4th Annual In-House Philosophy Graduate Conference
Date:
Friday, October 14, 2011 - 9:00am to Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 7:00pm
4th Annual In-House Philosophy Graduate Conference
Central European University, Budapest
Friday and Saturday, October 14-15, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Csaba Pleh
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
OPEN TO PUBLIC - Philosophy Dept, rooms 411a and 412
(Tentative Schedule)
Friday, October 14
9:30 -10:00 Coffee
Session 1 10:00-10:50
- A Robert Arnautu: Bacon's Conception of Technology
- B Alina Asavei: Re-thinking Disinterestedness: Aesthetic Disinterestedness and Political-Critical Art
Session 2 11:00 - 11:50
- A Tomasz Budek: M.G.F. Martin on Touch
- B Zsuzsanna Balogh : Sense of self and the loss thereof
Session 3 12:00 - 12:50
- A David Bitter: Is Darwin’s theory of natural selection empty?
- B George-Florin Calian : Is Plato a Platonist regarding Numbers?
LUNCH BREAK
Session 4 2:10 – 3:00
- A Damir Cicic: Pereboom's 'four-case argument' for incompatibilism
- B Jay Fogelman: Explaining Cyborgcrowds
Session 5 3:10 – 4:00
- A Hywel Griffiths: The hierarchical organisation of techniques: A tool for cognitive history of science
- B Viktor Illievski: Unity of the Theory of Unity of Virtue in Plato's Laches and Protagoras
Keynote Address 4:30 – 6:00 Csaba Pleh : The Heuristic Role of Philosophy in Modern Cognitive Science
6:00 Wine Reception
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Saturday, October 15
9:30 -10:00 Coffee
Session 6 10:00-10:50
- A Daniel Kodaj: Is Dumbledore gay?
- B Munir Kayaligil: Causal and Counterfactual Dependences Entwined
Session 7 11:00 - 11:50
- A Alexandra Lucia-Varga: Closed-world reasoning - infants' tool for explaining, planning, and learning actions
- B Anton Markocs: The Cogency of Levelling Down Obejction
Session 8 12:00- 12:50
- A Isik Sarihan : Mary’s Ignorance of Intentional Objects: A Physicalism-Friendly Representationalist Explanation for Why Having a Type of Experience is Necessary to Fully Understand that Experience-Type.
- B Elena Popa: Causal versus Inferential Models of Scientific Explanation
LUNCH BREAK
Session 9 2:10 – 3:00
- A Kamuran Osman : Are there Global Traits: An Empirical Challenge to Situationism
- B Gergely Somodi: Metaphor and Causation
Session 10 3:10 – 4:00
- A Anna Réz: Responsibility and Fairness
- B Urska Mavric: Towards a democratic theory of secession
Session 11 4:10 - 5 pm
- A Edi Pavlovic: The Completeness Proof for Ben-Yami's QPL
7:00 Dinner in BorLaBor (V., Veres Palne u. 7)
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