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September 2019
Speaker series on moral responsibility (Zurich)
Zurich working group on moral responsibility at the University of Zurich's Center for Ethics is hosting a series of talks by invited speakers on moral responsibility. The list of speakers from May 2019 to May 2020 is as follows: 9 May 2019: Elinor Mason (Edinburgh) 28 May 2019: Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge) 26 September 2019: Robert Hartman (Stockholm) 17 October 2019: Erasmus Mayr (Erlangen) 7 November 2019: Ulrike Heuer (UCL) 12 December 2019: Gideon Rosen (Princeton) 20 February 2020: Susanne Boshammer…
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WS – Nathan Ballantyne’s Book, _Knowing Our Limits_
Michael Hannon (Nottingham) and Neil Levy (Macquarie/Oxford) are organising a workshop on Nathan Ballantyne's book, Knowing Our Limits, on Thursday 2 April 2020, at Senate House, London (Room G35). Changing our minds isn't easy. Even when we recognize our views are disputed by intelligent and informed people, we rarely doubt our rightness. Why is this so? How can we become more open-minded, putting ourselves in a better position to tolerate conflict, advance collective inquiry, and learn from differing perspectives in…
Find out more »May 2020
[CANCELLED] CONF – Analytic Philosophy meets Legal Theory (Jagiellonian)
The Jagiellonian Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University Kraków (Poland) is organising a conference, Analytic Philosophy meets Legal Theory, on 21–24 May 2020. This conference aims to bring together scholars from contemporary analytic philosophy and legal theory, working on connected issues with the hope of allowing for a lively interchange of ideas across those disciplines. The themes we would like to particularly explore are: metaphysics of law, social ontology, nature of normativity, pragmatics of legal language,…
Find out more »June 2020
John Hyman – “Wittgenstein on Responsibility and Free Will” (UEA Wittgenstein workshop)
John Hyman, RoR's PI, will give a talk at UEA Wittgenstein workshop meetings, on Wednesday 17 June 2020, 16.00–18.00, in Queens 0.09, University of East Anglia. The organiser writes: "Anyone is welcome to attend, but please note that there is usually a text to read in advance. If you'd like to attend and get a copy of the text for a particular meeting, please email Oskari Kuusela at o.kuusela@uea.ac.uk. (The same with any other inquiries.)"
Find out more »July 2020
CONF – Wittgenstein: Law and Action (British Wittgenstein Society)
The 11th annual conference of the British Wittgenstein Society is organised in collaboration with the University of Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy, and is on "Wittgenstein: Law and Action." The conference will explore issues in the philosophy of action and the philosophy of law, as they arise in relation to Wittgenstein’s work or in the work of philosophers writing within the Wittgensteinian tradition, e.g. Anscombe, Hart, White, Raz, Kenny. Along with Vincent Descombes, Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov, Anthony Duff, Dennis Patterson,…
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