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Visiting speakers, 28th January – 1st February

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Ken Himma (Seattle Pacific University), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 29th January.
  • Todd Mei (University of Dundee), “”A Heideggerian Political Economy”: Land as Gift in Practice,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 30th January.
  • Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), “The Space of Sensory Modalities,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 30th January.
  • Conor McHugh (University of Southampton), “Epistemic Responsibility and Doxastic Agency,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 30th January.
  • Ursula Coope (University of Oxford), “Reason and reflection in Aquinas,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 1st February.
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The Gettier Problem at 50

20th – 21st June 2013

Edinburgh

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), “Revisionary Intellectualism and Gettier”
  • Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales), “Gettierism and Luck”
  • Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia), “Knowledge Metaphysically First”
  • Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds), “What Kind of Problem is the Gettier Problem?”
  • Lisa Miracchi (Rutgers University), “Competence to Know”
  • Christian Piller (University of York), “Practical Philosophy and the Gettier Problem”
  • Amber Riaz (Lahore University of Management Sciences), “Moral Understanding and Knowledge”

Inquires to Allan Hazlett

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

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Visiting speakers, 21st – 25th January

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Gerald Lang (Leeds), “Theodicy and the Non-Identity Problem,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 22nd January.
  • Matthew Broome (Warwick), “Jaspers and Neuroscience,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 23rd January.
  • Imogen Dickie (University of Toronto), “The mind has a basic need to represent things outside itself,” at Edinburgh on Friday 25th January.
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CFP: PG session at 2013 SPA Annual Meeting

Deadline: 1st September 2013

Conference: 6th – 7th December 2013

Stirling

We’re pleased to announce a new postgraduate session at the Scots Philosophical Association’s Annual Meeting.  The call is open (see below) to third year (and later) PhD students.

Call for papers: We invite submissions of papers to be presented at the Scots Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, to be held 6th – 7th December at the University of Stirling.  This call is open (and only open) to students at Scottish universities who are in at least the third year of a philosophy PhD programme.  Papers of no more than 3,000 words, on any area of philosophy, should be prepared for blind review and sent to the Secretary (A.Hazlett@ed.ac.uk) by 1st September, 2013.  Up to two papers will be selected for presentation at the meeting.

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Visiting speakers, 14th – 18th January

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Clayton Littlejohn (King’s College, London), “Knowledge is probably the norm of belief,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 16th January.
  • Chris Allen (University of Cardiff), “Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation effects on conscious awareness and perception,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 16th January.
  • Robin Le Poidevin (University of Leeds), “Stopped Clocks, Silent Telephones and Sense Data,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 18th January.
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Reasons and Rationality: Epistemic and Practical

5th – 6th June 2013

St Andrews, School II

Speakers:

  • Michael Smith (Princeton)
  • Ruth Chang (Rutgers), “In Defense of Weighing Reasons”
  • Stew Cohen (Arizona and St Andrews), “The Normativity of Belief”
  • John Skorupski (St Andrews), “Warrant and Self-Determination”
  • John Broome (Oxford), “Reasoning and Normativity”
  • Ralph Wedgwood (USC), “The Pitfalls of ‘Reasons’ and ‘Evidence'”

Inquires to arche@st-andrews.ac.uk

Conference website

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Evaluative Language Seminar at Edinburgh

In the first half of 2013 the Eidyn network project Emerging Themes in Meta-Ethics will be hosting a seminar series at Edinburgh, the aim of which is to to promote cutting edge work on evaluative language.  The lineup:

  • 01 Feb 2013: Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California)
  • 13 Mar 2013: Jennifer Carr (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • 20 Mar 2013: Daniel Whiting (University of Southampton)
  • 10 Apr 2013: Nate Charlow (University of Toronto)
  • 17 Apr 2013: Stefano Predelli (Nottingham University)
  • 01 May 2013: Pekka Vayrynen (University of Leeds)
  • 10 May 2013: Janice Dowell (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
  • 29 May 2013: James Dreier (Brown University)
  • 30 May 2013: Mark Richard (Harvard University)
  • 07 Jun 2013: Ralph Wedgwood (University of Southern California)

Inquires to Mike Ridge

Seminar website

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SPA: 2013 Annual Meeting scheduling

With the 2012 Annual Meeting concluded, we need to agree to a date for the 2013 Annual Meeting, to be held at the University of Stirling.  In the past, this has been held on the first weekend in December; if this precedent were followed, the 2013 meeting would be held at Stirling on 6th – 7th December.  However, the idea of changing the date of the Annual Meeting was mooted at the recent AGM, e.g. to the first weekend in November.  I would like to solicit feedback on this proposal.

Here’s what was mentioned in favour of moving the meeting from December:

  • The weather.  It was pointed out that inclement weather makes can make travel in December difficult.  (E.g., the 2010 meeting was cancelled due to bad weather.)
  • Teaching and/or exams.  It was pointed out that some members might prefer a different date for the meeting, given their teaching responsibilities.  (Although a December date might be better for others, in connection with teaching responsibilities, given different teaching schedules.)

One thing that is important: we need to have a meeting date that is firm and settled and the same from year to year.  Once we have this in place, I can advertise the date widely and request that other philosophy events at the six departments not be scheduled at the same time as the Annual Meeting.  (I made the mistake this year of not having a firm and settled date this year, with the result that several conferences were held at the same time as the Annual Meeting.)

If you’ve feedback on this, can you please pass it on your departmental representative on the SPA committee: Jesper Kallestrup,  Sarah Broadie, James Williams, Ben Colburn, Peter Sullivan, or Guido Baccigaluppi.  Thank you!

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2012 Annual Meeting album

Some snapshots from the 2012 SPA Annual Meeting, held 7th – 8th December at the University of Aberdeen.

King’s Chapel, University of Aberdeen

A former member of the Association, perhaps?

King’s Chapel

The Duncan Rice Library

Inside the library

Margaret Morrison delivers the keynote address, “From Practice to Theory: Rethinking the Nature of Philosophical Questions”

Mark Sprevak

Dinner is served

Guido Bacciagaluppi

Douglas Edwards presents on “The Goals(s) of Inquiry”

Nathaniel Jezzi

Elise Crull presents her paper “Can There Be Metaphysically Robust Interlevel Relations?”

An atom is drawn

Margaret Morrison

The delegates

 

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CFP: 2013 Association for Legal and Social Philosophy

Deadline: 14th January 2013

Conference: 24th – 25th June 2013

Stirling

Description: The theme of the meeting is “Combining Theory and Practice.”  Papers are welcome in any substantive area of legal, social, or political philosophy (justice, democracy, rights, liberalism, communitarianism, punishment, etc) and from any philosophical methodological approach, but we particularly welcome those addressing the conference theme. These may be primarily either theoretical or practical in nature, but should seek to connect or combine the theoretical and the practical realms. They might, for instance, demonstrate how theoretical contributions can inform practice or illustrate how practice (and empirical study of practice) has implications for theory.  Both individual papers and proposals for panels on related topics are welcome.

Keynote speakers: Bob Goodin (ANU/Essex), Serena Olsaretti (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra)

Call for papers: Please send paper/panel proposals to alsp2013@stir.ac.uk by 14th January 2013. Submissions should consist of a title and 400-500 word abstract (for each paper, in the case of panels). These may be sent in the body of the email or as an attachment (.doc, .docx, .pdf), but please ensure that they are prepared for blind review (i.e. author’s name and affiliation should appear in your email but not with the abstract).

Conference website

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CFP: Aristotle Reading Party

Deadline: 21st January 2013

Event: 29th April – 1st May 2013

St Andrews

Description: The Aristotle Reading Party is both a graduate conference and a reading event. In our six reading sessions, each introduced by a distinguished scholar, we will discuss the dichotomy of energeia (actuality) and dunamis (potentiality) informed by a close reading of Metaphysics Theta 1-10. We will finish with a final session on Physics Gamma 1-3, in which change is defined in terms of energeia and dunamis.  The event will take place from 29 April to 1 May 2013 at the Burn House in Angus (http://www.goodenough.ac.uk/the_burn0.html). Transport from St Andrews will be organised. Thanks to generous support by the Aristotelian Society, GRADskills Innovation grant (University of St Andrews), Mind Association and Scots Philosophical Association the costs for accommodation at the Burn House (full board for two nights) will be fully covered for successful applicants.

Participants: Andreas Anagnostopoulos (Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München), Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews), Ursula Coope (University of Oxford), Klaus Corcilius (University of California, Berkeley), Marko Malink (University of Chicago)

Call for papers: We invite graduate students to submit papers on any topic related to Aristotle’s distinction between energeia and dunamis. Submissions can be either directly on Metaphysics Theta or on any related topic such as change, soul, happiness or mathematical objects. Extended abstracts should not exceed 1,000 words (or 35 minutes presentation time) and should be prepared for blind review. The abstract must have no identifying information. Abstracts should be submitted as a PDF file via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arp2013 Deadline is 21st January 2013.  A call for participation for the remaining places will be made in February 2013.

Conference website

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Visiting speakers, 3th – 7th December

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • John Bishop (Auckland), “Concepts of God and Problems of Evil,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 4th December.
  • JC Beall (UConn), “Shrieking towards recapture”, at Arché, St Andrews on Tuesday, 4th December.
  • David Bain (Glasgow), “An Evaluativist Account of Pain,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 5th December.
  • Graham Priest (NYU/St Andrews), “Plurivalent Logic”, at Arché, St Andrews on Thursday, 6th December.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 26th – 30th November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Darryl Gunson (University of the West of Scotland), “Moral Enchantment,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 27th November.
  • Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Texas), “From Thought to Action,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 28th November.
  • Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge), “Respecting All the Evidence,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 28th November.
  • Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Texas), “On Knowing One’s Reasons,” at Stirling on Thursday, 29th November.
  • Chris Heathwood (University of Colorado), “Irreducibly Normative Properties,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 30th November.

Other events next week:

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Myles Burnyeat seminar

1st December 2012

St Andrews

Myles Burnyeat

“Plato, Republic I: A Bigger, Bolder Version.”

This seminar will run from 10.30 to 12.30, in Edgecliffe 104, with coffee beforehand from 10.00.  Participants should bring a copy – text or translation – of the Republic for ease of reference in the seminar.  Everyone who attends is welcome to stay for lunch, which will be provided in Edgecliffe.  Everyone is welcome, and there is no registration: but if you are coming, please inform Sarah Broadie, sjb15@st-andrews.ac.uk, no later than 26 November.

Further information

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Visiting speakers, 19th – 23rd November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Jessica Leech (Sheffield): “Essence and Mere Necessity,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 20th November, at St Andrews on Wednesday, 21st November, at  Stirling on Thursday, 22nd November, and at Edinburgh on Friday, 23rd November.
  • Ulrich Stegmann (Aberdeen), “Natural information and receiver content,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 21st November.

Other events next week:

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SPA Annual Meeting registration

The SPA Annual Meeting is less than four weeks away (December 7th – 8th), and registration is now open.  You can register online via Aberdeen’s website:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/research-innovation/events/1660/

Registration by post, fax, and email are also available.

Note that registration for students is free.  So please pass this information on to any of your students who might be interested.