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The University of Edinburgh Humanities and Social Science

Work In Progress Seminars, 2007-2008

These meetings take place in the Kemp Smith Room, on the third floor of the David Hume Tower, Wednesdays 1-2pm. All are welcome. See also the Professional Development and Research Training Seminar. If you would like to present a paper as part of this seminar series, then please contact the seminar organiser, Dr. Natalie Gold.

 

Autumn 2007


19 Sept: Graduate-Faculty Introductory Lunch
3 Oct: Adam Carter, "Perspectivism and the Meno Problem"
17 Oct: Markus Hess, "The Value of Truth: Epistemic (and/or)Pragmatic"

24 Oct: Professional Development and Research Training Seminar
31 Oct: Victoria De Costa, "Neorepublicanism, Freedom as Non-domination and Civic Virtue"

7 Nov: Professional Development and Research Training Seminar

14 Nov: Professor Andy Clark, "What 'Change Blindness' Is Not, and Why It Still Matters?"
28 Nov: Andreas Paraskevaides, "Narrative Consciousness and the Multiple Drafts System"

5 Dec: Professional Development and Research Training Seminar

 

Spring 2008

Jan 9: Jonas Christiansen, "Contrastive Casuation and the Causal Exclusion Problem"

Jan 16: Rafael Fiorese, "tbc"

Jan 23: Andy McKinlay, "Creativity Explained"

Jan 30: Patrick Power, "Correlation and Perception: Towards A Simple Connectionist Model of Mind"

Feb 6: Departmental Seminar

Feb 13: Julian Kiverstein, "The First-Person Perspective and Indexicality"

Feb 20: Jamie Collin, "The Epistemology of Abstract Objects"

Feb 27: Dave Ward, "Why the Action-Space Account of Consciousness is Rubbish"

Mar 5: Diego Zucca, "Are There Indirect Perceptions?"

Mar 12: Conor McHugh, "tbc"

Mar 19: Mog Stapleton, "tbc"

 

Summer 2008

Apr 16: Ray Critch, "The Social Origins of Value and Property Problems for Egalitarians"

Apr 23: Nicole Hall-Elfick, "The Aesthetic Experience of Nature"

Apr 30: Ulla Schmid, "Personal Identity"

May 7: Clare MacCumhaill, "Privacy and Powers"

May 14: Christos Kyriacou, "Naturalism and the A Priori"

May 21: Lars Marstaller, "tbc"

Jun 4: Professional Development and Research Training Seminar

Jun 18: Professional Development and Research Training Seminar

 

If you would like to present something in one of the remaining summer slots, then please contact the seminar organiser, Dr. Natalie Gold.

 

Last updated May 28th 2008 by Duncan Pritchard.