Past events
Jennifer Saul (Sheffield)
Lying, Misleading and What is Said
Date: 16/05/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsMichael Scott (Manchester) and Phil Brown (Manchester)
Ethical Antirealism without Revision
Date: 09/05/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsContemporary Issues in Philosophy of Language: A One-Day Workshop
Programme
- 11:30am - 1pm Øystein Linnebo (Birkbeck), Reference by Abstraction
- 1pm - 2:30pm Lunch (own arrangements)
- 2:30pm - 4pm Penelope Mackie (Nottingham), Sortal Concepts and Modality
- 4:30pm - 6pm George Bealer (Yale), Analysis and Definition
There is no registration fee. Everyone is welcome. The Stopford Building is a short walk (20 mins) from Manchester Oxford Road rail station.
For any queries, please contact the organizer sean.crawford@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 03/05/2012
Venue: Theatre 5, Stopford Building, University of Manchester
Chris Ovenden (Manchester)
Abilities in Context
Date: 02/05/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsDominic Gregory (Sheffield)
Sensory Memories and Imagistic Content
Date: 25/04/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsTom Porter (Manchester)
Towards a Humean Non-Cosmopolitanism
Date: 18/04/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsDom Lopes (UBC)
Feckless Reason
Date: 21/03/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsDavid Davies (McGill)
Fictionality, Fictive Utterance, and the Assertive Author
Date: 14/03/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsUri Leibowitz (Nottingham)
Moral Arguments and Ad Hominem Fallacies
Date: 07/03/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsEphraim Glick (St Andrews)
Practical Modes of Presentation
Date: 29/02/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsStephan Leuenberger (Glasgow)
Grounds without Supplements
Date: 22/02/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsColin Johnston (Stirling)
A Version of the Identity Theory of Truth
Date: 15/02/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsAnthony Everett (Bristol)
Dining with the King of France: Presupposition Failure and Seeming Truth Values
Date: 08/02/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsAaron Meskin (Leeds)
The Trouble with Aesthetics: The Unreliability of Aesthetic Judgment and Aesthetic Testimony
Date: 01/02/2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsJoel Smith (Manchester)
Mindreading and Visual Presence
Date: 14/12/2011
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsNeil Sinclair (Nottingham)
Expressivism and the Authority of Moral Reasons
Date: 07/12/2011
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsAaron Meskin (Leeds) - Postponed
The Trouble with Aesthetics: The Unreliability of Aesthetic Judgment and Aesthetic Testimony
Date: 30/11/2011
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsBoris Kment (Princeton)
Are All Fundamental Facts Qualitative?
Date: 23/11/2011
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsEdward Harcourt (Oxford)
Love, Reason and Respect
Date: 16/11/2011
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsDouglas Edwards (Aberdeen)
Properties as the Shadows of Predicates
Date: 09/11/2011
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsMichael Morris (Sussex)
Thought and Language
Date: 26/10/2011
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsGraham Stevens (Manchester)
Ambiguous Logical Forms
Date: 19/10/2011
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsChris Woodard (Nottingham)
The Common Structure of Kantianism and Act Utilitarianism
Date: 12/10/2011
Venue: Lecture Theatre D of the Zochonis Building
More detailsOpen Minds VI
A graduate conference in all areas of philosophy
Date: 27/06/2011
Date To: 28/06/2011Venue: University of Manchester
More detailsFictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics an informal workshop
Speakers
- Mary Leng (Liverpool)
- Joseph Melia (Oxford)
- Matteo Plebani (Ca' Foscari, Venice)
Date: 25/06/2011
Venue: University of Manchester
One day conference: Emotion: Phenomenology and Content
Date: 18/05/2011
Venue: University of Manchester
More detailsBill Child (University College, Oxford), Knowing from one's own case
Date: 23/03/2011
Venue: Room 1.009, Roscoe Building
More detailsNikk Effingham (Birmingham), The location of properties
Date: 09/03/2011
Venue: Room 1.009, Roscoe Building
More detailsDavid Papineau (KCL), Another problem for mental causation
Date: 02/03/2011
Venue: Room 1.009, Roscoe Building
More detailsAlex Oliver (Cambridge), Plurals, predicates, properties
Date: 23/02/2011
Venue: Room 1.009, Roscoe Building
More detailsSarah Sawyer (Sussex), Cogntivism: A new theory of singular thought?
Date: 16/02/2011
Venue: Room 1.009, Roscoe Building
More detailsLuke Russell (Sydney), Evil, thick and thin
Date: 26/01/2011
Venue: Arthur Lewis Building, G.035
More detailsNeil Sinclair (Nottingham), Expressivism and the authority of moral reasons
Date: 01/12/2010
Venue: Room S1.7, Samuel Alexander Building
More detailsSteve de Wijze (Manchester) and Simon Beck (KwaZulu-Natal), Interrogating the 'ticking bomb scenario': thought experiments and their purposes
Date: 24/11/2010
Venue: Room S1.7, Samuel Alexander Building
More detailsIan Rumfitt (Birkbeck, London), Determinacy and bivalence
Date: 17/11/2010
Venue: Room S1.7, Samuel Alexander Building
More detailsRowland Stout (University College Dublin), Fighting back
Date: 27/10/2010
Venue: Room S1.7, Samuel Alexander Building
More detailsGreg Currie (Nottingham), How not to learn anything from fiction (about the mind)
Date: 20/10/2010
Venue: Room S1.7, Samuel Alexander Building
More detailsRoss Cameron (Leeds), Why Lewis's analysis of modality succeeds in its reductive ambitions
Date: 13/10/2010
Venue: Room S1.7, Samuel Alexander Building
More detailsChris Daly (Manchester), Inferring, explaining and believing
Date: 06/10/2010
Venue: Room S1.7, Samuel Alexander Building
More detailsOpen Minds V
We are pleased to announce our fifth annual graduate conference. Following on from the success of Open Minds I, II, III and IV, the conference is intended to provide a supportive and stimulating environment for postgraduate students and those recently awarded their PhD to share and discuss their work.
Date: 25/07/2010
Date To: 26/07/2010Venue: Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester
More detailsIndividual Behaviour, Social Influence, and Environmental Sustainability
One-day conference organized by Philosophy, School of Social Sciences and Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
Date: 11/06/2010
Venue: Manchester Museum
More detailsPhilosophy of Language Workshop
The speakers for the conference are:
- Professor Emma Borg (Reading)
- Professor Jennifer Saul (Sheffield)
- Dr John Collins (UEA)
- Dr David Liggins (Manchester)
Date: 10/05/2010
Venue: University Place, room 3.024
More detailsOne Day Workshop: Emotion and Value
Date: 22/04/2010
Venue: Room 2.016/2.017, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester
More detailsVictor Durà Vilà (Durham)
Personal identity theory: from meta-metaphysics to experimental metaphysics
Date: 24/03/2010
Venue: Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsSimon Beck (KwaZulu-Natal)
Going through stages: stage theory and the psychological self
Date: 17/03/2010
Venue: Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsPhil Brown (Manchester)
Non-revisionary moral error theory
Date: 03/03/2010
Venue: Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsMatthew Kieran (Leeds)
The character of creativity
Date: 17/02/2010
Venue: Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsA. W. Moore (St. Hugh's, Oxford)
Vats, sets and things in themselves
Date: 10/02/2010
Venue: Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsPekka Väyrynen (Leeds)
Think concepts, variability and gradability
Date: 02/12/2009
Venue: G.019, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsAlan Weir (Glasgow)
Perceptions as states of affairs
Date: 25/11/2009
Venue: G.019, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsKeith Allen (York)
Hallucination and imagination
Date: 18/11/2009
Venue: G.019, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsMichael Scott & Phil Brown (Manchester)
Pragmatic Fictionalism
Date: 11/11/2009
Venue: G.019, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsJane Heal (St. John's, Cambridge)
Reality, judgement, reason and experience
Date: 28/10/2009
Venue: G.019, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsGabriel Uzquiano (Pembroke, Oxford)
How many angels can dance on the point of a needle?
Date: 21/10/2009
Venue: G.019, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsThomas Uebel (Manchester)
Carnap and the Ramseyfication of theories
Date: 14/10/2009
Venue: G.019, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsFictionalism
Date: 15/09/2009
Date To: 17/09/2009Venue: Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, University of Manchester
More detailsOpen Minds IV: a graduate conference in all areas of philosophy
We are pleased to announce our fourth annual graduate conference. Following on from the success of Open Minds I, II, and III, the conference is intended to provide a supportive and stimulating environment for postgraduate students and those recently awarded their PhD to share and discuss their work.
Date: 04/07/2009
Date To: 05/07/2009Venue: University of Manchester
More detailsJoint action, Commitment and Agreement
Date: 05/06/2009
Venue: ST274/275, Stewart House,University of London.
More detailsManchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)
Justice, Rights and Institutions: Themes from the Political Philosophy of T. M. Scanlon
Date: 22/05/2009
Date To: 23/05/2009Venue: John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester
More detailsTwo Day Workshop: Emotion, Value and Desire
Date: 07/05/2009
Date To: 08/05/2009Venue: Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester
More detailsPhilosophy research seminar
Jonathan Schaffer (Australian National University), Grounding as the Primitive Concept of Metaphysical Structure
Date: 06/05/2009
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building.
Philosophy research seminar
Helen Steward (Leeds), The Truth in Compatibilism and the Truth of Libertarianism
Date: 29/04/2009
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building.
Philosophy research seminar
James Ladyman (Bristol), Metaphysics and Method
Date: 22/04/2009
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building.
Philosophy research seminar
Peter Goldie (Manchester), Life, Fiction, and Narrative
Date: 25/03/2009
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building.
Philosophy research seminar
Ofra Magidor (Balliol College, Oxford), Semantic Sovereignty
Date: 18/03/2009
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building.
Philosophy research seminar
Michael Ridge (Edinburgh), Getting lost on the road to Larissa.
Date: 11/03/2009
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building.
Philosophy research seminar
Robyn Carston (University College London), Utterance Content and the Role of Pragmatics
Date: 04/03/2009
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building.
Philosophy research seminar
Date: 25/02/2009
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building.
Philosophy research seminar
Peter Sullivan (Stirling), How much of Frege is there in the Tractatus?
Date: 18/02/2009
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
Philosophy research seminar
David Liggins (Manchester), Truth and the function of 'true'
Date: 11/02/2009
Venue: .030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building.
Philosophy research seminar
Maria Alvarez (Southampton), How Many Kinds of Reasons?
Date: 04/02/2009
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building.
Philosophy Research Seminars
Geoff Stevenson (Manchester)
Is Quantifier Variance Tenable?
Date: 17/12/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
Philosophy Research Seminars
Hillel Steiner (Manchester)
The Just Price
Date: 10/12/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
Philosophy Research Seminars
Gregory Landini (Iowa)
Russell and the Ontological Argument
Date: 03/12/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
Philosophy Research Seminars
Robyn Carston (University College London)
Utterance Content and the Role of Pragmatics
Date: 26/11/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
Philosophy Research Seminars
Chloë Fitzgerald (Manchester)
The Relevance of Empirical Research to Meta-ethics
Date: 19/11/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
Philosophy Research Seminars
José Zalabardo (University College London)
Scepticism and Cognitive Self-Assessment
Date: 12/11/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
Philosophy Research Seminars
Julian Dodd (Manchester)
Musical Nihilism
Date: 29/10/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
Philosophy Research Seminars
Martin O'Neill (Manchester)
Strawson, Spock and the Whisky Priest: On the Nature of the Objective Attitude
Date: 22/10/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
Philosophy Research Seminars
Michael Blome-Tillmann (University College, Oxford)
Non-cognitivism and the Grammar of Morality
Date: 15/10/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
Philosophy Research Seminars
J. Robert G. Williams (Leeds)
Indeterminate Identity
Date: 08/10/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
5th UK Kant Society Graduate Conference
Date: 10/07/2008
Date To: 11/07/2008Venue: Arthur Lewis Boardroon
More detailsOpen Minds 2008: a graduate conference in all areas of philosophy
Keynote speaker: Professor Tim Crane (University College London)
Date: 09/06/2008
Date To: 10/06/2008Venue: Hulme Hall, University of Manchester
More detailsOne day workshop on "Sharing Ends"
Speakers: Prof. Angelika Krebs (Basel), Prof. Hans Bernhard-Schmid (Basel/CIPP), Dr. Anita Konzelmann Ziv (Basel/CIPP), Prof. Peter Goldie (Manchester), Dr. Thomas Smith (Manchester).
Date: 13/05/2008
Venue: A116 Samuel Alexander Building
More detailsThomas Pink (King’s College London): Promises and Obligations
The paper will critically examine a currently dominant model of promising shared by Joseph Raz, John Finnis and many others - that it is an act by which one expresses an intention to obligate oneself, which act thereby brings about the obligation intended. The roots of this model are located in medieval and early modern scholastic natural law theories of promising, and these theories are also compared with the theories of Grotius, Pufendorf and Hume. The dominant Raz-Finnis model is rejected, as is Hume's theory of promissory obligation as part of artificial virtue. A new theory of promising and promissory obligation is proposed.
Date: 07/05/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
Zofia Stemplowska (Manchester): Fairness and Equality of Respect
Date: 30/04/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
Jessica Brown (St. Andrews): Dogmatism about Perceptual Justification
Date: 23/04/2008
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
The Principle of Fairness and States’ Duty to Obey International Law
The author employs the principle of fairness, as explicated by John Rawls and A. John Simmons, to argue that many existing states have a moral duty to obey international law simply in virtue of its status as law. On this voluntarist interpretation of the principle of fairness, agents must accept (in a technical sense) the benefits of a cooperative scheme in order to acquire an obligation to contribute to that scheme’s operation. The author argues that states can accept the benefits international law provides, and that only if they do so do they have a fair-play duty to obey international law. In addition, Simmons’ criticisms of the attempt to use the principle of fairness to establish a duty to obey domestic law – both with respect to understanding the legal order as a cooperative scheme, and to agents’ acceptance of benefits – are shown not to apply in the international context.
Date: 31/03/2008
Venue: 4.031 Arthur Lewis Building
Metaphysics and Epistemology: Issues in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophical issues about the nature of mathematics are lively and far-reaching ones. The key questions are: if there were mathematical objects, what would they be like, and would we be justified in believing that they exist?
Date: 15/03/2008
Venue: Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre
More detailsAndré Gallois (Syracuse): tba
See webpage
Date: 12/12/2007
Venue: 4 - 6 pm, in G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsElizabeth Barnes (Leeds): Metaphysical Indeterminacy
See webpage
Date: 05/12/2007
Venue: 4 - 6 pm, in G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsSean Crawford (Manchester): Are Propositions the Obects of Thought?
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Date: 28/11/2007
Venue: 4 - 6 pm, in G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsSean Crawford (Manchester): Are Propositions the Obects of Thought?
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Date: 28/11/2007
Venue: 4 - 6 pm, in G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsAlan Millar (Stirling): Knowing Through Being Told
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Date: 21/11/2007
Venue: 4 - 6 pm, in Coupland 3 Benger Theatre
More detailsAlan Millar (Stirling): Knowing Through Being Told
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Date: 21/11/2007
Venue: Coupland 3 Benger Theatre
More detailsJoel Smith (Manchester): How is Intersubjectivity Possible?
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Date: 14/11/2007
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsAnthony Hatzimoysis (Manchester): Introspection
Date: 07/11/2007
Venue: G.030/G.031, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsOpen Workshop: Emotions and Moral Motivation
Presentations from the Philosophy department at Manchester with guests from Osnabrück and Neuchâtel – students and staff from all disciplines welcome.
Date: 05/11/2007
Date To: 06/11/2007Venue: 2nd floor Arthur Lewis Building Boardroom
More detailsFinn Spicer (Bristol): Are there any Conceptual Truths about Knowledge?
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Date: 24/10/2007
Venue: G.030/G.031 Arthur Lewis Building
More details2007 UK Kant Society Annual Conference
Kant on Practical Justification
Date: 20/09/2007
Date To: 21/09/2007Venue: 2nd Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
More detailsEmotions, Ethics, and Technology
HUMAINE Workshop and Summer School at The University of Manchester on 29-30 August 2007, organised by Peter Goldie and Sabine Döring.
Date: 29/08/2007
Date To: 30/08/2007Venue: Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre
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