BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260419T213510Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180308T040000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180309T120000 SUMMARY:Lugano Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 2018 UID:20260422T134530Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-nv7xt TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Via Buffi 13\, Lugano\, Switzerland\, 6900 DESCRIPTION:
  1. Lugano Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 2018
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  2. Date: March Thursday March 8 - Friday March 9\, 2018  \; \;
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  3. Keynote: Francesco Berto (University of Amsterdam)  \; \;
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  4. Paper length: either abstract of up to 650 words or paper of up to 4&rsquo\;500 words  \; \;
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  5. Submission deadline: January 26\, 2018  \; \;
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  6. Topics: metaphysics\, philosophy of mind\, philosophy of time (contemporary analytic philosophy\, history of ancient philosophy\, history of medieval philosophy)  \; \;
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  7. Submissions should be prepared for blind review and should be submitted tomarco.tosca@usi.ch \;i.e. marco dot tosca at usi dot ch  \; \;
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  8. All speakers will receive a contribution to their expenses of 100 CHF. Some cheap accommodation may be available for speakers.  \;
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  9.  \;While all talks will be in English\, submitted abstracts and papers may be in English\, Italian\, German\, Spanish\, French\, or Latin  \; \;
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  10. Questions should be sent to the same address as the submissions.  \; \;
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  11. The conference is organized by MAP - the USI master in philosophy \;https://www.facebook.com/usimap/ - \;https://www.usi.ch/en/map
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Timeline \;

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Day One\, March 8

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09.00: welcome meeting - morning coffee \;

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09.20: Introduction (Mulligan/Costa)

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09.30: (x) Berto (University of Amsterdam)\, Shallow Debates? Meinongians vs Quineans on the Meaning of Existence

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10.30: \; break \;

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10.45: (1) Emanuele Rauzi (University of Padova)\, &ldquo\;Some Remarks on Putnam's Semantic Externalism&rdquo\;.

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11.30: break \;

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11.45: (2) Lorenza Furlani (University of Milan)\, &ldquo\;The Internal Attention Theory vs The Internal Clock Model&rdquo\;

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12.30: Lunch \;

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14.00: (3) Patrick Mulcahey (University in Washington)\, &ldquo\;Divine Foreknowledge and Quasi-temporal Eternity&rdquo\;

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14.45: break \;

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15.00: (4) Marta Bielinska (Jagiellonian Univeristy\, Poland)\, &ldquo\;Metaphysics of Right and Left&rdquo\;

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15.45: break \;

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16.00: (5) Antonio Cleani (University of Padova) &ldquo\;Kripke on the Contingent a Priori&rdquo\;

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16.45: end

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Day Two\, March 9 \;

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09.15: (1) Angelos Sofocleous (University of Durham)\, &ldquo\;On the non-necessity of origin thesis&rdquo\;

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10.00: break \;

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10.15: (2) Francesco Guiot (University of Torino)\, &ldquo\;Two (and yet more) concepts of determinism&rdquo\;

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11.00: break \;

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11.15: (3) Eric Tremolanti (University of Lugano): &ldquo\;From Temporal Logic to The Moving Spotlight&rdquo\;

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12.00: break \;

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12.15: (4) Samuel Tscharner (University of Basel)\, &ldquo\;Peter Godfrey-Smith's Argument Against Strong AI&rdquo\;

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13.00: lunch \;

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14.30: (5) Basil Muller (University of Basel)\, &ldquo\;In defense of Michael Tye&rsquo\;s interpretation of the silicon-chip thought experiment&rdquo\;

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15.15: break

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15.30: (6) Nino Breunesse (University of Amsterdam)\, &ldquo\; Identity theory and consciousness: Reduction of dualism without reduction of subjectivity&rdquo\;

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