BSPS Events
The Society organises a programme of monthly meetings, an annual summer conference, and provides financial support to an irregular programme of other conferences.
Details of the Society's policy on conference funding are available here.
Annual Conference
The BSPS Annual Conference 2008 takes place at the University of St Andrews, Thursday 10th to Friday 11th July 2008.
Monthly Meetings
Meetings are held at 5.15pm in room T206, in the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, Lakatos Building, Portugal Street, London WC2. Unless otherwise indicated, tea and biscuits are served at 5.00pm in Room T16.
- 2007
- 29 October
Michela Massimi (UCL)
From Galileo to Kant: a new conception of phenomena - 26 November
David Wallace (Oxford)
Many worlds? - the case for the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics
- 29 October
- 2008
- 11 February
John O'Neill (Manchester)
Science, pluralism and economics: the debate between Hayek and Neurath - 10 March
Matteo Mameli (King's College, London)
Innateness in the cognitive sciences: the clutter hypothesis and the cluster hypothesis - 2 June
4.00pm Annual General Meeting
From 4:30pm Tea and biscuits - 5.15pm Philip Kitcher (Columbia)
Ethics after Darwin
- 11 February
Past Lectures
Recordings of past lectures are availabe here to download as MP3 files.
Alice Drewery (Reading) - Ceteris paribus - from Mill to a modern muddle?
Lecture Discussion
Steven French (Leeds) - The Limits of Structuralism
Lecture Discussion
Michela Massimi (UCL) - From Galileo to Kant: a new conception of phenomena
Lecture
David Wallace (Oxford) - Many worlds? – the case for the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics
Lecture
John O'Neill (Manchester) - Science, pluralism and economics: the debate between Hayek and Neurath
Lecture
Matteo Mameli (King's College, London) - Innateness in the cognitive sciences: the clutter hypothesis and the cluster hypothesis
Lecture