Philosophy Research

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 Predjuice 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'