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Philosophy events, week of 2nd June

Events next week:

  • Extended Knowledge: Virtue, East Meets West, Edinburgh, 2nd June.  Speakers: Chienkuo Mi, (Soochow University), Eric Hutton (University of Utah), Mark Alfano (University of Oregon), Wayne Riggs (University of Oklahoma), Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota).
  • Aesthetics Work-in-Progress Day, St Andrews, 4th June.
  • Wittgenstein and Epistemology (British Wittgenstein Society Annual Conference), Edinburgh, 5th – 6th June.  Speakers: Annalisa Coliva (Modena), Pascal Engel (Geneva), John Greco (St Louis), Allan Hazlett (Edinburgh), Martin Kusch (Vienna), Michael Lynch (Connecticut), Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (Hertfordshire), Genia Schonbaumsfeld (Southhampton), Claudine Tiercelin (College de France), Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins).
  • Tense in Semantics and Philosophy of Language, St Andrews, 5th – 6th June.  Speakers: Brian Rabern, Berit Brogaard, Mark Steedman, Angelika Kratzer, Peter Ludlow, Dorit Abusch, Jeffrey King.
  • Education, Virtue, and Wellbeing (Intellectual Virtue in Education III), Edinburgh, 7th June.  Speakers: James MacAllister (University of Stirling), Ed Forrest (Educate for Life), Lubomira Radoilska (University of Kent, Canterbury), Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota), Gary Walsh (Character Scotland).
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Philosophical Quarterly table of contents updates

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Philosophy events, week of 26th May

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Tim Kenyon (University of Waterloo), “Content dissolution: How testimony changes in the telling,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 28th May.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Terence Irwin symposium (information: p.ziegler@abdn.ac.uk), Aberdeen, 28th May.  Speaker: Terence Irwin (University of Oxford), “John Rawls as a Moral Philosopher: His Place in the Development of Ethics” and “Love your Neighbour AS Yourself?”.
  • 3rd Glasgow Philosophy of Religion Seminar, Glasgow, 29th – 30th May.  Speakers: Sarah Adams (University of Leeds), Max Baker-Hytch (University of Oxford), Ryan Byerly (Regent University), Trent Dougherty (Baylor), David Efird and Daniel Gustafsson (University of York), Sebastian Gäb (Universität Trier), Shawn Graves (University of Findlay), Jason Goltz (Westminster College), Amber Griffioen (Universität Konstanz), Timo Koistinen (University of Helsinki), Tyler McNabb (University of Glasgow), Emmanuel Nartey (City University of New York), Paul O’Grady (Trinity College, Dublin), Martin Pickup (New College, Oxford), Walter Schultz and Lisanne Winslow (University of Northwestern), Hami Verbin (University of Tel Aviv).
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Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize 2014

The Philosophical Quarterly invites submissions for its 2014 international prize essay competition, the topic of which is ‘Humans and Other Animals’.

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/pq/prize.html

What lessons can we learn from thinking about our relations with non-human animals? For instance:

  • What are the differences, and what are the similarities, between capacities for cognition and agency in humans and other animals?
  • What moral constraints, if any, are there on our treatment of them?
  • Which theoretical perspective gives the best answers to questions about the morality of our relations with non-human animals?
  • Might it be our moral duty to prevent animals from harming each other?
  • Are there good moral objections to eating meat from animals genetically engineered to be unconscious?
  • We welcome submissions of 8,000 words or fewer addressing these or other questions about humans and other animals.

Essays should be typed in double spacing. Electronic submission is preferred and contributions may be sent as email attachments to pq@st-andrews.ac.uk. Most formats are acceptable, but PDF is preferred.

Alternatively, non-electronic submissions may be sent to the address below. Three copies of each essay are required and these will not be returned. All entries will be regarded as submissions for publication in The Philosophical Quarterly, and both winning and non-winning entries judged to be of sufficient quality will be published. The closing date for submissions is 1st November 2014.

All submissions should be headed ‘Human’s and Other Animals’ Prize Essay Competition (with the author’s name and address given in a covering letter, but NOT in the essay itself) and sent to:

The Journal Manager
The Philosophical Quarterly
University of St Andrews
KY16 9AR
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UK

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Philosophy events, week of 19th May

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Michael Devitt (CUNY), “Testing Theories of Reference,” at Edinburgh’s PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar on Monday, 19th May, and at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Friday, 23rd May.
  • Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri), “Knowing What Things Look Like,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Research Seminar on Monday, 19th May.
  • Charlotte Werndl (London School of Economics) at Aberdeen’s Philosophy Colloquium on Tuesday, 20th May.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Newton, Kant, and the Newtonianism of the Eighteenth Century, Edinburgh, 19th May.  Speakers: Thomas Ahnert (University of Edinburgh), John Henry (University of Edinburgh), Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh), Eric Schliesser (University of Ghent).
  • Can Virtue Be Taught? (Intellectual Virtue in Education II), Edinburgh, 24th May.  Speakers: Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University), Ben Kotzee (University of Birmingham), Morwenna Griffiths (University of Edinburgh), Tom Hamilton (General Teaching Council for Scotland), Michael McCabe (George Heriot’s School), Rachael Wiseman (Durham University).
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Philosophy events, week of 12th May

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Karol Polcyn (Kings College, London) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 13th May.
  • Zoe Drayson (University of Stirling), “Vehicles of Cognition,” at Aberdeen’s Philosophy Colloquium on Tuesday, 13th May.
  • Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Thursday, 15th May.

Other events next week (more information):

  • 300 Years of Leibniz’s Monadology, Edinburgh, 12th – 13th May.  Speakers: Delphine Kolesnik-Antoine (ENS de Lyon), Jeremy Dunham (Edinburgh), Pierfrancesco Basile (Bern), Emily Thomas (Groningen), Paul Lodge (Oxford), Mogens Laerke (ENS de Lyon/Aberdeen), Jo Edwards (UCL), Richard Fincham (American University of Cairo).
  • Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, St Andrews, 12th – 13th May.  Speakers: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen), Spencer Johnston (Arché, St Andrews), John Marenbon (Trinity College, Cambridge), Anna Marmodoro (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), Stephen Read (Arché, St Andrews), Cecilia Trifolgi (All Souls College, Oxford), Rega Wood (Stanford), Mark Thakkar (Lincoln College, Oxford).
  • Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy V, Aberdeen, 14th – 15th May.  Keynote speakers: Susan James (Birkbeck), John Sellars (Birkbeck/Oxford).
  • Philosophical Methodologies (Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group Spring Workshop), Edinburgh, 16th May.  Speakers: Amia Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Nancy Bauer (Tufts University), Catarina Dutilh Novaes (University of Groningen), Eric Schliesser (University of Ghent).
  • Martha Nussbaum workshop, St Andrews, 16th May.
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Philosophy events, week of 5th May

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Andrew Reisner (McGill University) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 6th May.

Other events next week (more information):

  • The Meaning of Matter and the Trouble with Time, St Andrews, 6th May.  Speakers: Chris Hooley (Physicist, St Andrews), Brian Pitts (Physicist & Philosopher, Cambridge), Andrew Pinsent (Physicist & Theologian, Oxford), Michela Massimi (Philosopher, Edinburgh), Wahid Bhimji (Physicist, Edinburgh), Patrick Greenough (Philosopher, St Andrews), Raymond Tallis (Doctor and writer).
  • Scottish Common Sense Philosophy, Edinburgh, 7th – 9th May.  Speakers: Knud Haakonssen (University of Sussex), Paul Wood (University of Victoria), Angélique Thébert, (Lycée Livet, Nantes) Claire Echegaray (Paris).
  • Acinemas: Aesthetics and Film in the Philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard, Dundee, 7th – 8th May.  Speakers: Jean-Michel Durafour (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 and the École Normale Supérieure), Peter W. Milne (Seoul National University), Keith Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University), Julie Gaillard (Emory University), James Williams (University of Dundee), Graham Jones (Monash University), Mathew Pateman (Kingston University), Kiff Bamford (Leeds Metropolitan University), Vlad Ionescu (University of Leuven), Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee).
  • Paton Colloquium in Kantian Ethics, St Andrews, 7th May.  Speakers: Andrea Esser (Marburg), Allen Wood (Indiana).
  • Normativity and Modality, Edinburgh, 9th – 11th May.  Speakers: Helen Beebee (Manchester), Simon Blackburn (UNC), Matthew Chrisman (Edinburgh), Janice Dowell (Syracuse), Michael Forster (Bonn/Chicago), Jimmy Lenman (Sheffield), Huw Price (Cambridge), William Starr (Cornell), Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins).
  • Frege’s Conception of Sense, Stirling, 10th – 11th May.  Speakers: Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame), Mike Beaney (York), Bob Hale (Sheffield), Peter Milne (Stirling), Walter Pedriali (Stirling), Michael Potter (Cambridge).
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Philosophy events, week of 21st April

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Istvan Aranyosi (Bilkent University) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 22nd April.
  • Kyla Ebels-Duggan (CEPPA/Northwestern University) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 23rd April.
  • Marcia Baron (University of St Andrews) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 24th April.
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HowTheLightGetsIn Philosophy Festival

HowTheLightGetsIn Philosophy Festival

22nd May – 1st June 2014 in Hay-on-Wye

HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy festival, is back with thought-provoking debates, talks and courses to bring big thinking back into public life. Our theme this year is Heresy, Truth and the Future and we’ve just announced our full programme featuring over 500 events across ten days. We’ll be joined by the world’s leading philosophers including Hubert Dreyfus, Nancy Cartwright  and Thomas Pogge together with figures from the worlds of science, politics and culture to debate everything from the science of consciousness to nature of matter and discover which of today’s heresies will become the truths of tomorrow.

In the evenings  we have a great line-up of music and comedy from the likes of Mr. Scruff, Holly Burn, Molotov Dukebox, Alphie Brown, Sara Pascoe and Alexis Taylor.

Speakers this year include: Roger Penrose, Nancy Cartwright, Thomas Pogge, Ian McGilchrist, Mary Midgley, Laurie Taylor, Jennifer Hornsby, Mattew Parris, Ted Honderich, George Ellis, Barry C. Smith, Michael Howard, Hubert Dreyfus, Diane Abbott and many, many more.

Our full programme can be found online at www.howthlightgetsin.org

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Philosophy events, week of 14th April

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • David Brink (University of California, San Diego), “Eudaimonism and Cosmopolitan Concern,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 16th April, and “Mill’s Perfectionism,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 17th April.
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Philosophy events, week of 7th April

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Simon May (Florida State University) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 10th April.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Experimental Philosophy, Edinburgh, 8th April.  Speakers: Joshua Shepherd (University of Oxford), Natalie Gold (King’s College, London), Paulo Sousa (Queen’s University, Belfast), Suilin Lavelle & David Carmel (University of Edinburgh).
  • Early Analytic Group, Stirling, 12th April.  Speakers: Jim Levine (Trinity College, Dublin), Janine Gühler (University of St Andrews/University of Stirling), Bryan Pickel and Brian Rabern (University of Edinburgh), Rob Trueman (University of Stirling), Michael Potter (University of Cambridge).
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Philosophy events, week of 31st March

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Stephan Torre (University of Aberdeen), “Anti-haecceitism and De Re Modality,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 2nd April.
  • Suilin Lavelle (University of Edinburgh), Xabier Barandiaran (University of the Basque Country), and Dan Hutto (University of Wollongong) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 2nd April.
  • Elizabeth Barnes (University of Leeds) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 3rd April.
  • Ellen Clarke (All Souls College, University of Oxford), “The multiple realizability of biological individuality,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 3rd April.

Other events next week (more information):

  • The Global Politics of LGBT Rights, Rules, and Responses, St Andrews, 4th April.  Speakers: John Anderson (University of St Andrews), Barbara Zollner (Birkbeck University), Matthew Waites (University of Glasgow), William Vlcek (University of St Andrews), Helga Varden (University of Illinois), Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin).
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Philosophy events, week of 24th March

(Sorry for the lateness of this announcement!)

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • John O’Dea (University of Tokyo) “Why, and in what sense, things look different in the shade: solving the puzzle of constancy,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Research Seminar on Monday, 24th March.
  • Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 26th March.
  • Steinvor Arnadottir (University of Stirling) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 25th March.
  • Roman Frigg (London School of Economics), “The fiction view of modelling,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 27th March.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy Launch Workshop, Dundee, 24th March.  Speakers: James Williams (Dundee), Daniel Whistler (Liverpool), Pascale Gillot (Paris 1), Yoni Van Den Eede (VUB), Wahida Khandker (MMU), Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Paris 8).
  • David Bain (University of Glasgow) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 27th March.
  • A.E. Taylor Lecture, Edinburgh, 28th March.  Speaker: Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia), “Truth and lies: why Plato’s philosopher kings will believe the Noble Lie, and believe it first, precisely because they know the truth.”
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Mary Midgely at Aye Write! Book Festival

Mary Midgely comes to Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival on Thursday 10th May.  She will be in discussion with Raymond Tallis on the subject of ‘Are You An Illusion?’, asking such questions as ‘Do you think that brain chemistry defines who you are?’ and ‘do you believe you are a fiction conjured by your brain’s deeper drives?’. Find out more about the event here: http://bit.ly/1genJAI

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Philosophy events, week of 17th March

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Kevin Mulligan (University of Geneva) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 18th March.
  • Jessica Frazier (University of Kent) at Dundee’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Wednesday, 19th March.
  • Matthew Ratcliffe (Durham University), “How Anxiety Induces Verbal Hallucinations,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 19th March.
  • Steven Horst  (Wesleyan) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 20th March.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Realism, Pluralism, and Naturalism, Stirling, 17th March.  Speakers: Steven Horst (Wesleyan), Rachel Crossley (SASP), Ian Robertson (SASP), Zoe Drayson (Stirling), Michael Wheeler (Stirling).
  • Herman Cappelen (University of St Andrews) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 20th March.
  • Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy Launch Workshop, Dundee, 21st March.  Speakers: James Williams (Dundee), Daniel Whistler (Liverpool), Pascale Gillot (Paris 1), Yoni Van Den Eede (VUB), Wahida Khandker (MMU) Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Paris 8).
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Philosophy events, week of 10th March

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Mark Textor (King’s College, London) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 11th March.
  • Keith Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University) at Dundee’s Visiting Speaker’s Seminar on Wednesday, 12th March.
  • Richard Creath (Arizona State University) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 12th March, and at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 13th March.
  • Matthew Benton (University of Oxford) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 12th march.
  • Alexander Bird (University of Bristol), “Inference to the Best Explanation: Problems and Paradigms,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 13th March.
  • Susanna Siegel (Harvard Universsity) at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 14th March.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Stephen Graham (Newcastle University) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 13th March.
  • Book Symposium on Ernest Sosa’s “Epistemic Agency”, Edinburgh, 14th March.  Speakers: J. Adam Carter (Edinburgh), Zoe Drayson (University of Stirling), John Greco (St. Louis), Jesper Kallestrup (Edinburgh), Matthew McGrath (Missouri), Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University).
  • Philosophy for Children, Edinburgh, 15th March.  Speakers: Peter Worley (Philosophy Foundation, London), David Birch (Philosophy Foundation, London), Michael Hand (University of Birmingham), Anne Baril (University of New Mexico), John Greco (St Louis University), Allan Hazlett (University of Edinburgh).
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Philosophy events, week of 3rd March

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Mike Martin (University College, London) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 4th March, at  St Andrews’ Philosophy Club (“Glances & Sighs: Social Competence & the Domain of Expression”) on Wednesday, 5th March, and at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 6th March.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Moral vs. Intellectual Virtue, Edinburgh, 4th March.  Speakers: Allan Hazlett (University of Edinburgh), Alan Wilson (University of Edinburgh), Peter Millican (University of Oxford), Anne Baril (University of New Mexico), Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews).
  • James Harris (University of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Tuesday, 4th March.
  • Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 6th March.
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Philosophy events, week of 24th February

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Alan Johnson (University College, London), “Illusions of Motion and Their Perceptual Significance,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Research Seminar on Monday, 24th February.
  • John Collins (University of East Anglia) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 25th February.
  • Helga Varden (CEPPA/University of Illinois), “A Kantian Theory of Legal Responsibility for Animals,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 26th February.
  • Jesús Zamora (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 26th February.
  • John Collins (University of East Anglia), “Variables and Natural Language,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 27th February.
  • James Ladyman (Philosophy, University of Bristol), “Science, Metaphysics and Structural Realism,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 27th February.
  • Michael Brady (University of Glasgow) at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 28th February.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Barbara Sattler (Univeristy of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Tuesday, 25th February.
  • Michael Brady (University of Glasgow) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 27th February.