Not really in my area (geographically or philosophically), but I thought that it’s worth promoting (yet another) event bringing together Aristotle and contemporary philosophy — there’s an ever increasing number of these around now. I like to think that my volume is the first of its kind within the current trend (although it doesn’t really [...]
This workshop in Cologne might be of interest to some readers. L A W S & C H A N C E S Workshop in Cologne March 5, 2012 DFG Research Group Causation | Laws | Dispositions | Explanation SPEAKERS Claus Beisbart (University of Dortmund) Barry Loewer (Rutgers University) Alexander Reutlinger (University of Cologne) John [...]
There are a number of interesting events in Anna Marmodoro’s ERC funded project at Oxford this spring. This one features John Heil, who has an interesting new book coming out soon… Powerful Qualities: A Workshop with John Heil Organised by the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies project 26 – 27 April 2012 Rainolds Room Corpus [...]
I was recently in the Netherlands (again!) for the Kickoff Workshop of the ERC funded Indeterminism Ltd. project’s Kickoff Workshop, organized by Thomas Müller and Jesse Mulder. Looking at the list of invited speakers, which, in addition to myself, included philosophers of science, a physicist, people working on decisions theories and philosophy of action etc., [...]
In a few days I’m setting off to Utrecht in the Netherlands for the Indeterminism Ltd Kickoff Workshop, January 12-13. This is the first event of Thomas Müller’s ERC funded research project on free will, determinism, and related issues. I’m pleased to be one of the invited speakers at the workshop, where I will talk [...]
So, I attended my first ever meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Eastern Division, at Washington D.C. This is the huge yearly conference, where most of the job interviews of the US job market take place. I’m not in the market at the moment myself, as I still have two years of my 3-year [...]
This workshop in London at the Institute of Philosophy looks extremely interesting. It’s a gathering of some of the leading philosophy journal editors as well as OUP, CUP, and Wiley-Blackwell philosophy commissioning editors. I’ve recently worked with Hilary Gaskin of CUP, so I have some insight into the publishing process. I’ve also followed the discussion [...]
In just a week’s time I’m heading to Tampere to a Metametaphysics workshop organized by Jani Hakkarainen. I’m afraid that it’s in Finnish, so the announcement below will only be informative if you know the language, but let me summarize the topics: Jani will first introduce the topic, then I’ll give a talk on ‘Quantification [...]
This conference will no doubt be monumental, with an impressive list of speakers including Tim Crane, James Ladyman, David Papineau, and many others. I have a great interest in these metaphilosophical themes, such as the use of intuitions in philosophy, although I’ve focused more on detailed questions concerning the methodology of metaphysics (such as modal [...]
Another interesting workshop in Cologne. This one is organized by the DFG Research Group on Causation, Laws, Dispositions, and Explanation, involving Andreas Hüttemann, Markus Schrenk, and many others. Speakers include Helen Beebee, Jonathan Jacobs, James Ladyman, among others. Call for Participation D I S P O S I T I O N S, C A [...]
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