About
The Joint Session is a three-day conference in philosophy that is held annually during the summer by the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. It has taken place at nearly every major university across the United Kingdom and in Ireland. Since 1910, the Joint Session has grown to become the largest gathering of philosophers in the country, attracting prestigious UK and international speakers working in a broad range of philosophical areas. Inaugurated by the incoming President of the Mind Association, the Joint Session includes symposia, open and postgraduate sessions, and a range of satellite conferences.
The 89th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association will be held at the University of Warwick from 10 to 12 July 2015.
This year’s local organisers are Massimo Renzo (Warwick) & Johannes Roessler (Warwick).
The University of Warwick is a public research university in Coventry, England. It was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand access to higher education. Warwick consistently ranks in the top ten of all major rankings of British universities and is the only multi-faculty institution aside from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge to have never been ranked outside of the top ten. It is ranked by QS as the world's third best university under 50 years (and first in Europe) and as the world's 13th best university based on employer reputation. It was ranked 7th in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions for the quality of its research in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
The Programme
** Programme note: For a more detailed programme (including the Open Session programme and precise location information), please visit the Official 2015 Joint Session website.
Publishers’ stands are in the Science Concourse throughout the conference.
All the plenary talks and the Postgraduate Sessions are in lecture theatres adjacent to the Science Concourse. Venues for the Open Sessions are indicated on the Open Sessions programme. **
********** Friday, 10 July 2015 **********
12.00 - 17.00
Registration
Science Concourse
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
Science Concourse
13.00 - 14.00
Aristotelian Society - Executive Committee Meeting
B2.01
Mind Association - Executive Committee Meeting
B2.02
14.30 – 15.00
Aristotelian Society - Annual General Meeting
B2.01
Mind Association - Annual General Meeting
B2.02
15.15 – 16.45
Aristotelian Society & Mind Association - Joint Executive Committee Meeting
B2.02
15.30 – 17.00
Tea & Coffee
Science Concourse
17.00 – 19.00
The Inaugural Address
The Doors Of Perception And The Artist Within
Catherine Wilson
(York)
Chaired by Adrian Moore (Oxford)
Location: L3
19.00 – 20.00
Wine Reception, sponsored by Oxford University Press
Courtyard, Social Sciences
20.00 – 21.30
Conference Dinner
Panorama Suite (Rootes Building)
21.30 - 01.00
The Bar
Rootes Building
********** Saturday, 11 July 2015 **********
7.30 – 9.00
Breakfast
Rootes Restaurant
9.00 – 12.00
Registration
Science Concourse
9.00 – 10.45
symposium I - Hegel's critique of Kant's conception of concepts
Chaired by David James (Warwick)
Location: L3
Symposium II - The Moral Importance of Admiration
**CANCELLED**
Chaired by Fabienne Peter (Warwick)
Location: L5
10.45 – 11.15
Tea & Coffee
Science Concourse
11.15 – 13.00
Symposium III - Columnar Higher-Order Vagueness
Chaired by Ian Rumfitt (Birmingham)
Location: L3
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
Science Concourse
13.00 - 14.00
Joint Executive Committee Meeting II - Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association
B2.02
14.00 – 16.00
The Postgraduate Session*
Note: The following two postgraduate sessions will run parallel to each other.
Postgraduate Session: Theoretical
L4
Postgraduate Session: Normative
L5
16.00 – 16.30
Tea & Coffee
Science Concourse
Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) information drop-in session*
B2.01
*An opportunity to find out more about the Society for Women in Philosophy from executive committee member Charlotte Knowles. Membership forms will be available.
16.30 – 18.30
Open Sessions I
Society for Women in Philosophy Session
Locations vary - please check the official Joint Session website for details.
18.45 – 19.45
Dinner
Rootes Restaurant
20.00 – 21.45
Symposium IV - Continuanthood
Chaired by Naomi Eilan (Warwick)
Location: L3
21.45 - 01.00
The Bar
Rootes Building
********** Sunday, 12 July 2015 **********
7.30 – 9.00
Breakfast
Rootes Restaurant
09.00 – 10.45
Symposium V - Belief and Degrees of Belief
Chaired by Walter Dean (Warwick)
Location: L3
10.45 – 11.15
Tea & Coffee
Science Concourse
11.15 – 13.15
Open Sessions II
Locations vary - please check the official Joint Session website for details.
13.15 – 14.30
Lunch
Science Concourse
14.30 – 16.30
Open Sessions III
Locations vary - please check the official Joint Session website for details.
16.30 – 17.00
Tea & Coffee
Science Concourse
16.30 – 17.00
MIND: Meet the New Editors Session*
B2.02
*Adrian Moore and Lucy O’Brien will be jointly taking over the editorship of MIND from October 2015. This is an opportunity to meet them, to hear about their vision for the journal, and to have an informal exchange of ideas about all aspects of the journal.
17.00 – 18.45
Symposium VI - The morality of defensive harm
Chaired by Kimberley Brownlee (Warwick)
Location: L3
19.00 – 20.00
Dinner
Rootes Restaurant
20.00 - 00.00
The Bar
Rootes Building
further info
LXXXVIX
University of Warwick
10 - 12 July 2015
Department of Philosophy
Social Sciences Building
Coventry, CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Local Organisers: Massimo Renzo (Warwick) & Johannes Roessler (Warwick)
Programme edited by Matthew Soteriou (Warwick)
View the 2015 Programme | View the Open & Postgraduate Session Programme | View Joint Session Registration Details | View Info regarding Student Subsidies | View the Schedules for Future Joint Sessions | Listen to Joint Session Podcasts | Learn about the Supplementary Volume
future joint sessions
LXXXVXI
2017 joint session:
Edinburgh
7 - 9 july 2017
Visit our Future Joint Sessions page for further information.
supplementary volume
The inaugural address and symposia for the Joint Session are published in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume, which is published digitally and in hardcover every June. The Supplementary Volume is sent to subscribing members of the Society in categories 4 and 5.
Members in other categories can purchase the hardcover Supplementary Volume from the Online Shop. Volumes will also be available at the registration desk during the conference.
The hardcover volume is printed in black on an 80gsm white book wove stock accredited by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Binding is in dark blue Arbelave Library Buckram over 2500 micron boards blocked in gold on the spine. This makes for a strong, attractive and durable book with a scuff resistant and wipeable cover.
Subscriptions to the Supplementary Volume also includes online access via Wiley Online Library (please note that one-off purchases of the hardcover volume do not include membership or online access).
Learn more about the Supplementary Volume, including info on how to subscribe to the 2015 edition.
Latest Release: View the abstracts and full papers for the 2014 Supplementary Volume LXXXVIII
past conferences
subscribing memberships
Subscribing members receive online access to the Proceedings from 2000 to the most current issue.
Subscribing members also receive the bound, hardcover volume of the latest Proceedings through the post.
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