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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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2012 Carnegie Centenary Professor: Lloyd Humberstone

Professor Lloyd Humberstone (Monash University) will be visiting St Andrews through the end of June as one of this year’s Carnegie Centenary Professors.  He’ll be speaking at some of the other Scottish departments during his stay:

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Conference announcement: Hybrid Theories in Metaethics

2nd – 4th July 2012

University of Edinburgh

Speakers:

Inquires to Guy Fletcher

Conference website

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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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Ethics for a Broken World programme

The programme for the Ethics for a Broken World workshop (http://www.scotsphil.org.uk/tim-mulgans-ethics-for-a-broken-world/) on 18th April is now available:

 

Ethics for a Broken World Workshop

University of St Andrews, School VI (the Quad)

Wednesday, 18 April, 2012

 

Programme:

Brian McElwee ‘The Perspective of the Broken World’ 9.30 – 10.40

Tim Chappell ‘The Future-Person Standpoint’ 10.45-11.55

Brad Hooker ‘Contingency and Moral Requirements’ 12.00 –  13.10

lunch

Ben Saunders ‘Democracy and Future Generations’ 14.30 – 15.40

Jesse Tomalty ‘Human Rights and the Possibility of a Broken Future’ 15.45 – 16.55

coffee etc.

Elizabeth Ashford ‘Liberty Rights and Trade-Offs’ 17.15 – 18.25

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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.