7.00pm by the Spooky Grave, then walk to Seaton Park BBQ area.

Bring your own food and drink, fire will be provided!

Here’s your chance to show Christine and all the old committee your appreciation for the fine job they’ve done all year.

7.00pm at the Spooky Grave outside Kings College or 7.30 at the  Prince of Wales

Come for beers with Christine Fears!

7pm, NK6

Due to last week’s little email disaster, we’ll be watching Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry this week rather than last week. It should highlight some of the points which Bob Plant rose in his talk.

7pm, NK6

We’ll be holding the elections for next years committee. Could anybody who is standnig for a position please attend, and as many of the old committee as possible.

Then back to my place for drinks, which will give you an opportunity to talk to ex-committee members about what you’ve let youselves in for…

Bring a bottle!

7pm, NK1

Bob Plant will be doing some Woody Allen based philosophising in a talk entitled ‘Absurdity, Laughter and the Meaning of Life’.

Also, we have a Woody Allen short story about intellectual prostitution to get your brain juices stimulated at: http://woodyallenitalia.tripod.com/short-uk.html

 7pm, NK6

Our first Woody Allen event will be  a screening of Deconstructing Harry. I’ve not seen this one, so heres a link to tell you all about it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118954/

Tickets for the Joint Societies Ball are now on sale.

It will take place at the Copthorne Hotel on the 3rd of May, and tickets are be either £25.00 for the dinner and dance, or £7.50 for the ceilidh alone.

Buy tickets from our regular meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays, or drop Vanessa an email at u07vs5@abdn.ac.uk to organize to buy some.

7.30 pm at the Prince of Wales, 7pm at the spooky grave outside Kings College to walk in.

This pub night will twin up as a sort of unofficial elections/Torcher Parade meeting.

Our theme for Torcher will be ‘Greek Gods and Godesses’, so consider what you’d like to be and bring along creative ideas for the float.

Also, we’ll decide when the elections will be and who wants to stand for what, so a last chance to decide whether you want a job on the committee next year.

7pm in NK1

Gerry Hough will talking for us on Putnam’s twin earth thought experiment and its relevance for the semantics of natural kind terms (terms which pick out particular kinds of thing in nature - species, chemical substances, etc.).

If that sounds scary then don’t panic! there’s some reading at: http://www.jstor.org/action/showArticle?doi=10.2307/2025079&Search=yes&term=putnam+&term=meaning&term=reference&item=1&returnArticleService=showArticle&ttl=1&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3Dputnam%26f0%3Dau%26c0%3DAND%26q1%3Dmeaning%2Band%2Breference%26f1%3Dti%26c1%3DAND%26q2%3D%26f2%3Dall%26c2%3DAND%26q3%3D%26f3%3Dall%26sd%3D1973%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26jo%3Djournal%2Bof%2Bphilosophy%26dc.Philosophy%3DPhilosophy%26Search%3DSearch

What a long link. It should take you to Hilary Putnam’s ‘Meaning and Reference’ in The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 70, No. 19, Seventieth Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (Nov. 8, 1973), pp. 699-711.

Glasgow University Philosophy Society have invited Aberdonian undergraduate philosophers to attend and contribute to the first Scottish Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, the theme of which will be ‘Ethics, Politics and Social Values in the 21st Century‘.

The conference will be held on on the 13th-14th June, and if you wish to submit a paper, it should focus on moral and political philosophy.

For more information:

http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/thephilosophysociety/conference/