47th Cincinnati Philosophy Colloquium
Naturalism and the Nature of Philosophy
21-23 October 2010
425 Tangeman University Center
University of Cincinnati
- Owen Flanagan, Duke University
- Hilary Kornblith, University of Massachusetts
- Michael Lynch, University of Connecticut
- Penelope Maddy, University of California
- David Papineau, King's College London
- L. A. Paul, University of North Carolina
- Thomas Polger, University of Cincinnati
- Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center.
Free and open to the public.
For more information or to RSVP please contact thomas.polger@uc.edu.
Visitors should arrange their own accommodation at the Kingsgate Marriott Hotel and Conference Center .
Be sure to indicate that you are attending a campus event and would like the University of Cincinnati rate.
Additional travel and program information will be available soon.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21 | |
| 4:30 p.m. | Greetings and Introductions |
| 4:45-6:15 p.m. | David Papineau, Kings College London The Importance of Intuition |
| Chair: Thomas Polger, University of Cincinnati | |
| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22 | |
| 9 a.m. | Coffee |
| 9:30-11 a.m. | Penelope Maddy, University of California, Irvine, LPS Naturalism and Common Sense |
| Chair: Robert Barnard, University of Mississippi | |
| 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. | Thomas Polger, University of Cincinnati "Physicalism and Natural Resources" |
| Chair: Larry Shapiro, University of Wisconsin, Madison | |
| Lunch | |
| 2 p.m. | Coffee |
| 2:15-3:45 p.m. | Hilary Kornblith, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Is There Room for Armchair Theorizing in Epistemology? |
| Chair: Gillian Russell, Washington University, St. Louis | |
| 4-5:30 p.m. | Michael Lynch, University of Connecticut Epistemic Naturalism and Epistemic Incommensurability |
| Chair: Chase Wrenn, University of Alabama | |
| SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23 | |
| 10 a.m. | Coffee |
| 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Owen Flanagan, Duke University "The Free Water of Consciousness" View of Persons, or Why Forensic, Narrative Selfhood is Overrated |
| Chair: Andrew Melnyk, University of Missouri, Columbia | |
| Lunch | |
| 1:30-3 p.m. | Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Parsimony Arguments in Science and Philosophy - Âa Test Case for Naturalism Sub-P" |
| Chair: Zvi Biener, Western Michigan University | |
| 3 p.m. | Coffee |
| 3:15-4:45 p.m. | L. A. Paul, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Metaphysics as Modeling |
| Chair: Jonathan Weinberg, Indiana University | |
| 5-6:30 p.m. | David Papineau, Kings College London The Explanatory Gap Explained |
| Chair: Angela Potochnik, Stanford University and University of Cincinnati | |