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St Andrews Aesthetics Reflectorium

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Aesthetics Reflectorium

Departments of Philosophy, University of St Andrews

Wednesday, 4th June, 2014

Edgecliffe, Room 104

Programme:

  • 10:00-11:00: Chris Woerner, “Art, Context, and Moral Responsibility”
  • 11:00-12:00: Panos Paris, “Moral Beauty and Experience”
  • 12:00-13:00: Lunch Break
  • 13:00-14:00: Simon Fokt, “What is the Artworld?”
  • 14:00-15:00: Barbara Sattler, “Temporality and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature”
  • 15:00-15:15: Break
  • 15:15-16:15: Berys Gaut,  “Accumulation is Not Collaboration”
  •  16:15 – 17:15: Lisa Jones, “Narrative Identity in the Face of New Technology”

Contact: psp5@st-andrews.ac.uk and dct2@st-andrews.ac.uk

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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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Medieval Logic & Metaphysics

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Time: 12 May, 2014 – 13 May, 2014

Location: Rm 104 Edgecliffe, The Scores, St Andrews

Provisional schedule:

Monday 12 May

  • 09.30 Tea/Coffee
  • 10.00 Stephen Read (Arche, St Andrews), ‘Richard Kilvington and the Theory of Obligations’
  • 11.00 Tea/Coffee
  • 11.30 visit to MUSA and Chapel
  • 12.30 Lunch
  • 14.00 Cecilia Trifogli (All Souls College, Oxford), ‘Geoffrey of Aspall on Composite Substances’
  • 15.00 Tea/Coffee
  • 15.30 John Marenbon (Trinity College, Cambridge), ‘Abelard on non-things’
  • 16.30 Tea/Coffee
  • 17.00 Anna Marmodoro (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), ‘Emerging and Descendent Wholes in Aquinas’
  • 18.00 Finish
  • 19.00 Workshop Dinner

Tuesday 13 May

  • 09.30 Tea/Coffee
  • 10.00 Spencer Johnston (Arche, St Andrews), ‘Essence and Modality in Robert Kilwardby’
  • 11.00 Tea/Coffee
  • 11.30 Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen), ‘Validity, formality, and evidence in Buridan’s Treatise on Consequence and his questions on the Prior Analytics’
  • 12.30 Lunch
  • 14.00 visit to Special Collections-manuscripts
  • 15.15 Mark Thakkar (Lincoln College, Oxford), ‘Towards a New Edition of Wyclif’s Logic’
  • 16.15 Tea/Coffee
  • 16.45 Rega Wood (Stanford), ‘The Formal Distinction and the Razor: Rufus, Scotus and Ockham’
  • 18.00 Finish

Registration is free, and includes tea and coffee between the talks. To register, please send an email to the workshop organisers at arche@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Newton, Kant, and the Newtonianism of the Eighteenth Century

19th May, 2014

University of Edinburgh

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The aim of this one-day colloquium is to explore the far-reaching legacy of Newton’s natural philosophy and eighteenth century Newtonianism for Kant’s thought.  The colloquium is sponsored by the Leverhulme International Network and is hosted at IASH under the joint auspices of IASH and the Eighteenth-Century & Enlightenment Studies Network.

Speakers:

  • Thomas Ahnert (History, University of Edinburgh)
  • John Henry (Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh)
  • Michela Massimi (Philosophy, University of Edinburgh), “Newton, the pre-Critical Kant, and three problems about the lawfulness of nature”
  • Eric Schliesser (Philosophy, University of Ghent), “Necessity, and Newton’s Polemics with Spinoza and Spinozism”

The event is free but to have the numbers for catering, registration is required (please send an email to Dr James Collin at jcollin5@staffmail.ed.ac.uk).

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NIP Summer School: Foundations of Logic and Mathematics

18 June 2014 – 25 June 2014

The Northern Institute of Philosophy (Aberdeen) will host a summer school on the Foundations of Logic and Mathematics, led by JC Beall, Oystein Linnebo, Greg Restall, and Crispin Wright. Please see the summer school syllabus and timetable for more information. The summer school is aimed primarily at graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers.

The cost of the Summer School is £395 which includes 7 nights accommodation in halls on campus (the first nights accommodation being Wednesday 18th and the last night being Tuesday 24th. Participants who wish to arrive in Aberdeen before 18th or stay on the evening of 25th will be charged per extra evening.)

Interested parties are asked to register for the summer school before April 30th. Please register with Paula Sweeney by sending the following items to p.sweeney@abdn.ac.uk.

  • A single page cover letter explaining your interest in the Summer School.
  • A curriculum vitae.

Graduate students should supply, in addition:

  • A writing sample on any topic within the broad scope of the summer school.
  • A brief letter of recommendation (which need be no more than one paragraph), sent from a professor familiar with their work.

N.b. As this school has a limited number of participants, interested parties are asked to refrain from booking travel until their registration is confirmed.

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Paton Colloquium in Kantian Ethics

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The H.J. Paton Colloquium in Kantian Ethics

Wed 7th May 2014, 10:30

The Senate Room, St Mary’s Quadrangle, South Street

10.30: Allen Wood (Indiana University, Bloomington) – ‘Universal Law’

2.30: Andrea Esser (Philipps-Universitat Marburg) – ‘Applying the Concept of the Good. Final End and Highest Good in Kant’s Third Critique’

Respondents: Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern/St Andrews) and Alix Cohen (Edinburgh)

To register: http://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=179

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Summer Reflectorium at St Andrews

SUMMER REFLECTORIUM
* Informal talks about research in progress *
9 May 2014
St Andrews, Edgecliffe, The Scores
9:30  Herman Cappelen: Conceptual Engineering: What it is and its Role in Philosophy
10:45  Ephraim Glick: The Semantics of Tense and the Puzzle of Change
12:00  Jessica Brown: The New Infallibilism
2:30  Brian McElwee: Consequentialism and Fitting Attitudes
3:45  Simon Prosser: Why are Indexicals Essential?
5:00   Patrick Greenough: Knowledge
All welcome!
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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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Martha Nussbaum at St Andrews

Martha Nussbaum will be at St Andrews on Friday 16 May, 2014, for a workshop on material from her John Locke Lectures in Philosophy at Oxford University (to be given this spring). The title of the lecture series is:

Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice

Martha Nussbaum’s epigraph for her lectures is:

 I will accept a share in the house of Pallas…

For the city I make my prayer,

prophesying with kind intent

that in plenty the blessings that make life prosperous

may be made to burgeon from the earth

by the sun’s radiant beam.

— Aeschylus, Eumenides

 The gentle-tempered person is not vengeful, but inclined to sympathetic understanding.

 — Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1126a1-3

  •  The St Andrews workshop will be held in School 3 in the Quad, Friday16 May.
  • There will be a morning session 10.30-12.30 and an afternoon one.
  • Panelists and commentators will include Douglas Cairns (Classics, Edinburgh) and Alex Long (Classics St Andrews), Marcia Baron, and Sarah Broadie (Philosophy, St Andrews). We also hope to have a panelist/commentator from the St Andrews Divinity School.
  • More details of the order of events will be announced.
  • An electronic copy of the relevant parts of Martha Nussbaum’s book based on the lectures (currently in draft, to be published by OUP) will be available on individual request by anyone attending the workshop.
  • For the electronic copy and any further information please contact Stephen Halliwell (fsh@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Sarah Broadie (sjb15@st-andrews.ac.uk).In contacting either of us, please cc the other.
  • ***Recipients of the electronic material are particularly requested not to quote, circulate, or copy any of it, since it is under contract with OUP.***
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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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Workshop: Necessary Connections, 2-3 May

University of Glasgow

Friday 2nd May, 9.30am – 17.15pm, and Saturday 3rd May, 10am – 5.15pm.

The Reid Room, Philosophy, 69 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow

Website: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/newsandevents/headline_320871_en.html

Contributors:

  • Philipp Blum (Barcelona)
  • Campbell Brown (Glasgow)
  • Fabrice Correia (Neuchâtel)
  • Ghislain Guigon (Geneva)
  • Katherine Hawley (St. Andrews)
  • Fraser MacBride (Glasgow)
  • Stephanie Rennick (Glasgow)
  • Benjamin Schnieder (Hamburg)

All welcome.

For further information, please contact the organisers, Stephan Leuenberger (stephan.leuenberger@glasgow.ac.uk) and Fraser MacBride (fraser.macbride@glasgow.ac.uk).

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Scots Philosophical Association, the Aristotelian Society, the Mind Association, and the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow.

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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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BPPA Masterclass at Edinburgh: Epistemic Values and Intellectual Virtues

The first of two 2014 British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Masterclasses (more information on these) will be held at the University of Edinburgh on 11th – 12th June, 2014.  The topic will be “Epistemic Values and Intellectual Virtue.”  The organizers invite applications from would-be participants, the deadline for this is 15th April.  For information on the event and on how to apply, visit:

http://www.bppa-online.org/node/59

Queries to tsunghsing.ho@gmail.com.

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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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EWIP Spring Workshop: Call for Respondents and Registration

The Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group is proud to announce its annual Spring Workshop on Philosophical Methodologies on Friday the 16th of May 2014 at the University of Edinburgh.

We have decided to address the issue of philosophical methodology, following the success of previous EWPG Spring workshops, which have respectively focused on the under-representation of women in philosophy, the ethics and aesthetics of pornography, and implicit bias.

This issue of philosophical methodology has become a lively discussion point in philosophy departments and blogs due to the question of whether the nature of philosophical discourse is exclusionary either in the way philosophy is written or in the way it is done in more public events, such as conferences, seminars and workshops, not to mention in educational settings.

We hope this event will contribute to helping raise awareness about philosophical methodology and how it relates to both philosophical feminism and improving the situation of women in philosophy departments.

Confirmed speakers are:
Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen)
Amia Srinivasan (Oxford)
Nancy Bauer (Tufts)
Eric Schliesser (Ghent)

For more information and for registration, see the following page:

http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/events/view/edinburgh-women-in-philosophy-group-11

We have a limited amount of Analysis Trust bursaries to cover postgraduate participation and accommodation, and we invite postgraduate students to submit expressions of interest to respond to the speakers’ talks. Please submit a short statement (max. 300 words) detailing your motivation to do so to the following address: ewpgspringworkshop@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is the 15th of April.

We would like to acknowledge the generosity of the workshop’s sponsors: the Analysis Trust, the Scots Philosophical Association, the Society for Women in Philosophy – UK, and the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

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Frege@Stirling II: Frege’s Conception of Sense

Frege’s Conception of Sense. Context, Content and Inference in a Fregean Framework

May 10-11, 2014

University of Stirling, Pathfoot Building – Room B2

Speakers: Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame), Mike Beaney (York), Bob Hale (Sheffield), Peter Milne (Stirling), Walter Pedriali (Stirling), Michael Potter (Cambridge).

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Topic: On one natural reading, Fregean thoughts are absolute, timeless, sharply bounded. They are not relativized to anything, not even worlds; they are radically de-contextualized. So construed, thoughts (i.e. the senses of declarative sentences) are entities of staggering (indeed, ungraspable) informational complexity. And yet senses are what competent speakers supposedly understand. Indeed, their content is what guides linguistically competent agents in their inferential activities. However, since senses contain all and only that which determines reference, imperfect grasp of any of their parts should by rights impair our ability to draw inferences correctly. There is thus a prima facie tension between two of the requirements that are constitutive of the notion of sense, namely, that senses be complete in every respect and that they determinedly guide inference. The aim of the workshop is to explore ways to resolve this tension within a Fregean framework. Questions to be considered at the workshop will include discussion of Frege’s various meaning-determining principles, the attendant indeterminacy issues, the role of definitions and elucidations in keeping such issues at bay and the notion(s) of content that Frege was working with.

Registration: £50 (including conference dinner, lunches and coffees); £30 (excluding conference dinner). Graduate Students: £25 (including dinner) and £15 (lunches and coffees only). Registration is free for those who will not be attending any meals.

For further information regarding the workshop and to register for the event, please contact the organisers, Philip Ebert and Walter Pedriali.