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Philosophy events, week of 8th June

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Philosophy events, week of 1st June

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Philosophy events, week of 18th May

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  • Christopher Burr (University of Bristol), “The Body as Laboratory,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 20th May.
  • Perspectives on Nativism, Edinburgh, 21st – 22nd May.  Speakers: Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich), Gillian Brown (University of St. Andrews), Annie Gagliardi (University of Edinburgh), Suilin Lavelle (University of Edinburgh), Roger Levy (University of California, San Diego), Caroline Rowland (University of Liverpool).
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Philosophy events, week of 11th May

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Adam Zeman (Psychology, Exeter), “The Eye’s Mind,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Research Seminar on Monday, 11th May.
  • Jonathan Tallant (University of Nottingham) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 12th May.
  • Ole Hjortland (Bergen), “Anti-Exceptionalism about Logic,” at St Andrews on Thursday, 14th May.

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Philosophy events, week of 20th April

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Charles Spence (University of Oxford), “Cross-modal correspondences: Looking for links between sound symbolism and synaesthesia, and their application to multisensory marketing,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Research Seminar on Monday, 20th April.
  • Neil McDonnell (University of Glasgow) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 21st April.
  • Thomas Williams (South Florida/CEPPA), “Anselm’s Quiet Radicalism,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 22nd April.
  • Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews), “Cinematic Art and Technology,” at Edinburgh’s Scottish Aesthetics Forum on Wednesday, 22nd April.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Extended Knowledge, Edinburgh, 22nd – 23rd April.  Speakers: Zoe Drayson (Stirling), Fred Adams (Delaware), Ken Aizawa (Rutgers), Heather Battaly (UC-Fullerton), Michael Mi (Soochow), Mark Alfano (Oregon), Richard Menary (Macquarie), Ben Kotzee (Birmingham), Paul Smart (Southampton), Jeroen De Ridder (Amsterdam).
  • Ancient Philosophy Workshop, Edinburgh, 24th April.  Speakers: Richard McKirahan (Pomona College), Inna Kupreeva (Edinburgh), Voula Tsouna (UC Santa Barbara), Alex Long (St Andrews).
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Philosophy events, week of 30th March

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Jonathan Way (University of Southampton), “Reasons and Reasoning,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 1st April.
  • Tim Bayne (University of Manchester), “The Puzzle of Cognitive Phenomenology,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 2nd April.

Other events next week:

  • Digital Subject UK, Dundee, 1st April.  Speakers: Dominic Smith (University of Dundee), Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee), Alan Bell (University of Dundee), Joris Vlieghe (University of Edinburgh), Erika Fulop (University of Hamburg), Arnauld Regnauld (University of Paris VIII), Claire Larsonneur (University of Paris VIII), Pierre Cassou Noguès (University of Paris VIII), Galit Wellner (Ben Gurion University), Tim Barker (University of Glasgow), Caroline Brown (University of Dundee).
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Philosophy events, week of 23rd March

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh), “DeFreuding implicit attitudes,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of the Natural and Human Sciences on Monday, 23rd March.
  • Miranda Fricker (University of Sheffield) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 24th March.
  • Ian Phillips (Oxford University), “Unconscious perception reconsidered,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 25th March.
  • Rachael Wiseman (Durham University) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 26th March.
  • Elke Brendel (University of Bonn) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Thursday, 26th March.
  • Samir Okasha (University of Bristol), “Individualism and reductionism in evolutionary biology,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 26th March.
  • Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University), “The brain as a model of the world,” at Edinburgh’s PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar on Thursday, 26th March.
  • Paulina Sliwa (University of Cambridge) at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 27th March.
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Philosophy events, week of 16th March

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Bob Kentridge (Durham University), “Colour perception without awareness,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Research Seminar on Monday, 16th March.
  • Roger Crisp (University of Oxford) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 17th March.
  • Davide Romano (University of Lausanne) at Aberdeen’s Philosophy of Physics Seminar on Tuesday, 17th March.
  • Todd Mei (University of Dundee), “Land and the Given Economy – A New Understanding of Land and Our Relation to It,” at Aberdeen’s Philosophy Colloquium on Wednesday, 18th March.
  • Ambrose Lee (University of Oxford), “Defending a Communicative Theory of Punishment,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 19th March.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 19th March.
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Philosophy events, week of 9th March

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Jim Sterba (University of Notre Dame), “Bringing the Pauline Principle to Bear on the Problem of Evil,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of the Natural and Human Sciences on Monday, 9th March.
  • Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (University of Aarhus) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 10th March.
  • Becko Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College), “Thomas Reid on Aesthetic, Moral and Pathological Perception,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 11th March.
  • Matthew Parrott (University of Cambridge), “Delusions as Explanations,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 11th March.
  • Johanna Wolff (University of Hong Kong) at Aberdeen’s Philosophy Colloquium on Wednesday, 11th March.
  • Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh), “Kant on the Aesthetic Dimension of Cognition,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 12th March.
  • Johanna Wolff (University of Hong Kong), “The metaphysical status of quantities,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 12th March.
  • Paul Fletcher (University of Cambridge), “Perception, Belief, and Psychosis,” at Edinburgh’s PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar on Thursday, 12th March.
  • Elisabeth Schellekens (University of Uppsala/University of Durham), “On Sensible and Intelligible Beauty,” at Edinburgh’s Scottish Aesthetics Forum on Thursday, 12th March.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Simon Prosser (University of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday, 9th March.
  • Ignorance and Underrepresentation (Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Spring Workshop), Edinburgh, 10th March.  Speakers: Janet Kourany (University of Notre Dame), Elinor Mason (University of Edinburgh), Pablo Schyfter (University of Edinburgh), Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff University).
  • Peter Poellner (University of Warwick) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 12th March.
  • Foundations of Normativity, Edinburgh, 13th – 14th March.  Speakers: Leslie Green (University of Oxford), Richard Holton (University of Cambridge), Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Connie Rosati (University of Arizona), Holly Smith (Rutgers University), Crispin Wright (New York University/University of Aberdeen), Fatema Amijee (University of Texas, Austin), Teemu Toppinen (Helsinki University).  
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Philosophy events, week of 2nd March

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Elizabeth Irvine (University of Cardiff) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 3rd March.
  • Vera Matarese (University of Hong Kong) at Aberdeen’s Philosophy of Physics Seminar on Tuesday, 3rd March.
  • Jennifer Corns (University of Glasgow) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 4th March.
  • Dave Ward (University of Edinburgh), “Minds, Brains and Representations: A “perfectly intelligible interplay”?,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 5th March.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Crystal Addey (University of St Andrews), “Plato and Women,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday, 2nd March.
  • Alasdair Richmond (University of Edinburgh) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 5th March.
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Philosophy events, week of 23rd February

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Magdalena Balcerak Jackson (University of Konstanz), “Mineness and self-involvement in imagination,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Research Seminar on Monday, 23rd February.
  • Craig French (University of Cambridge) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 24th February.
  • Emanuela Ceva (Pavia/CEPPA), “Rescuing Democracy from Reductionism,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 25th February.
  • Mike Wheeler (University of Stirling), “Phenomenal Consciousness, Sensory Substitution and the Extended Mind,” at Aberdeen’s Philosophy Colloquium on Wednesday, 25th February.
  • Keith Wilson (University of Glasgow), “The Two Senses of Smell,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 25th February.
  • Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter), “When Data Travel: re-thinking the epistemology of data,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 26th February.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Elodie Laugt (University of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday, 23rd February.
  • Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 26th February.
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Philosophy events, week of 16th February

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • John Heil (Washington University in St Louis) at Glasgow’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Research Seminar on Monday, 16th February.
  • Guido Bacciagaluppi (University of Aberdeen), “Leggett-Garg Inequalities, Pilot Waves, and Contextuality,” at Aberdeen’s Philosophy of Physics Seminar on Tuesday, 17th February.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Mike Ridge (University of Edinburgh) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday, 16th February.
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Philosophy events, week of 9th February

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  • Sacha Golob (King’s College London) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 10th February.
  • Vincent Ardourel (University of Paris), “A Discrete Solution for the Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise,” at Aberdeen’s Philosophy of Physics Seminar on Tuesday, 10th February.
  • Elodie Laügt (University of St Andrews), “Contemporary with Whom? Rancière, Mallarmé, and the Re-marking of Time,” at Dundee’s Philosophy Seminar on Wednesday, 11th February.
  • Michael Pace (Chapman University) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 11th February.
  • Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia), “Aesthetic Agency and Value,” at Edinburgh’s Scottish Aesthetics Forum on Wednesday, 11th February.
  • Vincent Ardourel (University of Paris), “The Representation of Time in Discrete Mechanics,” at Aberdeen’s HPS Seminar on Wednesday, 11th February.
  • Jane Heal (University of Cambridge), “The Second Person,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 12th February.
  • Guy Kahane (University of Oxford) at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 13th February. 

Other events next week (more information):

  • David James (University of Warwick) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 12th February.
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Philosophy events, week of 2nd February

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Mark Kalderon (University College, London) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 3rd February.
  • Bryan Pickel (University of Edinburgh), “Frontloading, Supposition, and Contraction,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 4th February.
  • David Carmel (University of Edinburgh), “Attentional attractors and visual awareness,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 4th February.
  • Shannon Spaulding (Oklahoma State University), “On Direct Social Perception,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 5th February.
  • Wolfgang Schwartz (University of Edinburgh), “Confirmation and Conditionalization,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 5th February.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Adam Carter (University of Edinburgh) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 5th February.
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Philosophy events, week of 26th January

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Mikkel Gerken (University of Edinburgh) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 27th January.
  • Catherine Heeney (University of Edinburgh), “Ethics and the Sharing of Human Biomedical Data: A Deluzian Approach,” at Dundee’s Philosophy Seminar on Wednesday, 28th January.
  • Elizabeth Fricker (Magdalen College, University of Oxford), “‘How to Make Invidious Distinctions Amongst Reliable Testifiers,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 28th January.
  • Justin Snedegar, “Oughts and Options,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 29th January.
  • Mark Jago (University of Nottingham), “What Truth Is,” at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 30th January.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Gifford Lectures, Edinburgh, 26, 27, 29 January and 2, 3, 5 February.  Speaker: Jeremy Waldron, “One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality.”
  • Victoria Harrison (University of Glasgow) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 29th January.
  • Suffering’s Valuable Functions, Glasgow, 31st January.  Speakers: David Bain, Giandomenico Iannetti, Morten L. Kringelbach, Colin W. Leach, Michael Serpell, Fabrice Teroni.
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Philosophy events, week of 19th January

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Leslie Green (University of Oxford) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 20th January.
  • Joanna Bryson (University of Bath) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 21st January.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Kevin Scharp (Ohio State University) presenting three seminars at St Andrews on 19th, 20th, and 21st January (each day at 11:00 in Edgecliffe G03) on “Theories of Descending Truth,” “Conceptual Engineering,” and “Metrological Naturalism.”
  • Helen Beebee (University of Manchester) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 22nd January.
  • Francis Hutcheson and the Emergence of Modern Aesthetics, Aberdeen, 23rd – 24th January.