General Information

News & Updates

Schedule & Papers

Call for Papers

Keynote Speaker

Travel Information

Links

Contact

 

Friday, April 8th

  • 9:00 - 11:30 - Welcome Party (Benny Goldberg's, Apt. 33, 419 S Braddock Ave)

Saturday, April 9th

>-Morning Session Chair: David Gray-<

  • 10:00 - 10:45 - Coffee and pastries
  • 10:45 - 11:00 - Opening Address
  • 11:00 - 12:00 - Paul Symington (U Buffalo): "The Ontological Status of Moral Virtue in Aristotle". Commentator: John Anders (HPS)
  • 12:00 - 1:00 - William Kilborn (Western Washington): "A Topological Argument for Substantivalism". Commentator: Brian Hepburn (HPS)
  • 1:00 - 2:00 - Lunch (catered at CMU)

    >-Afternoon Session Chair: Benny Goldberg-<

  • 2:00 - 3:00 - Kelby Mason (Rutgers U): "Intuition, Perception, and Introspection: One of These Things is Not Like the Others". Commentator: Peter Machamer (HPS)
  • 3:00 - 4:00 - Dimitri Constant (Boston U): "Frege's Anti-Psychologism and the Problem of the Objectivity of Knowledge". Commentator: Steve Awodey (CMU)
  • 4:00 - 5:00 - Nat Hansen (U Chicago): "Groucho's Joke" . Commentator: Ben Laurence (Pitt)
  • 5:00 - 5:15 - Coffee Break
  • 5:00 - 6:00 - Keynote lecture, Dan Hausman: "Social Scientific Naturalism and Experimentation in Economics"
  • 6 - ??? - Dinner
  • 8:30 - 12:00 - Conference party at the Pittsburgh Cafe.

Sunday, April 10th

>-Morning Session II Chair: Francesca di Poppa-<

  • 10:00 - 11:00 - Coffee and pastries
  • 11:00 - 12:00 - Clayton Northouse (U Maryland): "Hume and Talk of Objective Necessary Connections". Commentator: Francesca di Poppa (HPS)
  • 12:00 - 1:00 - Josh Stuchlik (U Pittsburgh): "The Historical and Theoretical Background to Neurath's Normative Philosophy". Commentator: Holly Andersen (HPS)
  • 1:00 - 2:00 - Ryan Muldoon (U Pennsylvania): "The Validity of Model Based Arguments" . Commentator: Mikel Negugogor (CMU)
  • 1:00 - 1:05 - Closing remarks