
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 91st Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association will be held at University of Edinburgh 14 to 16 July 2017.
This year’s local organiser is Aidan McGlynn.
The University of Edinburgh is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city of Edinburgh, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university. Edinburgh is one of the world’s leading research universities, ranked fourth in the UK for research power by the Research Excellence Framework. It is a member of both the Russell Group, and the League of European Research Universities, a consortium of 21 research universities in Europe. It has the third largest endowment of any university in the United Kingdom, after the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. The university played an important role in leading Edinburgh to its reputation as a chief intellectual centre during the Age of Enlightenment, and helped give the city the nickname of the Athens of the North. Alumni of the university include some of the major figures of modern history, including physicist James Clerk Maxwell, naturalist Charles Darwin, philosopher David Hume, mathematician Thomas Bayes, surgeon Joseph Lister, signatories of the American declaration of independence James Wilson, John Witherspoon and Benjamin Rush, inventor Alexander Graham Bell, first president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere, and a host of famous authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, J.M. Barrie and Sir Walter Scott.
The Programme
********** Friday, 14 July 2017 **********
12.00 - 17.00
Registration
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 15.30
Aristotelian Society Executive Committee Meeting
Mind Association Executive Committee Meeting
15.30 - 16.00
Aristotelian Society Annual General Meeting
Mind Association Annual General Meeting
16.00 - 17.00
Aristotelian Society & Mind Association Joint Meeting I
Refreshments
17.00 - 19.30
The Inaugural Address
Roger Crisp
Oxford University
followed by
The Mind Research Fellows
Lubomira Radoilska (Kent) & Gerald Lang (Leeds)
19.30 - 20.30
Wine Reception
20.30 - 22.00
Conference Dinner
18.00 - 01.00
Bar
********** Saturday, 15 July 2017 **********
07.30 - 08.45
Breakfast
09.00 - 12.00
Registration
9.00 - 10.50
Symposium I - Augustine on Perception
10.50 - 11.10
Refreshments
11.10 - 13.00
Symposium II - The Idea of Europe
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
Aristotelian Society and Mind Association Joint Meeting II
Society for Women in Philosophy Open Meeting
14.00 - 16.00
The Postgraduate Session
16.00 - 16.30
Refreshments
16.30 - 18.30
The Open Sessions
Society for Women in Philosophy Session
18.30 - 19.45
Dinner
20.00 - 21.50
Symposium III - Language, Lies, and Logic
18.00 - 01.00
Bar
********** Sunday, 16 July 2017 **********
07.30 - 08.45
Breakfast
09.00 - 10.50
Symposium IV - Culture and Critique
Symposium V - Normative Dependence
10.50 - 11.15
Refreshments
11.15 - 13.15
The Open Sessions
13.15 - 14.30
Lunch
13.15 - 14.15
British Philosophical Association Annual General Meeting
14.30 - 17.00
The Open Sessions
16.30 – 17.20
Refreshments
17.30 - 19.20
Symposium VI - Facts and Factivity
19.30 - 21.00
Dinner
18.00 - 01.00
Bar
further info

LXXXVXI
University of Edinburgh
14-16 July 2017
School of Philosophy
Psychology and Language Sciences
Dugald Stewart Building
3 Charles Street
Edinburgh, EH8 9AD
Local Organiser: Aidan McGlynn
Programme edited by Guy Longworth (Warwick)
Visit the Official 2017 Joint Session Website | View the Open & Postgraduate Session CFP| View the Schedules for Future Joint Sessions | Listen to Joint Session Podcasts | Learn about the Supplementary Volume
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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).
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Latest Release: View the abstracts and full papers for the 2017 Supplementary Volume LXXXIX

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