• Conference overview
• Speakers
• Programme
• Further details

Conference overview

We are pleased announce the Scottish Network for Normative Philosophy’s Workshop on Practical Reasoning. The Scottish Network for Normative Philosophy is dedicated to promoting the research of contemporary Scottish philosophers on normative themes, and this is the first of three workshops on normative issues. The second will be held in Stirling (Autumn 2009) on epistemic normativity, while the third will be in Glasgow (Autumn 2010) on normative themes in perception and emotion. This workshop will be held at the University of Edinburgh’s new Informatics Forum and the Philosophy Department’s new home in the Dugald Stewart Building, on Sunday June 28th to Monday June 29th, 2009. This event is part of the Department of Philosophy's Ethics research cluster.

We are grateful to the Carnegie Foundation and the Scots Phil Club for their generous support of this event.

Speakers

Speakers include:

• Campbell Brown (Edinburgh)
• Matthew Chrisman (Edinburgh)
• Jonathan Dancy (Reading and UT-Austin)
• Jamie Dreier (Brown)
• Graham Hubbs (UNC-Chapel Hill)
• Kent Hurtig (Stirling)
• Elinor Mason (Edinburgh)
• Sean McKeever (Davidson College)
• Michael Ridge (Edinburgh)
• Michael Smith (Princeton)
• Jussi Suikkanen (Leeds)
• Jay Wallace (Berkeley)
  

Programme

Note that this is a tentative schedule. Except where noted, all events take place in G.07 – Informatics Forum.

Sunday 28th June 2009

9:30-10:30 Registration and Welcome Tea/Coffee

10:30-12:30 ‘Consequentialise This,’ Campbell Brown (Edinburgh) (pdf)
Commentator: Jamie Dreier (Brown)

12:30-2:00 Lunch (at liberty)

2:00-4:00 ‘Aesthetics, Objectivity, and Particularism,’ Sean McKeever (Davidson College) & Michael Ridge (Edinburgh) (pdf)
Commentator: Jonathan Dancy (Reading and UT – Austin)

4:00-4:30 Afternoon Tea/Coffee

4:30-6:30 ‘The Wrong Kind of Value,’ Kent Hurtig (Stirling) (pdf)
Commentator: Jussi Suikkanen (Leeds)

6:30-8:00 Reception (Dugald Stewart Building Common Room – 7th Floor)

8:00 Conference Dinner (TBA)

Monday 29th June 2009

9:30-10:30 Morning Tea/Coffee

10:30-12:30 'Moral Responsibility and Moral Theory: A Package Deal,' Elinor Mason (Edinburgh) (pdf)
Commentator: Jay Wallace (Berkeley)

12:30-2:00 Lunch (at liberty)

2:00-4:00 'What is Action?,’ Matthew Chrisman (Edinburgh) & Graham Hubbs (UNC – Chapel Hill) (pdf)
Commentator: Michael Smith (Princeton)

 

Further details

General

The registration fee for this workshop is £20. Registration includes tea and coffee facilities, but lunch is at liberty each day. There are dozens of restaurants within a five-minute walk of the conference site, catering to a wide range appetites and dietary concerns, including (at least 3) vegan/vegetarian restaurants. For more information about this workshop, please contact the Conference Organizer: Ray Critch (r.critch@ed.ac.uk).

Accommodation

Edinburgh has a wide array of accommodation, suitable for a range of budgets. Anything in the Old City, Grassmarket, Cowgate, Newnington, Marchmont, Schiennes, and Tollcross neighbourhoods is less than a 15-minute walk to George Square.

Transport

By Rail: Edinburgh’s central Waverley Station is a fifteen-minute walk (five-minute cab ride) to the George Square Campus. Directions can be found here.

By Plane: Edinburgh’s airport has a bus service (£5 open return) every ten minutes to Waverley Bridge, next to Waverley Station. From there, please follow the rail directions (see above).

By Car: Parking facilities are difficult to come by in Edinburgh, and so we suggest using public transport. Nonetheless a map of car parks near George Square can be found here.

By Bus: Within Edinburgh, many routes all run near the George Square Campus. A map of bus routes is found here.

Buses arriving in Edinburgh terminate at the St. Andrew’s Square Depot, about a 15-minute walk to George Square. Directions can be found here.

 

Last Updated: June 22nd 2009 by Matthe Chrisman.