Events

Regular Events

• Departmental Research Seminar
• Philosophy and History of Science, Medicine, Mathematics, and Logic Seminars
• History of Philosophy Lectures
• Work in Progress Seminars
• Postgraduate Philosophy Seminars
• Reading Groups
• Undergraduate Philosophy Seminars
• Formal Methods Seminars

Forthcoming Conferences and Workshops

• The Scope and Limits of Mathematical Knowledge, 17-18 March 2012

Recent and past events: 2011

• Seventeenth Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association, Bristol 21-23 July 2011
• Evolution, Cooperation and Rationality 2011,  27-29 June 2011
• Workshop with Tomasz Bigaj and others on 'Identity and Individuality of Quantum Particles', 21-22 June 2011
• Philosophy and Methodology of Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainability, 9th June 2011
• One day symposium on the foundations and philosophy of quantum field theory with Bryan Roberts, David Wallace, Adam Caulton, 24 May 2011
• Philosophy Matters - panel discussion, 21st March 2011.
  The video of this event is now available online at: http://www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org/blog/61

Past events: 2004 - 2010

• "Mathematical Philosophy?" An inaugural lecture by Leon Horsten, 4th November 2010
• First workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK, 15th September 2010
• Branching Time and Indeterminacy Postgraduate Conference (BIRTHA), 25th & 26th August 2010
• Structure and Identity conference
• Progress in Medicine conference
• Metaphysics of Science (and related topics) conference
• Abstraction/Criteria of Identity Workshop
• Mathematical and Geometrical Explanations in Physics conference
• Philosophy of Medicine Workshop
• Evolution, Cooperation and Rationality: Interdisciplinary Conference: Optimization in biology and economics.
• IAS Workshop on Truth and Probability
• Workshop on Metacognition, Belief Change and Conditionals: Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives
• “Why Rousseau Still Matters”: An inaugural lecture by Christopher Bertram, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy
• Minds, Brains, and Beyond: a conference in memory of Susan Hurley (1954-2007)
• Metaphysics of Science Workshops: Mini-Metaphysics Day
• Mathematical Methods in Philosophy
• Normativity and the Causal Theory of Action
• AHRC Metaphysics of Science Workshop "Themes in the Metaphysics of Chemistry and Biology"
  and Biology"
• Animal Cognition: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives
• Explanation, reduction, and models of psychopathology
• Sexual Ethics
• Hypotheses and Heuristics Workshop: Contrasting Research in Biology and Physics
• Delusion and Self-Knowledge Workshop
• Evolution, Co-operation and Rationality Workshop
• Agency, Character, and Virtue
• Royal Society Medawar Lecture
• British Society for Ethical Theory annual conference
• Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association
• British Society for the Philosophy of Science annual conference
• Sensorimotor Dynamics and Two Visual Systems - International conference on Perception, Action, and Consciousness
• Bristol Graduate Modality Conference
• Concepts of Infection
• PPNB 2007 - Graduate/post-doc conference in philosophy of psychology, neuroscience and biology
• Andy Clark in Bristol
• Metaphysics of Science Workshop on "Natural Kinds"
• Structuralism about Physics and Mathematics
• What is this Thing Called Science? Colloquium on the nature of science
• European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop in Applied Logic in the Methodology of Science
• History and Philosophy of Mathematics Day
• Conference on Imagination and Thought Experiments
• British Academy 2006 Keynes Lecture
• Dispositions and Causes conference
• Lisbon Earthquake 250th anniversary conference
• Postgraduate conference: Novel Approaches in the Philosophies of the Mathematical and Natural Sciences
• The Methodology of Epistemology
• British Academy Research Group in Logical Methods in Epistemology, Semantics and Philosophy of Mathematics
• Philosophy of Biology Workshop
• John Locke Day
• Royal Society 2004 Medawar Lecture