Events next week (more information):

• Nancy Cartwright (University of California San Diego & University of Durham), “Will this policy work for us? Understanding and misunderstanding randomised controlled trials,” at St Andrews on Tuesday, 8th December.
• Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois University), “Fundamentalism vs. Mutualism: The Ongoing Scientific Battles over Reduction and Emergence,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 9th December.
• Nuno Venturinha (New University of Lisbon), “A Wittgensteinian Approach to Embodied Religious Epistemology,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 9th December.
• Helen Beebee (University of Manchester) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 10th December.

Events next week (more information):

• Kathy Puddifoot (University of Birmingham) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 1st December.
• Carl Knight (University of Glasgow) at Edinburgh’s Political Theory Research Group on Wednesday, 2nd December.
• Markus Seidel (University of Münster) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 2nd December.
• Louise Richardson (University of York) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 3rd December.
• SPA 2015 Annual Meeting, Glasgow, 4th – 5th December.  Speakers: Matthew McKeever (Stirling/St Andrews), Janis Schaab (Stirling/St Andrews), Peter Railton (Michigan), Jennifer Corns (Glasgow), Fraser MacBride (Glasgow).
• Epistemic Incoherence, St Andrews, 6th – 7th December.  Speakers: Herman Cappelen (Oslo), Matti Eklund (Uppsala), Patrick Greenough (St Andrews), Nick Hughes (St Andrews), Gillian Russell (UNC Chapel Hill), Kevin Scharp (Ohio State), Elia Zardini (Lisbon), Claire Field (St Andrews).

Events next week (more information):

• Katalin Farkas (Central European University) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 24th November.
• Inferentialism, St Andrews, 25th – 26th November.  Greg Restall (University of Melbourne), Rohan French (University of Groningen), Ukyo Suzuki (University of Tokyo), Jacob Archambault (Fordham University), Ryosuke Igarashi (Kyoto University), Christina Weiss (Universität Friedrichshafen), Ryan Nefdt (Arché), Ole Hjortland (University of Bergen), Catarina Dutilh Novaes (University of Groningen), Jarda Peregrin (Czech Academy of Science), Julien Murzi (University of Salzburg) and Florian Steinberger (Birkbeck College London), Shawn Standefer (University of Melbourne), Rea Golan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), David Ripley (University of Connecticut), Marcus Rossberg (University of Connecticut), Bruno Jacinto and Stephen Read (Arché).
• Debbie Roberts (University of Edinburgh), “Supervenience in Ethics and Epistemology,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 25th November.
• Henry S. Thompson (University of Edinburgh), “Virtual Violence: The Moral Status of Virtual Agents,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informations Reading Group on Wednesday, 25th November.
• Walter Pedriali (University of St Andrews) at Glasgow’s Philosophy Society on Wednesday, 25th November.
• Alisa Mandrigin (University of Warwick) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 26th November.
• Fraser McBride (University of Glasgow) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 26th November.

Next week (more information):

• Helen Steward (University of Leeds) “Touching Experiences” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Monday, 16th November and at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 18th November.
• Martin Doherty (UEA), “Developmentally distinct systems for processing gaze and theory of mind,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Research Seminar on Monday, 16th November.
• Jesse Tomalty (University of Stirling) at Glasgow’s Senior seminar on Tuesday, 17th November.
• Orestis Palermos (University of Edinburgh) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 18th November.
• Inna Kupreeva (University of Edinburgh) at Glasgow’s Philosophy Society on Wednesday, 18th November.
• Massimo Renzo (KCL) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 19th November.
• Katie Steele (London School of Economics and Political Science), “Use-Novelty and Evidential Support,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Friday, 20th November.

Events next week (more information)

• Tim Mulgan (University of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday, 9th November.
• Martin Smith (University of Glasgow) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 10th November.
• Katharine Jenkins (University of Sheffield), “The Institutional Reality of Gender,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 11th November.
• Jennifer Corns (University of Glasgow), “Hedonic Independence and the Negativity Bias,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 11th November.
• Michael Loughlin (Manchester Metropolitan University) at Glasgow’s Philosophy Society on Wednesday, 11th November.
• (TBC) Rico Vitz (Azusa Pacific) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 12th November.
• Melissa Ebbers (Memphis), “Rethinking A Priori Scrutability” at St Andrews’ Arché Research Centre on Thursday, 12th November.  [Contact slr@st-andrews.ac.uk for more information]
• Emma Tobin (University College London) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 12th November.
• Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 12th November.
• Susan Brison (Dartmouth College) at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 13th November.

Events next week (more information):

• Corporate Agency and Shared Responsibility, St Andrews, 2nd – 3rd November.  Speakers: Elizabeth Ashford (University of St Andrews), Annabel Brett (University of Cambridge), David Ciepley (University of Denver), Rowan Cruft (University of Stirling), Stephen Dunne (University of Leicester), David Gindis (University of Hertfordshire), Paddy Ireland (University of Bristol), Samuel Mansell (University of St Andrews), Tim Mulgan (University of St Andrews), Avia Pasternak (University College London), Philip Pettit (Princeton University and Australian National University), Marko Simendic (University of Belgrade), Alejo Sison (Universidad de Navarra), Thomas Smith (University of Manchester), Jeroen Veldman (City University London), Garrath Williams (Lancaster University).
• Derek Ball (University of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday, 2nd November.
• Alastair Wilson (University of Birmingham) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 3rd November.
• Elke Brendel (University of Bonn) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 4th November.
• Isaac Alistair (University of Edinburgh) at Glasgow’s Philosophy Society on Wednesday 4th November.
• Barbara Sattler (University of St Andrews) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 5th November.
• Peter Milne (University of Stirling) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 5th November.

Events next week (more information):

• Theron Pummer (University of Oxford) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday 26th October.
• Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University), “Contrastive Mental Causation and Moral Responsibility,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 28th October.
• Maria Serban (London School of Economics), “How to be a pragmatist about representational kinds,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 28th October.
• Simon Hope (University of Stirling) at Glasgow’s Philosophy Society on Wednesday, 28th October.
• Adam Toon (University of Exeter), “Science and the extended mind,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 29th October.
• Ben Colburn (University of Glasgow) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 29th October.

Events this week (more information):

• Graham Parkes (University College Cork) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 20th October.
• Peter Graham (University of California, Riverside), “Sincerity and the Reliability of Testimony: Burge on the a Priori Basis of Testimonial Warrant,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 21st October.
• Justin Snedegar (St Andrews) at Glasgow’s Philosophy Society on Wednesday, 21st October.
• Susan Brison (Dartmouth College) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 22nd October.
• Directions in the Epistemology of Modality, Stirling, 22nd – 24th October.  Speakers: Al Casullo (Nebraska/Lincoln), Bob Fischer (Texas), Rebecca Hanrahan (Whitman College), Felipe Leon (El Camino College), Sonia Roca-Royes (Stirling), Margot Strohminger (Antwerp), Anand Vaidya (San José), Tim Williamson (Oxford).
• The Role of Phenomenal Consciousness, Glasgow, 24th October.  Speakers: Ben Bramble, Pete Mandik, Olivier Massin, Maja Spener, Michael Wheeler.

Events next week (more information):

• Bence Nanay (University of Antwerp) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 13th October.
• Lisa Downing (Ohio State University), “Selfish Cinema: Questions of Gender and Control in Adaptations of Ayn Rand for the Screen,” at Dundee on Tuesday, 13th October.
• Michael Madary (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), “When Perceptual Anticipation Goes Awry: Trailing, Palinopsia, and Akinetopsia,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 14th October.
• Mikkel Gerken (University of Edinburgh), “Folk Epistemology and Pragmatic Encroachment,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 15th October.
• Ulrich Stegmann (University of Aberdeen), “Information, coding, and genetic mechanisms,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 15th October.
• Jonathan Dancy (University of Texas at Austin and University of Reading) at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 16th October.

Events next week (more information):

• Barbara Sattler (University of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday, 5th October.
• Natalja Deng (University of Cambridge) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 6th October.
• Daniel Rothschild (University College London), “Weak Belief and Other Attitudes,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 7th October.
• Boleslaw Czarnecki at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 7th October.
• Jimmy Lenman (University of Sheffield) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 8th October.
• Socially Extended Knowledge, Edinburgh, 8th – 9th October.  Speakers: Sabine Roeser (Deft University), K. Brad Wray (SUNY), Harry Halpin (World Wide Web Consortium), Paul Smart (University of Southampton), Francis Heylighen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Joelle Proust (Institut Jean Nicod), Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff University), Deborah Tollefsen (University of Memphis), Holly Arrow (University of Oregon), Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University), Michael Lynch (University of Connecticut).
• Samuel Wheeler (University of Connecticut) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 8th October.

Events next week (more information):

• Tom Stern (University College, London) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 29th September.
• Alex Grzankowski (University of Cambridge and Texas Tech University), “A Relational Theory of Non-Propositional Attitudes,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 30th September.
• Adam Linson (University of Oxford & University of Edinburgh), “Shifting perspectives: From veridical to reliable perception across physical and aesthetic contexts,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 30th September.
• James Humphries (University of Glasgow) at Glasgow’s Philosophy Society on Wednesday, 30th September.
• Andrea Sangiovanni (King’s College, London) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 1st October.
• Wendy Parker (Durham University), “Simulating and measuring global climate change,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 1st October.
• Jenann Ismael (University of Arizona) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 1st October and at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 2nd October.

Events next week (more information):

• Zoltan Balazs (Corvinus University of Budapest/CEPPA), “Politics as Comedy,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 23rd September.
• John Broome (University of Oxford), “Reason versus Ought,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 24th September.
• Thomas Tresize (Princeton University) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 24th September.

Events next week (more information):

• A.E. Taylor Lecture at Edinburgh on Friday, 18th September.  Speaker: CDC Reeve (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Human Happiness as a Political Achievement in Aristotle.”
• David Danks (Carnegie-Mellon University), “The mind as goal satisfaction engine,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 18th September.

Events next week:

• Perception and Cognition: Top-Down Influences in Perceptual Experience, Glasgow, 8th – 9th September.  Speakers: Jacob Beck (York University), Steven Gross (Johns Hopkins), Anya Hurlbert (Newcastle), Jack Lyons (Arkansas), Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), Christopher Mole (UBC), Lars Muckli (Glasgow), Nico Orlandi (California, Santa Cruz), Dustin Stokes (Utah).
• Political Obligation, Liberty, and the Law: A conference in memory of Dudley Knowles, Glasgow, 10th – 11th September.  Speakers: John Skorupski (St Andrews), Sandra Marshall (Stirling), Tom Dougherty (Cambridge), Carl Fox (Leeds), Beth Kahn (Durham), Neil McDonnell (Hamburg), Ashwini Vasanthakumar (York).

Upcoming event:

• New Frontiers After Humanism (Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy), Dundee, 3rd – 5th September.  Speakers: Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University), Veronique Mottier (Cambridge University), Lars Iyer (Newcastle University).

Events next week (more information):

• Explanations of Cognition, Stirling, 20th – 22nd July.  Speakers: Fred Adams (Delaware), Ken Aizawa (Rutgers Newark), Zoe Drayson (Stirling), Carrie Figdor (Iowa), Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois), Lena Kastner (Humboldt Berlin), Beate Krickel (Bochum), Tom Polger (Cincinnati), Rob Rupert (Colorado), Christian Sachse (Lausanne), Larry Shapiro (Wisconsin), Jacqueline Sullivan (Western Ontario), Kari Theurer (Trinity College Connecticut).
• Themes from Smith and Rousseau (Adam Smith Society/Rousseau Association), Glasgow, 20th – 22nd July.  Speakers: Charles Griswold (Boston University), Alexander Broadie (Glasgow University).
• Death and Immortality in Greek and Early Christian Thought, St Andrews, 24th July.  Speakers: George Boys-Stones (Durham University), Emma Gee (University of St Andrews), Phillip Horky (Durham University), Elizabeth Pender (University of Leeds), Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia), Simon Trépanier (University of Edinburgh), N.T. Wright (University of St Andrews), James Warren (Cambridge).

Events next week (more information):

• Robert Rupert (University of Colorado, Boulder), “The Primacy of Subpersonal Content,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Tuesday, 14th July.
• European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, Edinburgh, 15th – 17th July.

Next week:

• Philosophy in the Garden, Dundee, 10th July.

Events next this week (more information):

• Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa), “Psychological concepts in non-psychological sciences: a case study in conceptual drift,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 1st July.
• Just War Theory, Edinburgh, 2nd July.  Speakers: Massimo Renzo (Warwick), Susanne Burri (St Gallen), Saba Bazargan (UCSD), Kieran Oberman (Edinburgh), Graham Long (Newcastle), Mathias Thaler (Edinburgh), Holly Lawford-Smith (Sheffield), David Rodin (Oxford).
• Society for Applied Philosophy, Edinburgh, 3rd – 5th July.  Speakers: James Harris (University of St Andrews), Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown University), Antony Duff (University of Stirling), Nancy Cartwright (University of Durham and University of California, San Diego), Julia Driver (University of Washington in St Louis).
• Suffering’s Role and Value, Glasgow, 4th – 6th July.  Speakers: David Bain, Michael Brady, Jennifer Corns, Frederique de Vignemont, Richard Gray, Colin Leach, Kevin Reuter, Timothy Schroeder, Tasia Scrutton, Fabrice Teroni.

Events next week:

• The Philosophical Significance of Conceptual History, St Andrews, 22nd – 23rd June.  Speakers: Sally Haslanger (MIT), David Braddon-Mitchell (Sydney), Herman Cappelen (St Andrews and Oslo), Bob Pasnau (Colorado), Katia Vavova (Mt. Holyoke), Alejandro Pérez Carballo (U-Mass Amherst), Brian Epstein (Tufts), Josh Schechter (Brown).
• Social Epistemology, Edinburgh, 24th June.  Speakers: Stephen Wright (University of Oxford), Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern University).
• Kant, the Laws of the Life Sciences, and the Lawfulness of Nature, Edinburgh, 25th – 26th June.  Speakers: Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame), Angela Breitenbach (University of Cambridge), Michael Friedman (Stanford University), Hannah Ginsborg (Berkeley), Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania), Peter McLaughlin (University of Heidelberg), Lisa Shabel (Ohio State University), Eric Watkins (San Diego), Catherine Wilson (York / CUNY), Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University).
• Daniel Silvermint (University of Connecticut), “Passing as Privileged,” at St Andrews on Friday, 26th June.