CFP PLM4 - 4th Philosophy of Language and Mind Conference, Bochum, 21-23 SEPT 2017   CALL FOR PAPERS   PLM is a European network of centers devoted to the Philosophy of Language and Mind and organizes a biennial international conference series with leading experts on the field.   The Fourth PLM conference will take place:   Venue: Ruhr University Bochum Time: 21-23 September 2017 Homepage: www.rub.de/phil-lang/PLM4/ The conference welcomes the submission of abstracts in the areas of

We are very pleased to present here Jørgen Dyrstad's (KCL) winning submission for this year's Jacobsen Prize in Philosophy Seeing and Differentiating - Jørgen Dyrstad (link) The J A B Jacobsen Essay Prize is awarded from funds donated to the University by Mr Jacobsen, who was concerned to propagate a better understanding of life as a universal concept, in the interests of minimizing egocentricity, nationalism, and sectarianism.

LEM ─ Logic, Epistemology & Metaphysics Forum Spring 2017 Programme Tuesday 31/01 Antony Eagle (University of Adelaide) Title: Regionalism and Physical Qualities Abstract: By ‘physical qualities’, I include such things as mass, shape, and charge, as well as the more exotic properties describe by contemporary physics. Regionalism is the thesis that every physical quality just is a property of a region of spacetime. I will clarify regionalism, and offer some arguments in its favour, both from physics and metaphysics. Tuesday 28/02 Marie Guillot (UCL)

The Practical, the Political, the Ethical.   The Institute of Philosophy hosts regular seminars on the Practical, the political, the ethical aspects of philosophy. The forum generally meets fortnightly in term time.   Unless otherwise stated, talks begin at 5.30pm, 2nd floor, Senate House, Malet St., WC1.   10 th January 2017 – When all goes wrong: responsibility for failure and negligence . | Ulrike Heuer (Leeds)   24 th January 2017 – Can Our Eating Animals Be Good For Them? | Jeff McMahan (Oxford)