Open Sessions Programme

Sunday 11th July

Epistemology I Metaphysics I Philosophy of Mind III
Epistemology II Metaphysics II Philosophy of Mind IV
Ethics II Philosophy of Action Political Philosophy
History of Philosophy (Ancient) Philosophy of Language II  
Metaethics    

Epistemology I

Room A105
Chair Paul O’Grady
13:30-14:00 Sebastiano Moruzzi University of Bologna and Annalisa Coliva University of Modena
Relativism, Disagreement and Multimundism Relativism
14:00-14:30 Eline Busck Gundersen CSMN University of Oslo and Aarhus University
Response-dependence, Biconditionals and Reference fixing
14:30-15:00 Christopher Green U Mississippi
The Epistemic Parity of Testimony and Perception: Responses to Some Purported Disanalogies
15:00-15:30 Elselijn Kingma Kings College London
Realism and Social Constructivism: a two-step model
15:30-16:00 Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir
University of Iceland
Can a Remote object be lovely?
16:00-16:30 Earl Stanley B. Fronda
University of the Philippines
Why miracles cannot be a persuasive evidence of divinity


Epistemology

Room A 106
Chair James Levine

13:30-14:00 Anandi Hattiangadi Oxford
The Love of Truth
14:00-14:30 Kourken Michaelian Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS-EHESS-ENS)
Metacognition and Endorsement
14:30-15:00 Huiming Ren Zhejiang University
On Knowing How
15:00-15:30 Conor McHugh Institut Jean Nicod Doxastic
Voluntarism: Still False
15:30-16:00 Daniel Whiting University of Southampton
The Good and the True (or the Bad and the False')
16:00-16:30 Georgi Gardiner University of Edinburgh (UK) / Northwestern University (USA)
Stroud’s Tortoise and Kvanvig’s Relations: A New Argument for Epistemic Value Pluralism


Ethics II

Room A 109
Chair Margaret Hodges

13:30-14:00 Andrew Aberdein Florida Institute of Technology
Are arguments for the censorship of pornography self-refuting?
14:00-14:30 Sandy Berkovski Bilkent University
Welfare, agency, and illusion
14:30-15:00 Madeleine Hayenhjelm UCL
Trust as Comfortable Defocusing: A Proposal
15:00-15:30 Richard Hull NUI Galway
Re-thinking the category of ‘the disabled’
15:30-16:00 Tony Milligan U Aberdeen
Abortion and ‘Throwing Away’
16:00-16:30 Christopher Cowley University College Dublin
‘It’s so hard to say sorry'; a paradox about apologising for deliberate wrongdoing


History of Philosophy (Ancient)

Room F 103A
Chair John Callanan

13:30-14:00 Dimitrios Dentsoras University of Manitoba
The Birth of Supererogation
14:00-14:30 T.J. Crowley UCD
The Things That Are Called ‘Elements’
14:30-15:00 Timothy Chappell The Open University
Aristotelian Practical Truth
15:00-15:30 Fran O’Rourke UCD
Aristotle and Evolutionary Altruism
15:30-16:00 Catarina Belo The American University in Cairo
Chance and Causality in Avicenna and Averroes
16:00-16:30 Jeremy Koons Georgetown University (Qatar)
On the Failure of Some Recent Responses to the Euthyphro Dilemma


Metaethics

Room J109
Chair James Mahon

13:30-14:00 Andras Szigeti Central European University
Responsibility and Personhood: the Normativity of Responsibility
14:00-14:30 Nicholas Shackel University of Cardiff
Reasons: Rationalisers and Justifiers
14:30-15:00 Makoto Suzuki Nagoya University and Nanzan University, Japan
“They Ought to Do This, but They Can’t”: The Two Types of Deontic Evaluation
15:00-15:30 Michael Winter University of St. Thomas
Does Moral Virtue Require Knowledge?
15:30-16:00 Jussi Suikkanen University of Reading
In Defence of Wide-Scope End-Given Reasons
16:00-16:30 Joel Rickard Kent University
Is Moral Intuitionism a Type of Foundationalism?


Metaphysics I

Room F 102
Chair Andrew Jorgensen
13:30-14:00 Daniele Sgaravatti University of St Andrews
Begging the Question: a Bad Form of Reasoning
14:00-14:30 Carrie Jenkins University of Nottingham
'Is Metaphysical Grounding Irreflexive?
14:30-15:00 Nathaniel Forde Trinity College Dublin
Ontological Disputes Deflated–Rival Approaches to Semantic Evaluation
15:00-15:30 Matthew Parker University of Bristol
Ontology and Understanding
15:30-16:00 Nick Tosh NUI, Galway
Objective Chance and Possible Worlds
16:00-16:30 Elisa Paganini Università degli Studi di Milano
Vague Existence


Metaphysics II

Room G 102
Chair Peter Simons
13:30-14:00 Arkadiusz Chrudzimski University of Salzburg
Intentional Objects and Demonstrative Reference
14:00-14:30 David Liggins University of Manchester
Dorr on the Language of Ontology
14:30-15:00 JC Westerhoff University of Durham
Is there an ontologically fundamental level?
15:00-15:30 Pål Antonsen TCD
Antirealism and Existence
15:30-16:00 Niall Connolly TCD
Two Defences of the Bare Particular Theory and a Third Way



Philosophy of Action

Room C108
Chair Rowland Stout
13:30-14:00 Marc Pavlopoulos CEA, France
Is there a Practical use of Reason?
14:00-14:30 Murray Clarke Concordia University
Misrepresentation Ain’t In the Head
14:30-15:00 Chris Mole UBC
Memory and Phenomenal Knowledge
15:00-15:30 Rasmus Jensen UCD
A Disjunctivist Conception of Bodily Movement?
15:30-16:00 Joel Walmsley University College Cork
Coupling Constitution and the Dynamical Approach to Cognition


Philosophy of Language II

Room F 104
Chair Douglas Edwards

13:30-14:00 Jonathan Ichikawa U St Andrews
What is the semantic blindness argument to contextualism
14:00-14:30 Richard Hamilton TCD
Can We Aim at Relative Truth?
14:30-15:00 Mihaela Popa University of Geneva
What’s left of truth-conditional criteria? Metaphor is still truth-conditional!
15:00-15:30 Simon Summers UEA
Davidson’s Solution to the Problem of Predication: Would Less Be More?
15:30-16:00 Peter Milne University of Stirling
Jennifer Lackey on the Insufficiency of Knowledge for Assertion
16:00-16:30 Luis Fernández Moreno Complutense University of Madrid
Two Kripkean Theses Revisited


Philosophy of Mind III

Room G109
Chair Ruth Egan

13:30-14:00 Sophie Rietti University of Ottawa
Knowing what you feel, and knowing what about
14:00-14:30 Albert Newen Rohr Universität Bochum
The Person-Model Theory of Understanding Other Minds
14:30-15:00 Miguel García-Valdecasas University of Navarra
Some Woes of Davidson’s Concept of First Person Authority
15:00-15:30 Guido Melchior U Graz
A Privileged Access to Other Minds
15:30-16:00 Anna C. Zielinska University of Grenoble
2 Cartesian origins of the Reasons/Causes Debate in the Philosophy of Action
16:00-16:30 Jens Harbecke Tel Aviv University
How causal are mental counterfactuals?


Philosophy of Mind IV

Room G 106
Chair James O’Shea

13:30-14:00 Heather Logue University of Leeds
Disjunctivism, Naive Realism, and the Science of Perceptual Experience
14:00-14:30 Matthew Conduct U Durham
Charles Bonnet Syndrome and the Philosophy of Perception
14:30-15:00 Simone Marini UCD
Does Non-Substantive Phenomenalism Survive Chisholm's Criticism?
15:00-15:30 Michael Sollberger University of Lausanne
Synaesthesia and the Structural Approach to Perceptual Content
15:30-16:00 Jason Leddington Bucknell University
What We Hear
16:00-16:30 Robert Foley UCD
The Curious Case of the Blind Man Walking


Political Philosophy

Room C 110
Chair David Walsh

13:30-14:00 Thom Brooks University of Newcastle Newcastle
A New Problem with the Capabilities Approach
14:00-14:30 Gerard Casey UCD
Where does law come from?
14:30-15:00 Vittorio Bufacchi University College Cork
A Deflationary theory of Human Rights
15:00-15:30 Brian Flanagan UCD
Lon Fuller’s Puzzle for Legal Intentionalism
15:30-16:00 Timo Jüetten UCD
Respect for Persons
16:00-16:30 Orsolya Reich Central European University
The Citizenship Insurance

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