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.

Keynote speakers:

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

Call for Papers

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

For further details, contact either Yuri Cath () or Jonathan Ichikawa ().

Arché would like to acknowledge and give special thanks to The School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, University of St Andrews.