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Visiting Speakers, 24th – 28th September

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Alexandra Plakias (Aberdeen), “How Moral Disagreement is a Problem for Realism,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 24th September.
  • Murray Shanahan (Imperial College London), “Connectivity and Consciousness,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group, Wednesday, 26th September.
  • Walter Pedriali (Stirling), “Understanding Inference,” at Stirling on Thursday, 27th September.
  • Nick Denyer (Cambridge), “The Political Craft of Protagoras,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 28th September.

 

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Visiting Speakers, 17th – 21st September

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Jonathan Cohen (UC San Diego), “Ecumenicism, Comparability, and Color, Or: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 18th September.
  • Ben Saunders (Stirling), “Fairness, Outcomes, and the Basic Structure,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 19th September.
  • Joe Kuntz (Edinburgh), “Communitarian Agreement,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 19th September.
  • Chris Donald (Melbourne), at Stirling on Thursday, 20th September.
  • Campbell Brown (Edinburgh), at Edinburgh on Friday, 21st September.

Other events next week:

  • Workshop on Billboards, Indexicals, Context and Interpreters, St Andrews, 16th – 17th September.  Speakers: Andy Egan (Rutgers/Arché), Barry Smith (Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London), Seth Yalcin (Berkeley), Wayne Davis (Georgetown), Chris Barker (NYU), Jonathan Cohen (UC San Diego).
  • Workshop on the Philosophy of John Perry, St Andrews, 18th – 19th September.  Speakers:Ruth Millikan (Connecticut), Josh Dever (Texas), Dilip Ninan (Tufts), Daniel Morgan (Oxford), Andy Egan (Rutgers), Herman Cappelen (Arché), John Perry (Stanford and California – Riverside).
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2012 Scots Philosophical Association Annual Meeting

7th – 8th December 2012

Aberdeen

This is the annual meeting of the SPA; all philosophers in Scotland are invited to attend.   Registration is now open; cheaper early registration closes 2nd November.

Speakers:

  • Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto),  “From Practice to Theory: Rethinking the Nature of Philosophical Questions”
  • Douglas Edwards (Aberdeen), “The Goal(s) of Inquiry”
  • Elise Crull (Aberdeen), “Can There Be Metaphysically Robust Interlevel Relations?”

Inquires to Guido Bacciagaluppi.

Conference website

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Ancient Cosmologies

2nd – 4th November 2012

St Andrews

Speakers:

  • Gábor Betegh (Central European University, Budapest)
  • Dorothea Frede (Hamburg)
  • Andrew Gregory (UCL)
  • Charlotte Köckert (Heidelberg)
  • Alex Long (St Andrews)
  • Karla Pollmann (St Andrews)
  • Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Notre Dame)
  • Catherine Rowett (UEA)
  • David Sedley (Cambridge)
  • Chiara Tommasi (Pisa)
  • James Wilberding (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Inquires to classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

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Visiting Speakers, 9th – 13th July

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia), “Justification is Potential Knowledge,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 11th July.
  • Frances Kamm (Harvard University), “Justice After War,” at Edinburgh on Thursday, 12th July (11:00).

Other events next week:

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Visiting Speakers, 2nd – 6th July

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Visiting Speakers, 25th – 29th June

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Visiting Speakers, 18th – 22nd June

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Josef Perner (University of Salzburg), “Infants’ Sensitivity to Others’ Belief: Implicit?,” at Edinburgh’s PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar on Monday, 18th June.
  • Brian Weatherson (Rutgers University), “Margins and Errors,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 20th June.
  • Carla Bagnoli (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee/University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), “Responsibility, Blame, and Respect,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 22nd June.

Other events next week:

  • Workshop: Summer Reflectorium, St Andrews, 18th June.  Speakers: François Recanati, Berys Gaut, Simon Prosser, Graham Priest, Marcia Baron, Aaron Cotnoir.
  • Conference: Pedagogical Encounters – Feminist Philosophy and Education, Dundee, 22nd and 23rd June.  Keynote speakers: Morwenna Griffiths (University of Edinburgh), Amy Shuffelton (Department of Educational Foundations, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater), Graeme Nixon (University of Aberdeen).
  • Workshop: Imperfect Duties, St Andrews, 23rd June.  Speakers: Elizabeth Ashford (St Andrews), Samuel Mansell (St Andrews), Simon Hope (Stirling), and Jens Timmermann (St Andrews).
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St Andrews Summer Reflectorium

18th June 2012

St Andrews

Speakers:

  • François Recanati, “Indexical Thought & Communication”
  • Berys Gaut, “Creativity as a Virtue”
  • Simon Prosser, “The Content of Colour Experience”
  • Graham Priest, “None of the Above”
  • Marcia Baron, “The Supererogatory & Kant’s Wide Duties”
  • Aaron Cotnoir, “Truth without Conjunction?”

Inquires to Jens Timmerman

Further information

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Visiting Speakers, 4th – 8th June

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Andy Egan (Rutgers University), “Epistemic Modals Again,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 6th June.
  • Sid Kouider (Ecole Normale Superieure), “From subliminal perception to conscious access: cognitive and neuronal mechanisms,” at Glasgow’s Mind and Psychology Research Seminar on Friday, 8th June.

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Visiting Speakers, 21st – 25th May

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Frank Pollick (University of Glasgow), “Fusing the sight and sound of swing-groove in the brains of drummers,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Research Seminar on Monday, 21st May.
  • Lloyd Humberstone (Monash University), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 22nd May.
  • Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds), “Believing in each other: Rational belief and other minds,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 23rd May.

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Visiting Speakers, 14th – 18th May

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Philipp Keller (University of Geneva), “Fundamentality, Grounding and Dependence,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 15th May.
  • Igal Kvart (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “The Pragmatics of Knowledge and Pragmatic Encroachment,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 16th May.
  • Lloyd Humberstone (Monash University), “Logical Relations — Traditional and Not-So-Traditional,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 18th May.