The Saul Kripke Center Presents

A Conference on Saul Kripke’s Philosophical Troubles

September 15-16, 2011, CUNY Graduate Center



Thursday, September 15, Concourse Level C201/C202/C203/C204

9:15 - 9:45 Coffee and Doughnuts
9:45 - 10 Opening Remarks Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor, CUNY




Session I: Sense, Reference and the First Person Stephen Neale, CUNY Graduate Center, Chair
10:00 - 11:30 “The First Person, the Self, and Consciousness” Christopher Peacocke, Columbia
11:30 - 11:45
Coffee Break
11:45 - 1:15 “Kripke on Frege on Sense and Reference” David Chalmers, ANU/NYU
1:15 - 2:45    
Lunch Break* *Please note that the 8th floor cafeteria is not available for lunch Thursday or Friday.




Session II: Kripke on Knowledge and Dogmatism Nathan Salmon, UCSB/CUNY Graduate Center, Chair
2:45 - 4:15 “Knowledge and Conditionals: Theories, Pictures, and Explanations”
Keith DeRose, Yale
4:15 - 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 - 6 “Knowledge and Time: Kripke's Dogmatism Paradox and Related Themes” Ernest Sosa, Rutgers



6 - 7
Wine and Cheese




Friday, September 16, Elebash Recital Hall

9:30 - 10 Coffee and Doughnuts




Session III: Kripke on Fictional Entities Gary Ostertag, The Saul Kripke Center, Chair
10:00 - 11:30 “Bandersnatches in Dubuque” Stephen Yablo, MIT
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 1:15 “Pretending Propositions and Positing Operators”
Elisabeth Camp, UPenn



1:15 - 3:00 Lunch Break* *Please note that the 8th floor cafeteria is not available for lunch Thursday or Friday.




Session IV: A Puzzle about Time and Thought Michael Devitt, CUNY Graduate Center, Chair
3 - 5 Panel Discussion
Karen Bennett, Cornell; Phillip Bricker, UMass Amherst;
Mircea Dumitru, Bucharest; Graham Priest, CUNY Graduate Center

Saul Kripke, CUNY Graduate Center, Respondent



5 - 6
Wine and Cheese