PROGRAM
Days: Monday, May 29th Tuesday, May 30th Wednesday, May 31st Thursday, June 1st
Monday, May 29th
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08:30-11:30 Session 1A: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE 031
08:30 | A Pragmatist Approach to Regulating Hate Speech (abstract) |
09:30 | Slurs and Slurring Beyond Prohibitions (abstract) |
10:30 | Figleaves for Falsehood (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 1B: Philosophy of Law
Location: HNE 032
08:30 | Legal Proof is Rational Belief of Guilt (abstract) |
09:30 | Machine Learning in Bail Decisions and Judges’ Trustworthiness (abstract) |
10:00 | Legal Rationalism without Robust Normativity (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 1C: Logic, Philosophy of Math
Location: HNE 033
08:30 | Mathematical SETIbacks: Open Texture as a new problem for Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (abstract) |
09:30 | Wittgenstein’s letter to Russell and the significance of ‘N(ξ)’ (abstract) |
10:30 | A Logic of Epistemic Obligations and the Ethics of Belief (abstract) |
11:00 | Hegel and Mathematics: Towards the Resolution of a Dilemma (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 1D: History of Philosophy
Location: HNE 034
08:30 | Recovering Classical Indigenous Philosophy (abstract) |
09:30 | From homo economicus to homo aestheticus: a critique of Foucault’s Reading of Adam Smith (abstract) |
10:30 | ENTRE TAUTOLOGIE ET HOMOLOGIE : L’ACCÈS À LA VÉRITÉ CHEZ HEIDEGGER (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 1E: Feminist Philosophy
Location: HNE 035
08:30 | Old Ideas Die Hard: How Generative Entrenchment Can Explain Pernicious Ignorance in the Science and Politics of Sexuality (abstract) |
09:00 | Mapping the Epistemic and Ethical Landscape of Intersex Medicine (abstract) |
09:30 | How do victims of epistemology achieve epistemic advantages? Standpoint theory revisted (abstract) |
10:00 | Refining Self-Trust (abstract) |
10:30 | Dialling down excessive self-trust as a social epistemic virtue (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 1F: Epistemology
Location: HNE 101
08:30 | Conspiracism, Self-Identity, and Epistemic Territory (abstract) |
09:30 | A Dilemma for Inferentialism About Self-Knowledge (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 1G: Normative Ethics
Location: HNE 037
08:30 | Kant, Korsgaard, and Duties to Non-Human Animals (abstract) |
09:30 | No New Friends! The Partiality Problem for Deontologists (abstract) |
10:00 | Thinking Systematically about Social Responsibility (abstract) |
10:30 | Naive Humanism (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 1H: Metaphysics
Location: HNE B11
08:30 | A Way of Seeing Ways of Being: Building a Case for Ontological Pluralism (abstract) |
09:00 | A Puzzle for Fundamentality (abstract) |
09:30 | Why There Is No Such Thing As Spacetime (According To B-Theory) (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 1I: Aesthetics
Location: HNE B10
08:30 | The Paradoxical Transcendence and Aesthetic Connections of Conceptual Art (abstract) |
09:30 | Rough Heroes and the Gap Between Fiction and Non-Fiction (abstract) |
10:30 | Bridging Hermeneutical Gaps: Artworlds as Sites for Feminist Engagement (abstract) |
11:00 | Marinella’s Reclamation of Dress and Outward Beauty (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 1J: Applied Ethics
Location: HNE 036
08:30 | Unequal Probative Burdens: How normative statuses interact in the course of philosophical argumentation (abstract) |
09:30 | In Praise of Responsibility Gap-Fillers (abstract) |
10:30 | Right for our Family: The Less Acknowledged Harms of Parental Rights to Paternalism (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 1K: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE 102
08:30 | Political Random Selection: Rebutting Lafont’s Critique of Deliberative Mini-Publics (abstract) |
09:30 | Territorial Boundaries and Christiano's 'Common World' (abstract) |
10:00 | Reconstructivism, Abolitionism, and the Risk of Conservatism (abstract) |
10:30 | Marx, Robots, and Social Reproduction (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 1M
Location: HNE 103
08:30-11:30 Session 1N
Location: HNE 104
08:30-11:30 Session 1P
Location: HNE 105
Tuesday, May 30th
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08:30-11:30 Session 2A: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE 032
08:30 | What's Wrong With Adaptive Preferences? (abstract) |
09:00 | Problematizing the social expectations view of social norms (abstract) |
09:30 | Cost-Benefit Analysis, Moral Preferences, and a "Taste" for Fairness (abstract) |
10:30 | Neorepublican civic virtue (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 2B: Philosophy of Religion
Location: HNE 109
08:30 | A Cleanthean Theodicy? The Contribution of Justus Lipsius to the Stoic Doctrines of Providence and Fate. (abstract) |
09:30 | The Value of Mystical Experiences (abstract) |
10:30 | THE VEDANTIC ORIGIN OF HUMAN GREATNESS IN NIETZSCHE: THE INFLUENCE OF VEDANTA IN FORMULATION OF THE ÜBERMENSCH (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 2C: Contemporary European Philosophy
Location: HNE 105
08:30 | Deleuze’s Dramatization: Dramas-Poetries of Ideas in Difference and Repetition (abstract) |
09:30 | Death and Apperception: Heidegger and Kant on the Bounds of the Self (abstract) |
10:30 | Shared Memory, Collective Intentionality, and Alterity (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 2D: History of Philosophy
Location: HNE 104
08:30 | Trust and Inquiry: Clifford's Side of the James-Clifford Debate (abstract) |
09:30 | Wittgenstein and Russell's 1913 Theory of Knowledge (abstract) |
10:30 | Desubstantializing Nyāya Inference: A Dialogical Approach (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 2E: Feminist Philosophy
Location: HNE 103
08:30 | Against Desire: On the Anti-Black Coloniality of Luce Irigaray’s and Hélène Cixous’ Accounts of (Feminine) Desire (abstract) |
09:30 | Conceptualizing Responsive Solidarity as an Answer to #MeToo (abstract) |
10:30 | Afterdeath: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Funerary Practices and the Corpse (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 2F: Applied Ethics
Location: HNE 102
08:30 | Barriers and biases: Informed consent with family members as medical interpreters (abstract) |
09:30 | Thresholds for Consent: Phenomenological Experience and Denials of Tubal Sterilization (abstract) |
10:30 | Can the Depressed Appreciate the Choice to Die? (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 2G: Philosophy of Science
Location: HNE 101
08:30 | First-person perspectives and scientific inquiry of autism: towards an integrative approach (abstract) |
09:00 | Reductionist explanation, psychiatric disorders, and health care policy (abstract) |
09:30 | Scientific explanation in context: the case of explanatory asymmetry (abstract) |
10:30 | WITHDRAWN Equilibrium Explanation, Scientific Understanding, and the Facts (abstract) |
11:00 | Peirce on a Role for History: A Comparison with Kuhn on the Logic of Science (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 2H: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Location: HNE B10
08:30 | Pictorial Syntax (abstract) |
09:30 | Skilled Action Guidance: A Problem for Intellectualism about Skill (abstract) |
10:00 | Habitus and affordance: Towards an Embodied Cognitive Social Science (abstract) |
10:30 | Do Reason and Emotion Compete in Autonomous Decision-Making? Korsgaard’s Theory of Autonomy and Recent Advances in Neuroscience (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 2I: Metaethics
Location: HNE B11
08:30 | The Good, the Bad, and the Sinful (abstract) |
09:30 | Evaluating: Some Ways to Do It (abstract) |
10:30 | The Moral Virtue of Social Consciousness (abstract) |
11:00 | On Huemer’s Ethical Intuitionism: Asymmetries in Justification across Non-formal, Formal, and Meta-discursive Intuitions (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 2J: Normative Ethics
Location: HNE 030
08:30 | On Being Bad at Things (abstract) |
09:30 | On the egoism objection to neoAristotelian virtue ethics (abstract) |
10:30 | The Case Against Demoralizing Trust (abstract) |
11:00 | Trust in Classical Chinese Thought (abstract) |
Wednesday, May 31st
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08:30-11:30 Session 3A: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE B10
08:30 | Liberal Legitimacy and Future Citizens (abstract) |
09:30 | The Liberal Principle of Legitimacy in Settler Colonial Contexts (abstract) |
10:30 | Why democrats should be committed to future generations (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 3B: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Location: HNE B11
08:30 | The 'intentio' of pastness in Aquinas' theory of memory (abstract) |
09:30 | Utilizing the Gods as Analogues for Epicurean Friendships (abstract) |
10:30 | On Apophasis and the Clearing of Obscurations in Mādhyamika Philosophy (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 3C: Moral Psychology
Location: HNE 001
08:30 | Emotion Regulation and Emotional Injustice (abstract) |
09:30 | Is There Akrasia in Games? (abstract) |
10:00 | Shame and the Scope of Moral Responsibility (abstract) |
10:30 | Shared Feelings: Extended emotion and responsibility for social media content (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 3D: History of Philosophy
Location: HNE 030
08:30 | They’ll Always be With You: Spinoza, Love, and Eternal Minds (abstract) |
09:30 | Kant on Consciousness of Invisible Things (abstract) |
10:00 | Cudworth's Conscious Self (abstract) |
10:30 | G. H. Lewes: Emergentism and The Vitalist Roots of Non-Reductive Physicalism (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 3E: Feminist Philosophy
Location: HNE 032
08:30 | Consent is Not as Simple as Tea: How simplified sexual consent discourse manufactures ignorance (abstract) |
09:30 | Is This What I Really Want?: Murky Wants, A Problem for Consent (abstract) |
10:00 | Playfulness, Control, and Microbiomes (abstract) |
10:30 | Pornography, Reasonableness, and Criminal Culpability (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 3F: Applied Ethics
Location: HNE 033
08:30 | The reluctant aspirant: Helping a friend overcome racial prejudice (abstract) |
09:00 | Learning from Queer Community Responses to Mpox: Solidarity during Public Health Crises (abstract) |
09:30 | Vulnerability Theory to Improve Healthcare Policy (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 3G: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Location: HNE 035
08:30 | Rethinking the Perception–Cognition Border (abstract) |
09:30 | Inattentional Blindness and Cognitive Penetration (abstract) |
10:30 | Tracing the synesthetic memory advantage (abstract) |
11:00 | Depression, Intelligibility, and Non-Rational Causation (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 3H: Epistemology
Location: HNE 036
08:30 | Brains in Vats and Skepticism about Objectivity (abstract) |
09:30 | Subjective Indistinguishability is Not Necessary for Effective Sceptical Hypotheses (abstract) |
10:30 | The epistemic value of Imagination (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 3I: Philosophy of Mind
Location: HNE 037
08:30 | Is there an upper limit on consciousness? (abstract) |
09:30 | Lemos on the Physical Indeterminism Luck Objection (abstract) |
10:30 | An Argument for Virtual Veridicalism (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 3J: Normative Ethics
Location: HNE 101
08:30 | What Third-Party Forgiveness Has To Offer (abstract) |
09:30 | Helping in Solidarity with a Movement: The Practical Importance of a Hybrid Approach to the Ethics of Collective Action (abstract) |
10:30 | A Communicative View of Holding Others Accountable (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 3K: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE 102
08:30 | Badiou’s Anti-Humanist Humanism: The Problem of the Pre-Evental Individual and the Possibility of a Non-Objective Subjectivity (abstract) |
09:00 | Autonomy through inquiry: Reevaluating the personal autonomy of children and youth qua children and youth (abstract) |
10:00 | The Accessibility of Religious Reasons (abstract) |
10:30 | Fairness in Energy Transitions: Confronting Ecologically Tragic Situations (abstract) |
Thursday, June 1st
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08:30-11:30 Session 4A: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE 032
08:30 | Psychologisation de la justice sociale ? Une relecture de la conception honnethienne de la justice (abstract) |
09:30 | L’autodétermination des minorités nationales : entre Allen Buchanan et Will Kymlicka (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 4B: Moral Psychology
Location: HNE 033
08:30 | Approaching the world with a Zhuangzian, two-sided consciousness (abstract) |
09:30 | Grounding moral debiasing within a scientific context: What is the criterion of moral error? (abstract) |
10:30 | How to Straddle the Objective and Participant Stances (abstract) |
11:00 | Against emotions as feelings. Towards an attitudinal profile of emotion. (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 4C: Feminist Philosophy
Location: HNE 034
08:30 | Gender Euphoria (abstract) |
09:00 | Costs of Coping in a Non-Ideal World: Affective Injustice (abstract) |
09:30 | A Feminist Naturalized Approach to Oppression-Related Emotions (abstract) |
10:30 | A Feminist Account of Harm (abstract) |
11:00 | On Femininity: What Is It? Why Do We Need It? (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 4D: Applied Ethics
Location: HNE 035
08:30 | A Conceptual Analysis of Technological Assistance and Substitution (abstract) |
09:30 | Is AI Art Theft? (abstract) |
10:30 | “I’m Sorry, Dave”: A Just War Theory of AI (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 4E: Philosophy of Science
Location: HNE 036
08:30 | How representations provide understanding (abstract) |
09:00 | Necessity and Distinguishing states in Newcomb's Problem (abstract) |
09:30 | A New Direction for Quantum Ontology (abstract) |
10:00 | The Practice of Relativistic Cosmological Modeling as an Entifying Technology of Theory (abstract) |
10:30 | WITHDRAWN - The Condorcet Jury Theorem in an Ambiguous World (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 4F: Philosophy of Language
Location: HNE 037
08:30 | Properties and the Concept Horse Paradox (abstract) |
09:30 | On Wright’s Account of Wittgenstein’s Quietism about Following a Rule (abstract) |
10:00 | The possibility of linguistic agency (abstract) |
10:30 | Meaning and Social Conventions (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 4G: Philosophy of Mind
Location: HNE 101
08:30 | Remembering as a Mental Action and the (Dis)continuism Debate (abstract) |
09:30 | Joint Attention and Rational Coordination (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 4H: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Location: HNE 102
08:30 | Animal Rationality and Animal Consciousness: The Importance of Clear Explananda (abstract) |
09:30 | A Limited Defense of Anthropocentrism (abstract) |
10:30 | What really lives in the swamp? Examples and illustrations of scientific reasoning (abstract) |
11:00 | The Metaphysics of Words Beyond Bundles and Lineages: Exactly how does the analogy with biological species help? (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 4I: Metaphysics
Location: HNE 103
08:30 | Direct Manipulation as a Threat to Intentional Agency (Not Just Free Agency) (abstract) |
09:30 | Haji, Kane, and Lemos on Libertarian Free Will and Luck (abstract) |
10:00 | Hanks's Dilemma of Necessity (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 4J: Epistemology
Location: HNE B10
08:30 | Inquiry and Metacognitive Feelings (abstract) |
09:30 | Rational Inquiry: What does it take? (abstract) |
10:00 | See The Way I Do: Understanding and Testimony (abstract) |
10:30 | Track Record: A Cautionary Tale (abstract) |
08:30-11:30 Session 4K: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE B11
08:30 | Academic Freedom and the Duty of Care (abstract) |
09:30 | What’s Wrong with Calling COVID-19 "The Chinese Virus": Microinvalidations, Negligence, and a Duty of Care (abstract) |
10:00 | The Puzzle of Solidarity (abstract) |
10:30 | WITHDRAWN Medical Triage Beyond the Battlefield (abstract) |