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Conferences and Workshops
Conferences and Workshops 2005
The Department of Philosophy is hosting a small invite-only workshop on Epistemic Value on the 22nd-23rd October 2005, with talks by Martijn Blaauw (Aberdeen), Igor Douven (Rotterdam), Chris Hookway (Sheffield), Michael Lynch (Connecticut), Alan Millar (Stirling), Finn Spicer (Bristol), and Rene van Woudenberg (Amsterdam).
The colloquium is intended to provide a forum for reflection on the issues raised at the July summit of G8 nations in Gleneagles, Scotland. Through interdisciplinary discussion the aim is to build bridges between political practitioners and theorists, in order to analyse and evaluate the principles and policies that can foster global justice and security.
The major public event of an AHRC-funded project devoted to the interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) periodically investigates the possibility of committing funding to major strategic research intiatives. Back in 2003 the Arts and Humanities Research Board (the forerunner of the AHRC) convened a focus group with the goal of investigating the possibility that the Board might develop such a programme on The Interactive Mind. The outcome of the focus group meeting was a proposal submitted to the Board. Key sections of this document, giving further information about The Interactive Mind idea, are reproduced here.
The 2003 proposal, while well received by the Board, was not chosen for development in the first round of such programmes. However, in its report, the Board indicated that funding would be made available for extensive networking activities in this area, with the aim of facilitating further discussion and exchange of ideas between disciplines – including science and engineering – and with a possible view to reconsidering a revised proposal at a later date. This commitment was realised and Mike Wheeler was asked by the AHRC to co-ordinate a series of 3 workshops on The Interactive Mind, to take place before the end of July 2005.
The philosophy of biology is a burgeoning field, but somewhat underrepresented in the United Kingdom. During the academic year 2004-2005 there was an uncommonly large concentration of non-UK-based philosophers of biology operating, temporarily, in the UK. This presented an opportunity to bring together UK-based researchers in philosophy of biology (and those whose interests overlap with philosophy of biology) and their international colleagues. In order to promote this end a series of three workshops on philosophy of biology and related issues were organised in Britain, throughout the year. Workshops were held in Cambridge, Bristol and Stirling.
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