The philosophy departments of Trinity College and University College Dublin will host the annual Dublin Philosophy Graduate Conference on the 5th and 6th of April, 2013. The theme will be ‘perception and understanding’, and the keynote speakers will be Professor Kenneth Westphal from the University of East Anglia, Norwich and James O’Shea from the University College Dublin.
Friday, April 5th
09.30-10.00 Welcome, Registration* and Coffee/tea
10.00-11.30 Plenary: Kenneth Westphal (University of East Anglia), Mutual Recognition and Rational Justification in Substantive Domains
11.30-12.00 Coffee/tea
12.00-13.00 João Santos, Disjunctivism, Scepticism and the Transcendental
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Thomas Whyman, Taking a Stance on the World
15.30-16.30 Joseph Cunningham, Perceiving Isn't Believing
16.30-17.00 Coffee / tea
17.00-18.00 Raney Folland, Doxastic Attitudes Governed by a Principle of Coherence
19.30 Conference Dinner at Green 19 on Camden Street in the city centre.
Saturday, April 6th
10.00-11.30 Plenary: Jim O'Shea (University College Dublin) Sellars' Defence of Nonconceptual Content
11.30-12.00 Coffee/tea
12.00-13.00 Lorcan Whitehead, Re-Minding Merleau-Ponty
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Carli Coenen, Perceptual Experience as Bodily Synthesis
15.00-16.00 Daniel Kodaj, Constitutive Concepts and the Manifest Image
16.00-16.30 Coffee / tea
16.30-17.30 Paul Giladi, Hegel on Thought and Experience
17.30 Conference close.
*Registration fee: €30 waged; €10 students/unwaged
Queries should be directed to (opens in a new window)dublingradconf@gmail.com.
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