UCSD Graduate Philosophy Conference

11-13 April 2003



Author

Department

Paper Title

Session Chair

Commentator

A/V

Location

Time slot



Friday 11 April

Van pickups at hotel: 1:00, 2:00

Sara Bernal

Rutgers

Core Physical Knowledge and the Marks of Thought

Jonathan Cohen

Aaron Schiller

overhead projector

Seminar Room (7077)

Friday 3-4:30

Mark Fisher

Emory

Kant's Attempt to Establish Natural History as a Science

Eric Watkins

Andrew Hamilton


Lounge (7076)

Friday 3-4:30

Mark Couch

Columbia

Functional Properties and Causal Relevance

Bill Bechtel

Anna Alexandrova


Galbraith Room (4025)

Friday 3-4:30

Sam Floyd

Pittsburgh

Instantaneous Velocities and Instantaneous States

Craig Callender

Gunoo Kim

overhead projector

Library (8025)

Friday 3-4:30



Anthony Corsentino

Harvard

Linguistic Meaning and Referential Pragmatics

(short version) (long version)

Jonathan Cohen

Nellie Wieland


Seminar Room (7077)

Friday 4:30-6

Timothy Rosenkoetter

University of Chicago

Truth Criteria in the Critique of Pure Reason

Eric Watkins

Kristen Irwin


Galbraith Room (4025)

Friday 4:30-6

Greg Frost

Pittsburgh (HPS)

Empirically equivalent theories in semantics and spacetime: Quine, Einstein, and occasional verificationism

Craig Callender

P. D. Magnus

overhead projector

Library (8025)

Friday 4:30-6

Holly Andersen

Pittsburgh (HPS)

Unity and Experience:Towards a New Picture Of Intertheory Relations

Bill Bechtel

Cory Wright


Lounge (7076)

Friday 4:30-6



Van drives to hotel/dinner: 6:00

Dinner: 6:30-?





Saturday 12 April

Van pickups at hotel: 7:30, 8:00

Breakfast: 7:45-9:00

Hao Tang

Pittsburgh

The Axioms of Newtonian (Meta)physics

Don Rutherford

Eric Watkins


Library (8025)

Saturday 9-10:30

Kevin Scharp

Pittsburgh

Humean Supervenience and Deflationism about Natural Laws

Jonathan Cohen

Sofia Efstathiou

overhead projector

Galbraith Room (4025)

Saturday 9-10:30

Amit Hagar

University of British Columbia

For A Fistful of Entropy

Craig Callender

Craig Callender

laptop/projector

Seminar Room (7077)

Saturday 9-10:30

Andrea Borghini

Columbia

The Relational Species Concept

Bill Bechtel

Andrew Hamilton


Lounge (7076)

Saturday 9-10:30



Fritz McDonald

CUNY

Linguistics, Psychology, and the Ontology of Language

Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen


Lounge (7076)

Saturday 10:30-12

Jill North

Rutgers

Understanding Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics

Craig Callender

Craig Callender

overhead projector

Library (8025)

Saturday 10:30-12

Megan Delehanty

Pittsburgh (HPS)

Extending the Mechanism: Dealing with the Context Obejction to Reduction

Bill Bechtel

Belinda Aber

laptop/projector

Seminar Room (7077)

Saturday 10:30-12



Lunch 12:00-1:00

Paul Churchland

UCSD

What Is the Cut Between Philosophy and Science?

Dick Arneson



Galbraith Room (4025)

Saturday 1:00-2:00



Anna Ribeiro

Maryland

Do Mirror Neurons Support a Simulation Theory of Mind-Reading?

Jonathan Cohen

John Jacobson


Lounge (7076)

Saturday 3-4:30

Stewart Duncan

Rutgers

Hobbes's Methodological Materialism

Don Rutherford

Matt Kisner

none

Galbraith Room (4025)

Saturday 3-4:30

Christian Wuthrich

Pittsburgh (HPS)

Does Modern Physics Permit the Operation of Time Machines?

Craig Callender

Ioan Muntean

overhead projector

Library (8025)

Saturday 3-4:30

Matt Haber

UCDavis

On Probability and Systematics

Bill Bechtel

Jay Odenbaugh

laptop/projector

Seminar Room (7077)

Saturday 3-4:30



Andrea Scarantino

Pittsburgh

Information and intentionality: towards a non-Dretskean theory

Jonathan Cohen

Eric Thomson

laptop/projector

Seminar Room (7077)

Saturday 4:30-6

Joshua Knobe

Princeton

Intentional Action in Folk Psychology

Dana Nelkin

Evan Moreno-Davis


Lounge (7076)

Saturday 4:30-6

Jeffrey McDonough

UC Irvine

Newton's Scholium on Time, Space, Place and Motion

Don Rutherford

John Jacobson


Library (8025)

Saturday 4:30-6



Reception: 6:00-7:00

Van drives to dinner: 7:00

Dinner: 7:30-?





Sunday 13 April

Van pickups at hotel: 7:30, 8:00 (check out and store luggage)

Breakfast 7:45-9:00

Gila Sher

UCSD

Philosophy and Science: Some New and Old Dogmas

Jonathan Cohen


overhead projector

Galbraith Room (4025)

Sunday 9:00-10:00



Adina Roskies

MIT

Are ethical judgments intrinsically motivational? Lessons from "acquired sociopathy"

Dana Nelkin

Sharon Skare

laptop/projector

Seminar Room (7077)

Sunday 10-11:30

Robert Northcott

LSE

Defining the strength of a cause

Craig Callender

Mark Newman

overhead projector

Library (8025)

Sunday 10-11:30

Yaron Ramati

LSE

Living Without States

Bill Bechtel

Jeff Yoshimi


Lounge (7076)

Sunday 10-11:30



Lunch: 11:30-1:00

Van drives to hotel: 12:30, 1:00