Conference Schedule

Saturday, March 20th

8:30-Continental Breakfast

9:00-Conference Introduction

9:15-Keynote Speaker: Stephen Yablo (MIT): "How to Win Friends and Influence Truth-Value Without Really Being"

10:15-Discussion

10:45-Coffee Break

11:00-Eric Swanson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):

"Demonstratives as Pronouns"

Commentator: Jim Soto (Carnegie Mellon University)

11:50-Bence Nanay (University of California, Berkeley):

"Can Cumulative Selection Explain Adaptation?"

Commentator: Paul Griffiths (University of Pittsburgh)

12:40-Lunch

2:30-Chandra Sekhar Sripada (Rutgers University):

"The Nature of Moral Norms: A Lewisian Approach"

Commentator: Hille Paakkunainen (University of Pittsburgh)

3:20-Diana Hsieh (University of Colorado, Boulder):

"False Excuses and Moral Growth"

Commentator: TBA

4:10-Coffee Break

4:25-Fritz McDonald (City University of New York):

"Kant on Possession, Property, and Distributive Justice"

Commentator: Tim Willenken (University of Pittsburgh)

9:00-Conference Celebration

Location: TBA

Sunday, March 21st

9:30-Continental Breakfast

10:00-Michelle Maiese (University of Colorado, Boulder):

"Relevance vs. Efficacy: Facing up to Kim's Causal Exclusion Problem"

Abel Franco (University of Pittsburgh)

10:50-Kyle Craft (Northern Illinois University):

"Unjustified Belief as a Foundation for Justified Belief"

Greg Salmieri (University of Pittsburgh)

11:40-Coffee Break

11:55-Melis Erdur:

"The Sense of A Priority in Friedmen’s Relativized A Priori"

CCommentator: Greg Frost-Arnold (University of Pittsburgh)

12:45-Jennifer Wilson (University of Iowa):

"Rethinking the A Priori/A Posteriori Distinction"

Vanessa Wills (University of Pittsburgh)

1:35-Closing Remarks

Please note that all papers linked to from this page are preliminary versions the authors have kindly granted us permission to share with you; the versions given at the conference may vary somewhat.

All talks will take place at the University of Pittsburgh in Posvar Hall 2M56