Events at the Institute of Philosophy

THIS WEEK

Wed 1 Jun, 6.00 pm
Chandaria Laureate Lecture Series: Chancellors Hall (Senate House, first floor)
Dan Sperber (Jean Nicod and CEU)
Reasons, Reasoning and Rationality: A Cognitive and Social Perspective
Lecture 1. Reasons in reasoning
Presenting work done in collaboration with Dr Hugo Mercier (Pennsylvania)
Followed by a reception
The next two lectures in the series will be 10 June 'Reasons for reasoning' and 14 June 'Reasoning and rationality'.
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Thurs 2 June, 3.00 pm [NB. earlier start time than usual]
Perception, Senses and Action Forum: G37 (Senate House, ground floor)
Corrado Sinigaglia (IP & Milan)
The Space of Actions

FORTHCOMING

Wed 8 (from 2pm) – Thurs 9 Jun
CenSes Workshop: ST274/275 (Stewart House, second floor)
CenSes Workshop: Perception in Social Interaction
Corrado Sinigaglia (Universita degli Studi di Milano), Guenther Knoblich (Cognitive Science, CEU)
Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway), Barry C Smith (Institute of Philosophy)
Elisabeth Pacherie (CNRS), Natalie Sebanz (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Veronica Ramenzoni (Max Planck Institute, Netherlands), Stephen Butterfill (Warwick)
Chris Frith (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL), Johannes Roessler (Warwick)
Abstracts: http://thecenses.org/2011/05/perception-in-social-interaction/
Registration: http://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/08090611prog.pdf
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Wed 8 Jun, 4.00 pm
IP Aesthetics Forum: McFetridge Room, Birkbeck Philosophy Dept, Gower St, WC1.
Nick Zangwill
Metaphor as Appropriation
Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics
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Fri 10 Jun, 12.30 pm
IP Lunchtime Seminar: ST273 (Stewart House, Second Floor)
James Genone (Stanford)
Evidential Constraints on Singular Thought
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Fri 10 Jun, 6.00 pm
Chandaria Laureate Lecture Series: Senate Room (Senate House, first floor)
Dan Sperber (Jean Nicod and CEU)
Reasons, Reasoning and Rationality: A Cognitive and Social Perspective
Lecture 2. Reasons for reasoning
Presenting work done in collaboration with Dr Hugo Mercier (Pennsylvania)
The final lecture in the series will be on 14 June 'Reasoning and rationality'.
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Tues 14 Jun, 4.00 pm
IP Logic and Metaphyics Forum: G35 - room change (Senate House, Ground floor).
Nils Kurbis (Sheffield)
Making a Difference: Huw Price's Beliefs and Classical Logic
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Tues 14 Jun, 6.00 pm
Chandaria Laureate Lecture Series: Senate Room (Senate House, first floor)
Dan Sperber (Jean Nicod and CEU)
Reasons, Reasoning and Rationality: A Cognitive and Social Perspective
Lecture 3. Reasoning and Rationality
Presenting work done in collaboration with Dr Hugo Mercier (Pennsylvania)
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Thurs 16 – Sat 18 Jun, ST274/275 (Day 1, Stewart House) & G22/26 (Senate House)
Three-Day Conference: Aesthetics, Art and Pornography
Martin Kemp (Oxford, History of Art), Jerrold Levinson (Maryland)
Jesse Prinz (CUNY), Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham)
Stephen Mumford (Nottingham), Pamela Church-Gibson (University of the Arts)
Supported by the American Society for Aesthetics, British Society of Aesthetics, and the School of Arts and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Kent.
Programme and Registration http://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/AArtPJune2011Notice.pdf
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Tues 21 Jun, 5.00 pm
IP Logic and Metaphyics Forum: ST273 (Stewart House, Second Floor).
Fraser Macbride (Cambridge)
Title tba
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Thurs 23 – Fri 24 Jun, ST274/275 (second floor, Stewart House) NB. Room change
Two-Day Conference: The State of Aesthetics
Diarmuid Costello (Warwick) Gregory Currie (Nottingham), Ivan Gaskell (Harvard, History)
Casey Haskins (SUNY), Jane Heal (Cambridge), John Hyman (Oxford), Matthew Kieran (Leeds)
Michael Lacewing (Heythrop), Derek Matravers (Open), Chris McManus (UCL, Psychology)
Aaron Meskin (Leeds), Bence Nanay (Antwerp & Cambridge), Matthew Rowe
Chris Tilley (UCL, Anthropology), Edward Winters
Winner of the IP annual call for conferences competition
in conjunction with the AHRC Method in Philosophical Aesthetics project, Nottingham, Open and Leeds Universities and British Society of Aesthetics.
Conference website: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/state-of-aesthetics/index.shtml.
REGISTRATION: Please email your name with “StateofAesthetics” as the subject header to M.Moore@leeds.ac.uk and philosophy@sas.ac.uk. In the message, please state your fees category (staff and students should indicate their department and/or course):
FEES: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/state-of-aesthetics/registration.shtml
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FORTHCOMING

TBC. Fri 8 July, 6.00pm, G22/26, Senate House
London Gastronomy Seminar: Multisensory Perception of Flavour
Barry C Smith (IP), Charles Spence (Oxford)
More details to follow.
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