From Mirko Canevaro (Classics, Edinburgh):
Honour in Classical Greece
Public Lecture Series
28 June 2018
5:10–7:30pm
Speaker: Professor Axel Honneth (Frankfurt/Columbia)
Venue: Playfair Hall, Royal College of Surgeons, Nicolson St, Edinburgh EH8 9DW
Our project is delighted to welcome as its second public lecturer Axel Honneth, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia and Frankfurt Universities and Director of the latter’s renowned Institut für Sozialforschung.
The theme of Professor Honneth’s lecture is ‘Recognition in Modern Europe’.
The lecture will be followed by a reception.
All are welcome. The event is free to attend, but registration is required. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/axel-honneth-hcg-lecture-recognition-in-modern-europe-tickets-46450397389.
Dr Mirko Canevaro
From Ashley Woodward (Dundee):
Dear all,
The University of Dundee and The Scottish Center for Continental Philosophy is please to announce a series of special events by visiting scholars Alexander R. Galloway and Maria Sa Cavalcante Schuback, funded by the Scots Philosophical Association.
All event are open to all and are free to attend. There is no need to book.
Alexander R. Galloway (4-6, May 14-16)
First masterclass on the concept of the digital.
Second masterclass on the concept of the analog
Evening lecture: “How did the computer learn to see?”
Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback (4-6, May 21-24)
Three masterclasses on time in exile, and the struggle of existence
Evening lecture: “Thinking through Sketches.”
For more details, follow the link: https://scot-cont-phil.
From Amanda Diserholt (Edinburgh Napier):
Please join us for a seminar by Aaron Schuster on: From Hedonism to the Symptom: The Destiny of Lust
In this seminar, we will examine Lacan’s notion of jouissance, through the lens of Plato’s dialogue Philebus, his most advanced treatment of the question of pleasure and the good life. How is Lacan’s notion of enjoyment both grounded in Plato’s theory on pleasure as well as a decisive break from it? What are the moral and ontological implications of Lacan’s idea of enjoyment? How does it relate to Freud’s attempts to theorize the nature of Lust? In addition to the interpretation of Lacan, we will sketch a history of pleasure, starting with Plato’s critique of hedonism and ending with Freud’s paradoxical notion of the “unfelt pleasure” of the symptom. From Greek hedonism to the neurotic symptom: is this the destiny of Lust?
Aaron Schuster is a philosopher and writer, based in Amsterdam. He is the author of The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis (MIT Press, 2016). He was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago in 2016, and will be at the Society of Fellows, Cornell University in 2018-2019.
You are invited to read Aaron Schuster’s texts:
Is Pleasure a Rotten Idea?
Being and Enjoyment in Plato’s Philebus: A Lacanian Perspective
Tuesday May 8 at 18:30 – 20:00
Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus, Room G24
**FREE AND OPEN TO ALL**
Wednesday, 2 May 2018 · St Mary’s Quadrangle, South Street · The Senate Room
11:30 Antonino Falduto (Halle-Wittenberg):
2:30 Jeanine Grenberg (St Olaf):
It is our pleasure to invite you to the St Andrews Kant Reading Party 2018: Kant and Rawls.
The reading party is an annually recurring academic retreat aimed at bringing together
scholars of various backgrounds and career stages to discuss and compare the works of
Immanuel Kant and another prominent philosopher. The eleventh edition of the event will
be held at The Burn in Angus (http://theburn.goodenough.ac.uk/) from July 16-19, 2018.
Thematically, our focus will be on the practical philosophy of Kant and John Rawls. Our aim
is to illuminate the complex relation between the two philosophers, and thereby to gain new
and deeper insights into some of the important moral and political issues of our time.
The Kant Reading Party is open to all. It involves a combination of discussion sessions,
which are based on pre-circulated readings, and paper sessions, which give graduate
students a chance to present work relevant to the theme of the event.
We invite graduate students to submit anonymised abstracts of no more than 750 words by
the 13 th of May. Note that students whose abstracts are selected for presentation are waived
the entire participation fee.
Non-presenting participants are invited to register by the 31 st of May. The estimated
participation fees are £140 for faculty members and £70 for students.
For more information on the event, as well as detailed instructions on how to submit
abstracts and register for participation, please visit our website at
https://standrewskantcolloquium.wordpress.com/kant-reading- party/ and our philevents
page at https://philevents.org/event/show/61314
With best wishes,
The organisers: Janis Schaab, Lucas Sierra Vélez, Prof. Kate Moran, Prof. Jens Timmermann
The St Andrews Kant Reading Party 2018 is made possible by the support of the Centre for
Academic, Professional and Organisational Development at the University of St Andrews,
the Scots Philosophical Association, and the UK Kant Society.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/capod/
https://sites.google.com/site/ukkantsociety/
Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy IX
SCOTTISH SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
University of Aberdeen 24-25 May 2018
The Sir Duncan Rice Library, Seminar Room 224.
Key note speakers:
Felicity Green (University of Edinburgh)
Martin Lenz (University of Groningen)
All are welcome to attend. Attendance is free, but registration is mandatory on our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scottish-seminar-in-early-modern-philosophy-ix-tickets-43171342648
PROGRAMME
Thursday 24 May
9.00-9.15 Coffee and Welcome
9.15-10.00 Brenda Basilico (University of Lille III), “Music, Mathematics, and Skepticism in Mersenne’s Writings”
10.00-10.45 Margaret Matthews (Emory University, Atlanta), “The Place of Skepticism in Montaigne’s Essays.”
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00-12.00 Key Note Speaker: Felicity Green (University of Edinburgh), “Freedom and Responsibility in Locke’s Account of Belief.”
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 Raphael Krut-Landau (University of Pennsylvania), “From History to Anagogy: Scriptural Modes of Reading in Spinoza’s Ethics.”
14.15-15.00 Sanja Särman (Hong Kong University), “Don’t Know Yourself – Spinoza and Leibniz on the Advantages of Having an Infinitely Unfamiliar Mind.”
15.00-15.15 Break
15.15-16.00 James A. Harris (University of St Andrews), “Hume on political obligation: between Locke and Filmer.”
16.00-17.45 Jacob Hinze (University of St. Andrews), “Indeterminacies in Locke’s Concept of the State of Nature.” (SSEMP Essay Prize Winner, funded by the BSHP)
Friday 25 May
9.00-9.15 Coffee
9.15-10.00 David Bartha (Central European University), “Two Routes to Idealism: Collier and Berkeley.”
10.00-10.45 Umrao Sethi (Lehman College, CUNY), “Mind-Dependence in Berkeley and the Problem of Perception.”
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00-12.00 Key Note Speaker: Martin Lenz (University of Groningen), “What does it mean to share a view? Hume on the Transmission of Mental States. “
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 Dino Jakusic (University of Warwick), “Christian Wolff and the Invention of Ontology.”
14.15-15.00 Gaston Robert (King’s College London), “God, Aggregation, and the Collective Unity of All Substances: General Pre-Established Harmony Revisited.”
15.00-15.15 Break
15.15-16.00 Keith Green (East Tennessee State University), “Hatred, Moral Motivation, and ‘Normativity’ in Spinoza and Hume”
16.00-16.45 Gabriel Watts (Oriel College, Oxford), “The Curious Place of Curiosity in Hume’s Theory of the Passions.”
Attendance is free, but registration is mandatory. Please up on Eventbrite: Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy IX: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scottish-seminar-in-early-modern-philosophy-ix-tickets-43171342648
Contact: Mogens Lærke: mogenslaerke@hotmail.com
Organisation: Beth Lord (Aberdeen); Mogens Lærke (IHRIM, CNRS, ENS de Lyon)
Funding: Scottish Philosophical Association (SPA) / British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP) / University of Aberdeen / IHRIM (CNRS, UMR 5317), ENS de Lyon.
From Fenner Tanswell & Josh Habgood-Coote:
Hi everyone,
On Saturday the 7th and Sunday the 8th of April, the University of St Andrews are hosting a workshop entitled “Mathematical Collaboration II” in room 104, Edgecliffe The Scores, St Andrews. This is a joint workshop with the Social Machines of Mathematics project in Oxford led by Prof Ursula Martin.
The event website can be found here:
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/group-knowledge-and-mathematical-collaboration-workshop-ii/
I shall also include the schedule and abstracts below.
The purpose is to look at social epistemology for mathematics, with a focus on how mathematicians collaborate. We’ve gone out of our way to make this interdisciplinary and to interact with practising mathematicians, argumentation theorists, historians and ethnographers, so we’re hoping to see some exciting discussion, especially with a panel discussion featuring local mathematicians and historians of mathematics.
I encourage everyone that is interested to come along. There is no registration fee, but it would be very helpful to let us know if you intend to so that we can get a feel for the numbers. If you would like to join us for dinner at Maisha, please let me know too (though we cannot cover the cost of this from the budget).
We gratefully acknowledge funding from both the Scots Philosophical Association and the EPSRC.
All the best,
Fenner Tanswell & Josh Habgood-Coote
josh.habgood-coote@bristol.ac.uk
SCHEDULE
Saturday 7th April
9:30-10.45 Talk: Josh Habgood-Coote (Bristol) What is the point of authorship?
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Talk: Benedikt Loewe (Hamburg/Amsterdam) Training future researchers studying mathematical practices and cultures
12:30-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:00 Presentation: Kamilla Rekvenyi (St Andrews) Paul Erd?s’s Mathematics as a Social Activity
2:00-2:10 Brief break
2:10-3:25 Talk: Stephen Crowley (Boise State) Does Collaboration make Mathematicians Virtuous?
3:25-3:50 Coffee Break
3:50-5:00 Panel Session on mathematical collaboration: Peter Cameron, Adam Dunn, Isobel Falconer, Louis Theran
7:00 Conference Dinner (Maisha)
Sunday 8th April
9:30-10.45 Talk: Colin Rittberg (VUB Brussels) & Fenner Tanswell (St Andrews) Epistemic Injustice in Mathematics (joint work with Jean Paul van Bendegem)
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Talk: Joe Corneli (Edinburgh) Argumentation theory for mathematical argument
12:30-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:45 Chris Kelp (Glasgow) tbc
2:45-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:15 Talk: Katie McCallum (Brighton) Situating Mathematical Communication: An Artist’s Ethnography of Research Mathematics
4:20-5:30 Talk: Ursula Martin (Oxford) Beyond inference, and towards impact: taking forward the study of mathematical collaboration.
ABSTRACTS
Title- What is the point of authorship?
Josh Habgood-Coote (Bristol)
Abstract. Getting to important results in mathematics often takes the intellectual efforts of many people, each offering different kinds of contribution, as we can see in the polymath project, the classification of finite simple groups, and everyday collaborations. When it comes to writing up collaborative work, the collaborators face the vexed question of who should be included on the author line. Researchers in a number of disciplines — most saliently high-energy physics and biomedicine — have worried about this question, putting forward various proposals for authorship attributions. In this paper, I will offer a different angle on this debate, thinking about the different functions played by authorship attributions, and suggesting that disciplines might do better by replacing the notion of authorship with a pluralist account that distinguishes contributors, writers and guarantors.
Title – Does Collaboration make Mathematicians Virtuous?
Stephen Crowley (Boise State University)
Abstract – The aim of this paper is to consider the ‘fit’ of two important recent views about knowledge making communities. On the one hand the importance of collaboration is becoming increasingly clear, on the other the notion of virtue is being appealed to more frequently as a way to understand the norms of practice of such communities. So far so good – but can we fit collaboration into a virtue based approach, and if not what follows? Mathematics, in addition to its intrinsic interest, is a great case study for thinking about this issue because i) its deeply collaborative and ii) its norms will be almost purely epistemic – no Human Subjects protocols to complicate things – as such a great deal of recent work from virtue epistemology can be ‘imported’ in a relatively straightforward fashion. I’ll suggest here that collaboration is a poor fit with the virtue framework and that the implications of this are that our thinking about the nature of knowledge making communities is still too individualistic.
Situating Mathematical Communication: An Artist’s Ethnography of Research Mathematics
Katie McCallum (Brighton University)
Mathematics is often characterised as existing above and outside of our social and material world. Through ethnographic observation and creative and linguistic analysis I am undertaking to build up a picture of mathematical communication and even solo work as inextricably bound up with rich material and social resources, and its progress dependent on their successful deployment. Written analysis moves in parallel with creative sculptural experimentation in order to do justice to the material element emphasised in this research.
I will be talking about the results of my observations of nine mathematicians in the UK, USA and Europe, combining a cognitivist theory of communication with situated mind ideas in an effort to explain why it is that the study of mathematics takes the particular forms that it does in the world. These forms have developed and been maintained in dialogue with our limited, very human cognitive architecture, and understanding how this is the case might demonstrate that ideas about mind-environment systems have insight to offer in even the most ostensibly disembodied areas of human endeavour.
Title: Training future researchers studying mathematical practices and cultures
Benedikt Löwe
Abstract. The research field studying mathematical research practices and cultures (also known as “philosophy of mathematical practice”) uses methods from the empirical social sciences to study mathematical research practices and in particular cultural variations between different research practices and their effect on mathematics. Sociologists of science are well-equipped with an ample toolbox of methods to do studies like this, but traditionally, they have shown a “peculiar mixture of awe and lack of interest” in mathematics (Heintz, 2000). As a consequence, philosophers of mathematical practice have to follow in the footsteps of experimental philosophers and become empirical scientists themselves. In this talk, I report on a graduate-level course taught at the Universiteit van Amsterdam to train philosophers of logic, science, and mathematics for doing empirical research relevant for the philosophy of mathematical practice.
Title: Paul Erd?s’s Mathematics as a Social Activity
Kamilla Rekvenyi (St Andrews)
Abstract. This presentation investigates the collaborative mathematical practice of Paul Erd?s. It raises the question of whether communal mathematics, or mathematics as a social activity, can lead to individual success. It draws on new primary sources in both English and Hungarian.
I will look at Erd?s’s social mathematics from several angles. Firstly, I will analyse his collaborations and heritage, and the ways he had for finding the ideal mathematician to work with him on each problem. Then I discuss two contrasting case studies: his influence on young mathematicians as exemplified by Kenneth Falconer; and the Erd?s-Selberg collaboration on the elementary proof of the prime number theorem, which ended in dispute. Neither of these collaborations resulted in individual success for Erd?s, but both furthered, what may have been his main aim: solving beautiful mathematical problems.
Title: Argumentation theory for mathematical argument (joint work with Ursula Martin, Dave Murray-Rust, Gabriela Rino Nesin, Alison Pease)
Joe Corneli (Edinburgh)
Abstract: To adequately model mathematical arguments the analyst must be able to represent the mathematical objects under discussion and the relationships between them, as well as inferences drawn about these objects and relationships as the discourse unfolds. A paper recently submitted to the journal Argumentation introduces a framework with these properties, which has been applied to both mathematical dialogues and expository texts. (Preprint available: http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06500 )
Title: Epistemic Injustice in Mathematics
Colin Rittberg (VUB) & Fenner Tanswell (St Andrews) joint work with Jean Paul van Bendegem (VUB)
Abstract: We investigate how epistemic injustice can manifest in mathematical practices. We do this as both asocial epistemological and virtue-theoretic investigation of mathematical practices. We delineate the concept both positively – we show that folk theorems can be a source of epistemic injustice in mathematics – and negatively by exploring cases where the obstacles to participation in a mathematical practice do not amount to epistemic injustice. Having explored what epistemic injustice in mathematics can amount to, we use the concept to highlight a potential danger of intellectual enculturation. (Let me know if you’d like a copy of this paper.)
Dear Scottish Philosophers,
The following events are upcoming at the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at St Andrews:
To All Scottish Philosophers,
The following events are upcoming at the Arché Research Centre at St Andrews:
Mathematical Collaboration Workshop II
7 – 8 Apr
Medieval Logic and its Contemporary Relevance
30 Apr – 2 May
The Epistemology of Perception & the Perceptual Analogy Workshop
8 – 9 June
Externalism and Conceptual Change Workshop
14 – 15 June
21 – 23 June
Final reminder: David Papineau is giving our keynote address today at 11 AM in the Dugald Stewart Building 3.10. Catered lunch at 12:30 on the 7th floor of DSB. Glen Pettigrove is giving our final talk at 1:30 in 3.10 DSB.
We hope to see you there!
10:30 AM: Coffee (7th floor of Dugald Stewart Building)
11:00 AM: Keynote Address: David Papineau (KCL), “Kinds and Essences” (3.10/3.11 Dugald Stewart Building)
12:30 PM: Lunch (provided; 7th floor Dugald Stewart Building)
1:30 PM: Glen Pettigrove (Glasgow), “Character and Role” (3.10/3.11 Dugald Stewart Building)
The Dugald Stewart Building is located on Bristo Square in Edinburgh. More information about the building (including accessibility information) can be found here.
Dear Scottish Philosophers,
The SPA AGM and Conference is coming up next week on Thursday/Friday 7 and 8 December in Edinburgh. The conference program is below (with a few minor updates). If you would like to attend the conference dinner (likely cost: £15 – £20), please email me at scotsphil@gmail.com by Tuesday 5 December. The dinner location will be Namaste Kathmandu (17 Forrest Rd). If you would simply like to attend the conference, it would be great if you could let me know, but don’t feel pressure, and do feel free to simply turn up on the day. Note: all Scottish PG students welcome!
Patrick Todd (Secretary)
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Thursday 7 December
1:30 PM: Coffee and meet and greet (7th floor of Dugald Stewart Building)
2:00 PM: AGM Business meeting (SPA members only) (3.10/3.11 Dugald Stewart Building)
3:30 PM: Michela Massimi (Edinburgh): “Modelling Possibilities” (3.10/3.11 Dugald Stewart Building)
5:00 PM: Drinks reception (7th floor Dugald Stewart Building)
6:45 PM: Dinner at Namaste Kathmandu (email Secretary to register)
Friday 8 December:
10:30 AM: Coffee/pastries (7th floor of Dugald Stewart Building)
11:00 AM: Keynote Address: David Papineau (KCL), “Kinds and Essences” (3.10/3.11 Dugald Stewart Building)
12:30 PM: Lunch (provided; 7th floor Dugald Stewart Building)
1:30 PM: Glen Pettigrove (Glasgow), “Character and Role” (3.10/3.11 Dugald Stewart Building)
The Dugald Stewart Building is located on Bristo Square in Edinburgh. More information about the building (including accessibility information) can be found here.
KBNS Network Workshop 1
Self-Knowledge and the A Priori
18th-19th December 2017, Stirling Court Hotel, University of Stirling
The Workshop is open to all, and there is no registration fee, but please register by emailing Sonia Roca-Royes at sr22@stir.ac.uk.
For more information, please visit: http://kbns.
Draft Programme
Monday 18th December
10.00 – 11.30 Åsa Wikforss (Stockholm): Knowledge of Belief and the Asymmetry Thesis
11.30 – 11.45 Coffee
11.45 – 1.15 Indrek Lobus (Stirling): TBA
1.15 – 2.15 Lunch
2.15 – 3.45 Rob Rupert (Colorado): TBA
3.45 – 4.00 Break
4.00 – 5.30 Giovanni Merlo (Stirling): The metaphysical problem of other minds
5.30 – 6.30 Buffet Dinner
6.30 – 8.30 2nd KBNS PUBLIC LECTURE: Åsa Wikforss (Stockholm):
Fact resistance: what is it, and how can it be cured?
Tuesday 19th December
10.00 – 11.30 Annalisa Coliva (UCI): Disagreeing with myself. Rationality, Moore’s paradox and belief revision
11.30 – 11.45 Coffee
11.45 – 1.15 Joshua Thurow (UTSA): Understanding to the Rescue
1.15 – 2.15 Lunch
2.15 – 3.45 Lucy O’Brien (UCL): TBA
3.45 – 4.00 Break
4.00 – 5.30 Giacomo Melis (Stirling): Brute errors and warranting roles (of experience)
7.00 Dinner: Stirling Court Hotel
Attendance is free but please contact Adam.Rieger@glasgow.ac
Kant’s ScotsBi-annual workshop on Kant’s philosophyFriday 3rd November 2017Room 4.01, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9ADProgram:10h00-11h30Michela Massimi (Edinburgh): Imaginary standpoints and Perspectival knowledge in Kant11h45-12h45Kristina Kersa (St Andrews): Transcendental unity of apperception and moral will14h00-15h30Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge): Kant and the unity of science debate15h45-17h15Andrew Cooper (UCL): The legacies of Kant’s Critique of JudgmentNo registration necessary
Hermeneutics of Practice
Date: Friday 27 October 2017
Venue: University of Dundee, Dalhousie Building, Room 2S12 (10-1PM) & Room 2F14 (1-4PM)
The Hermeneutics of Practice is an Art and Philosophy symposium hosted by the School of Humanities. The themes it will investigate will be in honour of Professor Nicholas Davey, who retired from the University of Dundee in 2017. The speakers we have invited, including guest speakers from the University of Westminster and Lancaster University, have previously worked with Nicholas Davey, and are leading experts on contemporary creative practices. Topics to be explored include: what is an artistic practice? How do philosophy and art intertwine when considering notions of practice? How might the notion of hermeneutics aid us when it comes to understanding (artistic) practice?
Tea and coffee will be served in the afternoon, and attendance is free. Please note the change of rooms in the morning and afternoon sessions.
Morning Session (10-1PM): 2S12 Dalhousie
10.00-10.30 Phillip Braham: ‘In Time, and silently’
10.30-11.00 Linda Bolsakova: ‘The weather conditions for practice’
11.00-12.00 Kerstin May: ‘The Discipline of Art’
12-1.00 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session (1-4PM): 2F14 Dalhousie
1.00-2.00 Nicholas Davey: ‘“I only wanted to say something practical!” On learning from Practice’
2.00-2.30 Andrew Roberts: ‘Philosophical Hermeneutics and Creative Reading’
2.30-3.00 Tea and Coffee Break
3.00-4.00 Ian Heywood: ‘Art Practice: Supplements and Contexts’
All are welcome!
Contact: Ashley Woodward: a.z.woodward@dundee.ac.uk
