ECAP10: 10TH EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, August 17th Monday, August 24th Tuesday, August 25th Wednesday, August 26th Thursday, August 27th Friday, August 28th

Monday, August 17th

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09:00-23:59 Session 1A: Non-scheduled talks: Aesthetics

Non-scheduled talks; chat-based Q&A only, available throughout the congress.

09:00
Circularity and the complete work (abstract)
09:00-23:59 Session 1B: Non-scheduled talks: Epistemology

Non-scheduled talks; chat-based Q&A only, available throughout the congress.

09:00
Debunking Isn't Bunk (abstract)
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Epistemic Justice without Moral Realism: An Evaluativist Externalism (abstract)
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Kinds and Possibility (abstract)
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Hoping on insufficient evidence: how (epistemically) rational can action-centred faith be? (abstract)
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Ameliorative Inquiry in Epistemology (abstract)
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Vice epistemology of believers in pseudoscience (abstract)
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Gaining non-factive understanding by conceptual engineering (abstract)
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Against Belief Closure (abstract)
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On Relative Mathematical Knowledge (abstract)
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Taking the Tyrant Seriously (abstract)
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Does Reasoning Require Self-Knowledge? (abstract)
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A Philosophical Analysis of Irrefutability (abstract)
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In Defence of Moderate Pragmatism and the Risks/Costs Principle (abstract)
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Implicate Only What You Know (abstract)
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Common Sense as sensitivity to the inverse trilemma fallacy (abstract)
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Epistemology as a system of hypothetical imperatives (abstract)
09:00
Group Testimony: defending a reductionist view (abstract)
09:00-23:59 Session 1C: Non-scheduled talks: Ethics

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Location: Ethics channel
09:00
Is there a good moral argument against moral realism? (abstract)
09:00
Analysis of the concept of subjective rate of time as a property of Speed Superintelligence (abstract)
09:00
The Moral Mode of Prioritarianism: Comparative or Absolute? (abstract)
09:00
Well-Being as Need Satisfaction (abstract)
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Are evaluative incoherencies like Moorean incoherencies? (abstract)
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Personal identity and the non-identity problem in transformative experiences: do I hurt my possible future selves? (abstract)
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“She gave her consent to it, but does that mean that I am allowed to do it?” A Challenge to the Standard View of Consent (abstract)
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Should We Trust Our Moral Intuitions? (abstract)
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Well-Being and Capability Approach (abstract)
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Benevolent Risk-Taking (abstract)
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Trusting Strangers: Between Rationality and Morality (abstract)
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CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing and the concept of sensation bias (abstract)
09:00
Moral Generalizations are Genuinely Explanatory - CANCELLED (abstract)
09:00-23:59 Session 1D: Non-scheduled talks: History of Philosophy

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09:00
Descartes Victor - CANCELLED (abstract)
09:00
The Heiress to Logical Atomism: Dorothy Wrinch (abstract)
09:00
Perception As A Multi-Stage Process: A Reidian Account (abstract)
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Uncovering the Social Network of Recent Analytic Philosophy by the Analysis of Acknowledgments in Academic Publications (abstract)
09:00
Descartes’s Controversial Relations with the Thesis of the Privacy of Mind (abstract)
09:00
Hume is the Enemy of Pyrrho (abstract)
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Lewis’s Counterpart theory and the Aufbau (abstract)
09:00-23:59 Session 1E: Non-scheduled talks: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics

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Notional attitudes and type polymorphism: What am I thinking about when I am thinking about something? (abstract)
09:00
Conceptual analysis of processes in Transparent Intensional Logic based on the theory of verb-valency frames (abstract)
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Should We Gather Uncertain Evidence? (abstract)
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Cardinality and Vagueness (abstract)
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Inevitable restrictions on the explication of the notions of knowledge, belief, necessity and truth (abstract)
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Logical Form of Counting (abstract)
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Assumptions: A Problem for Bilateralism (abstract)
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Logical Expressivism and Pluralism (abstract)
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A fuzzy approach to gradedness and plurality (abstract)
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Intertranslatability and ground-equivalence between logics (abstract)
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Semantics for Modal Logics without Possible Worlds (abstract)
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Zig zag solutions for Russell's paradox (abstract)
09:00-23:59 Session 1F: Non-scheduled talks: Metaphysics

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09:00
Pitfalls of Physicalist Thinking (abstract)
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Dynamic Presentism and the Grounding Objection (abstract)
09:00
Challenging dispositional monism: the case of manifestation-relations (abstract)
09:00
Relevant Restrictions and the Metaphysical Autonomy of Ethics (abstract)
09:00
In Defence of Explanatory Realism (abstract)
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Fundamental Yet Grounded (abstract)
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Is there room for entanglement relations in the Humean mosaic? (abstract)
09:00
Men Made Objects. A Problem for the Philosophy of Artifacts (abstract)
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A potential contradiction? (abstract)
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The modal status of the laws of nature. Tahko's hybrid view and the kinematical/dynamical distinction. (abstract)
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From Metaphysics to Metametaphysics: A New Argument for the Fundamental/Derivative Distinction Thesis (abstract)
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Ontological Dependence as Grounding (abstract)
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Is Substance-Attribute Ontology of Particulars better than Trope Ontology? (abstract)
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Hylomorphs as Extended Simples (abstract)
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Qua-Objects, (Non-)Derivative Properties and the Consistency of Hylomorphism (abstract)
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How Dependence Can Ground Grounding (abstract)
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Biological continuity and the necessity of origin (abstract)
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On the (ir)reducibility of Aristotelian kinds (abstract)
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On Bow Ties and Cones (abstract)
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Truthmakers and Modality (abstract)
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From Paraphrase to Tolerance (abstract)
09:00
A Model for Aristocratic Resemblance Nominalism (abstract)
09:00
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's Views on Ontology (abstract)
09:00-23:59 Session 1G: Non-scheduled talks: Philosophy of Language

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09:00
Ascriptive Legal Utterance as a Speech Act (abstract)
09:00
Contextualism and Successful Communication (abstract)
09:00
Proper Names, Singular Thoughts, and Strong Acquaintance (abstract)
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Demonstrations as actions (abstract)
09:00
On Detonating (abstract)
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The expression of hate in hate speech (abstract)
09:00
Why conceptual engineers shouldn't worry about topics (abstract)
09:00
Concept Designators (abstract)
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Slurs as Cueing an Ideology and the Question of Authority (abstract)
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Is There a Conflict Between Local and Global Expressivism? (abstract)
09:00
Borderline utterances as weak assertives (abstract)
09:00
Two-layer Theory of Knowledge of Meaning (abstract)
09:00
Minimal Disagreement. A Semantical Ascent to the Disputes concerning Subjective Matters - CANCELLED (abstract)
09:00
Using semantic deference to test an extension of indexical externalism beyond natural-kind terms (abstract)
09:00
The Normative Nature of Hate Speech (abstract)
09:00
Two tales of the turnstile (abstract)
09:00
Challenges to the Neo-Davidsonian semantics of modifiers (abstract)
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The Epistemics of Utterance Accountability (abstract)
09:00
Theories of ad hoc categories: bridging the gap (abstract)
09:00
Representational structure of linguistic understanding (abstract)
09:00
Stalnaker on Externalism and Transparency (abstract)
09:00
Language logicality and pragmatics (abstract)
09:00
Towards a Semantic Theory of Complex Demonstratives (abstract)
09:00
Inter-contextual communication and modulation (abstract)
09:00
Are there higher-order speech acts? (abstract)
09:00
Non-attributive non-referential uses of definite descriptions and content pluralism - CANCELLED (abstract)
09:00
How to Count Partial Oranges - CANCELLED (abstract)
09:00
Against harmony (abstract)
09:00-23:59 Session 1H: Non-scheduled talks: Philosophy of Mind and Action

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Manipulation, Causal Processes, and Causal Integration: (abstract)
09:00
The Unconscious Mind and the Mark of the Mental – A Mechanistic Approach (abstract)
09:00
Unconscious phenomenality in the componential view of mental states (abstract)
09:00
Monochromatic Mary: Two Arguments from the Unity of Consciousness (abstract)
09:00
On the auditory experience of speech sounds and voices (abstract)
09:00
The Doxastic Heuristic and the Consequence Account of the Epistemic Side-Effect Effect (abstract)
09:00
Mental fictionalism, interpretivism and folk psychology (abstract)
09:00
The Subjective Character of Experience as a Mental Relation (Topic: Philosophy of Mind and Action) (abstract)
09:00
Strong and weak conceptualism (abstract)
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Constructivism, computation, and content (abstract)
09:00
Should Dualists Locate the Physical Basis of Experience Wholly within the Skin? (abstract)
09:00
Embodying and Naturalizing Phenomenal Intentionality (abstract)
09:00
First-Person Thought, De Se Skepticism and Concern for Ourselves (abstract)
09:00-23:59 Session 1I: Non-scheduled talks: Philosophy of Science

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09:00
Is Information-based Thermal Physics Scientifically Meaningful? (abstract)
09:00
Questions in a Formal Framework for a General Constructive Methodology in Philosophy (abstract)
09:00
Bayesian inference of concepts and similarity (abstract)
09:00
Can dispositions replace laws in the description of the physical world? (abstract)
09:00
The pessimistic meta-meta induction: one “meta” too many (abstract)
09:00
On the factivity of understanding without explanation (abstract)
09:00
Waismann’s Method of Philosophy (abstract)
09:00
Observation in Aristotle's Biology - CANCELLED (abstract)
09:00
A roadmap for interpreting fields that are both (dark) matter and (aspects of) spacetime (abstract)
09:00
Goodman’s Conception of Rightness in the Context of Philosophy of Science (abstract)
09:00
Plant Physiology and Plant Cognition (abstract)
09:00
Multiple Realization and Evolutionary Dynamics: A Game-Theoretic Approach (abstract)
09:00
What Programmability tells us about Computer Programs (abstract)
09:00
Is a Humean objective chance approach for the probabilities of Classical Statistical Mechanics possible? (abstract)
09:00-23:59 Session 1J: Non-scheduled talks: Social and Political Philosophy

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09:00
Nudges, Nudging, and Self-Governance (abstract)
09:00
Resource curse, self-determination and immigration (abstract)
09:00
Political Parties in J.S. Mill's Account of Democratic Legitimacy (abstract)
Monday, August 24th

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11:00-12:00 Session 3A: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics I: history of logic

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Informal and absolute provability - from Kreisel and Gödel to Prawitz and Girard (abstract)
11:00
A Solution to the Paradoxes of Grounding Inspired by Bolzano (abstract)
11:00
Grundgesetze der Arithmetik I §66 (abstract)
11:00
Fregean Definitions and Abstraction Principles: A response to Cook and Ebert (abstract)
11:00-12:00 Session 3B: Metaphysics I: being, identity

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On the Possibility of Presentist Perdurantism (abstract)
11:00
Equivocal Identity for Fictional Objects (abstract)
11:00
The Privacy of Consciousness Problem for Panpsychism (abstract)
11:00
Consequentia Mirabilis and the Paradox of Non-Being: A (Onto)Logical Perspective (abstract)
11:00
Information-Theoretic Real Patterns (abstract)
14:00-15:00 Session 4A: Philosophy of Mind and Action I: agency

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14:00
Forgiveness as a Middle Way between Free Will Skepticism and Compatibilism (abstract)
14:00
Can ability be represented modally? (abstract)
14:00
Free will, control, and the possibility to do otherwise from a causal modeler’s perspective (abstract)
14:00
How to explain spontaneous group actions (abstract)
14:00
Towards a middle-ground theory of agency for artificial intelligence (abstract)
14:00-15:00 Session 4B: Ethics I: responsibility

Live Q&A

Location: Ethics channel
14:00
Intelligent Systems and Responsibility Gaps (abstract)
14:00
The social learning pathway to moral responsibility (abstract)
14:00
Is Lying Morally Worse Than Merely Deceiving? An Examination of the Responsibility Argument (abstract)
14:00
Positive Voting Duties for Democratic Citizens: Procedural and Epistemic (abstract)
14:00
Morality and Authoritative Normativity (abstract)
16:00-17:00 Session 5: Invited talk: Sandrine Bergès

Invited talk

Location: General channel
16:00
Early Modern Women Philosophers on Virtue and Obligation (abstract)
20:00-22:00 Session 6: Keynote: Quassim Cassam

KEYNOTE: Quassim Cassam

Location: General channel
20:00
Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis (abstract)
Tuesday, August 25th

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11:00-12:00 Session 7A: Epistemology I: social epistemology

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Propositional and Objectual Knowledge of Other Minds (abstract)
11:00
Post-Truth: Science Denialism and the Vagaries of Normative Deviance in Enquiry (abstract)
11:00
Alethic relativism in neopragmatism. Some problems and one solution. (abstract)
11:00
A Social Epistemological Defence of Cornell Realism (abstract)
11:00
Relevance Uncertainty in Rational Choice Theory (abstract)
11:00-12:00 Session 7B: Philosophy of Mind and Action II: cognitive science

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Do structural representations meet the job description challenge? (abstract)
11:00
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and its consequences for free will, autonomy and responsibility (abstract)
11:00
The Hard, the Easy, and the Meta (abstract)
11:00
Creature Consciousness: Much More Pivotal in The Problem of Consciousness Than Usually Thought (abstract)
11:00
The influence of cognition on perception given differences in format (abstract)
11:00
Seeing colours unconsciously (abstract)
11:00-12:00 Session 7C: Social and Political Philosophy I: social philosophy

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Coexisting with artificial agents in the realm of social cognition (abstract)
11:00
Security and Human Flourishing (abstract)
11:00
From Relational Equality to Personal Responsibility (abstract)
11:00
The strong sense of 'we' - CANCELLED (abstract)
11:00
Is "deep ecology" wrong or just incomplete? (abstract)
14:00-15:00 Session 8A: Ethics II: moral reasoning

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Location: Ethics channel
14:00
Intuition in Moral Reasoning: an Integrated Account (abstract)
14:00
Conceptual ethics and moral disagreement - CANCELLED (abstract)
14:00
The Limits of Cooperation-Centred Approaches to Morality (abstract)
14:00
Attitudinal Ambivalence: moral uncertainty for non-cognitivists (abstract)
14:00
Moral Ambivalences of the Objective Stance (abstract)
14:00
Does the Queerness Argument presuppose Scientism? - CANCELLED (abstract)
14:00
New experimental work on moral disagreement (abstract)
14:00-15:00 Session 8B: History of Philosophy I

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14:00
Arthur N. Prior and the Lvov-Warsaw School (abstract)
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Does Aristotle’s ‘Being Is Not a Genus’ Argument Entail Ontological Pluralism? (abstract)
14:00
When analytic philosophy meets phenomenology. The case from Lvov-Warsaw School (abstract)
14:00
What is holism in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus? (corrected submission) (abstract)
14:00
The Role of Constructions and the Operationalist Tradition in Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics (abstract)
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Frege’s Puzzle against Formalism [History of Philosophy] (abstract)
14:00-15:00 Session 8D: Philosophy of Science I: general philosophy of science

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What does ‘cause’ stand for in non-causal explanation? Factive and non-factive aspects of scientific explanation. (abstract)
14:00
Unifying Unification (abstract)
14:00
Adaptive Preferences: The Case for Preference-based Freedom Rankings (abstract)
14:00
Scientific Representation, Make-Believe and the Factivity of Model-Based Understanding (abstract)
14:00
The Many Faces of Scientific Self-Correction (abstract)
20:00-22:00 Session 10: Keynote: Kathrin Glüer-Pagin

KEYNOTE: Kathrin Glüer-Pagin

Location: General channel
20:00
Proper Names, Propositions, and Relevant Data (abstract)
Wednesday, August 26th

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11:00-12:00 Session 11A: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics II: logic

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11:00
Revision Operator Semantics (abstract)
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A Monist Guide to Logical Pluralism (abstract)
11:00
Quantifiers: Higher-order Predicates or Choice Functions? (abstract)
11:00
The Logic and Semantics of Procedural Postulation (abstract)
11:00
Theories of change in logic LC. The problem of definability (abstract)
11:00
Brier Score and Elimination Counterexamples - CANCELLED (abstract)
11:00
Fairness and Justified Representation in Judgment Aggregation and Belief Merging - CANCELLED (abstract)
11:00-12:00 Session 11B: Philosophy of Language I: meaning, communication

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Discursive pluralism, expressivism, and the integration challenge (abstract)
11:00
Fregeanism or Magnetism, but Not Both (abstract)
11:00
What Is a Conspiracy Theory? (abstract)
11:00
Constitutive Rules, Meaning and Action (abstract)
11:00
The Classificatory Theory of Propositions and Indexical Communication (abstract)
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What does the data regarding (un)succesful communication tell us about the meaning of proper names and other referential expressions? (abstract)
11:00-12:00 Session 11C: Aesthetics I

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Adverbial Experience: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Art (abstract)
11:00
Understanding site-specific art (abstract)
11:00
Science Fiction as a Genre (abstract)
11:00
Some principles for a syncretic theory of pictures (abstract)
14:00-15:00 Session 12A: Epistemology II: epistemic virtue

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Methodological triangulation and the value of epistemic modesty (abstract)
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Saltatoric Belief: Why Anxious Rumination and Mild Superstition are not Irrational (abstract)
14:00
Vice epistemology and the unity of virtue (abstract)
14:00
Intellectual Autonomy is Intellectual Non-domination (abstract)
14:00
Institutional Vice and Corrupted Epistemic Ethos (abstract)
14:00
Doing Thought Experiments Without Intuitive Justification: The Recognitional View (abstract)
14:00-15:00 Session 12B: Metaphysics II: causes, powers, essences

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An Analysis of Actual Causation (abstract)
14:00
Powers Metaphysics as Idealism (abstract)
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The general in the particular: towards a (neo) Aristotelian view of essences and kinds (abstract)
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Essences as Metaphysical Explanantia (abstract)
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How to Cause the Inevitable (abstract)
14:00-15:00 Session 12C: Philosophy of Science II: philosophy of the sciences

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Endogenization in evolutionary biology: epistemic and conceptual intricacies (abstract)
14:00
Some metaphysical consequences of parity violation (abstract)
14:00
Relational Quantum Mechanics & Structural Realism (abstract)
14:00
Understanding From Machine Learning? Link Uncertainty, Why-Opacity, and the Problem of the Best Explanatory Model (abstract)
14:00
Minimal foundations for behavioural welfare economics and uncontroversial preference purification (abstract)
16:00-17:00 Session 13: Invited talk: Fabrice Correia

Invited talk

Location: General channel
16:00
Fundamentality from Grounding and Kinds (abstract)
Thursday, August 27th

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11:00-12:00 Session 15A: Epistemology III: theories of knowledge

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Epistemic closure and context-sensitivity (abstract)
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The New A Priori and Why it is Methodologically Useless (abstract)
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Epistemically Anxious Ascribers (abstract)
11:00
Domain-Free Pluralist Theory of Truth (abstract)
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Subject matters for counterpossibles (abstract)
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The problem of easy knowledge in Relevant Alternatives Theories of knowledge (abstract)
11:00-12:00 Session 15B: Ethics III: applied ethics

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Location: Ethics channel
11:00
Consent and Living Organ Donation (abstract)
11:00
On Moral Sanctions. A Comprehensive Conceptual Framework (abstract)
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Are we justified in believing that post-persons are physically possible? (abstract)
11:00
Emotions and reason-sensitivity (abstract)
11:00
Human Nature, Universal Values, and Well-Being (abstract)
14:00-15:00 Session 16A: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics III: mathematics

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Analogical Results as Data for Theory Choice in Mathematical Research: The Case of Infinite Graph Theory (abstract)
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Mutual Grounding for Weak Mathematical Structuralism (WMS): the Identity Problem Reconsidered (abstract)
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Inference to the Best Explanation and Explanatory Generality (abstract)
14:00
Helmholtz and Mach on the Foundations of Geometry (abstract)
14:00-15:00 Session 16B: Social and Political Philosophy II: political philosophy

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The Underlying Complaint against the Political Institution of Marriage (abstract)
14:00
Is a merely National “Universal” Basic Income Unjust? (abstract)
14:00
You Might be an Anarchist if... (abstract)
14:00
On the idea of a Basic Universal Genetic Endowment (abstract)
14:00
The Moral Function of Deliberative Democracy (abstract)
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Libertarianism and Inheritance Taxation (abstract)
14:00
Political Agency in Non-Ideal Circumstances: Democratic Equality and Epistemic Injustice (abstract)
16:00-17:00 Session 17: Invited talk: Cezary Cieśliński

Invited talk

Location: General channel
16:00
Mathematical and philosophical logic: the case of truth theories (abstract)
Friday, August 28th

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11:00-12:00 Session 19A: Epistemology IV: knowledge and action

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The causal theory of knowledge revisited: An interventionist approach (abstract)
11:00
Upstream and Downstream Abilities in Understanding-Why (abstract)
11:00
Epistemology through manipulated moving image (abstract)
11:00
Against Normative Defeat (abstract)
11:00
A probabilistic-functional approach to perspectivism and a case study (abstract)
11:00-12:00 Session 19B: Philosophy of Language II: language and logic

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Externalism, correctness and inferential theories of meaning (abstract)
11:00
Force Cancellation and Force Liberation (abstract)
11:00
Topic continuity in light of conceptual replacement (abstract)
11:00
Vagueness as dispersion (abstract)
11:00
Answering Wh-questions by natural deduction (abstract)
14:00-15:00 Session 20A: Philosophy of Mind and Action III: intentionality, attention

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Authority as Shared Intentions (abstract)
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Does non-cognitivism imply motivational internalism? - CANCELLED (abstract)
14:00
Bye Bye Blockhead (abstract)
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Opening up the Openness of Joint Attention (abstract)
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The Embodied Self and the Pattern Theory of Self (abstract)
14:00-15:00 Session 20B: Metaphysics III: ontology, mereology

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Mereology as a philosophical method (abstract)
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Instantaneous velocity – the lasting ontology solution (abstract)
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Actualism, counterpart theory and metaphysical anti-haecceitism (abstract)
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Main Questions of Metaphysics - A Formal Ontological Account (abstract)
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Who is afraid of the monster in the sandwich? (abstract)