Workshop on 18-20 September 2009 organized by
Programme:
Friday eve. 6:00 pm, Radcliffe House. Sat A. 9:00-11:00 am, Council Chamber, University House. Speaker: Charles Travis (London), 'Unlocking
The Outer World' Break - coffee and refreshments. 11:00 – 11:15 am. Sat B. 11:15 am - 1:15 pm. Speaker: Greg Salmieri
(UNC-Chapel Hill), 'The Act of Awareness' Lunch. 1:15 - 3:00 pm. Sat C. 3:00 - 5:00 pm. Sat
eve. 7:30 pm.
Break - coffee and refreshments. 11:00 – 11:15 am. Sun B. 11:15 - 1:15 pm. Sun C. over lunch, 1:15 - 3:30 pm. Workshop ends at 3:30 pm.
Details:
Invited participants not listed on the programme
include: Ben Bayer (Colorado Coll.), Christian Beenfeldt (Oxford/Copenhagen), Tara Smith (UT-Austin) and Matt Soteriou (Warwick). The other members of the Warwick department have been invited to
attend as well. Otherwise it is a closed Workshop.
Sessions: Sessions will last 2 hours.
Main talks should last up to 50 mins, comments up to
20 mins, leaving at least 50 mins for discussion.
Additional Materials: Workshop participants not scheduled to present papers have been invited to provide, as optional reading for the workshop, a paper or book-chapter relevant to the topic of one or more sessions. These materials have been grouped, so far as possible, by session, and may be found here.
Sponsorship: The Workshop is
co-sponsored by the Warwick philosophy dept (largely via a grant from the
Anthem Foundation), Allan Gotthelf's Pitt Fellowship for the Study of
Objectivism, and Tara Smith's BB&T chair at UT-Austin. The Anthem and
BB&T Foundations have an interest in fostering a closer examination by the
philosophical profession of Ayn Rand's philosophical system. Since some of our
participants make use of ideas from Rand in their own work on our topics, the
Foundations are happy to support the workshop.
Participant funding: All participants will
be covered for travel and accommodation (arr. Thursday dept. Monday for US
participants; arr. Friday dept. Sunday eve for GB participants), plus meals
(incl. Conference dinner) and other refreshments during the conference. US
participants will be reimbursed for travel originating in the US through the
HPS dept at Pittsburgh; Allan Gotthelf will be in touch in regard to
arrangement. Both US and GB participants will be
reimbursed for their travel within GB through Warwick.
For further information: Please get in touch either with Bill Brewer (b.brewer@warwick.ac.uk) or Allan Gotthelf (gotthelf@pitt.edu). |