Senior Seminar Programme

Tuesdays at 4 pm

THE CAIRD ROOM, Philosophy, School of Humanities, 69 Oakfield Avenue (except where otherwise noted)

This programme is sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy, of which Glasgow is a branch, and whose support is gratefully acknowledged.

Everyone is welcome; students, both postgrads and undergrads, are especially encouraged.

Second semester, 2011-12

17 January  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

First semester, 2011-12

20 September	Ben Colburn (University of Glasgow)	'Conceptions of responsbility'
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?'

A record of previous seminars can be found in the previous events list.