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Spinoza, the Infinite, and the Eternal

11th – 12th May 2012

University of Dundee

Keynote speakers:

  • Clare Carlisle (Kings College London), “Eternal Life: The Radical Theology of Ethics V”
  • Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina), “Grades of Infinity”

Speakers:

  • John Grey (Boston), “Spinoza’s Analogy of Parthood in Ethics V”
  • Julie R. Klein (Villanova), “Spinoza’s Gersonidean Eternity of the Mind”
  • Mike LeBuffe (Texas A&M), “The Dictates of Reason and Ethics 5P7”
  • Lisete Rodrigues (Lisbon), “Eternity as a political concept”
  • Noa Shein (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), “Necessarily Always a Bit Confused”
  • Daniel Schneider (Wisconsin), “Why Explaining Duration in the Ethics takes an Eternity”
  • Justin Steinberg (CUNY), “From Here to Eternity: Spinoza on Temporary Encounters with Eternality”
  • Emily Thomas (Cambridge), “Eternity in Spinoza and Samuel Alexander”
  • Valtteri Viljanen (Turku), “Spinoza on Virtue and Eternity”
  • Daniel Whistler (Liverpool), “How Speak of Eternity? The Rhetoric of Ethics Part V”

Inquires to Beth Lord

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Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy III

9th – 10th May 2012

University of Aberdeen

Keynote Speakers

  • Stephen Gaukroger (University of Aberdeen / University of Sydney)
  • Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)

Speakers

  • Ruth Boeker (University of St. Andrews)
  • Dietmar Heidemann (University of Luxembourg)
  • Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
  • Larry Jorgensen (Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY)
  • Markku Roinila (University of Edinburgh / University of Helsinki)
  • Jon Miller (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario)
  • Michael Olson (Villanova University, Philadelphia)
  • Gabriel Alban-Zapata (ENS de Lyon)
  • Martine Pecharman (CNRS – Maison Française d’Oxford)
  • Dario Perinetti (UQAM, Montreal)
  • Andrea Sangiacomo (ENS de Lyon)
  • Eric Schliesser (University of Ghent)

Session chairs:

  • Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen)
  • Julie Klein (Villanova University, Philadelphia)
  • Emily Thomas (Cambridge University)
  • Beth Lord (University of Dundee)
  • Justin Steinberg (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
  • Michael LeBuffe (Texas A&M)
  • Valtteri Viljanen (University of Turku)

Inquires to Mogens Lærke

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Visiting speakers, 19th – 23rd March

This week’s visiting speakers:

  • Olav Gjelsvik (Oslo University) at Aberdeen on Monday, 19th March.
  • Franz Berto (University of Aberdeen) at Glasgow, “The Empire Strikes Back: the Law of Non-Contradiction After Dialetheism,” on Tuesday, 20th March.
  • Dan Watts (University of Essex) at Dundee, “No Scholarly Still Life: Kierkegaard’s Portrayal of Socrates,” on Wednesday, 21st March.
  • Alan Baker (Swarthmore College) at St Andrews, “Matching Mathematics to the World,” on Wednesday, 21st March.
  • Patrick Greenough (St Andrews) at Edinburgh Epistemology Research Group, “Moore’s Paradox and Norm-Relativism,” on Wednesday 21st March.
  • Tom Pink (KCL) at Stirling, “Normativity and Nature,” on Thursday, 22nd March.
  • Herman Cappelan (St Andrews) at Edinburgh PhilSoc on Thursday, 22nd March.
  • Berys Gaut (St Andrews) at Edinburgh, “Creativity and Rationality,” on Friday, 23rd March.

 

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Grete Hermann Workshop

5th – 6th May 2012

University of Aberdeen

Invited participants:

  • Thomas Filk (Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg)
  • Mélanie Frappier (University of King’s College, Halifax)
  • Martin Jähnert (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
  • Dieter Krohn (Philosophisch-Politische Akademie)
  • Fernando Leal Carretero (University of Guadalajara)
  • Giulia Paparo (University of Utrecht)
  • Rene Saran (Society for Furtherance of Critical Philosophy)
  • Gregor Schiemann (University of Wuppertal)
  • Michiel Seevinck (University of Nijmegen)
  • Patricia Shipley (Birkbeck College, London)
  • Léna Soler (Archives Henri Poincaré, Nancy)

Inquires to Guido Bacciagaluppi

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Ancient Conceptions of Eudaimonia

12th – 13th May 2012

University of St Andrews

Keynote speakers:

Supplementary speakers:

Inquires to Dan Labriola or Martin Sticker

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The A Priori

16th – 17th June 2012

University of Aberdeen

Invited speakers:

  • Paul Boghossian, New York University
  • Laurence BonJour, University of Washington
  • David Chalmers, The Australian National University
  • Carrie Jenkins, University of British Columbia
  • Ian Rumfitt, Birkbeck College, University of London
  • Crispin Wright, New York University and the University of Aberdeen

Inquires to Dylan Dodd

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Locke Workshop

28th – 29th June 2012

University of St Andrews

Keynote speaker:

  • Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers University)

Other speakers:

  • Jessica Gordon-Roth (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  • Julie Walsh (University of California, San Diego)
  • Patrick Connolly (UNC Chapel Hill)
  • Edwin McCann (University of Southern California)
  • Vili Lähteenmäki (Jyväskylä/HU Berlin)
  • Shelley Weinberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Inquires to: Ruth Boeker

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CFP: The Problems of Philosophy: Then and Now

Deadline: 16th April 2012

29th – 30th June 2012

University of Glasgow

Description: This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy. Envisioned by him as an introductory text, Russell also used the work to propose a number of novel theses which, in tandem with other pioneering material he was producing during the same period, went on to leave an indelible mark on the development of analytic philosophy. To mark this anniversary, The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience is convening its yearly graduate conference on the themes of The Problems of Philosophy: Then and Now. Papers will present contemporary work on any of the major themes in The Problems of Philosophy – but we will particularly welcome work on the nature of experience, perception and sense-datum theory, and on Russell or Russellian topics in general. We hope to promote fresh engagement with the problems discussed by Russell, and investigate the possibilities for useful dialogue between Russell’s approach to these issues and contemporary philosophy.

Keynote speakers:

Call for papers: We are currently seeking submissions from graduate students. If you would like to apply to give a paper at the conference, please send an abstract of no more than 500 words to Carole Baillie.  Submission deadline: 16th April 2012.

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Crime, Punishment and Responsibility: the Legal Philosophy of Antony Duff

25th May 2012

University of Stirling

Speakers:

  • Antje duBois-Pedain (Cambridge University)
  • Alon Harel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  • Michael Moore (University of Illinois)
  • Tatjana Hoernle (Humboldt-University, Berlin)
  • Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)
  • Andrew Ashworth (Oxford University)
  • Suzanne Uniacke (University of Hull)
  • Antony Duff (University of Stirling)

Inquires to Nikki Leavitt

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Hybrid Theories in Metaethics

2nd – 4th July 2012

University of Edinburgh

Speakers:

Inquires to Guy Fletcher

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2nd Annual Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference

8th – 9th June 2012

University of Edinburgh

Keynote speakers:

  • Professor Crispin Wright (NYU/Aberdeen), “The Basic A Priori: Arithmetic as a Case Study”
  • Professor John Greco (St. Louis), “Testimony and the Flow of Information”

Other speakers:

  • Joe Cunningham (UCL)
  • Josh Thorpe (St Andrews)
  • Spyros-Orestis Palermos (Edinburgh)
  • Alex Worsnip (Yale)
  • Jeremy Goodman (Oxford)
  • Fatema Amijee (UT Austin)
  • Stephanie Leary (Rutgers)
  • Sander Verhaegh (Groningen)

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The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition

25th and 26th May 2012

University of Edinburgh

Keynote speaker:

  • Theodore Sider (Cornell University)

Invited speakers:

  • Stephen Grimm (Fordham University) and Kristoffer Ahlstrom (University of Copenhagen)
  • Carolyn Price (Open University)
  • Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen (University of Aarhus)

Session speakers:

  • Anne Baril (University of New Mexico)
  • Jason D’Cruz (SUNY-Albany)
  • Miguel Ángel Fernández (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
  • Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury College)
  • Paul Noordhof (University of York)
  • Emily Sullivan (Fordham University)
  • Jan Willem Wieland (Ghent University)
  • Sam Wilkinson (University of Edinburgh)

Inquiries to Allan Hazlett

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