Programme for the 131st Session 2009-2010

First Term

12 October 2009 - Presidential Address: The Steps from Doing to Saying - Simon Blackburn

26 October 2009 - Control Variables and Mental Causation - John Campbell

9 November 2009 - Moral Obligation: Form and Substance - Stephen Darwall

23 November 2009 - Kant's Argument for Transcendental Idealism in the Transcendental Aesthetic - Lucy Allais

7 December 2009 - Naive Realism, Evidence and Epistemic Justification - Matthew Kennedy

Second Term

11 January 2010 - Causation and Decision - Arif Ahmed

25 January 2010 - Of Numbers and Electrons - Cian Dorr

8 February 2010 - Cognitive Expressivism, Faultless Disagreement, and Absolute but Non-Objective Truth - Stephen Barker

22 February 2010 - The Conceptual Problem of Other Bodies - Joel Smith

8 March 2010 - The Agential Profile of Perceptual Experience - Thomas Crowther

Third Term

26 April 2010 - Diachronic Rationality - David Wallace

10 May 2010 - The Good of Friendship - Alexander Nehamas

24 May 2010 - Metaphor: Ad hoc Concepts and Literal Meaning - Robyn Carston

7 June 2010 - Aristotle's Two Worlds: Knowledge and Belief in Posterior Analytics 1.33 - Gail Fine

21 June 2010 - The Mental and the Normative - Nishi Shah

Meetings will be held at 4.15pm in room G22/26 (Ground Floor), South Block, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

A draft version of each paper is available online up to two weeks before its presentation, and for four weeks afterwards.

For details regarding 2008/9 programme, click here.