Philosophy Research

 Fridays at 4pm

Fridays at 4pm 

Fridays at 4pm in 108LT Rankine Building

For enquiries contact the organisers:

• Laura Fearnley (l.fearnley.1@research.gla.ac.uk)
• Dario Mortini (2389316m@student.gla.ac.uk)

Semester 1:

• Sept 20: Lysette Chapronier
• Sept 27: Efrain  Gayosso
• Oct 4: Finn McCardel
• Oct 11: Olan Harrington
• Oct 18: Daniel Abrahams
• Oct 25: Cody Cantabrana
• Nov 1 Masters Talks
• Nov 8: Masters Talks
• Nov 15: Masters Talks
• Nov 22: Dario Mortini
• Nov 29: Eilidh Harrison
• Dec 6: Daniella Meehan

Semester 2:

• 17th January: Olan Harrington
• 24th January : Anne-Kathrin Kock
• 31st January:  Imants latkovskis
• 7th February :  Laura Fearnley
• 14th February :  Yunjie Zhang
• 21st February :  Daniella Meehan
• 28th February : Adriana Alcaraz Sanchez
• 6th March  Masters Talks
• 13th March Masters Talks
• 20th March Masters Talks
• 27th March :  Martin Miragoli
• 3rd April Daniela Ruso

A list of previous seminars can be found .

Semester 1:

• September 28th: Philipp Dapprich
• October 5th: Joaquim Giannotti 
• October 12th: Yunjie Zhang 
• October 19th: María Méndez
• October 26th: Eilidh Harrison
• November 2nd: Ólan Harrington 
• November 9th: Julian Shortt
• November 16th: Raúl Morales 
• November 23rd: Ewan Burns
• November 30th: MSc Talks
• December 7th: MSc Talks
• December 14th: MSc Talks

Semester 2:

• January 18th: Jenelle Salisbury
• January 25th: Martin Miragoli
• February 1st: Imants Latkovskis
• February 8th: Dario Mortini
• February 15th: Daniel Abrahams
• February 22nd: Eilidh Harrison
• March 1st: Olan Harrington
• March 8th: Lysette Chaproniere
• March 15th: Laura Fearnley
• March 22nd: Daniella Meehan

Semester 1:

• September 22 — Nathan Kirkwood: Pioneers of Empiricism: Quine’s Debt to Studying Hume
• September 29 — Frodo Podschwadek: Public Reason for Non-Citizens
• October 6 — Daniel Abrahams: Satiric Criticism in a Mass Media Environment
• October 13 — Maria Mendez: Political Autonomy’s Role for the Enjoyment of Personal Autonomy
• October 20 — Jade Fletcher: Truth for Metaontological Deflationists
• October 27 — No meeting
• November 3 — Ewan Burns: The Social Knowledge Argument for Conservatism.
• November 10 — Philipp Dapprich: A Marxist Theory of Justice?
• November 17 — TBA
• November 24 — MsC Students Blair Pinkett; Findlay Reid; and Matthew Watkins
• December 1 — MsC Students Edwin Wilkinson; Bruce Paterson; Chris Daly; Julian Findley
• December 8 — MsC Students Eliott Kibble; Andrew Benn; Ioanna Ourlaki; Marie Oldfield 

Semester 2: 

• January 19 — Olan Harrington
• January 26 —  Yannic Kappes
• February 2 —  Imants Latkovskis
• February 9 — Joaquim Giannotti
• February 16 —  Zoe Jenkin
• February 23 — Maria Mendez
• March 2 —  Adriana Deuterio
• March 9 —  Eilidh Harrison
• March 16 — Raul Morales
• March 23 —  Yun Zhang
• May 4 — Adriana Sanchez
• May 11 — Raul Morales
• May 18 — Gloria Andrade
• May 25 — Maria Mendez
• June 1 — Olan Harrington

• October 2nd - Berta Grimau ‘Pseudo-singularity in a pluralist framework’
• October 9th - Abraham Sapien Cordoba ‘Desires of pain and pleasure’
• October 16th - Katherine Meadowcroft ‘Moore’s paradox and Self-deception’
• October 23rd - Joaquim Giannotti ‘Powers All The Way Down? The Case of Positional Properties’
• October 30th - Frodo Podschwadek ‘Too Much Substance: How John Rawls’ Liberal Virtues Missed the Political Turn’
• November 6th - Catherine Robb ‘Talents, Identity, and Well-Being’
• November 13th - Patrick Kaczmarek ‘Population ethics - ignoring the future, making it worse in the now’
• November 20th - Suzanne Harvey ‘Suicide and What We Owe to Future Selves’
• November 27th - Rashida Ahmed ‘Physicalism’s commitments and the explanatory gap’
• —-SPA meeting, no seminar—-
• December 11th – Three Masters presentations, 30 minutes, 10 minutes Q&A each

• January 15th – Tyler Mcnabb ‘An Epistemic Defeater for Islamic Belief?’
• January 22nd - Berta Grimau ‘Making sense of super plurals'
• January 29th - Joaquim Giannotti ‘Against Platonic Dispositionalism'
• February 5th – Abraham Sapien Cordoba ‘Phenomenological theories of unpleasantness’
• February 12th – Frodo Podschwadek giving his talk titled 'Blurred Lines: Ethical and Political Autonomy in Political Liberal Education'
• February 19th – No Seminar
• February 26th – Suzanne Harvey ‘Paternalism and Libertarianism in the Ethics of Suicide'
• March 4th – Catherine Robb ‘What’s Unequal about Unequal Talents?’
• March 11th – Master’s Presentation – Frank Burr
• March 18th – Marter’s Presentations - Srotaswini Bhowick and Efthimios Constantinou

• April 22nd - Nathan Kirkwood
• April 29th – Ewan Burns
• May 6th – Matt Linsley
• May 13th – Daniel Abrahams 
• May 20th – Master’s Presentation - Elliot Porter 
• May 27th – tbc
• June 3rd - tbc
• June 10th - tbc
• June 17th - tbc

Semester 1

Friday, September 26:  James Humphries (chair:  Suzanne Harvey)
Friday, October 3:  Suzanne Harvey  (chair:  James Humphries)
Friday, October 10:  Sheena McAnulla  (chair:  Abraham Sapien Cordoba)
Friday, October 17: Abraham Sapien Cordoba  (chair:  Patrick Kaczmarek)
Friday, October 24:  Tyler McNabb  (chair:  Rashida Ahmad)
Friday, October 31:  Rashida Ahmad  (chair:  Frodo Podschwadek)
Friday, November 7:  Mika Suojanen (chair: Catherine Robb)
Friday, November 14:  Frodo Podschwadek  (chair:  Berta Grimau)
Friday, November 21:  Nathan Kirkwood and Finlay McCardel
Friday, November 28:  Steven Spence and Erin Crombie
Friday, December 5:  Paul Butterfield and Mirko Tagliaferri
Friday, December 12:  Duncan Crowe and Elizabeth Southgate

Semester 2/3

Friday, January 16:  Suzanne Harvey (James Humphries to chair)
Friday, January 23:  James Humphries (Suzanne Harvey to chair)
Friday, January 30:  Catherine Robb (Abraham Sapien Cordoba to chair)
Friday, February 6:  Katherine Meadowcroft (Berta Grimau to chair)
Friday, February 13:  Berta Grimau (Katherine Meadowcroft to chair)
Friday, February 20:  Patrick Kaczmarek (Catherine Robb to chair)
Friday, February 27:  Frodo Podschwadek (Patrick Kaczmarek to chair)
Friday, March 6:  TBA
Friday, March 13: Frank Burr, Duncan Crowe (each: 30 min presentation, 20 min questions, 55 min max)
Friday, March 20:  Paul Butterfield, Libby Southgate (each: 30 min presentation, 20 min questions, 55 min max) 
Friday, March 27:  Nathan Kirkwood, Mirko Tagliaferri (each: 30 min presentation, 20 min questions, 55 min max) 
Friday, April 3:  No Seminar
Friday, April 10:  No Seminar
Friday, April 17:  Tyler McNabb (Frodo Podschwadek to chair)
Friday, April 24:  Rashida Ahmad (Tyler McNabb to chair)
Friday, May 1:  Abraham Sapien Cordoba (Rashida Ahmad to chair)
Friday, May 8:  Daniel Stanzel (Joaquim Giannotti to chair)
Friday, May 15:  Joaquim Giannotti  (Suzanne Harvey to chair)
Friday, May 22:  Ashley Pennington (James Humphries to chair)

Senior seminar 2012-13

11 September Derek Brown (Brandon): "Colour constancy and colour layering"
18 September Jonathan Cohen (UC San Diego): "Ecumenicism, Comparability, and Color, Or:How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too"
25 September Alexandra Plakias (Aberdeen): "How Moral Disagreement is a Problem for Realism"
2 October Mark Jago (Nottingham): "Material Objects"
9 October Aaron Cotnoir (Aberdeen, NIP): "Parts as Counterparts"
16 October Chris Tucker (Auckland: "If Dogmatists Have Cognitive Penetration Problems, then You Do Too"   
30 October Mark Sprevak (Edinburgh): "Is the extended mind hypothesis nonsensical?"
6 November Michael Sollberger (Lausanne/Oxford): "Causation in Perception: A Challenge to Naïve Realism"
13 November Luke Russell (Sydney): "Is Forgiveness Elective?"
20 November: Jessica Leech (Sheffield): "Essence and Mere Necessity"
27 November: Darryl Gunson (University of the West of Scotland): "Moral Enhancement"
4 December: John Bishop (Auckland): "Concepts of God and Problems of Evil"

8 January 2013    Robert Williams (Leeds): "Decision making under indeterminacy"
15 January     Brian McElvee (St Andrews): "Vividness and the Relativism of Blame"
22 January    Gerald Lang (Leeds): "Theodicy and the Non-Identity Problem"
29 January    Ken Himma (Seattle Pacific University): "A justification for the legal protection of intellectual property: the argument from investment"
5 February    Mikael Pettersson (Stockholm/Sheffield) "Negative Images: On Photography, Causation and Absences"
12 February    Julien Deonna (Geneva) /Fabrice Teroni (Bern): "Emotions as attitudes"
19 February    No seminar (hons reading party)
26 February    Marcia Baron (St Andrews) "Reasonableness"
5 March    Chris Hookway (Sheffield) "Pragmatism and Perceptual Judgement"
12 March    Ulrike Heuer (Leeds) "Reasons to Intend"
19 March     William Mander (Oxford) "Scottish Idealism and the True Self"
16 April    Neil Sinclair (Nottingham), "Expressivism about Reason Statements"
30 April    Simon Kirchin (Kent), "Concepts, Conceptions, and the Epistemology of Disagreement"
14 May    Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore), "Desire's Explanations"
28 May    Philip Meadows (University of Western England) "Naïve Realism and the Phenomenal Character of Perceptual Experience"

Senior seminar 2011-12

20 September Ben Colburn (University of Glasgow), 'Conceptions of responsibility'
27 September Hallvard Lillehammer (University of Cambridge), 'There's something about moral testimony'
4 October Matthew Conduct (University of Durham), 'An unnecessary commitment of naive realism'
11 October Vasilis Politis (Trinity College Dublin), 'Plato and the current essence and modality debate'
18 October Katie Steele (London School of Economics), 'Stopping rules sometimes matter to Bayesians too'
25 October no seminar (Reading Party)
1 November Vladimir Svoboda (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), 'Hare's thesis and the bounds of logic'
8 November Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh), 'Anti-luck virtue epistemology'
15 November Chris Belshaw (Open University), 'The language of harm'
22 November Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews), 'Did Plato's cosmos have a beginning?'
29 November Kimberley Brownlee (University of Manchester), 'A human right against social deprivation?'

17 January 2012  Elizabeth Cripps (University of Edinburgh), Climate Change and Moral Baggage: Collective failure, individual
taint and marring choices
24 January  Christian List (LSE), Free Will, Determinism, and the Possibility of Doing Otherwise
31 January  Robin LePoidevin (University of Leeds), Projecting God
7 February  Simon Prosser (University of St Andrews), Perception and the Passage of Time
14 February  Corine Besson (Birkbeck University), The Open Future, Bivalence and Assertion
21 February  READING PARTY
28 February  Jean-Michel Roy (ENS), Misconceiving the need for a mark of the cognitive
6 March  Jonas Olsson (Stockholm University), How to Understand Mackie’s Arguments from Queerness
13 March  Colin Johnston (University of Stirling), A Version of the Identity Theory of Truth
20 March  Franz Berto (University of Aberdeen), The Empire Strikes Back: the Law of Non-Contradiction After Dialetheism
17 April  Peter Hanks (University of Minnesota), First-Person Propositions
24 April  Jennifer Corns (University of Glasgow), Pain and Idiosyncrasy
1 May  Timothy Williamson (Oxford University), Metaphysics and Higher-Order Modal Logic
8 May  Robert Cowan (University of Glasgow), Ethical Perception and Ethical Intuitionism
15 May  Philipp Keller (University of Geneva), Fundamentality, Grounding and Dependence
22 May  Lloyd Humberstone (Monash University), Logical Relations – Traditional and Not-So Traditional

Postgraduate Seminar Programme 2011-2012

Senior seminar programme 2010-2011

Postgraduate seminar programme, 2010-2011, Semester 2

Conference on the good life and conceptions of life in Greek and Chinese Antiquity, 7-9 June 2010

The Department hosted a conference on the good life in Greek and Chinese Antiquity in June 2010, organised by Richard King. Full details can be found .

Postgraduate Seminar 2009-2010

 Autumn/Winter 2009/10 Schedule: 

There was also a supplementary session on Thursday 5th October, at 6pm in the Carmichael Room.

Sept 23: Alan Carter (Glasgow), 'Some groundwork for an alternative axiology'.

Sept 30: Martin Smith (Glasgow), 'The scope of parity reasoning'

Oct. 7: Andrew McGonigal (Leeds), 'More on many minds'

Oct 14: Matthew Chrisman (Edinburgh), 'Metaethics and The Philosophy of Language'

Oct 21: Wayne Riggs (Oklahoma), 'Open-mindedness'

Nov 4: Ciara Fairley (Cambridge), 'What Reasons Needn't Be'

Nov 11: John Kulvicki (Dartmouth), 'Heavenly sight and the nature of seeing-in'

Nov 18: Michael Morris (Sussex), 'Coming to terms with the world'

Nov 25: Peter Simons (Leeds), 'Categories in ontology and thought: a reassessment'

Dec 2: Antony Duff (Stirling), 'To Whom Must We Answer? Criminal Responsibility and Human Community'

Dec 9: Tillman Vierkent (Edinburgh), 'Free mental actions, managerial control, and the extended will'

Dec 16: Mike Wheeler (Stirling), 'Recarving the cognitive joints of nature'

January 13: Yuri Cath (St. Andrews), 'Knowing How without Knowing That'

January 20: Fraser McBride (Birkbeck), 'On the Origins of Order: Reflections on Russell and Wittgenstein'

January 27: Barry Dainton (Liverpool), 'Time, Passage and Immediate Experience'

February 10: Karol Polcyn (Szczecin), 'What is the explanatory gap?'

February 17: Tom Pink (King’s College), 'Power and Moral Responsibility'

February 24: Lloyd Gerson (Toronto), 'Who Owns What? Some Reflections on the Foundation of Political Philosophy'

March 3: Stephen McLeod (Liverpool), 'Existence and Instantiation'

March 10: Glenn Pettigrove (Auckland), 'The purported significance of self-effacement for ethical theory'

March 17: David Liggins (Manchester), 'Truth and the Function of 'True''

March 24: Ross Cameron (Leeds), 'Necessity and Triviality'

April 21: John Divers (Leeds), 'Belief in Absolute Necessity'

April 28: Andy Clark (Edinburgh), 'Spreading the Joy? Why Consciousness is (Probably) Still in the Head'

May 5: Thomas Johansen (Brasenose College, Oxford), 'Why nutrition is basic to Aristotle's psychology'

May 12: Matthew Hanser (UCSB), 'Deferring to Others'

May 19: Nic Southwood (Oxford/ANU), 'Social Norms and Moral Principles'

May 20: Kai Wehmeier (University of California, Irvine), 'Identity is not a Relation' (please note that this talk is on a Wednesday)

May 26: Mark Hogarth (Leverhulme Fellow, Glasgow), 'Outline of  a New Philosophy of Mathematics'

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Conference 11 - 14 September 2008:

Summer 2008:

Senior Seminar Programme 2007-2008

        25th September:            Prof. John O’Neill (Manchester), ‘Citizenship, well-being and sustainability: Epicurus or Aristotle?’

        2nd October:                 Dr Sonia Roca Royes (Stirling), ‘Mind-independence and modal empiricism’

        9th October:                  Dr Lisa Bortolotti (Birmingham), ‘The paradox of delusions’

        16th October:                Prof. Jessica Brown (St Andrews), ‘Knowledge and practical reasoning’

        23rd October:                Dr Clare Chambers (Jesus College, Cambridge), ‘Coercive redistribution and public agreement:

                                                re-evaluating the libertarian challenge of charity’

        6th November:              Prof. Dave Archard (Lancaster), ‘Why exactly is the existence of the family a problem for justice?’

        13th November:            Dr Arif Ahmed (Girton College, Cambridge), ‘Objects and predication’

        20th November:            Prof. Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State University), ‘Vagueness, metaphysics, and objectivity’

        27th November:            Prof Alan Carter (Glasgow), ‘A plurality of values’

        4th December:              Prof. Graham Priest (Melbourne), ‘The closing of the mind:                                                                                                               how the particular quantifier became existentially loaded behind our backs’

        11th December:             Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta (Monash), ‘How new is the ecological view of colour?’

        8th January:                   Dr Alison Stone (Lancaster), 'Feminist doubts about biological sex'

        15th January:                 Hannah Dawson (Edinburgh) 'Locke on language and politics'

        22nd January:                Dr Jim Levine (Trinity College Dublin) ;Modal Logics and the Show/Say Distinction'

        5th February:                 Prof. Peter Goldie (Manchester), 'The mess inside: sentiment, self-knowledge, and sincerity'

        12th February:               Prof. David Evans (Queens, Belfast), 'The Conflict of the Faculties and the Knowledge Industry: Kant’s diagnosis, in his time and ours'

        19th February:               Prof. Robin Le Poidevin (Leeds), 'The indivisibility of the mental'

        26th February:               Dr Matthew Nudds (Edinburgh), 'Phenomenology and perceptual content'

        4th March:                    Dr Nikk Effingham (Glasgow), 'Cultural Prejudice and the Plenitude Principle'

        11th March:                  Prof. Gail Fine (Cornell), 'Aristotle’s Reply to Meno’s Paradox'

        12th March:                  Prof. Terence Irwin (Keble College, Oxford) 'Sidgwick's revision of rationalism'* ^

        8th April:                       Prof. Herman Cappelen (St Andrews), 'Interpretation sensitivity'^

        15th April:                     Dr Elizabeth Barnes (Leeds), 'Disability and Adaptive Preferences'^

        22nd April:                    Dr Katherine Hawley (St. Andrews), 'Structure and Identity'^

        29th April:                     Prof. Cynthia MacDonald (Queens, Belfast), 'Authoritative self-knowledge and the second-order view'**

        6th May:                       Prof. Crispin Wright (NYU/St Andrews) 'Rules, Regresses and Rational belief'**

        13th May:                     Prof. Paul Snowdon (UCL), 'The What-It-Is-Likeness of Experience'**

        20th May:                     Dr Genia Schönbaumsfeld (Southampton), 'Grammar, nonsense and the “insubstantiality” of philosophy'**

        27th May:                     Prof. Andrew Williams (Warwick) **

        ** in association with the Royal Institute of Philosophy

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16 November 2007

Summer 2007

5 May 2007 Workshop:

20-22 March 2007 Conference: The Admissible Contents of Experience

Saturday 7th October 2007 Workshop: Art and the Senses (organised with Rob Hopkins) held at the University of Sheffield

• 29 September: Tony Milligaan "False Emotions"
• 6 October: David Spewack "The Character of Proper Names"
• 13 October: Sarah Honeychurch "How to Throw the Baby out with the Bathwater: A Critique of Susan James"
• 20 October: Costas Athanasopoulos "Thomas More and Augustime: Perspectives  in Utopia and Liberalism"
• 27 October: Graham Peebles TBA
• 3 November: Dimitris Platchias "Representatioanlism, Symmetrical Supervenience and Identity"
• 10 November: Glen Pettigrove (Massey University) "Understanding Forgiveness"
• 17 November Torsten Mueller MLitt 2 Presentation
• 24 November: Alex Feldt MLitt 2 Presentation
• 8 December: Akiko Frishhut MLitt 2 Presentation
• 15 December Elisa Oddine MLitt 2 Presentation
• 20 April: Gerd Watzenig "The Right to Provate Property"
• 27 April: Sophie Ramsay TBA
• 4 May: Graham Peebles TBA
• 11 May: David Uings "Some Thoughts of the Computational Theory of Mind"
• 18 May: Ioanna-MAria Patsalidou "Life After Death"
• 25 May: Christian Maurer "Harry Frankfurt on Self Love"
• 1 June: David Spewack TBA
• 8 June: Stuart Crutchfield "What Are the Options for Unity of Consciousness"
• 15  June: Christopher Reid "Hegel"

Senior Seminar Programme 2006 - 2007

• 3rd October: Professor Tim Mulgan (St Andrews) 'The Metaphysical Case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism'
• 10th October: Professor Brad Hooker (University of Reading) 'Some Arguments on Fairness, Need-satisfaction, and Desert'
• 24th October: Dr Elizabeth Fricker (Magdalen College, Oxford) 'Testimony and Perception: Some Contrasts'
• 7th November: Dr Thom Brooks (University of Newcastle) 'An Idealist Theory of Punishment'
• 14th November: Professor David Smith (University of Sussex) 'Extreme Disjunctivism'
• 21st November: Professor Alexander Bird (University of Bristol) 'The Structure and Necessity of the Natural Laws'
• 28th November: Professor Alexander Miller (University of Birmingham) 'Metaethics and the Normativity of Meaning'
• 9th January: Dr Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck College, University of London) 'The Values of Knowledge - A Genealogical Approach'
• 16th January: Professor Andrew Williams (University of Warwick) 'Justice and Constructivism'
• 23rd January: Dr Jason Kawall (Colgate University) 'Beliefs and Desires, Epistemology and Ethics'
• 6th February: Professor Peter Milne (University of Stirling) ‘Cantor's Theorem and Frege's Basic Law V.’
• 13th February: Dr Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow) 'Self-Knowledge, Disjunctivism and Anton's Syndrome'
• 20th February: Professor Nick Zangwill (University of Durham) 'Normativity and the Metaphysics of Mind'
• 27th February: Dr Mari Mikkola (University of Stirling) TBA
• 6th March: Professor Galen Strawson (University of Reading and City University of New York Graduate Center) 'Episodic Ethics'
• 17th April: Dr Rowan Cruft (University of Stirling) 'On the Justification of Rights'
• 23rd April: Dr Adam Rieger (University of Glasgow) 'If I Give a Talk, It Will Be About Conditionals'
• 1st May: Professor Udo Schuklenk (Glasgow Caledonian University) 'Rethinking Mandatory HIV Testing During Pregnancy in High HIV-prevalenceRegions: Ethical and Policy Issues'
• 8th May: Dr Michael Brady (University of Glasgow) 'The Irrationality of Recalcitrant Emotions'
• 15th May - Hurkka workshop
• 22nd May: Professor John Hawthorne (Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, Magdalen College, University of Oxford) 'Agreement and the New Relativism'
• 29th May: Professor Catherine Wilson (CUNY) 'Is Truth the Aim of Moral Enquiry?'
• 5th June: Dr  Matthew Soteriou (University of Warwick) 'The Epistemological Role of Episodic Recollection'