PROGRAM
Days: Monday, August 21st Tuesday, August 22nd Wednesday, August 23rd Thursday, August 24th Friday, August 25th
Monday, August 21st
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14:00-15:50 Session 2: Opening Remarks & Presidential Address
Opening Remarks: Hans Bernhard Schmid, Dean of Faculty of Philosophy and Education, University of Vienna. (14:00-14:05)
Presidential Address: Katalin Farkas, President, European Society for Analytic Philosophy (14:05-15:50)
Chair:
Location: Audi Max
On Character (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 3A: Symposium: Alois Höfler in Vienna
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 6
Alois Höfler in Vienna (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 3B: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 16:10 | A critique of the two-dimensional semantics of psychiatric terms (abstract) |
| 16:50 | How Sensorimotor Processes Gain Intentionality (abstract) |
| 17:30 | (Fictional-)Imaginings are Entertainings (in a Project) (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 3C: Epistemology; credence
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 16:10 | A match made in (rational) heaven? How credences relate to probability beliefs (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Fitting Credencs: Not for Free! (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Doxastic Gradualism WIthout Credences (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 3D: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 16:10 | If Numbers, Then Internal Relations (abstract) |
| 16:50 | [CANCELLED] Ready Player Two? Joint action and the limitations of methodological individualism in the philosophy of games. (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Spontaneity in Kant’s Discussion of Infinite Series in the Critique of Pure Reason (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 3E: Ethics; moral progress
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 16:10 | Is Moral Progress an Illusion? (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Moral Intuitions as an Obstacle to Moral Progress (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Moral progress as progress in understanding: two problems (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 3F: Philosophy of Language
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 16:10 | The expression of anger (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Testing the reference of proper names: an eye-tracking study (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Linguistic Diversity and Retraction: An English-Spanish Cross-Linguistic Study (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 3G: Philosophy of Science
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 16:10 | The formal structure(s) of analogical inference (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Conceptual Spaces: A Solution to Goodman’s New Riddle of Induction? (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Computer simulation vs. computer-aided proof – a priori or a posteriori? (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 3H: History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 16:10 | On the Separation of Aristotle's Universal Substances (abstract) |
| 16:50 | EXPLANATORY AND THEORETICAL COMMITMENTS IN ARISTOTLE'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Completeness in the Prior Analytics (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 3I: Social and Political Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 16:10 | LEVELS OF NORMATIVE POLITICAL THEORY (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Relational Equality and The Social Realm: A Scheme on How and Where to Apply the Requirements of Relational Equality. (abstract) |
| 17:30 | The Problem of Political Authority Revisited (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 3J: Logic and Philosophy of Maths
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 5
| 16:10 | On Axiom Selection (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Extremal Assumptions in the Foundations of Mathematics (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Alethic Pluralism and Kripkean Truth (abstract) |
Tuesday, August 22nd
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08:50-10:45 Session 4A: Symposium: The Language of Prejudice
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 5
The Language of Prejudice (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 4B: Symposium: New Trends in Food Ontology
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 6
New Trends in Food Ontology (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 4C: Philosophy of Mind and Action; perception
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 1
| 08:50 | Can the Nyaya Account of Disjunctivism handle Nanay’s Objections to Disjunctivism via Illusions? (abstract) |
| 09:30 | [CANCELLED] Disjunctivism about inner experience (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Naïve Realism and (Some) High-Level Illusions (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 4D: Logic and Philosophy of Maths
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 2
| 08:50 | What is a good argument? (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Logic and Neutrality (abstract) |
| 10:10 | What absurdity is not: structural approach, empty sets, and empty spaces (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 4E: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 3
| 08:50 | Against Two-Faced Eternalism (abstract) |
| 09:30 | The Having-Grown-Block Theory of Time (abstract) |
| 10:10 | A Fatalistic Block? (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 4F: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 08:50 | Should we believe in neural structural representations? (abstract) |
| 09:30 | [CANCELLED] A Defence of Mechanistic Computation (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Can Marr’s levels of analysis provide a general template for understanding psychological phenomena? An active inference perspective (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 4G: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 08:50 | The logical epistemology of logical anti-exceptionalism. (abstract) |
| 09:30 | The Logic of Abductive Inference (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Is Risk an Objective Feature of the World? (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 4H: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 08:50 | Supersubstantivalism and Events (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Overcoming Mereological and Measure-theoretical Difficulties to Provide Spatial Extension (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Aristotelian universals and ways of being (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 4I: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 08:50 | Resistible Nudges (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Taking responsibility for actions of others (abstract) |
| 10:10 | A New Account of the Nature of Excuses (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 4J: Philosophy of Language: conceptual engineering
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 08:50 | Linguistic Imposters (abstract) |
| 09:30 | [CANCELLED] Conceptual inflation and the ethics of attention (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Reference Magnetism, Conceptual Engineering and Inferentialism (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 4K: Philosophy of Science: laws
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 08:50 | Physical modality for physical laws: an empiricist perspective (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Laws as the best systematizations of facts vs. laws as the best fact-constraining "algorithms": on the inequivalence of two conceptions of laws of nature (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Laws and powers in light of the wave function (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 4L: History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 08:50 | Wilfrid Sellars on normative statements – expressivist or metalinguistic? (abstract) |
| 09:30 | The Transcendentalism of Stanley Cavell (abstract) |
| 10:10 | The Pittsburgh school and its consequences: A Hegelian stage for analytical philosophy and an analytical stage for Hegelianism? (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 4M: Social and Political Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 08:50 | Resolving problems with regards to the political representation of animals (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Toward a New Theory of Moderate Contingentism (abstract) |
| 10:10 | [CANCELLED] Human Rights or Person Rights? Using Parfit to rethink Human Rights (abstract) |
10:45-11:10Coffee Break
Venue: Arkadenhof
11:10-13:05 Session 5A: Symposium: Beyond the Limits of the Doxastic: New Directions in Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 5
Beyond The limits of the Doxastic — New directions in Epistemology (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 5B: Symposium: Normativity and Politically Contested Concepts
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 6
Normativity & Politically contested concepts (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 5C: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 1
| 11:10 | Attachments as drives (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Understanding Recalcitrant Mental States: Emotions, Perceptions, and Intuitions (abstract) |
| 12:30 | [CANCELLED] Taking the Attitudinal Approach to the Metaphysics of Emotions (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 5D: Logic and Philosophy of Maths
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 2
| 11:10 | Mathematical knowledge: De dicto and de re (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Mathematical pluralism and the continuum (abstract) |
| 12:30 | The V-logic Multiverse and Benacerraf problem (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 5E: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 3
| 11:10 | Meta-Fictionalism about the Non-Present (abstract) |
| 11:50 | FICTIONAL CREATIONISM AND THE PROBLEM OF FICTIONAL NEGATIVE EXISTENTIAL (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Artifact Concept Pluralism (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 5F: Philosophy of Mind and Action; belief
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 11:10 | Overlap: On the Relation Between Perceiving and Believing (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Alief as conceptual engineering (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Turner’s argument and the normativity of belief (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 5G: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 11:10 | Phenomenal Mismatch and Perceptual Justification (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Experience as a Source of Knowledge: Why Hallucinations Cannot Be Perfectly Veridical (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Contextualism, Wide-Scoping, and the Hypothetical Given (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 5H: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 11:10 | One-Many Identity, Anti-Humean Accounts of Causation, and Counting (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Humean Laws and the Evaluation of Counterfactuals (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Explanatory Realism and Counterfactuals (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 5I: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 11:10 | What Do Ethical Theories Explain? (abstract) |
| 11:50 | [CANCELLED] AI and the Abundance of Responsibility (abstract) |
| 12:30 | [CANCELLED] Bringing objectivity to perspectivism (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 5J: Philosophy of Language: propositions and content
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 11:10 | Propositional contents as forms (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Loose talk about propositions (abstract) |
| 12:30 | What we Learn from Indicatives (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 5K: Philosophy of Science: Theories & Models
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 11:10 | Theories Transcended? Theory-Centrism and Supra-Theoretical Units of Analysis in Twentieth-Century Formal Philosophy of Science (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Feynman Diagrams providing Understanding as Toy Models (abstract) |
| 12:30 | A Pragmatist Reformulation of Artifactualism (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 5L: History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 11:10 | Love’s Present and Love’s Past: Some Early Modern Views on Love, And What We Might Still Learn from Them (abstract) |
| 11:50 | What is the target of Kant’s Transcendental Deduction? (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Kant's antirealism and the knowability paradox (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 5M: Social and Political Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 11:10 | Epistemic Accountability for Political Judgment & the Demands of Public Respect (abstract) |
| 11:50 | The Strength of the State Neutrality Principle (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Liberal Neutrality and the Effects of Democratic Design (abstract) |
13:05-14:30Lunch Break
Lunch at own arrangement.
14:30-15:45 Session 6A: Social and Political Philosophy Keynote Address: Paula Casal
Keynote Address — Paula Casal
Chair:
Location: Big Hörsaal
Distributive Justice and Animals. Reflections on the Problem of Mice (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 6B: Philosophy of Mind and Action; mindreading
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 1
| 14:30 | Dehumanization Trouble: How Dehumanization Might Hinder Forms of Mindreading. (abstract) |
| 15:10 | In Defence of Mindreading (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 6C: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 2
| 14:30 | Holocultural Moral Psychology Supports the Mind-Dependence of Moral Normativity (abstract) |
| 15:10 | The game of life. On the combination of pathocentric environmental ethics and game theory. (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 6D: Epistemology/Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 14:30 | The Epistemic Value of Expressive Music (abstract) |
| 15:10 | [Cancelled] The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Taste (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 6E: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 14:30 | Are Strawsonian Strategies Viable for the Problem of Doxastic Responsibility? (abstract) |
| 15:10 | NO POSITIVE EPISTEMIC DUTIES FOR KNOWLEDGE-FIRSTERS (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 6F: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 14:30 | The consistency of error theory (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Neo-Humean Moral Contingentism (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 6G: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 14:30 | Action for Ethicists (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Moral Motivation: What Counts? (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 6H: Philosophy of Language
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 14:30 | Grammatical Gender: The Expressive Dimension (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Artificial Intelligence and Human Consciousness: Notes Toward a Natural Philosophy of Writing (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 6I: Philosophy of Science: Kinds
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 14:30 | Ontological Pluralism and Value-Laden Kinds (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Measuring the arbitrariness of categorization (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 6J: History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 14:30 | Opposites. The difficult case of change and rest (abstract) |
| 15:10 | What the bow and the barley-drink have in common: ordinary examples as exploratory models in Heraclitus (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 6K: Philosophy of Religion
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 14:30 | Faith, Doubt, and Commitment (abstract) |
| 15:10 | A Modalist Interpretation of the Modal Ontological Argument (abstract) |
15:45-16:10Coffee Break
Venue: Arkadenhof
16:10-17:25 Session 7A: Philosophy of Mind Keynote Address: Bence Nanay
Keynote Address — Bence Nanay
Chair:
Location: Big Hörsaal
Translucent beliefs (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 7B: Logic and Philosophy of Maths
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 1
| 16:10 | Meaning as Use, Rule-bending, and AI safety (abstract) |
| 16:50 | A rose by any other name: yet another way of being supervaluationist (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Reflection and Believability: On the epistemic approach to justifying implicit commitments (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 7C: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 2
| 16:10 | Strawsonian Resentment and Nietzschean Resentment: Not so Different After All (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Reimagining Strawson's Arguments and the Conative Ability to Intend Otherwise (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Deprived due to an Untimely Existence: An Assessment of the Historical Condition (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 7D: Aesthetics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 16:10 | Does the Philosophy of Fiction Rest on a Mistake? (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Process Aesthetics and Music (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Creativity, Two-Fold (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 7E: Epistemology; rationality
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 16:10 | Epistemic Rationality, Eliteness and Reference Magnetism (abstract) |
| 16:50 | An Externalist Systems-Critique of Pure Rationality (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Bridging the gap between the normative and the descriptive: Bounded epistemic rationality (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 7F: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 16:10 | Plurals without a hierarchy (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Why Being Fragments (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Non-Maximalism Reconsidered: Truthmaking and the Dependence of Truths on Being (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 7G: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 16:10 | Kantian Doubts about Categorical Imperatives (abstract) |
| 16:50 | A Kantian Solution to the Paradox of Exploitation (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Asymmetric Moral Responsibility (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 7H: Philosophy of Language: Polysemy and Ambiguity
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Location: Seminar Room 5
| 16:10 | A Puzzle about Mental Lexicons and Semantic Relatedness (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Are Natural Kind Terms Ambiguous? (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Exploiting Ambiguities (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 7I: Philosophy of Science: Scientfic realism
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 16:10 | The abundance of scientific evidence for our best theories: Too much of a good thing? (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Is selective realism (inevitably) a position about future science? (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Realism about Effective Theories: The Case for Gravitational Forces (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 7J: History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 16:10 | Russell’s Tiergarten Programme and the Rise of Analytic Philosophy (abstract) |
| 16:50 | On Russell’s Scientific Method(s) in Philosophy (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Bradley vs Russell on the Metaphysics of Relations (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 7K: Social and Political Philosophy
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Location: Seminar Room 8
| 16:10 | Kant and The Settler Contract (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Normalizing Things with Words: On Speech and Oppressive Norms (abstract) |
| 17:30 | A Philosophical Colour Line? Racism and Political Philosophy (abstract) |
Wednesday, August 23rd
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08:50-10:45 Session 8A: Symposium: Indeterminacy in the World
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Location: Hörsaal 5
Indeterminacy in the World (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 8B: Symposium: a Semantic Problem of Divine Names
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 6
A Semantic Problem of Divine Names (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 8C: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 1
| 08:50 | Non-Factualism as an Explanatory Framework for Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Grasping numbers without our hands (abstract) |
| 10:10 | The Embodied Self and the Faculty of Touch (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 8D: Logic and Philosophy of Maths
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 2
| 08:50 | How to convince the classical logician that distribution can be dropped (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Absolute Generality and Revision Theories of Definitions. (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Relevance Logic and Classical Tautologies (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 8E: Metaphysics
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Location: Hörsaal 3
| 08:50 | Anchoring, Grounding, and Explanatory Laws (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Essence, Dependence, and Fundamentality (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Dispositional Essentialism and the Connections between Essence and Ground (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 8F: Philosophy of Mind and Action; mind and body
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Location: Seminar Room 1
| 08:50 | Physicalism and the Intuition of Dualism (abstract) |
| 09:30 | The Boundary Problem: Why Constitutive Panpsychists Should Endorse a Powerful Qualities Theory of Properties (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Causal versus epiphenomenalist dualism (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 8G: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 08:50 | A Restriction on Accounts of Individual Intellectual Virtues (abstract) |
| 09:30 | The Sensitivity of Legal Proof (abstract) |
| 10:10 | The bootstrapping problem for epistemological disjunctivism (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 8H: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 08:50 | Quine, Ontology, and Ontological Commitment (abstract) |
| 09:30 | [CANCELLED] Reification As Higher-Order Construction (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Formalizations of Ontological Commitment (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 8I: AI and Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 08:50 | [Shifted from 5I] Virtue Constitutivism (abstract) |
| 09:30 | You’ll never coach alone: AI, virtue ethics, and the future of meaningful work in football (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Artificial Intelligence & Medicine: Bridging the Trust Gap (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 8J: Philosophy of Language
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 08:50 | "If", "only if" and related matters (abstract) |
| 09:30 | A Markov chain model for conditionals (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Epistemic versus Objectively Relevant Possibilities (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 8K: Philosophy of Science
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 08:50 | Aesthetic considerations in the development of plate tectonics (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Boundary organisations and the democratisation of science (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Kitcher and naturalised philosophy of science (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 8L: History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 08:50 | Wittgenstein’s letter to Russell and the significance of ‘N(ξ)’ (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Was Wittgenstein a Reductionist or a Quietist about Meaning? (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Wittgenstein’s Conception of Understanding Nonsense (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 8M: Social and Political Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 08:50 | Uncontacted Peoples and Global Justice (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Option value and the open future (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Reconceptualizing Self-Determination as An Eco-Political Principle for Justifying Territorial Rights (abstract) |
10:45-11:10Coffee Break
Venue: Arkadenhof
11:10-13:05 Session 9A: Symposium: Causes and Correlations
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 5
Causes and Correlations (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 9B: Symposium: New Work on the Guise of Good
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Location: Hörsaal 6
New Work on the Guise of the Good (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 9C: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 1
| 11:10 | Doing Mental Practice Well (abstract) |
| 11:50 | When wine smells like sewage: lessons from parosmia (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Perceptions of Time and Freedom in Dementia and Its Effects on Well-Being (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 9D: Logic and Philosophy of Maths
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Location: Hörsaal 2
| 11:10 | Fixing Montague's Problem (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Sleeping Beauty's Best Guess (abstract) |
| 12:30 | [CANCELLED] Two Approaches to the Access Problem (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 9E: Aesthetics
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 3
| 11:10 | Immorality in architecture as an alienating experience (abstract) |
| 11:50 | [CANCELLED] It just doesn’t feel right: Unravelling Imaginative Resistance and Affective Empathy (abstract) |
| 12:30 | May an Artist’s Moral Ill Repute Affect the Meaning of Their Work? An Argument for an Intrinsic Relationship (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 9F: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 11:10 | Understanding empathy: A multi-component model and its application to nonhuman animals (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Extended Animal Cognition (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Reasons, Actions, and Animals (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 9G: Epistemology: scepticism
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Location: Seminar Room 2
| 11:10 | Pragmatic anti-skepticism and changing values (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Excess of scepticism (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Transcendental Arguments: Some Varieties (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 9H: Metaphysics
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Location: Seminar Room 3
| 11:10 | Animalism and Conjoined Twinning: The Psychological Disunity View (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Sentience animalism (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Biological Indeterminism and the Function(s) of Natural Freedom (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 9I: Ethics: Ethics and Society
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 11:10 | Complicity and Academic Publishing (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Friendship & Polyamory: Can Friends Be Romantic Partners? (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Climate change and permissible procreation – The collective obligation to reach Net Zero (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 9J: Philosophy of Language
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 11:10 | Map pragmatics: in defense of a contextualist approach (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Plural Predication and the Pragmatics of Bare Plurals (abstract) |
| 12:30 | [CANCELLED] Syntax and Logic Interface: The Logicality of Language Hypothesis (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 9K: Philosophy of Science
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 11:10 | Conspiracy Theories Are Not Theories (abstract) |
| 11:50 | All that glitters is not a deduction: Non-deductive methods in computational modelling (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Indicative Difference-Making (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 9L: History of Philosophy
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Location: Seminar Room 7
| 11:10 | The roots of metaphysical physicalism in logical empiricism: Carnap’s views on belief (abstract) |
| 11:50 | van Fraassen's Voluntarist Interpretation of Logical Empiricism (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Pascual, Russell, Carnap, and the Birth of Analytic Philosophy in the Philippines (abstract)  |
11:10-13:05 Session 9M: Social and Political Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 11:10 | Two Faces of Group Agency (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Binding the Present and the Future: Transgenerational Social Actions as Joint Commitments. (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Is the State the Polity? (abstract) |
13:05-14:30Lunch Break
Lunch at own arrangement.
14:30-15:45 Session 10A: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics Keynote Address: Øystein Linnebo
Keynote Address — Øystein Linnebo
Chair:
Location: Big Hörsaal
Potentialism in the Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 10B: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 1
| 14:30 | A Phenomenal Character-based Account of the Phenomenal Unity of Consciousness (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Structuralist representationalism about phenomenal consciousness (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 10C: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 2
| 14:30 | Epistemic Akrasia and Constraints on the Formation of Beliefs (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Transient Epistemic Akrasia (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 10D: Philosophy of Mind and Action; inner speech
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 14:30 | Inner speech consists in false percepts, not images (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Inner Speech as Mental Action (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 10E: Epistemology: Hinge Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 14:30 | An Analysis of Bias and Distrust in Social Hinge Epistemology (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Baby logic – a hinge epistemology (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 10F: History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 14:30 | ARISTOTELIAN POLITICAL TELEOLOGY (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Aristotle on the purpose of our language (logos) and its relation to our ultra-sociality (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 10G: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 14:30 | Thomson on abortion: reflections on the violinist example (abstract) |
| 15:10 | The Good, the Bad, and the Meaningful (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 10H: Philosophy of Language: Dogwhistles
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 14:30 | What Dogwhistles Do (abstract) |
| 15:10 | REVAMPING THE AMBIGUITY VIEW: THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DOGWHISTLES AND OTHER CODED EXPRESSIONS (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 10I: Philosophy of Science: Explanation
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 14:30 | Elucidating and Embedding: Two Functions of How-Possibly Explanations (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Structural representations as the result of complexity management (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 10J: History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 14:30 | Putnam and Kripke on Reference, Essence, and Natural Kinds (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Prior, Kripke and the genesis of a possible world semantics for branching time (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 10K: Social and Political Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 14:30 | Silencing (conversational) silences? (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Fricker and Lyotard on Epistemic Injustice (abstract) |
15:45-16:10Coffee Break
Venue: Arkadenhof
16:10-17:25 Session 11A: Metaphysics Keynote Address: Kathrin Koslicki
Keynote Address — Kathrin Koslicki
Chair:
Location: Big Hörsaal
The “Reduction” of Necessity to Non-Modal Essence (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 11B: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 1
| 16:10 | Therapeutic self-understanding (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Transformative Imagination: Imaginative Constraints as a Solution to the Challenge posed by Transformative Experience (abstract) |
| 17:30 | [CANCELLED] Metacognitive Upskilling to Combat Unconscious Bias (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 11C: Epistemology: Trust
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 2
| 16:10 | Caveat Usor: Artificial Intelligence, Epistemic Trust, and Epistemic Vigilance (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Dogmatism, Trust, and Social Positioning (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Retraction and Trust (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 11D: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 16:10 | Moral responsibility in addiction: without blame, with a nurturing stance (abstract) |
| 16:50 | The conditional account of compulsions (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Transparency in Panic (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 11E: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 16:10 | Ownership Matters (abstract) |
| 16:50 | An Epistemic Norm for Group Disagreements (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Towards an epistemic, non-individualistic account of Individual Moral Progress (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 11F: Logic and Philosophy of Maths
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 16:10 | Knowing disjunctions with the help of logical grounding (abstract) |
| 16:50 | On some first-order connexive logics (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Apparent Paradoxes are Paradoxes and the Problem of Change is an Apparent Paradox (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 11G: Ethics: Rights, Duties, and Obligations
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 16:10 | Risks and the Reliability of Rights (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Consent-sensitive duties and children (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Moral Obligations Without Moral Reasons (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 11H: Philosophy of Language
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 16:10 | Indexicals and linguistic data (abstract) |
| 16:50 | [CANCELLED] Unarticulated constituents versus ad hoc concepts (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Defererd reference and indexicality of proper names (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 11I: Philosophy of Science / History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 16:10 | Statistical learning theory and Occam's razor (abstract) |
| 16:50 | The Maxim of Probabilism (abstract) |
| 17:30 | History of Social Choice: Pliny the Younger and Single-Peaked Preferences (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 11J: History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 16:10 | Analytic Bergsonism (abstract) |
| 16:50 | The Third Dogma in Retrospect: Davidson’s Attack on Radically Alien Conceptual Schemes at 50 (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Davidson on Animal Minds: Weakening Morgan's Canon (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 11K: Social and Political Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 16:10 | Global Solidarity (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Why Politically Separated: A Kantian Principle of Political Community (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Trust and Variations of Care (abstract) |
Thursday, August 24th
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08:50-10:45 Session 12A: Symposium: Political Epistemology of Argumentation
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 5
Political Epistemology of Argumentation (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 12B: Symposium: Predicting the future: The challenges and the moral importance of doing so"
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 6
Predicting the future: The challenges and the moral importance of doing so (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 12C: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 1
| 08:50 | A revised account of agency as skilled performance in a value-shaping environment (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Actions, Normative Reasons, and Causes (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Do actions have no metaphysical identity? (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 12D: Epistemology: testimony
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 2
| 08:50 | Testimonial Sincerity and Selfless Assurances (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Testimony, Productivity, and the Balance of Epistemic Goals (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Passive Testimony and Epistemic Credit (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 12E: Logic and Philosophy of Maths
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 3
| 08:50 | Securing Arithmetical Determinacy (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Two's Company –– Enough to Derive the Basic Laws of Arithmetic (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Admissible and Deviant Gödel Numberings (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 12F: Philosophy of Mind and Action; belief
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 08:50 | Before Belief – Knowledge and Pretence (abstract) |
| 09:30 | The Active Unconscious: The Limits of the Extended Mind (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Knowledge-first dispositionalism about belief (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 12G: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 08:50 | Public Credibility Dysfunction and Unsafe Political Beliefs (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Unconcern for truth and insouciance. From Frankfurt’s account to Vices Epistemology. (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Conspiracies, Resistance to Falsification, and Counter-evidential Reasoning (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 12H: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 08:50 | Understanding as the Aim of Metaphysics (abstract) |
| 09:30 | On Progress in Metaphysics (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Which Method for Engineering Concepts and Technologies? (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 12I: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 08:50 | A Causal Analysis of Harm (abstract) |
| 09:30 | [CANCELLED] Towards a Fitting-Object Analysis of Goodness (abstract) |
| 10:10 | What's Wrong with Parfit's Agony Argument? (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 12J: Philosophy of Language
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 08:50 | Incomplete understanding as a basis of modes of presentation (abstract) |
| 09:30 | From Mental Files to Mental Points (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Concerns about truth-conditions of representations (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 12K: Philosophy of Science: philosophy of biology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 08:50 | [CANCELLED] The De-Naturalisation Mechanism: Conventionality, Status-Quo Bias, and Social Change (abstract) |
| 09:30 | [CANCELLED] Making sense of Genome-Wide Association Studies: What kind of information about future socio-economic outcomes do they provide? (abstract) |
| 10:10 | How Deep Are Function Statements? (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 12L: History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 08:50 | Truth for Frege (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Fregean sense without semantics (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Are Definitions Boundaries of Concepts Only Metaphorically? A Reply to Frege (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 12M: Social and Political Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 08:50 | Central Bank Legitimacy and Pluralism in Economics (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Divestment and Collective Harms (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Reparations for Dirty Hands (abstract) |
10:45-11:10Coffee Break
Venue: Arkadenhof
11:10-13:05 Session 13A: Invited Symposium: Expanding the Canon (sponsored by Lex Academic)
Invited Symposium 'Expanding the Canon'
Chair:
Location: Big Hörsaal
Expanding the Canon (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 13B: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 1
| 11:10 | Against ultra-strong realism about legislative communicative intentions (abstract) |
| 11:50 | The blind, the colourblind, and colour understanding (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Acquaintance as Skill (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 13C: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 2
| 11:10 | Are Retweets Endorsements? An Empirical Investigation (abstract) |
| 11:50 | A Functionalist Approach to Ignorance as an Instance of Ignorance-friendly Epistemology (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Manufacturing the Illusion of Reliability (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 13D: Logic and Philosophy of Maths
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 3
| 11:10 | Structuralism for non-rigid structures: a multiset treatment (abstract) |
| 11:50 | New Paths and Open Questions for Potentialist Set Theory (abstract) |
| 12:30 | [CANCELLED] Indefinite extensibility and potentialism about theories (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 13E: Philosophy of Mind and Action; agency
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 11:10 | Contra-intentional Agency and the Nexus Picture (abstract) |
| 11:50 | You Are What You Commit To: reason, commitment, and rational agency (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Agential Pluralism (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 13F: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 11:10 | Moore's Paradox Generalized (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Context-Relative Impurism (abstract) |
| 12:30 | In defence of the informativeness of assertions (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 13G: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 11:10 | Properties in the Ontology of Natural Language (abstract) |
| 11:50 | What Mereological Nihilism can teach us about Proper Parthood (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Semantic Constraints and Hyperintensionality (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 13H: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 11:10 | What is judgmentalism? (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Does MORAL JUDGMENT Refer Disjunctively? (abstract) |
| 12:30 | What is a phenomenally adequate moral metaphysics? (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 13I: Philosophy of Language; Truth
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 11:10 | Reference and Truth (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Inferential Roles and Truth (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Revised Notion of Discourse Domains for the Truth Pluralists (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 13J: Philosophy of Social Sciences
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 11:10 | Progress in Psychiatry (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Theory of Gloss: Can We Extract a Theory of Content from Cognitive Science? (abstract) |
| 12:30 | The extension of evidential pluralism to the social sciences (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 13K: Philosophical Methodology and Meta-Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 11:10 | Restricted and Unrestricted Quantification - Analytic Metaphysics of Time from a Metaontological Perspective (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Therapeutic Methodology and Transcendental Idealism (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Normativity in the Natural World (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 13L: Social and Political Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 11:10 | Separation thesis and legal interpretation (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Theoretical and empirical analysis of foreseeability in law. (abstract) |
| 12:30 | [CANCELLED] Legal Moralism, Mala Prohibita, and Norm Change (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 13M: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 5
| 11:10 | Metaphysically Understanding Why (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Metaphysical Explanation and the Maxim of Neutrality (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Finding Ground (abstract) |
13:05-14:30Lunch Break
Lunch at own arrangement.
14:30-15:45 Session 14A: History of Philosophy Keynote: Dana Jalobeanu
Keynote Address — Dana Jalobeanu
Chair:
Location: Big Hörsaal
Francis Bacon’s Democritus: fictionalism and history of philosophy (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 14B: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 1
| 14:30 | [CANCELLED] Agent-Neutral Roles and Agent-Neutral Reasons: How Does Social Cognition Shape the Normative Infrastructure of Cooperation? (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Conditional Intentions and Shared Agency (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 14C: Epistemology; Know How
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 2
| 14:30 | Knowledge and skill: a critical assessment of intellectualism (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Can Tacit Know-How be Acquired via Testimony? (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 14D: Philosophy of Mind and Action; pain
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 14:30 | Modularity and the Cognitive Constitution of the Pain System (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 14E: Epistemology; Inquiry
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 14:30 | Inquiring to Understand (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Appeasing the tension between the zetetic and the epistemic (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 14F: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 14:30 | Lewis's Dilemma: Selection and Propositional Structure (abstract) |
| 15:10 | (Dis)ability, Normality, and Intrinsicness (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 14G: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 14:30 | Instrumental reasons without difference-making (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Feminist Ethics and the Limits of Effective Altruism (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 14H: Philosophy of Language
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 14:30 | Referring beyond extension: inference and ideology (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Referential Ambiguity as Generating Inquisitive Content (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 14I: Philosophy of Science: Quantum Mechanics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 14:30 | Heterodox underdetermination: metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement (abstract) |
| 15:10 | CAN REPLICATION CONFIRM THE DETECTION OF THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ? SOME PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 14J: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 14:30 | Conceptual belief revision and process ontologies (abstract) |
| 15:10 | What’s wrong with the manipulation argument? (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 14K: Social and Political Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 14:30 | Fake News and the Capability Approach: How Disinformation Impairs Practical Reason and Affiliation (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Justification and the epistemic neutrality of polarization (abstract) |
15:45-16:10Coffee Break
Venue: Arkadenhof
16:10-17:25 Session 15A: Ethics Keynote Address: Sophie-Grace Chappell
Keynote Address — Sophie Grace Chappell
Chair:
Location: Big Hörsaal
Epiphanies and the environment (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 15B: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 1
| 16:10 | The role of attention in the evolution of sophisticated cognition (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Objectivity and the space of reasons (abstract) |
| 17:30 | The cognitive roots of the problem of freedom (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 15C: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 2
| 16:10 | Epistemological Compass, Post-Truth, and Objectivity (abstract) |
| 16:50 | The Importance of How you Know (abstract) |
| 17:30 | A Dispositional Theory of Practical Basing (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 15D: Philosophy of Mind and Action; perception
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 16:10 | Difficulties for Simple Seeing (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Austere relationalism and seeing aspects (abstract) |
| 17:30 | [CANCELLED] Against GOTHic Hallucination (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 15E: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 16:10 | What is Grasping? (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Acting as a Way of Grasping (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Intuition vs. understanding (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 15F: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 16:10 | Essence and Realism (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Infinitives and Neutral Essence (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Individual Essence and Real Definition (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 15G: Logic and Philosophy of Maths
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 16:10 | The Omega Rule and the Categoricity Problem (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Categorical Quantification (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Arbitrary Abstraction and Logicality (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 15H: Philosophy of Language
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 16:10 | Authority and Group Assertion (abstract) |
| 16:50 | “Hey, Siri! Explain the evolution.” Artificial Intelligence and the practice of explaining (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Retraction and (Flexible) Relativism (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 15I: Philosophy of Physics II: Space-Time
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 16:10 | Covariant quantum gravity: the problem of time strikes again (abstract) |
| 16:50 | The Unreality of “Time": Towards a Relational Understanding of the Concept of “time” (abstract) |
| 17:30 | What is diachronic spacetime emergence? (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 15J: Philosophical Methodology and Meta-Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 16:10 | What’s Philosophy’s Relation to Experience? (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Fictionalism - Less Fiction, More Payoff (abstract) |
| 17:30 | [CANCELLED] The Ethics of Philosophical Belief (abstract) |
16:10-18:05 Session 15K: Social and Political Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 16:10 | [CANCELLED] Is Immanent Critique Possible? (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Getting understanding in multispecies ethnography (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Can We Meaningfully Speak of “Diseases of Society”? Justifying the Critique of Social Pathology through Social Ontology (abstract) |
Friday, August 25th
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08:50-10:45 Session 17A: Symposium: Three varieties of antirepresentational realism
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 5
Three varieties of antirepresentational realism (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 17B: Symposium: The transformative practice of learning philosophy from Spinoza to Hegel
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 6
The transformative practice of learning philosophy from Spinoza to Hegel (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 17C: Logic and Philosophy of Maths
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 3
| 08:50 | [CANCELLED] Modal Truthmaker Paradox (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Paradox and Substructurality (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Information Channels and Substructural Logics (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 17D: Philosophy of Mind and Action; Self Knowledge and Representation
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 08:50 | Initialization and self-ascription (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Self-locating beliefs, de se thoughts, and the transparency of mental content (abstract) |
| 10:10 | [CANCELLED] Self-Representationalism, Intimacy, and Mental Representation (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 17E: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 08:50 | [CANCELLED] Implicit Commitment, higher-level Requirements, and the Acceptability of Consistency (abstract) |
| 09:30 | The Value of Evidence and Causal Ratificationism (abstract) |
| 10:10 | The Principle of Total Evidence: Justification and Political Significance (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 17F: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 08:50 | Against Modal Neoconventionalism (abstract) |
| 09:30 | A Russellian Theory of Modality (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Blackburn’s Dilemma and the Ground of Necessity (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 17G: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 08:50 | Blame, Value and Proportionality (abstract) |
| 09:30 | On neutral value and fitting indifference (abstract) |
| 10:10 | What is supposed to be fitting? (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 17H: Philosophy of Language
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 08:50 | Middle ground between eternalism and temporalism (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Metalinguistic negotiations and relative gradable adjectives (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Linguistic Vague Existence (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 17I: Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Computer science
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 08:50 | Beyond Generalization: A Theory of Robustness in Machine Learning (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Trustworthy AI: a vexed (and yet pivotal) notion (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Physical computation from a computer engineering point of view (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 17J: Philosophical Methodology and Meta-Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 08:50 | Method of cases as a part of conceptual engineering (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Undue conservatism in conceptual engineering and the elusiveness of explicanda (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Can Conceptual Engineers Implement Concepts? An Experimental Investigation (abstract) |
08:50-10:45 Session 17K: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 08:50 | Socially shared perception and the sense of reality (abstract) |
| 09:30 | What the Eyes Can See: Empirical results from perceptual categorization buttress the idea that humans can perceive objects’ kind (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Perceptual objecthood: modality-specific and multimodal perspectives (abstract) |
10:45-11:10Coffee Break
Venue: Arkadenhof
11:10-13:05 Session 18A: Symposium: QUARC and Diagrammatic Reasoning
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 5
Quarc and Diagrammatic Reasoning (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 18B: Symposium: Philosophy of Perception and the Experience of Food
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 6
Philosophy of Perception and the Experience of Food (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 18C: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Hörsaal 3
| 11:10 | Lonergan's Oddly Strong Theory of Emergence (abstract) |
| 11:50 | SOMETHING FROM NOTHING / NECESSARY THINGS FOR FREE (abstract) |
| 12:30 | What should we mean when we ask: “Why is there something rather than nothing?” (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 18D: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 11:10 | Should We Carry Guilt for Our Past Actions? (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Relativism and Relations (abstract) |
| 12:30 | How to argue for agency of artificial systems – joint actions first (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 18E: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 11:10 | What now? A Challenge for Doxastic Wrong Accounts (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Making Sense of Doxastic Morality (abstract) |
| 12:30 | The Moral Dimension of Doxastic Norms (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 18F: Metaphysics
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 11:10 | To Have or Not to Have Form - That Is The Question to Amorphic Hylomorphism (abstract) |
| 11:50 | The Inconsistency of Aristotelian Universals (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Mind-Body Property Dualism’s Ontological Consequences (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 18G: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 11:10 | Fixing claims in distributive theory (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Mid-Level Theory of Well-Being: a Capabilitarian Account (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Forgiveness as Agential Repair: An Action Theoretical Account of Moral Injury (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 18H: Philosophy of Language; Assertion
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 11:10 | Assertion and justification. Is the rule of justification a necessary condition for asserting? (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Assertion: Between Saying and Telling (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Assertion, Constitutive Rules and Conditions of Engagement (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 18I: Philosophy of Science: Causation in Biology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 11:10 | The Normic-Dispositional Interpretation of Fitness: (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Pluralism about Causation in Natural Selection (abstract) |
| 12:30 | HOW DO NETWORKS EXPLAIN? A NEO-HEMPELIAN APPROACH TO NETWORK EXPLANATIONS OF THE ECOLOGY OF THE MICROBIOME (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 18J: History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 11:10 | A case study in Naturalized Epistemology: Helmholtz and Poincaré’s Thoughts on Geometry. (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Philosophy Coming Out of the Shadow. On M.G. White's Holistic Pragmatism (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Non-Solipsistic Rejoinders to Quine’s Indeterminacy Thesis (abstract) |
11:10-13:05 Session 18K: Aesthetics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 11:10 | Does the Network Theory Answer the Normative Question? (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Does a plausible construal of aesthetic value give us reason to emphasize some aesthetic practices over others? (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Content, Form and Understanding: a Defence of Literary Neocognitivism (abstract) |
13:05-14:30Lunch Break
Lunch at own arrangement.
14:30-15:45 Session 19A: Aesthetics Keynote Address: Enrico Terrone
Keynote Address — Enrico Terrone
Chair:
Location: Big Hörsaal
The Appreciation Game. A Monist Ontology of Works of Art (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 19B: Philosophy of Mind and Action; weakness of will
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 1
| 14:30 | Weakness of Will, Free Will, and Phenomenology (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Rigidity and weakness of will: Towards a unified account (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 19C: Epistemology
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 2
| 14:30 | In Defence of Evidence Internalism (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Axiological non-evidentialism (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 19D: Metaphysics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 3
| 14:30 | The Intensity of Powers (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 19E: Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 4
| 14:30 | Justice and plural capabilities for the non-reasonable and the non-rational (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Trading Off Lives and Livelihoods (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 19F: Philosophy of Language
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 5
| 14:30 | Kripke's other hierarchy (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Social And Meta-Social Propositions (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 19G: Philosophy of Mind and Action; mind and body
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 6
| 14:30 | Reductionism in the Philosophy of Science and the Problem of Mental Properties (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Reduction: What? Me Worry? (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 19H: History of Philosophy
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 7
| 14:30 | Brentano on Universals (abstract) |
| 15:10 | The Roots of Brentano's Critique of the Subject-Object Model of Intentionality (abstract) |
14:30-15:45 Session 19I: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics
Chair:
Location: Seminar Room 8
| 14:30 | In Defense of Absolute Rights (abstract) |
| 15:10 | [CANCELLED] Ethical components of interpretative disagreements in classical music (abstract) |
15:45-16:10Coffee Break
Venue: Arkadenhof
16:10-18:00 Session 20: Invited Plenary Speaker: Maria Baghramian
Closing Plenary: Maria Baghramian
Chair:
Location: Audi Max
Trust in a Time of Crisis (abstract) |
