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Date: April 17 & 18, 2009

Keynote Speakers:

Elizabeth Harman, Princeton University (April 17)

Ted Sider, New York University (April 18)


Philosophy Program (7th Floor)
Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10016

 

12th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference

Hosted by the Philosophy Program of the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Schedule

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.

 

 

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