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Visiting speakers, 14th – 18th January

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Clayton Littlejohn (King’s College, London), “Knowledge is probably the norm of belief,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 16th January.
  • Chris Allen (University of Cardiff), “Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation effects on conscious awareness and perception,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 16th January.
  • Robin Le Poidevin (University of Leeds), “Stopped Clocks, Silent Telephones and Sense Data,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 18th January.
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Reasons and Rationality: Epistemic and Practical

5th – 6th June 2013

St Andrews, School II

Speakers:

  • Michael Smith (Princeton)
  • Ruth Chang (Rutgers), “In Defense of Weighing Reasons”
  • Stew Cohen (Arizona and St Andrews), “The Normativity of Belief”
  • John Skorupski (St Andrews), “Warrant and Self-Determination”
  • John Broome (Oxford), “Reasoning and Normativity”
  • Ralph Wedgwood (USC), “The Pitfalls of ‘Reasons’ and ‘Evidence'”

Inquires to arche@st-andrews.ac.uk

Conference website

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Evaluative Language Seminar at Edinburgh

In the first half of 2013 the Eidyn network project Emerging Themes in Meta-Ethics will be hosting a seminar series at Edinburgh, the aim of which is to to promote cutting edge work on evaluative language.  The lineup:

  • 01 Feb 2013: Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California)
  • 13 Mar 2013: Jennifer Carr (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • 20 Mar 2013: Daniel Whiting (University of Southampton)
  • 10 Apr 2013: Nate Charlow (University of Toronto)
  • 17 Apr 2013: Stefano Predelli (Nottingham University)
  • 01 May 2013: Pekka Vayrynen (University of Leeds)
  • 10 May 2013: Janice Dowell (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
  • 29 May 2013: James Dreier (Brown University)
  • 30 May 2013: Mark Richard (Harvard University)
  • 07 Jun 2013: Ralph Wedgwood (University of Southern California)

Inquires to Mike Ridge

Seminar website

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Visiting speakers, 3th – 7th December

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • John Bishop (Auckland), “Concepts of God and Problems of Evil,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 4th December.
  • JC Beall (UConn), “Shrieking towards recapture”, at Arché, St Andrews on Tuesday, 4th December.
  • David Bain (Glasgow), “An Evaluativist Account of Pain,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 5th December.
  • Graham Priest (NYU/St Andrews), “Plurivalent Logic”, at Arché, St Andrews on Thursday, 6th December.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 26th – 30th November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Darryl Gunson (University of the West of Scotland), “Moral Enchantment,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 27th November.
  • Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Texas), “From Thought to Action,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 28th November.
  • Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge), “Respecting All the Evidence,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 28th November.
  • Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Texas), “On Knowing One’s Reasons,” at Stirling on Thursday, 29th November.
  • Chris Heathwood (University of Colorado), “Irreducibly Normative Properties,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 30th November.

Other events next week:

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Myles Burnyeat seminar

1st December 2012

St Andrews

Myles Burnyeat

“Plato, Republic I: A Bigger, Bolder Version.”

This seminar will run from 10.30 to 12.30, in Edgecliffe 104, with coffee beforehand from 10.00.  Participants should bring a copy – text or translation – of the Republic for ease of reference in the seminar.  Everyone who attends is welcome to stay for lunch, which will be provided in Edgecliffe.  Everyone is welcome, and there is no registration: but if you are coming, please inform Sarah Broadie, sjb15@st-andrews.ac.uk, no later than 26 November.

Further information

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Visiting speakers, 19th – 23rd November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Jessica Leech (Sheffield): “Essence and Mere Necessity,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 20th November, at St Andrews on Wednesday, 21st November, at  Stirling on Thursday, 22nd November, and at Edinburgh on Friday, 23rd November.
  • Ulrich Stegmann (Aberdeen), “Natural information and receiver content,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 21st November.

Other events next week:

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Relativism and Rational Tolerance II

17th – 18th December 2012

Aberdeen

Speakers:

  • Mike Ridge (Edinburgh), ‘Expressivism, Relativism, and Disagreement’
  • Paula Sweeny (Northern Institute of Philosophy), ‘Realism and retraction’
  • Robert Stern (Sheffield), ‘Autonomy and Scepticism as Challenges to Moral Realism’
  • Carl Baker (Northern Institute of Philosophy), ‘Aesthetic Realism and the Epistemology of Disagreement’
  • Alex Plakias (Northern Institute of Philosophy), ‘Moral Relativism, Realism, and Pluralism: Disputed Metaethical Terrain’
  • Jimmy Lenman (Sheffield)

Inquires to  Sharon Coull

Conference website

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Visiting speakers, 12th – 16th November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Luke Russell (Sydney), “Is Forgiveness Elective?,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 13th November.
  • Jac Saorsa (Cardiff School of Art & Design), “Artology: Interventions and Intersections between Philosophy, Art Practice and Biomedical Science,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 14th November.
  • Ephraim Glick (St Andrews), “Practical Modes of Presentation,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 14th November.
  • Stewart Cohen (Arizona), “Self-undermining inference rules and the problem of disagreeing about how to disagree,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Thursday, 15th November (4pm, Dugald Stewart 3.10).
  • Guy Fletcher (Edinburgh), “Expressivism or Cognitivist Sentimentalism?,” at Stirling on Thursday, 15th November.
  • Susan James (Birkbeck), “Spinoza on Learning how to Live,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 16th November.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 5th – 9th November

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Michael Sollberger (Lausanne/Oxford), “Causation in Perception: A Challenge to Naïve Realism,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 6th November.
  • Jennifer Corns (Glasgow), “Are painful emotional episodes pains?,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 7th November.
  • Ben Sachs (St Andrews), “Distribution doesn’t Matter Morally,” at Stirling on Thursday, 8th November.
  • Suilin Lavellle (Edinburgh) at Edinburgh on Friday, 9th November.

Other events next week:

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Visiting Speakers, 29th October – 2nd November

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Mark Sprevak (Edinburgh), “Is the extended mind hypothesis nonsensical?, at Glasgow on Tuesday, 30th October.
  • John Protevi (Louisiana State University), “Human Nature,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 31st October.
  • Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), “The Space of Sensory Modalities,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 31st October.
  • Ben Jarvis (Queen’s University, Belfast), “The Objective Nature of Propositional Justification,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 31st October.
  • Stephen Penn (Stirling), “Terminism and Truth: John Wyclif on Late Medieval Logic,” at Stirling on Thursday, 1st November.
  • Timothy Rosenkoetter (Dartmouth College), “Kant on the Semantics of Moral Terms,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 2nd November.

Other events next week:

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Visiting Speakers, 15th – 19th October

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Alexander Logvinenko (Glasgow Caledonian University), “What colours do the colour blind really see?,” at Glasgow’s Mind & Psychology Research Seminar on Monday 15th October.
  • Chris Tucker (Auckland). “If Dogmatists Have Cognitive Penetration Problems, then You Do Too,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 16th October
  • Ian James (Cambridge), “Immanence and Technicity,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 17th October.
  • Chris Tucker (Auckland). “If Dogmatists Have Cognitive Penetration Problems, then You Do Too,”at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 17th October.
  • Alexandra Plakias (NIP, Aberdeen), “How Moral Disagreement is a Problem for Realism,” at Stirling on Thursday, 18th October.
  • Jessie Prinz (CUNY), “Psycho-ontology,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group on Thursday, 18th October. 
  • Joel Smith (Manchester), “What is Empathy For?,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 19th October.

 

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Visiting Speakers, 8th – 12th October

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Jenann Ismael (University of Arizona), “What Entanglement Might be Telling Us,” at Aberdeen on Monday, 10th October
  • Aaron Cotnoir (Aberdeen, NIP), “Parts as Counterparts,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 9th October.
  • Jan Westerhoff (Durham), “Actual Ontological Nihilism,” at Stirling on Thursday, 11th October.
  • Tim Bayne (Oxford), “Multisensory Objects,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 12th October.

Other events next week:

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Modal Logic in the Middle Ages

22nd – 23rd November 2012

St Andrews

Speakers:

  • Wilfrid Hodges (formerly, Queen Mary London), “Permanent and necessary in Ibn Sina”
  • Saloua Chatti (Tunis), “Existential import in Avicenna’s modal logic”
  • Tony Street (Cambridge), “On Translating Katibi’s Epistle for Shams al-Din on the Rules of Logic”
  • Paul Thom (Sydney), “The early reception of Robert Kilwardby’s modal syllogistic”
  • Sara Uckelman (Tilburg), “Epistemic and Higher-Order Modalities in Obligationes“
  • Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen), “Ockham and Buridan on the semantics of divided modal propositions”
  • Spencer Johnston (St Andrews), “John Buridan’s Divided Modal Syllogistic”
  • Stephen Read (St Andrews), “Contingency syllogisms in Buridan’s Treatise on Consequences“
  • Riccardo Strobino (Bochum and Cambridge), “Having one without the other: inseparability and logical consequence”

Inquires to Lynn Hynd

Conference website

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Visiting Speakers, 1st – 5th October

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Mark Jago (Nottingham), “Objects and Essence,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 2nd October.
  • Mike Wheeler (Stirling), “Thinking Without the Box: Extended Cognition or Existentialist Externalism?,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 3rd October.
  • Philip Ebert (Stirling), “Knowledge, Closure, and Risk,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 3rd October.
  • Mark Jago (Nottingham), “Objects and Essence,” at Stirling on Thursday, 4th October.
  • Jennifer Saul (Sheffield), “Lying, Misleading, and What is Said,” at Edinburgh’s Linguistics Circle on Thursday, 4th October.
  • Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), “The Space of Sensory Modalities,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 5th October.