CUNY Philosophy Grad Conference Apr 24-25 Schedule

CUNY Philosophy Grad Conference Apr 24-25 Schedule

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We are pleased to announce the schedule of events for the 18th Annual CUNY Graduate Student Conference!

 

Friday, April 24th

Student Talks (Baruch College, Vertical Campus rm. 5-295, 55 Lexington Ave):

11:30am. Welcome

11:45am – 1:00pm. Tomasz Wysocki (WUSTL)
“Normality: A Two-faced Concept”
Commentator: Phoebe Friesen

1:00 – 2:15pm. LUNCH BREAK

2:15 – 3:30pm. Asya Passinsky (NYU)
“Norm and Object: A Normative Theory of Social Objects”
Commentator: Aaron Bentley

3:30 – 3:45pm. COFFEE

3:45 – 5:00pm. Jessie Munton (Yale)
“Visual Confidences and Perceptual Justification”
Commentator: Jake Quilty-Dunn

5:00 – 5:30pm. RELOCATE to CUNY Graduate Center

Keynote (CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave):

5:30 – 7:00pm. Tyler Burge (UCLA) (rm. 5409)

7:00-8:00pm. Reception (rm. 7113)


Saturday, April 25th (CUNY Graduate Center, rm. 5409)

Student Talks:

 10:45 AM – 12 PM. Christopher Langston (U Toronto)
“Cross-Linguistic Ambiguity Tests and How to Fail Them”
Commentator: Tyler Wilbers

12:00 –1:15pm. LUNCH BREAK

1:15 – 2:30 PM. Ronni Sadovsky (Harvard)
“Ideological Persistence and Motivated Reasoning”
 Commentator: Lauren R. Alpert

2:30 – 2:45pm. COFFEE

 2:45 – 4:00 PM. Nicholas Smyth (Brown)
“The Function of Morality”
Commentator: Joanna Smolenski

        4:00 – 4:30pm. COFFEE

Keynote:

4:30 – 6:00 PM. S. Matthew Liao (NYU)

6:00-7:00pm: Reception (rm. 7113)

Image: Mariano Peccinetti