Registration is now open for several events (taking place between 15 and 18 March 2016 at Keele University) organised under the aegis of the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian (KOSAK) Research Centre. Registration deadline: 8 March 2016.
Please note: although some events are free, it is important to register in order to make sure we have sufficient places at the respective venues.
‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau’ Annual Lecture and Conference
Annual Lecture by Mark Timmons (Arizona) on “Kant’s Conception of Moral Evil”
Conference on Kant’s Doctrine of Virtue with Kenneth Westphal (Bogazici), Mark Timmons (Arizona), Dieter Schönecker (Siegen), Elke Schmidt (Siegen), Alix Cohen (Edinburgh) and Sorin Baiasu (Keele)
(As part of the British Academy Newton Fellowship “Dealing Ethically with Conflicts between Deep Commitments)
Training Programme: “Ethical Approaches to Conflict Reconciliation” – a course for postgraduate students and early postdoctoral researchers with Howard Williams (Aberystwyth/Cardiff), Kenneth Westphal (Bogazici), Mark Timmons (Arizona), Alice Pinheiro-Walla (Dublin), Alix Cohen (Edinburgh) and Sorin Baiasu (Keele)
Workshop: “Dealing Ethically with Deep Differences” with Kenneth Westphal (Bogazici), Alberto Vanzo (Warwick) and Edward Kanterian (Kent) – although the workshop is part of the training programme, it can be attended also independently from the training course.
The third seminar in the Keele virtual series will be on Sophie Allen’s paper: “Dispositional Necessity, Laws and Singular Causation”.
The paper can be downloaded (pdf) by clicking here.
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Comments will be followed by responses (usually very prompt for short remarks in response to this blog post or after a little longer for more elaborate comments).
Please find bellow details of several events which will take place at Keele during 2016. Details will be circulated in due course and, where applicable, registration will open soon, but do not hesitate to email me (s.baiasu [at] keele.ac.uk), if you have any questions.
Royal Institute of Philosophy Invited Lecture Series (for second semester of AY2015/16)
Training Course and Workshop in Ethics (as part of a British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship hosted at Keele)
‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau’ Annual Lectures and Conferences (Postponed 2015 events and preliminary announcement for the 2016 Annual Lecture and Conference)
Reading Group (Organised by the recipient of the second APRA Foundation Berlin Graduate Student Teaching Scholarship)
All events are hosted by the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian (KOSAK) Research Centre, the Philosophy Programme at Keele and the School of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations and Environment (SPIRE) @ Keele.
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ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY INVITED LECTURE SERIES
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY XIII
Tuesdays 6:00-7:30 pm, Room CBA0.060 (unless otherwise stated), Chancellor’s Building, Keele University ST5 5BG
16 February: Professor James Lenman (University of Sheffield): From Desires to Reasons
23 February: Dr Clayton Littlejohn (King’s College London): Knowledge Vs Accuracy
8 March: Professor John Cottingham (University of Reading): How to Philosophise about Religion
18 March: Dr Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh): Kant and the Emotions (exceptionally this talk will take place in the Claus Moser Research Centre, Conference Room; time to be confirmed)
19 April: Dr John Callanan (King’s College London): Kant on Misology and the Natural Dialectic
The 2015/16 Lecture Series is organised with the support of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
TRAINING COURSE AND WORKSHOP: 15-17 March 2016
British Academy Advanced Newton Fellowship: Dealing Ethically with Conflicts between Deep Commitments – A Dual Critical-Hermeneutic Approach
Training Programme: Ethical Approaches to Conflict Reconciliation
Academics teaching on the programme: Sorin Baiasu (Keele), Alix Cohen (Edinburgh), Alice Pinheiro-Walla (Dublin), Mark Timmons (Arizona), Kenneth Westphal (Bogazici) and Howard Williams (Cardiff/Aberystwyth).
The course is designed for postgraduate research students and early postodctoral researchers, and it will have eight parts, which will be introduced and discussed as follows:
1. Introduction: Conflicts Between Deep Commitments
II. HERMENEUTIC APPROACHES
5. Existentialism
6. Hermeneutics
7. Moral phenomenology
8. Conclusion: Concrete Cases
The course will have an intensive programme with, in average, 7 hours per day for training. Participants will be assessed on the basis of their attendance, participation and completion of a final project. The final project will require the consideration of a concrete case of conflict between deep commitments from the perspective of one of the methods studied during the School. It is expected that projects will be submitted approximately three weeks after the end of the Training School.
Workshop: Dealing Ethically with Deep Differences: Hermeneutics and Critical Philosophy
This will be part of the training course, although participants who are not registered for the training course may also attend. The workshop will focus on the exploration of the limits of the critical and hermeneutic approaches to ethically relevant conflicts and will discuss the few attempts in the literature to link these two approaches.
The workshop will consist of a roundtable, where 3 or 4 key texts will be introduced and discussed by several academics, followed by questions and discussion. Participants to the roundtable include: Sorin Baiasu, Edward Kanterian and Kenneth Westphal.
‘JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU’ ANNUAL LECTURE AND CONFERENCE: 17-18 March 2016
This an annual event organised by the KOSAK Research Centre and the Philosophy Programme at Keele and inaugurated in 2008 with the launch of the Keele Forum for Philosophical Research. The previous Annual Lectures were given by: Giuseppina D’Oro (2008), Miranda Fricker (2009), Stephen Engstrom (2010), John Horton (2011), Alan Montefiore (2012), Adrian Piper (2013), Howard Williams (2014). The Annual Lecture and conference is usually organised in November, but occasionally postponed for the following year, in March. Hence, the forthcoming events in March 2016 are the postponed 2015 Lecture and Conference.
‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau’ Annual Lecture: 17 March 2016
Mark Timmons: Kant’s Conception of Moral Evil
‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau’ Annual Conference on Kant’s Doctrine of Virtue: 18 March 2016
Speakers: Sorin Baiasu (Keele), Alix Cohen (Edinburgh), Dieter Schönecker (Siegen), Elke Schmidt (Siegen), Mark Timmons (Arizona), and Kenneth Westphal (Bogazici).
READING GROUP: February-March 2016
Saraswati
A reading group on Kant’s Doctrine of Virtue is due to start shortly under the aegis of the KOSAK Research Centre. The reading group is organised by Sebastian Orlander, who is the recipient of the second APRA Foundation Berlin Graduate Student Teaching Scholarship.
If you are interested in attending the reading group, please contact the organiser at the following email address: s.o.j.orlander [at] keele.ac.uk
We will use the translation by Mary Gregor from the the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. For the first meeting, we will focus on the Preface and Introduction.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT: 2016 ‘J.-J. Rousseau’ Annual Lecture and Conference
The 2016 Annual Lecture will be given by Julian Savulescu (Oxford) and it is likely to be on the 25th of November. The theme of the annual conference will be “Responsibility and Distributive Justice”. All details are to be confirmed.
Registration is now open for several events (taking place between 15 and 18 March 2016 at Keele University) organised under the aegis of the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian (KOSAK) Research Centre. Registration deadline: 8 March 2016.
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