Open Sessions Programme

Saturday 10th July

Aesthetics Metaethics Philosophy of Science
Contemporary European Philosophy Philosophical Psychology Philosophy of Science/Mind
Ethics I Philosophy of Language I Political Philosophy I
History of Philosophy (Modern) Philosophy of Mind I  

Aesthetics


Room A105
Chair Chris Cowley
16:30-17:00 Andrew Inkpin University of Eastern Piedmont
The Challenge of Painterly Depiction
17:00-17:30 Matthew Rowe Independent Scholar
Thought Experiments in the Philosophy of Art
17:30-18:00 Jenni Tyynelä University of Tampere
From Modal Worlds to Fictional Worlds: Using Modal Logic to Explicate the Reader’s Response to a Morally Deviant Fictional World
18:00-18:30 Dawn M. Phillips University of Warwick
Picture, Prejudice and Disquietude: Wittgenstein and the difficulty of philosophical problems


Contemporary European Philosophy

Room A106
Chair Rasmus Jensen

16:30-17:00 Robert Zaborowski University of Warmia & Mazury
Affectivity in its relation to time
17:00-17:30 Jonathan Beale University of Reading
Wittgenstein and the Riddle about Being
17:30-18:00 Sinead Hogan School of Creative Arts IADT
Style in Philosophy
18:00-18:30 Kieran Cashell Limerick School of Art and Design
New Criteria for Pain


Ethics I

Room A 109
Chair Gerard Casey

16:30-17:00 Andrew Moore University of Otago
Objectivism About Well-being
17:00-17:30 Glen Pettigrove University of Auckland
Meekness and Blame
17:30-18:00 Howard Simmons Independent Scholar
Is it Morally Wrong to have Children?
18:00-18:30 Fiona Woollard University of Sheffield
Guns and the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing


History of Philosophy (Modern)

Room C 108
Chair Tim Crowley

16:30-17:00 John J. Callanan King’s College London
Transcendental Idealism as Metaphilosophy
17:00-17:30 James Edwin Mahon Washington & Lee University
Descartes on Deception
17:30-18:00 Garrett Barden UCC
On the Function of the ‘natural condition’ in Leviathan
18:00-18:30 Barry Stocker University of Istanbul
Pluralistic Virtue Ethics in Kierkegaard


Metaethics

Room C110
Chair Bill Child

16:30-17:00 Esa Diaz-Leon University of Manitoba
Social Kinds and Conceptual Analysis: A Reply to Haslanger
17:00-17:30 Douglas Edwards UCD
An Eligibility Theory of Reference for Moral Terms
17:30-18:00 Attila Tanyi University of Konstanz
On Pure Cognitivism
18:00-18:30 Anders Nes CSMN
Inferential Moorean Absurdities about Reasons for Action


Philosophical Psychology

Room G106
Chair Tom Baldwin

16:30-17:00 Jordi Fernandez University of Adelaide
Self-deception and Self-knowledge
17:00-17:30 Anna Nicholson UCD
Self-Deception and Irrationality
17:30-18:00 Lisa Bortolotti University of Birmingham and Matthew Broome Warwick University
Explaining Double Bookkeeping in Delusions
18:00-18:30 Michael Lacewing Heythrop College
Inferring motives: a challenge for psychoanalysis


Philosophy of Language I

Room G 109
Chair Marcus Rossberg

16:30-17:00 Roberta Ballarin University of British Columbia
The Double Life of Singular Propositions: Between Formal Semantics and Metaphysics
17:00-17:30 Endre Begby CSMN
Semantic Minimalism and the Miracle of Communication
17:30-18:00 Andrew Jorgensen UCD
Boghossian on the Incoherence of Semantic Scepticism
18:00-18:30 Andrei Moldovan University of Barcelona
The Relation between Speaker Reference and Singular Thought


Philosophy of Mind

Room G102
Chair Mark Kalderon

16:30-17:00 Martina Fürst Karl-Franzens-Universität
Why Quotational Phenomenal Concepts Cannot Save Physicalism
17:00-17:30 Todd Moody Saint Joseph's University
The Mind-Body Problem Problem
17:30-18:00 Karol Polcyn University of Szczecin
The Intuition of Dualism is Not an Illusion

Philosophy of Science

Room F102
Chair Alan Weir

16:30-17:00 Ioan Muntean University of Leeds
The Digital Guesswork
17:00-17:30 Diego Rios University of Helsinki
Graciela Küchle Witten Herdecke University
Learning and Fixation: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Baldwin Effect
17:30-18:00 Alex Voorhoeve LSE
Mark Fleurbaey U Paris Descartes
The Evaluation of Social Risks: Solely Ex Ante, Solely Ex Post, or a Bit of Both?
18:00-18:30 Dragana Bozin University of Oslo
Does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem limit scientific knowledge?


Philosophy of Science/Mind

Room F104
Chair Paul Noordhof

16:30-17:00 Michael O'Sullivan King's College London
Which properties are perceptible?
17:00-17:30 Michael Gallagher UCD
McDowell, Sellars, and Scientism
17:30-18:00 Joe Neisser Grinnell College
Neural Correlates Reconsidered
18:00-18:30 Carrie Figdor University of Iowa
Is Mechanistic Explanation of Mind Possible?


Political Philosophy I

Room J109
Chair Attracta Ingram

16:30-17:00 Christian Barry Australian National University
Patrick Tomlin University of Oxford
Against the Hierarchical Approach to Moral Uncertainty
17:00-17:30 Bill Wringe Bilkent University
Collective Agents and the Communicative Theory of Punishment
17:30-18:00 Adina Preda UCD
Voluntariness and Freedom of Choice
18:00-18:30 Sean Allen-Hermanson Florida International University
Does Suicide Bombing Culturally Evolve?

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