The 99th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association is hosted by the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow from 11-13 July 2025.
The main programme will be made up of sessions from the following speakers:
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Oiling the Wheels of the Philosophy Machine
Helen Beebee (Leeds)
SYMPOSIA
I - Nicknames
Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers) and Eliot Michaelson (KCL)/Ethan Nowak (Stanford)
Chair: Stacie Friend (Edinburgh)
II - Love: Learning from Husserl and Beauvoir
Sara Heinämaa (Helsinki) and Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford)
Chair: Mark Sinclair (QUB)
III - What is a Social Science?
Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge) and Kareem Khalifa (UCLA)
Chair: Fabienne Peter (Warwick)
IV - National Humiliation
Raamy Majeed (Manchester) and Maeve McKeown (Groningen)
Chair: Sarah Fine (Cambridge)
V - Information and Questioning
Christopher Kelp (Glasgow)/Mona Simion (Glasgow) and Anne Meylan (Zurich)
Chair: Luke Elson (Reading)
VI - Intentionality in Medieval Philosophy
Therese Cory (Notre Dame) and Hamid Taieb (Humboldt University Berlin)
Chair: Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow)
POSTGRADUATE SESSION
Theoretical Philosophy
Will Moorfoot (Southampton) - The grandfather paradox and physical probabilities
Daniel Garcia Saavedra (York) - Seeing the whole without its parts
Roope Ryymin (KCL) - What is it like to hear silence?
Viviane Fairbank (St Andrews) - Against inferential pollution: a critique of the adoption problem in logic
Practical Philosophy
Malte Hendrickx (Michigan) - Moral burnout
Puneh Nejati-Nehr (LSE) - Be confident! Rethinking the ontology of confidence in light of difficult action
Damiano Ranzenigo (Konstanz) - Existential self-identification: practical necessity meets meaning in life
Leo Eisenbach (HU Berlin) - Moral and epistemic praiseworthiness
The full programme can be accessed via this link:
https://www.tinyurl.com/jointsession2025programme