The Arché Center at St Andrews has two workshops coming up:
More information at the links above; questions to arche@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Perception and Cognition: Top-Down Influences in Perceptual Experience
University of Glasgow, 8–9 September 2015
The Rethinking the Senses project is pleased to announce a research-intensive interdisciplinary workshop on the subject of Perception and Cognition: Top-Down Influences in Perceptual Experience to be held on the 8th and 9th of September at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience.
This event will aim to address two distinct, but closely connected, issues in contemporary philosophy and science of perception: (i) the distinction between, on the one hand, perception or perceptual experience, and, on the other cognition or thought; and (ii) the mechanisms for, and degree to which, the latter influences the former; i.e. cognitive penetration and other top-down effects. The workshop will combine presentation of some of the latest philosophical and scientific research on these topics in a way that aims to make genuine progress on these important and interconnected issues, as well as to draw out the implications of this research for the philosophy and science of perception.
Topics covered will include:
Speakers
Registration
Registration for this event is via Eventbrite. Fees are as follows:
Please note that places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, so please register early to avoid disappointment. All fees are payable in advance, payment details for which will be emailed to delegates upon successful registration.
Further information
For further information, or if you have any questions, please contact the event organiser, Keith Wilson.
Political Obligation, Liberty and the Law: A Conference in Memory of Dudley Knowles
You are warmly invited to a conference in memory of Prof. Dudley Knowles. Dudley taught at Glasgow between 1973 and 2011 and our conference will be focused around topics of interest to him. The conference will be held at the Glasgow University Philosophy Department on the 10th and 11th of September.
Speakers include:
There is no attendance fee. Please contact Ben Colburn (ben.colburn@glasgow.ac.uk) if you would like to attend.
The Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy Joint Conference 2015
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3-5 September 2015, University of Dundee
FREE Registration for staff and students at Scottish universities
The SEP-FEP Joint Conference is the UK’s major annual event in continental philosophy, featuring 3 keynote speakers and around 100 papers across all areas of the field.
Keynote speakers:
Provisional programme: 2015 SEP DRAFT Programme
Register now! Please follow this link for information about accommodation, airport transfers, and registration options:
https://registerforevent.co.
Registration is free for staff and students at Scottish universities (but you must register by email: see site for details), thanks to funding from the Scots Philosophical Association
For all others, registration is £80 (waged) or £50 (students/unwaged).
Explanations of Cognition workshop
University of Stirling
20-22 July
Speakers: Fred Adams (Delaware), Ken Aizawa (Rutgers Newark), Zoe Drayson (Stirling), Carrie Figdor (Iowa), Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois), Lena Kastner (Humboldt Berlin), Beate Krickel (Bochum), Tom Polger (Cincinnati), Rob Rupert (Colorado), Christian Sachse (Lausanne), Larry Shapiro (Wisconsin), Jacqueline Sullivan (Western Ontario), Kari Theurer (Trinity College Connecticut)
Registration is free but space is very limited: please email Zoe Drayson (z.e.drayson@stir.ac.uk) if you wish to attend.
Just World Institute:
Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 2.05 Ogilvie Room, Geography, Drummond Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP
Thursday, 2 July 2015 from 08:45 to 18:30
This workshop will address some of the most pressing questions concerning the ethics of war including when is war justified, who has the authority to wage war, what constitutes permissible conduct in war and who should bear the costs. The event is free and open to all.
Places are limited so please register here. If you have any questions please contact the organiser: kieran.oberman@ed.
PROGRAMME
8.45-9.15 Coffee
9.15 Welcome
9.30am-11.00am
Dr Massimo Renzo (Warwick) – Political Self-determination, Humanitarian Intervention and the Requirement of Consent
Dr Susanne Burri (St Gallen) – The Redirection of Bombs During WWII: A Philosophical Investigation
Chair: Dr Mihaela Mihai (York)
11.00am – 11.30am Coffee
11.30am-1pm
Prof Saba Bazargan (UCSD) – Political Subjugation, Respect and Proportionality
Dr Kieran Oberman (Edinburgh) – War and Poverty
Chair: Dr Jonathan Parry (Stockholm)
1pm – 2pm Lunch
2-3.30pm
Dr Graham Long (Newcastle) – Tolerating Injustice in War
Dr Mathias Thaler (Edinburgh)- Unhinged Frames: When Hypotheticals About Torture Go Wrong
Chair: Prof Shawn Kaplan (Adelphi)
3.30pm – 4.00pm Coffee
4.00pm -5.30pm
Dr Holly Lawford-Smith (Sheffield) – Democratic Responsibility for War
Dr David Rodin (Oxford)- Authority and Procedural Rights in War
Chair: Dr Cian O’Driscoll (Glasgow)
5.30-6.30 Reception
11:00-11:15 Tea/coffee
11:15-12:15 Stephen Wright (Oxford), ‘Rumour and Reasons for Belief’
12:15-12:30 Lunch break (provided)
12:30-13:30 Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern/Eidyn), ‘On the Epistemic Significance of Evidence You Should Have Had’
All welcome, and no need to register.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Hume on Regime Change
James Harris
(University of St Andrews)
Equipoise, Uncertainty, and Inductive Risk in Research Involving Pregnant Women
Rebecca Kukla
(Georgetown University)
Civic Punishment
Antony Duff
(University of Stirling)
The Philosophy of Social Technology: Making the Most of Social Science to Build Better Policies
Nancy Cartwright
(University of Durham and University of California, San Diego)
Undermining Promises
Julia Driver
(University of Washington in St Louis)
Final conference of the Leverhulme-funded Kant and Laws of Nature international network
Kant, the Laws of the Life Sciences, and the Lawfulness of Nature
University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street,
Rooms 3.10-3.11, 25th-26th June.
Speakers:
The event is free but registration is required (registration closes on June 10th)
For details of the programme and registration please visit the website:
The Linguistics and Philosophy departments at the University of Edinburgh are hosting a two day workshop on contemporary issues in Nativism, from 21 – 22 May 2015.
Confirmed speakers include:
Further information is available at our website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/lec/nativism-workshop
Attendance is free, but please register at our website. This workshop is made possible by an IASH IIRG (International and Interdisciplinary Research Group) on “Philosophy of the Natural and Human Sciences”. Additional support has been generously provided by EIDYN, the Edinburgh Centre of Epistemology, Mind and Normativity.
Kant’s Scots
Friday May 15th 2015
University of Edinburgh, DSB, 1.01
For information, contact alix.cohen@ed.ac.uk.
Workshop on Ancient Philosophy
Friday, April 24, 2015
Organised jointly by the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at Edinburgh and the School of Classics at St Andrews.
The programme will include four talks:
When: from 10 am, April 24, 2015Where: Room 3.10-11, Dugald Stewart Building, Edinburgh
More information: http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/events/view/international-ancient-philosophy-workshop
The Arché research centre at the University of St Andrews has a great lineup of workshops this summer:
Contact arche@st-andrews.ac.uk for more information.
Stirling’s Early Analytic Group will meet on Saturday November 15, 2014, 11am-5:45pm, in the Pathfoot Building, Room A7, University of Stirling, for a book symposium on David Bostock’s recent book on Russell’s Logical Atomism.
The speakers will be:
All are welcome; please let <w.b.pedriali@stir.ac.uk> know if you plan to attend so that the appropriate catering arrangements can be made.
The programme:
Saturday November 15, 2014
Pathfoot Building, Room A7
University of Stirling
11—11:15 welcome coffee
11:15–12:30 Bryan Pickel (Edinburgh): “All sound philosophy should begin with an analysis of propositions: On Bostock on Russell”
1:30–2:45 Fatema Amijee (Austin): “Russell’s Principle of Acquaintance: why believe it?
2:45–3 coffee break
3–4:15 Peter Sullivan (Stirling): TBA
4:15–4:30 coffee break
4:30–5:45 Michael Potter (Cambridge): “Russell’s logical construction of matter”
Hosted by the Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews
10-11 October, 2014
THEMES FROM THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
For the full programme, see: http://www.
For further information, and to register, contact James Harris at jah15@st-and.ac.uk
This event is supported by the Scots Philosophical Association.
Glasgow-Campinas Workshop: Quine, Science, and Naturalism
Glasgow, 25th June
Programme:
Location: Reid Room, 67-69 Oakfield Avenue, University of Glasgow. Open to
all, free of charge. No advance registration necessary for the workshop,
just come along. If you’re interested in joining the speakers for dinner
afterwards, please email fmjanssenlauret@cle.unicamp.br.
Organisers: Alan Weir, Gary Kemp, and Frederique Janssen-Lauret.
We are grateful for the generous support we received for this event from
the Philosophy departments of the Universities of Campinas and Glasgow.
Time: 12 May, 2014 – 13 May, 2014
Location: Rm 104 Edgecliffe, The Scores, St Andrews
Provisional schedule:
Monday 12 May
Tuesday 13 May
Registration is free, and includes tea and coffee between the talks. To register, please send an email to the workshop organisers at arche@st-andrews.ac.uk
19th May, 2014
University of Edinburgh
The aim of this one-day colloquium is to explore the far-reaching legacy of Newton’s natural philosophy and eighteenth century Newtonianism for Kant’s thought. The colloquium is sponsored by the Leverhulme International Network and is hosted at IASH under the joint auspices of IASH and the Eighteenth-Century & Enlightenment Studies Network.
Speakers:
The event is free but to have the numbers for catering, registration is required (please send an email to Dr James Collin at jcollin5@staffmail.ed.ac.uk).
