Saturday, February 9, 2008
At the University of Southern California's Mudd Hall of Philosophy (MHP)
Breakfast 9:00-9:30am in 102 MHP
Philosophy Smorgasbord Starts at 9:30am in 106 MHP:
“Subverting Nonexistence: A Critique of Neo-Meinongianism”
Presenter: Peter Yong, California State University Los Angeles
Commentator: Johannes Schmitt, USC
Chair: Billy Dunaway, USC
9:30-10:35am
“Ramsey, Moore, No God”
Presenter: Malte Willer, The University of Texas at Austin
Commentator: Alexandru Radulescu, UCLA
Chair: Marina Folescu, USC
10:45-11:50am
“On Maximal Rationality”
Presenter: Errol Lord, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Commentator: Eileen Nutting, UCLA
Chair: Stephen White, UCLA
12:00-1:05pm
Lunch 1:05-2:00pm in 102 MHP
“Defeating Dualism”
Presenter: Tomas Bogardus, The University of Texas at Austin
Commentator: Brent Kious, UCLA
Chair: Tamar Weber, UCLA
2:00-3:05pm
“Understanding Causal Overdetermination”
Presenter: Sara Bernstein, University of Arizona
Commentator: Jonathan Weil, USC
Chair: Lewis Powell, USC
3:15-4:20pm
Keynote Speaker: Judith Jarvis Thomson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Turning the Trolley”
4:30-6:00 pm
Reception to follow in 102 MHP