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Society for Applied Philosophy 2015 Conference at Edinburgh

SOCIETY FOR APPLIED PHILOSOPHY
Annual Conference 2015

  • Date: 03-05 Jul-2015
  • Location: John McIntryre Conference Centre, University of Edinburgh
  • Venue Address: Pollock Halls, 18 Holyrood Park Rd, Edinburgh EH16 5AY
  • Full information at the conference website
  • Registration deadline – Friday 5 June


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Hume on Regime Change
James Harris
(University of St Andrews)


Equipoise, Uncertainty, and Inductive Risk in Research Involving Pregnant Women 
Rebecca Kukla
(Georgetown University)
Civic Punishment
Antony Duff
(University of Stirling)

The Philosophy of Social Technology: Making the Most of Social Science to Build Better Policies
Nancy Cartwright
(University of Durham and University of California, San Diego)


Undermining Promises
Julia Driver
(University of Washington in St Louis)

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Philosophy events, week of 18th May

Events next week (more information):

  • Christopher Burr (University of Bristol), “The Body as Laboratory,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 20th May.
  • Perspectives on Nativism, Edinburgh, 21st – 22nd May.  Speakers: Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich), Gillian Brown (University of St. Andrews), Annie Gagliardi (University of Edinburgh), Suilin Lavelle (University of Edinburgh), Roger Levy (University of California, San Diego), Caroline Rowland (University of Liverpool).
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Kant, the Laws of the Life Sciences, and the Lawfulness of Nature

Final conference of the Leverhulme-funded Kant and Laws of Nature international network

Kant, the Laws of the Life Sciences, and the Lawfulness of Nature

University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street,
Rooms 3.10-3.11, 25th-26th June.

Speakers:

  • Karl Ameriks
  • Angela Breitenbach
  • Michael Friedman
  • Hannah Ginsborg
  • Paul Guyer
  • Peter McLaughlin
  • Lisa Shabel
  • Eric Watkins
  • Catherine Wilson
  • Rachel Zuckert

The event is free but registration is required (registration closes on June 10th)

For details of the programme and registration please visit the website:

http://kantandlaws.com/third-workshop/

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Philosophy events, week of 11th May

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Adam Zeman (Psychology, Exeter), “The Eye’s Mind,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Research Seminar on Monday, 11th May.
  • Jonathan Tallant (University of Nottingham) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 12th May.
  • Ole Hjortland (Bergen), “Anti-Exceptionalism about Logic,” at St Andrews on Thursday, 14th May.

Other events next week (more information):

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Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

The 6th Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy will take place in the  St Andrews on 7-8 May.
The Senate Room, St Mary’s College, South Street.
  • Han Adriaenssen and Sander de Boer: ‘Aristotelian Responses to Mechanization’
  • Thomas Ahnert: ‘Moral Culture and Religion in the Scottish Enlightenment’
  • Ruairidh Brown: ‘Authenticity in Adam Smith’
  • Jason Fisette: ‘Hume on the Passions’
  • Moira Gatens: ‘Spinoza and the Art of Fiction’
  • Heikki Haara: ‘Pufendorf on Esteem and Sociability’
  • Alzbeta Hajkova: ‘Equality in Locke’
  • Stephen Howard: ‘Leibniz’s Dynamics’
  • Hannah Laurens: ‘Reconsidering Spinoza’s Rationalism’
  • Alan Nelson: ‘Locke on Inner Sense’
  • Sarah Patterson: ‘Descartes’s Appeal to Divine Veracity’
  • Thomas Pye: ‘Hume on English Liberty’
For details of the programme, see:
For further information, contact James Harris at:
There will be no charge, but please let us know if you are planning to attend the seminar.
We are grateful for financial support to the Scots Philosophical Association, the Institute of Intellectual History, the Department of Philosophy at St Andrews, Brill Academic Publishers, the British Society for the History of Philosophy, and ANR Anthropos (ENS Lyon).
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2016-2017 EURIAS Fellowship Programme Call for Applications

The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 16 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, Edinburgh, Freiburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar, Zürich. The Institutes for Advanced Study support the focused, self-directed work of outstanding researchers. The fellows benefit from the finest intellectual and research conditions and from the stimulating environment of a multi-disciplinary and international community of first-rate scholars.

EURIAS Fellowships are mainly offered in the fields of the humanities and social sciences but may also be granted to scholars in life and exact sciences, provided that their proposed research project does not require laboratory facilities and that it interfaces with humanities and social sciences. The diversity of the 16 participating IAS offers a wide range of possible research contexts in Europe for worldwide scholars.

Applicants may select up to three IAS outside their country of nationality or residence as possible host institutions.

The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars as well as from leading senior researchers. The EURIAS selection process has proven to be highly competitive. To match the Programme standards, applicants have to submit a solid and innovative research proposal, to demonstrate the ability to forge beyond disciplinary specialisation, to show an international commitment as well as quality publications in high-impact venues.

For the 2016-2017 academic year EURIAS offers 43 fellowships (21 junior and 22 senior positions).

All IAS have agreed on common standards, including the provision of a living allowance (in the range of €26,000 for a junior fellow and € 38,000 for a senior fellow), accommodation (or a mobility allowance), a research budget, plus coverage of travel expenses.

APPLICATION

– Applications are submitted online via www.eurias-fp.eu, where, you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria, and selection procedure.

– Applications period April 9th ? June 5th, 2015, 12 pm (noon) GMT.

– Late applications will not be considered.

SELECTION PROCEDURE

– Scientific assessment by two international reviewers

– Pre-selection by the international EURIAS Scientific Committee

– Final selection by the IAS Academic Boards

— Publication of results: January 2016

For further information on the Programme, please consult our website: www.eurias-fp.eu

For further information on the IAS and their specific working conditions: www.eurias-fp.eu/ias

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Workshop: Nativism

The Linguistics and Philosophy departments at the University of Edinburgh are hosting a two day workshop on contemporary issues in Nativism, from 21 – 22 May 2015.

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Balthasar Bickel, Linguistics, University of Zurich
  • Gillian Brown, Pyschology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews
  • Annie Gagliardi, Informatics, University of Edinburgh
  • Suilin Lavelle, Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
  • Roger Levy, Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
  • Caroline Rowland, Psychology, University of Liverpool

Further information is available at our website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/lec/nativism-workshop

Attendance is free, but please register at our website. This workshop is made possible by an IASH IIRG (International and Interdisciplinary Research Group) on “Philosophy of the Natural and Human Sciences”. Additional support has been generously provided by EIDYN, the Edinburgh Centre of Epistemology, Mind and Normativity.

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Workshop: Kant’s Scots

Kant’s Scots

Friday May 15th 2015

University of Edinburgh, DSB, 1.01

  •  10.15 Jens Timmermann (St Andrews & Vienna): The Paradox of Method
  • 11.45 Alix Cohen (Edinburgh): Kant on the Aesthetics of Cognition
  • 2.15 Leslie Stevenson (St Andrews): Kant’s Many Conceptions of Appearance
  • 3.45 Kate Moran (Brandeis & Jena): Kant on Passive Citizenship

For information, contact alix.cohen@ed.ac.uk.

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Philosophy events, week of 20th April

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Charles Spence (University of Oxford), “Cross-modal correspondences: Looking for links between sound symbolism and synaesthesia, and their application to multisensory marketing,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Research Seminar on Monday, 20th April.
  • Neil McDonnell (University of Glasgow) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 21st April.
  • Thomas Williams (South Florida/CEPPA), “Anselm’s Quiet Radicalism,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 22nd April.
  • Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews), “Cinematic Art and Technology,” at Edinburgh’s Scottish Aesthetics Forum on Wednesday, 22nd April.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Extended Knowledge, Edinburgh, 22nd – 23rd April.  Speakers: Zoe Drayson (Stirling), Fred Adams (Delaware), Ken Aizawa (Rutgers), Heather Battaly (UC-Fullerton), Michael Mi (Soochow), Mark Alfano (Oregon), Richard Menary (Macquarie), Ben Kotzee (Birmingham), Paul Smart (Southampton), Jeroen De Ridder (Amsterdam).
  • Ancient Philosophy Workshop, Edinburgh, 24th April.  Speakers: Richard McKirahan (Pomona College), Inna Kupreeva (Edinburgh), Voula Tsouna (UC Santa Barbara), Alex Long (St Andrews).
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Ancient Philosophy Workshop, 24th April

Workshop on Ancient Philosophy

Friday, April 24, 2015

Organised jointly by the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at Edinburgh and the School of Classics at St Andrews.

The programme will include four talks:

  • Richard McKirahan (Pomona College) ‘Philolaus on the soul’
  • Inna Kupreeva (Edinburgh) ‘Socrates’ refutation of Protagoras in Theaetetus 169-71′
  • Voula Tsouna (UC Santa Barbara) ‘Cyrenaics and Epicureans on pleasure and the good life’
  • Alex Long (St Andrews) ‘Immortality and godlikeness in Epicureanism and Stoicism’

When: from 10 am, April 24, 2015Where: Room 3.10-11, Dugald Stewart Building, Edinburgh

More information: http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/events/view/international-ancient-philosophy-workshop

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Jody Azzouni visiting St Andrews

Jody Azzouni (Tufts University) will be visiting the Arché Research Centre at the University of St Andrews from 11-24 April. He will be giving four seminars as follows:

  • Two seminars on Thursday 16 April, at 11 am and at 2 pm (each for two hours) on ‘Mathematical Proof’
  • Two seminars on Thursday 23 April, at 11 am on ‘Neutral Quantifiers and Indispensability Arguments’ and at 2 pm on ‘Neutral Quantifiers and Feature-Presentation Metaphysics’.

For more information, please contact slr@st-andrews.ac.uk.

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Scottish Aesthetics Forum, 22nd April

The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its third lecture:

Professor Berys Gaut (St Andrews)

“Cinematic Art and Technology”

Wednesday, 22nd April, 2015, 4:15 – 6:00pm

Dugald Stewart Building, 3.10-3.11, 

University of Edinburgh

(https://www.facebook.com/events/678593888935896/)

The lecture is free and open to all!

Abstract: “Cinema was born as technology and rapidly grew into an art. What is the relation of its artistic to its technological properties? In this paper I develop an argument to show that the proper artistic appreciation of cinematic artworks is partly dependent on their technological features. I also illustrate and defend this claim by comparing how digital films can solve certain filmmaking problems with how non-digital films can do so. I then discuss whether the argument shows that digital films are, other things equal, lesser artistic achievements than are non-digital ones.”

About the speaker: Berys Gaut is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, President of the British Society of Aesthetics, and an Editorial Consultant to the British Journal of Aesthetics. His research interests and publications span both aesthetics and moral theory, and especially the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, the philosophy of film and film theory, and the philosophy of creativity. He is the author of two monographs, Art, Emotion and Ethics (OUP 2007) and A Philosophy of Cinematic Art (CUP 2010), and is currently working on a new one, Exploring Creativity: A Philosophical Inquiry.

Additional information: The lecture will be followed by a dinner with our speaker. If you would like to attend the dinner, please contact the organisers by Friday, 17th April. There are limited funds to cover dinner expenses for two students, which will be offered on a first-come-first-served basis.

To contact the organisers: scottishaestheticsforum@gmail.com.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/groups/scottish-aesthetics-forum

Or find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scottishaestheticsforum

SAF is generously supported by the British Society of Aesthetics and the Scots Philosophical Association.

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2015 Centenary Fellow Stephen Darwall

Stephen Darwall will be visiting St Andrews at the end of May as the Scots Philosophical Association’s 2015 Centenary Fellow. While he’s there, St Andrews will be hosting a few special events.  The biggest is the St Andrews Normative Reasons Workshop on 1-2 June; more information here: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/events/event?id=876. It will feature talks by Darwall, Ellie Mason, Campbell Brown, Matthew McGrath, Kate Manne, and Mark van Roojen.

Darwall will also give two seminars. They are planned for:

  • Tuesday, 26 May at 1pm.
  • Wednesday, 27 May at 3pm.

The titles are ‘Trust as a Second-Personal Phenomenon’ and ‘Commanding Reasons and the Commands of Reason: Kant on Moral Obligation’ (but it’s not settled which will be on which day). Final details will be available closer to the date.

For more information, contact Justin Snedegar (jlsnedegar@gmail.com).

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Philosophy events, week of 30th March

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Jonathan Way (University of Southampton), “Reasons and Reasoning,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 1st April.
  • Tim Bayne (University of Manchester), “The Puzzle of Cognitive Phenomenology,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 2nd April.

Other events next week:

  • Digital Subject UK, Dundee, 1st April.  Speakers: Dominic Smith (University of Dundee), Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee), Alan Bell (University of Dundee), Joris Vlieghe (University of Edinburgh), Erika Fulop (University of Hamburg), Arnauld Regnauld (University of Paris VIII), Claire Larsonneur (University of Paris VIII), Pierre Cassou Noguès (University of Paris VIII), Galit Wellner (Ben Gurion University), Tim Barker (University of Glasgow), Caroline Brown (University of Dundee).
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Philosophy events, week of 23rd March

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh), “DeFreuding implicit attitudes,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of the Natural and Human Sciences on Monday, 23rd March.
  • Miranda Fricker (University of Sheffield) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 24th March.
  • Ian Phillips (Oxford University), “Unconscious perception reconsidered,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group on Wednesday, 25th March.
  • Rachael Wiseman (Durham University) at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 26th March.
  • Elke Brendel (University of Bonn) at Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Group on Thursday, 26th March.
  • Samir Okasha (University of Bristol), “Individualism and reductionism in evolutionary biology,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 26th March.
  • Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University), “The brain as a model of the world,” at Edinburgh’s PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar on Thursday, 26th March.
  • Paulina Sliwa (University of Cambridge) at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 27th March.
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Philosophy events, week of 16th March

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Bob Kentridge (Durham University), “Colour perception without awareness,” at Glasgow’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Research Seminar on Monday, 16th March.
  • Roger Crisp (University of Oxford) at Glasgow’s Senior Seminar on Tuesday, 17th March.
  • Davide Romano (University of Lausanne) at Aberdeen’s Philosophy of Physics Seminar on Tuesday, 17th March.
  • Todd Mei (University of Dundee), “Land and the Given Economy – A New Understanding of Land and Our Relation to It,” at Aberdeen’s Philosophy Colloquium on Wednesday, 18th March.
  • Ambrose Lee (University of Oxford), “Defending a Communicative Theory of Punishment,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 19th March.

Other events next week (more information):

  • Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University) at Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society on Thursday, 19th March.