BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Philosophy events - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:/philevents X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Philosophy events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T170000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250807T142309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T223809Z UID:10002489-1760950800-1761066000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:14th Arché Graduate Conference DESCRIPTION:The Arché Philosophical Research Centre at the University of 58Թ is pleased to announce the 14th Arché Graduate Conference. The conference will be held on 20 & 21 October 2025 and is open to all graduate students. The conference will consist of two invited keynote speakers and eight graduate student speakers. \nIf you wish to attend this event\, please register via the following link \nhttps://buytickets.at/standrewsuniversity/1868748 \nIn person registration – 14th Arché Graduate Conference – UCO: School V \n\n \nAGC14 Provisional Programme \nMonday 20 October 2025 \n9:30 — 10:00 Welcome & Coffee \n10:00 — 10:15 Opening Remarks \n10:15 — 11:15 On Typed Reality Francis Gricius\, University of Oxford \n11:15 — 11:30 Coffee Break \n11:30 — 12:30 Expressive Lies (online) Luise Mirow\, Umeå University \n12:30 — 1:45 Lunch \n1:45 — 2:45 The One Fundamental Ground\, Andrea Lupo\, University of Lugano \n2:45 — 3:00 Coffee Break \n3:00 — 4:00 Dualism and the Hard Problem of the Many Aleksandra Kuciel\, Syracuse University \n4:00 — 4:15 Coffee Break \n4:15 — 5:15 Keynote Jonathan Schaffer\, Rutgers University \n6:30 Speaker Dinner \nTuesday 21 October 2025 \n9:30 — 10:00 Welcome & Coffee \n10:00 —11:00 Keynote Fiona Macpherson\, University of Glasgow \n11:00 —11:15 Coffee Break \n11:15 — 12:15 A Puzzle about Mind-Wandering Edvard Aviles Meza\, Cornell University \n12:15 — 1:30 Lunch \n1:30 — 2:30 Coerced Illocutions: ‘Don’t Put Words in my Mouth!’ Eirini Vryza\, University of Cambridge \n2:30 — 2:45 Coffee Break \n2:45 — 3:45 Acceptance or Suspension? A Puzzle for Hinge Epistemology\, Ben Long\, University of Warwick \n3:45 — 4:00 Coffee Break \n4:00 — 5:00 Minimalism without Creeping Bojin Zhu\, University of Vienna \n5:00 — 5:15 Closing Remarks URL:/philevents/event/14th-arche-graduate-conference/ CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T110000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250902T153938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250904T160901Z UID:10002531-1760952600-1760958000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-77/ LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58Թ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T150000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250902T153939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T165350Z UID:10002532-1760965200-1760972400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Unity Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/unity-seminar-28/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T150000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250911T165350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T223810Z UID:10002606-1760965200-1760972400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Cancelled ILW DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/unity-seminar-cancelled-ilw/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T170000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250902T153939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T223810Z UID:10002533-1760972400-1760979600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:WIKI Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/wiki-seminar-24/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T140000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250902T153939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T223811Z UID:10002534-1761048000-1761055200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-97/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T170000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250902T153939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T223812Z UID:10002535-1761058800-1761066000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-50/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251022T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251022T170000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250902T153939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250914T172405Z UID:10002536-1761145200-1761152400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-59/ CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251022T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251022T170000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250915T173909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T225309Z UID:10002619-1761145200-1761152400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Jonathan Schaffer\, “On What There Is\, Was\, or Could Be; Or: Modal Realism without Stares” DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Plato and Pegasus do not exist\, but otherwise they have so much going for them. They are nameable\, in range of quantifiers\, and able to stand in some relations. These familiar points lead to a range of puzzles (including what Quine famously called “Plato’s beard”)\, as to how we can name\, quantifier over\, and relate to what does not exist. I propose a solution—novel as far as I know—that breaks the Quinean association between the domain and what exists in a specific way. The first ingredient is a big constant “outer” domain always including Plato\, Pegasus\, and Putin alike. The second ingredient is a semantics on which ‘exists’’ (/‘is’) is a composite of at least three distinct elements: root-exist (/root-be)\, present tense\, and indicative mood. The domain is what root-exists\, but to satisfy ‘exists’ is to root-exist in the actual present\, and thus there are things that do not exist (such as Plato and Pegasus). The end result is a system with the full domain of Lewisian modal realism\, with none of the incredulous-stare-inducing claims about there existing talking donkeys or flying horses. URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-jonathan-schaffer-tba/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T120000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250725T133812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251023T225535Z UID:10002488-1761213600-1761220800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Plenary Seminar: Pree Jareonsettasin (Cambridge)\, ‘Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue’ DESCRIPTION:TITLE: ‘Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue: reconciling divine determinism with creaturely freedom by distinguishing sorts of contingency’. \nABSTRACT: \nIs man free in a world created by God and over which God exercises providence? The fourteenth-century logician-mathematician-theologian Thomas Bradwardine has\, for seven centuries\, been accused of having sacrificed human freedom on the altar of divine providence. He argued that every event occurs\, by unstoppable divine will\, of necessity. Yet he is committed to non-divine moral agents contingently determining their actions. His divine determinism needs a complementarily credible account of contingent action.  \nThe main aim of this paper is to expound Bradwardine’s account of (the modal notion) contingency and trace its consequences for understanding freedom of action. I first set up the reconciliation problem and show three claims: that Bradwardine \n(1)  was\, like David Lewis\, a modal contextualist\, taking the meaning of everyday modal terms to depends on an implicit context (relevant causal facts\, including facts about causal preconditions). \n(2)  defines contingency as a causal concept. Calling an action contingent relates it to its causal circumstances: E is contingent iff given the obtaining of E’s causal preconditions\, E is evitable. \n(3)  distinguishes between two (simpliciter/unrestricted and secundum-quid/restricted) types of contingency. E is contingent simpliciter iff all of E’s causal preconditions obtain and E is evitable. E is contingent secundum-quid iff some of E’s causal preconditions obtain and E is evitable. \nI argue he solves the reconciliation problem through his insight that when our actions are considered to be up to us\, we don’t consider God as their causal agent (even though He is). Accordingly\, our everyday moral-responsibility-relevant use of modal terms is implicitly indexicalised to a domain of causal facts restricted to exclude the causal fact of God’s unstoppable causation of all events. Assume that a free action won’t inevitably occur given the obtainment of its non-divine causal preconditions. It follows\, by Bradwardine’s definition of restricted contingency\, that free action is contingent secundum-quid. \nA significant upshot is that the seven-century-old accusation that Bradwardine’s commitment to theological fatalism entails an error-theoretic account of creaturely freedom is unfounded. His deterministic worldview does not entail holding a proto-Hobbesian/Calvinist/Frankfurtian view of freedom. The future is (metaphysically\, not merely phenomenologically) open\, because our fellow creatures cannot compel us to freely act. URL:/philevents/event/plenary-seminar-pree-jareonsettasin/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group,Plenary session,Speaker visit END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T120000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250902T153940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T165402Z UID:10002537-1761213600-1761220800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Plenary / Special Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/plenary-special-seminar-6/ CATEGORIES:Plenary session END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T143000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250902T153940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251023T225535Z UID:10002538-1761224400-1761229800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:ECT Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/ect-seminar-6/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251024T170000 DTSTAMP:20260612T005053 CREATED:20250930T101415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T101415Z UID:10002632-1761226200-1761325200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Publication of Francis Hutcheson’s An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue DESCRIPTION:Thursday 23 October \n1.30-2.30 Elizabeth Radcliffe (William and Mary): “Moral Epistemology in Hutcheson’s Inquiry” \n2.30-3.30 Michael Walschots (Milan): “Hutcheson on Desire: A Reappraisal” \n3.30-4.00 Tea and coffee \n4.00-5.00 Enrico Galvagni (Edinburgh): “Hutcheson’s Sentimentalist Voluntarism” \n5.00-6.00 Signy Gutnick Allen (Zurich): ‘Hutcheson and Smith on Justice and Compassion’ \n6.00-6.30 A toast to the Liberty Fund edition of Hutcheson’s A System of Moral Philosophy \nFriday 24 October \n9.00-10.00 Xiao Qi (Nankai): “Hutcheson on Moral Obligation and its Relations to Virtue and Right” \n10.00-11.00 Michael Gill (Edinburgh): “The Authority of Morality\, and Kant’s Disagreement with Hutcheson” \n11.00-11.30 Tea and coffee \n11.30-12.30 Ryan Hanley (Boston College): “Hutcheson on Love and Disinterestedness” \n12.30-1.30 Lunch \n1.30-2.30 Dale Dorsey (Oxford): “That Peculiar Relation: Friendship and Fellowship in Shaftesbury and Hutcheson” \n2.30-3.30 Emily Brady (Texas A&M): “Hutcheson\, Formal Beauty\, and Imagination” \n3.30-4.00 Tea and coffee \n4.00-5.00 Aaron Garrett (Boston University): “Cutting Hutcheson’s Gordian Knot\, and Modern Moral Philosophy” \nSee also the event website URL:/philevents/event/celebrating-the-300th-anniversary-of-the-publication-of-francis-hutchesons-an-inquiry-into-the-original-of-our-ideas-of-beauty-and-virtue/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR