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Relativism and Rational Tolerance II

17th – 18th December 2012

Aberdeen

Speakers:

  • Mike Ridge (Edinburgh), ‘Expressivism, Relativism, and Disagreement’
  • Paula Sweeny (Northern Institute of Philosophy), ‘Realism and retraction’
  • Robert Stern (Sheffield), ‘Autonomy and Scepticism as Challenges to Moral Realism’
  • Carl Baker (Northern Institute of Philosophy), ‘Aesthetic Realism and the Epistemology of Disagreement’
  • Alex Plakias (Northern Institute of Philosophy), ‘Moral Relativism, Realism, and Pluralism: Disputed Metaethical Terrain’
  • Jimmy Lenman (Sheffield)

Inquires to  Sharon Coull

Conference website

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Visiting speakers, 12th – 16th November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Luke Russell (Sydney), “Is Forgiveness Elective?,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 13th November.
  • Jac Saorsa (Cardiff School of Art & Design), “Artology: Interventions and Intersections between Philosophy, Art Practice and Biomedical Science,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 14th November.
  • Ephraim Glick (St Andrews), “Practical Modes of Presentation,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 14th November.
  • Stewart Cohen (Arizona), “Self-undermining inference rules and the problem of disagreeing about how to disagree,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Thursday, 15th November (4pm, Dugald Stewart 3.10).
  • Guy Fletcher (Edinburgh), “Expressivism or Cognitivist Sentimentalism?,” at Stirling on Thursday, 15th November.
  • Susan James (Birkbeck), “Spinoza on Learning how to Live,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 16th November.

Other events next week:

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SPA Annual Meeting: early registration closes today

A reminder that early registration (£15; free for students) closes today for the Scots Philosophical Association’s annual meeting, being held this year in Aberdeen, 7th – 8th December.  For registration information:

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

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Visiting speakers, 5th – 9th November

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Michael Sollberger (Lausanne/Oxford), “Causation in Perception: A Challenge to Naïve Realism,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 6th November.
  • Jennifer Corns (Glasgow), “Are painful emotional episodes pains?,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 7th November.
  • Ben Sachs (St Andrews), “Distribution doesn’t Matter Morally,” at Stirling on Thursday, 8th November.
  • Suilin Lavellle (Edinburgh) at Edinburgh on Friday, 9th November.

Other events next week:

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Visiting Speakers, 29th October – 2nd November

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Mark Sprevak (Edinburgh), “Is the extended mind hypothesis nonsensical?, at Glasgow on Tuesday, 30th October.
  • John Protevi (Louisiana State University), “Human Nature,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 31st October.
  • Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), “The Space of Sensory Modalities,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 31st October.
  • Ben Jarvis (Queen’s University, Belfast), “The Objective Nature of Propositional Justification,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 31st October.
  • Stephen Penn (Stirling), “Terminism and Truth: John Wyclif on Late Medieval Logic,” at Stirling on Thursday, 1st November.
  • Timothy Rosenkoetter (Dartmouth College), “Kant on the Semantics of Moral Terms,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 2nd November.

Other events next week:

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New Hume Fellowship at IASH (Edinburgh)

The SPA is sponsoring a new Hume Fellowship at Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities.  This will be an annual six-month fellowship, starting in 2013-14, and applications are invited from anyone working in Hume studies.  For more information:

http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/davidhume.fellowship.html

This Fellowship will be a tremendous opportunity to bring leading philosophers (and others) to Scotland.  Please do forward this information to any international scholars that might be suitable candidates for the Fellowship.  The deadline for applications is 28th February, 2013.

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SPA Annual Meeting: registration now open

Registration for the SPA’s annual meeting, taking place Friday 7th – Saturday 8th December at the University of Aberdeen, is now open:

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

The deadline for discounted registration (£15; free for students) is 2nd November.  The conference website also has information about accommodation in Aberdeen.

I’d like to remind you that the SPA increased it’s grant to your department last year, to £4,000 (from £2,000), with the intention that departments make some of these funds available to faculty in the form of travel grants for the SPA annual meeting.

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CFP: 3rd Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference

Deadline: 1st March 2013

Conference: 31st May – 1st June 2013

Edinburgh

Description: We invite submissions of high quality papers from graduate students to the 3rd Annual Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference, which will take place from the 31st May – 1st June 2013.  A distinguishing feature of this graduate conference is that all graduate presentations will have respondents from expert epistemology faculty members at Edinburgh and other neighbouring universities.

Keynote speakers: Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma) and Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University).

Call for papers: Essays within any area of epistemology (broadly construed) are welcome. Essays should be approximately 4000 words. The submission deadline for the conference is 1st March 2013.

Please send the following to uofe.epistemology@gmail.com in .doc, .rtf, or .pdf format:

  1. A cover letter containing:
    1. the author’s name and institutional affiliation
    2. the author’s contact information
    3. word count
    4. the area(s) of epistemology the paper deals with
  2. The paper itself, including the title and a short abstract (no more than 200 words), with no other identifying information.

We strongly encourage submissions from under-represented groups in philosophy.

Conference website

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Visiting Speakers, 15th – 19th October

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Alexander Logvinenko (Glasgow Caledonian University), “What colours do the colour blind really see?,” at Glasgow’s Mind & Psychology Research Seminar on Monday 15th October.
  • Chris Tucker (Auckland). “If Dogmatists Have Cognitive Penetration Problems, then You Do Too,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 16th October
  • Ian James (Cambridge), “Immanence and Technicity,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 17th October.
  • Chris Tucker (Auckland). “If Dogmatists Have Cognitive Penetration Problems, then You Do Too,”at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 17th October.
  • Alexandra Plakias (NIP, Aberdeen), “How Moral Disagreement is a Problem for Realism,” at Stirling on Thursday, 18th October.
  • Jessie Prinz (CUNY), “Psycho-ontology,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group on Thursday, 18th October. 
  • Joel Smith (Manchester), “What is Empathy For?,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 19th October.

 

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Visiting Speakers, 8th – 12th October

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Jenann Ismael (University of Arizona), “What Entanglement Might be Telling Us,” at Aberdeen on Monday, 10th October
  • Aaron Cotnoir (Aberdeen, NIP), “Parts as Counterparts,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 9th October.
  • Jan Westerhoff (Durham), “Actual Ontological Nihilism,” at Stirling on Thursday, 11th October.
  • Tim Bayne (Oxford), “Multisensory Objects,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 12th October.

Other events next week:

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Two Eidyn Postdocs (Edinburgh)

From Duncan Pritchard (Edinburgh):

Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity
Department of Philosophy
University of Edinburgh
Postdoctoral Positions
Extended Knowledge
As part of a major AHRC-funded research project on the topic of ‘Extended Knowledge’, there are
two three-year postdoctoral positions available at the Eidyn Research Centre, both starting January
1st 2013. Further details about these positions, including how to apply, can be found here:
For more details about the ‘Extended Knowledge’‚ research project, go to:
Informal inquiries about these posts, and this research project, should be directed to Prof. Duncan
Pritchard (duncan.pritchard@ed.ac.uk). Please note that the deadline for applications is *12th October*.
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Modal Logic in the Middle Ages

22nd – 23rd November 2012

St Andrews

Speakers:

  • Wilfrid Hodges (formerly, Queen Mary London), “Permanent and necessary in Ibn Sina”
  • Saloua Chatti (Tunis), “Existential import in Avicenna’s modal logic”
  • Tony Street (Cambridge), “On Translating Katibi’s Epistle for Shams al-Din on the Rules of Logic”
  • Paul Thom (Sydney), “The early reception of Robert Kilwardby’s modal syllogistic”
  • Sara Uckelman (Tilburg), “Epistemic and Higher-Order Modalities in Obligationes“
  • Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen), “Ockham and Buridan on the semantics of divided modal propositions”
  • Spencer Johnston (St Andrews), “John Buridan’s Divided Modal Syllogistic”
  • Stephen Read (St Andrews), “Contingency syllogisms in Buridan’s Treatise on Consequences“
  • Riccardo Strobino (Bochum and Cambridge), “Having one without the other: inseparability and logical consequence”

Inquires to Lynn Hynd

Conference website

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Visiting Speakers, 1st – 5th October

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Mark Jago (Nottingham), “Objects and Essence,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 2nd October.
  • Mike Wheeler (Stirling), “Thinking Without the Box: Extended Cognition or Existentialist Externalism?,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 3rd October.
  • Philip Ebert (Stirling), “Knowledge, Closure, and Risk,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 3rd October.
  • Mark Jago (Nottingham), “Objects and Essence,” at Stirling on Thursday, 4th October.
  • Jennifer Saul (Sheffield), “Lying, Misleading, and What is Said,” at Edinburgh’s Linguistics Circle on Thursday, 4th October.
  • Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), “The Space of Sensory Modalities,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 5th October.
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Visiting Speakers, 24th – 28th September

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Alexandra Plakias (Aberdeen), “How Moral Disagreement is a Problem for Realism,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 24th September.
  • Murray Shanahan (Imperial College London), “Connectivity and Consciousness,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group, Wednesday, 26th September.
  • Walter Pedriali (Stirling), “Understanding Inference,” at Stirling on Thursday, 27th September.
  • Nick Denyer (Cambridge), “The Political Craft of Protagoras,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 28th September.

 

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CFP: The Gettier Problem at 50

Deadline: 10th January 2013

Conference: 20th – 21st June 2013

Edinburgh

Description: Since the publication of Edmund Gettier’s paper “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?,” in June of 1963, a central epistemological issue has been the problem – known as the “Gettier problem” – of supplementing or replacing the traditional tripartite theory of knowledge, by developing a theory of the nature of knowledge not subject to counterexamples of  the sort described in that paper.  In addition to a vast literature explicitly devoted to this task, the Gettier problem has impacted numerous other areas: the internalism/externalism debate about epistemic justification, the question of the value of knowledge, and work on epistemic intuitions and philosophical methodology (among other areas).  This conference, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Gettier’s landmark paper, will bring together leading researchers to reflect on the Gettier problem and its legacy.

Questions to be examined include:

  • Is the Gettier problem in some sense “unsolvable”?  What does this mean for epistemology?  For philosophical methodology more generally?
  • What, if anything, can experimental philosophy tell us about the Gettier problem?
  • In what way, if any, do different people’s intuitions about “Gettier cases” differ?  What explains the difference?
  • What, if anything, do “Gettier cases” have in common?  What, if anything, is their common structure?
  • Does the Gettier problem suggest that the concept of knowledge can’t be analyized?
  • Does the problem suggest that knowledge isn’t more valuable than that which falls short of knowledge (e.g. justified, true belief)?
  • Can other epistemic statuses (understanding, wisdom) be “Gettierized”?

Authors of papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit their papers for consideration for publication in a special issue of Philosophical Studies on “The Gettier Problem at 50: Methodological and Metaphilosophical Issues.”

Keynote 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).

Call for papers: Submissions, in the form of an abstract (of no more than 1,000 words), of a paper to be presented in 45-60 minutes, should be sent to allanhazlett@gmail.com no later than 10th January, 2013.

Conference website