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Philosophy Seminars

Philosophy Colloquium

Jenann Ismael (Tucson), "What Entanglement Might be Telling Us", Monday 8 October, 4-6pm, King's Quad KQG3.

Abstract
Following a suggestion of David Bohm’s, I will explore the possibility that phenomena associated with entanglement and complementarity in quantum mechanics intimate a fundamentally non-spatiotemporal ordering to reality.

Confirmed speakers for the second semester:

Mark Sprevak (Edinburgh), Neil Sinhababu (NUS), Huw Price (Cambridge).

Past Seminars

Olav Gjelsvik, Oslo University, Monday 19 March 2012, Humanity Manse, Ground Floor 4pm-6pm.
Stacy Friend, Heythrop College, Monday 5 March 2012, Humanity Manse, Ground Floor 4pm-6pm.
Hallvard Lillehammer, Cambridge, Monday 27 February 2012, Humanity Manse, Ground Floor 4pm-6pm.
Andy Clark, Edinburgh, "Messy Minds? Embodiment, Action and Explanation in the 21st Century Cognitive Science", Monday 5 December 2011, Humanity Manse, Ground Floor 4pm-6pm.
Mark Kalderon, KCL "Aristotle on Hue", Monday 21 November 2011, Humanity Manse, Ground Floor 4pm-6pm.
Katherine Hawley, St. Andrews, "Rational Trust", Monday 17 October 2011, Humanity Manse, Ground Floor 4pm-6pm.

Robert Zaborowski (Associate Professor at the Institute for History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Professor of Greek Philosophy at the University of Warmia and Mazury) spoke on: "Some remarks on reason–emotion dichotomy and affective ambivalence." Place and time: 16 March 2011, from 4pm to 6pm, in MR250 (MacRobert building). Click here for the abstract.
Professor Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews) spoke on: "Did Plato's world have a beginning?" Place and time: 23 February 2011, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King's Building).
Dr Paula Sweeney (University of Aberdeen) spoke on: "Me, my future selves and 'I'". Place and time: 8 December 2010 (updated 25/11/10), from 4pm to 6pm, in MR250 (MacRobert).
Professor Stephen Gaukroger (University of Aberdeen / University of Sydney) spoke on: "The emergence of representation as a problem in the early 17th century: rhetoric, optics, metaphysics, and mechanics." Place and time: 13 October 2010, from 4pm to 6pm, in KCG16 (King's Quadrangle).
Professor Igal Kvart, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University, spoke on the subject: Knowledge as Indicativity and Perceptual Invariantism. Place and time: 20 May 2010, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King's Building). More information can be found in the abstract.
Professor Mohan Matthen, Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto, spoke on the subject: The Nature of Sensory Knowledge. Place and Time: 18 May, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King's Building). More information can be found in the abstract.
Dr Diego Bubbio, Research Fellow, Sydney University, and Visiting Teaching Fellow, University of Aberdeen, spoke on the subject: Kierkegaard's Regulative Sacrifice: A Post-Kantian Reading of Fear and Trembling. Place and time: 5 May 2010, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King's Building). More information can be found in the abstract.
Dr John Henry, Director of Science Studies, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, spoke on the subject: Isaac Newton and action at a distance. Place and time: 28 April 2010, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King's Building). More information can be found in the abstract.
Dr Monika Bokiniec, Bednarowski Fellow, University of Aberdeen, spoke on the subject: Moral values of art - basic approaches. Place and time: Wednesday 24 March 2010, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King's Building).
Dr Luca Moretti, Lecturer, Philosophy Department, University of Aberdeen, spoke on the subject: Scepticism, metaphysical possibilities and fuzzy probabilities. Place and time: 17 March 2010, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King's Building). More information can be found in the abstract.
Dr Julian B. Lethbridge, Lecturer, English Department, University of Tübingen, spoke on the subject: The Smudged Virtue of Virtue Ethics: If Even Socrates, Jesus, Francis, Teresa and John Paul were Selfish, What is Philosophy Doing, and is it Virtuous? Place and time: 10 March 2010, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King's Building). More information can be found in the abstract.
Mr Alexander J. Arthur, Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen Business School, spoke on the subject: Is ‘We are having a conversation’ a reliable synthetic a priori belief? Place and time: 24 February 2010, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King's Building). More information can be found in the abstract.
Dr Francesco Berto, Lecturer, Philosophy Department, University of Aberdeen, spoke on the subject: Paradox in Paradise: the Metaphysics of Impossible Worlds and Some Applications. Place and time: 10 February 2010, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King's Building). More information can be found in the abstract.
Dr Phillip John Meadows, Teaching Fellow, School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, University of Keele, spoke on the subject: Direct Realism, The Sense Datum Inference and the Geometry of Visibles. Place and time: 3 February 2010, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King's Building).
Prof Stephen Gaukroger, Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Aberdeen, spoke on the subject: Beyond Superstition and Metaphysics: Hume on Christianity and Philosophy. Place and time: 2 December 2009, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King's Building).
Dr Rafał Wonicki from the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, spoke on the subject: What is wrong with cosmopolitanism? Place and time: 18 November 2009, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King’s Building). More information can be found in the abstract.
Dr Ulrich Stegmann, Lecturer, Philosophy Department, University of Aberdeen, spoke on the subject: Developmental programmes. Place and time: 4 November 2009, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King’s Building). More information can be found in the abstract.
Dr Martin Mills, Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of Religion, Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen, spoke on the subject: Against Inference: towards an embodied model of intentionality. Place and time: 21 October 2009, from 4pm to 6pm, in NK7 (New King’s Building). More information can be found in the abstract.

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