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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

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The Philosophy of the Philosophy of Art

21st – 22nd June 2013

St Andrews, School II, St Salvator’s Quad

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)

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

Conference website

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Visiting speakers, 13th – 17th May

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore), “Desire’s Explanations,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 13th May.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 29th April – 3rd May

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Simon Kirchin (Kent) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 30th April.
  • Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore), “Desire’s Explanations,” at Stirling on Thursday, 2nd May.
  • Armin Schulz (London School of Economics) at Edinburgh on Friday, 3rd May.

Other events next week:

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Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy IV

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

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Third Annual Graduate Epistemology Conference

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

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Visiting speakers, 22nd – 26th April

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Miranda Fricker (Sheffield), “What’s the Point of Blame?,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 24th April.
  • Kristina Musholt (London School of Economics), “Against self-representationalism,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 24th April.
  • Miranda Fricker (Sheffield), at Stirling on Thursday, 25th April.
  • Miranda Fricker (Sheffield), “‘Generating Epistemic Responsibility for Implicit Prejudice,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 26th April.

Other events next week:

  • 2013 TM Knox Memorial Lecture, St Andrews, 22nd April.  Speaker: Anthony O’Hear (University of Buckingham), “The Tastes of Sardanapallus: Virtue, Upbringing and Moral Reasoning”
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Frege@Stirling Workshop I

22nd – 23rd June 2013

Stirling

Speakers:

  • Robert May (UC Davis), “What’s Not Special About Axioms”
  • Øystein Linnebo (Birkbeck), “Frege’s context principle and our knowledge of abstract objects”
  • Peter Sullivan (Stirling)
  • Joan Weiner (Indiana)
  • Erich Reck (UC Riverside), “Frege, Dedekind, and the Laws of Thought”
  • Gottfried Gabriel (Jena), “Frege on the Justification of Basic Logical Laws”
  • Fraser MacBride (Glasgow), Adam Rieger (Glasgow), Marcus Rossberg (UConn), and Stewart Shapiro (Ohio/St Andrews)

Inquires to  Philip Ebert and Walter Pedriali

Conference website

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Pragmatist Perspectives on Truth and Knowledge

14th – 15th June 2013

Edinburgh

Speakers:

  • Natalie Ashton (University of Edinburgh)
  • Cameron  Boult (University of Edinburgh)
  • Sarah Schoonmaker (University of Edinburgh)
  • Sebastian Köhler (University of Edinburgh)
  • Matthew Chrisman (University of Edinburgh), “Making Up Our Mind and What We Ought to Believe.”
  • Graham Hubbs (University of Idaho), “Saying ‘So’: Transparency and Transition.”
  • James O’Shea (University College Dublin), “On Non-Inferential Perceptual Knowledge.”
  • Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University), “Knowledge: What’s the Use?”

Inquires to Cameron Boult and Sebastian Köhler

Conference website

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Visiting speakers, 8th – 12th April

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen (CEPPA fellow), “Personal and Impersonal Values,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 10th April.
  • Craig French (Antwerp), “The Formulation of Epistemological Disjunctivism,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 10th April.
  • Penelope Mackie (Nottingham) at Stirling on Thursday, 11th April, and at Edinburgh on Friday, 12th April.

Other events next week:

  • The Thin Red Line, Glasgow, 13th April.  Speakers: Tomasz Placek (Jagiellonian University), Michael De (Utrecht University), Alex Malpass (University of Glasgow), Jacek Wawer (Jagiellonian University).
  • Ethics and Natural Law: Foundations and Applications, St Andrews, 13th April.  Speakers: Anthony Lang (St Andrews), Roger Scruton (St Andrews), Timothy Chappell (Open University), John Milbank (Nottingham University), Caron Gentry (St Andrews), John Haldane (St Andrews), Tom Angier (St Andrews), Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews).
  • 8th Annual UK Integrated HPS Workshop, Aberdeen, 11th – 12th April.
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Metaphysics of Mind and Science Workshop

16th May 2013

Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building

Speakers:

  • Peter Fazekas (MTA, Budapest), “Different Types of Emergent Laws and their role in Distinguishing Ontological Emergence from Physicalism”
  • Benj Hellie (Toronto), “Out of this world”
  • Jesper Kallestrup (Edinburgh), “The Physical Realizability of Knowledge States”
  • Jonas Christensen (Edinburgh/Aarhus): Size does Matter, but Not Necessarily: How to be a Macro-epiphenomenalist and avoid the Drainage Problem”
  • Jessica Wilson (Toronto), “Powers and Fundamental Interactions”

Inquires to Jonas Christensen

Conference website

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8th Annual UK Integrated HPS Workshop

11th – 12th April 2013

Aberdeen, Sir Duncan Rice Library

Speakers:

  • Hasok Chang (Cambridge)
  • Andrew Gregory (UCL)
  • Minwoo Seo (Cambridge)
  • Chiara Ambrosio (UCL)
  • Sasha Traykova (Durham)
  • Ian James Kidd (Durham
  • Peter Vickers (Durham)
  • MatthewPaskins (UCL)
  • Ulrich Stegmann (Aberdeen
  • Yafeng Shan (UCL)
  • Guido Bacciagaluppi, Elise Crull (Aberdeen) & Owen Maroney (Oxford)
  • Cheryl Lancaster (Durham)
  • Michael Bycroft (Cambridge)
  • Nick Binney (Exeter)
  • Jo Donaghy (Exeter)
  • Adam Toon (Bielefeld/Exeter)
  • Shona Elliott
  • Jordan Bartol, Claire Jones & Michael Kay (Leeds)

Inquires to Guido Bacciagaluppi

Conference website

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Ethics and Natural Law: Foundations and Applications

13th April 2013

St Andrews, Edgecliffe

Speakers:

  • Anthony Lang (St Andrews), “Punishment in International Law: A Natural Law Account”
  • Roger Scruton (St Andrews), “The Conflict between Natural and Social Justice”
  • Timothy Chappell (Open University), |”Internal Reasons, Augustine, and the Heart’s Desire”
  • John Milbank (Nottingham University), “Natural Law and Divine Government”
  • Caron Gentry (St Andrews), “The Feminist’s Search for the Universal Validity of Natural Law”
  • John Haldane (St Andrews), “Discerning the (Human) Good: Natural Law, “New”, “Old” and “Integrative””
  • Tom Angier (St Andrews), “Natural Law: The Hard Road from Foundations to Applications”
  • Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews), “What’s “Natural” about Natural Law?”

Inquires to tpsa@st-andrews.ac.uk

Conference website

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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).