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Philosophy events, week of 12th January

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Debbie Roberts (University of Edinburgh) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 13th January.
  • Eran Tal (University of Cambridge), “Making Time. A study in the epistemology of measurement,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 15th January.
  • Ofra Magidor (University of Oxford) at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 16th January.
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Philosophy events, week of 15th December

Events next week (more information):

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Philosophy events, week of 8th December

Events next week (more information):

  • Workshop on Statistical Evidence in Epistemology and the Law, Glasgow, 12th – 13th December.  Speakers: Michael Blome-Tillmann (Cambridge/Montreal), Anna-Maria Eder (Duisburg-Essen), Andrew Higgins (Oxford), Federico Picinali (LSE), Mike Redmayne (LSE), Martin Smith (Glasgow), Levi Spectre (Open University of Israel).
  • New Enlightenment Lecture, Edinburgh, 12th December.  Speaker: Rae Langton (University of Cambridge).

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Philosophy events, week of 1st December

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Peter Jones (University of Newcastle) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 2nd December.
  • Sarah Cook (University of Dundee), “Biomediations in Exhibition form: Art, Life, Media Technologies, Gender, Histories,” at Dundee’s Philosophy Seminar on Wednesday, 3rd December.
  • Endre Szécsényi (University of Aberdeen) at Aberdeen’s Philosophy Colloquium on Wednesday, 3rd December.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Scots Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, St Andrews, 5th – 6th December.  Speakers: Julia Driver (Washington University in St Louis), Andrew Peet (University of St Andrews/University of Stirling), Ben Sachs (University of St Andrews), Justin Snedegar (University of St Andrews).
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Philosophy events, week of 24th November

One more reminder: registration for the 2014 SPA Annual Meeting (at St Andrews) closes on 28th November.  To register go to:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/events/?eventid=593

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Colin Blakemore (Institute of Philosophy, London), “What has science ever done for perception?,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Research Seminar on Monday, 24th November.
  • Joe Morrison (Queen’s University Belfast) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 25th November.
  • Patrick Todd (University of Edinburgh) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 26th November.
  • Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews), “Virtue and the natural goods: an Aristotelian perspective,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 27th November.
  • Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds), “Truth, progress and realism in science,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 27th November.
  • Kenneth Walden (Dartmouth College), “Realizing respect,” at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 28th November.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Knowledge-First workshop, Edinburgh, 26th November.  Speakers: Jesper Kallestrup (Edinburgh), Martin Smith (Glasgow), Clayton Littlejohn (Kings College London), Aidan McGlynn (Edinburgh), Heather Logue (Leeds).
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Philosophy events, week of 17th November

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Chris Mills (UCL) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 18th November.
  • Knox Peden (Australian National University), “The History of Spinozism as a Philosophical Problem,” at Aberdeen’s Philosophy Colloquium on Wednesday, 19th November.
  • Laurence Hemming (Lancaster University), “The End of Sex: Power and Justice in the Loves of Foucault, Heidegger and Mimnermus,” at Dundee’s Philosophy Seminar on Wednesday, 19th November.
  • Toby Meadows (University of Aberdeen), “Sifting Through the Wreckage: Some Thoughts about Foundations for Mathematics,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 19th November.  
  • Maja Spener (University of Birmingham) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 19th Noovember.  
  • Raphael van Riel (University of Duisburg-Essen), “Normativity and Social Rules,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 20th November.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Bill Fulford (University of Oxford) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday, 17th November.
  • Debbie Roberts (University of Edinburgh) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 20th November.
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Philosophy events, week of 10th November

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Barbara Sattler (University of St Andrews) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 11th November.
  • Charlie Kurth (Washington University in St Louis), “Why Moral Anxiety Matters,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 12th November.
  • Victor Tadros (University of Warwick) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 12th November.
  • Keith Wilson  (University of Glasgow), “Are the senses silent? A plea for representational humility,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 13th November.
  • Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto), “What is the role of fictions in science?,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 13th November.
  • Paolo Santorio (University of Leeds) at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 14th November.

Other events next week (more information):

  • David Cooper (Durham University) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 13th November.
  • Early Analytic Group, Stirling, 15th November.  Speakers: Bryan Pickel (University of Edinburgh), Fatema Amijee (University of Texas, Austin), Peter Sullivan (University of Stirling), Michael Potter (University of Cambridge).
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Philosophy events, week of 3rd November

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Catherine Abell (University of Manchester) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 4th November.
  • Joanna Hodge (Manchester Metropolitan University), “Of the Event: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference, Historical Difference,” at Dundee’s Philosophy Seminar on Wednesday, 5th November.
  • Kim Sterelny (Australian National University), “Evolution and Moral Realism,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 5th November.
  • Louise Richardson (University of York) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 5th November.
  • Thomas Land (University of Cambridge), “Kant, Perception, and the Argument from Animals,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 6th November.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Jessica Brown (University of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday, 3rd November.
  • John Michael (Central European University) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 6th November.
  • Arché Graduate Conference, St Andrews, 8th – 9th November.  Keynote speakers: Penelope Mackie (Nottingham), Ian Rumfitt (Birmingham).
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Philosophy events, week of 27th October

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Michael Blome-Tillmann (McGill University/University of Cambridge), “On the role of statistical evidence in courts of law,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 29th October.
  • Claire Sergent (University Paris Descartes), “Retro-perception: how retrospective attention influences conscious perception,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 29th October.
  • Chris Timpson (University of Oxford), “Timelike experimental metaphysics: Macroscopic Realism and the Leggett-Garg inequality,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 30th October.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday, 27th October.
  • Andrew Pickering (University of Exeter) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 30th October.
  • Mereology Workshop, St Andrews, 1st – 2nd November.  Speakers: Achille Varzi (Columbia), Kris McDaniel (Syracuse), Josh Parsons (Oxford), Gabriel Uzquiano (USC/Arche), Aaron Cotnoir (St Andrews), Caroline Tougourg.
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Philosophy events, week of 20th October

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame), “Normativity and generality in ethics and aesthetics,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Research Seminar on Monday, 20th October.
  • Tom Dougherty (University of Cambridge) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 21st October.
  • Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame), “A Theory of Intuition and Intuitive Justification,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 22nd October.
  • Ellen Fridland (King’s College, London), “Motor Control: Handling Conditions Vary” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 22nd October.
  • Craig Taylor  (University of Adelaide), “Impartial Morality and Universalizability,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 23rd October.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Elizabeth Fricker (University of Oxford) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 23rd October.
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Philosophy events, week of 13th October

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Frank Durgin (Swarthmore College), “The angular expansion hypothesis of locomotor space perception” and “What is “embodied perception” the embodiment of? A critical review,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Research Seminar on Monday, 13th October, and Wednesday, 15th October.
  • Toby Meadows (University of Aberdeen) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 14th October.
  • Robin McKenna (University of Vienna) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 15th October.
  • Jennifer Corns (University of Glasgow), “Hedonic rationality,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 16th October.
  • Nancy Cartwright (Durham University/University of California, San Diego), “Predicting what will happen when we intervene,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 16th October.
  • Helen Steward (University of Leeds) at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 17th October.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Derek Ball (University of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday, 13th October.
  • iCog2: Perspectives on Learning, Edinburgh, 15th – 16th October.  Speakers: Andrew Philippides (Sussex), Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck), Szu-Han Wang (Edinburgh), Alex Doumas (Edinburgh).
  • Symposium on Recanati, St Andrews, 16th – 17th October.  Speakers: Jonas Åkerman (Stockholm), Imogen Dickie (Toronto), Manuel García-Carpintero (Barcelona), Rachel Goodman (Leeds), Simon Prosser (St Andrews), Francois Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod).
  • Alan Weir (University of Glasgow) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 16th October.
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Philosophy events, week of 6th October

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Patrick Todd (University of Edinburgh) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 7th October.
  • Ophelia Deroy (University of London), “Multisensory integration, and the many unities of consciousness,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 8th October.
  • Nick Treanor (University of Edinburgh), “The Proper Work of the Intellect,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 9th October.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Ben Sachs (University of St Andrews), “Should universities be required to set aside places for impoverished students?,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Monday, 6th October.
  • Tom Cochrane (University of Sheffield) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 9th October.
  • Political Thought in the Early Modern Period (North Sea Seminar for Early Modern Philosophy), St Andrews, 10th – 11th October.  Speakers: Hannah Dawson (New College of the Humanities), Lena Halldenius (Lund University), Adamas Fiucci (Chieti), Johan Olsthoorn (LSE), Veronika Szanto (Eotvos Lorand University), Steph Marston (Birkbeck), Alfonso Vergaray (California University of Pennsylvania),  Martin Otero-Knott (Cambridge), Annelien De Dijn (Amsterdam), Jan Kvetina (Charles University).
  • Non-Alethic Aims of Enquiry, St Andrews, 11th – 12th October.  Speakers: Derek Ball (St Andrews), Nancy Cartwright (Durham/UCSD), Jane Friedman (NYU), Allan Hazlett (Edinburgh), Juha Saatsi (Leeds), Andreas Stokke (Umea).
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Philosophy events, week of 29th September

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Keith Allen (University of York) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 30th September.
  • Erik Wielenberg (DePauw University), “Empirical Moral Psychology and Some Challenges to Moral Knowledge,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 1st October.
  • Lee Walters (University of Southampton), “The Polysemy of Fictional Names and Predicates,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 2nd October.
  • Robin Hendry (Durham University), “Essentialism in chemistry: problems and prospects,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 2nd October.
  • Holly Lawford-Smith (University of Sheffield) at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 3rd October.
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Philosophy events, week of 22nd September

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Patrice Haynes (Liverpool Hope), “Religious Diversity and the Feminist Subject: A Perspective from Feminist Philosophy of Religion,” at Dundee’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Wednesday, 24th September.
  • Dorothea Debus (University of York), “‘Mental Time Travel’: Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future, and the Particularity of Events,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 24th September.
  • Amber Carpenter (University of York), “Plato on Restricting Knowledge to Make Room for Belief,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 25th September.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 25th September.
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Philosophy events, week of 15th September

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics), “Personal Identity and the Significance of Becoming,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 17th September.
  • Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics), “How it Makes a Moral Difference that One is Worse Off than One Could Have Been,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 18th September.
  • Martin Kusch (University of Vienna), “Epistemic Relativism and Skepticism: Three Problems,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 18th September.
  • Vasilis Politis (Trinity College Dublin), “Definition by Example in the Hippias Major: Plato’s anticipation of, and response to, Geach,” at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 26th September.
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A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy

The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy presents a workshop on ‘A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy’.

Taking place at the University of Dundee on 12th September 2014, the workshop aims to provide a forum for the reconsideration of Deleuze and Guattari’s work, and to develop connections between established scholars and students working in this area. It involves a series of workshops on Deleuze and Guattari’s most important work, A Thousand Plateaus. The workshop is open to all, but interested parties are asked to register with Professor James Williams in advance (see below).

There will be three workshops focusing on A Thousand Plateaus each at a centre of Deleuze scholarship. A Thousand Plateaus is composed of fifteen plateaus, and each workshop will deal with a selection of these. The workshops will allow speakers to engage with the different perspectives of other speakers through a collaborative close reading of the texts. An edited collection based on these workshops will be published by Edinburgh University Press.

See the full workshop programme here

For enquiries and to register please contact Professor James Williams (j.r.williams@dundee.ac.uk).

This workshop is funded by the Scots Philosophical Association and the Arts & Humanities Research Institute (AHRI).

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Philosophy events, week of 14th July

Next week:

  • Mental Fictionalism, Edinburgh, 14th – 15th July.  Speakers: Emily Caddick Bourne (Cambridge), Gregory Currie (York), Tamás Demeter (Phil. Institute Hungary), Dan Hutto (Wollongong), Ted Parent (Virginia), Adam Toon (Exeter), Meg Wallace (Kentucky).
  • Wilfred Hodges, “Ibn Sina uncovers a subtle mistake in Aristotle’s modal logic,” St Andrews, on Tuesday, 15th July (11:00, Edgecliffe G03).