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Visiting speakers, 11th – 15th March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Ulrike Heuer (University of Leeds) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 12th March.
  • Dermot Moran (University College Dublin), “Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Flesh: The Chiasm,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 13th March.
  • Qassim Cassam (University of Warwick), “Self-Knowledge for Humans,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 13th March and at Stirling on Thursday, 14th March.
  • Jon Altschul (Loyola University, New Orleans), “Epistemic Deontology and Feldman on Role-Oughts,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 13th March.
  • Kent Hurtig (University of Stirling), “Conditionalism about the Normativity of Rationality,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 15th March.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 4th – 8th March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Christopher Hookway (University of Sheffield) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 5th March.
  • Pierre Cassou-Nogues (CNRS, Lille), “An Impossible Problem: Reading the Brain of a Disembodied Subject,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 6th March.
  • Anil Seth (Sussex), “Interoceptive predictive coding, conscious presence, and the experience of body ownership,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 6th March.
  • Jacopo Martire (Stirling), “A genealogy of modern law: from sovereignty to normalization,” at Stirling on Thursday, 7th March.
  • Matthew Smith (University of Leeds) at Edinburgh on Friday, 8th March.
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Visiting speakers, 25th February – 1st March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Marcia Baron (St Andrews), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 26th February.
  • Adrienne Janus (University of Aberdeen), “Boxes and Bubbles: Serres and Sloterdijk,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 27th February.
  • Chris Belshaw (Open University/CEPPA Fellow), “Death, Pain, and Animal Life,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 27th February.
  • Guy Longworth (Warwick University), “Testimony, Trust, and Virtue,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 27th February.
  • Crispin Wright (NIP, Aberdeen / NYU), “Alethic Relativism and Faultless Disagreement,” at Stirling on Thursday, 28th February.
  • Derek Ball (University of St Andrews), “Philosophy Without Truth,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 1st March.
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Visiting speakers, 11th – 15th February

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Julien Deonna (Geneva) & Fabrice Teroni (Bern), “Emotions as attitudes,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 12th February
  • Guy Stock (formerly University of Dundee), “The Precedence of Historical Knowledge and our Consciousness of Time and Self,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 13th February.
  • Mikko Tolonen (Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at St Andrews), “Hume, Pride, and Moral Worth,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 13th February.
  • Karol Polcyn (University of Szczecin/KCL), “The Mystery of Consciousness and Modal Intuitions,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 13th February.
  • Doug Edwards (University of Aberdeen), “The Norm(s) of Inquiry,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 15th February.

Other events next week:

  • 17th PPLS Interdisciplinary Lecture, Edinburgh, 12th February.  Speakers: Prof Stephen Butterfill (Warwick), Prof Johannes Roessler (Warwick), and Dr Suilin Lavelle (Edinburgh), “Implicit and Explicit Mind Reading.”
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Stephen Menn in Scotland

Stephen Menn (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will be visiting Scotland later this month, and speaking at:

  • St Andrews, on Thursday, 21st February, 4:15pm, 104 Edgecliffe.  Title: “The Problem of the Poetics; why does Aristotle have no theory of Lyric poetry?”
  • Edinburgh, on Friday, 22nd February, 1pm, Dugald Stewart G.06.  Title: “Aristotle on the Many Senses of Unity” — please read in advance Metaphysics Delta 6 and Iota 1.
  • Edinburgh, on Friday, 22nd February, 5:00pm, McEwan Hall.  This will be the 18th A.E. Taylor Lecture in Ancient Philosophy.  Title: “Wisdom as the Science of the Four Causes?”

Prof Menn has written about Plato, Aristotle, Pre­Socratics, Stoicism, Plotinus, Augustine, Suarez, and Descartes.

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Visiting speakers, 4th – 8th February

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Mikael Pettersson (Stockholm University), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 5th February.
  • Jessica Moss (Oxford), “What is the Logos? Rationality in Aristotle’s Ethics,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 6th February.
  • Simon Prosser (St Andrews), “The Content of Colour Experience,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Language Group on Wednesday, 6th February.
  • Tillmann Vierkant (University of Edinburgh), at Edinburgh on Friday, 8th February.
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Visiting speakers, 28th January – 1st February

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Ken Himma (Seattle Pacific University), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 29th January.
  • Todd Mei (University of Dundee), “”A Heideggerian Political Economy”: Land as Gift in Practice,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 30th January.
  • Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), “The Space of Sensory Modalities,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 30th January.
  • Conor McHugh (University of Southampton), “Epistemic Responsibility and Doxastic Agency,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 30th January.
  • Ursula Coope (University of Oxford), “Reason and reflection in Aquinas,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 1st February.
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Visiting speakers, 21st – 25th January

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Gerald Lang (Leeds), “Theodicy and the Non-Identity Problem,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 22nd January.
  • Matthew Broome (Warwick), “Jaspers and Neuroscience,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 23rd January.
  • Imogen Dickie (University of Toronto), “The mind has a basic need to represent things outside itself,” at Edinburgh on Friday 25th January.
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CFP: PG session at 2013 SPA Annual Meeting

Deadline: 1st September 2013

Conference: 6th – 7th December 2013

Stirling

We’re pleased to announce a new postgraduate session at the Scots Philosophical Association’s Annual Meeting.  The call is open (see below) to third year (and later) PhD students.

Call for papers: We invite submissions of papers to be presented at the Scots Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, to be held 6th – 7th December at the University of Stirling.  This call is open (and only open) to students at Scottish universities who are in at least the third year of a philosophy PhD programme.  Papers of no more than 3,000 words, on any area of philosophy, should be prepared for blind review and sent to the Secretary (A.Hazlett@ed.ac.uk) by 1st September, 2013.  Up to two papers will be selected for presentation at the meeting.

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Visiting speakers, 14th – 18th January

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Clayton Littlejohn (King’s College, London), “Knowledge is probably the norm of belief,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 16th January.
  • Chris Allen (University of Cardiff), “Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation effects on conscious awareness and perception,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 16th January.
  • Robin Le Poidevin (University of Leeds), “Stopped Clocks, Silent Telephones and Sense Data,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 18th January.
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2012 Annual Meeting album

Some snapshots from the 2012 SPA Annual Meeting, held 7th – 8th December at the University of Aberdeen.

King’s Chapel, University of Aberdeen

A former member of the Association, perhaps?

King’s Chapel

The Duncan Rice Library

Inside the library

Margaret Morrison delivers the keynote address, “From Practice to Theory: Rethinking the Nature of Philosophical Questions”

Mark Sprevak

Dinner is served

Guido Bacciagaluppi

Douglas Edwards presents on “The Goals(s) of Inquiry”

Nathaniel Jezzi

Elise Crull presents her paper “Can There Be Metaphysically Robust Interlevel Relations?”

An atom is drawn

Margaret Morrison

The delegates

 

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Visiting speakers, 3th – 7th December

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • John Bishop (Auckland), “Concepts of God and Problems of Evil,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 4th December.
  • JC Beall (UConn), “Shrieking towards recapture”, at Arché, St Andrews on Tuesday, 4th December.
  • David Bain (Glasgow), “An Evaluativist Account of Pain,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 5th December.
  • Graham Priest (NYU/St Andrews), “Plurivalent Logic”, at Arché, St Andrews on Thursday, 6th December.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 26th – 30th November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Darryl Gunson (University of the West of Scotland), “Moral Enchantment,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 27th November.
  • Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Texas), “From Thought to Action,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 28th November.
  • Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge), “Respecting All the Evidence,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 28th November.
  • Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Texas), “On Knowing One’s Reasons,” at Stirling on Thursday, 29th November.
  • Chris Heathwood (University of Colorado), “Irreducibly Normative Properties,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 30th November.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 19th – 23rd November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Jessica Leech (Sheffield): “Essence and Mere Necessity,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 20th November, at St Andrews on Wednesday, 21st November, at  Stirling on Thursday, 22nd November, and at Edinburgh on Friday, 23rd November.
  • Ulrich Stegmann (Aberdeen), “Natural information and receiver content,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 21st November.

Other events next week:

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SPA Annual Meeting registration

The SPA Annual Meeting is less than four weeks away (December 7th – 8th), and registration is now open.  You can register online via Aberdeen’s website:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/research-innovation/events/1660/

Registration by post, fax, and email are also available.

Note that registration for students is free.  So please pass this information on to any of your students who might be interested.

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Visiting speakers, 12th – 16th November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Luke Russell (Sydney), “Is Forgiveness Elective?,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 13th November.
  • Jac Saorsa (Cardiff School of Art & Design), “Artology: Interventions and Intersections between Philosophy, Art Practice and Biomedical Science,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 14th November.
  • Ephraim Glick (St Andrews), “Practical Modes of Presentation,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 14th November.
  • Stewart Cohen (Arizona), “Self-undermining inference rules and the problem of disagreeing about how to disagree,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Thursday, 15th November (4pm, Dugald Stewart 3.10).
  • Guy Fletcher (Edinburgh), “Expressivism or Cognitivist Sentimentalism?,” at Stirling on Thursday, 15th November.
  • Susan James (Birkbeck), “Spinoza on Learning how to Live,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 16th November.

Other events next week:

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SPA Annual Meeting: early registration closes today

A reminder that early registration (£15; free for students) closes today for the Scots Philosophical Association’s annual meeting, being held this year in Aberdeen, 7th – 8th December.  For registration information:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/research-innovation/events/1660/

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Visiting speakers, 5th – 9th November

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Michael Sollberger (Lausanne/Oxford), “Causation in Perception: A Challenge to Naïve Realism,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 6th November.
  • Jennifer Corns (Glasgow), “Are painful emotional episodes pains?,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 7th November.
  • Ben Sachs (St Andrews), “Distribution doesn’t Matter Morally,” at Stirling on Thursday, 8th November.
  • Suilin Lavellle (Edinburgh) at Edinburgh on Friday, 9th November.

Other events next week: