Wednesday 6 May 2009

Toronto Graduate Student Conference

Action, Agency and Explanation
May 8-9, 2009
Keynote: John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh




Friday, May 8, 2009

8:00-9:00:
Breakfast
9:00-10:00:
“A Plea for Practices”,
Octavian A. Busuioc
(Queen’s)
Commentary by Alexander Shoumarov
10:15-11:15:
“Naturalism and Moral Skepticism”,
Brian Ballard
(UC, Santa Cruz)
Commentary by Kyle Menken
11:15-12:45:
Lunch
12:45-1:45:
“A Dilemma for Setiya’s Virtue Theory of Reasons”,
Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin
(UC, Riverside)
Commentary by Mark Schranz
2:00-3:00:
“Agency, Self-Knowledge and Functionalism”,
Ariel Zylberman (Toronto)
Commentary by G. Anthony Bruno
3:15-5:00:
Keynote: “What is the Content of an Intention in Action?”,
John McDowell
(Pittsburgh)
5:30-7:30:
Reception at the Faculty Club
Saturday, May 9, 2009

8:00-9:00:
Breakfast
9:00-10:00:
“Thomson’s Turn, Dual Process Theories of Moral Judgment and the Epistemic Status of Ethical Intuitions”,
Mark S. Makin
(Yale)
Commentary by Steven Zylstra
10:15-11:15:
“Dewey on Thinking and Acting”,
Christopher Collins (Virginia)
Commentary by Diana Heney
11:30-12:30:
“The Epistemology of Embodied Action”,
Andreas Elpidorou
(Boston)
Commentary by Kenneth Boyd
12:30-2:00:
Lunch
2:00-3:00:
“Desires as Sub-Agential Evaluations of the Good”,
Avery Archer
(Columbia)
Commentary by Chris Langston
6:30:
Conference Dinner

See conference website here.

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