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Philosophy events, week of 14th July

Next week:

  • Mental Fictionalism, Edinburgh, 14th – 15th July.  Speakers: Emily Caddick Bourne (Cambridge), Gregory Currie (York), Tamás Demeter (Phil. Institute Hungary), Dan Hutto (Wollongong), Ted Parent (Virginia), Adam Toon (Exeter), Meg Wallace (Kentucky).
  • Wilfred Hodges, “Ibn Sina uncovers a subtle mistake in Aristotle’s modal logic,” St Andrews, on Tuesday, 15th July (11:00, Edgecliffe G03).
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Philosophy events, week of 30th June

Events next week:

  • Action and Self-Consciousness, Stirling, 30th June – 1st July.  Speakers: Anton Ford (Chicago), Adrian Haddock (Stirling), Alexandra Newton (Illinois), Will Small (Oslo), Sebastian Rödl (Leipzig), Michael Thompson (Pittsburgh).
  • Film-Philosophy 2014, Glasgow, 2nd – 4th July.  Speakers: Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University), Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading), Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam), William Brown (University of Roehampton).
  • Suffering and Reason, Glasgow, 4th – 6th July.  Speakers: Marilyn McCord Adams, Fabrizio Benedetti, Michael Brady, Marcel Brass, Giorgio Coricelli, Jennifer Corns, Matthew Fulkerson, Manolo Martinez, Stephane Lemaire, Donna Lloyd.
  • Metaphysical Basis of Logic/Relativism and Rational Tolerance Workshop, Aberdeen, 4th-6th July.  Speakers: Thomas Brouwer, Andreas Fjellstad, Greg Restall, Filippo Ferrari, Alexandra Plakias, Graham Priest, Francesco Berto.
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Philosophy events, week of 23rd June

Events next week:

  • Fallibilism and Evidence, St Andrews, 23rd – 24th June.  Speakers: Jessica Brown (St Andrews), Juan Comesaña (Arizona), Daniel Greco (Yale), Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (Michigan), Matthew McGrath (Missouri), Baron Reed (Northwestern), Jonathan Vogel (Amherst).
  • Quine, Science, and Naturalism, Glasgow, 25th June.  Speakers: Derek Ball (University of St Andrews), Frederique Janssen-Lauret (University of Campinas), Bryan Pickel (University of Edinburgh).
  • Graduate Epistemology Conference, Edinburgh, 27th – 28th June.  Keynote speakers: Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University), Susanna Siegel (Harvard University).
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Glasgow-Campinas Workshop: Quine, Science, and Naturalism

Glasgow-Campinas Workshop: Quine, Science, and Naturalism

Glasgow, 25th June

Programme:

  • 1.00-2.30: Derek Ball (University of St Andrews) “Is Philosophy Continuous with Science?”  Response by Gary Kemp (University of Glasgow).
  • 2.45-4.15: Frederique Janssen-Lauret (University of Campinas) “A Quinean Accommodation (or Two) of the Facts of Psychology.”  Response by Alan Weir (University of Glasgow).
  • 4.30-6.00: Bryan Pickel (University of Edinburgh) “On Holding True Come What May.”  Response by Adam Rieger (University of Glasgow).

Location: Reid Room, 67-69 Oakfield Avenue, University of Glasgow. Open to
all, free of charge. No advance registration necessary for the workshop,
just come along. If you’re interested in joining the speakers for dinner
afterwards, please email fmjanssenlauret@cle.unicamp.br.

Organisers: Alan Weir, Gary Kemp, and Frederique Janssen-Lauret.

We are grateful for the generous support we received for this event from
the Philosophy departments of the Universities of Campinas and Glasgow.

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Philosophy events, week of 9th June

Events next week (more information):

  • Kant and Schopenhauer, Ethics and Aesthetics, St Andrews, 13th June. Speakers: Sandra Shapshay, Jens Timmerman, Kate Moran, Adrian Piper.
  • Legal Reasoning, Virtue, and Politics, Edinburgh, 13th – 14th June.  Speakers: Julia Annas (University of Arizona), Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia), Talbot Brewer (University of Virginia), Lawrence Solum (Georgetown University), Josep Joan Moreso (Pompeu Fabra University), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh), Antony Duff (University of Stirling), Kimberley Brownlee (University of Warwick), Iris Van Domselaar (University of Amsterdam), Maks Del Mar (Queen Mary University of London).
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Philosophy events, week of 2nd June

Events next week:

  • Extended Knowledge: Virtue, East Meets West, Edinburgh, 2nd June.  Speakers: Chienkuo Mi, (Soochow University), Eric Hutton (University of Utah), Mark Alfano (University of Oregon), Wayne Riggs (University of Oklahoma), Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota).
  • Aesthetics Work-in-Progress Day, St Andrews, 4th June.
  • Wittgenstein and Epistemology (British Wittgenstein Society Annual Conference), Edinburgh, 5th – 6th June.  Speakers: Annalisa Coliva (Modena), Pascal Engel (Geneva), John Greco (St Louis), Allan Hazlett (Edinburgh), Martin Kusch (Vienna), Michael Lynch (Connecticut), Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (Hertfordshire), Genia Schonbaumsfeld (Southhampton), Claudine Tiercelin (College de France), Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins).
  • Tense in Semantics and Philosophy of Language, St Andrews, 5th – 6th June.  Speakers: Brian Rabern, Berit Brogaard, Mark Steedman, Angelika Kratzer, Peter Ludlow, Dorit Abusch, Jeffrey King.
  • Education, Virtue, and Wellbeing (Intellectual Virtue in Education III), Edinburgh, 7th June.  Speakers: James MacAllister (University of Stirling), Ed Forrest (Educate for Life), Lubomira Radoilska (University of Kent, Canterbury), Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota), Gary Walsh (Character Scotland).
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Philosophy events, week of 26th May

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Tim Kenyon (University of Waterloo), “Content dissolution: How testimony changes in the telling,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 28th May.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Terence Irwin symposium (information: p.ziegler@abdn.ac.uk), Aberdeen, 28th May.  Speaker: Terence Irwin (University of Oxford), “John Rawls as a Moral Philosopher: His Place in the Development of Ethics” and “Love your Neighbour AS Yourself?”.
  • 3rd Glasgow Philosophy of Religion Seminar, Glasgow, 29th – 30th May.  Speakers: Sarah Adams (University of Leeds), Max Baker-Hytch (University of Oxford), Ryan Byerly (Regent University), Trent Dougherty (Baylor), David Efird and Daniel Gustafsson (University of York), Sebastian Gäb (Universität Trier), Shawn Graves (University of Findlay), Jason Goltz (Westminster College), Amber Griffioen (Universität Konstanz), Timo Koistinen (University of Helsinki), Tyler McNabb (University of Glasgow), Emmanuel Nartey (City University of New York), Paul O’Grady (Trinity College, Dublin), Martin Pickup (New College, Oxford), Walter Schultz and Lisanne Winslow (University of Northwestern), Hami Verbin (University of Tel Aviv).
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Philosophy events, week of 19th May

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Michael Devitt (CUNY), “Testing Theories of Reference,” at Edinburgh’s PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar on Monday, 19th May, and at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Friday, 23rd May.
  • Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri), “Knowing What Things Look Like,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Research Seminar on Monday, 19th May.
  • Charlotte Werndl (London School of Economics) at Aberdeen’s Philosophy Colloquium on Tuesday, 20th May.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Newton, Kant, and the Newtonianism of the Eighteenth Century, Edinburgh, 19th May.  Speakers: Thomas Ahnert (University of Edinburgh), John Henry (University of Edinburgh), Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh), Eric Schliesser (University of Ghent).
  • Can Virtue Be Taught? (Intellectual Virtue in Education II), Edinburgh, 24th May.  Speakers: Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University), Ben Kotzee (University of Birmingham), Morwenna Griffiths (University of Edinburgh), Tom Hamilton (General Teaching Council for Scotland), Michael McCabe (George Heriot’s School), Rachael Wiseman (Durham University).
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St Andrews Aesthetics Reflectorium

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Aesthetics Reflectorium

Departments of Philosophy, University of St Andrews

Wednesday, 4th June, 2014

Edgecliffe, Room 104

Programme:

  • 10:00-11:00: Chris Woerner, “Art, Context, and Moral Responsibility”
  • 11:00-12:00: Panos Paris, “Moral Beauty and Experience”
  • 12:00-13:00: Lunch Break
  • 13:00-14:00: Simon Fokt, “What is the Artworld?”
  • 14:00-15:00: Barbara Sattler, “Temporality and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature”
  • 15:00-15:15: Break
  • 15:15-16:15: Berys Gaut,  “Accumulation is Not Collaboration”
  •  16:15 – 17:15: Lisa Jones, “Narrative Identity in the Face of New Technology”

Contact: psp5@st-andrews.ac.uk and dct2@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Philosophy events, week of 12th May

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Karol Polcyn (Kings College, London) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 13th May.
  • Zoe Drayson (University of Stirling), “Vehicles of Cognition,” at Aberdeen’s Philosophy Colloquium on Tuesday, 13th May.
  • Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Thursday, 15th May.

Other events next week (more information):

  • 300 Years of Leibniz’s Monadology, Edinburgh, 12th – 13th May.  Speakers: Delphine Kolesnik-Antoine (ENS de Lyon), Jeremy Dunham (Edinburgh), Pierfrancesco Basile (Bern), Emily Thomas (Groningen), Paul Lodge (Oxford), Mogens Laerke (ENS de Lyon/Aberdeen), Jo Edwards (UCL), Richard Fincham (American University of Cairo).
  • Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, St Andrews, 12th – 13th May.  Speakers: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen), Spencer Johnston (Arché, St Andrews), John Marenbon (Trinity College, Cambridge), Anna Marmodoro (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), Stephen Read (Arché, St Andrews), Cecilia Trifolgi (All Souls College, Oxford), Rega Wood (Stanford), Mark Thakkar (Lincoln College, Oxford).
  • Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy V, Aberdeen, 14th – 15th May.  Keynote speakers: Susan James (Birkbeck), John Sellars (Birkbeck/Oxford).
  • Philosophical Methodologies (Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group Spring Workshop), Edinburgh, 16th May.  Speakers: Amia Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Nancy Bauer (Tufts University), Catarina Dutilh Novaes (University of Groningen), Eric Schliesser (University of Ghent).
  • Martha Nussbaum workshop, St Andrews, 16th May.
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Philosophy events, week of 5th May

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Andrew Reisner (McGill University) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 6th May.

Other events next week (more information):

  • The Meaning of Matter and the Trouble with Time, St Andrews, 6th May.  Speakers: Chris Hooley (Physicist, St Andrews), Brian Pitts (Physicist & Philosopher, Cambridge), Andrew Pinsent (Physicist & Theologian, Oxford), Michela Massimi (Philosopher, Edinburgh), Wahid Bhimji (Physicist, Edinburgh), Patrick Greenough (Philosopher, St Andrews), Raymond Tallis (Doctor and writer).
  • Scottish Common Sense Philosophy, Edinburgh, 7th – 9th May.  Speakers: Knud Haakonssen (University of Sussex), Paul Wood (University of Victoria), Angélique Thébert, (Lycée Livet, Nantes) Claire Echegaray (Paris).
  • Acinemas: Aesthetics and Film in the Philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard, Dundee, 7th – 8th May.  Speakers: Jean-Michel Durafour (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 and the École Normale Supérieure), Peter W. Milne (Seoul National University), Keith Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University), Julie Gaillard (Emory University), James Williams (University of Dundee), Graham Jones (Monash University), Mathew Pateman (Kingston University), Kiff Bamford (Leeds Metropolitan University), Vlad Ionescu (University of Leuven), Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee).
  • Paton Colloquium in Kantian Ethics, St Andrews, 7th May.  Speakers: Andrea Esser (Marburg), Allen Wood (Indiana).
  • Normativity and Modality, Edinburgh, 9th – 11th May.  Speakers: Helen Beebee (Manchester), Simon Blackburn (UNC), Matthew Chrisman (Edinburgh), Janice Dowell (Syracuse), Michael Forster (Bonn/Chicago), Jimmy Lenman (Sheffield), Huw Price (Cambridge), William Starr (Cornell), Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins).
  • Frege’s Conception of Sense, Stirling, 10th – 11th May.  Speakers: Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame), Mike Beaney (York), Bob Hale (Sheffield), Peter Milne (Stirling), Walter Pedriali (Stirling), Michael Potter (Cambridge).
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Medieval Logic & Metaphysics

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Time: 12 May, 2014 – 13 May, 2014

Location: Rm 104 Edgecliffe, The Scores, St Andrews

Provisional schedule:

Monday 12 May

  • 09.30 Tea/Coffee
  • 10.00 Stephen Read (Arche, St Andrews), ‘Richard Kilvington and the Theory of Obligations’
  • 11.00 Tea/Coffee
  • 11.30 visit to MUSA and Chapel
  • 12.30 Lunch
  • 14.00 Cecilia Trifogli (All Souls College, Oxford), ‘Geoffrey of Aspall on Composite Substances’
  • 15.00 Tea/Coffee
  • 15.30 John Marenbon (Trinity College, Cambridge), ‘Abelard on non-things’
  • 16.30 Tea/Coffee
  • 17.00 Anna Marmodoro (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), ‘Emerging and Descendent Wholes in Aquinas’
  • 18.00 Finish
  • 19.00 Workshop Dinner

Tuesday 13 May

  • 09.30 Tea/Coffee
  • 10.00 Spencer Johnston (Arche, St Andrews), ‘Essence and Modality in Robert Kilwardby’
  • 11.00 Tea/Coffee
  • 11.30 Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen), ‘Validity, formality, and evidence in Buridan’s Treatise on Consequence and his questions on the Prior Analytics’
  • 12.30 Lunch
  • 14.00 visit to Special Collections-manuscripts
  • 15.15 Mark Thakkar (Lincoln College, Oxford), ‘Towards a New Edition of Wyclif’s Logic’
  • 16.15 Tea/Coffee
  • 16.45 Rega Wood (Stanford), ‘The Formal Distinction and the Razor: Rufus, Scotus and Ockham’
  • 18.00 Finish

Registration is free, and includes tea and coffee between the talks. To register, please send an email to the workshop organisers at arche@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Newton, Kant, and the Newtonianism of the Eighteenth Century

19th May, 2014

University of Edinburgh

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The aim of this one-day colloquium is to explore the far-reaching legacy of Newton’s natural philosophy and eighteenth century Newtonianism for Kant’s thought.  The colloquium is sponsored by the Leverhulme International Network and is hosted at IASH under the joint auspices of IASH and the Eighteenth-Century & Enlightenment Studies Network.

Speakers:

  • Thomas Ahnert (History, University of Edinburgh)
  • John Henry (Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh)
  • Michela Massimi (Philosophy, University of Edinburgh), “Newton, the pre-Critical Kant, and three problems about the lawfulness of nature”
  • Eric Schliesser (Philosophy, University of Ghent), “Necessity, and Newton’s Polemics with Spinoza and Spinozism”

The event is free but to have the numbers for catering, registration is required (please send an email to Dr James Collin at jcollin5@staffmail.ed.ac.uk).

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Paton Colloquium in Kantian Ethics

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The H.J. Paton Colloquium in Kantian Ethics

Wed 7th May 2014, 10:30

The Senate Room, St Mary’s Quadrangle, South Street

10.30: Allen Wood (Indiana University, Bloomington) – ‘Universal Law’

2.30: Andrea Esser (Philipps-Universitat Marburg) – ‘Applying the Concept of the Good. Final End and Highest Good in Kant’s Third Critique’

Respondents: Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern/St Andrews) and Alix Cohen (Edinburgh)

To register: http://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=179

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Summer Reflectorium at St Andrews

SUMMER REFLECTORIUM
* Informal talks about research in progress *
9 May 2014
St Andrews, Edgecliffe, The Scores
9:30  Herman Cappelen: Conceptual Engineering: What it is and its Role in Philosophy
10:45  Ephraim Glick: The Semantics of Tense and the Puzzle of Change
12:00  Jessica Brown: The New Infallibilism
2:30  Brian McElwee: Consequentialism and Fitting Attitudes
3:45  Simon Prosser: Why are Indexicals Essential?
5:00   Patrick Greenough: Knowledge
All welcome!
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Philosophy events, week of 21st April

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Istvan Aranyosi (Bilkent University) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 22nd April.
  • Kyla Ebels-Duggan (CEPPA/Northwestern University) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 23rd April.
  • Marcia Baron (University of St Andrews) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 24th April.