15th BPPA Annual Conference & Inaugural BPPA Careers Day - University of Reading 22-25 September 2011

Careers Day

Preparing for the Job Market
Professor Brad Hooker (Reading)
Professor Helen Beebee (Birmingham)

Publishing:
Dr Thom Brooks (Newcastle)

Philosophy in Culture and the Public Sphere:
Professor David Archard (Lancaster)
Professor John Cottingham (Reading and Heythrop)
Dr James Garvey (Editor of The Philosophers' Magazine)
Professor Sean Kelly (Harvard)
Rick Lewis (Editor and Founder *Philosophy Now*)
Professor Jonathan Rée (Royal College of Art)

03 Philosophy Beyond Academia: Philosophy in culture and the public sphere by Bppa

Society for Women in Philosophy round table discussion on Equality in Philosophy:
Professor Jennifer Saul (Sheffield)
Dr Thom Brooks (Newcastle)
Professor David Archard (Lancaster)
Professor Helen Beebee (Birmingham)

A day in the life of a philosophy academic and general Q&A
Dr Clare Saunders (Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies)
Professor David Archard (Lancaster)
Professor Helen Beebee (Birmingham):

Keynotes

Professor Derek Parfit (Oxford, Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU)

'We Are Not Human Beings'

Professor Crispin Wright (NYU and Aberdeen)

'Alethic Relativism and Faultless Disagreement'

Professor Emma Borg (Reading)

'Contemporary Semantics and the Nature of Context-Sensitivity'

Professor Jonathan Dancy (Reading and Texas)

'My Life in Philosophy'

Graduate Papers and Respondents

Alfred Archer (University of Edinburgh): 'A Further Advantage of Ecumenical Expressivism'
Respondent: Richard Rowland (University of Reading)

Michael Brent (Columbia University): 'Effort and the Standard Story of Action'
Respondent: Chris Pulman (University of Reading)

Kory DeClark (University of Southern California): 'Acceptance and Fair Play'
Respondent: Miroslav Imbrisevic (Hethrop College, London)

Jonathan Erhardt (University of Bern): 'A Physical Argument Against Composition'
Respondent: Alexandru Marcoci (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Robert Foley (University College Dublin): 'Blindsight Unbound: The Philosophical Relevance of Changing Approaches to Blindsight)'
Respondent: Ema Sullivan-Bissett (University of York)

Sarah Hegenbart (University of Leeds): 'Why Beauty and Love belong Together:
On Alexander Nehamas' Analytical Connection between Beauty and Love'

Respondent: Sebastian Köhler (University of Edinburgh)

Thomas Hodgson (Arché, University of St. Andrews): 'Underdeterminacy and Attitude Reports'
Respondent: Hlynur Orri Stefansson (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Emily Thomas (Christ’s College, University of Cambridge): 'The Equivocation Objection to Priority Monism'
Respondent: Jonathan S. Powell (University of Hertfordshire)

Renee Jorgensen (Northern Illinois University): 'A Prosententialist Account of Vagueness'
Respondent: Kian Mintz-Woo (University of Reading)

Robin McKenna (University of Edinburgh): 'Contextualism, Epistemic Relativism and Disagreement'
Respondent: Ian M. Church (University of St. Andrews)

Andrea Onofri (Arché, University of St. Andrews): 'Millianism, Ascriptions and Behavior: When Psychology is not Enough'
Respondent: John Butterworth (University of Liverpool)

Ken Pepper (University of York): 'Active Externalism and the Mark of the Cognitive'
Respondent: Peter Fazekas (University of Edinburgh)

Pendaran Roberts (University of Nottingham): 'The Puzzle of True Blue Simply
Solved and Shown to be Anodyne'
Respondent: Barry Glennon (University of Reading)

Helen Robertson (University College London): 'On the Relation between
the Appearances and Things in Themselves'
Respondent: Katharina T. Kraus (Clare College, University of Cambridge)

Charlotte Wagstaff (University of Reading): 'The Extreme Demand and
the Moral Requirements of Impartiality and Beneficence'
Respondent: Owen Schaefer (St. Cross College, University of Oxford)

Helena Wright (University of New York): 'Realism and Procedural Value'
Respondent: Ryo Chonabayashi (University of Cardiff)

The Conference

Now in its fifteenth successive year, the Annual Conference of the BPPA is the largest, most prestigious and longest-running graduate philosophy conference in the UK. The conference is open to all postgraduate researchers and aims to represent all areas and traditions of philosophy in order to facilitate a mutually beneficial exchange of ideas. It also serves as a forum for intellectual exchange and co-operation, professional planning and development, and provides an excellent opportunity for graduate researchers to establish contacts and form networks with their peers in an engaging and welcoming environment.

The 2011 event was held at the University of Reading from 22-25 September 2011. The three and a half day event allowed time for considered reception of sixteen postgraduate papers and responses, and four keynote addresses. Proceedings will be published in a Special Issue of Philosophical Writings.

Thanks To Our Sponsors

We would like to acknowledge kind and generous support from our sponsors:

• The Mind Association
• The Analysis Trust
• The Aristotelian Society
• Society for Applied Philosophy
• The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies (PRS)
• British Society for Ethical Theory (BSET)
• Society for Women in Philosophy
• British Society for Aesthetics
• Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL)
• British Logic Colloquium (BLC)
• Springer
• Journal of Semantics
• British Society for Philosophy of Science (BSPS)
• Cambridge University Press (CUP)
• University of Reading Department of Philosophy
• University of Reading Graduate School for Arts & Humanities
• University of Reading School of Humanities

Conference Committee

• Jonathan Beale (Committee Chair)
• Jamie Buckland (Advertising & Publicity Coordinator)
• Peter Dennis (Funding Coordinator)
• Noa Leibowitz (Secretary)
• Roxanna Lynch (Treasurer)
• Richard Rowland (Event Coordinator)