BUPS Skills Conference programme

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

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

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Now over - but if it looks fun, please come along to our Durham conference in September!

Friday 7th April

10.00 am - Registration opens

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

2.30 pm - Coffee

2.45 pm - Workshop 1: Listening, analysing structure, discussing
How to grasp structure in papers and lectures
Actively listening
Notemaking techniques
Strategies for questioning and discussing

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

4.00-4.15 pm - Break

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

5.00-5.15 pm - Break

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

6.00-7.30 pm - Break for dinner

7.30 pm - Bar opens

8.00 pm - Evening social session starts

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Saturday 8th April

9.30 am - Workshop 2: 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

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

11.00-11.30 am - Coffee

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

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

1.00-2.30 pm - Break for lunch

2.30 pm - Workshop 3: Reading, interpreting and understanding
Reading tactics
Active reading
Questioning authors
Quoting vs. commandeering
Continental interpretation techniques

3.15 pm - 'Style and voice in Hume's philosophy'
Chris Kassam (Cambridge)

4.00-4.30 pm - Coffee

4.30 pm - 'Pornography and harm reconsidered'
David Baines (Lancaster)

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

6.00 - 7.30 pm - Break for dinner

7.30 pm - Bar opens

8.00 pm - Evening social session starts

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Sunday 9th April

10.00 am - An introduction to postgraduate philosophy
Introductory talk - Postgraduate-level work: the skills difference

10.15 am - 'Work in progress: Reasoning and explaining'
Tom Joyce (PhD student, Reading & RIP)

11.00-11.30 am - Coffee

11.30 am - 'Work in progress: Does eliminative materialism rest on an evaluative claim?'
Mike Wilby (PhD student, York & NPAPA)

12.15 pm - Closing session
Conference report
Q&A panel: All skills, all levels
A brief history of BUPS

1.00 pm - Deregister

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The conference is non-profit-making: The cost of registration, with two nights' bed and breakfast, refreshments during breaks, and evening entertainments is just £59. Registration without accommodation is £14. We welcome international attendees - please get in touch if we can help with any travel advice. Local information and travel details will be sent to all registered attendees well before the event.

You can register online or by post here!

Any questions? Contact us.

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