The AHRC Project on ‘Intuitions and Philosophical Methodology’ at the Arché Philosophical Research Centre will host a major Conference on Philosophical Methodology 25-27 April, 2009, at the University of St Andrews.

The purpose of the conference is to explore questions about philosophical methodology. Potential topics include:

• The nature of philosophical intuitions
• The role of intuition in philosophical methodology
• The bearing of experimental philosophy on philosophical methodology
• Comparisons between approaches to methodology in various subfields of philosophy
• The subject matter of philosophy
• The significance of disagreement in philosophy
• Comparisons between philosophy and other disciplines
• Apriority
• The epistemology of modality
• Scepticism about philosophy
• The role of linguistics in philosophical inquiry

Keynote speakers:

• David Chalmers (Australian National University)
• Jonathan Schaffer (Australian National University/Arché)
• Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)
• Tamar Szabó Gendler (Yale University)

We now invite submissions for 40 minute talks on any area of philosophical methodology. Please send an abstract (400-word maximum) and a CV via email () by 1 January, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 February, 2009.