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Spring 2004 Conference Schedule


Conference Schedule:

                         Room S181 PBB                                         Room C121 PBB

8:30-

9:20

Moral Perception in Aristotle

Brett Gaul

Never Teleport a Dualist

Thomas Javoroski

9:30-

10:20

The Ascetic Scholar and his Ideal Power

Matt Behrens

Splitting Up: Are Descartes Meditations Symptomatic of Schizophrenia?

Amber Griffioen

10:30-

11:20

Naturalizing the Natural Light in Cartesian Epistemology

Jennifer Wilson

Redrawing the Limit to What Can Be Thought: Tracing the Genealogy of the Tractatus

Tuomas Manninen

11:30-

12:30

LUNCH

 

12:30-

1:20

 

Hypothetically Contracting for the Harm Principle

Michael Mulnix

On a Fundamental Incoherence in Goodmans Ways of Worldmaking

Peter LeGrant

 

1:30-

2:20

 

Rediscovering the C-Series: McTaggarts Lost Insight

David Taylor

The Importance of Being Seemly: The Role of Decorum in Ciceros De Officiis

George Wrisley

 

2:30-

3:20

Pleasure As Coincident Formal Cause

Jessica Gosnell

(Room S181 PBB)

Memory Distinctions, Epistemic Difficulties

Eli Trautwein

(S307 PBB)

The Upshot of Arguments from Perceptual Relativity in Humes Treatise and the Enquiry

Annemarie Peil

(Room C121 PBB)

 

4:00 6:00

 

Keynote Address by Dr. Newman

The Bundle Theory of Particulars

Room S307 PBB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                Dinner Reception following Keynote Address


 

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Andrew Newman is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. He comes from England and was born and brought up in Bournemouth in Dorset. He obtained a B.Sc. degree in Physics from King's College, London, a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Birkbeck College, London, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from University College, London.
 

He teaches courses in metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, analytical philosophy, and the history of modern philosophy.
 

His main research interests are in analytical metaphysics, particularly the theory of universals and related problems concerning particulars and the notion of substance.

He is the author of a number of articles on metaphysics and a book about universals, causality, and the notion of the real, The Physical Basis of Predication (Cambridge, 1992). His book The Correspondence Theory of Truth, an Essay on the Metaphysics of Predication was published by Cambridge in 2002. His article, "Converse Relations, Vectors, and Three Theses from Armstrong," was published in Metaphysica: 3 (2002), No. 2, pp. 65-84.

Also:

"A Metaphysical Introduction to a Relational Theory of Space" in Philosophical Quarterly 39:155

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8094%28198904%2939%3A155%3C200%3AAMITAR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O

 

"The Causal Relation and its Terms" in Mind 97:388

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-4423%28198810%292%3A97%3A388%3C529%3ATCRAIT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9

He is thinking about talking on the bundle theory of particulars or on the problem of
causal unity that arises in connection with Trenton Merricks's book.