Meetings are usually on Fridays,
4-6p, in Room G.06 of the Dugald Stewart Building
(note, this place and time differs from previous years). Announcements
regarding seminars are made on the "philsem" mailing
list. To subscribe to this list, send an email to majordomo@lists.ed.ac.uk
with only the text "subscribe philsem" in the body
of the message (leave out the quotation marks). The organisor
of the visiting speaker series is Dr Natalie Gold.
Visiting
Speaker Philosophy Seminars
| Semester 1 |
Semester 2 |
- 01 October 2010:
Hanna Pickard (Oxford)
"Responsibility without Blame: Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric Treatment"
- 08 October 2010:
(Departmental Symposium)
Mike Ridge (Edinburgh)
"Relocating Normative Thought and Discourse"
- 11 October 2010:
(Jointly with Political Theory)
Simon Caney (Oxford)
"Humanity, Institutions and the Scope of Distributive Justice: A Defence of Nonrelational Egalitarianism"
*Please note that this is a Monday and that the lecture will take place from 3-5pm in seminar room 2 in the Chrystal Macmillan Building
- 22 October 2010:
Victor Caston (Michigan)
"Aristotle on Perceptual Content"
- 29 October 2010:
Jim Moor (Dartmouth)
"Are Ethical Robots Possible?"
- 12 November 2010:
Richard King (Glasgow)
"Universality and Argument in Mencius IIa6"
- 19 November 2010:
Brian Skyrms (Irvine)
"Signals: Evolution, Learning and Information"
- 26 November 2010:
Richard Menary (Wollongong)
"Cognitive Niche Construction: Somewhere Between Scaffolding and Extension"
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- 14 January 2011:
David Levy
"A Need for Forgiveness?"
(departmental symposium)
- 21 January 2011:
Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group Workshop
- 28 January 2011:
Fiona Woollard (Southampton)
"Have We Solved the Non-Identity Problem?"
- 4 February 2011:
Tim Williamson (Oxford)
"Very Improbable Knowing"
- 11 February 2011:
Inna Kupreeva (departmental symposium)
- 18 Feb 2011:
Clare Batty (University of Kentucky)
"Olfaction: Philosophical Perspectives"
- 25 February 2011:
Elinor Mason
"Super Subjective Consequentialism"
(departmental symposium)
- 4 March 2011:
AE Taylor Lecture
Stephen Makin (Sheffield)
"Amusing Gorgias"
- 11 March 2011:
Nature of Knowledge Lecture Branden Fitelson (Rutgers)
"Knowledge From Non-Knowledge"
- 18 March 2011:
David Enoch (Hebrew University)
"Authority"
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