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Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (CSPE), 20th Anniversary Conference

4-6 June, 2025 in Glasgow

We will have a range of philosophy talks on all things sensory that have been core to the work at the CSPE, such as perception, illusion, hallucination, imagination, and the senses. We will particularly hear from those who have worked, visited, and contributed to, the CSPE and its projects and events over the years. The speaker list is below.

We will have lots of time for informal discussion, and to facilitate this, we will have a poster session and would encourage all attendees to exhibit a poster summarising a paper that you are working on.

We are also offering a variety of sensory experiences for you to try, including experiencing the content for VR that we and others have created in our multi-person VR labs, and a talk about our work on VR by Prof Neil McDonnell. We hope that other experiences will be announced soon.

Attendance at the conference is free and includes free tea, coffee, conference lunches, and food at the after party. Conference dinners are available to purchase when you register for the conference. The number of places at the conference are strictly limited so we would encourage those that wish to come to register for the conference as soon as possible. In any event, registration will close on 19th May 2025.

If you have any questions, please e-mail j.harber.1@research.gla.ac.uk<mailto:j.harber.1@research.gla.ac.uk>.

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Philosophy Book Launch Event: ‘Moral Blackmail’ and ‘Feminist Philosophy’

You are warmly invited to the upcoming launch event for two timely short books by Glasgow philosophers that seek to engage a broad audience: ‘Moral Blackmail: Coercion, Responsibility, and Global Justice’ (Routledge), by Prof. Ben Colburn, and ‘Feminist Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction’ (Oxford University Press), by Prof. Katharine Jenkins. More details on both books below. 

Event details: Tuesday, 10 December, 7-9 PM, at The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byres Rd. All welcome, no ticketing, venue accessibility information available here: https://www.alchemyexperiment.com/about

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Recent Events

SPA 2023 Annual Conference on the theme “Naturalism” plus AGM

University of Edinburgh (Bayes Centre – G.03)

7th-8th of December

  • Speakers include Jennifer Corns (Glasgow), Alex Douglas (St Andrews), and Katie Robertson (Stirling) plus a discussion panel with Debbie Roberts (Edinburgh), Michael Wheeler (Stirling) and Jo Wolff (Edinburgh). Full programme here.

Neutrality and Neutralism Workshop

  • Arché Research Centre, University of St Andrews
  • November 30th – December 1st 2023
  • Venue: School II, United College, St Salvator’s Quad, St Andrews, KY169AL

Social Ontology Conference (16-19 August, Stockholm)

SPA Annual General Meeting 2022

Dundee

Thursday 8th of December (in Dalhousie 1S10, Building 1, Second Floor, Room 10)

  • Launch event for ACE (Analytic-Continental Encounters) – St. Andrews and Dundee
  • 4.00 pm – 6.00pm Graham Priest – Nothingness and the limits of thought/language
  • 6.00 pm – 7.30 pm Drinks at DCA

Friday 9th of December (in Dalhousie 1S03, Building 1, Second floor, Room 3)

  • 09.30 – 11:00 Walter Pedrali – The Labyrinth of Norms. Temporal Externalism and Marxist Ethics
  • 11.00 – 11.15 Break – Coffee and Tea
  • 11.15 – 12:45 Graham Priest – Social Atomism and its Problems—Metaphysical and Political
  • 12.45 – 14:00 Break
  • 14:00 – 15:30 AGM of the Scots Philosophical Association
  • 15.30 – 16:00 Break – Coffee and Tea
  • 16:00 – 17:30 Amelie Berger-Soraruff – Challenging Innovation in Philosophy of Technology and Design

SPA Annual General Meeting 2022

Glasgow

Friday 14th January 2022 (via Zoom)

  •  09:30 – 11:00 Jennifer Smalligan Marusic
  • 11:00 – 1115 Break
  • 11:15 – 12:45 Stephanie Rennick
  • 12:45 – 14:00 Break
  • 14:00 – 15:30 AGM of the Scots Philosophical Association
  • 15;30 – 16:00 Break
  • 16:00 – 17:30 Elizabeth Barnes

Aberdeen

4th-5th May 2020 – Workshop on Social Media and Public Pedagogy

St Andrews

17th-19th April 2020 – Conference on General Philosophy: “3rd Annual CEPPA Graduate Conference

29th-30th April 2020 – Workshop on History of Philosophy: “Theories of Paradox in the Middle Ages

Edinburgh

7th-8th May 2020 – Seminar on History of Philosophy: “Scottish Seminary in Early Modern Philosophy XI

18th-19th June 2020 – Seminar on Moral Philosophy: “Kant and Epistemic Norms” (Details forthcoming)

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Recent Events at St. Andrews

18th-19th April 2019 – Conference on Eleatics: “New trends in the Study of Eleatism

15th-16th June 2019 – Conference on Epistemology: “Epistemic Breakthroughs

13th-14th September 2019 – Conference on Moral Philosophy: “The Early Critique of Kant’s Moral Philosophy

11th-12th October 2019 – Conference on Ancient Philosophy: “The Soul In Ancient Philosophy

2nd November 2019 – Conference on Philosophy of Education: “Philosophy in Schools

3rd December 2019 – Symposium on Moral Philosophy: “Kant’s ‘Supposed Right to Lie”