Twentieth Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy

Friday, November 7

9:30–9:55          Check–in and Coffee

9:55                    Welcome

10:00–12:00     René Descartes

Speaker: Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta)

“Descartes on Intentionality, Attention, and Bringing an Object to Mind”

Commentator: Raffaella De Rosa (Rutgers University - Newark)

12:00–2:00       Lunch Break

2:00–4:00          Baruch Spinoza

Speaker: Karolina Hübner (University of California, Los Angeles)

“Expression, Conception, and Thought in Spinoza”

Commentator: Galen Barry (Iona University)

4:00–4:30          Coffee Break

4:30–6:30          Immanuel Kant

Speaker: Alix Cohen (University of Notre Dame/University of Edinburgh)

“Kant on the Intentionality of Feelings: The Principle of the Power of Judgment as the A Priori Principle of Feeling”

Commentator: Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn University)

6:30–7:30          Reception

Saturday, November 8

9:30–10:00       Check–in and Coffee

10:00–12:00    Franz Brentano

Speaker: Mark Textor (King’s College London)

“Brentano, Intentionality and the Marks of the Mental”

Commentator: Hamid Taieb (Humboldt University, Berlin)

12:00–2:00       Lunch Break

2:00–4:00          Edmund Husserl

Speaker: Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen)

“Minds in the World: Collective Intentionality and the Problem of Internalism”

Commentator: David Woodruff Smith (University of California, Irvine)

4:00–4:30          Coffee Break

4:30–6:30          Contemporary

Speaker: Uriah Kriegel (Rice University)

“Conscious Intentionality: What Vision and Mood Teach Us”

Commentator: Angela Mendelovici (Western University)

6:30–7:30          Reception

Note: the second day of the conference will be at a different location from the first!

Friday November 7th:
Kimmel Center, New York University
60 Washington Square South, Room 914
New York, NY 10012 

Saturday November 8th:
NYU Philosophy Department
5 Washington Place, Room 101
New York, NY 10003

All questions about the event should be sent to [email protected].