Philosophy at St Andrews
St Andrews is one of the major philosophical centres in Britain, providing a rich and stimulating philosophical environment situated on a cliff-top with sea views over St Andrews Bay towards the Angus coast and the Grampian mountains.
There are two research centres in philosophy: The Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs (CEPPA), and Arché, Philosophical Research Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology.
The Philosophical Quarterly, one of the main international journals of philosophy, is edited from St Andrews.
The Philosophy Club is open to everyone and has regular meetings addressed by philosophers from Britain and abroad; several research seminars meet weekly; there is also a Graduate Seminar for all graduate students, and the M.Litt seminar specifically for M.Litt students.
In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise we were ranked joint-first amongst all UK Philosophy departments, with 40% of our work awarded the 4* 'world leading' grade. We were also ranked second in Britain in a recent US-based survey of British and American philosophy graduate programmes.
Events
Wed 10th February 2010 16:15
The Paradoxes of Sensory Representation in Descartes
Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen)
Philosophy Club
Fri 12th February 2010 16:15 to 18:00
Morality and Consistency in Kant's Categorical Imperative Procedure
Alice Pinheiro Walla
Friday seminars
Fri 19th February 2010
Sat 20th March 2010 to Sun 21st March 2010
Foundations of Logical Consequence - Propositions, Context and Consequence
The workshop will bring together international experts on Propositions, Context and Consequence and related topics. The aim is to investigate new work on propositions and context, with a specific emphasis on their relation to formal logic.
Sat 8th May 2010 to Sun 9th May 2010
Methodology Workshop IV: Imagination and Modality
Claims about what is imaginable have played important roles in arguments about possibility and necessity; study of these questions has represented a rich tradition in modal epistemology
Sat 29th May 2010 to Sun 30th May 2010
Arché/St Andrews-Rutgers Epistemology Conference
details to follow
Fri 11th June 2010 to Tue 15th June 2010
Conference on Foundations of Logical Consequence
The aim of the conference is to clarify the foundations of logical consequence. Should the foundations be essentially model-theoretic, or proof-theoretic, or some combination of the two, or is there a third way, e.g., deflationary?
Mon 2nd August 2010 to Thu 5th August 2010
Thu 23rd September 2010 to Fri 24th September 2010
Invited Speakers: Galen Strawson (Reading) and Udo Thiel (Graz)