Event date: 6 January 2010 (18:30-21:00) Location:Royal Asiatic Society Travelling the Evliya Çelebi Way: Equestrian and Pedestrian Adventures in Northwest Anatolia A lecture to mark the 400th anniversary of the…
Warwick Ball: Ralph Pinder-Wilson and Afghanistan
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD Date: 14 January 2010 Warwick Ball – Ralph Pinder-Wilson and Afghanistan An overview of the ‘Pinder-Wilson…
Seth Yalcin – Bayesian Expressivism
…relative to context. From a decision-theoretic perspective, this picture of communication is fixated on the objects of credence and preference, and lacks explicit room for the structure of credence and…
Nicholas Shea – Exploited Isomorphism And Structural Representation
…Shea is an interdisciplinary philosopher of mind, and of psychology, cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. He came into philosophy via an MA at Birkbeck and PhD at King’s College London….
David Wiles, Helen Nicholson – Performing Citizenship: The Universal Ideal and the Challenge of Pluralism
…Universal Ideal and the Challenge of Pluralism Professor Wiles and Dr. Nicholson examine citizenship in theatre and performance, analysing the universality of this concept through history and philosophy (Wiles) and…
Clare Chambers – The Marriage-Free State
…in Matt Matravers and Lukas Meyer (eds.), Democracy, Equality, and Justice (Routledge and special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP) Vol. 13 No. 1 (2010))….
Tim Bayne – Gist!
…from the University of Otago and his doctorate from the University of Arizona. He is the author of The Unity of Consciousness (OUP, 2010) and Thought: A Very Short Introduction…
Hasok Chang – Pragmatist Coherence as the Source of Truth and Reality
…Truth and Reality Hasok Chang is the Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Previously he taught for 15 years at University College…
The Will of the People? Revolutionary Legacies, Reactionary Manipulations
…over the world, from Venezuela to Finland, and have taken or consolidated power by various means in places as different as the USA, Turkey, Russia, the UK, and Poland. These…
Nik Wachsmann – After Liberation – Legacies of the Nazi Concentration Camps
…at the testimony and memory of the camps, and at the punishment of perpetrators. He will conclude by looking at the legacy of the camps since the 1950s. Nikolaus Wachsmann…