Philosophy conferences and workshops

Forthcoming conferences and workshops will be displayed here.

Forthcoming conferences

Workshop: Testimony; Aesthetic and Otherwise

Date: 11 May 2012

The workshop aims to address the debate over the value of testimony in aesthetics as well as the relationship between this debate and broader issues in epistemology and elsewhere.

Reality Making: Exploring Fundamentals in Metaphysics

Date: 10 - 12 July 2012

This conference will focus on recent debates in metaphysics surrounding questions of grounding, fundamentality, essentialism and the monism vs pluralism debate.

Recent conferences

Ethics and Explanation

Date: 18-19 November 2011

This conference was the opening event in a larger research project into the nature of ethics and explanation, and brought together meta-ethicists, normative ethicists and philosophers of science.

Events

Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Event - Science, Art and the Sacred

Date: 27/06/2012 (17:00-19:00)
Location:: Leeds Art Gallery
Description: In collaboration with the Leeds Art Gallery, the AHRC funded project "Method in Philosophical Aesthetics: the challenge from the sciences" will be hosting a major public event on the relationship between science, art and religion on the evening of the 27th of June 2012.

Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference - Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art?

Date: 28 (08:30) - 30/06/2012 (18:00)
Location:: Leeds Art Gallery
Description: An international conference in association with the University of Leeds, the University of Nottingham and the Royal Institute of Philosophy. The conference will involve speakers with a variety of perspectives, ranging from those with a good deal of enthusiasm for "empirical philosophy" to those more inclined to favour traditional, a priori approaches.

Department of Philosophy

University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

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