Visiting Speaker Philosophy Seminar

18 May 2012 16:00 – 18:00

Speaker: Lloyd Humberstone (Monash University)
Title: Logical Relations -- Traditional and Not-So-Traditional

Abstract: I am interested in the trad...

Philosophy and Neuroscience Reading Group

22 May 2012 12:00 – 13:00

"Two neural correlates of consciousness" by Ned Block
Presenter: Alfredo Martinez

Epistemology Research Group

23 May 2012 15:30 – 17:00

Speaker: Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds)
Title: "Believing in each other: Rational belief and other minds"

Postgraduate Workshop on Inquiry and Cognition

24 May 2012 10:00 – 16:00

An informal workshop in advance of the conference on The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition.

All are welcome.

The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition

25 – 26 May 2012

An international conference on teleology in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. For registration information, contact Allan Hazlett.

The Aims...

Edinburgh Ethics Fest

28 May 2012

Presentations from Edinburgh postgraduates working on ethics.

Epistemology Research Group

30 May 2012 15:30 – 17:00

Speaker: Ram Neta (University of North Carolina)
Title: 'The Epistemic "Ought"'

Abstract: In your judgments, suspensions of judgment, and degrees ...

Ethics Reading Group

6 Jun 2012 11:00 – 13:00

"Author meets critics: Egan on quasi-realism"

Discussion of (among other things) Egan, A. (2007), "Quasi-Realism and Fundamental Moral Error," Aus...

Epistemology Research Group

6 Jun 2012 15:30 – 17:30

Presentation: Andy Egan (Rutgers University), 'Epistemic Modals Again'

Philosophy and Neuroscience Reading Group

12 Jun 2012 12:00 – 13:00

"Reading TBA"
Presenter: TBA

Epistemology Research Group

16 May 2012 15:30 – 17:30

Speaker: Igal Kvart (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Title: The Pragmatics of Knowledge and Pragmatic Encroachment

Philosophy and Neuroscience Reading Group

8 May 2012 12:00 – 13:00

"Do we have independent visual streams for perception and action?" by Thomas Schenka and Robert D McIntosh
Presenter: Pamela Yvette Marie-Louise Jo...

Epistemology Research Group

2 May 2012 15:30 – 17:30

Speaker: Corine Besson (Birkbeck College)
Title: The Epistemology of Logic: The Case for Propositionalism

Abstract: There are (at least) two sorts ...

Philosophy Work-in-Progress

1 May 2012 13:30 – 16:00

Speaker: Dr Guy Bennett-Hunter (IASH Postdoctoral Fellow)
Title: "Certain Doubts: On the Philosophical Quest for Certainty"
Abstract: Dr Bennett-Hu...

Visiting Speaker Philosophy Seminar

27 Apr 2012 16:00 – 18:00

Annalisa Coliva (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
"Hinges and Certainty"

Abstract: In this paper I will consider three main topics in Wittg...

Developmental Linguistics

20 Apr 2012 13:00 – 14:00

Speaker: Edward Baggs
Topic: paper discussion of 'Stone et al (2012).  A Meadian account of social understanding: Taking a non-mentalistic approach ...

15th PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar

19 Apr 2012 16:00 – 18:00

"Evidence in cognitive neuroscience"
Prof Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)

Abstract: What is the nature and epistemological status of ev...

Epistemology Research Group

18 Apr 2012 15:30 – 17:30

Presentation: Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh), 'Wittgenstein and the Groundlessness of Our Believing'

Abstract: In his final notebooks...

Philosophy and Neuroscience Reading Group

17 Apr 2012 12:00 – 13:00

"What is a Neural Correlate of Consciousness? Chalmers (2000)"
Presenter: Ashleigh Louise Watson

PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group

4 Apr 2012 16:30 – 17:30

Presenter: Matt Nudds (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Perceptual Psychology as Philosophy: Burge vs. McDowell

Abstract: I will look at a disagree...