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Cognitive Ageing Journal Club
The Cognitive Ageing Journal Club meets weekly during term time to discuss recent findings within the fields of cognitive ageing and cognitive epidemiology. Each week, one of the group chooses a recent paper for discussion, although they can also choose to present a dataset, or a paper in preparation. If you are interested in joining the group, please email Catherine Murray (c.murray@ed.ac.uk).
The meetings are every Monday (12.30pm - 1.30pm) in Room S38, Psychology Building, 7 George Square (unless otherwise advertised).
Archive of past events
2011-12 (DOC)
2010-11 (PDF)
2009-10 (PDF)
2008-09 (PDF)
2007-08 (PDF)
Eye Movement Users (EMU)
The Eye Movement Users (EMU) group meets once each fortnight for informal talks and discussion of recent theoretical and practical issues related to the use of eye movements to study human cognition.
Time: Tuesdays 1.00pm
Location: Room S38, Psychology Building, 7 George Square
To subscribe to the mailing list, please follow these instructions.
Psycholinguistics Coffee
Psycholinguistics Coffee is an informal meeting of psycholinguists at the University of Edinburgh. We meet each week for coffee, biscuits, and an informal talk.
Frequency: Every Wednesday
Time: 11.00am - 12.30pm
Location: Room S38, Psychology Building, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ
PsychStats
"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it the right way, did not become still more complicated." (Paul Anderson, New Scientist, 25–Sept–1969)
Who are we?
PsychStats is an informal and multidisciplinary group of psychology researchers (broadly interpreted) who are interested in statistics. Areas of research represented include education, emotion, intelligence, linguistics, personality, reasoning. Members have experience with a range of methods requiring overlapping knowledge (e.g., ANOVA, multiple regression, multilevel/mixed effects modelling, factor analysis, structural equation modelling), using a range of different software packages (e.g., SPSS, R, MPlus, SAS, Mx).
Aims: We...
- Meet to discuss research from the applied statistics literature;
- Help each other using and learning statistical methods and...
- merrily ignore discipline boundaries.
Mailing List
If you would like to be added to the list, please mail Mark (m.j.adams-2 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk). This is a low-volume list on which people discuss statistics, and on which PsychStatsBanter gatherings (see below) are organised and advertised.
Helpful resources
- The local R user's code wiki
- our CiteULike group
- Statistical Computing @ UCLA. Sample data sets and analyses using R, SAS, and SPSS plus many other resources.
- Quick-R. Straightforward examples of doing almost anything you want in R.
PsychStatsBanter Gatherings
We meet on an occasional basis, usually in S38, Psychology Building, 7 George Square, with meetings lasting around an hour. Each meeting is focussed on issues in statistics that people find particularly troubling, socially and morally.
A list of things that trouble people...
... and which we may discuss soon! Email Mark (m.j.adams-2 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk) if you have more.
- More on mixed effects models... e.g. reporting models, analogues of Tukey's HSD, etc
- Simplifying terms in models, e.g. by merging levels
- Assumptions made when using covariates to "control" for something
- Signal detection theory
- Relationship between SEM, e.g. using them for latent growth models, and multilevel models
- Loglinear models and other models for categorical data
- Survival Analysis (and complex variants)
- Running simulations
- Causal inference
Koestler Parapsychology Unit
Established in 1985, it consists of academic staff and postgraduate students who teach and research various aspects of parapsychology, including:
- the possible existence of psychic ability
- belief in the paranormal
- the psychology of anomalous experiences
- pseudo-psychic deception and self- deception
- the social and historical relevance of parapsychology.
Uni-Tots Nursery
Running very successfully for over thirty-eight years, the nursery is used to support research and teaching in Psychology at 7 George Square. That is, the children regularly take part (individually or in groups) in 'games' which provide important insights for professional psychologists and students into the development of thinking, language and social behaviour in the pre-school years. However, testing may simply involve non-intrusive observation of the children at play.
Recent publications arising from research in Uni-Tots Nursery
- Ambron, E. McIntosh, R.D. and Della Sala, S. (2010 In Press) Closing-in behaviour in preschool children Cognitive Processing.
- Ambron, E., Della Sala, S. and McIntosh, R.D. (2009) Animal magnetism: evidence for an attraction account of closing-in behaviour in pre-school children Cortex 45: 278-284
- Donaldson, M.L. and Cooper, L.S.M. (2009). Children's production of verb-phrase anaphora in a spoken task. Journal of Child Language, 36, 449-470.
- Donaldson, M.L., Reid, J. and Murray, C. (2007). Causal sentence production in children with language impairments. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. 42 (2), 155-186. (ISSN 1368-2822)
- Nash, M. and Donaldson, M.L. (2005). Word learning in children with vocabulary deficits. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 48, 439-458.
Cognitive Epidemiology Meetings
Colloquia
- MSc in Individual Differences Reading Group
- Cognitive Aging Journal Club
- Genetics and Molecular Medicine Postdoc network (PODS)
- Centre for Molecular Medicine
- Edinburgh Cognitive NeuroImaging Seminars
- Edinburgh Neuroscience Seminars
- Edinburgh Neuroscience meetings
- Edinburgh Neuroscience mailing list
- Wellcome Trust Courses
- Wellcome Trust Seminars
Conferences and Societies
- International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)
- European Association of Personality Psychology Meeting (ECP)
- International Society for Intelligence Research (Journal Intelligence)
- Behavior Genetics Association
Collaborations
The group has strong ongoing collaborations with other groups working on cross-sectional surveys, longitudinal studies to study risk factors and disease progression over time, experimental trials of treatments and technologies, health promotion programs and case studies.
These include:
- Edinburgh Neuroscience
- Medicine
- Public Health
- MRC Human Genetics Unit
- Biological Sciences
- Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research (Tony Payton)
- QIMR (Brisbane Australia)
Other differential groups and Links
Individual Differences Journal Club
This Journal Club is linked to the 4th year Advanced personality courses (part 1 & part 2). In the club, we will cover a broader range of topical and challenging material.
We meet from 2pm - 3pm in room S38 each Friday.
All the material comes from suggestions... so send me your papers!
Our club was inspired by Matt McGue's sonnet to openness and reason at Minnesota :-).
Events for this Journal club will appear in the department events feed, but details and an archive are maintained at the Group wiki.
Epistemology Reading Group
This epistemology reading group meets regularly on Mondays at 5pm in room 1.01 DSB. All inquiries about this group should be directed to Robin McKenna or Kyle Scott. All are welcome. This group forms part of the Epistemology research cluster at Edinburgh.
Reading for 2011-12
In semester 2 our topic is "the aim of inquiry." In semester 1 we read papers from Social Epistemology, edited by Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar and Duncan Pritchard (OUP, 2010).
Previous readings
During the 2010-11 academic year we read Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, (eds.) M. Steup & E. Sosa (Blackwell, 2005), Disagreement, edited by R. Feldman and T. Warfield (Oxford University Press, 2010) and The Philosophy of Philosophy by Timothy Williamson (Blackwell, 2008).
During the 2009-10 academic year we read Jennifer Lackey's Learning from Words (Oxford University Press, 2008), and then Edward Craig's Knowledge and the State of Nature (Oxford University Press, 1991).
During the 2007-08 academic year we read Ernest Sosa's new book, A Virtue Epistemology: Reflective Knowledge and Apt Belief (Oxford University Press, 2007) and, in conjunction with the Ethics research cluster, Ralph Wedgwood's new book, The Nature of Normativity (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Epistemology Research Group
Epistemology is one of the main research clusters in Philosophy at Edinburgh, and as such hosts a number of research activities including this regular research group, which meets (roughly) fortnightly on Wednesday at 3:30pm in the Dugald Stewart Building. All are welcome, including all students (MA, MSc, PhD) and faculty in philosophy.
All inquiries about this group and about the Epistemology @ Edinburgh research cluster in general should be directed to Prof Duncan Pritchard.
Sponsored by:
Ethics Reading Group
Ethics @ Edinburgh is one of the main research clusters in Philosophy and as such hosts a number of research activities including this regular research reading group. All inquiries about this group should be directed to Prof Michael Ridge.
This year the Ethics Reading group will be discussing a manuscript of Michael Ridge's book manuscript, Impassioned Belief (working title). The book defends a "hybrid" form of expressivism Ridge calls "Ecumenical Expressivism." Ecumenical Expressivism is a view according to which normative judgments are constituted by a fusion of belief-like states and desire-like states, but where the belief-like states (which have descriptive contents) do not thereby fix the truth conditions for the claims which express those judgments. Ridge argues that this approach can reap many of the benefits of more "pure" forms of expressivism and steal the thunder from cognitivists but without the costs associated with those views. Ridge also surveys the wide range of hybrid forms of cognitivism that have arisen in the literature recently (there has been something of an explosion of work in this area), and argues that his approach is superior to these alternative hybrid views too. The book will also address broader issues in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind (and moral/normative pscyhology in particular) as well as at the intersection of linguistics and philosophy - the way in which traditionally "normative" predicates and words have non-normative uses, but are not simply brutely ambiguous also figures heavily in the book, and this intersects with another bunch of recent literature on modals and context-sensitivity.
All are in principle welcome, but some background in meta-ethics and/or the philosophy of language/philosophy of mind would be very useful; some of the material will be challenging for those not familiar with any of that literature. Professor Ridge is finishing this book while on AHRC funded research leave and will distribute the chapters via an email list of those taking part as they are ready to circulate. Typically they will be distributed around 2 weeks before the meeting at which they will be discussed.
All meetings for this reading group will be at 2pm - 4pm in room 1.01 of the Dugald Stewart Building. This room only holds 14-16 people maximum, so there will be a cap on how many can participate. Those interested in attending should contact Michael Ridge to see if there are any slots left.
Meeting Schedule
- 23rd March, 2012
- 27th April, 2012
- 11th May, 2012
- 18th May, 2012
Logic and Language Seminar
The Logic and Language Seminar is devoted to logic, the philosophy of logic, and the philosophy of language. The seminar meets Tuesdays at 4pm in DSB 2.01. For more information, contact Joey Pollock.
Reading for 2011-12
In semester 2 we'll be reading papers from Assertion, edited by Jessica Brown and Herman Cappelen (OUP, 2011), which is available through Oxford Scholarship Online. In semester 1 we read John MacFarlane's Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications."
Philosophy of Technology Reading Group
This is a regular reading group which looks at issues in the philosophy of technology. Any inquiries about this group should be directed to its organisor, Eric Kerr.
Contact Philosophy of Technology Reading Group administrator
EPiPHENy: Edinburgh Philosophy/Phenomenology Reading Group
EPiPHENy (Edinburgh Philosophy/Phenomenology reading group) is a graduate-oriented reading group based in the philosophy department of the University of Edinburgh. It aims to increase awareness in the philosophical canon of phenomenology by applying it to contemporary issues in the philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences. In this effort, EPiPHENy seeks to attract both those working in the philosophical and research oriented spheres to analyze and construct clear conceptual connections based on traditional and modern writings on thinkers such as Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Mailing list
To recieve emails about upcoming meetings join the mailing list by emailing majordomo with the text "subscribe epipheny" in the body of the email. Please leave the subject line clear. To unsubscribe at any time email the same address with "unsubscribe epipheny" in the body. Please do not include any other text in the email; these are messages sent to a machine not a human. Alternatively you can email Mog with the subject "subscribe to epipheny". You may write other text in this email if you wish as Mog is a human (vaguely).
In the run-up to the Heidegger and Cognitive Science Workshop (27/10/2010) we will be focussing on texts relevant to the workshop.
Organisers
Contact EPiPHENy: Edinburgh Philosophy/Phenomenology Reading Group administrator
Postgraduate Professional Development & Research Training Seminars
The purpose of these seminars is to provide research and professional support for postgraduates. The content of the seminars is largely determined by demand from the postgraduates themselves. If there are particular topics that you would like these seminars to cover which aren't presently covered, then please contact the organiser of this seminar series, Dr Allan Hazlett. These seminars are usually (but not always) held on Wednesdays, 1-2pm, in room 3.10 of the Dugald Stewart Building. Although the seminars are targeted at Philosophy postgraduates, all are welcome. These seminars are run in conjunction with the Philosophy Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminars. All are welcome; postgraduate students (MSc, PhD) in philosophy are particularly encouraged to attend.
Contact Postgraduate Professional Development & Research Training Seminars administrator
Work In Progress Seminars
These meetings take place in room 3.10 in the Dugald Stewart Building on Wednesdays, 1-2pm. All are welcome. This seminar series is run in conjunction with the Professional Development and Research Training Seminar. If you would like to present a paper as part of the work-in-progress seminar series, then please contact the seminar organiser, Liz Irvine.
Visiting Speaker Philosophy Seminar
The Visiting Speaker Seminar meets during semesters on Fridays, 4pm – 6pm, in Room G.06 of the Dugald Stewart Building, and features talks on all areas of philosophy. For information, or to join the email list for these events, please contact Dr Allan Hazlett. All are welcome, including all students (MA, MSc, PhD) and faculty in philosophy.
Aesthetics Reading Group
Welcome to the Aesthetics Reading Group webpage. The Aesthetics Reading Group is dedicated to reading philosophical texts related to aesthetics. For further information, contact Nicole Hall-Elfick.
Scepticism Reading Group
This group will focus on seminal articles on various topics within the broad area of philosophical scepticism. The aim is to gain some understanding of what contemporary philosophers are saying about scepticism. Why take it seriously? What can we learn from it? How can we meet its challenges? The group meets every second Tuesday at 5pm in room 5.01 DSB. All inquiries about this group should be directed to Cameron Boult. All are welcome. This group forms part of the Epistemology research cluster at Edinburgh.
Psychobabble the Journal
Welcome to Psychobabble the Journal
Psychobabble is a student run psychology journal, providing a forum for students to showcase experiments they have carried out, review books they have read or discuss contested issues within psychology, e.g. Is the multicomponent model the definitive model of working memory? Are women better at multitasking then men? Is psychology politically neutral?
The aim of Psychobabble is to encourage enthusiasm, discussion and debate within in the student community, which we believe is the best way to learn. Psychobabble was first thought up by Kasper Sylvest Munk and John Howard in the first semester of the 2010/11 academic year and with the help of friends and the backing of the Psychology department was made a reality.
Articles are welcome from all undergraduates and postgraduates, if you are interested in contributing an article (800 words or less) or becoming more involved in the running of psychobabble send an email to psychobabble.ed@gmail.com. If you are interested in editing and getting involved in the realization of the future issues of Psychobabble, do not hesitate to get in contact.
Issues:
English Language Research Group Seminars
The ELRG seminar series features a range of activities on a wide range of aspects of the synchronic and diachronic linguistics of English, such as talks by members of the department, discussions of recent articles, informal discussion of work in progress and invited speakers from elsewhere. The Research Group events are normally held every two weeks or so (during semester time, and perhaps on into the early summer) on Friday afternoons at 1pm in the Angus McIntosh room (1.17) in the Dugald Stewart Building. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.
The ELRG is organised by Heinz Giegerich and Rhona Alcorn. If you would like to be added to the ELRG mailing list, which distributes messages about meetings and other matters of interest to members of the Group, email Heinz Giegerich or Rhona Alcorn.
Further Information
Contact English Language Research Group Seminars administrator
Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group
Welcome to the webpage of the Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group, a newly-formed assortment of philosophers (aspiring and established), friends, and academics. Our collective goal is to raise awareness of the many disputes and debacles that currently surround the status of women and minorities in academic philosophy, and to provide support for female faculty and postgraduates. Through a variety of initiatives, we hope to create a space for reflection on the ideology and practice of contemporary philosophy, and to contribute, together with related support networks, to creating an academic culture of intellectual openness and fairness in which all philosophical talent, irrespective of gender, can thrive and flourish, both at Edinburgh and beyond.
Lady Philosophy
From Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy (524 AD)
The following are the specific projects, initiatives, and wider goals we support:
- Increase visibility of female faculty at organisational/management level
- Ensure broader equality in numbers of female speakers at workshops, seminars and conferences
- Encourage recognition of, and student exposure to, internationally acclaimed female philosophers through invitation to named lectures
- Ensure fair representation of women philosophers on syllabi
- Raise awareness of implicit gender-bias
- Provide tutors with skills for ensuring spirit of intellectual fairness in tutorials
- Create an academic culture in which philosophical talent thrives
"Three cheers for the Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group! What a splendid idea, and beautifully timed to catch the rising current of awareness about women in philosophy. I warmly applaud this initiative. Edinburgh is a marvellous place to do philosophy, and you are going to help make it even better for women. I wish I could be there to join your efforts".
Professor Rae Langton, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh from 1999-2004 (a position for which David Hume was turned down in 1755) and the first woman to be appointed Professor of Philosophy in Edinburgh.
If you wish to be kept in the loop about informal meetings, and other relevant notices of interest, or if you wish to raise an issue for discussion or consideration by the group, please subscribe to our mailing list by contacting one of our members (details listed below).
We also warmly welcome new members and friends. In particular, we would like to expand and organise the Group, by establishing an executive committee, in charge of making decisions, and an advisory committee, for the executive committee to consult on certain issues. If you would like to form part of the Group on either capacity, please contact Ana, Liz, Nicole, or Clare.
News:
EWIP Group recognised by SWIP
The Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group has been recognised as a Women-Friendly Initiative for 2011 by the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) UK.
Thanks are due to Ana Barandalla, Nicole Hall-Elfick, Clare MacCumhail, Elizabeth Ellis, and everyone who helped make this possible.
Past events:
30 May 2011, 10:30 - 17:00, Dugald Stewart Building (Room 1.17).
- The Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group hosted a workshop titled "Pornography and Objectification; Aesthetics and the Erotic".
21 January 2011 12:30 - 18:30 Conference Room (Room G.04), David Hume Tower.
- The Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group hosted the EWPG Workshop 2010/11 to explore some of the philosophical issues surrounding the underrepresentation of women in professional philosophy.
19 January 2011 13.00 - 14.00 Professional Development Seminar, Dugald Stewart Building (Room 3.01)
- Roundtable Discussion on "Academia and the Family" to explore and begin to address difficulties for combining philosophical research with having a family.
25 November 2010, 14:30 - 16:00, Room 1.17 DSB. Organisers Liz Ellis and Nicole Hall-Elfick.
- Women in Philosophy "Afternoon Tea" - Andy Clark shared, as an in memoriam to Susan Hurley, Professor Hurley's reflections on issues facing women in philosophy. Holly Branigan offered a picture of how women are doing psychology, which we were able to compare with philosophy and we were offered anecdotes and reflections from Emily Brady and Natalie Gold, as well as reflections on pedagogical approaches from Alasdair Richmond.
3 November 2009, 14:00 - 15:30, Middle Reading Room, Teviot Row House.
- Women in Philosophy Postgraduate Seminar - the purpose of the seminar was to open discussion about the challenges facing women in academic philosophy, featuring contributions from Clare Mac Cumhaill, Elinor Mason, Duncan Pritchard, Pauline Phemister, and Jesper Kallestrup.
Selected useful links:
Discussion blogs
- What’s it like to be a Woman in Philosophy?
- Feminist Philosophers
- Leiter Reports: Issues in the Profession
Dedicated websites
Historical Phonology Reading Group
The Historical Phonology Reading Group brings together a number of researchers from several areas of the university who all have interests in trying to understand phonological change. We meet every few weeks to discuss recent and/or important work in historical phonology (which we define as broadly as we like...). The group is convened by Patrick Honeybone.
Feel free to get in touch if you would like to come.
This is the list of meetings and readings:
- 23rd April 2012, 12 noon, room 1.17, DSB: Garrett, Andrew & Johnson, Keith (to appear) 'Phonetic bias in sound change.' In Yu, A. (ed.) Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 12th March 2012, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Recasens, Daniel (2011) 'Velar and dental stop consonant softening in Romance.' Diachronica 28, 186–224.
- 20th February 2012, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Boersma, Paul & Hamann, Silke (2008) 'The evolution of auditory dispersion in bidirectional constraint grammars.' Phonology 25, 217–270.
- 30th January 2012, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Labov, William (2007) 'Transmission and diffusion'. Language 83, 344-387. [A second read-through, jointly with the Sociolinguistics Reading Group and LEC]
- 12th December 2011, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Kingston, John (2008) 'Lenition'. In Colantoni, L. & Steele, J. (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology. Somerville: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 1-31.
- 28th November 2011, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Steriade, Donca (2001/2009) 'The phonology of perceptibility effects: the P-map and its consequences for constraint organization'. In Hanson, K. & Inkelas, S. (eds.) The nature of the word: Studies in honor of Paul Kiparsky. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- 14th November 2011, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Gess, Randall (2009) 'Reductive sound change and the perception/production interface'. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 54, 229-253.
- 3rd October 2011, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Minkova, Donka (2011) 'Phonemically contrastive fricatives in Old English?'. English Language and Linguistics 15, 31–59.
- 4th May 2011, 2pm, room 1.01, DSB: Hualde, Jose (submitted) 'Sound change'. Manuscript, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- 21st Mar 2011, 1pm, room 1.01, DSB: Marton Soskuthy will present a discussion of simulations, frequency and word-specific effects, after which we'll carry on discussing Pierrehumbert (2002).
- 28th Feb 2011, 1pm, room 1.01, DSB: Pierrehumbert, Janet (2002) 'Word-specific phonetics'. Laboratory Phonology VII. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- 7th Feb 2011, 1pm, room 1.01, DSB: Wedel, Andrew (2006) 'Exemplar models, evolution and language change'. The Linguistic Review 23, 247-274.
- 24th Jan 2011, 1pm, room 1.01, DSB: Blevins, Juliette & Wedel, Andrew (2009) 'Inhibited sound change: An evolutionary approach to lexical competition'. Diachronica 26, 143-183.
- 6th Dec 2010, 1pm, room 1.01, DSB: Boberg, Charles (2009) 'The emergence of a new phoneme: Foreign (a) in Canadian English'. Language Variation and Change 21, 355–380.
- 8th Nov 2010, 1pm, room 1.01, DSB: Hamann, Silke (2009) 'The learner of a perception grammar as a source of sound change'. In Boersma, P. & Hamann, S. (eds.) Phonology in Perception. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- 11th Oct 2010, 1pm, room 1.01, DSB: Albright, Adam (2008) 'Explaining Universal Tendencies and Language Particulars in Analogical Change'. In Good, J. (ed.) Linguistic Universals and Language Change. Oxford: OUP.
- 6th Jul 2010, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Andersen, Henning (1973) 'Abductive and Deductive Change'. Language 49, 765-793.
...AND - if you're really keen - a much later reply to some of its claims...
Deutscher, Guy (2002) 'On the Misuse of the Notion of 'Abduction' in Linguistics'. Journal of Linguistics 38, 469-485. - 19th Apr 2010, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: De Schryver, Johan, Neijt, Anneke, Ghesquiere, Pol & Ernestus, Mirjam (2008) 'Analogy, Frequency, and Sound Change: the Case of Dutch Devoicing'. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 20, 159–195.
- 15th Mar 2010, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Joseph, Brian (2006) 'On Projecting Variation Back into a Proto-Language, with Particular Attention to Germanic Evidence'. In Cravens, T. (ed.) Variation and Reconstruction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 103-118.
- 1st Mar 2010, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Smith, Bridget (2007) 'Dental fricatives and stops in Germanic: deriving diachronic processes from synchronic variation'. To appear in the proceedings of the 2007 ICHL.
- 11th Dec 2009, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Maddieson, Ian (2009) 'Phonology, naturalness and universals'. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 45, 131–140.
- 30th Nov 2009, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Buckley, Eugene (2000) 'On the naturalness of unnatural rules'. UCSB Working Papers in Linguistics 9.
...AND - if you're really keen...
Buckley, Eugene (2003) 'Children's unnatural phonology'. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 29, 523-534. - 16th Nov 2009, 1pm, room 1.01, DSB: Scheer, Tobias (2009) 'Crazy rules, Regularity and naturalness in diachronic and synchronic segmental and syllabic phonology'. Ms: University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and CNRS.
- 2nd Nov 2009, 1pm, room 1.01, DSB: de Lacy, Paul & Kingston, John (2006) 'Synchronic explanation'. Ms: Rutgers University and University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- 24th Sep 2009, 4pm, room 1.17, DSB: Hansson, Gunnar Ólafur (2008) 'Diachronic Explanations of Sound Patterns'. Language and Linguistics Compass 2/5: 859–893.
- 1st May 2009, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Kerswill, Paul (1996) 'Children, adolescents and language change'. Language Variation and Change 8: 177-202.
- 6th Mar 2009, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Hall, Nancy (2007) 'R-Dissimilation in English'. Ms, California State University, Long Beach.
- 20th Feb 2009, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Moreton, Elliott (2008) 'Analytic bias and phonological typology'. Phonology 25, 83-127.
- 30th Jan 2009, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Blust, Robert (2005) 'Must sound change be linguistically motivated?' Diachronica 22, 219-69.
- 12th Dec 2008, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Boersma, Paul (2003) 'The odds of eternal optimization in Optimality Theory'. In Holt, D. Eric (ed.) Optimality Theory and Language Change. Dordrecht: Kluwer. 31-65.
- 14th Nov 2008, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Bauer, Laurie (2008) 'Lenition revisited'. Journal of Linguistics 44, 605-624.
- 24th Oct 2008, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Moreton, Elliott & Thomas, Erik R. (2007) 'Origins of Canadian Raising in voiceless-coda effects: a case study in phonologization'. In Cole, J. & Hualde, J. (eds.) Laboratory Phonology 9. Berlin: Mouton. 37-64.
- 10th Oct 2008, 1pm, room 1.17, DSB: Janda, Richard D. & Joseph, Brian D. (2003) 'Reconsidering the canons of sound change: towards a Big Bang Theory'. In Blake, B. and Burridge, K. (eds.) Historical Linguistics 2001. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 205-219.
- 7th Mar 2008, 1pm, room 1.01, 14 BP: Chambers, Jack (1992) 'Dialect Acquisition'. Language 68: 673-705
- 22nd Feb 2008, 1pm, room 1.01, 14 BP: Labov, William (2007) 'Transmission and diffusion'. Language 83, 344-387.
- 18th Jan 2008, 1pm, room 1.01, 14 BP: Sankoff, G. & Blondeau, H. (2007) 'Language change across the lifespan: /r/ in Montreal French'. Language 83, 560-588.
- 7th Dec 2007, 2.30pm, room 1.01, 14 BP: Ohala, J. J. (1992) 'What's cognitive, what's not, in sound change'. In Kellermann, G. & Morrissey, M. (eds.) Diachrony within Synchrony: Language History and Cognition. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 309-355.
- 23rd Nov 2007, 1pm, room 1.01, 14 BP: Lehmann, Winfred (1999) 'The structural approach of Jacob Grimm and his contemporaries'. Journal of Indo-European Studies 27, 1-13.
...AND...
Stankiewicz, Edward (1987) 'Baudouin de Courtenay: pioneer in diachronic linguistics'. In Aarsleff, H., Kelly, L. & Niederehe, H.-J. (eds) Papers in the History of Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 539-549. - 19th Oct 2007, 1pm, room 1.01, 14 BP: Blevins, Juliette (2006) 'New perspectives on English sound patterns: "unnatural" and "natural" in Evolutionary Phonology'. Journal of English Linguistics 34, 6-25.
- 5th Oct 2007, 1pm, room 1.01, 14BP: Minkova, Donka & Stockwell, Robert (2003) 'English vowel shifts and "optimal" diphthongs: is there a logical link?' In: Holt, D. Eric (ed) Optimality Theory and Language Change. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
- 18th May 2007, 1pm, room 1.01, 14BP: Phillips, Betty (1998) 'Lexical diffusion is not lexical analogy'. Word 49, 369-380.
...AND...
Krishnamurti, Bh. (1998) 'Regularity of sound change through lexical diffusion. A study of s > h > Ø in Gondi Dialects.' Language Variation and Change 10, 193-220. - 2nd Mar 2007, 1pm, room 1.01, 14BP: Page, B. Richard (2006) 'The diachrony and synchrony of vowel quantity in English and Dutch.' Diachronica 23, 61-104.
- 9th Feb 2007, 1pm, room 1.01, 14BP: Foulkes, Paul & Docherty, Gerard (2006) 'The social life of phonetics and phonology'. Journal of Phonetics 34, 409-438.
...AND...
Labov, William (2006) 'A sociolinguistic perspective on sociophonetic research'. Journal of Phonetics 34, 500-515.
...AND (if you can make it through all three)...
Pierrehumbert, Janet (2006) 'The next toolkit'. Journal of Phonetics 34, 516-530. - 1st Dec 2006, 1pm, room 1.01, 14BP: Iverson, Gregory & Salmons, Joseph (2003) 'The ingenerate motivation of sound change'. In Hickey, R. (ed.) Motives for Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 199-212.
...AND...
Iverson, Gregory & Salmons, Joseph (2005) 'Filling the gap: English tense vowel plus final /S/'. Journal of English Linguistics 33, 1-15. - 10th Nov 2006, 1pm, room 1.01, 14BP: Anttila, Arto (2002) 'Variation and Phonological Theory'. In Chambers, J., Trudgill, P. & Schilling-Estes, N. (eds.), Handbook of Language Variation and Change. Oxford & Malden, MA: Blackwell.
...AND...
Anttila, Arto & Cho, Young-mee Yu (1998) 'Variation and Change in Optimality Theory'. Lingua 104, 31-56. - 20th Oct 2006, 1pm, room 1.01, 14BP: Scheer, Tobias (2004) 'How minimal is phonological change?' Folia Linguistica Historica 25, 69-114.
- 6th Oct 2006, 1pm, room 1.01, 14BP: Bybee, Joan (2002) 'Word frequency and context of use in the lexical diffusion of phonetically conditioned sound change'. Language Variation and Change 14, 261-290.
...AND...
sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 of...
Bybee, Joan (2003) 'Mechanisms of change as universals of language'. In Mairal, R. & Gil, J. (eds.) En Torno a Los Universales Linguisticos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 245-263. - 23rd Jun 2006, 3pm, room 1.01, 14BP: Haspelmath, Martin (2006) 'Against markedness (and what to replace it with)'. Journal of Linguistics 42, 25-70.
- 5th May 2006, 1pm, room 1.24, 14BP: Kiparsky, Paul (2004) Universals constrain change, change results in typological generalizations. Ms, Stanford University.
- 17 Mar 2006, 3pm, room 1.24, 14BP: Bermudez-Otero, Ricardo (forthcoming 2006) 'Diachronic phonology'. In de Lacy, P. (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. Cambridge: CUP.
...AND...
Bermudez-Otero, Ricardo (2006) 'Phonological change in Optimality Theory'. In Brown, K. (ed.), Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2nd edn, vol. 9, 497-505. Oxford: Elsevier. - 3 Mar 2006, 1pm, room 1.01, 14BP: Blevins, Juliette (2004) Evolutionary Phonology. CUP. Chapters 9 and 10.
- 16 Feb 2006, 2pm, room 1.24, 14BP: Blevins, Juliette (2004) Evolutionary Phonology. CUP. Chapters 4 and 8.
- 25 Jan 2006, 4pm, room 1.02, 14BP: Blevins, Juliette (2004) Evolutionary Phonology. CUP. Chapters 1 and 3.
- 7 Dec 2005, 4pm, room 1.02, 14BP: Hale, Mark (2003) 'Neogrammarian Sound Change' In Joseph, B. & Janda, R. (eds) 'The Handbook of Historical Linguistics'. Oxford & Malden, MA: Blackwell.
- 23 Nov 2005, 4pm, room 1.02, 14BP: Kiparsky, Paul (1995/2003) 'The Phonological Basis of Sound Change' In Joseph, B. & Janda, R. (eds) 'The Handbook of Historical Linguistics'. Oxford & Malden, MA: Blackwell.
- 19 Oct 2005, 4pm, room 1.02, 14BP: Janda, Richard (2003) '"Phonologization" as the Start of Dephoneticization - Or, On Sound Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization.' In Joseph, B. & Janda, R. (eds) 'The Handbook of Historical Linguistics'. Oxford & Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Human Cognitive Neuroscience Seminars
These seminars take place in room B21 in the Psychology Building, 7 George Square. Unless otherwise stated, they are all on Fridays, at 4pm.
For further information, or if you would like to join the e-mail list for these seminars, please e-mail Maria Garraffa.
Other relevant seminars:
Edinburgh Cognitive Neuroimaging Seminars
Edinburgh Neuroscience Seminars
Hume Reading Group
David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, ed. David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton, student edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Meetings will be held in the Dugald Stewart Building - room G.06 for the first meeting, room 3.10 all other meetings - from 11.00am – 12.30pm on the dates listed below. All welcome.
Reading Schedule (number of pages in brackets):
- 24 May (Room G.06): Introduction and 1.1 (19)
- 7 June (Room 3.10): 1.2 (26)
- 8 June: 1.3.1-6 (15)
- 9 June: 1.3.7-13 (39)
- 14 June: 1.3.14-16 (15)
- 15 June: 1.4.1-4 (31)
- 16 June: 1.4.5-7 (26)
- 28 June: 2.1 (32)
- 29 June: 2.2 (42)
- 30 June: 2.3 (33)
- 12 July: 3.1 (13)
- 13 July: 3.2 (59)
- 14 July: 3.3 (28)
On hand to help us in reading Hume’s Treatise will be Hume experts:
- Dr Peter Millican (Illumni David Hume Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh)
- Professor Don Garrett (Carnegie Centenary Professor, University of Edinburgh)
For more information, email Ashley Taylor.
Hume Tercentenary Events at the University of Edinburgh
Linguistic Circle
Unless otherwise stated below, talks are on a Thursday at 4.00 p.m. in Room 1.17, Dugald Stewart Building.
Students and staff in Linguistics and English Language are automatically included on the email list. For non-members of the department, to subscribe to the Linguistic Circle email list, and receive notices and abstracts of talks, send an email to: Majordomo with the following single-line message (not in the subject header): subscribe lingcirc (To remove yourself from the list send unsubscribe lingcirc to the same address.) You can also subscribe to the Google Calender.
The P-workshop (The Phonetics/Phonology Workshop)
The Phonetics/Phonology Workshop meets on Thursday at 1:00, in room 1.17 (the Angus McIntosh Room) of the Dugald Stewart Building.
The programme consists of talks, seminars and discussions on subjects relating to phonetics, phonology and speech technology.
If you would like to give a talk, suggest a reading, or lead a session we would love to hear from you: write to M DOT Soskuthy AT sms DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk.
Older P-workshops
- Semester 2, 2010-11
- Semester 1, 2010-11
- Semester 2, 2009-10
- Semester 1, 2009-10
- Semester 2, 2008-9
- Semester 1, 2008-9
- Semester 2, 2007-8
- Semester 1, 2007-8
- Jan 2006 - Jul 2007
- Before Dec 2005
P-workshop Mailing List
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Contact The P-workshop (The Phonetics/Phonology Workshop) administrator
PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group
What is PPIG?
PPIG stands for the Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group. We are a group of researchers from diverse backgrounds in the above-mentioned groups (and beyond) who aim to gain an interdisciplinary yet deep understanding of the threads that bind the human mind and the world. Please come along!
Where do we meet?
Unless stopped by natural disasters or scheduling difficulties, we meet in room B21, Psychology Building, 7 George Square at 4.30 pm every other Wednesday.
Can I be on the mailing list and send mails to the list?
Yes, you can. Just go to mailing list.
Contacts:
Further information
Contact PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group administrator
Ancient Epistemology Reading Group
The Ancient Epistemology Reading Group provides the opportunity for multi-disciplinary discussion across Epistemology, virtue ethics, Ancient Philosophy and History of Philosophy. The group brings together Ancient Philosophers and Epistemologists in Philosophy@Edinburgh which excels in both areas.
The Ancient Epistemology Reading Group meets regularly on Tuesdays at 4.30pm - 6.00pm in room 1.01 of the Dugald Stewart Building.
If you want to know more about what Plato and Aristotle and other Ancients have to say on (virtue) epistemology COME ALONG! Staff and students are very welcome.
Sociolinguistics Reading Group
The Sociolinguistics Reading Group is open to anyone at the university who is interested in variationist sociolinguistics. We meet for an hour every week or so to discuss recent and/or important articles in sociolinguistics. Everyone from Honours-level undergraduates to Staff are welcome, although it is expected that all group members will have already completed at least "Introduction to Sociolinguistics", or its equivalent, so that the discussion can remain most useful for the core members of the group (current PhD students).
Feel free to get in touch if you would like to come.
Further Information
PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
The PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar is dedicated to speakers of international calibre who are of interest to at least two of the three departments that constitute the school. It meets irregularly between 3-6 times a year. It is common practice at the seminar that the talks are followed by short commentaries by members of PPLS faculty (and sometimes guest commentaries from other schools).
Further Information
Meta-Reading Group
The Meta-reading group (or meta-group) is a reading group concerned with meta-philosophical topics, such as meta-ethics, meta-epistemology, meta-metaphysics, meta-philosophy of language, etc. The group likes to read the most recent works on such topics (sometimes even work still in progress). Everyone is welcome. All inquiries about this group should be directed to Sebastian Köhler or Robin McKenna. The group meets regularly on Thursdays 4.30 pm in DSB 1.01.
Reading for 2011-12
In semester 2 we will read Allan Gibbard's book (still in progress) Thoughts and Oughts, which is concerned with meta-questions regarding the philosophy of language. In the first semester we read John MacFarlane's book (still in progress) Assessment Relativity: Relative Truth and its Applications.
Previous readings
The Meta-group was founded in the academic year 2010-11. We started the reading group with reading Terence Cuneo's meta-epistemological book The Normative Web (Oxford University Press, 2007) in the first semester. We read selected papers on meta-metaphysics from the collection Metametaphysics, (eds.) D.J. Chalmers, D. Manley & R. Wasserman (Oxford University Press 2009) in the second semester.
Philosophy and Neuroscience Reading Group
Recent developments in neuroscience has had a relevant impact on philosophy. A case in point was the book Neurophilosophy by Patricia Churchland. This work mainly deals with what neuroscience can offer to philosophers; however, the opposite direction (what philosophy can say about neuroscience or can offer to neuroscientists) is also important. In this reading group we may consider this general level about the relationship between philosophy and neuroscience; for example, questions such as whether a philosophical problem can be solved or settled (neuro)scientifically and how philosophy can use empirical research. On the other hand, we might consider particular problems, such as 'qualia'. Finally, there is also an interesting philosophical insight into the role of neuroscience in contemporary culture and society.
All inquiries about this group should be directed to Alfredo Martinez.
Readings for 2011-12
In the first meeting we discussed The philosophical foundation of neuroscience by Bennet and Hacker (2003). There is a shorter version with replies from Searle and Dennett: Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind and Language (2007). We focused on the review by Paul Churchland.
The second meeting was devoted to the paper Are neural correlates of consciousness? by A. Noë.
Contact Philosophy and Neuroscience Reading Group administrator
Reading Group on LVC and Statistics
The Reading Group on LVC (Language Variation and Change) and Statistics is open to anyone at the university who is interested in quantitative methods and linguistic variation. We meet for an hour every other week to discuss recent and/or important articles in LVC, particularly with respect to statistical methods. Participants from Honours-level undergraduates and higher are welcome, although it is expected that all group members will be engaged in their own empirical research projects.
Feel free to get in touch if you would like to come.