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Visiting speakers, week of 16th September

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Adrienne Janus (University of Aberdeen), “Boxes and Bubbles: Serres and Sloterdijk,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 18th September.
  • Nick Jones (University of Oxford), “The Fundamentality of the Familiar,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 18th September, and at Stirling on Thursday, 19th September.
  • Ross Cameron (University of Leeds), “How Can You Know You’re Present?,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 18th September.
  • Peter Vickers (University of Durham), “Magic and Miracles in Physics,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science seminar on Thursday, 19th September.
  • Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina) at Edinburgh on Friday, 20th September.
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Visiting speakers, week of 22nd July

Events next week:

  • Embodied Music Cognition, Edinburgh, 22nd – 23rd July.  Speakers: Tom Cochrane (Philosophy, Sheffield University), Marc Leman (Musicology, University of Ghent), Nikki Moran (Music, University of Edinburgh) Rebecca Schaefer (Music, University of Edinburgh).
  • Philosophy and Museums, Glasgow, 24th – 26th July.  Speakers: David Brown (St Andrews), Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York), Garry Hagberg (Bard College, New York), Eileen John (University of Warwick), Michael Levine (University of Western Australia), Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen), Graham Oddie (University of Colorado at Boulder), Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes), Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf, Minnesota) and Jil Evans (Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts, Minneapolis), Philip Tonner (Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow).
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Visiting speakers, week of 8th July

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Nikolaj Pedersen (Yonsei University), “All the many, many things we know: extended knowledge,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Tuesday, 9th July.

Other events next week:

  • Relativism and Rational Tolerance III, Aberdeen, 10th – 11th July.  Speakers: Alex Plakias (NIP), Filippo Ferrari (NIP), Dan Lopez de Sa (Barcelona), Carl Baker (NIP),  Paula Sweeney (NIP), John MacFarlane (Berkeley).
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Visiting speakers, week of 24th June

Events next week:

  • Midsummer Philosophy Workshop, Edinburgh, 23rd – 25th June.  Speakers: James Shaw (Pittsburgh), Michael Hannon (Cambridge/Fordham), Japa Pallikkathayil (Pittsburgh), Josh Parsons (Oxford), Sinan Dogramaci (UT Austin), Maya Eddon & Chris Meacham (UMass Amherst).  
  • British Postgraduate Philosophy Association, Glasgow, 24th – 26th June.  Keynote speakers: Helen Beebee (University of Manchester), Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University).
  • Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, Stirling, 24th – 25th June.  Keynote speakers: Bob Goodin (ANU/Essex), Serena Olsaretti (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra).
  • 2013 St Andrews Summer Reflectorium, St Andrews, 24th June.  Speakers: Brian McElwee, Leslie Stevenson, Patrick Greenough, Stewart Shapiro, Jessica Brown, Jens Timmermann.
  • Kant and the Lawfulness of Nature, Edinburgh, 27th – 28th June.  Speakers: Andrew Chignell (Cornell), Michael Friedman (Stanford), Peter McLaughlin (Heidelberg), Konstantin Pollok (South Carolina), Eric Watkins (California, San Diego), Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge), Alix Cohen (York), Michela Massimi (Edinburgh), Marius Stan (Boston College), Catherine Wilson (York).
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Visiting speakers, week of 17th June

Events next week:

  • Pain Conference, Glasgow, 18th – 20th June.  Speakers: Speakers: Colin Allen, Murat Aydede, David Bain, Michael Brady, Victoria Braithwaite, Jennifer Corns, Valerie Hardcastle, Richard Krueger, Siri Leknes, Jennifer Radden, Adam Shriver, Frédérique de Vignemont.
  • The Philosophy of Luck, Edinburgh, 19th June.  Speakers: Nathan Ballantyne (Fordham), Steven Hales (Bloomsburg), Joe Milburn (University of Pittsburgh), Wayne Riggs (University of Oklahoma), Sabine Roeser (TU Delft and University of Twente), Lee Whittington (University of Edinburgh).
  • The Gettier Problem at 50, Edinbrugh, 20th – 21st June.  Speakers: Mark Kaplan (Indiana University), Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto), Erik Olsson (Lund Universitat), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh), Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University), Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford), Yuri Cath (University of East Anglia), Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales), Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia), Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds), Lisa Miracchi (Rutgers University), Christian Piller (University of York), Amber Riaz (Lahore University of Management Sciences).
  • The Philosophy of the Philosophy of Art, St Andrews, 21st – 22nd June.  Speakers: Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham), David Davies (McGill University), Stacie Friend (Heythrop College, London), Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews), Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland), Dominic Lopes (University of British Columbia), Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham University), Dan Cavedon-Taylor (University of St Andrews).
  • Frege’s Epistemology of Basic Logical Laws, Stirling, 22nd – 23rd June.  Speakers: Robert May (UC Davis), Øystein Linnebo (Birkbeck), Peter Sullivan (Stirling), Joan Weiner (Indiana), Erich Reck (UC Riverside), Gottfried Gabriel (Jena), Fraser MacBride (Glasgow), Adam Rieger (Glasgow), Marcus Rossberg (UConn), and Stewart Shapiro (Ohio/St Andrews).
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Events calendar

Folks:

I’d like to draw your attention to a new feature on the SPA website: an events calendar that displays upcoming philosophy events in Scotland:

http://www.scotsphil.org.uk/conference-calendar/

In addition to weekly emails announcing the following week’s conferences and other major events, as well as visiting speakers at our seminars, I hope this calendar will be useful to some of you.  Cheers!

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Kant and the Lawfulness of Nature

The registration registration deadline for the upcoming conference on “Kant and the Lawfulness of Nature” is coming up on 5th June.  More information:

27-28 June 2013
Room 7.01 Dugald Stewart Building
University of Edinburgh

Speakers:
*Andrew Chignell (Cornell)
*Michael Friedman (Stanford)
*Peter McLaughlin (Heidelberg)
*Konstantin Pollok (South Carolina)
*Eric Watkins (UCSD)

Commentators:

*Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge)
*Alix Cohen (York)
*Michela Massimi (Edinburgh)
*Marius Stan (Boston College)
*Catherine Wilson (York)

The event is part of the activities of the Kant and the Laws of Nature international network, funded by the Leverhulme Trust: http://kantandlaws.com

For details of the program, please see:http://kantandlaws.com/events-new/

The workshop is free and open to everyone but registration is required (as the number of places is limited — first come, first served).  To register, please send an email to Dr James Collin <j.h.collin@sms.ed.ac.uk> by no later than 5th June.

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Visiting speakers, 3rd – 7th June

Events next week:

  • Reasons and Rationality: Epistemic and Practical, St Andrews, 5th – 6th June.  Speakers: Michael Smith (Princeton), Ruth Chang (Rutgers), Stew Cohen (Arizona and St Andrews), John Skorupski (St Andrews), John Broome (Oxford), Ralph Wedgwood (USC).
  • Workshop in Kantian Ethics, St Andrews, 7th June.  Speakers: Jens Timmerman (St Andrews), Melissa Seymour Fahmy (University of Georgia), Seiriol Morgan (University of Bristol).
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WORKSHOP: THE PHILOSOPHY OF TYLER BURGE

Location: University of Glasgow, Philosophy, 67-69 Oakfield Avenue

Date: 15th-16th  June, 2013

Keynote Speaker: Tyler Burge (UCLA)

Philosophy at the University of Glasgow is proud to be hosting Professor Tyler Burge as a Scots Philosophical Association Centenary Fellow. To mark Professor Burge’s visit, the University will be holding a two-day workshop exploring themes from Burge’s work. The aim of the workshop is to bring together philosophers interested in questions of mind, language and knowledge for discussion and debate centred on Burge’s vital contributions to these topics. The provisional programme for the weekend is as follows:

Saturday 15th (Registration from 9am)

Erin Taylor (Cornell) and Andrew McGonigal (Leeds) – ‘Natural Norms and Conventional Norms’
Walter Pedriali (Stirling) – ‘On Frege’s Alleged Commitment to Individual Representationalism’
Peter Sullivan (Stirling) – Discussion: Burge and Frege on Foundational Knowledge
Sean Crawford (Manchester) – ‘Semantical Considerations on Demonstrative De Re Belief’
Ted Parent (Virginia tech) – ‘Infallibilism about Self-Knoweldge II: Autological Judgment’
Ned Block (NYU) – ‘Seeing-As: How can we find out whether seeing is representational, and if so, what representations are involved?’

Sunday 16th (ending around 5.15pm)

Gabriel Rabin (UCLA) – ‘Toward a Theory of Conceptual Mastery’
Joey Pollock (Edin) – ‘Social Externalism and the Problem of Communication’
John Haldane (St. Andrews) – Discussion: ‘Causation, Representation, and Materialism’
Sarah Patterson (Birkbeck) – paper tbc
Tyler Burge (UCLA) – ‘Perception: Where Mind Begins’

To register, please email Dr Tom McClelland at thomas.mcclelland@glasgow.ac.ukConference fees are inclusive of refreshments and a buffet lunch on both days:

Standard fee: £40
Reduced fee for students: £20

When registering please state which conference fee applies to you and any dietary requirements you have. Please also state whether you wish to attend the conference dinners. Payment will not be taken in advance for these meals, but bookings will only be made for those who have specified that they wish to attend.

Dinner on Fri 14th June: We will book a restaurant depending on the number of people who would like to dine on Friday. Please let me know if you would be interested in doing so.

Conference Dinner on Sat 15th June: La Vallée Blanche, Byers Rd. (3 courses at around £16 excluding drinks)

Dinner on Sun 16th June: Cottiers, Hyndland St. (3 courses at around £18 excluding drinks)

To stay up to date with workshop news, please join the Facebook event athttps://www.facebook.com/events/364079303703244/ or consult the conference webpage athttp://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/workshopsconferences/headline_276778_en.html For guidance on travel seehttp://www.gla.ac.uk/about/maps/howtogethere/ and for accommodation advice please seehttp://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/events/accommodation/ Note that Glasgow’s ‘West End Festival’ will mean that hotels are particularly busy for this weekend.

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Visiting speakers, 13th – 17th May

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore), “Desire’s Explanations,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 13th May.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 29th April – 3rd May

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Simon Kirchin (Kent) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 30th April.
  • Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore), “Desire’s Explanations,” at Stirling on Thursday, 2nd May.
  • Armin Schulz (London School of Economics) at Edinburgh on Friday, 3rd May.

Other events next week:

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2013 SPA Centenary Fellows

In 2001 the SPA created a Centenary Fellowship in celebration of 100 years of its existence; this year we are pleased to announce two SPA Centenary Fellows (at Glasgow):

  • Tyler Burge (UCLA), visiting 14th – 22nd June.  There will be a workshop at Glasgow with Prof Burge on the weekend of 15th – 16th June.
  • Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund University), visiting 27th September – 8th October.

For more information, visit:

http://www.scotsphil.org.uk/about/centenary-fellowship/

 

 

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Visiting speakers, 22nd – 26th April

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Miranda Fricker (Sheffield), “What’s the Point of Blame?,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 24th April.
  • Kristina Musholt (London School of Economics), “Against self-representationalism,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 24th April.
  • Miranda Fricker (Sheffield), at Stirling on Thursday, 25th April.
  • Miranda Fricker (Sheffield), “‘Generating Epistemic Responsibility for Implicit Prejudice,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 26th April.

Other events next week:

  • 2013 TM Knox Memorial Lecture, St Andrews, 22nd April.  Speaker: Anthony O’Hear (University of Buckingham), “The Tastes of Sardanapallus: Virtue, Upbringing and Moral Reasoning”
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How The Light Gets In 2013

Coming up at the end of May:

“HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, is back this summer with thought-provoking debates and a fantastic range of speakers in Hay-on-Wye, Wales from the 23rd of May to the 2nd of June.  This summer we’ll witness Nassim Nicholas Taleb discussing the philosophy of risk, John Searle tackling the legacy of 20th-century philosophy, and ethicist Baroness Onora O’Neill debating political morality with Ken Livingstone and Peter Lilley. (See more at howthelightgetsin.org.)”

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Visiting speakers, 8th – 12th April

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen (CEPPA fellow), “Personal and Impersonal Values,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 10th April.
  • Craig French (Antwerp), “The Formulation of Epistemological Disjunctivism,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 10th April.
  • Penelope Mackie (Nottingham) at Stirling on Thursday, 11th April, and at Edinburgh on Friday, 12th April.

Other events next week:

  • The Thin Red Line, Glasgow, 13th April.  Speakers: Tomasz Placek (Jagiellonian University), Michael De (Utrecht University), Alex Malpass (University of Glasgow), Jacek Wawer (Jagiellonian University).
  • Ethics and Natural Law: Foundations and Applications, St Andrews, 13th April.  Speakers: Anthony Lang (St Andrews), Roger Scruton (St Andrews), Timothy Chappell (Open University), John Milbank (Nottingham University), Caron Gentry (St Andrews), John Haldane (St Andrews), Tom Angier (St Andrews), Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews).
  • 8th Annual UK Integrated HPS Workshop, Aberdeen, 11th – 12th April.
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Visiting speakers, 1st – 5th April

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Jules Holroyd (University of Nottingham) at Edinburgh on Friday, 5th April.

Other events next week:

  • Deviant Pain, Glasgow, 6th April.  Speakers: Clare Allely (Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow), Luis Garcia-Larrea (Neuroscience, University of Lyon), Valerie Hardcastle (Philosophy, University of Cincinatti), Richard B.  Krueger (New York State Psychiatry Institute, Columbia University), Joanna McParland (Psychology and Allied Health Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University).
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Visiting speakers, 25th – 29th March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Colin Davis (Royal Holloway, University of London), “Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: The Temporality of Trauma,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 27th March.
  • Aidan McGlynn (University of Edinburgh), “De Facto IEM,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 27th March.
  • Antony Hatzistavrou (Hull), “Reconsideration and the epistemic dimension of exclusionary reasons,” at Stirling on Thursday, 28th March.
  • Zoe Drayson (University of Stirling), “Perception, Prediction, and Penetration,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 29th March.
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Visiting speakers, 18th – 22nd March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • William Mander (Oxford) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 19th March.
  • Zoe Drayson (Stirling), “Perception, Prediction, and Penetration,” at Stirling on Thursday, 21st March.
  • Sarah Sawyer (University of Sussex), “The Importance of Fictional Properties,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 22nd March.