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BPPA Annual Conference The conference formerly known as NPAPC!  Getting down to business  Tweaking the paper  International Philosophy Football à la Monty Python The BPPA Annual Conference is an annual philosophy conference run by and for postgraduate students in the UK, as well as the occasional keen traveller from foreign parts. Spread over a weekend, it aims at philosophical rigour but seeks also to leaven the deep-furrowed ponderings with social frolicking and gambolling. Before our change of name to the BPPA, this conference was previously known as the National Postgraduate Analytic Philosophy Conference. Henceforth, it will be known by a name of zen–like simplicity: The BPPA Annual Conference. Typically, the BPPA Conference has 12-16 postgraduate speakers, plus a big-name keynote speaker from the host university. The atmosphere is always very friendly and helpful, and generally a lot of fun.
BPPA Conference 2008
This year's BPPA Conference will be taking place over the weekend 27th—29th June at the University of Kent. For the first time, submissions will be open to papers in both analytic and continental traditions of philosophy, something which we are sure can be achieved without changing our long-standing practice of selecting papers based only on clarity, rigour, interest and suitability for a general philosophical audience.
Further details are available on the Kent University Website.
BPPA Conference 2007 at the University of East Anglia A big "Thank you!" to all who contributed to the recent BPPC at the University of East Anglia. Photos and other such may appear here later! The 11th BPPA Conference at the University of East Anglia was made possible through the generous support of the Analysis Trust, the Aristotelian Society, and the Mind Association as well as the UEA School of Philosophy. 10th Annual NPAPC The 10th NPAPC was held at Warwick University, with Professor Bill Brewer giving the keynote address. Past Conferences  Keynote Address - Professor Bill Brewer
- Realism in the Phenomenology of Perception
Graduate Papers - Michael Fenton (Warwick)
- Knowledge of Contextualism in Context
- Helen Frowe (Reading)
- Defending the Moral Distinction Between Killing and Letting Die
- Philip Meadows (Durham)
- The Geometry of Visual experience and Direct Realism
- Timothy Chan (Oxford)
- Belief, Assertion and Moore’s Paradox
- Marie Lundstedt (Umea, Sweden)
- Why Reasons Need not be Conceptual’
- Anil Gomes (Balliol, Oxford)
- Conceptual ‘How Possible’ Questions
- Charlie Pelling (Reading)
- Against Williamson's Anti-Luminosity Argument
- Mauro Rossi (LSE)
- Two Platitudes for Interpersonal Comparison
- Ian Phillips (All Souls, Oxford)
- Context and Perceptual Content
- Alexandre Erler (East Anglia)
- Coherence and rationality
- Julian Fink (Corpus-Christi, Oxford)
- What is Practical Reasoning?
Keynote Address - Tom Baldwin (York)
- Moore’s Paradox, Thought, and Assertion
Graduate Papers - Russell Downham (Macquarie, Australia)
- The living past remembered
- Nick Jones (Nottingham)
- Remembering, imagining, and mosaic states
- Michael Blome-Tillmann (Oxford)
- Epistemic contextualism and the error-theory objection
- Brandy Burfield (Houston, USA)
- The fallacies of fine-tuning
- Daniel Elstein (Cambridge)
- Utility, equality and resources
- Martin Godwyn (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- Who’s afraid of cognitive bloat?
- William Kilborn (Western Washington, USA)
- A topologic argument for substantivalism
- Brian King (Cambridge)
- The problem with plenitude
- Janne Mantykoski (King’s College, London)
- Are there untranslatable languages?
- Elizabeth McKinnell (Durham)
- Are future people our equals?
- Bence Nanay (Berkeley, USA)
- Imagining seeing and imagining kissing: an objection to Walton’s theory of depiction
- Georgia Testa (UCL)
- It stands to reason that we should save the greater number?
- Paul Winstanley (Durham)
- Conceivability, possibility, and 2-dimensional semantics
- Elia Zardini (Arché, St Andrew’s)
- A paradox of higher-order vagueness
Keynote Address - Dr. Onora O'Neill, University of Cambridge
- The Ethics of Communication
Graduate Papers - Beau Branson, University of Notre Dame
- Laws of Nature
- Daniel Elstein, University of Cambridge
- Reconsidering Minimalism and Expressivism
- Jason Ford, University of California, Irvine
- Tye-Dyed Teleology and the Inverted Spectrum
- Michael Garnett, University of Toronto
- Agent Identification
- Mahlet-Tsige Getachew, University of York
- Chasing the Wind: Fiction, Metaphor and the Search for Meaning
- Sune Holm, University of St Andrews
- Materialism and Personal Identity
- Mark Jensen, University of Notre Dame
- Civil Society and the Problem of Stability
- Christopher Kane, Brown University
- Paying the Price for the Transitivity of Causation
- David Liggins, University of Sheffield
- In Defence of Modal Fictionalism
- Ofra Magidor, University of Oxford
- Another Note on Zeno’s Arrow
- Richard Price, University of Oxford
- Experiencing Colours and Shapes
- Seth Shabo, Syracuse University
- Reasons-Responsive Structuralism and the Problem of Induced Desires
Keynote Address - Professor Gregory Currie, University of Nottingham
- Delusional thinking, Fictional thinking, Religious thinking
Graduate Papers - Jorn Sonderholm, St. Andrews
- A New Objection to Blackburn's Treatment of the Frege-Geach point
- Julian Kiverstein, Edinburgh University
- The body as subject
- Neil Sinclair, University of Cambridge
- Non-cognitivism and the Practicality of Moral Judgements
- Julia Markovits, University of Oxford
- Complying with the Formula of Humanity
- Mark Whitsey, University of Nottingham
- Shifting the First Person
- Anders Nes, University of Oxford
- Demonstrative Concepts and Phenomenal Sorites
- Enzo Rossi, Pavia/Washington
- Making Sense of Liberal Pluralism
- Asuncion Alvarez, Madrid
- Darwinian Deconstruction: the Evolutionary Roots of Rorty's Antirepresentationalism
- Aisling Crean, Edinburgh University
- Dispositionalism, Megarianism and Modality
- Eugenio Lombardo, University of Nottingham
- Conservation Laws without the Global Kind
- Mahlete-Tsige Getachew, University of York
- Scrooge's Redemption
- Philip Ebert
- The Traditional Connection Reconsidered
- Till Gruene
- Explaining with Motives
Keynote Address - Professor Keith Graham, University of Bristol
- Altruism, Self-Interest and the Indistinctness of Persons
Graduate Papers - Stephen Brown, Sussex University
- A Defence of Monological Reasoning
- Ross P Cameron, Glasgow University
- The Contingent A Priori and Two-Dimensional Modal Logic
- Tamas Demeter, University of Cambridge
- Supervenient Causation and Programme Explanation
- Joseph Diekemper, St. Andrews
- The Symmetry of Time
- Richard Dietz, University of Oxford
- Does Vagueness Violate the Laws of Classical Probability?
- Iwao Hirose, St. Andrews
- Scanlon on Aggregation
- Sune Holm, St. Andrews
- Special Concern and Personal Identity
- Kent Hurtig, St. Andrews
- Internalism and Accidie
- Robert Northcott, LSE
- Two Kinds of Political Philosophy
- Joel Smith, UCL
- What's all this Fuss about Immunity to Error…
- Graham Stevens, Southampton
- Analytical Philosophy After Wittgenstein
- Samantha Vice, University of Reading
- Iris Murdoch and the Inner Life
- Ioannis Votsis, LSE
- Overcoming Newman's Objection
- Anne Whittle, UCL
- Two Intuitions about Causation
Keynote Address - Professor Jonathan Dancy, University of Reading
- Particularism in the Theory of Meaning
Graduate Papers - Dario Glasso, Birkbeck College, London
- Towards an Anti-Essentialist Account of Tragedy
- Simon Prosser, University of Warwick
- Two Types of Immunity to Error Through Misidentification
- Jeremy Watkins, Herford College, Oxford
- Forgiveness and its place in Ethics
- Douglas Farland, University of Reading
- Supervenience, Naturalism & Normativity
- Christopher Wraight, University of Birmingham
- The Concept of Pleasure
- David Effird, New College, Oxford
- Semantic Disjunctivism
- Stephen Butterfill, St. Catherine's College, Oxford
- Why should awareness of our own beliefs concern us?
- Julien Kilverstein, University of Edinburgh
- Representation and the First Person
- Maria Kasmirli, University of Sheffield
- I need to find myself a Suleiman
- Andrew Reisner, Worcester College, Oxford
- Why Substantive Theories of Rationality are False
- Alex Voorhoeve, University College, London
- A Critique of Roemer's Version of Equality
- Anna Sheratt, University of Sheffield
- Imagining Unicorns
Keynote Address - Professor E.J. Lowe, University of Durham
- The Nature of Metaphysics: An Analytic Perspective
Graduate Papers - Sophie Allen, University College, London
- A Space Oddity: McGinn on Consciousness and Space
- Nafsika Athanassoulis, University of Reading
- Kant, Moral Luck and the Neo-Kantians
- Stephen Butterfill, University of Oxford
- False Belief in the Theory of Mind
- Massimilano Carrara, University of Padua
- Counting Objects in a Room: Some Remarks
- Alison Creese,University of Bristol
- Emotion and Weakness of the Will
- Julien Deonna, University of Bristol
- Are Emotional Contagion, Empathy and In-his-shoes Imagining Ways of Understanding Other Peoples Emotions?
- David Efird, Edinburgh University
- Negative Existentials, Structured Propositions and Ontological Dependence
- David Hemp, University of Sheffield
- Plantinga on the Evidentialist Objection
- Simon Kirchin, University of Bristol
- In Defence of Particularism
- Mental Realism and Supervenience
- Luca Malatesti, University of Stirling
- Stefanie Richter, St. Andrews University
- Future Individuals
- Constantine Sandis, University of Reading
- Primitive Actions and Individuation
- Jonathan Webber, University College, London
- Naive Realism, Causation and Explanation
Keynote Address - Professor David Bell: Sheffield University
- Kant, Judgement and Mereological Analysis
Graduate Papers - Nafsika Athanassoulis: Reading University
- Is Fidelity a Virtue?
- Anjan Chakravartty: Cambridge University
- Is the Very Notion of Causation Incoherent?
- Annalisa Coliva: St Andrews University
- Immunity to Error Through Misidentification and the Dilemma about the Self
- Michael Lacewing: Oxford University
- On Deliberating Well
- Tim Lewens: Cambridge University
- The Objectivity of Colour
- Ewan McEachran: Sheffield University
- The Route To Non-Reductive Physicalism
- Duncan McFarland: Birmingham University
- Colour, Mind-Dependence and the Conditional Fallacy
- Martin O'Neill: Oxford University
- Three Problems with Kymlicka's Multicultural Liberalism
- Duncan Pritchard: St Andrews University
- Wright on Dreaming Scepticism
- Michael Rich: Cambridge University
- Why the Realist Explanation of Scientific Success Fails
- Bart Streumer: Reading University
- Disposition Accounts in Evolutionary Theory, Rational Choice Theory, and Ethics
- Jonathan Tinker: University of Reading
- Cognitive Illusions: An Important Empirical Prediction of Evolutionary Psychology's Massive Modularity Hypothesis
- Ben Young: Edinburgh University
- Nativism, Indefeasibility and A Priori Knowledge
Keynote Address - Professor Peter Carruthers, Sheffield
- Sympathy and Subjectivity
Graduate Papers - Timothy Chan, Oxford
- Is Semantic Reductionism Self-Refuting
- Reply: Keith Frankish, Sheffield
- Ben Young, Edinburgh
- A Priori Warrant, Fallibility And Defeasability
- Colin Farrelly, Bristol
- Public Reason, Neutrality and Civic Virtues
- Reply: Simon Kirchin, Sheffield
- Duncan Pritchard, St. Andrews
- Scepticism, Rationality, and HInge Propositions
- Otavio Bueno, Leeds
- Truth, Minimalism and Assertibility
- Chris Lindsay, St. Andrews
- Mind, World And Active Experience
- Reply: Sally Perry, Sheffield
- Anjan Chakravartty, Cambridge
- Causal Properties and Laws of Nature
- Reply: Simon Bostock, Sheffield
- Jim Stuart (Birmingham)
- Kripke's Wittgenstein and Self-Knowledge
Keynote Address - Professor Chris Hookway, Sheffield
- Naturalism, Norms and Analytic Philosophy
Graduate Papers - Otavio Beuno, Leeds
- Modal Fictionalism, Possible Worlds Semantics and Quasi-Truth
- Zena Childs, Balliol College, Oxford
- Moral Regret
- Sean Crawford, Exeter College, Oxford
- The Explanatory Necessity of Relational Psychological Attributions/span>
- Stephen Ferguson, St. Andrews
- Frege as a Realist Again
- Richard Gray, Edinburgh
- Scientific Realism and Phenomenal Worlds
- Iain Law, Birmingham
- The Hierarchical Model of Autonomy
- Silvio Pinto, King's College London
- Empiricism and the Existence of Norms
- Sarah Sawyer, King's College London
- Introspective Knowledge of the World
- Keith Frankish, Sheffield
- Philosophy at the Edges (Endpiece)
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