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Upcoming conferences

The Relational and Representational Character of Perceptual Experience, July 17-18, 2008

 

Past conferences

The Contents of Consciousness, October 15, 2004

Concepts and Conceptual Analysis, January 20 & 21, 2005

Metametaphysics: Do Ontological Questions have Determinate Answers?, June 30 & July 1, 2005

Revelation and Humility: Our Knowledge of Mental and Physical Properties, November 18, 2005

Epistemic Modality, June 22-23, 2006

Time and Consciousness, July 22-24, 2006, Tusculum, Sydney (joint with Centre for Time)

Phenomenology and Intentionality, June 15, 2007

Experimental Philosophy Meets Conceptual Analysis, July 18-20, 2007

 

Upcoming talks

Talks are usually held in Seminar Room E in the Coombs Building as part of the RSSS Philosophy Seminar Series (Thursdays at 4pm) and the Philosophy Society Series (Tuesdays at 4pm).

 

David Bourget (RSSS), "Representationalism: The Easy Way", July 1, 2008

 

Past talks

 

2008

Houston Smit (Arizona), "Kant on Cognition and Things in Themselves", May 29, 2008

Marius Dumitru (University of Oxford), "On Cognitive Phenomenology", May 27, 2008

Andy Egan (Michigan), "Projectivism Without Error", May 22, 2008

Mike Bruno (Arizona), "Action and Visual Consciousness", May 13, 2008

Declan Smithies (RSSS), "The Epistemic Significance of Consciousness", May 6, 2008

Wolfgang Schwarz (RSSS), "A Bunch of Remarks in Defence of A Priori Physicalism", April 15, 2008

Stuart Crutchfield (University of Glasgow), "Phenomenal Unity, Introspective 13 June, 200813 June, 2008asgow), "Disjunctivism, Self-Knowledge and Anton's Syndrome", February 28, 2008

Larry Shapiro (Wisconsin), "The Science Behind Multiple Realizability", January 24, 2008

 

2007

Ole Koksvik (RSSS), "Intuition", December 4, 2007

Andrew Duggins (Westmead Hospital, Sydney), "The Form of Consciousness: A Perspective from Sensory Neurophysiology", November 29, 2007

Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney), "Psychological Attributes: A Reassessment of the Phantom Limb Argument", November 23, 2007

Mandipa Sen (JNU), "The Qualitative and the Intentional Contents of Consciousness", November 20, 2007

Declan Smithies (RSSS), "The Mental Lives of Zombies", November 13, 2007

Joe Salerno (St. Louis), "Counterpossible Conditionals", November 8, 2007

Alberto Voltolini (Modena), "Schematism About Intentional Objects", November 1, 2007

Amie Thomasson (Miami), "Modal Expressivism and the Methods of Metaphysics", October 18, 2007

Richard Gray (Cardiff), "Experiential content and the problem of aspectual shape", October 16, 2007

Farid Masrour (Arizona), "The Phenomenology of Objectivity", October 9, 2007

Christoph Hoerl (Warwick), "On Being Stuck in Time", October 2, 2007

Heather Logue (MIT), "Our introspective ignorance of some (alleged) phenomenal facts", September 25, 2007

Berit Brogaard (ANU/Missouri), "Structured Content in Speech and Attitude Reports", September 13, 2007

Bill Fish (Massey), "Naive Realism, the Hard Problem, and the Explanatory Gap", September 11, 2007

Susanna Schellenberg (RSSS), "The Situation-Dependency of Perception", August 16, 2007

Patricia Kitcher (Columbia), "The Unity of an Active Kantian Consciousness", August 9, 2007

Farid Masrour (Arizona), "Conceptualism: In Defense of a Neo-Kantian Account", 7 August, 2007

Anand Vaidya (San Jose State), "The Logic of Phenomenal Intuition", July 26, 2007

Philip Goff (Reading), "Why Panpsychism Doesn't Make the Hard Problem of Consciousness any Easier", 24 July, 2007

Joshua Knobe (North Carolina), "Folk Judgements About Causation", July 12, 2007

Melvyn Goodale (Western Ontario), "Visual Duplicity: Action Without Percption in the Human Visual System", July 10, 2007

Bill Lycan (North Carolina), "More Layers of Perceptual Content", June 21, 2007

David Bourget (RSSS), "The Unity of Thought and Experience", June 19, 2007

Bernard Nickel (MIT), "Peacocks, Plurals, and Generic Predication", June 14, 2007

Brad Richards (Guelph), "Phenomenology and Intentionality", June 5, 2007

Michael Glanzberg (UC Davis), "Context, Content, and Relativism", May 31, 2007

Stephan Leuenberger (RSSS), "Humility and Constraints on O-Language", May 22, 2007

Nico Silins (Cornell), "Mental Causation and the Basing Relation", May 8, 2007

Agustín Rayo (MIT), "On Specifying Truth-Conditions", April 24, 2007

Nico Silins (Cornell), "Mental Causation and the Basing Relation", April 17, 2007

Wolfgang Schwarz (RSSS), "Canberra Planning Without the Canberra Plan", March 20, 2007

Benj Hellie (Toronto), "Phenomenal Error", March 8, 2007

Jessica Wilson (Toronto), "De Re A Priori Physicalism", March 1, 2007

Geoff Lee (NYU), "Consciousness in a Space-Time World", March 6, 2007

Brad Thompson (SMU), "Seeing Through Appearances", February 22, 2007

Nicholas Silins (Cornell), "Basic Justification and the Moorean Response to the Skeptic", February 1, 2007

Martin Davies (Oxford) "Cognitive Neuropsychology, 'Ultra-Cognitive' Neuropsychology and Neuroscience: A Case Study for Autonomy", January 11, 2007

 

2006

Greg Restall (Melbourne), "An Inferentialist Account of Necessity, Actuality and the A Priori", December 14, 2006

Stephan Leuenberger (RSSS), "Intrinsic Properties and Relations", December 12, 2006

Aaron Zimmerman (UC Santa Barbara), "Hume's Reasons", November 30, 2006

Tim Bayne (Macquarie), "Another Look at Consciousness and the Global Workspace", November 28, 2006

Laurie Paul (Arizona / RSSS), "The Ontology of Mental States", November 23, 2006

Jens Christian Bjerring (RSSS), "Epistemic Possibilities and Non-Ideal Agents", November 21, 2006

Uriah Kriegel (Arizona / Sydney), "Temporally Token-Reflexive Experiences", November 14, 2006

Paul Snowdon (UCL), "On The 'What-it-is-like-ness' of Experience", November 9, 2006

Wolfgang Schwarz (Bielefeld), "What do we Learn from Experience?", November 2, 2006

Stephan Leuenberger (RSSS), "Metaphysical Probability", October 5, 2006

Andy Egan (RSSS / Michigan), "Seeing and Believing: Perception, Belief-Formation and the Divided Mind", September 5, 2006

Alex Byrne (MIT), "Experience and Content" , August 22, 2006

Istvan Aranyosi (RSSS), "Information sets and imperfect recall", August 15, 2006

Christopher Hill (Brown), "Pain and Awareness of Pain", August 10, 2006

Howard Robinson (CEU), "Bringing the argument for idealism up to date: the 'powers' conception of matter and other problems", August 3, 2006

Barry Dainton (Liverpool), "The Self and Experience", July 27, 2006

Michael Pelczar (National University of Singapore), "The Open Question Argument and the Knowledge Argument", July 20, 2006

David Chalmers (RSSS), "Conceptual Analysis Meets 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'", June 15, 2006

Jake Beck (Harvard), "Thoughts Without Concepts", June 6, 2006

Istvan Aranyosi (RSSS), "Toward a 'qualefied' functionalism", June 1, 2006

Magdalena Balcerak (Cologne), "The Methodological Suspension of Reference", May 30, 2006

David Bourget (ANU/Toronto), "Pure vs Impure Representationalism", May 16, 2006

Daniel Stoljar (RSSS), "Hempel's Dilemma", May 2, 2006

Daniel Friedrich (RSSS), "Intentional Emotional Feelings", March 28, 2006

Yuri Cath (RSSS), "The Ability Hypothesis and the New Knowledge-How", March 14, 2006

Michael McKinsey (Wayne State), "Proper Names Again", March 9, 2006

Tim Bayne (RSSS/Macquarie), "Unity of Consciousness and Neural Correlates of Consciousness", February 9, 2006

Drew Khlentzos (New England), "What could 'red' mean? Interpretation and the knowledge argument", January 31, 2006

Martin Davies (RSSS), "Cognitive and Motivational Factors in Anosognosia ", January 25, 2006

 

2005

Derk Pereboom (Vermont), "Defending Hard Incompatibilism", December 13, 2005

Magdalena Balcerak (Bonn),"On Cognitively Significant A Priori Reasoning", November 29, 2005

Uriah Kriegel (Arizona and Sydney),"One More Theory of Consciousness", November 22, 2005

Ram Neta (North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Fixing the Transmission: the New Mooreans", November 10, 2005

Derk Pereboom (Vermont), "Consciousness and Introspective Inaccuracy", 4pm, October 27, 2005

Brian Weatherson (Cornell), "Preferences, Epistemic Justification and Knowledge", 4pm, October 13, 2005

Yujin Nagasawa (Alberta / CAPPE), "The 'Most Powerful Reply' to the Knowledge Argument", 4pm, October 4, 2005

Brendan Jackson (RSSS), "Context and Semantic Content", 4pm, September 27, 2005

Fiona McPherson (Glasgow), "Ambiguous Figures and Representationalism", September 22, 2005

Uriah Kriegel (Arizona), "No Representation without Self-Representation", September 15, 2005

Adina Roskies (Dartmouth), "The Illusion of Inferential Proximity and Other Grey Matters", September 8, 2005

Brendan Jackson (RSSS), "Semantic Natural Kinds", September 1, 2005.Kenneth Taylor (Stanford), "Where Do Norms Come From?", August 9, 2005.

Jay Garfield (Smith College), "The Conventional Status of Reflexive Awareness: What's at Stake in a Tibetan Debate?", July 13, 2005

Justin Fisher (Arizona), "Pragmatic Conceptual Analysis and Scientific Explanation", July 19, 2005

John O'Dea (RSSS), "The Knowledge Argument and the Nonconceptual Content of Belief", June 2, 2005

Adam Pautz (RSSS/Texas), "Intentionalism, Propositions and Properties", May 31, 2005

Jordi Fernandez (Macquarie/RSSS), " I Know What I Want", May 19, 2005

Adam Pautz (RSSS/Texas), "Colour Primitivism and Colour Realism", April 26, 2005

Tyler Doggett (RSSS), "The Tiny Dualist Faction Of My Soul Which Has Not Been Quieted", March 31, 2005

Frank Jackson (RSSS), " On Ensuring that Physicalism is not a Dual Attribute Theory in Sheep's Clothing", March 10, 2005

John O'Dea (RSSS), "The Senses and the Structure of Experience", March 8, 2005

Adam Pautz (RSSS/Texas), "Can the Colour Physicalist Explain Colour Structure in Terms of Colour Experience?", February 3, 2005

Susanna Siegel (Harvard), "The Phenomenology of Efficacy", January 27, 2005

Brian Weatherson (Cornell), "Intuitions and Meanings", January 11, 2005

 

2004

Ben Blumson (RSSS), “Direct Reference and Belief Attribution”, December 14, 2004

Jerome Dokic (Macquarie), “The Epistemic Conception of Imagination”, November 18, 2004

Jesse Prinz (North Carolina), “The Perceptual Basis of Concepts”, November 11, 2004

Jordi Fernandez (Macquarie), “Intentionality and Phenomenology: The Case of Memory”, October 28, 2004

Tim Bayne (Macquarie), “The Phenomenology of Agency”, October 26, 2004

Tim Crane (University College, London), “The Greatest Chasm in the Philosophy of Mind”, September 16, 2004