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A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy

The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy presents a workshop on ‘A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy’.

Taking place at the University of Dundee on 12th September 2014, the workshop aims to provide a forum for the reconsideration of Deleuze and Guattari’s work, and to develop connections between established scholars and students working in this area. It involves a series of workshops on Deleuze and Guattari’s most important work, A Thousand Plateaus. The workshop is open to all, but interested parties are asked to register with Professor James Williams in advance (see below).

There will be three workshops focusing on A Thousand Plateaus each at a centre of Deleuze scholarship. A Thousand Plateaus is composed of fifteen plateaus, and each workshop will deal with a selection of these. The workshops will allow speakers to engage with the different perspectives of other speakers through a collaborative close reading of the texts. An edited collection based on these workshops will be published by Edinburgh University Press.

See the full workshop programme here

For enquiries and to register please contact Professor James Williams (j.r.williams@dundee.ac.uk).

This workshop is funded by the Scots Philosophical Association and the Arts & Humanities Research Institute (AHRI).

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Call for Papers: Themes from Smith and Rousseau

The International Adam Smith Society and the Rousseau Association will hold a joint meeting at The University of Glasgow July 20th -22nd 2015. The conference aims to bring together scholars with an interest in the work of either or both of these thinkers with a view to stimulating discussion of their shared interests and the relationship between two prominent members of the Enlightenment.

The conference aims to explore the ideas and shared concerns of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  Proposals for papers are invited on any aspect of Smith, Rousseau, or their shared intellectual interests including (but not limited to) pitié, sympathy, commerce, freedom, nature and science. Given the aim of the conference the organisers are particularly keen to invite papers that deal with both Smith and Rousseau.

Further details can be found on the websites

http://www.adamsmithsociety.net/

http://rousseauassociation.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/default.htm

Please submit a title and abstract to Dr Craig Smith University of Glasgow (Craig.Smith@glasgow.ac.uk).

Deadline for submissions of interest: 1st January 2015.

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Call for Papers: Foundations of Normativity

The 2015 Edinburgh Foundations of Normativity Workshop will be held at the University of Edinburgh on 13th and 14th March, 2015.  We invite submissions of abstracts of original papers on moral, legal, or epistemic normativity (or related topics). We aim to invite the authors of two of these papers to speak at the workshop.  Workshop papers will be circulated in advance; authors will need to submit a final version by 28th February, 2015.  We will be able to provide some travel support for the authors of papers accepted for presentation.

Submissions should consist of an 1,000-word abstract, prepared for blind review, and should be emailed to matthew.chrisman@ed.ac.uk before 1st December, 2014.  Submission emails should include the author’s contact and affiliation information.

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Call for Papers: Arché Graduate Conference

Arché, Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology, is hosting the 8th Annual Arché Graduate Conference in November 2014. We invite graduate students to submit high-quality papers. We welcome papers in the four main Arché research topics (Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology) broadly construed, as well as related areas. We especially encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in philosophy. 

Keynote Speakers:

  • Penelope Mackie (Nottingham)
  • Ian Rumfitt (Birmingham)
  • Symposium on Conceptual Engineering: Herman Cappelen (Arché, St Andrews) & Patrick Greenough (Arché, St Andrews)

Info:  The conference will be held on the 8th and 9th of November 2014 at the University of St Andrews. All accepted talks will receive comments from a member of Arché. We will endeavour to fully cover the cost of travel for all speakers. And we would be happy to arrange childcare.

Submission requirements:  Submit papers via easychair (submissions are limited to 1 per author).  Papers must be no longer than 4,200 words, including an abstract of 200 words. Papers must be anonymised, removing any identifying information.

Deadline for submissions: 8th August 2014, notifications of acceptance by 5th September 2014.

For any further enquiries, email archegradconf@gmail.com or visit:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/acgc/

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Call for Papers: PG session at 2014 SPA Annual Meeting

The Scots Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers to be presented at its 2014 Annual Meeting, to be held on 5th and 6th December, 2015, at the University of St Andrews.  This call is open (and only open) to students at Scottish universities in at least the third year of a philosophy PhD programme.  Papers of no more than 3,000 words, on any area of philosophy, should be prepared for blind review and sent to the Secretary (scotsphil@gmail.com) by 1st September, 2014.  Up to two papers will be selected for presentation at the meeting; authors will have accommodation and travel expenses covered.

For more information on the Association: http://www.scotsphil.org.uk/

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Philosophy events, week of 14th July

Next week:

  • Mental Fictionalism, Edinburgh, 14th – 15th July.  Speakers: Emily Caddick Bourne (Cambridge), Gregory Currie (York), Tamás Demeter (Phil. Institute Hungary), Dan Hutto (Wollongong), Ted Parent (Virginia), Adam Toon (Exeter), Meg Wallace (Kentucky).
  • Wilfred Hodges, “Ibn Sina uncovers a subtle mistake in Aristotle’s modal logic,” St Andrews, on Tuesday, 15th July (11:00, Edgecliffe G03).
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Philosophy events, week of 30th June

Events next week:

  • Action and Self-Consciousness, Stirling, 30th June – 1st July.  Speakers: Anton Ford (Chicago), Adrian Haddock (Stirling), Alexandra Newton (Illinois), Will Small (Oslo), Sebastian Rödl (Leipzig), Michael Thompson (Pittsburgh).
  • Film-Philosophy 2014, Glasgow, 2nd – 4th July.  Speakers: Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University), Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading), Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam), William Brown (University of Roehampton).
  • Suffering and Reason, Glasgow, 4th – 6th July.  Speakers: Marilyn McCord Adams, Fabrizio Benedetti, Michael Brady, Marcel Brass, Giorgio Coricelli, Jennifer Corns, Matthew Fulkerson, Manolo Martinez, Stephane Lemaire, Donna Lloyd.
  • Metaphysical Basis of Logic/Relativism and Rational Tolerance Workshop, Aberdeen, 4th-6th July.  Speakers: Thomas Brouwer, Andreas Fjellstad, Greg Restall, Filippo Ferrari, Alexandra Plakias, Graham Priest, Francesco Berto.
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Philosophy events, week of 23rd June

Events next week:

  • Fallibilism and Evidence, St Andrews, 23rd – 24th June.  Speakers: Jessica Brown (St Andrews), Juan Comesaña (Arizona), Daniel Greco (Yale), Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (Michigan), Matthew McGrath (Missouri), Baron Reed (Northwestern), Jonathan Vogel (Amherst).
  • Quine, Science, and Naturalism, Glasgow, 25th June.  Speakers: Derek Ball (University of St Andrews), Frederique Janssen-Lauret (University of Campinas), Bryan Pickel (University of Edinburgh).
  • Graduate Epistemology Conference, Edinburgh, 27th – 28th June.  Keynote speakers: Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University), Susanna Siegel (Harvard University).
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Glasgow-Campinas Workshop: Quine, Science, and Naturalism

Glasgow-Campinas Workshop: Quine, Science, and Naturalism

Glasgow, 25th June

Programme:

  • 1.00-2.30: Derek Ball (University of St Andrews) “Is Philosophy Continuous with Science?”  Response by Gary Kemp (University of Glasgow).
  • 2.45-4.15: Frederique Janssen-Lauret (University of Campinas) “A Quinean Accommodation (or Two) of the Facts of Psychology.”  Response by Alan Weir (University of Glasgow).
  • 4.30-6.00: Bryan Pickel (University of Edinburgh) “On Holding True Come What May.”  Response by Adam Rieger (University of Glasgow).

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.

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Philosophy events, week of 9th June

Events next week (more information):

  • Kant and Schopenhauer, Ethics and Aesthetics, St Andrews, 13th June. Speakers: Sandra Shapshay, Jens Timmerman, Kate Moran, Adrian Piper.
  • Legal Reasoning, Virtue, and Politics, Edinburgh, 13th – 14th June.  Speakers: Julia Annas (University of Arizona), Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia), Talbot Brewer (University of Virginia), Lawrence Solum (Georgetown University), Josep Joan Moreso (Pompeu Fabra University), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh), Antony Duff (University of Stirling), Kimberley Brownlee (University of Warwick), Iris Van Domselaar (University of Amsterdam), Maks Del Mar (Queen Mary University of London).
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Philosophy events, week of 2nd June

Events next week:

  • Extended Knowledge: Virtue, East Meets West, Edinburgh, 2nd June.  Speakers: Chienkuo Mi, (Soochow University), Eric Hutton (University of Utah), Mark Alfano (University of Oregon), Wayne Riggs (University of Oklahoma), Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota).
  • Aesthetics Work-in-Progress Day, St Andrews, 4th June.
  • Wittgenstein and Epistemology (British Wittgenstein Society Annual Conference), Edinburgh, 5th – 6th June.  Speakers: Annalisa Coliva (Modena), Pascal Engel (Geneva), John Greco (St Louis), Allan Hazlett (Edinburgh), Martin Kusch (Vienna), Michael Lynch (Connecticut), Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (Hertfordshire), Genia Schonbaumsfeld (Southhampton), Claudine Tiercelin (College de France), Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins).
  • Tense in Semantics and Philosophy of Language, St Andrews, 5th – 6th June.  Speakers: Brian Rabern, Berit Brogaard, Mark Steedman, Angelika Kratzer, Peter Ludlow, Dorit Abusch, Jeffrey King.
  • Education, Virtue, and Wellbeing (Intellectual Virtue in Education III), Edinburgh, 7th June.  Speakers: James MacAllister (University of Stirling), Ed Forrest (Educate for Life), Lubomira Radoilska (University of Kent, Canterbury), Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota), Gary Walsh (Character Scotland).
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Philosophical Quarterly table of contents updates

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Philosophy events, week of 26th May

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Tim Kenyon (University of Waterloo), “Content dissolution: How testimony changes in the telling,” at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Wednesday, 28th May.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Terence Irwin symposium (information: p.ziegler@abdn.ac.uk), Aberdeen, 28th May.  Speaker: Terence Irwin (University of Oxford), “John Rawls as a Moral Philosopher: His Place in the Development of Ethics” and “Love your Neighbour AS Yourself?”.
  • 3rd Glasgow Philosophy of Religion Seminar, Glasgow, 29th – 30th May.  Speakers: Sarah Adams (University of Leeds), Max Baker-Hytch (University of Oxford), Ryan Byerly (Regent University), Trent Dougherty (Baylor), David Efird and Daniel Gustafsson (University of York), Sebastian Gäb (Universität Trier), Shawn Graves (University of Findlay), Jason Goltz (Westminster College), Amber Griffioen (Universität Konstanz), Timo Koistinen (University of Helsinki), Tyler McNabb (University of Glasgow), Emmanuel Nartey (City University of New York), Paul O’Grady (Trinity College, Dublin), Martin Pickup (New College, Oxford), Walter Schultz and Lisanne Winslow (University of Northwestern), Hami Verbin (University of Tel Aviv).
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Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize 2014

The Philosophical Quarterly invites submissions for its 2014 international prize essay competition, the topic of which is ‘Humans and Other Animals’.

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/pq/prize.html

What lessons can we learn from thinking about our relations with non-human animals? For instance:

  • What are the differences, and what are the similarities, between capacities for cognition and agency in humans and other animals?
  • What moral constraints, if any, are there on our treatment of them?
  • Which theoretical perspective gives the best answers to questions about the morality of our relations with non-human animals?
  • Might it be our moral duty to prevent animals from harming each other?
  • Are there good moral objections to eating meat from animals genetically engineered to be unconscious?
  • We welcome submissions of 8,000 words or fewer addressing these or other questions about humans and other animals.

Essays should be typed in double spacing. Electronic submission is preferred and contributions may be sent as email attachments to pq@st-andrews.ac.uk. Most formats are acceptable, but PDF is preferred.

Alternatively, non-electronic submissions may be sent to the address below. Three copies of each essay are required and these will not be returned. All entries will be regarded as submissions for publication in The Philosophical Quarterly, and both winning and non-winning entries judged to be of sufficient quality will be published. The closing date for submissions is 1st November 2014.

All submissions should be headed ‘Human’s and Other Animals’ Prize Essay Competition (with the author’s name and address given in a covering letter, but NOT in the essay itself) and sent to:

The Journal Manager
The Philosophical Quarterly
University of St Andrews
KY16 9AR
Scotland
UK

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Philosophy events, week of 19th May

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Michael Devitt (CUNY), “Testing Theories of Reference,” at Edinburgh’s PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar on Monday, 19th May, and at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Friday, 23rd May.
  • Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri), “Knowing What Things Look Like,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Research Seminar on Monday, 19th May.
  • Charlotte Werndl (London School of Economics) at Aberdeen’s Philosophy Colloquium on Tuesday, 20th May.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Newton, Kant, and the Newtonianism of the Eighteenth Century, Edinburgh, 19th May.  Speakers: Thomas Ahnert (University of Edinburgh), John Henry (University of Edinburgh), Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh), Eric Schliesser (University of Ghent).
  • Can Virtue Be Taught? (Intellectual Virtue in Education II), Edinburgh, 24th May.  Speakers: Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University), Ben Kotzee (University of Birmingham), Morwenna Griffiths (University of Edinburgh), Tom Hamilton (General Teaching Council for Scotland), Michael McCabe (George Heriot’s School), Rachael Wiseman (Durham University).