published by Geoffrey Ferrari on Wed, 04/10/2013 - 09:03
Summary
Monday 24 – Thursday 27 June 2013
Venue: University of Glasgow, Department of Philosophy, 67-69 Oakfield Avenue Glasgow, G12 8QQ (Map)
Monday 24 June 2013: Wine Reception
Tuesday 25 June 2013: Conference Day 1
Wednesday 26 June 2013: Conference Day 2
Thursday 27 June 2013: Careers Day
The BPPA Annual Conference began in 1997 and will reach its 17th successive year in 2013. Our conference has the dual aim of showcasing the highest quality postgraduate work in philosophy and finding creative ways to meet the needs of current graduate students. Our format combines a traditional two-day postgraduate philosophy conference with an entire day devoted to career preparation. To our knowledge, this is a combination offered by no other graduate philosophy conference in the world.
As part of the Careers Day, Glasgow will be providing the opportunity for up to ten postgraduates to experience mock interviews and to receive feedback on their performance. We will also conduct an original piece of research aimed at capturing a snapshot of the publication history of new hires in UK departments. We feel that this will be of wide ranging benefit to the postgraduate community in particular, and the broader philosophical community in general, by supplementing the anecdotal evidence concerning required levels of publication. We intend to analyse the data against age and gender demographics to discover whether any patterns emerge along these variables.
Keynote speakers: Professor Helen Beebee (University of Manchester) and Professor Ernest Sosa (Rutgers).
Participation
The conference is open to all.
Call for Mock Interviewees
We invite applications from graduates to take part in Academic Job Mock Interviews, to be held at the University of Glasgow on the 24th of June. Interviews will be conducted by an experienced panel of philosophy staff from the University of Glasgow.
Participants will:
gain invaluable experience of an academic job interview.
receive feedback on their performance.
have their conference fee waived.
Receive a £50 Analysis Trust student bursary.
In return, participants are asked to discuss their experiences with their fellow postgraduates in an informal roundtable discussion at the academic career preparation day (27th of June). There are 10 slots available for this unique opportunity. Applicants are asked to write a short statement justifying their inclusion at this exciting event. Application emails should be sent by the 3rd of May to bppaglasgow@gmail.com.
Call for Research Participation (forthcoming)
Call for Papers
We invite papers in all areas of philosophy. Speakers must be postgraduates, or have been recently (within 6 months) awarded their PhD. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to bppaglasgow@gmail.com by 25th April 2013.
Funding
We hope to be able to make a significant contribution to speaker costs (travel and accommodation). Final amounts are to be confirmed.
We also have TWO bursaries from the Society for Applied Philosophy available to support accepted papers in Applied Philosophy. If you believe that your paper is in this area, please indicate this on your abstract.
*New* Furthermore we have TWO bursaries from the British Logic Colloquium, available to support accepted papers in Philosophical Logic. If you believe that your paper is in this area, please indicate this on your abstract.
Conference dinners are planned at a local restaurant on the evenings of Tuesday 26 March and Wednesday 27 March 2013. Please e-mail bppaglasgow@gmail.com if you would like your name to be added to the group booking, indicating any dietry requirements. There will be an additional charge (to be determined) for this.
Funding and Organisation
The conference is organised by Umut Baysan, Robert Cowan, Neil McDonnell and Stephanie Rennick under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience at the University of Glasgow.
The Hiring Process - Dr Michael Brady (University of Glasgow), Dr Jesper Kallestrup (University of Edinburgh), and Professor Brad Hooker (University of Reading)
Sarah Broadie (Professor of Moral Philosophy & Wardlaw Professor, University of St. Andrews) Brad Hooker (University of Reading) Christopher Peacocke (Columbia & UCL) Duncan Pritchard (Chair of Epistemology, University of Edinburgh & Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
18 postgraduate papers were given at the 2012 conference accompanied by 18 responses. For a full list of the papers, presenters and respondents see the conference website at http://www.lifelong.ed.ac.uk/bppa2012/.
Acknowledgements
The BPPA Conference 2012 was sponsored by:
The Analysis Trust
The Aristotelian Society
The British Logic Colloquium
The British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS)
The Mind Association
Cambridge University Press
The Society for Applied Philosophy (SAP)
The Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP)
The Scots Philosophical Association
The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies (PRS)
The University of Edinburgh Department of Philosophy
The University of Edinburgh School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
published by Geoffrey Ferrari on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 21:55
The British Postgraduate Philosophy Association invites applications to organize and host our Annual Conference and Careers Day in 2013.
The BPPA Annual Conference began in 1997 and will reach its 17th successive year in 2013. Our conference has the dual aim of showcasing the highest quality postgraduate work in philosophy and finding creative ways to meet the needs of current graduate students. Our current preferred format combines a traditional two day postgraduate philosophy conference with an entire day devoted to career preparation. To our knowledge, this is a combination offered by no other graduate philosophy conference in the world, and there is flexibility for further innovation in the format.
Organizing our conference is an opportunity to advertise your department, gain valuable wider experience of the philosophical world, and put your creativity to good use! We're confident that our organizers will find it a rewarding experience. Details of our most recent conference at the University of Reading in 2011 can be found on our website at http://www.bppa-online.org/bppc2011 . Our conference in 2012 will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh.
To apply to host and organize the conference in 2013, you will need to supply the following:
- A conference team of at least three people, and confirmation of your team's willingness to work with the BPPA Committee (our expectations are set out in our constitution here http://www.bppa-online.org/constitution - see section 15)
- A letter from your Head of Department acknowledging (i) your department's support for your application to host the conference, (ii) your department's full financial responsibility for the organization of the conference, if awarded, and (iii) confirmation of any conference funding which would be offered by your department in the event of a successful application.
- A proposed schedule and format for the conference, including the proposed dates and intended number of postgraduate and keynote speakers. Please note that the conference should take place within the period from June to September 2013.
- An estimated conference budget based on 60 participants (including postgraduate speakers) plus keynote speakers. The budget should detail in particular the likely costs for accommodation, meals, hire of conference facilities such as conference halls, and conference refreshments.
In addition, we would be delighted to hear why your department should host our conference and to hear your ideas for improvements to the format. We aim to provide an enjoyable and useful conference for all participants, and we welcome creative ideas on how best this can be achieved. The organizing team will have the full support of the BPPA committee, many of whom are previous organizers themselves, for all aspects of the conference.
Applications should be sent by email in any widely used electronic format (pdf, Open Office, MS Word and Excel, or even plain text!) to
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)
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):
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
