The Graduate Center, City University of New York - Philosophy

13th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference


Hosted by the Graduate Center Philosophy Program and
the Graduate Center Doctoral Students Council

365 Fifth Ave. New York, NY

Date: April 16 & 17, 2010

Keynote Speakers:

James Pryor (NYU) and Samuel Scheffler (NYU)

Schedule

Friday, April 17, 2009
Breakfast
9:15 am - 10:00 am
Philosophy Dept.
Room 7113
Breakfast will be served.

10:00 am - 11:15 am

Rm 5409 "Intentionality and the Knobe Effect"
Corey McGrath, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Commentator: Wesley Buckwalter
Rm 5414 "Conscience or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Be an Externalist"
Ian Blaustein, Boston University
Commentator: Kyle Ferguson
11:30 am - 12:45 pm Rm 5409 "Kant on Duty in the Groundwork"
Ben Ferguson, London School of Economics
Commentator: Jihwan Yu
Rm 5414

"Everett’s Linguistic Criticism of Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts"
David Spewak, University of California at Santa Barbara
Commentator: Daniel Harris

Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Philosophy Dept.
Room 7113
Lunch will be served.
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm Rm 5409 "Are Phenomenal Properties Vague?"
Miguel Angel Sebastian, Universitat de Barcelona
Commentator: Daniel Shargel
Rm 5414 "Plato on Popular Entertainment and the Psyche"
Sarah Jansen, University of California Los Angeles
Commentator: Laura di Summa
Keynote
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Room C198 "Hypothetical Oughts"
James Pryor, New York University
Saturday April 18th 2009
Breakfast
9:15 am - 10:00 am
Philosophy Dept.
Room 7113
Breakfast will be served.
10:00 am - 11:15 am Rm 5409 "Getting ‘Lucky’ with Gettier"
Ian M. Church, Universities of St. Andrews and Stirling
Commentator: Cosim Sayid
Rm 5414 "Hybrid Expressivism, Slurs, and Jerks"
Ryan Hay, University of Southern California
Commentator: Ian Olasov
11:30 am - 12:45 pm Rm 5409 Kantian Constructivism and Self-Legislation
Nathaniel Jezzi, Cornell University
Commentator: Joshua Livingston
Chair: Gina Campelia
Rm 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.
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm Rm 5409 "The Senses of First Person Authority"
Matthew Parrott, University of California, Berkley
Commentator: Jennifer Corns
Rm 5414 "Epistemic Luck and Necessary Truths"
James Collin, University of Edinburgh
Commentator: Jean-­-David Lafrance
Keynote
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Room 9204/5/6 "The Good of Toleration"
Samuel Scheffler, New York University

View the schedule for last year's 12th Annual CUNY Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
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