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 92nd Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association will be held at the University of Oxford, 6-8th of July 2018.
This year’s local organiser is Peter Kail.
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England. It has no known date of foundation, but there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world. The university is made up of a variety of institutions, including 38 constituent colleges and a full range of academic departments which are organised into four divisions. All the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, each controlling its own membership and with its own internal structure and activities. Being a city university, it does not have a main campus and instead its buildings and facilities are scattered throughout the city centre. The university operates the world's oldest university museum, as well as the largest university press in the world – Oxford University Press, the Society's publishing partner – and the largest academic library system in Britain. Oxford has educated many notable alumni, including 28 Nobel laureates, 27 prime ministers of the United Kingdom and many heads of state and government around the world.
The Programme
********** Friday, 6 July 2018 **********
12.00 - 17.00
Registration
16.30
The Inaugural Address
W(h)ither Metaphysical Necessity?
John Divers
University of Leeds
followed by
17.30
The Mind Research Fellows
Jessica Brown (St Andrews),
Mark Jago (Nottingham) &
Stephanie Collins (Manchester)
19.00
Wine Reception
19.30
Conference Dinner
18.00 - 23.00
Bar
********** Saturday, 7 July 2018 **********
07.00 - 08.45
Breakfast
09.00 - 12.00
Registration
09.00
Symposium I – Plato on the Uses and Value of Knowledge
Chaired by MM McCabe
Verity Harte (Yale)
Melissa Lane (Princeton)
10.50 - 11.10
Refreshments
11.10
Symposium II – Racial Justice
Chaired by Meena Dhanda
Charles Mills (CUNY)
Katrin Flikschuh (LSE)
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
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 – Naturalistic Explanation of the Good
Chaired by Alison Hills
Christine Korsgaard (Harvard)
Mark Rowlands (MIami)
18.00 - 23.00
Bar
********** Sunday, 8 July 2018 **********
07.00 - 08.45
Breakfast
09.00 - 10.50
Symposium IV – What Brains-in-Vats Can Know
Chaired by Mike Martin
Ofra Magidor (Oxford)
Aidan McGlynn (Edinburgh)
Symposium V – Benevolence
Chaired by Véronique Munoz-Dardé
Nomy Arpaly (Brown)
Erasmus Mayr (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
10.50 - 11.10
Refreshments
11.15 - 13.15
The Open Sessions
13.15 - 14.30
Lunch
13.15 - 14.15
The Open Sessions
16.30 – 17.20
Refreshments
17.30 - 19.20
Symposium VI – Fundamental Powers
Chaired by Stephen Mumford
Alexander Bird (KCL)
Barbara Vetter (FU Berlin)
19.30 - 21.00
Dinner
18.00 - 23.00
Bar
further info
LXXXVXII
University of Oxford
6–8 July 2018
Faculty of Philosophy
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter 555
Woodstock Road
Oxford OX2 6GG
Local Organiser: Peter Kail (Oxford)
Programme edited by Guy Longworth (Warwick)
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