Senior Seminar Programme

Tuesdays at 4 pm

THE REID 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, 2012-13

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"
23 April    no talk
30 April    Simon Kirchin (Kent), "Concepts, Conceptions, and the Epistemology of Disagreement"
7 May    no talk
14 May    Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore), "Desire's Explanations"
21 May    tba
28 May    Philip Meadows

First semester, 2012-3

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"

23 October: READING PARTY    
    
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"

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