[Bups-l] Respondents needed for BUPS Skills conference

[Edward Grefenstette]

Would you like the opportunity to participate at the BUPS Skills  
Conference (remember you can register here until this coming  
thursday, at midnight: http://www.bups.org/pages/confs/ 
register.shtml), to share your point of view on the topics being  
discussed, and have a good time while doing it? Then we have a  
something for you!

We're looking for a few respondents to the papers which will be on  
the conference programme. Responding means reading the paper in  
advance, and preparing a few remarks on it, simply presenting a quick  
run-through of the points made, followed by some critical remarks  
(objections you have, problems the points made by the author might  
face, or questions the audience may want to ask for purposes of  
clarification or expansion). It's not a very difficult task, and is  
certainly good academic practice.

If you are familiar (have done an undergraduate course, even 1st/2nd  
year courses) with any of the following topical areas, then please  
get in touch with info at bups.org, and we will see if we have a paper  
which might interest you.

We are in the final stages of preparing the programme, so I cannot  
explicitly mention the paper titles in this email. Papers from the  
following topical areas do not yet have respondents:

Topical areas:
Plato/Pre-Socratics
Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Epistemology
Metaphysics / Possible Worlds
Philosophy of Mind

If any of these areas correspond to your interests, let us know as  
soon as possible. We will email you a suggested paper with further  
details.

Best,
Edward.

BUPS Skills Conference 2007 is sponsored by private donation,
and by the Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield
Information for Prospective Postgraduates:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/departments/academic/philosophy/postgraduates