MITing of the Minds 2020

January 30, 2020 - January 31, 2020
Philosophy Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

32-461 (Star Chamber)
32 Vassar St
Cambridge 02139
United States

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joshua Pearson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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This year’s MITing of the Minds is the Sixteenth Annual MIT Philosophy Alumni Conference. Composed of talks by department faculty and graduate students of past and present.

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Thursday, January 30th

11:00 Mahrad Almotahari (UIC)  "Realism Needs Realism" 

  • Comments by Mallory Webber 

2:00 Thomas Byrne (MIT)  "Killing Causation"

  • Comments by Brad Skow   

4:00 Sophie Horowitz (UMass)  "Conditionalization And Group Punishment""            

  • Comments by Haley Schilling


Friday, January 31st

10:30 Bob Stalnaker (MIT)  "Fragmentation And Singular Propositions"

  • Comments by David Balcarras  

2:00 Xinhe Wu (MIT)  "Vagueness: A Cognitive Perspective"

  • Comments by Steve Yablo          

4:00 Lauren Ashwell (Bates)  "You Ought Not Say That: Slurs And Prohibitions"

  • Comments by Kat Hintikka     

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Yannick ESSENGUE
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