Deadline: 1st June 2013

Conference: 29th June – 1st August 2013

St Andrews, Burn House, Angus

Description: The sixth annual St Andrews/Stirling Kant Reading Party will be dedicated to Kant & Adam Smith and take place at Burn House in Angus on 29 July through 1 August 2013. The location of the Reading Party, Burn House, is approximately one hour away from St Andrews and offers excellent opportunities for hiking, and many other leisure activities. The theme of the reading party will be honor and respect in Kant and Smith. We will examine how Kant and Smith understand respect for the law/ respect for general rules, and explore links between their treatment of respect and their views on honor. In doing so we will discuss texts from Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, Kant’s Second Critique, The Metaphysics of Morals, and Lectures on Ethics.

Keynote speakers: TBA

Call for papers: The number of participants is limited to 25. To secure your place on the list of participants please send an email with an informal application to Martin Sticker ms752@st-andrews.ac.uk.  Postgraduate students are invited to submit abstracts of not more than 500 words for talks related to our theme. The deadline for the call for papers is the 1st of June. The abstracts should be prepared for blind review and sent to Martin Sticker ms752@st-andrews.ac.uk.

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Deadline: 3rd May 2013

Conference: 15th – 16th June

Glasgow

Description: 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.

Call for papers: Abstracts of 250-500 words are invited on any aspect of Burge’s work. Proposals addressing themes from Burge’s recent book Origins of Objectivity are particularly encouraged.  Speakers will each be given slots of at least one hour. As the workshop aims to foster informal discussion, there is flexibility regarding the format of presentations.  Speakers may wish to present a paper followed by Q&A. Alternatively, speakers may wish to lead a structured discussion of issues raised by Burge’s work. This might take the form of a brief exposition of an issue followed by a series of discussion topics.  The deadline for submission is May 3rd. We aim to notify speakers of our decision no later than May 17th. Submissions and enquiries should be directed to Dr Tom McClelland at thomas.mcclelland@glasgow.ac.uk.  Some funds may be available to assist with the travel and accommodation costs of speakers.  The workshop welcomes applications from graduate students and early career researchers.

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Deadline: 1st June 2013

Conference: 22nd – 23rd July 2013

Edinburgh

Description: The purpose of this conference is to stake out the possibilities of a distinct research field for embodied music cognition. Over the past few decades, developments in cognitive science – especially the 4E paradigms of understanding cognition as an embodied, enactive, extended, and embedded process – have slowly but surely reshaped our understanding of the relationship between the brain, body, and world. While these movements have developed concurrently with experimental and theoretical work on “embodied” human activities, such as various forms of artistic practices and sensorimotor tasks, they must also be understood in a broader context. For instance, important historical and contemporary roots of embodiment research include philosophical traditions such as phenomenology and pragmatism, psychological traditions such as psychoanalysis and ecological psychology, and a move away from “music in itself” towards the conditions in which we listen to music in musicological studies.

Keynote speakers:

• Tom Cochrane (Philosophy, Sheffield University)
• Marc Leman (Musicology, University of Ghent)
• Nikki Moran (Music, University of Edinburgh)
• Rebecca Schaefer (Music, University of Edinburgh)

Call for papers: We are now accepting submissions for both paper and poster presentations. Papers will consist of a 20-25 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute discussion period. Posters will be displayed and browsing times scheduled after final selections have been made.  All submissions should be prepared for blind review in either PDF or Word form and sent to EMuCogSubmissions@gmail.com with the subject title “Embodied Music Conference Submission” along with the following:

1. A cover letter containing:
   1. the author’s name and status(student, postdoctoral researcher, etc.)
   2. institutional affiliation
   3. contact information
   4. title of submission
   5. Specify if submission format is a poster or paper
2. Selection shall be based on submission of an abstract, between 500-750 words for papers and 250-350 words for posters.

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Deadline: 1st July 2013

Conference: 13th – 15th September 2013

Glasgow

Description: The central questions to which the conference will be addressed include:

1. Are there good reasons for thinking that evaluative perception is possible? Is this limited to any particular sensory modality/ies?
2. Is there anything distinctive about evaluative perception, or particular types of evaluative perception?
3. What are the epistemological consequences of evaluative perception?

As well as these questions, the topic of the conference will connect with broader discussions and debates in aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of perception, e.g., the possibility of cognitive penetration, amodal perception, and cross-modal perception, the admissible contents of experience, the relationship between imagination and perception, the impact of so-called ‘framing effects’ on perceptual experience, whether perception can be said to be rational and whether perception could be the conclusion of an argument, the role of experience in aesthetic appreciation, and the prospects for various approaches in ethics, e.g., ethical intuitionism and virtue ethics.

Keynote speakers:

• Professor Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame)
• Professor Robert Hopkins (University of Sheffield)
• Professor Dominic Lopes (University of British Colombia)
• Dr Jack Lyons (University of Arkansas)
• Dr Sarah McGrath (Princeton University)
• Dr Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex)
• Dr Dustin Stokes (University of Toronto)
• Dr Pekka Väyrynen (University of Leeds)

Call for papers: Submissions should:

1. be in English
2. include an Abstract (no more than 250 words) and a Paper that can be presented in approximately 45 minutes
3. be prepared for blind review
4. be sent as a PDF to evaluativeconference@gmail.com no later than July 1st 2013 (all submissions will be acknowledged).

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