IP/AHRC Project: International Conference: Constructing perceptual objects: Binding within and across the senses, 31 Oct

Monday 20 October 2014

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY Part of the Rethinking the Senses Project, funded by the AHRC. Friday 31 October 2014, 9:30-18:15 International Conference, Council Room, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, Constructing perceptual objects: Binding within and across the senses Speakers include: Pascal Mamassian (Paris), Liad Mudrik (California & Tel Aviv), Roger Newport (Nottingham), and Charles Spence (Oxford).

Objective Probability, and Conditional Reasoning Seminar: Paul Humphreys on Propensities and Statistical Models, 21 Oct

Monday 20 October 2014

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY Tuesday 21 October 2014, 17:15-19:00 Objective Probability, and Conditional Reasoning Seminar: Room 243, Senate House, WC1 Propensities and Statistical Models Paul Humphreys (Virginia)

Jean Nicod Prize and Lectures in Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences

Monday 13 October 2014

The Institute of Philosophy is delighted to receive news that Dr Chris Frith, Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology, Wellcome Trust Centre for NeuroImaging, University College London and Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Uta Frith, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, have been awarded the prestigious Jean Nicod Prize 2014. Jean Nicod Prize and Lectures in Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences 'What makes us social' - Uta and Chris Frith Programme

LEM Forum: Daniel Rothschild on Quantified Epistemic Modality, 14 Oct

Thursday 9 October 2014

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY Tuesday 14 October 2014, 17:00-19:00 LEM - Logic, Epistemology & Metaphysics Forum Room 243, Senate House, WC1 Quantified Epistemic Modality, Daniel Rothschild (UCL)

IP LAF Forum: Fiona Leigh on The Positive Appearance of Art in Plato’s Sophist

Tuesday 7 October 2014

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY Wed 8 October 2014, 16.00-18.00 IP London Aesthetics Forum: Room 349, third floor, Senate House, WC1 The Positive Appearance of Art in Plato’s Sophist Fiona Leigh (UCL) Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics

Hearing-in: Philosophical perspectives on sounds and sonification, 10 Oct

Sunday 28 September 2014

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY Friday 10 October 2014, 12:30 - 18:30 Room 104, Senate House, WC1 Hearing-in: Philosophical perspectives on sounds and sonification Speakers: Chris Chafe (Stanford) Josef Parvizi (Stanford) Nick Bearman (Liverpool) Paul Vickers (Northumbria)

Objective Probability, and Conditional Reasoning Seminar: Donald Gillies on Causality, Propensity, and Simpson’s Paradox, 30 Sept

Thursday 25 September 2014

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY 30 September 2014, 17:15 - 19:00 Objective Probability, and Conditional Reasoning Seminar: Room 243, Senate House, WC1 Causality, Propensity, and Simpson’s Paradox Donald Gillies (UCL)

IP LAF Forum: Christy Mag Uidhi on Artistic Serendipity vs. Artistic Luck, 25 Sept

Tuesday 23 September 2014

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY Thurs 25 September 2014, 4.00pm IP London Aesthetics Forum: Room G34, Senate House, WC1 Artistic Serendipity vs. Artistic Luck Christy Mag Uidhi (Houston) Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics

IP Lunchtime Seminar: Mariam Thalos on the Gulf between Practical and Theoretical reason, 17 Sept

Friday 12 September 2014

IP Lunchtime Seminar: The gulf between practical and theoretical reason Mariam Thalos (Utah) 1.00-2.30pm, Room 243 Wed 17 September 2014 Abstract:

The Aesthetic Aims of Science, 8 Sept 13.45-18.00hrs

Friday 5 September 2014

The Aesthetic Aims of Science 8 September 2014 Senate House, London G34, ground floor The aim of science is a topic often broached amongst philosophers of science: it deeply informs their discussions of realism and antirealism, as well as much in the way of scientific methodology. Yet, these discussions almost always presuppose that science can have only one aim, and moreover that this aim is epistemic – whether it be truth, empirical adequacy or explanatory completeness.

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