Cogweirdo

This 2-day online conference in the Cogtweeto series will feature presentations on all things philosophically spooky, strange, and magical!

Day 1: Saturday October 30th

8am to 5.30pm, Pacific Time

8.00 - 8.15:

Opening Remarks

Jen Foster and Cassie Finley

(Magic Mystery Room)

8.15 - 9.15: Session 1 (APA-style talks)

In the Magic Mystery Room:

Iron Chef Stagira

Jennifer Whyte, with comments by Fabien Cayer

In the Haunts and Horrors Room:

The Trauma of Haunting

Jay Dittburner, with comments by Hane Maung

9.30 - 10.30 Session 2 (Coffee Hour talks)

In the Magic Mystery Room:

Witches, Magic, and Philosophical Intuitions

Gretchen Ellefson

In the Haunts and Horrors Room:

Naming and Necropower

Aaron Rabinowitz

10.45 - 11.45: Session 3 (APA-style talks)

In the Magic Mystery Room:

How Does Frankenstein's Creature Have a Relation with the Passion of Empathy?

Eylül Yücel, with comments by Boomer Trujillo

In the Haunts and Horrors Room:

The Rights and Wrongs of Eating People (& Their Pets)

A. G. Holdier, with comments by Jasmine Gunkel

12.45 - 13.45: Session 4 (Coffee Hour Talks)

In the Magic Mystery Room:

Clifford the Big Red Kaiju

Jonathan Flowers

In the Haunts and Horrors Room:

Cheap Thrills and the Paradox of Horror

David Eduardo Torres Alvarez

2.00pm-3.30: Keynote

Wonder, Magic and Science

Helen de Cruz

(Magic Mystery Room)

3.30 - 5.30: 

Cogtweeto Happy Hour

Jen Foster and Cassie Finley

(Magic Mystery Room)

Day 2: Sunday October 31st

8am to 5.45pm, Pacific Time

8.00 - 10.00: Panel 

Philosophers and Pulp Fiction

Carrie Jenkins, Eric Schwitzgebel, Mark Silcox, Kris Phillips, Ethan Mills

(Magic Mystery Room)

10.15 - 11.15: AMA

A.M.A (about D&D)

Dan Pallies

(Magic Mystery Room)

11.30 - 12.30: Session 5 (Coffee Hour talks)

In the Magic Mystery Room:

’Bloodborne’ and the Sublime

Zack Brown

In the Haunts and Horrors Room:

Towards a  Theory of the Eerie

Blakely Phillips

1.15 - 1.30:

Costume Contest

Jen Foster and Cassie Finley

(Magic Mystery Room)

2.20-3.30: Session 6 (Colloquium talk)

In Defence of Problematic Faves: Villains, Vices, and Imaginative Engagement with Evil

Luke Roelofs

(Magic Mystery Room)

3.30 - 3.45: 

Closing Remarks

Jen Foster and Cassie Finley

(Magic Mystery Room)

3.45 - 5.45: 

Cogtweeto Happy Hour

Jen Foster and Cassie Finley

(Magic Mystery Room)

For more information, follow @Cogtweetoseries or email [email protected].