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Frege@Stirling Workshop I

22nd – 23rd June 2013

Stirling

Speakers:

  • Robert May (UC Davis), “What’s Not Special About Axioms”
  • Øystein Linnebo (Birkbeck), “Frege’s context principle and our knowledge of abstract objects”
  • Peter Sullivan (Stirling)
  • Joan Weiner (Indiana)
  • Erich Reck (UC Riverside), “Frege, Dedekind, and the Laws of Thought”
  • Gottfried Gabriel (Jena), “Frege on the Justification of Basic Logical Laws”
  • Fraser MacBride (Glasgow), Adam Rieger (Glasgow), Marcus Rossberg (UConn), and Stewart Shapiro (Ohio/St Andrews)

Inquires to  Philip Ebert and Walter Pedriali

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Pragmatist Perspectives on Truth and Knowledge

14th – 15th June 2013

Edinburgh

Speakers:

  • Natalie Ashton (University of Edinburgh)
  • Cameron  Boult (University of Edinburgh)
  • Sarah Schoonmaker (University of Edinburgh)
  • Sebastian Köhler (University of Edinburgh)
  • Matthew Chrisman (University of Edinburgh), “Making Up Our Mind and What We Ought to Believe.”
  • Graham Hubbs (University of Idaho), “Saying ‘So’: Transparency and Transition.”
  • James O’Shea (University College Dublin), “On Non-Inferential Perceptual Knowledge.”
  • Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University), “Knowledge: What’s the Use?”

Inquires to Cameron Boult and Sebastian Köhler

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Metaphysics of Mind and Science Workshop

16th May 2013

Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building

Speakers:

  • Peter Fazekas (MTA, Budapest), “Different Types of Emergent Laws and their role in Distinguishing Ontological Emergence from Physicalism”
  • Benj Hellie (Toronto), “Out of this world”
  • Jesper Kallestrup (Edinburgh), “The Physical Realizability of Knowledge States”
  • Jonas Christensen (Edinburgh/Aarhus): Size does Matter, but Not Necessarily: How to be a Macro-epiphenomenalist and avoid the Drainage Problem”
  • Jessica Wilson (Toronto), “Powers and Fundamental Interactions”

Inquires to Jonas Christensen

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8th Annual UK Integrated HPS Workshop

11th – 12th April 2013

Aberdeen, Sir Duncan Rice Library

Speakers:

  • Hasok Chang (Cambridge)
  • Andrew Gregory (UCL)
  • Minwoo Seo (Cambridge)
  • Chiara Ambrosio (UCL)
  • Sasha Traykova (Durham)
  • Ian James Kidd (Durham
  • Peter Vickers (Durham)
  • MatthewPaskins (UCL)
  • Ulrich Stegmann (Aberdeen
  • Yafeng Shan (UCL)
  • Guido Bacciagaluppi, Elise Crull (Aberdeen) & Owen Maroney (Oxford)
  • Cheryl Lancaster (Durham)
  • Michael Bycroft (Cambridge)
  • Nick Binney (Exeter)
  • Jo Donaghy (Exeter)
  • Adam Toon (Bielefeld/Exeter)
  • Shona Elliott
  • Jordan Bartol, Claire Jones & Michael Kay (Leeds)

Inquires to Guido Bacciagaluppi

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Ethics and Natural Law: Foundations and Applications

13th April 2013

St Andrews, Edgecliffe

Speakers:

  • Anthony Lang (St Andrews), “Punishment in International Law: A Natural Law Account”
  • Roger Scruton (St Andrews), “The Conflict between Natural and Social Justice”
  • Timothy Chappell (Open University), |”Internal Reasons, Augustine, and the Heart’s Desire”
  • John Milbank (Nottingham University), “Natural Law and Divine Government”
  • Caron Gentry (St Andrews), “The Feminist’s Search for the Universal Validity of Natural Law”
  • John Haldane (St Andrews), “Discerning the (Human) Good: Natural Law, “New”, “Old” and “Integrative””
  • Tom Angier (St Andrews), “Natural Law: The Hard Road from Foundations to Applications”
  • Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews), “What’s “Natural” about Natural Law?”

Inquires to tpsa@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Philosophy of Semantics

25th – 27th May 2013

St Andrews

Speakers:

  • Scott Soames (USC)
  • Robert van Rooij (Amsterdam)
  • Brian Rabern (ANU)
  • Barbara Partee (Massachusetts)
  • Kathrin Gluer-Pagin (Stockholm)
  • Andy Egan (Rutgers)
  • Derek Ball (St Andrews)
  • Ray Jackendoff (Tufts)
  • Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
  • Seth Yalcin (Berkeley)
  • Jason Stanley (Rutgers)
  • Peter Ludlow (Northwestern)

Inquires to arche@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Kant and the Lawfulness of Nature

27th – 28th June 2013

Edinburgh

Speakers & commentators:

  • Prof. Andrew Chignell (Cornell)
  • Prof. Michael Friedman (Stanford)
  • Prof. Peter McLaughlin (Heidelberg)
  • Prof. Konstantin Pollok (South Carolina)
  • Prof. Eric Watkins (California, San Diego)
  • Dr. Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge)
  • Dr. Alix Cohen (York)
  • Dr. Michela Massimi (Edinburgh)
  • Prof. Marius Stan (Boston College)
  • Prof. Catherine Wilson (York)

Inquires to Michela Massimi

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The Philosophy of Luck

19th June 2013

Edinburgh

Speakers:

  • Nathan Ballantyne (Fordham)
  • Steven Hales (Bloomsburg)
  • Joe Milburn (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Wayne Riggs (University of Oklahoma)
  • Sabine Roeser (TU Delft and University of Twente)
  • Lee Whittington (University of Edinburgh)

Inquires to Lee Whittington.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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