Martha Nussbaum will be at St Andrews on Friday 16 May, 2014, for a workshop on material from her John Locke Lectures in Philosophy at Oxford University (to be given this spring). The title of the lecture series is:

Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice

The Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group is proud to announce its annual Spring Workshop on Philosophical Methodologies on Friday the 16th of May 2014 at the University of Edinburgh.

We have decided to address the issue of philosophical methodology, following the success of previous EWPG Spring workshops, which have respectively focused on the under-representation of women in philosophy, the ethics and aesthetics of pornography, and implicit bias.

This issue of philosophical methodology has become a lively discussion point in philosophy departments and blogs due to the question of whether the nature of philosophical discourse is exclusionary either in the way philosophy is written or in the way it is done in more public events, such as conferences, seminars and workshops, not to mention in educational settings.

We hope this event will contribute to helping raise awareness about philosophical methodology and how it relates to both philosophical feminism and improving the situation of women in philosophy departments.

Confirmed speakers are:
Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen)
Amia Srinivasan (Oxford)
Nancy Bauer (Tufts)
Eric Schliesser (Ghent)

For more information and for registration, see the following page:

http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/events/view/edinburgh-women-in-philosophy-group-11

We have a limited amount of Analysis Trust bursaries to cover postgraduate participation and accommodation, and we invite postgraduate students to submit expressions of interest to respond to the speakers’ talks. Please submit a short statement (max. 300 words) detailing your motivation to do so to the following address: ewpgspringworkshop@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is the 15th of April.

We would like to acknowledge the generosity of the workshop’s sponsors: the Analysis Trust, the Scots Philosophical Association, the Society for Women in Philosophy – UK, and the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

Frege’s Conception of Sense. Context, Content and Inference in a Fregean Framework

May 10-11, 2014

University of Stirling, Pathfoot Building – Room B2

Speakers: Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame), Mike Beaney (York), Bob Hale (Sheffield), Peter Milne (Stirling), Walter Pedriali (Stirling), Michael Potter (Cambridge).

http://fregeleverhulmestirling.wordpress.com/

Topic: On one natural reading, Fregean thoughts are absolute, timeless, sharply bounded. They are not relativized to anything, not even worlds; they are radically de-contextualized. So construed, thoughts (i.e. the senses of declarative sentences) are entities of staggering (indeed, ungraspable) informational complexity. And yet senses are what competent speakers supposedly understand. Indeed, their content is what guides linguistically competent agents in their inferential activities. However, since senses contain all and only that which determines reference, imperfect grasp of any of their parts should by rights impair our ability to draw inferences correctly. There is thus a prima facie tension between two of the requirements that are constitutive of the notion of sense, namely, that senses be complete in every respect and that they determinedly guide inference. The aim of the workshop is to explore ways to resolve this tension within a Fregean framework. Questions to be considered at the workshop will include discussion of Frege’s various meaning-determining principles, the attendant indeterminacy issues, the role of definitions and elucidations in keeping such issues at bay and the notion(s) of content that Frege was working with.

Registration: £50 (including conference dinner, lunches and coffees); £30 (excluding conference dinner). Graduate Students: £25 (including dinner) and £15 (lunches and coffees only). Registration is free for those who will not be attending any meals.

For further information regarding the workshop and to register for the event, please contact the organisers, Philip Ebert and Walter Pedriali.

On April 12, the Stirling’s Early Analytic Group will meet from 10:30 until 18:30. The programme is as follows:

• Jim Levine (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘Frege and Russell on the Individuation and Analysis of Propositional Contents’
• Janine Gühler (St Andrews/Stirling), ‘On non-actual mathematical objects in Frege and Aristotle’
• Bryan Pickel and Brian Rabern (Edinburgh), ‘The Antinomy of the Variable: Renewed and Resolved’
• Rob Trueman (Stirling), ‘Hanks and the dissolution of the proposition’
• Michael Potter (Cambridge), TBC.

All welcome. There is no registration fee for the event, but please contact Walter Pedriali atw.b.pedriali@stir.ac.uk so that appropriate catering arrangements can be made (lunch and coffees will be provided).

A one-day workshop hosted by the Centre for Global Constitutionalism, the School of International Relations, and the Departments of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.

9:00am – 3:30pm, Friday, 4th of April, Parliament Hall.

Registration is free; contact globcon@st-andrews.ac.uk  to register.

Web: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/intrel/cgc/

On 17 June 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed a resolution making it illegal to discriminate against anyone on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The resolution, proposed by South Africa, passed on the basis of a 23-19 vote. The resolution is binding on all members of the United Nations, but it does not include any sanctions for those who violate it. The resolution generated opposition from a number of countries who argued that the Council had no right to impose a set of ‘Western’ cultural norms concerning sexuality on their societies. On 15 December 2011, the Office of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report detailing reports of discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. In September 2012, the UN Human Rights Office issued a report entitled Born Free and Equal which called on states to undertake measures to legalize the rights of LGBT people.

This activity by various UN offices and officials suggests that there is a global effort to make LGBT rights part of a global legal regime surrounding human rights. This workshop explores both the specific question of whether or not international institutions such as the UN are best positioned to advance such rights, and broader issues concerning tension between multiculturalism and protection of individual rights, in what arenas cultural defences have any merit, and the constraints imposed by the value of equality on both domestic and international institutions. Especially in light of the strong cultural resistance to LGBT rights in some parts of the world, how can an international institution help to promote the rule of law and rights protection in this particular area? What normative justifications exist for a globalized regime of rights protection in this particular area? Do cultural defences have any merit in this realm? What responses are available to those who are victims of homophobia or discrimination through international channels?

The workshop, sponsored by the Centre for Global Constitutionalism, Department of Philosophy, and School of International Relations, will provide an opportunity for a critical dialogue on an issue at the forefront of human rights, global governance, and international law.

Schedule

9-9:30 Coffee and Introduction

9:30-11:00 Panel 1

• John Anderson, University of St Andrews: Defending cultural difference: the Russian Orthodox Church, the Kremlin and gay rights in Russia

• Barbara Zollner, Birkbeck University: Islamic Law and Homosexuality

11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:30-1:00: Panel 2

• Matthew Waites, University of Glasgow: Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth and Global Queer Politics

• William Vlcek, University of St Andrews: Crafting Rights in a Constitution: Gay Rights in the Cayman Islands and the Limits to Global Norm Diffusion

1:00-2:30 Lunch

2:30-4:00 Panel 3

• Helga Varden, University of Illinois: On the Wrongness of Sexual Violence and Sexual Discrimination — a Kantian Approach

• Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin: Surviving Homophobia

4:00-5:30 Free

5:30-6:30 Wine reception

6:30: Workshop Dinner

To celebrate the launch of the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy in the School of Humanities at the University of Dundee, with the support of the Scots Philosophical Association, there will be a workshop open to all on the 21^st of March 2014 as part of the School’s new Transforming Humanities research initiative.

Programme

11:00- 11:30 Coffee and welcome (Dalhousie 2F13 http://www.app.dundee.ac.uk/campusmap/ )

11:30 – 12:15 James Williams, Dundee ‘Continental philosophy? Oh, yes!’

12:15 – 1 Daniel Whistler, Liverpool ‘Naturphilosophie and Language’

1-2 Lunch (provided)

2-2:45 Pascale Gillot, Paris 1, ‘Foucault’s Archeology: the Notion of Epistemological Break’

2:45 – 3 Yoni Van Den Eede, VUB, ‘Instrumentalism vs. Essentialism in the Philosophy of Technology: An Ongoing Struggle’

Chair: Jeremy Dunham, Edinburgh

3:30 Coffee

3:30 – 4:15 Wahida Khandker, MMU, ‘Philosophy, Animality, and the Life Sciences’

4:15 – 5 Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Paris 8, ‘The waves and the day after’

Chair: Brian Smith, Dundee

Note: the afternoon sessions will be in Dalhousie 2S17

6pm Drinks

Contact: James Williams, j.r.williams@dundee.ac.uk

Monday, 9th December 2013

Seminar Room (104), Edgecliffe, University of St Andrews

• 9:30: Sarah Broadie, “Corporeal Gods”
• 10:45: Barbara Sattler, “What Is Doing the Explaining?”
• 12:00: Justin Snedegar, “Contrastive Reasons to Withhold Belief”
• 2.30: Elizabeth Ashford, “Violations of the Right to Subsistence”
• 3.45: Stephen Read, “Pseudo-Scottish Curry”
• 5.00: Reception & Publications Drinks

26th – 27th October 2013

St Andrews, School II

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Description: The study of normative and evaluative language has always had an important place in metaethics. Recently both the volume and sophistication of research on this topic has increased immensely. This work is interesting in its own right; but it also promises to shed light on issues in both substantive normative philosophy and in the study of natural language more generally. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers doing exciting work on different topics related to normative language.

Speakers:

• Gilbert Harman
• Jennifer Carr
• Matthew Chrisman and Graham Hubbs
• Janice Dowell
• Mike Ridge
• Stephen Finlay
• Dorit Bar-On
• Frank Jackson

Inquires to arche@st-andrews.ac.uk

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**

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

22nd – 23rd July 2013

Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building

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Speakers:

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

Inquires to K.J.Ryan@sms.ed.ac.uk

**SPA sponsored**

24th – 26th July 2013

Glasgow

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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**

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**

7th June 2013

St Andrews

Speakers:

• Jens Timmerman (St Andrews)
• Melissa Seymour Fahmy (University of Georgia)
• Seiriol Morgan (University of Bristol)

Inquires to Marcia Baron

Workshop website

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**

21st – 22nd June 2013

St Andrews, School II, St Salvator’s Quad

Speakers:

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

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

24th – 27th June 2013

Glasgow

Speakers:

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

Inquires to bppaglasgow@gmail.com

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

2nd – 3rd May 2013

Aberdeen, Sir Duncan Rice Library

Speakers:

• Leo Catana (University of Copenhagen), “Ficino on the philosopher persona and its demise in 18th-century philosophy”
• James Harris (University of St. Andrews), “Late Hume: Between Liberty and Authority”
• Alissa MacMilllan (Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse), “A Linguistic Key to Hobbes on Religion”
• Raffaela Santi (University of Urbino), “Geometry and Politics in the philosophical System of Hobbes”
• Stewart Duncan (University of Florida), “Toland and Locke in the Leibniz-Burnett Correspondence”
• Matthew Kisner (University of South Carolina), “Spinoza on the Basis of Reason’s Dictates: Not so Common Notions”
• Martin Lin (Rutgers University), “Spinoza’s Starting Points”
• Sandrine Roux (University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne), “Another Way of Giving Sense to the Idea that we are not in our Bodies like a Pilot in a Ship: Descartes’ Conception of Voluntary Movements”
• Anton Matytsin (University of Pennsylvania), “Anti-Skeptical Epistemology: The Challenge of Pyrrhonism and the Rise of Probability”
• Paul Lodge (Oxford University), “The Nature and Role of the Critique of Dogmatism in the Thought of Joseph Glanvil”
• Lisa Ievers (Auburn University), “Hume and Berkeley on the Nature of Philosophical Errors”
• Emily Kelahan (Illinois Wesleyan University), “Hume’s Former opinions”

Inquires to Mogens Lærke

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

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

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**