A selection of talks recently given by members of the department:
| Ben Colburn | August 2011 'Conceptions of Substantive Responsibility', at the MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester. May 2011 'School Choice and the Market Mechanism at Education' at the Philosophy of Education seminar, Institute of Education, London. May 2011 'Covert Influence' at 'Nudge Nudge Wink Wink: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Efficacy and Ethics of Using Nudge Techniques to Change Behaviour', Open University, Milton Keynes. March 2011 'Dworkin's Continuity Test' at the MANCEPT political theory seminar, University of Manchester. |
| Chris Lindsay | November 2011 'Hume and Reid on Newtonianism, naturalism and liberty', paper presented at the 'David Hume and Modern Philosophy International Conference', Moscow State University, the Higher School of Economics and The Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, to celebrate Hume's tercentenary. |
| Fiona Macpherson |
November 2011 ‘Individuating the Senses’ and ‘Individuating the Senses Ever More Finely: A Response to Gray’, invited talks at a symposium on sensory modalities, Perception and Consciousness workshop series, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. September 2011 ‘Cognitive Penetration and Nonconceptual Content’, plenary talk at conference Conceptual Content: History and Prospects, Peterhouse College, Cambridge. July 2011 ‘Perceptual Capacities’, invited paper, conference on Perceptual Capacities, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia June 2011 ‘Cross-Modal Experiences’, Aristotelian Society, University of London. June 2011 “Cognitive Penetration of Colour Experience’, keynote speaker, 15th Annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, University of Kyoto, Japan. May 2011 ‘Phenomenal Presence as Absence: Delineating and Explaining’, keynote speaker, 2nd Stockholm Graduate Conference, University of Stockholm. April 2011 ‘Perception and Imagination: Heavenly Vision and the Content of Experience’, paper at Invited Symposium: Perception and Imagination, Main Programme, Pacific meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Diego. April 2011 Reply to ‘Molyneux’s Question and the Spatial Content of Vision and Touch” by Ignacio Ávila–Cañamares, Colombia Conference, CenSes Project, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London. April 2011 ‘Colour and Phenomenal Presence as Absence in Visual Experience’, invited paper, Colour and Sensory Knowledge stream of the annual Philosophy of Science conference, Inter-University Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Croatia |
| Alan Weir |
December 2011 ‘Indefinite Totalities and Naïve Sets’, Foundations of Logical Consequence/Plurals Project (Birkbeck), University of St. Andrews. November 2011 ‘The Force of Reason: Why Logic Compels’, Basic Knowledge Project, University of Aberdeen. June 2011 ‘Truth and Paradox’ NIP Summer School, University of Aberdeen. May 2011 ‘Properties as Fusions’ University of Sheffield. May 2011 ‘Why is Philosophy of Mathematics so Exciting?’, University of Edinburgh Philosophy Society. June 2010 ‘A Non-transitive Logic’, Foundations of Logical Consequence Project, University of St Andrews. May 2010 ‘Non-Transitive Entailment’, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia. February 2010 ‘Properties as Fusions’, Irish Philosophical Club, Dundalk. |