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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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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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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

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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.

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Visiting speakers, 4th – 8th February

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Mikael Pettersson (Stockholm University), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 5th February.
  • Jessica Moss (Oxford), “What is the Logos? Rationality in Aristotle’s Ethics,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 6th February.
  • Simon Prosser (St Andrews), “The Content of Colour Experience,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Language Group on Wednesday, 6th February.
  • Tillmann Vierkant (University of Edinburgh), at Edinburgh on Friday, 8th February.
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Visiting speakers, 28th January – 1st February

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Ken Himma (Seattle Pacific University), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 29th January.
  • Todd Mei (University of Dundee), “”A Heideggerian Political Economy”: Land as Gift in Practice,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 30th January.
  • Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), “The Space of Sensory Modalities,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 30th January.
  • Conor McHugh (University of Southampton), “Epistemic Responsibility and Doxastic Agency,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 30th January.
  • Ursula Coope (University of Oxford), “Reason and reflection in Aquinas,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 1st February.
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The Gettier Problem at 50

20th – 21st June 2013

Edinburgh

Speakers:

  • Mark Kaplan (Indiana University)
  • Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)
  • Erik Olsson (Lund Universitat)
  • Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh)
  • Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)
  • Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford)
  • Yuri Cath (University of East Anglia), “Revisionary Intellectualism and Gettier”
  • Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales), “Gettierism and Luck”
  • Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia), “Knowledge Metaphysically First”
  • Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds), “What Kind of Problem is the Gettier Problem?”
  • Lisa Miracchi (Rutgers University), “Competence to Know”
  • Christian Piller (University of York), “Practical Philosophy and the Gettier Problem”
  • Amber Riaz (Lahore University of Management Sciences), “Moral Understanding and Knowledge”

Inquires to Allan Hazlett

Conference website

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Visiting speakers, 21st – 25th January

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Gerald Lang (Leeds), “Theodicy and the Non-Identity Problem,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 22nd January.
  • Matthew Broome (Warwick), “Jaspers and Neuroscience,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 23rd January.
  • Imogen Dickie (University of Toronto), “The mind has a basic need to represent things outside itself,” at Edinburgh on Friday 25th January.