British Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 2006

British Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 2006
St.John's College, University of Durham
8th-10th September 2006

A national conference for all undergraduate-level philosophers.

Friday 8th September

10.00 am - Registration opens

1.30 pm – Keynote paper: 'What is philosophy for?'
Professor AC Grayling (Birkbeck)

3.00 pm - Coffee

3.15 pm - 'Endurantism and temporal gunk'
Andrew Bacon (Oxford)

4.00-4.15 pm - Break

4.15 pm - 'Rorty’s impossible dream: the truly post-modern'
Andrew Stephenson (Cardiff)

5.00-5.15 pm - Break

5.15 pm - 'Does structuralism have any advantages over Platonism?'
Ryan Dawson (Cambridge)

6.00-7.30 pm - Break for dinner

8.00 pm - Committee work-in-progess: 'Is language a matter of contingence or convention?'
Edward Grefenstette (Sheffield)

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Saturday 9th September

9.30 am - 'Reproductive technologies'
Phil Leech (Lancaster)

10.15 am - 'Kant and things-in-themselves - one world or two?'
Craig French (Heythrop)

11.00-11.30 am - Coffee

11.30 am - 'Evolutionary psychology and the green-eyed monster'
Andrew Goldfinch (LSE)

12.15 pm - 'Religion and Heidegger’s account of the experience of art'
G.A. Bennett-Hunter (Durham)

1.00-2.30 pm - Break for lunch

2.30 pm - Symposium on Kripke and names:
'Kripke, names, and the necessary a posteriori'
Lorna Finlayson (Cambridge)
'Russell and Kripke on names as definite descriptions'
Elaine Yeadon (Sheffield)

4.00-4.30 pm - Coffee

4.30 pm - 'Dennett’s stance: legs akimbo'
Alex Carruth (Durham)

5.15 pm - 'Is Kuhn a relativist?'
Robbie Duschinsky (Cambridge)

6.00 - 7.30 pm - Break for dinner

7.30 – 9.00 – 'Employability of philosophy graduates'
Dr Clare Saunders (PRS subject centre, Higher Education Academy)

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Sunday 10th September

10.00 am - 'The unreality of space and McTaggart’s category mistake'
CJ Reid (Durham)

10.45 am - 'Two types of certainty: a reply to Peter Unger'
Steve Methven (Birkbeck)

11.30-12.00 pm - Coffee

12.15 pm - Closing session
Conference report
Conference prize
AGM & election
Q&A panel

1.00 pm - Deregister

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The conference is non-profit-making.

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BUPC 2006 - Sponsored by private donation.