Symposium on John Broome's Rationality through Reasoning (2013)

The Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur la normativité (GRIN) is pleased to announce a one-day book symposium on Prof. John Broome’s Rationality through Reasoning (Wiley Blackwell, 2013) to be held on Friday March 21st, beginning at 9:00 a.m. at Pavillon Lionel Groulx of Université de Montréal, 3150 Jean-Brillant Street, room C3061.   

Speakers:  

John Broome (Oxford)
Andrew Reisner (McGill)
Nadeem Hussain (Stanford)
Paul Boghossian (NYU)    

Program  

09:00-09:20 Coffee

09:20-09:30 Welcome speech (Josée Brunet – ITA)  

09:30-10:00 Précis of Rationality through Reasoning (John Broome, Oxford)

10:00-11:45 Oughts, Reasons and Rational Requirements (Andrew Reisner, McGill)  

11:45-13:45 Lunch*   

13:45-15:30 Contents, Normativity and Rule-Following (Nadeem Hussain, Stanford)

15:30-15:45 Break

15:45-17:30 Reasoning and Rule-Following (Paul Boghossian, NYU)  

17:30-18:30 Replies by John Broome, and general discussion  

18:30-19:30 Drinks  

20:30 Dinner*  

All are welcome and the attendance is free, though non-speakers will have to pay for their lunch and dinner. If you would like to join the speakers for lunch, for dinner or both, please let me know by e-mailing me before March 14th so that I could do the appropriate reservations. The lunch will be at Bistro Olivieri.  

This symposium is organized by Prof. Daniel Laurier (Université de Montréal) and Dr. Josée Brunet (Institut de technologie agroalimentaire, campus de Saint-Hyacinthe) and made possible by the SSHRC grant that they share.   See here for further details on Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur la normativité: