University of Pittsburgh      and     Carnegie Mellon University
 

Second Annual Pittsburgh

Graduate Philosophy Conference
 
 

March 17-19, 2000


Schedule of Events




Friday, March 17 2000
St. Patrick's Day

8:00-11:00 p.m.  Opening party.
Hosted by Erik Angner,
5530 Penn Avenue, App.6,
Phone: 361-1128.
Email: ejast4+@pitt.edu
Directions


Saturday, March 18 2000


All events take place in 2M56/2P56 Posvar Hall (ex Forbes Quad).


Time
Title
8:00 - 9:15
Continental breakfast
Keynote Speaker
9:15 - 10:45
Michael Friedman, Indiana University:
Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of Science
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee break
Session I - Chair: Dirk Schlimm
11:00 - 11:45
Jukka Keranen, University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy: 
"Parallelism:  A Case Study in the Methodology of Mathematics"
11:45 - 12:30
Mark Ravaglia, Carnegie Mellon University: 
"Methodological considerations concerning Hilbert and Bernays"
12:30 - 1:45
Lunch
Session II - Chair: Gualtiero Piccinini
1:45 - 2:30
Mark Nyvlt, Boston University: 
"The Aristotelian Aporia of Thought in the De Anima" [WordPerfect document]
2:30 - 3:15
Erik Angner, University of Pittsburgh, HPS: 
"On Choice and Preference" [Abstract]
3:15 - 4:00
Stephen M. Puryear, Texas A & M: 
"Vagueness, Observation, and the Context Fallacy" [WordPerfect document]
4:00 - 4:15 
Coffee break
Session III - Chair: Ben Eggleston
4:15 - 5:00
Jeffrey Moriarty, Rutgers University: 
"Desert and Distributive Justice in 'A Theory of Justice' " [Word document]
5:00 - 5:45
David Vander Laan, University of Notre Dame: 
"A Regress Argument for Restrictive Incompatibilism"
5:45 - 6:30
James Mahon, Duke University: 
"Two Prohibitions on Lying"


Sunday, March 19 2000


All events take place in 2M56/2P56 Posvar Hall (ex Forbes Quad).


Time
Title
9:00 - 9:30
Continental breakfast
Session IV - Chair: Gualtiero Piccinini
9:30 - 10:15
Wei Cui, New York University: 
"Evans on the Travel-based Spatial Scheme"
10:15 - 11:00
William Heath White, Georgetown University: 
"Rationality and Perception: What Sellars Doesn't See"
11:00 - 11:15
Coffee break
Session V - Chair: Chris Smeenk
11:15 - 12:00
Armond Duwell, University of Pittsburgh, HPS: 
"Explaining Information Transfer in Quantum Teleportation"
12:00 - 12:45
Matt Frank, University of Chicago: 
"Constructive Mathematics:  Why and how?"


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