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"