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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.

Other events next week:

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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.

Other events next week:

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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.
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Visiting Speakers, 30th April – 4th May

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Ian Phillips (University College London), at Glasgow’s Mind and Perception Research Seminar on Monday, 30th April.
  • Timothy Williamson (Oxford University), “Metaphysics and Higher-Order Modal Logic,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 1st May.
  • Mark Sprevak (University of Edinburgh), “Applying the Explanatory Gap Argument to the Special Sciences,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 2nd May.
  • Corine Besson (Birkbeck, University of London), “The Epistemology of Logic: The Case for Propositionalism,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 2nd May.
  • Jonathan Way (University of Southampton), at Stirling on Thursday, 3rd May.

Other events next week:

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Visiting Speakers, 23rd – 27th April

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Malika Auvray (CNRS, Paris), at Glasgow’s Mind and Perception Research Seminar on Monday, 23rd April.
  • Jennifer Corns (University of Glasgow), “Pain and Idiosyncrasy,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 24th April.
  • Kenneth Winkler (Yale University), “Causal Realism and Hume’s Revisions of the Inquiry,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 25th April.
  • Annalisa Coliva (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), “Moore’s Paradox and Commitments,” at Stirling on Thursday, 26th April.
  • Annalisa Coliva (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), “Hinges and Certainty,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 27th April.
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Visiting Speakers, 16th – 20th April

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Stephen Butterfill (University of Warwick) at Glasgow’s Mind and Perception Research Seminar, “Intention and Motor Representation,” on Monday, 16th April. 
  • Peter Hanks (University of Minnesota) at Glasgow, on Tuesday, 17th April.
  • Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group, “Wittgenstein on the Groundlessness of Our Believing,” on Wednesday, 18th April.
  • Michael Brady (University of Glasgow) at Stirling, “Positive Emotions and Evaluative Understanding,” on Thursday, 19th April.

Other events next week:

  • T.M. Knox Memorial Lecture, St Andrews, 18th April: Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, University of London), “The Utilitarian ‘discovery’ about Liberty: What was it and Who made it?”
  • Workshop: Tim Mulgan’s Ethics for a Broken World, St Andrews, 18th April.
  • PPLS Interdiciplinary Seminar, Edinburgh, 19th April: Edouard Machery (Univeristy of Pittsburgh), “Evidence in Cognitive Neuroscience.”
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Visiting speakers, 26th – 30th March

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Alan Weir (Glasgow) at Stirling, “Why Does Logic Compel?,” on Thursday, 29th March.
  • Tina Chanter (DePaul University) at Dundee, “The Sensibility of Art: Gender, Race and Aesthetics in the work of Jacques Rancière,” on Friday, 30th March.
  • Richard Sorabji (KCL/Oxford) at Edinburgh, “Moral Conscience: Ancient Origins of the Idea and Its Historical Aftermath,” on Friday, 30th March.
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Visiting speakers, 19th – 23rd March

This week’s visiting speakers:

  • Olav Gjelsvik (Oslo University) at Aberdeen on Monday, 19th March.
  • Franz Berto (University of Aberdeen) at Glasgow, “The Empire Strikes Back: the Law of Non-Contradiction After Dialetheism,” on Tuesday, 20th March.
  • Dan Watts (University of Essex) at Dundee, “No Scholarly Still Life: Kierkegaard’s Portrayal of Socrates,” on Wednesday, 21st March.
  • Alan Baker (Swarthmore College) at St Andrews, “Matching Mathematics to the World,” on Wednesday, 21st March.
  • Patrick Greenough (St Andrews) at Edinburgh Epistemology Research Group, “Moore’s Paradox and Norm-Relativism,” on Wednesday 21st March.
  • Tom Pink (KCL) at Stirling, “Normativity and Nature,” on Thursday, 22nd March.
  • Herman Cappelan (St Andrews) at Edinburgh PhilSoc on Thursday, 22nd March.
  • Berys Gaut (St Andrews) at Edinburgh, “Creativity and Rationality,” on Friday, 23rd March.