The 2014 Harvard-MIT Graduate Conference in Philosophy

The 2014 Harvard-MIT Graduate Conference in Philosophy

April 12-13, 2014

Venue: Room 32-D461 (“Star Chamber”), 4th Floor, Dreyfoos Tower, Stata Center, MIT

Day 1: Saturday, April 12

9.30 am - 10.00 am Breakfast

10.00 am - 11.20 am

Speaker: Timothy Campbell (Rutgers)

Title: The Problem of Symmetrical Threats

Commentator: Ryan Davis (Harvard)

11.20 am - 11.40 am Coffee/Tea Break

11.40 am - 1.00 am

Speaker: Mike Dacey (Washington University in St. Louis)

Title:  Simple Theories, Simple Minds: The Overuse of Parsimony in Psychology

Commentator: Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa (MIT)

1.00 pm - 2.00 p.m. Lunch on 8th Floor, Dreyfoos Tower, Stata Center

2.00 p.m. - 3.20 p.m.  

Andrew Flynn (Pittsburgh)

Title: Against Willed Normativity

Commentator: Arden Ali (MIT)

3.20 pm - 3.40 pm Coffee/Tea Break

3.40 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.  

Speaker: Mark Makin (University of California at Irvine)

Title: Rigid/Generic Grounding and Transitivity

Commentator: Said Saillant (MIT)

5.00 pm - 5.15 pm Break

5.15 pm - 7.15 pm

Keynote Speaker: Professor Ned Hall (Harvard)

Title: On some connections between explanation, necessity, and grounding

7.30 p.m. Dinner on 8th Floor, Dreyfoos Tower,  Stata Center

Day 2: Sunday, April 13

9.30 am - 10.00 am Breakfast

10.00 am - 11.20 am

Speaker: Justin D'Ambrosio (Yale)

Title: Is "Refers" an Intensional Transitive Verb?

Commentator: Kate Vredenburgh (Harvard)

11.20 am - 11.40 amCoffee/Tea Break

11.40 am - 1.00 am

Speaker: Fatema Amijee (UT Austin)

Title: Beneath Appearances

Commentator: James Bondarchuk (Harvard)

1.00 pm - 2.00 p.m. Lunch on 8th Floor, Dreyfoos Tower, Stata Center

2.00 pm - 3.20 pm

Speaker: Daniel Fogal (NYU)

Title: Rational Requirements and the Primacy of Pressure

Commentator: Bernhard Salow (MIT)