There’s a NIP in the Air in Aberdeen
Some very big news for British philosophy. From 1st September there will be a new philosophy research centre at Aberdeen founded by Crispin Wright. Its provisional name is the Northern Institute of Philosophy. The centre will have the following remit (with areas of envisaged mid-term focus in brackets):
- Epistemology (formal epistemology, entitlement, epistemic externalism, perception)
- Formal Logic, including the history of logic
- Philosophy of Logic (logical consequence, the paradoxes, inferentialism and model-theory, the epistemology of logic and the a priori)
- Philosophy of Language (rule-following, propositions, vagueness, semantics and pragmatics, contextualism and relativism, content externalism)
- Philosophy of Mathematics (foundations, neo-logicism and structuralism)
- Metaphysics (value, taste, meaning, intentionality, time and truth),
- Philosophy of Mind (the metaphysics and epistemology of the self, rationality and rational explanation)
- History of Analytical Philosophy, and its methods, scope and limits
A number of appointments are planned, including 2-3 Institute professors and 6 quarter-time professorial fellows. There will also be funded PhD places and postdoc positions, as well as funding for networks and workshops.
Exciting times!
Interesting development to be sure — is this news from a press release from the University or something? I haven’t been able to unearth it on either the Aberdeen or ARche Centre webpages anywhere. Perhaps you’ve got a source deep inside…
No, it’s not a press release. Crispin Wright has asked me (and others) to spread the word.