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Annual Postgraduate Philosophy Conference
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| Day 1: Friday 19th September | |
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| 12.30 | Registration (David Hume Tower, George Square) |
| 2.00 | Welcome from Hild Leslie (Secretary SPPA, Edinburgh branch), and Dory Scaltsas (HOD Philosophy, Edinburgh) |
| 2.15 | David Papineau (King's College London) Normativity and Thought |
| 3.45 | Sophie Allen (University College London) Gruesome Reflections on the Problem of Mental Causation |
| 4.30 | Tea break |
| 5.00 | Ewan McEachran (Sheffield) The Relevance of Anomalous Monism |
| 5.45 | Duncan McFarland (Birmingham) Mark Johnston's Substitution Principle: A New Counterexample? |
| 6.30 | Recess Before Dinner |
| 8.00 | Dinner |
REGISTRATION:
This takes place on the ground floor of the David Hume Tower (DHT),
George Square, the University of Edinburgh. There is no conference
lunch on Friday, but there are numerous food outlets within and
around the university. West Nicholoson street is especially bountiful.
| Day 2: Saturday 20th September | |
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| 9.45 | Coffee |
| 10.15 | Jim Stuart (Birmingham) Wright's Objection to the Dispositional Account of Meaning |
| 11.00 | Sarah Sawyer (King's College London) Privileged Access to the World |
| 11.45 | Bill Pollard (Durham) Can we have Knowledge of our Sensations? |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 2.00 | Ward E. Jones (Oxford) Questioning the Role of Pragmatic Virtues in Theory Acceptance |
| 2.45 | Stephen Ferguson (St Andrews) Cognitive Command and the Theory Ladenness of Observation |
| 3.30 | Tea break |
| 4.00 | Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Aberdeen) Cultural Worlds/Cognitive Construction: An Essay on Mind, Science and Morals |
| 4.45 | Closing address from Fiona McPherson, President SPPA |
| 5.00 | Annual SPPA meeting |
Chairs for papers will be announced nearer the conference date.
For further enquiries see conference organisers:
E.mail: PHIBYP@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk
Hild Leslie, Majeda Omar, Ben Young, Richard Gray
