Schedule

Friday, February 29th 2008
8:30–11:30  Welcome Party (Mike Tamir’s, 1500 Shady Ave)

Saturday, March 1st 2008

>-Morning Session, Chair:  Thomas Cunningham -<

9:00–10:00 Coffee and Pastries

10:00–11:00 Preston Stovall (Texas A&M University)
"The Normative Dimensions of Kant's Account of Representation: 
Empirical, Transcendental, and Semantic Conceptions of Rational Constraint"
Commentator:  Tyke Nunez (Pitt)

11:00–12:00 Morning faculty address
Gordon Belot (Pitt)
"Geometric Possibility"

12:00–1:00 Lefteris Farmakis (London School of Economics)
"On Van Fraassen's 'New Epistemology' and its ‘Solution’ to Conceptual Relativism"
Commentator: Bas van Fraassen (Princeton)

1:00–2:00 Lunch (Catered at CMU)

>-Afternoon Session, Chair:  Conor Mayo-Wilson -<

2:00–3:00 Ole Hjortland (University of St Andrews, Arché Research Centre)
"Proof-theoretic harmony and structural assumptions"
Commentator: Shawn Standefer (Pitt)

3:00–4:00 Afternoon faculty address
Peter Machamer (HPS)
"Interpretation"

4:00–5:00 Ben Almassi (University of Washington)
"Relativism as Science Studies Methodology"
Commentator: Benjamin Goldberg (HPS)

5:00–6:00 Errol Lord (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
"On Maximal Rationality"
Commentator: Justin Sytsma (HPS)

6:30–7:30 Keynote address
Bas van Fraassen (Princeton University) "Representation"

8:30-11:30 Conference Dinner (location: India Garden)