12th Arché Graduate Conference 4 -5 Feb 2021

4th February 2021 - 5th February 2021 Event Navigation 

This year, the University of St Andrews and the Arché Philosophical Research Centre will be hosting the 12th Arché Graduate Conference, running from the 4 – 5 February 2021. The Arché Graduate Conferences are international events gathering the most ambitious and talented postgraduate researchers from all over the world. Within two full days, six postgraduate students and two keynote speakers will deliver high-quality talks in all the areas of Philosophy currently pursued at Arché.

Conference Venue: Online on Zoom

Confirmed Keynote Speakers are Gillian Russell (ACU and University of St Andrews) and Karen Bennett (Rutgers).

Provisional Programme

DAY 1 09:00-09:30 Registration and Coffee 09:30-11:00 Frank Hong — “Prefaces, Knowledge, and Questions” 11:00-11:30 Coffee 11:30-13:00 Mark Andrew Dickson — “Dispositionalism’s Dilemma and a Revised Dispositional Belief Proposal” 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Aglaia von Götz —“How to Count Partial Oranges” 16:00-16:30 Coffee 16:30-18:00 Gillian Russell – TBA 18:00-19:00 Reception

DAY 2 09:00-09:30 Coffee 09:30-11:00 Benjamin Henke — “Degree Encroachment” 11:00-11:30 Coffee 11:30-13:00 Nuno Maia — “Tennenbaum’s Theorem and Non-Classical Arithmetic” 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Yao Fan – “An Inferentialist Approach to Color Primitivism” 16:00-16:30 Coffee 16:30-18:00 Karen Bennett – TBA 18:00 Reception

Call For Papers : 12th Arché Graduate Conference

Topic Areas: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Logic (and Philosophy of Logic), Metaphilosophy

Details: The Arché Philosophical Research Centre is hosting the 12th Annual Arché Graduate Conference at the University of St Andrews on 23-24 May 2020. We invite graduate students to submit high-quality papers for presentation in the main Arché research areas, broadly construed. We especially encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in philosophy and papers that are aimed at a general philosophical audience. All accepted talks will receive a response from a member of Arché. We aim to provide a substantial travel bursary for all speakers, and offer free accommodation with a St Andrews graduate student.

Eligibility: Any graduate student (except those currently enrolled in the University of St Andrews).

Submission Requirements: Submissions should include an abstract with keywords (max. 250 words) and a paper no longer than 4,000 words (including foot- and endnotes, excluding the bibliography). Papers should be suitable for a presentation of around 40 minutes; must be authored (or co-authored) by current graduate students (limited to 1 submission per author); and be suitable for blind review. All submissions should be sent to archegradconf12@gmail.com.

Further Enquiries: For any further enquiries, please email archegradconf12@gmail.com.