Graduate Conference 2008
12th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference
University of Oxford, November 22-23 2008
Oxford is one of only a few graduate conferences in which student presentations are followed by a response from faculty members, making the conference a unique opportunity for students to get feedback on their work from Oxford faculty.
Keynote Speakers:
Jonathan Dancy (University of Reading and University of Texas at Austin) 'Practical Reasoning and Inference'
Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University) 'Slurring Words'
There is no registration fee, and the conference is open to all.
Conference Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at the Faculty of Philosophy, 10 Merton Street
Saturday 22 November
9:30 – 10:00
Coffee and snacks
10:00 – 11:30
Lecture Room
Gail Leckie (Oxford), “The Modal Problem for Descriptivism” [Abstract]
Respondent: Dr Cian Dorr
Chair: Timothy Bowen
Ryle Room
Maike Albertzart (Cambridge), “Missing the Target? Dancy’s Understanding of Moral Principles” [Abstract]
Respondent: Professor Jonathan Dancy
Chair: Alexandre Erler
11:30 – 11:45
Coffee and snacks
11:45 – 1:15
Lecture Room
Aidan McGlynn (UTexas Austin), “Knowledge and Inference” [Abstract]
Respondent: Professor John Hawthorne
Chair: Alastair Wilson
Ryle Room
Errol Lord (Nebraska), “Two Puzzles About *Ought*” [Abstract]
Respondent: Professor John Broome
Chair: Geoffrey Ferrari
1:15 – 2:30
Break for lunch
2:30 – 4:00
Lecture Room
Ivan Mayerhofer (Michigan), “The Semantic Dimensions of Disposition Ascriptions” [Abstract]
Respondent: Professor John Hawthorne
Chair: Barbara Vetter
Ryle Room
Thomas Stern (Cambridge), “Nietzsche, Freedom, and Writing Lives” [Abstract]
Respondent: Dr Stephen Mulhall
Chair: Olivia Bailey
4:30 – 6:30
Keynote Lecture
Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College
Ernest Lepore (Rutgers), “Slurring Words”
Respondents: Louise Hanson and Daan Evers
Chair: David Egan
7:15 – 10:00
Conference Dinner
Trinity College
Sunday 23 November
9:30 – 10:00
Coffee and snacks
10:00 – 11:30
Lecture Room
James Studd (Oxford), “Why Four-Dimensionalist Solutions to Coincidence Puzzles Don’t Need Temporal Parts” [Abstract]
Respondent: Dr Antony Eagle
Chair: Andrew Bacon
Ryle Room
Ian Flora (Michigan), “Aristotle on (Part of) the Difference between Belief and Imagination” [Abstract]
Respondent: Professor Christopher Shields
Chair: Tom Ainsworth
11:30 – 11:45
Coffee and snacks
11:45 – 1:15
Lecture Room
William Kilborn (UMass Amherst), “Before-Effect Puzzles, Plurals, and Moral Properties” [Abstract]
Respondent: Dr Gabriel Uzquiano
Chair: Angela Matthies
Ryle Room
Lee Walters (UCL), “The Duality of Might and Would Counterfactuals” [Abstract]
Respondent: TBA
Chair: Jane Friedman
1:15 – 2:30
Break for lunch
2:30 – 4:00
Lecture Room
John Ku, Howard Nye, and David Plunkett (Michigan), “Fitting Attitudes, Reasons for Action, and the Rejection of Consequentialism” [Abstract]
Respondent: Dr Robert L. Frazier
Chair: Pablo Stafforini
Ryle Room
Adam Stewart-Wallace (Cambridge), “Real, Impoverished, and Imperial Context Shifting Arguments” [Abstract]
Respondent: Dr Ofra Magidor
Chair: Edward Grefenstatte
4:30 – 6:30
Keynote Lecture
Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College
Jonathan Dancy (Reading and UTexas Austin), “Practical Reasoning and Inference”
Respondent: Katharina Nieswandt
Chair: Andrew Stephenson
We are grateful for the generous support of our conference sponsors: The Aristotelian Society, The Mind Association, The Analysis Trust, Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophical Studies.
Please direct any questions to gradconf@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Conference committee: David Egan, Louise Hanson, Andrew Stephenson