Oxford Graduate Conference in Philosophy

It is a pleasure to announce the updated program of the 23rd Oxford Graduate Conference in Philosophy, which will take place on November 16th and 17th at the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Oxford (Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG). Attendance is free of change and everyone is welcome! Our keynote speakers this year are Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (Helsinki) and Anne Meylan (UZH). You can find all the abstracts here: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~gradconf/abstracts.shtml We thank the Mind Association, the Analysis Trust and the Oxford Philosophy Faculty for their generous support. Looking forward to seeing you, The OxGradConf Committee Saturday 16th November 09.00-9.30. Registration & Coffee - COLIN MATTHEW ROOM 09.30-11.00. Limited Aggregation and Uncertain Rescues. Bastian Steuwer (LSE). Respondent: Roger Crisp -LECTURE ROOM Threshold Views in Distributive Justice. Dick Timmer (Utrecht). Respondent: Teru Thomas - RYLE ROOM 11.00-11.30. Coffee Break 11.30-13.00. Bergson, McTaggart, and the A- and B-series. Matyáš Moravec (Cambridge). Respondent: Adrian Moore - LECTURE ROOM Generics and Stereotyping. Annie Bosse (Cambridge). Respondent: Rachel Fraser - RYLE ROOM 13.00-14.30 Lunch Break 14.30-16.00. Deflating Dimension. Jessica Heine (MIT). Respondent: Tushar Menon - LECTURE ROOM Cat-Calls and Accommodation. Lucy McDonald (Cambridge). Respondent: Sabina Lovibond - RYLE ROOM 16.00-16.30 Coffee Break 16.30-18.00 KEYNOTE: Perspectives and Good Dispositions. Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (Helsinki) - LECTURE ROOM 18.00-19.30 Wine Reception - RYLE ROOM 19.30 Conference Dinner AL-SHAMI Sunday 17th November 09.00-9.30 Registration, Coffee, and Breakfast 09.30-11.00. How to analyse and situate direct empirical status of theoretical symmetries in physics. Valeriya Chasova (Strasbourg & Louvain-la-Neuve). Respondent: James Read - LECTURE ROOM Knowledge is a factual attitude. Simon Wimmer (Warwick). Respondent: Bernhard Salow - RYLE ROOM 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break 11.30-13.00. Carnap’s Defence of Abstract Objects. Benjamin Marschall (Cambridge). Respondent: Tim Williamson - LECTURE ROOM Attitudinal Ambivalence: Normative uncertainty for non-cognitivists. Nicholas Makins (LSE). Respondent: Farbod Akhlaghi-Ghaffarokh - RYLE ROOM 13.00-14.30 Lunch Break 14.30-16.00. Vagueness of ‘Truth’. Aleksander Domoslawski (Leeds). Respondent: Ofra Magidor - LECTURE ROOM Why Economists are Pigs: The City of Pigs in Republic II as the Economic City. Maria Victoria Salazar (CUNY). Respondent: Karen Margrethe Nielsen - RYLE ROOM 16.00-16.30 Coffee Break 16.30-18.00 KEYNOTE: Doxastic divergence and the problem of comparability. Pragmatism defended further. Anne Meylan (Zürich) - LECTURE ROOM 18.00 Wine Reception RYLE ROOM