Upcoming Conferences II

Thought-Experiments and the Apriori, Conference at the University of Fortaleza, Brazil (Aug 11-14, 2009)

Preliminary Schedule

Tuesday, 8/11/09

9.15-9.30 Opening

9.30-10.50 Albert Casullo: "Intuition, Thought Experiments and the Apriori"

11.00-12.20 Jonathan Ichikawa: "Is imagination a priori?"

14.00-15.20 Joao Branquinho: "On the Revisability of A Priori Truths"

15.30-16.50 Anna-Sara Malmgren: "The Justification of Intuitive Judgments"

17.10-18.30 Hilary Kornblith: "Is There Room for Armchair Theorizing in Epistemology?"

Wednesday 8/12/09

9.30-10.50 Ernest Sosa: "On the Nature and Scope of Rational Intuitions"

11.00-12.20 Anand Vaidya: "Apriori Warrant Enabled"

14.00-15.20 Konrad Utz: "The Indeterminacy of Apriori Concepts"

15.30-16.50 Desiderio Murcho: "Metaphysical Necessity, Contradiction and Apriori"

17.10-18.30 Marco Ruffino: "Indexicality and A Priori Knowledge"

Thursday 8/13/09

9.30-10.50 Thomas Grundmann & Joachim Horvath: "On the Logic and Structure of Thought Experiments"

11.00-12.20 Brendan Balcerak Jackson: "Thought Experiments and Counterfactuals”

14.00-15.20 Magdalena Balcerak Jackson: "Thought Experiments and Model-Based Philosophy"

15.30-16.50 Frank Hofmann: "Intuition and Imagination in Thought Experiments"

17.10-18.30 Christopher Hill: "Thought Experiments, Quine’s Revisablity Thesis, and the Individuation of Concepts"

Friday 8/14/09

9.30-10.50 Paulo Faria: "Kripke on Apriori Knowledge"

11.00-12.20 Guido Imaguire: "On Putnam’s Thought Experiment: How Direct can be a Reference?"

14.00-15.20 Dirk Greimann: "Does Jackson’s Mary Thought Experiment Involve a Confusion of Two Conceptions of Facts?"

15.30-16.50 Jens Kipper: "Is semantic externalism supported by thought experiments?"

17.10-18.30 Oswaldo Chateubriand: "The Indeterminacy of Translation as a Thought Experiment"

Upcoming Conferences I

Emmy Noether Armchair Lab: Issues in Philosophical Methodology

28-29 July

University of Cologne

The first in our series of Emmy Noether Armchair Labs will be a workshop on issues in philosophical methodology, with featured speakers Tamar Szabó Gendler and Zoltán Gendler Szabó of the Yale University philosophy department. Here is the schedule:

Tuesday, 28 July: Meta-Ontology

13:00-15:00 Zoltán Gendler Szabó (Yale)

The Ontological Attitude

15:30-16:30 Benjamin Schnieder (Humboldt Uni Berlin)

The Logic of ‘Because’

16:45-17:45 Brendan Balcerak Jackson (Köln)

Are Ontological Debates Merely Verbal Disputes?

Wednesday, 29 July: Thought Experiments

10:00-12:00 Tamar Szabó Gendler (Yale)

Philosophical Methodology from an Empirical Point of View

13:30-14:30 Magdalena Balcerak Jackson (Köln)

Thought Experiments and Model-Based Philosophy

14:45-15:45 Christian Nimtz (Erlangen)

Thought Experiments, Counterfactual Thinking, and the Limits of Empiricism