[PHILOS-L] Final Reminder: Registration for the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Summer Conference

[Anna McDermott]

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BPPA Summer Conference

A Summer Celebration of Innovative Methodologies and Unique Ideas

• Monday 27th of July 2026 via Teams (09:30-17:00 GMT) via Microsoft Teams

 

To register:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBGKXxf8hEM7OalqlsEJXvVXeYrwXeLKZ7o-YTzk74gCGVEg/viewform?usp=dialog

Registration closes Midnight on Saturday the 25^th of July 2026. 

Event Schedule

Morning Sessions

 9:30 – 10:00 - Does neuroscience rule out an immaterial soul?,  Jonathan Emery (King's College London) 

10:00 – 10:30 - Pronoun nonconforming lesbians: identities at the intersection of epistemic justice and social recognition, Cristina Pellegrino Jimenez (University of Sheffield) 

10:30 – 11:00 - Fabricated Authorities: The Fiction of Expertise and the Crisis of Democratic Legitimacy, Riccardo Necci (Università di Bologna)

 

 11:00 – 11:15 Break 

 

11:15 – 11:45 - Feeling With, Failing Whom? Empathy and Affective Injustice in Asymmetrical Relations, Eugenia Stefanello (University of Padua) 

 

11:45 – 12:15 -N/A. *

12:15 – 12:45 - Defining fake news: A new approach, Julius Herrmann (Goethe University Frankfurt) 

 

12:45 – 1:45 Lunch Break 

 

Afternoon Sessions 

1:45 – 2:15 - Buffon's notion of species: origin and "degeneration" of organisms, Bogdana Stamenković Jajčević (University of Belgrade)

 2:15 – 2:45 - Does the Knobe Effect Reveal a Bias or a Norm-Tracking Competence? Evidence from Autism, Constantí Cabestany (University of Barcelona) 

2:45 – 3:15 - From Quantum Entanglement to Ecological Thought: Complexity as a New Philosophical Paradigm, Emanuela Giorgianni (University of Messina/ University of Valladolid) 

 

3:15 – 3:30 Break 

 

3:30 – 4:00 - Norms We No Longer Believe In: Why Rejected Normativity Still Binds, Junjie Huang (Sichuan University) 

4:00 – 4:30 - The Clinic and the Chiasm: Toward a Recursive Epistemics of Embodied Suffering, Kaushiki Ishwar (Center for Civil Society) 

4:30 – 5:00 - Structure and Folding, Anu Migom Panging (IIT Delhi)

 

*Added slot to account for any set up and technical difficulties due to possible time differences. 

 

Best wishes,

Anna 

Anna McDermott 

President of the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association.

Email: amcder...@qub.ac.uk

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/anna-mcdermott-184799323

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