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Conferences and Workshops 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 at the conference included: Sven Bernecker (Manchester), Jonathan Dancy (Reading), John Greco (Fordham), Susan Haack (Miami), Chris Hookway (Sheffield), David Owens (Sheffield) and Ernest Sosa (Brown/Rutgers).
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.
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.
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), Tim Black (California State, Northridge), Michael Brady (Stirling), Jessica Brown (Bristol), Tony Brueckner (University of California, Santa Barbara), Keith DeRose (Yale), Stewart Cohen (Arizona State), Neil Gascoigne (Surrey), Patrick Greenough (St. Andrews), Alan Millar (Stirling), Duncan Pritchard (Stirling), Charles Travis (Northwestern), Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford), Timothy Williamson (Oxford), Crispin Wright (NYU/St. Andrews) and 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.
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