BUPS Summer Conference 2007


BUPS Summer Conference 2007
University of Oxford Faculty of Philosophy
Saturday 23rd June

A national conference for all undergraduate-level philosophers.


9.00 am - Registration opens

10.30 pm – Keynote paper: 'How do we know what would have been?'
Professor Timothy Williamson (Oxford)

12.00 pm - 'Responsibility, sanity and the reactive attitudes'
Reema Patel (Cambridge)

12.45-2.00 pm – Break for lunch

2.00 pm – BJUP Essay Contest Winner

'What Putnam and Burge can tell us about belief'
David Birch (St Andrews)

3.00 pm - 'Getting carried away with Libet'
Duncan Crowe (Cambridge)

3.45-4.15 pm – Coffee Break

4.15 pm - 'A problem with Michael Smith’s moral problem'
Andrew Turner (Nottingham)

5.00 pm - 'Physicalism, ectoplasm, and epiphenomenal fairycakes'
Emily Thomas (Birmingham)

5.45-6.00 pm – Break

6.00 pm – Closing Session

Conference Report

AGM and Election

BUPS events - Sponsored by private donation, The BUPS Committee deeply thanks the University of Oxford Faculty of Philosophy for hosting this event, and for helping us make this conference possible.