CSMN/Arché Graduate Conference 2009

Time and place:  Nov 7, 2009 09:00 AM - Nov 8, 2009 05:00 PM, Arhé, University of St Andrews

CSMN and Arché (AHRC Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology) are pleased to announce the sixth in a series of graduate conferences aimed at showcasing international graduate work in contemporary analytic philosophy within the areas: Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Methodology, Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action/Rationality and Moral Philosophy.

Conference programme

Venue: Edgecliffe, St Andrews.

Saturday, 7 November

• 9:15-9:45 Registration & Coffee
• 9:45–11:30 Truth and Meaning Redux, Professor Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University)
• 11:35–12:50 Saving Ordinary Counterfactuals, - Daniel Berntson (Brown University)
  Respondent: Guðmundur Andri Hjálmarsson (Arché/St Andrews)
• 12:50–14:00 Lunch
• 14:00–15:15 The Problem of the Basing Relation, Ian Evans (University of Arizona)
  Respondent: Dylan Dodd (Arche/St Andrews)
• 15:20–16:35 Experimental Philosophy and Self-Defeat, Amia Srinivasan (Oxford University)
  Respondent: Yuri Cath (Arché/St Andrews)
• 16:35–17:00 Coffee Break
• 17:00–18:15 Self-Deception, Other-Deception, and the Role of Intention: Toward an Intentionalist Account of Self-Deception, Amber Griffioen (University of Iowa)
  Respondent: Olav Gjelsvik (CSMN/Oslo)
• 20:00 Conference Dinner (The Byre Theatre)

Sunday, 8 November

• 10:00-10:30 Coffee
• 10:30–11:45 Explaining the Abstract/Concrete Paradoxes in Moral Psychology, Eric Mandelbaum (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Dave Ripley (UNC-Chapel Hill and ENS-Institut Jean-Nicod)
  Respondent: Timothy Chan (CSMN/Oslo)
• 11:50–13:05 Indefinite Divisibility, Jeff Russell (New York University)
  Respondent: Einar Duenger Bohn (CSMN/Oslo)
• 13:05–14:15 Lunch
• 14:15–16:00 The Perception of First-Person Causation, Professor Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)

For abstracts please visit Arché's web page