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2012 Scots Philosophical Association Annual Meeting

7th – 8th December 2012

Aberdeen

This is the annual meeting of the SPA; all philosophers in Scotland are invited to attend.   Registration is now open; cheaper early registration closes 2nd November.

Speakers:

  • Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto),  “From Practice to Theory: Rethinking the Nature of Philosophical Questions”
  • Douglas Edwards (Aberdeen), “The Goal(s) of Inquiry”
  • Elise Crull (Aberdeen), “Can There Be Metaphysically Robust Interlevel Relations?”

Inquires to Guido Bacciagaluppi.

Conference website

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Ancient Cosmologies

2nd – 4th November 2012

St Andrews

Speakers:

  • Gábor Betegh (Central European University, Budapest)
  • Dorothea Frede (Hamburg)
  • Andrew Gregory (UCL)
  • Charlotte Köckert (Heidelberg)
  • Alex Long (St Andrews)
  • Karla Pollmann (St Andrews)
  • Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Notre Dame)
  • Catherine Rowett (UEA)
  • David Sedley (Cambridge)
  • Chiara Tommasi (Pisa)
  • James Wilberding (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Inquires to classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

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St Andrews Summer Reflectorium

18th June 2012

St Andrews

Speakers:

  • François Recanati, “Indexical Thought & Communication”
  • Berys Gaut, “Creativity as a Virtue”
  • Simon Prosser, “The Content of Colour Experience”
  • Graham Priest, “None of the Above”
  • Marcia Baron, “The Supererogatory & Kant’s Wide Duties”
  • Aaron Cotnoir, “Truth without Conjunction?”

Inquires to Jens Timmerman

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2012 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association

6th – 8th July 2012

Stirling

Speakers:

  • Jeremy Butterfield (University of Cambridge)
  • Beatrice Longuenesse (New York University)
  • Sebastian Gardner (University College London)
  • Elizabeth Fricker (University of Oxford)
  • John Hawthorne (University of Oxford)
  • Christopher Peacocke (Columbia University and University College London)
  • John Campbell (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Hannah Ginsborg (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Adrian Haddock (University of Stirling)
  • R. Jay Wallace (University of California, Berkeley)
  • David Owens (University of Reading)
  • Jonathan Wolff (University College London)
  • Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke University)

Inquires to jointsession@stir.ac.uk

Conference website

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Seeing Things Differently: Art, Philosophy, and the Futures of Feminism

30th – 31st March 2012

University of Dundee

Keynote speakers:

  • Christine Battersby (Reader Emerita in Philosophy, University of Warwick)
  • Tina Chanter (Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago)
  • Kerstin Mey (Professor & Director of Research and Enterprise, University for the Creative Arts)

Panel speakers:

  • Rosa Nogués (Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University)
  • Lynne Heller (Ontario College of Art and Design University & University College Dublin)
  • Katie Lloyd Thomas (Newcastle University)
  • Beth Fisher, Ingrid Pollard, Gina Wall (Moray College)
  • Janet McKenzie (Editor, Studio International)
  • Marina Kassianidou (Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts)
  • Sibyl Fisher (University of Leeds)
  • Kate Ince (University of Birmingham)
  • Redi Koobak (Linköping University)
  • Mo Throp and Maria Walsh: The Subjectivity & Feminisms Research Group (Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts)

Inquires to Rachel Jones

Conference website

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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

Conference website

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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

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

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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

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**

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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

Conference website

**SPA sponsored**