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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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Relativism and Rational Tolerance III

10th – 11th July 2013

Aberdeen, Sir Duncan Rice Library

Speakers:

  • Alex Plakias (NIP)
  • Filippo Ferrari (NIP), ‘The value of Deflationary Truth’
  • Dan Lopez de Sa (Barcelona), ‘For the Likes of Me’
  • Carl Baker (NIP), ‘Tolerating Faultless Disagreement’
  • Paula Sweeney (NIP)
  • John MacFarlane (Berkeley), ‘Objective and Subjective Oughts’

Inquires to Sharon Coull

Conference website

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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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2013 St Andrews Summer Reflectorium

The Summer Reflectorium 2013
“Informal Talks about Research in Progress”
Monday, 24th June 2013
Seminar Room (104), Edgecliffe
University of St Andrews

9.30 Brian McElwee: The Demandingness of Morality
10.45 Leslie Stevenson: Three Levels of Human Mentality
12.00 Patrick Greenough: Soft Facts

2.30 Stewart Shapiro: Frege vs Cantor and Dedekind
3.45 Jessica Brown: Contextualism about Evidence?
5.00 Jens Timmermann: What’s Wrong with ‘Deontology’?

All welcome!
Organisers: Katherine Hawley & Jens Timmermann
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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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Philosophy and Museums

24th – 26th July 2013

Glasgow

Website

Speakers:

  • David Brown (St Andrews), ‘Contexts and Experiencing the Sacred’
  • Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York), ‘The Museum of Big Ideas’
  • Garry Hagberg (Bard College, New York), ‘Word and Object’
  • Michael Levine (University of Western Australia), ‘Museums and the Nostalgic Self’
  • Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen), ‘“A Sudden Surprise of the Soul”: Wonder in Museums and Early Modern Philosophy’
  • Graham Oddie (University of Colorado at Boulder), ‘What do we see in Museums?’
  • Julia Rosenbaum (Bard College, New York), ‘A Curious Case of Collecting’
  • Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes), ‘Replicas and the Role of Museums’
  • Charles Taliaferro (St Olaf, Minnesota) with Jil Evans, ‘How to Get into a Work of Art’
  • Philip Tonner (Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow), ‘Museums, Ethics and Truth’

Inquires to Victoria.Harrison@glasgow.ac.uk

**SPA sponsored**

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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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The Philosophy of Tyler Burge

15th – 16th June 2013

Glasgow

Speakers:

  • 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?’
  • Gabriel Rabin (UCLA), ‘Toward a Theory of Conceptual Mastery’
  • Joey Pollock (Edinburgh), ‘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’

Inquires to thomas.mcclelland@glasgow.ac.uk

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

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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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Midsummer Philosophy Workshop

23rd – 25th June

Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building

Speakers:

  •  James Shaw (Pittsburgh), “The Combinatorics of Conscious Experience”
  • Michael Hannon (Cambridge/Fordham), “Stabilizing Knowledge”
  • Japa Pallikkathayil (Pittsburgh), “The Truth About Deception”
  • Josh Parsons (Oxford), “Conditional Imperatives”
  • Sinan Dogramaci (UT Austin), “The Varieties of Validity”
  • Maya Eddon & Chris Meacham (UMass Amherst), “No Work for a Theory of Universals”

Inquires to Nick.Treanor@ed.ac.uk

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

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The Philosophy of the Philosophy of Art

21st – 22nd June 2013

St Andrews, School II, St Salvator’s Quad

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)

Inquires to Dan Cavedon-Taylor or Miguel F. dos Santos

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

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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: