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Department of Philosophy Conferences

Virtue Epistemology 20-21 November 2004

A major international conference on Virtue Epistemology was hosted by the Department of Philosophy on November 20th-21st 2004. This was timed to coincide with the visit by Professor John Greco from Fordham University to the University of Stirling to be a 2004 Scots Philosophical Club Centennial Fellow. Speakers for the conference included:

Sven Bernecker (Manchester)	Chris Hookway (Sheffield)
Jonathan Dancy (Reading)	David Owens (Sheffield)
John Greco (Fordham)	Ernest Sosa (Brown/Rutgers)
Susan Haack (Miami)

 

The conference was funded by The Philosophical Quarterly, and the proceedings of the conference are provisionally scheduled to appear in a special issue of Philosophical Studies. For more information, click here.

Northern Political Theory Association Conference 26-27 August 2004

The annual conference of the Northern Political Theory Association was hosted by the Departments of Philosophy and Politics on 26-27th August 2004. The programme of speakers included Elizabeth Frazer (Oxford), Kim Hutchings (LSE), Matthew Kramer (Cambridge) and Andrew Lockyer (Glasgow). For more information, click here.

Epistemological Contextualism 19-21 March 2004

A 'sister' conference to the Virtue Epistemology conference was held on the weekend of March 19th-21st 2004. This was on Epistemological Contextualism and was timed to coincide with Professor Keith DeRose's visit to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stirling as a 2004 Scots Philosophical Club Centenary Fellow. The speakers at this conference included:

Peter Baumann (Aberdeen)	Patrick Greenough (St. Andrews)
Tim Black (California State, Northridge)	Alan Millar (Stirling)
Michael Brady (Stirling)	Duncan Pritchard (Stirling)
Jessica Brown (Bristol)	Charles Travis (Northwestern)
Tony Brueckner (University of California, Santa Barbara)	Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford)
Keith DeRose (Yale)	Timothy Williamson (Oxford)
Stewart Cohen (Arizona State)	Crispin Wright (NYU/St. Andrews)
Neil Gascoigne (Surrey)	René van Woudenberg (Free University, Amsterdam).

 

As with the conference on Virtue Epistemology, this conference was funded by The Philosophical Quarterly. The proceedings of this conference will be published in a special issue of this journal in 2005. A workshop on Epistemology was also organised prior to the conference, with papers by Keith DeRose (Yale), Patrick Greenough (St. Andrews), and Duncan Pritchard (Stirling). For more details about this workshop, click here. For more details about Professor DeRose's visit, click here.

Virtues: Moral and Epistemic March 2002

In March 2002, the Philosophy Department at Stirling hosted a conference entitled Virtues: Moral and Epistemic. The speakers at this conference included:

Antony Duff (Stirling)	Philip Percival (Glasgow)
Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck)	John Skorupski (St. Andrews)
Chris Hookway (Sheffield)	Michael Slote (Miami)
Sandra Marshall (Stirling)	Lawrence Solum (Loyola Marymount)
Marie McGinn (York)	Linda Zagzebski (Oklahoma)

 

For more details on this conference, click here. The proceedings from the conference were published in a special double issue of Metaphilosophy (click here for more details) that was edited by the conference organisers Dr Michael Brady and Professor Duncan Pritchard. The proceedings were subsequently published as a book with Blackwell entitled Moral and Epistemic Virtues which featured additional articles by, amongst others, Guy Axtell (Nevada), Julia Driver (Dartmouth), Juli Eflin (Ball State), John Greco (Fordham) and Duncan Pritchard (Stirling).

The Philosophy Department at Stirling plans to host further events related to epistemology over the coming years, so look out for postings.

 

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