BUPS Philosophy Skills Conference, 7th-9th April 2006.

[Robert Charleston <rc3673@student.open.ac.uk>]

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BUPS Philosophy Skills Conference, 7th-9th April 2006.

*** Registration Deadline - Tuesday 4th April ***
*** New online registration option now operational! ***

British Undergraduate Philosophy Society
Philosophy Skills Conference
Friday 7th - Sunday 9th April 2006
Florence Boot Hall, University of Nottingham

A national, residential conference of workshops and papers. Ideal
for first-time conference-goers and veteran attendees alike!

Places are limited - please register early to avoid disappointment.
Details on how to register are at the bottom of this message, or
on our website: www.bups.org

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CONFERENCE PAPERS
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Registration opens at 10.00am and our keynote starts at 1pm.

Keynote paper : Professor Michael Clark (Nottingham)
'Why do we have legal obligations?'

'Taxation, property and distributive justice'
Laura Biron (Cambridge)

'Is familial partiality no better than racism?'
David Marlow (Lancaster)

'Should scientists worry about the Quine-Duhem thesis?'
Carlos Lastra-Anadon (Oxford)

'Immediate concatenation in Wittgenstein's Tractatus'
Nick Tasker (Sheffield)

'A refutation of functionalist philosophy of mind'
Oliver Ford (Keele)

'Humean style and Humean philosophy'
Chris Kassam (Cambridge)

'Why listen to a philosopher?'
Robert Charleston (Open)

'Pornography and harm reconsidered'
David Baines (Lancaster)

'Self-overcoming and free will in Nietzsche'
Ryan Dawson (Cambridge)

* Special session:
An introduction to postgraduate philosophy.
With Ph.D. work in progress seminars:

'Reasoning and explaining'
Tom Joyce (Reading)

'Does eliminative materialism rest on an evaluative claim?'
Michael Wilby (York)

* Skills workshops through the weekend:

* Listening, analysing structure, discussing
	- How to grasp structure in papers and lectures
	- Actively listening
	- Notemaking techniques
	- Strategies for questioning and discussing

* Writing, structuring and presenting
	- Writing style and clarity
	- Different argument and essay structures
	- Choosing your approach
	- Considering your audience
	- Writing and rewriting
	- Paper-writing for conference and publication

* Reading, interpreting and understanding
	- Reading tactics
	- Active reading
	- Questioning authors
	- Quoting vs. commandeering
	- Continental interpretation techniques

PLUS: Issues of our journal - the British Journal of Undergraduate
Philosophy - to browse through, a couple of fantastic social events
in the evenings, and a Q&A session with the current BUPS committee!

The conference will be finished by 1.30pm on Sunday.

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Registration details:

All our events are run on a not-for-profit basis. The cost of
registration, with two nights' bed and breakfast, refreshments
during breaks, and evening entertainments is just 59 UKP.
Registration without accommodation is 14 UKP. Local information
and travel details will be sent to all registered attendees well
before the event.

To register for the conference (by post or our new online system),
or for information about the British Undergraduate Philosophy
Society, please visit our website:

www.bups.org

Enquiries to info@bups.org

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