Philosophy News
Steve Buterfill's paper, 'How to construct a minimal theory of mind' will be the subject of a symposium on Brains
www.philosophyofbrains.com - Beginning 11/4: Symposium on Butterfill and Apperly.
Michael Luntley is the opening speaker at the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain seminar series: ‘Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Expertise, Know-how and Professional Education’
Friday 1 November 2013 at King’s College, London.
Prof Luntley’s paper, ‘Know-how, agential knowledge and experience – the aesthetics of expertise’ opens the series at KCL with further meetings in the series alternating between King’s College and Birmingham City University and running through the academic year 2013-14.
21st Century Theories of Literature: Essence, Fiction, and Value – Call for Papers
There is still a month to submit an abstract for ‘21st Century Theories of Literature’, an exciting interdisciplinary conference to be held at Warwick from the 27th-29th of March 2014.
The conference is built around three double keynote addresses where world-renowned academics from the fields of philosophy and literary studies will collaborate on and debate the nature of three topics: essence, fiction, and value.
It is hoped that the conference will promote active interdisciplinary relationships and reap the benefits of such direct engagement and open collaboration.
The conference will also have talks from other postgraduate students or academics on these three areas. If you wish to be one of these speakers, and have the chance to be part of what promises to be an intellectually stimulating event, then submit a 500-word abstract for a 20 minute presentation on any of the three themes to fveconference@live.warwick.ac.uk by 30/11/2013.
Bursary support: the American Society for Aesthetics will be funding two travel bursaries for graduate students from North America. Please indicate if you wish to be considered for a bursary and which institution you are enrolled with when you submit an abstract. And the Analysis Trust is providing some funds that will be distributed to subsidise accommodation and conference fees for UK postgraduates.
If you wish to simply attend the conference rather than speak, all the details on how to register and a complete programme will be released in January 2014.
To find out more about the conference visit the website (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/21stcenturytheoriesofliterature/)
We hope you will join us and our keynote speakers, Prof. Sergia Adamo (Trieste), Prof. Catherine Belsey (Swansea), Prof. Gregory Currie (Nottingham), Prof. Peter Lamarque (York), Prof. Stein Haugom Olsen (Østfold), and Prof. Jean-Michel Rabaté (Pennsylvania), in March.
This conference is supported by the generous funding of the British Society of Aesthetics, Warwick HRC, the American Society for Aesthetics, the Analysis Trust, and Warwick's Philosophy Department.
Stephen Butterfill will be speaking at French Academy of Sciences, ''Vision, action and concepts: Behavioural and neural basis of embodied perception and cognition" in Lille, 28-30 October 2013.