— SEP 2006 Conference Schedule —
| 4:00-6:00 | Keynote Address (Empress Hotel - Torrey Room) - Shaun Nichols, "Intuitions and Individual Differences: The Knobe Effect Revisited." • Reception to follow. |
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| Time | HSS 3027 | HSS 7077 | HSS 8025 |
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| 9:00-10:00 | Andrew M. Bailey Biola University "Some Unsound Arguments for Incompatibilism." |
Derek Ball University of Texas, Austin "Bound Variables and Monstrous Semantics." |
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| 10:00-11:00 | Mark Colyvan University of Queensland "Relative Expectation Theory." |
Gurpreet S. Rattan University of Toronto "Sense, Analyticity, and Anti-Individualism: a New Choreography." |
Bryson Brown University of Lethbridge "Achilles, Van Fraassen and the Laws of Nature." |
| 11:00-11:15 | Break |
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| 11:15-12:15 | Franz Huber California Institute of Technology "The Consistency Argument for Ranking Functions." |
Michael Nelson University of California, Riverside "Actuality and Counterparts." |
Jonathan Bain Humanities & Social Sciences Polytechnic University "Emergent Spacetime and Structural Realism." |
| 12:15-1:15 | Michael Huemer University of Colorado "Weak Bayesian Coherentism." |
Charles M. Hermes Florida State University "Defending Weak Centering." |
P.D. Magnus University at Albany, SUNY "Eliminating Induction." |
| 1:15-2:15 | Lunch |
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| 2:15-3:15 | Steve Kimbrough & Robert Axtell University of Pennsylvania and the Brookings Institute "On Concepts of Rationality in Games." |
Otávio Bueno University of South Carolina "An Anti-Realist Account of the Application of Mathematics." |
Murray Clarke Concordia University "A Solution to the Radical Concept Nativism Puzzle." |
| 3:15-4:15 | Dilip Ninan Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Illusions of Influence in Newcomb’s Problem." |
Charles S. Chihara University of California, Berkeley "Burges’s “Scientific” Arguments for the Existence of Mathematical Objects." |
Robert Northcott University of Missouri, St. Louis "Natural-born determinists: Ex post versus ex ante judgments of probabilistic causation." |
| 4:30-6:00 | Keynote Address - Brian Skyrms, "Signals: Evolution and Learning." |
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| Time | HSS 6008 | HSS 7077 | HSS 8025 |
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| 9:00-10:00 | Branden Fitelson University of California, Berkeley "Kim’s Argument for the Unconfirmability of Disjunctive Laws." |
Nicholas Georgalis East Carolina University "Before Twin Earth." |
Sarah Hoffman University of Saskatchewan "You Can't Mean That: Yablo's Figuralist Account of Mathematics." |
| 10:00-11:00 | Steven Savitt University of British Columbia "Time in the Special Theory of Relativity." |
Kirk Ludwig & Susan Schneider University of Florida and Moravian College "Fodor's Challenge to the Classical Computational Theory of Mind." |
Susan Vineberg Wayne State University "Proof and Explanation in Mathematics." |
| 11:00-11:15 | Break |
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| 11:15-12:15 | Alan Hájek Australian National University "A Puzzle About Degree of Belief." |
Robert K Meyer Australian National University "AI, ME & LEWIS (Abelian implication, Material equivalence & C I Lewis 1920)." |
François Lepage & Serge Lapierre Université de Montréal and Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne "A Generalized Kleene 3-value Logic." |
| 12:15-1:15 | Roman Frigg & Carl Hoefer London School of Economics "Probability in Spontaneous Localisation Approaches to Quantum Mechanics." |
Greg Ray University of Florida "On the Independence of What Our Thoughts are About." |
Edwin Mares Victoria University of Wellington "The Fact Semantics for Ramified Type Theory and the Axiom of Reducibility." |
| 1:15-2:15 | Lunch |
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| 2:30-4:00 | Keynote Address - Fred Dretske, "What Change Blindness Teaches About Conscious Experience." |
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| 5:30-9:00 | Annual Banquet - The Brockton Villa |
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| Time | HSS 6008 | HSS 7077 | HSS 8025 |
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| 9:00-10:00 | Kenneth A. Presting University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "The Valuation of Choices." |
Gabriel Uzquiano Cruz Ohio State University "What’s in a Receptacle?" |
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| 10:00-11:00 | Paul D. Thorn University of Arizona "Rationality and Inconsistent Beliefs." |
Patricia Marino University of Waterloo "Toward a Modest Correspondence Theory of Truth: Predicates and Properties." |
Boris Kment University of Michigan "The Similarity Account of Counterfactuals." |
| 11:00-11:15 | Break |
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| 11:15-12:15 | Charles Wallis California State University, Long Beach "The Proper Role of Know How in Epistemology." |
Martin Montminy University of Ottawa "Two Contextualist Fallacies." |
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| 12:15-1:15 | Sarah Wright University of Georgia "Epistemic Virtues and Reasoning about Probability." |
Max Deutsch East Carolina University "The One and Only Argument for Radical Millianism." |
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