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Koichiro Misawa’s “Humans, Animals and the World We Inhabit" Published

November 1, 2017

Koichiro Misawa’s, “Humans, Animals and the World We Inhabit: On and Beyond the Symposium ‘Second nature, Bilding and McDowell: David Bakhurst’s The Formation of Reason’”, appeared in Journal of Philosophy of Education 51 (4): 744-759.

Visiting Scholar

June 28, 2017 to December 29, 2017

Henrike Moll (USC) will be a visiting scholar in the Philosophy Department at Queen’s in Fall 2017. Henrike’s visit is funded by the Spencer Foundation.

London Workshop: Teaching and Learning

May 5, 2017 to May 6, 2017

Date: Friday 5 May – Saturday 6 May, 2017.
Organizers: David Bakhurst (Queen’s University at Kingston, UCL Institute of Education) and Jan Derry (UCL Institute of Education)
Venue: UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, UK, Room 802

Speakers: Adam Carter (Edinburgh), Katherine Hawley (St. Andrew’s), Giuseppina Doro (Keele), Ben Kotzee (Birmingham), David Bakhurst (Queen’s, Canada/UCL Institute of Education, Duncan Pritchard (Edinburgh), Jan Derry (UCL Institute of Education) and Paul Standish (UCL Institute of Education).

This workshop will examine new developments in the epistemology of teaching and learning, inspired by advances in social epistemology, and explore their metaphysical and ethical consequences. Issues will include: teaching and testimony; the cultivation of know-how and practical knowledge; learners as cyborgs; epistemic dependence and intellectual autonomy.

The workshop will run all day Friday 5 May. There will be one or two further talks on the morning of Saturday, 6 May, which will also be part of a one-day conference on Knowledge, Mind and Understanding at UCL Institute of Education, organized by Jan Derry. The full schedule is available here (presently TBA).

All are welcome. The workshop is free of charge, but Please Register. For further information, contact David Bakhurst (david.bakhurst@queensu.ca).

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Kingston Workshop: Teaching and Learning

March 10, 2017 to March 11, 2017

Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada, Friday-Saturday March 10-11, 2017. 

Registration is now closed. Further information from: Bakhurst@queensu.ca.

The workshop will comprise talks from six visiting speakers: Andrea Kern (Leipzig/Pittsburgh), Sebastian Rödl (Leipzig/Pittsburgh), Will Small (Illinois), Joseph Dunne (Dublin), Henrike Moll (Psychology, USC) and Jonathan Dancy (UT Austin).  Andrea Kern will also be giving the Philosophy Department colloquium that week on Thursday at 4 pm.

This is the first of two workshops on similar themes. The second will take place in London, UK, at UCL Institute of Education, 4-6 May, 2017. Registration is open for the London workshop. Further details and registration form here.

Visiting Scholar

March 1, 2017

Monika Wozniak (University of Warsaw) will be a visiting scholar in the Philosophy Department at Queen’s in March 2017.

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