| Friday, April 17, 2009 |
Breakfast
9:15 am - 10:00 am |
Philosophy Dept.
Room 7113 |
Breakfast will be served. |
Session 1
10:00 am - 11:15 am |
Room 5409 |
Generalizing Soames’ Argument Against Rigidified Descriptivism
Bryan Pickel, University of Texas at Austin
Commentator: Kyle Ferguson
Chair: Thomas Ferguson |
| Room 5414 |
Mean Sensibles and Hearing Loss: Change and Perception in Aristotle
Alain Ducharme, University of Western Ontario
Commentator: Rosemary Twomey
Chair: Karla Rodriguez |
Session 2
11:30 am - 12:45 pm |
Room 5409 |
Actuality, Relativism and the Open Future
Roberto Loss, University of Nottingham
Commentator: Daniel Harris
Chair: Jared Blank |
| Room 5414 |
Consequence Fallacy, Defeasible Justification and Entitlement
Daniele Sgaravatti, University of St. Andrews
Commentator: Mark Robertson
Chair: Lily Frank |
Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm |
Philosophy Dept.
Room 7113 |
Lunch will be served. |
Session 3
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Room 5409 |
Not Another Essay on Modularity of Mind: On the Possibility of Modular Central Systems
Sheldon Chow, University of Western Ontario
Commentator: Myrto Mylopoulos
Chair: Daniel Shargel |
| Room 5414 |
The Paradox of Confirmation Generalized
Justin Dallmann, University of Manitoba
Commentator: Jean-David Lafrance
Chair: Ian Olasov |
Keynote
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
Room 9204/5/6 |
On Blameworthiness for not Believing the Moral Truth
Elizabeth Harman, Princeton University |
Dinner
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm |
TBA |
Dinner at a restaurant near the Graduate Center. |
| Saturday April 18th 2009 |
Breakfast
9:15 am - 10:00 am |
Philosophy Dept.
Room 7113 |
Breakfast will be served. |
Session 1
10:00 am - 11:15 am |
Room 5409 |
Essence and Potentiality
Barbara Vetter, University of Oxford
Commentator: Mark Alfano
Chair: James Green |
| Room 5414 |
Nietzsche’s Reconception of Science: Overcoming Nihilism
Justin Remhof, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Commentators: Katherine Mendis and Benjamin Abelson
Chair: Rachel Balik |
Session 2
11:30 am - 12:45 pm |
Room 5409 |
Kantian Constructivism and Self-Legislation
Nathaniel Jezzi, Cornell University
Commentator: Joshua Livingston
Chair: Gina Campelia |
| Room 5414 |
The Epistemology of Embodied Action: A Lesson from Neuropsychology
Andreas Elpidorou, Boston University
Commentator: Michal Klincewicz
Chair: Alex Kiefer |
Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm |
Philosophy Dept.
Room 7113 |
Lunch will be served. |
Session 3
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Room 5409 |
Folk Intuitions Matter: On Virtue and Human Well-Being
Matthew Braddock, Duke University
Commentator: Chris AlenSula
Chair: Tudor Protopopescu |
| Room 5414 |
‘It’s raining.’ Unarticulated Constituents Reconsidered
Markus Kneer, Princeton University
Commentators: Jennifer Corns and Oliver Marshall
Chair: Daniel Harris |
Keynote
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
Room 9204/5/6 |
The Metaphysics of Fundamentality
Ted Sider, New York University |
Dinner
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm |
TBA |
Dinner at a restaurant near the Graduate Center. |
