BUPS Winter Conference 2006

BUPS Winter Conference 2006
St.Catharine's College, University of Cambridge
15th-17th December 2006

BUPS's Winter Conference – a bit of mental warmth in the cold winter months.

Friday 15th December

10.00 am - Registration opens

1.30 pm – Keynote paper: 'Disjunctivism – or what?'
Professor Simon Blackburn (Cambridge)

3.00 pm - Coffee

3.15 pm - 'Fortuna and virtù in Machiavelli’s The Prince'
Andrew Goldfinch (LSE)

4.00-4.15 pm - Break

4.15 pm - 'Wittgenstein’s notion of 'bedrock' in On Certainty'
Ryan Dawson (Cambridge)

5.00-5.15 pm - Break

5.15 pm - 'Is ontological security possible?'
Jessica Woolley (UEA)

6.00-7.30 pm - Break for dinner

8.00 pm - Evening Entertainment:
'My favourite philosophy'
and
Philosophy pub quiz

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Saturday 16th December

10.00 am - Editor’s Word: 'Publication in academia'
Ryan Dawson (Cambridge) & Andrew Stephenson (Oxford)

10.45 am - 'Gewirthian rights-based theory: in support of Darwin and eugenics?'
Jeremy Thomas (Sheffield)

11.30-12.00 am - Coffee

12.00 am - 'Lewis on too many worlds'
Andrew Bacon (Oxford)

1.00-2.30 pm - Break for lunch

2.30 pm - Colloquium:
'Freedom, addiction and desires of one’s own'
Nick Tasker (Oxford)

4.00-4.30 pm - Coffee

4.30 pm - 'McDowell on foundationalism'
Akosua Bonsu (Heythrop)

5.15 pm - 'Limitations of semi-compatibilism'
Gregor Ulm (KCL)

6.00 - 7.30 pm - Break for dinner

8.00 pm – Philosophical Quarterly wine reception
Evening talk: 'How does it feel? Ethos and philosophy in the 21st century'
Robert Charleston (Cambridge)

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Sunday 17th December

10.00 am - 'Eliminative Determinism'
George Evans (Central Lancashire)

10.45 am - 'Non-Epistemicism, Hinge-Propositions and The Many Faces of Scepticism'
Craig French (Heythrop)

11.30-12.00 pm - Coffee

12.15 pm - Closing session
Conference report
Q&A panel

1.00 pm - Deregister

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The conference is non-profit-making.

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BUPS events - Sponsored by private donation.
Conference entertainment sponsored by Philosophical Quarterly.
BUPS thanks St CatharineÕs College, Cambridge, for hosting the event at a student-friendly cost.