Admission is free.  All are welcome.
 
  9:30am
                Light Breakfast
  10:00am
            (1)
                Anjan Chakravatty (University of Cambridge)
                What Structural Realism Can, and Cannot be
                Comment: Eric Hetherington
            (2)
                Liam Dempsey (University of Western Ontario)
                Mind-Body Identity: Tonic for the Epiphonic
                Comment: Doug Meehan
  11:30am
            (1)
                Uriah Kriegel (Brown University)
                Representationism and Peacocke's Challenge
                Comment: Josh Weisberg
            (2)
                Jean-Paul Vessel (University of Massachusetts – Amherst)
                Counterfactuals for Consequentialists
                Comment: James Hitt
  1:00pm
                Lunch
  2:00pm
            (1)
                Elisabetta Lalumera (University of Bologna)
                Who’s Afraid of the Pet Fish? Fodor on Compositionality and                 Recognitional Concepts
                Comment: Jared Blank
            (2)
                Itay Shani (University of Western Ontario)
                Back to Neptune: or how to be Consistent about Causal Theories of                 Reference
                Comment: Carrie Figdor
  3:30pm
                Keynote Speaker – Paul Horwich (CUNY Graduate Center)
                Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophical Development
 

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The students of the CUNY Graduate School Ph.D. Program in Philosophy invite you to attend the third annual graduate philosophy conference.  Below you will find a tentative schedule of events.  A total of eight papers will be presented throughout the day.  Admission is free.  All are welcome.  Please join us.

Coffee: 9:30am

Session 1: 10:15am-11:40am

(A)    "Levels and Scientific Explanation" William Seeley (CUNY)

(B)    "Reduction, Benecerraf and Numbers" Russell Marcus (CUNY)

Session 2:  11:45am-1:05pm

(A)    "Prudence and Dissociation from the Present", Stephanie Beardman (Rutgers)

(B)    "On Skolem's Paradox and Brains in a Vat", Timothy Chambers (Brown)

Lunch: 1:10pm-2:00pm

Session 3:  2:00pm-3:25pm

(A)    "Against Davidson's View of Mental Content", Bob Jones (California State/Los Angeles)

(B)    "How to be a Friendly Consequentialist", Candace Upton (University of Nebraska)

(C)    "Neo-Hegelianism in Recent Analytic Philosophy", Dan Dwyer (Catholic University)

Session 4:  3:30pm-5:00pm

        Keynote Speaker: Simon Blackburn (UNC Chapel Hill) "Objectivity and Truth: Root for It"

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The students of the CUNY Graduate School Ph.D. Program in Philosophy invite you to attend the second annual graduate philosophy conference.  Below you will find a tentative schedule of events.  A total of seven papers, with comments, will be presented throughout the day.  Admission is free.  All are welcome.  Please join us.

Session 1: 10:00am-11:25am

(A)    "Reducing the Jerrymander: Anti-anti-reductionism in Biology and Psychology", Josh Weisberg (CUNY)
          Comment: TBA

(B)    "Character and Moral Luck", James Mahon (Duke)
          Comment: Mark Sheehan (CUNY)

Session 2:  11:30am-12:55pm

(A)    "Belief-Independent Processes and the Generality Problem for Reliabilist          Epistemology", Mark McEvoy (CUNY)
          Comment: Chris Araujo (CUNY)

(B)    "Egoism and the Publicity of Reason: A Reply to Korsgaard", Michael Cholbi          (University of Virginia)
          Comment: TBA

Lunch:  1:00pm-2:00pm

Session 3:  2:00pm-3:25pm

(A)    "Realism, Projectibility, and Mental Properties", Bill Seeley (CUNY)
          Comment:  Jim Hitt (CUNY)

(B)    "What is Said and What is not", Patrick Hawley (MIT)
          Comment: Roblin Meeks (CUNY)

Session 4:  3:30pm-4:55pm

        "Rehabilitating Inconceivability as a Guide to Impossibility", Peter Murphy          (University of Nebraska)
        Comment: Rick Repetti (CUNY)

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