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Recent research seminars

Autumn 2011/12

Oct 5 - Heather Logue (Leeds): 'Experiential Content and Naive Realism: A Reconciliation'
Oct 12 - Charles Pigden (Otago): 'No-Ought-From-Is and the Promising Game or John Searle, William Godwin and the Duke of Wellington'
Oct 19 - Oliver Pooley (Oxford): 'Relativity and the Passing of Time'
Oct 26 - Kris McDaniel (Syracuse): 'Degrees of Being'
Nov 2 - Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck): 'What's the point of Blame?'
Nov 9 - Katherine Hawley (St Andrews): 'Trusting Your Friends'
Nov 23 - Corine Besson (Oxford): 'The Open Future, Bivalence and Assertion'
Nov 30 - Jessica Brown (St Andrews): 'Linguistics and epistemology'
Dec 7 - Cian Dorr (Oxford): 'Semantic Plasticity'

Spring 2010/11

26 Jan Saul Smilansky (Haifa) "Can An Egalitarian Be Very Good?"
2 Feb Yujin Nagasawa (Birmingham) "A Systematic Modelling of Anselmian Theism"
9 Feb Alison Hills (Oxford) "Cognitivism about Moral Judgement"
16 Feb Kathleen Stock (Sussex) “Fictive Utterance and Imagining”
23 Feb Sonia Roca Royes (Stirling) "On counterfactual-based epistemologies of modality: A call for pessimism”
2 Mar Rosanna Keefe (Sheffield) “Modelling Vagueness: What Can We Ignore?”
9 Mar Sophie Gibb (Durham) "Tropes and the Generality of Laws"
16 Mar Ofra Magidor (Oxford) "Assertion and Epistemic Opacity"
23 Mar Lucy O’Brien (UCL) "Ordinary Self-Consciousness"
30 Mar Julian Dodd (Manchester) "Performing Musical Works Authentically"
4 May Matthew Tugby (Nottingham) "How to Construct a Power Graph"
8 Jun Stephen Barker "Flux first: a journey into Heraclitean time"

Autumn 2010/11

Sep 22 Alexander Bird (Bristol): Can Dispositions Have Intrinsic Finks and Antidotes?
Sep 29 Lisa Bortolotti (Birmingham): Delusions and double bookkeeping
Oct 6 David Efird (York): Repentance and Alternative Possibilities
Oct 13 John Divers (Leeds): Belief in absolute necessity
Oct 20 Patrick Emerton (Monash University, Australia): Reference and implication in the context of legal interpretation
Oct 27 Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (Nottingham): Agency and embodied cognition
Nov 3 Ross Cameron (Leeds): Why Lewis's Analysis of Modality Succeeds in its Reductive Ambitions
Nov 10 Ian Phillips (All Souls/ UCL): On Afterimages
Nov 17 Philip Ebert (Stirling): Closure and Competence
Dec 1 Katherine Hawley (St Andrews): Trust, Distrust, and Commitment
Dec 8 Katerina Deligiorgi (Sussex) : Kant's Freedoms

Spring 2009/10

Feb 3 Dawn Phillips (Warwick): Comparing Photographs with Works of Music
Feb 10 Elizabeth Barnes (Leeds): Ways of Truthmaking
Feb 24 Maria Ponte (University of the Basque Country): Disagreements, Faults and Perspectives
March 3 George Boterill (Sheffield): Dark Causation: Can amending the Difference Condition solve the problem of attribution to absences?
March 10 Michael Wheeler (Stirling): In Defense of Extended Functionalism
March 17 Jacob Busch (St. Andrews): Can the New Indispensability Argument be Saved from Euclidean Rescues
March 31 Hilary Greaves (Oxford): Cognitive Decision Theory
May 5 Johannes Roessler (Warwick): TBA
May 12 Jonathan Webber (Cardiff): Character and the Self
May 19 Michael Otsuka (UCL): Personal Identity and the Significance of Becoming
May 26 Anita Avramides (Oxford): Perceiving Other Minds

Autumn 2009/10

Spring 2008/09

Autumn 2008/09

Oct. 1: Matthew Kennedy (Nottingham)
Oct. 8: Finn Spicer (Bristol)
Oct. 29: Emma Borg (Reading)
Nov. 5: James Lenman (Sheffield)
Nov. 12: William Child (Oxford)
Nov. 19: Patrick Greenough (St Andrews)
Nov. 26: Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Dec 10: Eleanora Cresto (Buenos Aires) - "Epistemic justification and its limits"

Spring 2007/08

January 30: Pascal Engel (Geneva/Nottingham) The possibility of Social Epistemology, Trent A90.
February 6: Lumsden Lecture: Alan Carter (Glasgow) 6pm, Law and Social Sciences, B62.
February 13: David Armstrong (Sydney/Nottingham) Realism about Totalities, Trent A90.
February 20: Bill Brewer (Warwick), Kinds of Causal Explanation in Perception, Trent A90.
February 27: Roger Crisp (Oxford), Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology, Trent A90.
March 6: Jonathan Tallant (Nottingham), Trent A90.
March 13: Antony Eagle (Oxford), Location and Perdurance, Trent A90.
April 18: Michael Devitt (City Univ. of New York/Nottingham), Referential Descriptions and Conversational Implicatures, Friday, Trent B38a.
May 1: Adam Sennet (University of California, Davis) Thursday, Law and Social Sciences, A2
May 7: Mark Jago (Nottingham), Information and Epistemic Space, Trent B38a

Autumn 2007/08

Oct. 3: Jenefer Robinson (Cincinnati/Nottingham), 'Emotion as Process.'
Oct. 10: Timothy Williamson (Oxford University), 'Improbable Knowing.'
Oct. 17: Geoffrey Cupit (University of Waikato), 'Equality, Scarcity, and Accordance with Due.'
Oct. 24: Mark Eli Kalderon (University College, London), 'The Multiply Qualitative.'
Oct. 31: David Armstrong (Sydney/Nottingham), 'What's wrong with quidditism?'
Nov. 7: Jonathan Wolff (University College, London), 'Political Philosophy and Public Policy.'
Nov. 14: Chris Woodard (University of Nottingham), 'What Pedro Could Do.'
Nov. 21: Gregory Currie (Nottingham), 'Empathy for objects'
Nov. 28: Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow University), 'Self-Knowledge, Disjunctivism and Introspection.'
Dec. 5: Keith Hossack (Birkbeck College, London), /Euclidean Geometry and the a priori'

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