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Visiting speakers, 4th – 8th February

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Mikael Pettersson (Stockholm University), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 5th February.
  • Jessica Moss (Oxford), “What is the Logos? Rationality in Aristotle’s Ethics,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 6th February.
  • Simon Prosser (St Andrews), “The Content of Colour Experience,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Language Group on Wednesday, 6th February.
  • Tillmann Vierkant (University of Edinburgh), at Edinburgh on Friday, 8th February.
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Visiting speakers, 28th January – 1st February

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Ken Himma (Seattle Pacific University), at Glasgow on Tuesday, 29th January.
  • Todd Mei (University of Dundee), “”A Heideggerian Political Economy”: Land as Gift in Practice,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 30th January.
  • Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), “The Space of Sensory Modalities,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 30th January.
  • Conor McHugh (University of Southampton), “Epistemic Responsibility and Doxastic Agency,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 30th January.
  • Ursula Coope (University of Oxford), “Reason and reflection in Aquinas,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 1st February.
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Visiting speakers, 21st – 25th January

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Gerald Lang (Leeds), “Theodicy and the Non-Identity Problem,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 22nd January.
  • Matthew Broome (Warwick), “Jaspers and Neuroscience,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 23rd January.
  • Imogen Dickie (University of Toronto), “The mind has a basic need to represent things outside itself,” at Edinburgh on Friday 25th January.
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Visiting speakers, 14th – 18th January

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Clayton Littlejohn (King’s College, London), “Knowledge is probably the norm of belief,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 16th January.
  • Chris Allen (University of Cardiff), “Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation effects on conscious awareness and perception,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 16th January.
  • Robin Le Poidevin (University of Leeds), “Stopped Clocks, Silent Telephones and Sense Data,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 18th January.
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Visiting speakers, 3th – 7th December

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • John Bishop (Auckland), “Concepts of God and Problems of Evil,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 4th December.
  • JC Beall (UConn), “Shrieking towards recapture”, at Arché, St Andrews on Tuesday, 4th December.
  • David Bain (Glasgow), “An Evaluativist Account of Pain,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 5th December.
  • Graham Priest (NYU/St Andrews), “Plurivalent Logic”, at Arché, St Andrews on Thursday, 6th December.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 26th – 30th November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Darryl Gunson (University of the West of Scotland), “Moral Enchantment,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 27th November.
  • Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Texas), “From Thought to Action,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 28th November.
  • Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge), “Respecting All the Evidence,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 28th November.
  • Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Texas), “On Knowing One’s Reasons,” at Stirling on Thursday, 29th November.
  • Chris Heathwood (University of Colorado), “Irreducibly Normative Properties,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 30th November.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 19th – 23rd November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Jessica Leech (Sheffield): “Essence and Mere Necessity,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 20th November, at St Andrews on Wednesday, 21st November, at  Stirling on Thursday, 22nd November, and at Edinburgh on Friday, 23rd November.
  • Ulrich Stegmann (Aberdeen), “Natural information and receiver content,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 21st November.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 12th – 16th November

Next week’s visiting speakers (more information):

  • Luke Russell (Sydney), “Is Forgiveness Elective?,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 13th November.
  • Jac Saorsa (Cardiff School of Art & Design), “Artology: Interventions and Intersections between Philosophy, Art Practice and Biomedical Science,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 14th November.
  • Ephraim Glick (St Andrews), “Practical Modes of Presentation,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 14th November.
  • Stewart Cohen (Arizona), “Self-undermining inference rules and the problem of disagreeing about how to disagree,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Thursday, 15th November (4pm, Dugald Stewart 3.10).
  • Guy Fletcher (Edinburgh), “Expressivism or Cognitivist Sentimentalism?,” at Stirling on Thursday, 15th November.
  • Susan James (Birkbeck), “Spinoza on Learning how to Live,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 16th November.

Other events next week:

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Visiting speakers, 5th – 9th November

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Michael Sollberger (Lausanne/Oxford), “Causation in Perception: A Challenge to Naïve Realism,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 6th November.
  • Jennifer Corns (Glasgow), “Are painful emotional episodes pains?,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, & Informatics Group on Wednesday, 7th November.
  • Ben Sachs (St Andrews), “Distribution doesn’t Matter Morally,” at Stirling on Thursday, 8th November.
  • Suilin Lavellle (Edinburgh) at Edinburgh on Friday, 9th November.

Other events next week:

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Visiting Speakers, 29th October – 2nd November

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Mark Sprevak (Edinburgh), “Is the extended mind hypothesis nonsensical?, at Glasgow on Tuesday, 30th October.
  • John Protevi (Louisiana State University), “Human Nature,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 31st October.
  • Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), “The Space of Sensory Modalities,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 31st October.
  • Ben Jarvis (Queen’s University, Belfast), “The Objective Nature of Propositional Justification,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 31st October.
  • Stephen Penn (Stirling), “Terminism and Truth: John Wyclif on Late Medieval Logic,” at Stirling on Thursday, 1st November.
  • Timothy Rosenkoetter (Dartmouth College), “Kant on the Semantics of Moral Terms,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 2nd November.

Other events next week:

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Visiting Speakers, 15th – 19th October

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Alexander Logvinenko (Glasgow Caledonian University), “What colours do the colour blind really see?,” at Glasgow’s Mind & Psychology Research Seminar on Monday 15th October.
  • Chris Tucker (Auckland). “If Dogmatists Have Cognitive Penetration Problems, then You Do Too,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 16th October
  • Ian James (Cambridge), “Immanence and Technicity,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 17th October.
  • Chris Tucker (Auckland). “If Dogmatists Have Cognitive Penetration Problems, then You Do Too,”at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 17th October.
  • Alexandra Plakias (NIP, Aberdeen), “How Moral Disagreement is a Problem for Realism,” at Stirling on Thursday, 18th October.
  • Jessie Prinz (CUNY), “Psycho-ontology,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group on Thursday, 18th October. 
  • Joel Smith (Manchester), “What is Empathy For?,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 19th October.

 

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Visiting Speakers, 8th – 12th October

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Jenann Ismael (University of Arizona), “What Entanglement Might be Telling Us,” at Aberdeen on Monday, 10th October
  • Aaron Cotnoir (Aberdeen, NIP), “Parts as Counterparts,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 9th October.
  • Jan Westerhoff (Durham), “Actual Ontological Nihilism,” at Stirling on Thursday, 11th October.
  • Tim Bayne (Oxford), “Multisensory Objects,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 12th October.

Other events next week:

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Visiting Speakers, 1st – 5th October

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Mark Jago (Nottingham), “Objects and Essence,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 2nd October.
  • Mike Wheeler (Stirling), “Thinking Without the Box: Extended Cognition or Existentialist Externalism?,” at Dundee on Wednesday, 3rd October.
  • Philip Ebert (Stirling), “Knowledge, Closure, and Risk,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 3rd October.
  • Mark Jago (Nottingham), “Objects and Essence,” at Stirling on Thursday, 4th October.
  • Jennifer Saul (Sheffield), “Lying, Misleading, and What is Said,” at Edinburgh’s Linguistics Circle on Thursday, 4th October.
  • Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), “The Space of Sensory Modalities,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 5th October.
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Visiting Speakers, 24th – 28th September

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Alexandra Plakias (Aberdeen), “How Moral Disagreement is a Problem for Realism,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 24th September.
  • Murray Shanahan (Imperial College London), “Connectivity and Consciousness,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group, Wednesday, 26th September.
  • Walter Pedriali (Stirling), “Understanding Inference,” at Stirling on Thursday, 27th September.
  • Nick Denyer (Cambridge), “The Political Craft of Protagoras,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 28th September.

 

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Visiting Speakers, 17th – 21st September

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Jonathan Cohen (UC San Diego), “Ecumenicism, Comparability, and Color, Or: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too,” at Glasgow on Tuesday, 18th September.
  • Ben Saunders (Stirling), “Fairness, Outcomes, and the Basic Structure,” at St Andrews on Wednesday, 19th September.
  • Joe Kuntz (Edinburgh), “Communitarian Agreement,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 19th September.
  • Chris Donald (Melbourne), at Stirling on Thursday, 20th September.
  • Campbell Brown (Edinburgh), at Edinburgh on Friday, 21st September.

Other events next week:

  • Workshop on Billboards, Indexicals, Context and Interpreters, St Andrews, 16th – 17th September.  Speakers: Andy Egan (Rutgers/Arché), Barry Smith (Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London), Seth Yalcin (Berkeley), Wayne Davis (Georgetown), Chris Barker (NYU), Jonathan Cohen (UC San Diego).
  • Workshop on the Philosophy of John Perry, St Andrews, 18th – 19th September.  Speakers:Ruth Millikan (Connecticut), Josh Dever (Texas), Dilip Ninan (Tufts), Daniel Morgan (Oxford), Andy Egan (Rutgers), Herman Cappelen (Arché), John Perry (Stanford and California – Riverside).
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Visiting Speakers, 9th – 13th July

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia), “Justification is Potential Knowledge,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 11th July.
  • Frances Kamm (Harvard University), “Justice After War,” at Edinburgh on Thursday, 12th July (11:00).

Other events next week:

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Visiting Speakers, 2nd – 6th July

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Visiting Speakers, 25th – 29th June

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Visiting Speakers, 18th – 22nd June

Next week’s visiting speakers:

  • Josef Perner (University of Salzburg), “Infants’ Sensitivity to Others’ Belief: Implicit?,” at Edinburgh’s PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar on Monday, 18th June.
  • Brian Weatherson (Rutgers University), “Margins and Errors,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 20th June.
  • Carla Bagnoli (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee/University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), “Responsibility, Blame, and Respect,” at Edinburgh on Friday, 22nd June.

Other events next week:

  • Workshop: Summer Reflectorium, St Andrews, 18th June.  Speakers: François Recanati, Berys Gaut, Simon Prosser, Graham Priest, Marcia Baron, Aaron Cotnoir.
  • Conference: Pedagogical Encounters – Feminist Philosophy and Education, Dundee, 22nd and 23rd June.  Keynote speakers: Morwenna Griffiths (University of Edinburgh), Amy Shuffelton (Department of Educational Foundations, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater), Graeme Nixon (University of Aberdeen).
  • Workshop: Imperfect Duties, St Andrews, 23rd June.  Speakers: Elizabeth Ashford (St Andrews), Samuel Mansell (St Andrews), Simon Hope (Stirling), and Jens Timmermann (St Andrews).