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Visiting speakers, week of 8th July

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Nikolaj Pedersen (Yonsei University), “All the many, many things we know: extended knowledge,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Tuesday, 9th July.

Other events next week:

  • Relativism and Rational Tolerance III, Aberdeen, 10th – 11th July.  Speakers: Alex Plakias (NIP), Filippo Ferrari (NIP), Dan Lopez de Sa (Barcelona), Carl Baker (NIP),  Paula Sweeney (NIP), John MacFarlane (Berkeley).
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Visiting speakers, week of 24th June

Events next week:

  • Midsummer Philosophy Workshop, Edinburgh, 23rd – 25th June.  Speakers: James Shaw (Pittsburgh), Michael Hannon (Cambridge/Fordham), Japa Pallikkathayil (Pittsburgh), Josh Parsons (Oxford), Sinan Dogramaci (UT Austin), Maya Eddon & Chris Meacham (UMass Amherst).  
  • British Postgraduate Philosophy Association, Glasgow, 24th – 26th June.  Keynote speakers: Helen Beebee (University of Manchester), Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University).
  • Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, Stirling, 24th – 25th June.  Keynote speakers: Bob Goodin (ANU/Essex), Serena Olsaretti (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra).
  • 2013 St Andrews Summer Reflectorium, St Andrews, 24th June.  Speakers: Brian McElwee, Leslie Stevenson, Patrick Greenough, Stewart Shapiro, Jessica Brown, Jens Timmermann.
  • Kant and the Lawfulness of Nature, Edinburgh, 27th – 28th June.  Speakers: Andrew Chignell (Cornell), Michael Friedman (Stanford), Peter McLaughlin (Heidelberg), Konstantin Pollok (South Carolina), Eric Watkins (California, San Diego), Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge), Alix Cohen (York), Michela Massimi (Edinburgh), Marius Stan (Boston College), Catherine Wilson (York).
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Visiting speakers, week of 17th June

Events next week:

  • Pain Conference, Glasgow, 18th – 20th June.  Speakers: Speakers: Colin Allen, Murat Aydede, David Bain, Michael Brady, Victoria Braithwaite, Jennifer Corns, Valerie Hardcastle, Richard Krueger, Siri Leknes, Jennifer Radden, Adam Shriver, Frédérique de Vignemont.
  • The Philosophy of Luck, Edinburgh, 19th June.  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).
  • The Gettier Problem at 50, Edinbrugh, 20th – 21st June.  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), Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales), Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia), Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds), Lisa Miracchi (Rutgers University), Christian Piller (University of York), Amber Riaz (Lahore University of Management Sciences).
  • The Philosophy of the Philosophy of Art, St Andrews, 21st – 22nd June.  Speakers: Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham), David Davies (McGill University), Stacie Friend (Heythrop College, London), Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews), Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland), Dominic Lopes (University of British Columbia), Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham University), Dan Cavedon-Taylor (University of St Andrews).
  • Frege’s Epistemology of Basic Logical Laws, Stirling, 22nd – 23rd June.  Speakers: Robert May (UC Davis), Øystein Linnebo (Birkbeck), Peter Sullivan (Stirling), Joan Weiner (Indiana), Erich Reck (UC Riverside), Gottfried Gabriel (Jena), Fraser MacBride (Glasgow), Adam Rieger (Glasgow), Marcus Rossberg (UConn), and Stewart Shapiro (Ohio/St Andrews).
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Visiting speakers, 3rd – 7th June

Events next week:

  • Reasons and Rationality: Epistemic and Practical, St Andrews, 5th – 6th June.  Speakers: Michael Smith (Princeton), Ruth Chang (Rutgers), Stew Cohen (Arizona and St Andrews), John Skorupski (St Andrews), John Broome (Oxford), Ralph Wedgwood (USC).
  • Workshop in Kantian Ethics, St Andrews, 7th June.  Speakers: Jens Timmerman (St Andrews), Melissa Seymour Fahmy (University of Georgia), Seiriol Morgan (University of Bristol).
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Visiting speakers, 13th – 17th May

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore), “Desire’s Explanations,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 13th May.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 29th April – 3rd May

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Simon Kirchin (Kent) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 30th April.
  • Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore), “Desire’s Explanations,” at Stirling on Thursday, 2nd May.
  • Armin Schulz (London School of Economics) at Edinburgh on Friday, 3rd May.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 22nd – 26th April

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Miranda Fricker (Sheffield), “What’s the Point of Blame?,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 24th April.
  • Kristina Musholt (London School of Economics), “Against self-representationalism,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 24th April.
  • Miranda Fricker (Sheffield), at Stirling on Thursday, 25th April.
  • Miranda Fricker (Sheffield), “‘Generating Epistemic Responsibility for Implicit Prejudice,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 26th April.

Other events next week:

  • 2013 TM Knox Memorial Lecture, St Andrews, 22nd April.  Speaker: Anthony O’Hear (University of Buckingham), “The Tastes of Sardanapallus: Virtue, Upbringing and Moral Reasoning”
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Visiting speakers, 8th – 12th April

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen (CEPPA fellow), “Personal and Impersonal Values,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 10th April.
  • Craig French (Antwerp), “The Formulation of Epistemological Disjunctivism,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 10th April.
  • Penelope Mackie (Nottingham) at Stirling on Thursday, 11th April, and at Edinburgh on Friday, 12th April.

Other events next week:

  • The Thin Red Line, Glasgow, 13th April.  Speakers: Tomasz Placek (Jagiellonian University), Michael De (Utrecht University), Alex Malpass (University of Glasgow), Jacek Wawer (Jagiellonian University).
  • Ethics and Natural Law: Foundations and Applications, St Andrews, 13th April.  Speakers: Anthony Lang (St Andrews), Roger Scruton (St Andrews), Timothy Chappell (Open University), John Milbank (Nottingham University), Caron Gentry (St Andrews), John Haldane (St Andrews), Tom Angier (St Andrews), Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews).
  • 8th Annual UK Integrated HPS Workshop, Aberdeen, 11th – 12th April.
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Visiting speakers, 1st – 5th April

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Jules Holroyd (University of Nottingham) at Edinburgh on Friday, 5th April.

Other events next week:

  • Deviant Pain, Glasgow, 6th April.  Speakers: Clare Allely (Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow), Luis Garcia-Larrea (Neuroscience, University of Lyon), Valerie Hardcastle (Philosophy, University of Cincinatti), Richard B.  Krueger (New York State Psychiatry Institute, Columbia University), Joanna McParland (Psychology and Allied Health Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University).
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Visiting speakers, 25th – 29th March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Colin Davis (Royal Holloway, University of London), “Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: The Temporality of Trauma,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 27th March.
  • Aidan McGlynn (University of Edinburgh), “De Facto IEM,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 27th March.
  • Antony Hatzistavrou (Hull), “Reconsideration and the epistemic dimension of exclusionary reasons,” at Stirling on Thursday, 28th March.
  • Zoe Drayson (University of Stirling), “Perception, Prediction, and Penetration,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 29th March.
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Visiting speakers, 18th – 22nd March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • William Mander (Oxford) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 19th March.
  • Zoe Drayson (Stirling), “Perception, Prediction, and Penetration,” at Stirling on Thursday, 21st March.
  • Sarah Sawyer (University of Sussex), “The Importance of Fictional Properties,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 22nd March.
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Visiting speakers, 11th – 15th March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Ulrike Heuer (University of Leeds) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 12th March.
  • Dermot Moran (University College Dublin), “Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Flesh: The Chiasm,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 13th March.
  • Qassim Cassam (University of Warwick), “Self-Knowledge for Humans,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 13th March and at Stirling on Thursday, 14th March.
  • Jon Altschul (Loyola University, New Orleans), “Epistemic Deontology and Feldman on Role-Oughts,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 13th March.
  • Kent Hurtig (University of Stirling), “Conditionalism about the Normativity of Rationality,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 15th March.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 4th – 8th March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Christopher Hookway (University of Sheffield) at Glasgow on Tuesday, 5th March.
  • Pierre Cassou-Nogues (CNRS, Lille), “An Impossible Problem: Reading the Brain of a Disembodied Subject,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 6th March.
  • Anil Seth (Sussex), “Interoceptive predictive coding, conscious presence, and the experience of body ownership,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 6th March.
  • Jacopo Martire (Stirling), “A genealogy of modern law: from sovereignty to normalization,” at Stirling on Thursday, 7th March.
  • Matthew Smith (University of Leeds) at Edinburgh on Friday, 8th March.
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Visiting speakers, 25th February – 1st March

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Marcia Baron (St Andrews), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 26th February.
  • Adrienne Janus (University of Aberdeen), “Boxes and Bubbles: Serres and Sloterdijk,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 27th February.
  • Chris Belshaw (Open University/CEPPA Fellow), “Death, Pain, and Animal Life,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 27th February.
  • Guy Longworth (Warwick University), “Testimony, Trust, and Virtue,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 27th February.
  • Crispin Wright (NIP, Aberdeen / NYU), “Alethic Relativism and Faultless Disagreement,” at Stirling on Thursday, 28th February.
  • Derek Ball (University of St Andrews), “Philosophy Without Truth,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 1st March.
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Visiting speakers, 18th – 22nd February

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Franz Berto (Aberdeen), “Either the World is Digital or it is Not,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 20th February.
  • David Carmel (Edinburgh), at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 20th February.
  • Suilin Lavelle (Edinburgh), “Understanding Normativity in Folk Psychology,” at Stirling on Thursday, 21st February.

Other events next week:

  • Stephen Menn (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), “The Problem of the Poetics; why does Aristotle have no theory of Lyric poetry?,” St Andrews, 21st February (4:15pm, 104 Edgecliffe)
  • 18th A.E. Taylor Lecture in Ancient Philosophy, Edinburgh, 22nd February.  Speaker: Stephen Menn (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), “Wisdom as the Science of the Four Causes?”
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Visiting speakers, 11th – 15th February

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Julien Deonna (Geneva) & Fabrice Teroni (Bern), “Emotions as attitudes,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 12th February
  • Guy Stock (formerly University of Dundee), “The Precedence of Historical Knowledge and our Consciousness of Time and Self,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 13th February.
  • Mikko Tolonen (Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at St Andrews), “Hume, Pride, and Moral Worth,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 13th February.
  • Karol Polcyn (University of Szczecin/KCL), “The Mystery of Consciousness and Modal Intuitions,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 13th February.
  • Doug Edwards (University of Aberdeen), “The Norm(s) of Inquiry,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 15th February.

Other events next week:

  • 17th PPLS Interdisciplinary Lecture, Edinburgh, 12th February.  Speakers: Prof Stephen Butterfill (Warwick), Prof Johannes Roessler (Warwick), and Dr Suilin Lavelle (Edinburgh), “Implicit and Explicit Mind Reading.”