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SUMMARY:Yale Teleology Conference 
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LOCATION:Humanities Quadrangle\, New Haven\, United States\, 06511
DESCRIPTION:<p>Tuesday |May 5\, 2026</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>9:00: Coffee and pastries</p>\n<p>9:20: Opening remarks&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>9:30: Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard)\, Leibniz on Monadic Teleology and Optimal Form</p>\n<p>11:00: Break</p>\n<p>11:10: Karl Schafer (UT Austin)\, The Inescapability of Teleology</p>\n<p>12:40: Lunch (catered)</p>\n<p>1:30: Panel 1: &nbsp\;<br>Aurora Yu (UNC)\, Aristotle&rsquo\;s Global Teleology<br>Vittorio Alves (KU Leuven)\, Minimal Teleology: Schelling&rsquo\;s Kantian Argument <br>for the Constitutive Purposiveness of Nature<br>Gunnar Babcock (Cornell) and Dan McShea (Duke)\, Abiotic Teleology</p>\n<p>3:30: Break</p>\n<p>3:40: Mark Schiefsky (Harvard)\, Galen's &ldquo\;Unnatural&rdquo\; Teleology&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>5:10: Dinner (details to follow)</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Wednesday |May 6\, 2026</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>9:00: Coffee and pastries</p>\n<p>9:30: Jessica Gelber (Toronto)\, What is Hypothetical Necessity?&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>11:00: Break</p>\n<p>11:10: Jim Kreines (Claremont McKenna)\, Weirdly Good Teleology: Beyond Intuition and Scientific Debunking</p>\n<p>12:40: Lunch (catered)</p>\n<p>1:30:Panel 2:&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Isabel Sharp (Chicago)\, Goodness as Mere Rationality in Foot&rsquo\;s Natural Goodness\; Ari Deller (Cambridge)\, A Teleological Critique of &lsquo\;Can AIs be X?&rsquo\; Scholarship\; Eleonore Neufeld (UMass Amherst)\, Against Teleological Essentialism</p>\n<p>3:30: Break</p>\n<p>3:45: Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers) and David Rose (Stanford)\, Folk Teleology: <br>The Direct and the Diagnostic Views</p>\n<p>5:15: Closing remarks</p>\n<p>5:30: Dinner (catered) </p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Paul Franks;CN=Joshua Knobe;CN=Malina Buturovic;CN=Daniel LeBlanc;CN=Sera Schwarz;CN=Henry Straughan:
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