Past events

A list of past events in Philosophy

	February 2024
02 Feb	Social PPLS PGR Quiz Night (MScR & PhD)
05 Feb	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group CANCELLED
14 Feb	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Find the Gap: AI, Responsible Agency and Vulnerability (Tillmann Vierkant)
27 Feb	World Philosophies lecture series Animal Intelligence: How an Islamic Thinker Questioned Human Exceptionalism (Peter Adamson)
	January 2024
04 - 05	Workshop Avicenna Answers: Islamic Metaphysics and Its Contemporary Relevance
17 Jan	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group CANCELLED
	December 2023
07 Dec	Baillie Gifford Flagship Lecture in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence (External website) Governing the AI Business Model: Platforms All the Way Down? (Michael Veale)
07-08	Scots Philosophical Association Conference and Annual General Meeting
	November 2023
01 Nov	World Philosophies lecture series Avicenna on Intentionality, Perception, and Knowledge of Particulars (Mohammad Saleh Zarepour)
08 Nov	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Fanon & Black Male Studies (Norman Ajari)
13 Nov	Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series (External website) Testimonial Knowledge in Kalam and Fiqh (Fedor Benevich)
15 Nov	World Philosophy Day (Sharepoint \| PPLS News&Events Hub) Get to know philosophers in Edinburgh PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Temporal Cognition in Apes (Angelica Kaufmann)
16 Nov	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Creativity in Literature (Karin Kukonnen)
22 Nov	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Less theory, more observation: a response to psychology’s ‘theory crisis’ (Suilin Lavelle)
23-24	Social International Research Collaboration
29 Nov	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group (Free) Agents and Neurotechnology: Where are agents in the brain and how can we find them? (Robyn Repko Waller)
	October 2023
02 Oct	Japanese Philosophy Workshop Absolute Critique in Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy as Metanoetics (Gregory Moss)
04 Oct	PIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Identifying the (sub)person-level commitments of working memory (Javier Gomez Lavin)
06 Oct	Edinburgh speaker series seminar The Transgender Exigency: The Case of Sports (Edward Schiappa)
16 Oct	Conference Distributed Memory: At the intersection of Philosophy, Cognitive Science and Literary Theory
18 Oct	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Engaging with the Sciences: From Systems Biology to Seaweed Research (Niki Vermeulen) PPLS Open Research Blitz Talk PIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group The Experience of Deciding and its Neurral Correlates (Paulius Rimkevičius)
19 Oct	Workshop Philosophy of Love and Loss
24 Oct	Japanese Philosophy Workshop Ecological Thinking (Graham Parks)
	September 2023
14 Sep	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Do Scientific Communities Understand? A Fictionalist Account (Kareem Khalifa)
15 - 16	Conference International Society of East Asian Philosophy 2023
18 Sep	World Philosophies Lecture Series East Asian Philosophies Today (Roundtable discussion)
20 - 24	Workshop Contradictory Theology and Its History
	June 2023
08 Jun	PPLS Poster Forum 2023
15 Jun	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Phenomenally Converging Railway Tracks: A Misperception? (Gary Hatfield)
	May 2023
03 May	PPIG & the World Philosophies Lecture series An Enactive Approach to Zhuangian Critique (Lilith W. Lee)
11 - 12 May	Conference The Medicalised Body
22 May	Hybrid Symposium Rethinking Distributed Cognition through the Arts and Humanities Statement Launch Philosophers’ Consortium on Assisted Dying in Scotland
25 May	PPLS Research Day
26 May	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Tipping Points: Abuse and Transformative Discovery (Mark Schroeder)
29 May	Alfred Edward Taylor public lecture 25th A. E. Taylor Lecture: Stoic everlasting recurrence (Professor Ricardo Salles)
	April 2023
05 Apr	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Beauvoir’s Groundwork: Toward an Existentialist Metaethics (Daniela Dover) PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Cognitive Models in Science and Beckett (Mike Wheeler)
19 Apr	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Not for me: On the external function of guilt (Shaun Nichols)
20 Apr	Talk Is Forgiveness A Virtue? (Luke Russell)
25 Apr	World Philosophies lecture series Dissolving the World: An Introduction to Vasubandhu’s 'Twenty Verses' (Richard Nance)
27 - 28	Workshop The Philosophy of Trust and Trustworthiness
28 Apr	The 77th Language Lunch @ Edinburgh (external website) Informal poster session (lunch included)
	March 2023
08 Mar	World Philosophies lecture series Why Asian Philosophy Mattered to Heidegger (Hans Peter Liederbach) PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Control is not the goal: Biological Autonomy & Intentionality (Kate Nave)
10 Mar	Workshop (external website) Theory or replication crisis?
24 Mar	PPLS Three Minute Thesis Competition (external website)
	January 2023
27 Jan	Workshop Edinburgh-Glasgow Knowledge and Language workshop
	December 2022
07 Dec	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Families and fairness: against abolishment theories (Rikke Friis Bentzon)
12 Dec	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Intertheoretic Reduction of the Concept of ‘Decision’ (Dan Burnston)
	November 2022
02 Nov	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group When the machine wakes — problems and prospects for assessing AI consciousness (Henry Shevlin - online)
12 - 13	4th Asian Philosophical Texts Conference (external website) For scholars in the field of Asian Studies and world philosophies to discuss and reflect on the task of translating Asian philosophical texts (in the broadest sense) into western languages.
16 Nov	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Compatibility and Integration in Cognitive Science: Embodied Cognition and Predictive Processing (Elmarie Venter)
23 Nov	How do we work on Buddism at PPLS? (external website) Join the Edinburgh Buddhist Studies Group for a discussion of how Buddhism has and might be researched and taught within the School of PPLS
	October 2022
05 Oct	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Unmistaken: imaginative perception and illusion (Adrian Alsmith)
19 Oct	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Seeing things as they are is seeing things as they could be (Jessie Munton)
26 Oct	Edinburgh speaker series seminar TBC (Elmarie Venter)
	May 2022
12 May	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group How to Build Morality into AI (Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)
19 May	PPLS interdisciplinary seminar Twenty-ninth PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar (Professor Aaron Schurger)
26 May	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Blaming, demanding, and group obligations (Gunnar Björnson)
	April 2022
06 Apr	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Scaffolding Motivated Cognition (Dan Williams)
	March 2022
09 Mar	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Evolution of Morality (Ellen Clarke)
23 Mar	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group CANCELLED
	February 2022
02 Feb	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Is deliberating something we do? (Till Vierkant)
16 Feb	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Semantic Implications of Evolutionary Theory for Psychology (Carrie Figdor)
	December 2021
01 Dec	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Seeing Things As They Are is Seeing Things As They Could Be (Jessie Munton)
	November 2021
03 Nov	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Rules, Judgement and Mechanisation (Mazviita Chirimuuta)
10 Nov	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Explaining interpersonal and diachronic differences in self-control (Polaris Koi)
17 Nov	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Cumulative Culture and Cognitive Novelties (Andrew Buskell)
	October 2021
06 Oct	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Two paths to scepticism about animal consciousness (Jonathan Birch)
20 Oct	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Animal Culture and Animal Welfare (Kristin Andrews)
	August 2021
09 - 10	10th Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology conference Keynote speakers: Michael Hannon (The University of Nottingham) & Steph Rennick (University of Glasgow)
	April 2021
07 Apr	Conference Kinds of Constants (Day 1) Edinburgh speaker series seminar Adapting to an Unjust World (Michael Cholbi - online)
09 Apr	Conference Kinds of Constants (Day 2)
21 Apr	Edinburgh speaker series seminar The Digital Basanos: AI and the Virtue and Violence of Truth-Telling (Shannon Vallor - online)
26-28	Perspectival Realism Conference (external website) Metaphysics from a Human Point of View (online via link invitation)
	March 2021
10 Mar	Edinburgh speaker series seminar CANCELLED
26 Mar	Postgraduates work in progress Jonathan Hall (online)
	February 2021
24 Feb	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Why “Neural Representations”? (Mazviita Chirimuuta - online)
26 Feb	Postgraduates work in progress Jenny Zhang (online)
	January 2021
13 Jan	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Deciding not to prolong life because of concerns about burdening loved ones (Michael Gill - online)
27 Jan	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Intentional Objects and Mental Properties in Islamic Philosophy (Fedor Benevich - online)
	December 2020
02 Dec	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Locke on Knowledge of Mathematics (Jennifer Smalligan Marušić - online)
07 - 08	Ancient Life Sciences: Aristotelian and Hellenistic Approaches Second workshop of the Edinburgh-Utrecht project
08 Dec	Alfred Edward Taylor public lecture 24th A. E. Taylor Lecture
11 Dec	Postgraduates work in progress Makan Nojoumian (online)
	November 2020
13 Nov	Postgraduates work in progress Angie O’Sullivan (online)
27 Nov	Postgraduates work in progress Christopher An (online)
	October 2020
02 Oct	Postgraduates work in progress Lilith Newton (online)
16 Oct	Postgraduates work in progress Tom Stephen (online)
28 Oct	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Cristina Richie (IAHS visitor)
30 Oct	Postgraduates work in progress Luke Kersten (online)
	September 2020
30 Sep	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Berislav Marušić (University of Edinburgh)
	August 2020
12 Aug	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group A Meshy Exchange: Thinking and Performance in Conversation (Shaun Gallagher - online)
26 Aug	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Towards a variational ecology: Multi-scale active inference (Maxwell Ramstead - online)
	July 2020
01 Jul	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Cognitive Agency and its Feelings (Joëlle Proust - online)
15 Jul	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Metacognitive Model of Epistemic Curiosity (Janet Metcalfe - online)
29 Jul	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Virtual Science Through Virtual Being on Mars (John Vervaeke - online)
	June 2020
03 Jun	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Metacognition and Conceptual Change (Joulia Smortchkova - online)
17 Jun	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Hacking the Predictive Brain (Andy Clark - online)
	May 2020
06 May	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group What could cognition be, if not human cognition? (Carrie Figdor - online)
19 May	Language evolution seminar Cognitive Novelties, Informational Form, and Structural-Causal Explanations
20 May	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Cognition in the (not so) Wild: Creativity, Experimentation and the Nature of Embodied Thinking (Michael Wheeler - online)
	April 2020
01 Apr	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group POSTPONED until further notice
10 Apr	Postgraduates work in progress Chihon Ley Polanco (online)
17 Apr	Postgraduates work in progress Maddy Hyde (online)
24 Apr	Postgraduates work in progress Dylan Balfour (online)
27-29	Perspectival Realism Conference (external website) POSTPONED until further notice
	March 2020
06 Mar	Postgraduates work in progress Owen Kelly
11 Mar	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Eva Jablonka (University of Tel Aviv)
18 Mar	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Michael Cholbi (University of Edinburgh)
20 Mar	Postgraduates work in progress POSTPONED until further notice
25 Mar	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Shannon Vallor (University of Edinburgh) PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group POSTPONED until further notice
	February 2020
05 Feb	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Positioning teleology in relation to belief-desire psychology (Eva Rafteseder)
07 Feb	Postgraduates work in progress Luke Kersten
19 Feb	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Filipa Melo Lopes (University of Edinburgh)
21 Feb	Postgraduates work in progress Jan Potters
26 Feb	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Visual illusions in schizophrenia and the rationality of perception (Matteo Colombo)
	January 2020
29 Jan	Edinburgh speaker series seminar Tommy Curry (University of Edinburgh)

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