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Conference Schedule

Please note that all papers linked to from this page are preliminary versions the authors have kindly granted us permission to share with you; the versions given at the conference may vary somewhat.

Saturday, March 15

All talks will take place in the Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A, CMU

10:00-10:30

Coffee and continental breakfast

10:30-12:30

Keynote Address
Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut)
"A Blackboard Talk on Representations"

12:30-2:00

Lunch break

2:00-2:50

James Tabery (University of Pittsburgh)
"Activities and Interactions in the Concept of a Mechanism"
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Commentator: Dirk Schlimm

2:50-3:40

Kelly Trogdon (UC Irvine & University of Florida)
"Dualistic Mental Causation: Counterfactuals, Coincidence, and Intelligent Design"
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Commentator: Keith Douglas

3:40-4:30

Russell DiSilvestro (Bowling Green State University)
"Misconceiving the Misconceived Baby"
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Commentator: Ben Laurence

4:30-4:50

Coffee break

4:50-5:40

Gustavo Oritz-Millan (Columbia Univ.)
"Motivating Beliefs: Anti-Humean Strategies on Practical Reason"
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Commentator: Giacomo Sillari

5:40-6:30

Ofra Magidor (Oxford University)
"The Classical Theory of Probability and the Principle of Indifference"
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Commentator: Arthur Cunningham

Evening

Party hosted by Paul Griffiths (for directions ask at the conference).

Sunday, March 16

All talks will take place in the Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A, CMU
 

10:00-10:30

Coffee and continental breakfast

10:30-11:20

Kevin Davey (University of Pittsburgh)
"Is Mathematics the Language of Nature?"
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Commentator: John Mumma

11:20-12:10

Michael Krom (Emory University)
"Montaigne's 'Riveting' of the Soul to the Body"
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Commentator: Ian Blecher

12:10-1:00

Erica Lucast (Carnegie Mellon)
"Autonomy and Equality: The Misattributed Paternity Conflict in Genetic Counseling"
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Commentator: Erik Angner