philosophy of religion: on some traditional pictures of God, God’s providence seemingly amounts a manipulation scenario “writ large”. What kind of “manipulation” does undermine moral responsibility? And what kind of picture of divine providence really threatens human freedom?
Further, there has been a recent increase in interest in what we might call the positionality of blame – issues regarding, for instance, who has and lacks the moral standing to blame morally responsible wrongdoers. Under what conditions – if any – could a “manipulator” retain the “moral standing” to blame those she manipulates? Or under what conditions might God lack the standing to “hold” creatures responsible, even if those creatures are responsible
Support:
This conference is funded by the John Templeton Foundation, Eidyn at the University of Edinburgh, and the Scots Philosophical Association.
– See more at: http://philosophycommons.typepad.com/flickers_of_freedom/#sthash.m5cwoK1t.dpuf
A symposium to mark the publication of Hume. An Intellectual Biography by James A. Harris.
Friday, 11 March, 2 – 5.30 pm
Venue: Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, 4 Teviot Place, Edinburgh.
2.00 – 2.15 pm: Introduction (Thomas Ahnert)
2.15 – 3.15 pm: Hume on Human Nature and Politics
Chair: Knud Haakonssen (Erfurt and St Andrews)
Commentators: Tim Stuart-Buttle (Cambridge) and Mikko Tolonen (Helsinki)
3.15 – 3.30 pm: Coffee and Tea (Jim McMillan Room, 1.31)
3.30 – 4.30 pm: Hume as Historian and Man of Letters
Chair: Nicholas Phillipson (Edinburgh)
Commentators: Moritz Baumstark (Munich) and Catherine Jones (Aberdeen)
4.30 – 5. 30 pm: Response by James Harris and general discussion.
Participants must register. If you are interested in attending, please email Thomas.Ahnert@ed.ac.uk.
The event is supported by Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History, and the Edinburgh Eighteenth-Century and Enlightenment Studies Network.
The spring 2016 meeting of the Stirling Early Analytic Group will take place on Saturday March 12th from 10.30am to 6.30pm in Pathfoot C2, University of Stirling. There is no registration fee, but please let Colin Johnston (colin.j…@stir.ac.uk) know if you plan to attend. The following papers will be presented:
10.45 Colin Johnston (Stirling) Wittgenstein on representability and possibility
13.15 Fiona Doherty (Cambridge) Frege, Hilbert and Neo-Logicism
15.00 Alex Yates (Stirling and St Andrew’s) The role of inference and heuristic indicators in Frege’s epistemology of logic
4.45 Mark Textor (KCL) Brentano on Existence
Workshop on the Directions in the epistemology of modality
22-24 October, 2015.
Registration now open until the 17th of October.
For more information (and to register): https://sites.google.com/site/epistemologystirling/
Mon 2nd November 2015 to Tue 3rd November 2015
Lower College Hall, University of St. Andrews
9.00-9.30 Welcome and Introduction
9.30-11.00 First panel
Dr. Thomas Smith: Good and Bad Reasons for Attributing Agency to Groups
Dr. Avia Pasternak: Corporate Agency and Corporate Rights
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.45 Second panel
Prof. Alejo Sison: Participation in the Corporate Common Good: Insights from Aquinas
Dr. Rowan Cruft: Individual Victimhood for the Common Good?
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Third panel
Dr. Elizabeth Ashford: Hunger’s Unwitting Executioners: The Nature of Shared Responsibility for the Persistence of Severe Poverty
Prof. Tim Mulgan: How Should Rule Utilitarians Think About the Future
15.00-15.15 Coffee Break
15.15-16.00 Dr. Annabel Brett:State Agency / Individual Agency in the Context of War
16.00-17.00 Break
17.00-19.00 Public Lecture in Parliament Hall, St Andrews
17.00-18.30 Professor Philip Pettit: Giving Corporations their Due – But No More than Their Due
– Introduction by Professor Louise Richardson (Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University)
18.30-19.00 Wine Reception
9.00-9.30 Tea and coffee
9.30-11.00 Fourth panel
Dr. Marko Simendic:Persona civitatis and Thomas Hobbes’ definition of a commonwealth
Dr. Samuel Mansell: Hobbes on Corporate Agency
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.45 Fifth panel
Dr. Jeroen Veldman:Ontological and epistemological backgrounds of the corporation
Dr. David Gindis: Legal Personhood and the Firm: Avoiding Anthropomorphism and Equivocation
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Sixth panel
Dr. Garrath Williams: Corporate Authority and Corporate Responsibility
Dr. Stephen Dunne: Corporate Agency, Cybernetic Organisation Theory and Hayek
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.00 Seventh panel
Prof. Paddy Ireland: Corporate Schizophrenia: The Corporation as a Separate Legal Person and an Object of Property
Dr. David Ciepley: Will and Responsibility in Member Corporations, Property Corporations, and Firms
Registration is free and open to all, but places are limited, so please contact us if you’d
like to register:
Elizabeth Ashford, ea10@st-andrews.ac.uk
Samuel Mansell, sfm5@st-andrews.ac.uk
We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Scots Philosophical Association, and from the University of St Andrews School of Management
