The 14th Annual Columbia-NYU Graduate Conference in Philosophy

April 5, 2014
Columbia University

Columbia University, 535 W 116th St
New York 10027
United States

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Sponsor(s):

  • New York University
  • Columbia University

Speakers:

Ted Sider
Cornell University

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The conference is open to all.  There are 5 graduate presentations followed by a keynote by Prof. Ted Sider (Cornell).

The conference will take place in 2 rooms on the Columbia/Barnard Morningside Heights campuses: 614 Schermerhorn on the Columbia campus, and 405 Milbank, on the Barnard Campus.  Maps can be found at http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/schermerhorn.html and http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/MorningsideCampus.pdf

The closest subway station is the 116th Street station on the 1 line.

The schedule is as follows:

09.00-09.30  - 614 Schermerhorn - Breakfast

09.30-10.50  - 614 Schermerhorn - Welcome, and Eugene Chislenko (UC Berkeley) - "Akratic Action Under the Guise of the Good".  Respondent: Christine Susienka (Columbia).

11.05-12.10  - 614 Schermerhorn - Alex Kaiserman (Oxford) - "Normative Causation".  Respondent: Harjit Bhogal (NYU)

12.25-13.30 - 614 Schermerhorn - Denise Vigani (CUNY) - "Individuating The Virtues".  Respondent: Usha Nathan (Columbia)

13.30-14.15 - 614 Schermerhorn - Lunch

14.15-15.20 - 614 Schermerhorn - Ryan Doody (MIT) "Why The Sunk-Cost ‘Fallacy’ is not a Fallacy".  Respondent: Amanda MacAskill (NYU)

16.00-17.05 - 405 Milbank (Barnard) - Jake Quilty-Dunn (CUNY): "Phenomenal Contrast and Perceptual Belief".  Respondent: Grace Helton (NYU)

17.20-19.00 - 405 Milbank (Barnard) - Keynote - Ted Sider (Cornell) - "Nothing Over And Above"

21.00- Afterparty nearby in Morningside Heights.  Details to be announced at the conference.

Conference Organizers: Simon Brown (Columbia); Matthew Heeney (Columbia); Thimo Heisenberg (Columbia); Melissa Rees (Columbia); Callum Watts (Columbia); Kyle Blumberg (NYU); Andrew Lee (NYU)  

Special thanks to the Columbia and NYU Philosophy Departments, Columbia GSAC, and the New York Institute of Philosophy

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