BUPS Skills Conference 2007

BUPS Skills Conference 2007
St.John's College, University of Durham
Friday 30th of March

A national conference for all undergraduate-level philosophers.

Friday 30th March

10.00 am - Registration opens

1.30 pm – Keynote paper: 'Fate' (Handout)
Professor Bob Hale (Sheffield)

3.00 pm - Coffee

3.30 pm - 'Lotteries, moles, and a belief-based account of assertion'
Alex Rubner (Oxford)

4.15 pm - 'Are moral intuitions unreliable?' (Handout)
Guy Campos (Cambridge)

5.00-5.15 pm - Break

5.15 pm - 'A re-evaluation of the concept of epistemic priority' (Handout)
Gregor Ulm (KCL)

6.00-7.30 pm - Break for dinner

8.00 Evening out in Durham

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Saturday 31st March

10.00 am – Workshop
'From research to writing: Essay methodology
Edward Grefenstette (Sheffield)

11.00-11.30 am - Coffee

11.30 am - 'Concreteness and Possible Worlds'
Duncan Crowe (Cambridge)

12.15 pm - 'A possible solution to rescue type-identity' (Handout)
Simon Jablonski (Heythrop)

1.00-2.30 pm - Break for lunch

2.30 pm - Colloquium
'Science, religion, and the origin of life'
Robert Charleston (Cambridge)

4.00-4.30 pm - Coffee

4.30 pm - 'Why Plato’s beard might not be generally misdirected' (Handout) (Cheat Sheet)
Mirja Holst (Hamburg)

6.00 - 7.30 pm - Break for dinner

8.00 pm – Skills talk
'Levels of engagement: finding the best ways to read philosophy'
Dr David Mossley (PRS Subject Centre, Higher Education Academy)

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Sunday 1st April

10.00 am - 'Is it absurd to deny bivalence?' (Handout)
Keith Wilson (York)

10.45 am – Skills talk
Andrew Bacon (Oxford) & Edward Grefenstette (Sheffield)

11.30-12.00 pm - Coffee

12.00 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,
and by the Philosophy Department, University of Sheffield.
Information for Prospective Postgraduates