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Registration open for Annual Meeting

A reminder that registration is now open for the 2013 Annual Meeting at Stirling, which will be held on 6th and 7th December.  Early registration closes on 28th November.  To register, fill out this online form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xaENL8N7C_offvD23juA2onb2pTG8SG9zH_k33SepDM/viewform

The SPA has funds to cover child care costs for delegates.  If you’re interested in child care provision, please email Sonia Roca-Royes (sonia.rocaroyes@stir.ac.uk), the local organizer at Stirling.

For more information:

http://www.scotsphil.org.uk/2013-spa-annual-meeting-2/

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St Andrews’ Winter Reflectorium 2013/14

Monday, 9th December 2013

Seminar Room (104), Edgecliffe, University of St Andrews

  • 9:30: Sarah Broadie, “Corporeal Gods”
  • 10:45: Barbara Sattler, “What Is Doing the Explaining?”
  • 12:00: Justin Snedegar, “Contrastive Reasons to Withhold Belief”
  • 2.30: Elizabeth Ashford, “Violations of the Right to Subsistence”
  • 3.45: Stephen Read, “Pseudo-Scottish Curry”
  • 5.00: Reception & Publications Drinks
All welcome!
Organisers: Katherine Hawley (kjh5@st-andrews.ac.uk) & Jens Timmermann (jt28@st-andrews.ac.uk)
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Philosophy events, week of 18th November

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Bryan Pickel (University of Edinburgh), “Naming, Saying, and Structure,” at Aberdeen on Tuesday, 19th November.
  • Alex Silk (University of Birmingham), “‘Ought’ and ‘Must’: Some Philosophical Therapy,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 19th November.
  • Maria Alvarez (King’s College, London), “Dispositions, Reasons, and the Explanation of Action,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 20th November.
  • Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (University of Nottingham) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group on Wednesday, 20th November.
  • Igal Kvart (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “The Autonomy of Knowledge,” at Stirling on Thursday, 21st November.
  • Fraser Macbride (University of Glasgow), at Edinburgh on Friday, 22nd November.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Dave Hume Fellowship Lecture, University of Edinburgh, 19th November.  Speaker: Peter Fosl (Transylvania University), “Hume and the Promise of Philosophy.”
  • Alex Long (University of St Andrews), “Relativism and Its Opponents in Greek Political Thought,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Tuesday, 19th November.
  • Nicholas Davey (University of Dundee) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 21st November.
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Philosophy Think Tank

Coming up at Edinburgh:

Philosophy Think Tank

Thursday, 28 November 2013, 5.30pm

Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre, George Square, The University of Edinburgh

Philosophy Think Tank brings outstanding junior philosophers from around the world to Edinburgh to present their innovative research. Join us and find out about the future of philosophy!

Free, but ticketed. Please book your tickets at https://edinburgh-university-220.eventbrite.co.uk/

For more information: http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/events/view/philosophy-think-tank

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Philosophy events, week of 11th November

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Mitch Green (University of Connecticut), “Organic Meaning,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Research Seminar on Monday, 11th November.
  • James Ladyman (University of Bristol), “What is Ontic Structural Realism, and is There Any Truth to It?,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 12th November.
  • Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee), “Information and Event,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 13th November.
  • Matthew Benton (University of Oxford) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 13th November.
  • Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow) at Stirling on Thursday, 14th November.
  • Guido Bacciagaluppi (University of Aberdeen), “Quantum Logic and Logical Pluralism,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 14th November.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Tim Mulgan (Auckland/St Andrews), “Ethics for Possible Futures,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Tuesday, 12th November.
  • Anna Baker (University of Edinburgh) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 14th November.
  • Formal Metaphysics Workshop, St Andrews, 16th November.  Speakers: Mark Jago (University of Nottingham), Jean-David Lafrance (University of Oxford), Bryan Pickel (University of Edinburgh), Aaron Cotnoir (University of St Andrews).
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2013 SPA Annual Meeting

Registration is now open for the 2013 SPA Annual Meeting, which will be held on 6th and 7th December, 2013, at the University of Stirling.  Late registration charges will apply for registrations made after 28th November.

Registration is £5 for SPA members and free for students; dinner is £15/10 (with/without wine).  To register and sign up for diner, visit this site:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xaENL8N7C_offvD23juA2onb2pTG8SG9zH_k33SepDM/viewform

The programme (doc) is now available, which has details, links to maps, and accommodation suggestions.

The meeting will be held at the University of Stirling’s Cottrell Building, in rooms 2W5 and Lecture Theatre W1.  Here’s a map of campus (pdf).

And here’s a reminder of the schedule of events:

Friday, December 6th

  • 14:00-14:15: Registration and refreshments
  • 14:15-15:15: Martin Sticker (University of St Andrews/University of Stirling), “Kant and the Rationality of the Common Agent”
  • 15:15-16:15: Martin Lipman (University of St Andrews/University of Stirling), “On Fine’s Fragmentalism”
  • 16:30-17:30: Annual General Meeting (SPA members only)
  • 17:30-19:30: Keynote Address: Kevin Mulligan (University of Geneva), “Essentialism, Form, and Nonsense: Husserl and Wittgenstein.”
  • 20:00: Dinner

Saturday, December 7th

  • 10:00-11:15: Zoe Drayson (University of Stirling), “Cognition, Rationality, and Science”
  • 11:15-11:30: Coffee break
  • 11:30-12:45: Simon Hope (University of Stirling), “In Virtue of Our Common Humanity”
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Philosophy events, week of 4th November

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Augustín Rayo (MIT) at Arché’s Models, Modality, and Meaning Seminar on Monday, 4th November.
  • Matthew Clayton (University of Warwick) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 5th November.
  • Christine Straehle (CEPPA Fellow/University of Ottawa), “Autonomy, Agency, and Vulnerability,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 6th November.
  • Jillian Craigie (University College, London) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group on Wednesday, 6th November.
  • Rob Trueman (University of Stirling) at Stirling on Thursday, 7th November.
  • Barbara Sattler (University of St Andrews) at Edinburgh on Friday, 8th November.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Jesper Kallestrup (University of Edinburgh) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Tuesday, 5th November.
  • Andrew Mason (University of Edinburgh) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 7th November.
  • Scottish Workshop on Theory of Mind, Stirling, 8th November.  Speakers: J. Perner and M. Schurz (Salzburg), Josephine Ross (Dundee),  Doherty, Langton, and McIntyre (UEA), Jim Anderson (Stirling), J. Gomez and T. Ruoting (Stirling), Jane Suilin Lavelle (Edinburgh), Tillman Vierkant (Edinburgh), E. Rafetseder and J. Perner (Stirling), Mante Nieuwland (Edinburgh).
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Philosophy events, week of 28th October

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Jeremy Dunham (University of Edinburgh) at Dundee on Wednesday, 30th October.
  • Tim O’Connor (Indiana University), “Two Concepts of Emergence,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 30th October.
  • Paul Faulkner (University of Sheffield), “A Virtue Theory of Testimony,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 30th October, and at Stirling on Thursday, 31st October.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Gifford Lecture, Edinburgh, 28th October.  Speaker: Onora O’Neill, “From Toleration to Freedom of Expression.”
  • Patrick Greenough (University of St Andrews), “Paradox and Disease,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Tuesday, 29th October.
  • Louis Resnick (University of Edinburgh) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 31st October.
  • Arché/CMSN Graduate Conference, St Andrews, 2nd – 3rd November. Keynote speakers: Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck), Roger White (MIT).
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Philosophy events, week of 21st October

Research seminars (more information):

  • Nick Treanor (University of Edinburgh), “Quantities of Knowledge,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 22nd October.
  • Robert Williams (University of Leeds), “Rationally Illogical,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 23rd October.
  • Sanneke De Haan (University of Amsterdam), “An Enactive Approach to Psychiatry: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Deep Brain Stimulation as a Test Case,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group on Wednesday, 23rd October.
  • Robert Williams (University of Leeds) at Edinburgh on Friday, 25th October.

Other events (more information)

  • Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Tuesday, 22nd October.
  • Gunnar Bjornsson (University of Stockholm) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 24th October.
  • Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame University) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Friday, 25th October.
  • Normative Language Workshop, St Andrews, 26th – 27th October.  Speakers: Gilbert Harman, Jennifer Carr, Matthew Chrisman and Graham Hubbs, Janice Dowell, Dorit Bar-On, Mike Ridge, Frank Jackson, Stephen Finlay.
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Normative Language Workshop

26th – 27th October 2013

St Andrews, School II

Website

Description: The study of normative and evaluative language has always had an important place in metaethics. Recently both the volume and sophistication of research on this topic has increased immensely. This work is interesting in its own right; but it also promises to shed light on issues in both substantive normative philosophy and in the study of natural language more generally. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers doing exciting work on different topics related to normative language.

Speakers:

  • Gilbert Harman
  • Jennifer Carr
  • Matthew Chrisman and Graham Hubbs
  • Janice Dowell
  • Mike Ridge
  • Stephen Finlay
  • Dorit Bar-On
  • Frank Jackson

Inquires to arche@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Philosophy events, week of 14th October

Next week’s research seminars (more information):

  • Ken Gimes (Birkbeck), “Knowledge, Counterfactuals, and Content,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 15th October.
  • Charity Anderson (University of Oxford), “Knowledge, Practical Adequacy, and Stakes,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 16th October.
  • Tim Crane (University of Cambridge), “No Identity Without an Entity,” at Stirling on Thursday, 17th October.
  • Steven French (University of Leeds), “Between Braque and Beethoven: Scientific Theories as Representations,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 17th October.
  • Brie Gertler (University of Virginia), “Vehicle Externalism and Agency,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 18th October.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Workshop on Haslanger on Ameliorative Projects, St Andrews, 14th – 15th October.  Speakers: Sally Haslangar (MIT), Ishani Maitra (Michigan), Mark Richard (Harvard), Jennifer Saul (Sheffield), Katharine Jenkins (Sheffield), Herman Cappelen (St Andrews).
  • Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society on Tuesday, 15th October.
  • Mike Ridge (University of Edinburgh) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 17th October.
  • Basic Knowledge Final Workshop, Aberdeen, 18th – 19th October.
  • 2nd Extended Knowledge Workshop, Edinburgh, 18th October.  Speakers: Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern), Brie Gertler (Virginia), Kati Farkas (CEU), Asa Wikforss (Stockholm), Chris Kelp (Leuven).
  • Social Epistemology Workshop, St Andrews, 19th – 20th October.  Speakers: David Christensen (Brown), Alvin Goldman (Rutgers), Alison Hills (Oxford), Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern), Miriam Schoenfield (Texas, Austin), Brian Weatherson (Michigan/St Andrews).
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2013 SPA Annual Meeting

The 2013 SPA Annual Meeting will be held on 6th and 7th December, 2013, at the University of Stirling.  The programme is now available (see below); information on registration and dinner will be available soon.  Note that this year for the first time we have two postgraduate speakers, whose papers were selected from a set of anonymous submissions.

Friday, December 6th

14:00-14:15             Registration and refreshments

14:15-15:15               Martin Sticker (St Andrews), “Kant and the Rationality of the                                        Common Agent”

15:15-16:15               Martin Lipman (St Andrews), “On Fine’s Fragmentalism”

16:30-17:30             Annual General Meeting (SPA members only)

17:30-19:30             Keynote Address: Kevin Mulligan (Geneva), TBA

20:00                        Dinner

Saturday, December 7th

10:00-11:15              Zoe Drayson (Stilring), TBA

11:15-11:30               Coffee break

11:30-12:45              Simon Hope, (Stirling), TBA

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Philosophy events, week of 7th October

Next week’s research seminars (more information):

  • Seth Lazar (Australian National University), “Eliminative and Opportunistic Killing and the Protection of Civilians in War,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 8th October.
  • Seth Lazar (Australian National University), “Ethics and Expectations: Part I,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 9th October.
  • Jakob Hohwy (Philosophy and Cognition Lab, Monash University), “The Self-Evidencing Brain,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group on Wednesday, 9th October.
  • Seth Lazar (Australian National University), “Ethics and Expectations: Part II,” at Stirling on Thursday, 10th October.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Brian Weatherson (University of Michigan) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society, 8th October.
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Philosophy events, week of 30th September

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Wlodeck Rabinowicz (Lund University) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 1st October.
  • Sean Sayers (University of Kent), “Marx as a Critic of Liberalism,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 2nd October.
  • Rachel Goodman (University of Leeds), “Cognitivism, Significance, & Singular Thought,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 2nd October.
  • Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund University), “Safeguards of a Disunified Mind,” at Stirling on Thursday, 3rd October.
  • Peter Fosl (University of Transylvania), “Hume’s Way of Saving Philosophy through Sceptical and Critical History,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 4th October.

Other events next week:

  • Chris Hooley (University of St Andrews) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society, 1st October.
  • Themes from Wlodeck Rabinowicz, Glasgow, 5th October.  Speakers: Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund), Alex Voorhoeve (LSE), Jonathan Way (Southampton), Ulrike Heuer (Leeds), Kent Hurtig (Stirling), Campbell Brown (Glasgow).
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Visiting speakers, week of 23rd September

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Jane Heal (University of Cambridge), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 24th September.
  • Aidan McGlynn (University of Edinburgh), “Factoring Knowledge,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 25th September.
  • Alasdair Isaac (University of Edinburgh), “Psychophysics and Skepticism: Müller’s “Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 24th September.
  • Jennifer Saul (University of Sheffield), “Truth, Ideology and Politics,” at Stirling on Thursday, 26th September.

Other events:

  • Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society, 25th September.
  • Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford) at St Andrews’ Philosophy Society, 26th September.
  • Thom Brookes (Durham University) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society, 26th September.
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Themes from Wlodek Rabinowicz

5th October 2013

Glasgow

Description: The University of Glasgow, with support from the Scots Philosophical Association, is honoured to be hosting Wlodek Rabinowicz as a Centenary Fellow during September and October, 2013.  Prof Rabinowicz’s broad-ranging research covers many topics in ethics, value theory, decision theory, and political philosophy, among others.  This workshop will be devoted to discussing some themes from his work.

Further details of papers will be made available shortly.

Registration fee £25 (£10 for students). Includes lunch and refreshments

Speakers:

  • Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund)
  • Alex Voorhoeve (LSE)
  • Jonathan Way (Southampton)
  • Ulrike Heuer (Leeds)
  • Kent Hurtig (Stirling)
  • Campbell Brown (Glasgow)

Inquires to hugh.lazenby@glasgow.ac.uk

**SPA sponsored**

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2013-14 David Hume Fellow Peter Fosl, “Hume and the Promise of Philosophy”

Edinburgh, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

Tuesday, 19 November, 4 pm.

“Hume and the Promise of Philosophy”

Peter Fosl (Transylvania University)

Peter S. Fosl is Professor of Philosophy at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky.  He is currently the 2013-14 David Hume Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh.  The Fellowship has been made possible by the generous support of The Hume Society, the Scots Philosophical Association and IASH Fellows and supporters.

As space is limited, please email iash@ed.ac.uk to book a place.

More information.

**SPA sponsored**

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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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CFP: 7th Arché/CSMN Graduate Conference

Deadline: 19th August 2013

Conference: 2nd – 3rd November 2013

St Andrews

Description: The conference will be held on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2013 at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.  Accommodation and travel expenses for speakers will be covered. All papers will have Arché, CSMN or University of St Andrews staff respondents and will be followed by open discussion.

Keynote Speakers:

  • Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck)
  • Roger White (MIT)

Call for papers: We invite graduate students to submit high-quality papers in analytic philosophy to the Seventh Arché/CSMN Graduate Conference co-hosted by Arché, Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology, and CSMN, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature. Papers should be no longer than 4,200 words, and should include an abstract of no more than 200 words. Submission in the core research areas of Arché and CSMN are particularly welcome, i.e., Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Methodology, Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action/Rationality and Moral Philosophy. We especially encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in philosophy.  Deadline for submissions: 19th of August 2013.  Notification of acceptance by 23rd of September 2013.  For submitting papers and further information, please visit the conference website: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/acgc/index.shtml

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Kant in Progress

2nd August 2013

St Andrews, Hebdomadar’s Room

  • Kate Moran (Brandeis): “Lies, Pranks and Surprises”
  • Anita Leirfall (Bergen): “Kant on Directions, Inner Feeling of Difference and Real Oppositions”
  • Nele Schneidereit (Dresden): “Scepticism and Intuitionism in Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason”
  • Alice Pinheiro Walla (Dublin): “Common Ownership of the Earth and Provisional Right”
  • Joe Saunders (Sheffield): “From Reason to Freedom to the Moral Law”
  • Ruth Boeker (SUNY–Albany): “Locke and Hume on Persons and Personal Identity”

Inquires to ms752@st-andrews.ac.uk