The Seventh Annual Brown Graduate Philosophy Conference

Since I seem to have stopped updating the events page, I’ll post things to the blog when they come up. In particular, everyone in the area should know about:

February 21st and 22nd, 2003


Keynote Speaker: Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University


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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21


3:00 – 4:20
“Thau on Qualia and Representational Content”
James John, MIT
Commentator: Matt Konig

4:30 – 5:50
“Apt Affect: Moral Concept Mastery and the Phenomenology of Emotions”
Elisa Hurley, Georgetown University
Commentator: Josh Bliss

6:00 – 7:20
“Second Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties”
Andy Egan, MIT
Commentator: Alyssa Ney

8:00
Dinner

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22

 

9:30
Breakfast (at the Philosophy department)

10:00 – 11:20
“We’re All Epistemic Deontologists Now”
Nathan Nobis, University of Rochester
Commentator: Christopher Kane

11:30 – 12:50
“Property Dualism, Mental Causation, and Counterfactuals”
Kelly Trogdon, UC-Irvine
Commentator: E.J. Coffman, Notre Dame


1:00
Lunch


2:30 – 3:50
“The Schizophrenia of Optimific Ethical Theories”
Ian Stoner, University of New Mexico
Commentator: Allan Hazlett

4:00 – 6:00
Keynote talk:
Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University

6:15
Reception and Dinner