Graduate School 2007

organisation

Financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, supported by department of philosophy of the University of Geneva and the NCCR in Affective Sciences" and in close cooperation with the series of talks organised by PhilEAs, the association of students in philosophy at the University of Geneva (which is subsidised by the Commission de la Gestion des Taxes Fixes of the University of Geneva) and the "Emotions, Values, and Norms" research project of the NCCR center of competence in affective sciences (dir: Kevin Mulligan), Kevin Mulligan (Geneva), Gianfranco Soldati (Fribourg) and I are organising a summer school ("école doctorale"/"Graduiertenkurs") on metaphysics during summer term 2007. The school will consist in four workshops on different topics.

1st workshop: the heart, the tongue, the brain

Invited speakers: Manuel García-Carpintero, Teresa Marques, Stephan Leuenberger
Date: 5-6 April
Place: University of Geneva. How to get there.

Program (click here for a pdf version):

Thursday, April 5 (morning: Bastions A112; afternoon: CISA, rue des battoirs 7):
- 10h15-12h, Stephan Leuenberger, Intrinsic Properties and Relations (a copy of the paper is available to participants here)
- 13h45-15h, Julien Deonna, Apprehending Values (a copy of the paper is available to participants here)
- 15h-16h15, Teresa Marques, Embedding Emotion (a copy of the paper is available to participants here, handout)
- 16h30-18h, Otto Bruun, Ancient Skepticism and Emotion Theory
Friday, April 6 (L208, 2 rue de Candolle):
- 10h15-12h, Manuel García-Carpintero, The Philosophical Foundations of Supervaluationist Semantics for Free Logic (abstract, handout)
- 14h15-16h, Philipp Keller, N-dimensionalism
- 16h15-18h, Catrin Misselhorn, Imaginative Resistance

2nd workshop: GVA-BCN

Date: 16-18 May
Place: University of Geneva

Program (click here for a pdf version):

Wednesday, May 16, CMU, room S1-S2 (we meet 14h30 in front of the department):
- 15h-16h30: Samia Hurst, Refusal of decision-making capacity assessment: a case of bioethics within the limits of human existence? (abstract); commentator: Sanna Hirvonen
- 17h-18h30: Jessica Leech, Modalising the Copula (a copy of the paper is available to participants here); commentator: Luc Schneider
Thursday, May 17 (L208, 2nd floor in the department building; door code:1468) ( how to get there):
- 10h30-12h: Dominic Roser, Reparative and Distributive Justice in Climate Change (abstract); commentator: Miguel Angel Sebastián
- 13h30-15h: Fabrice Correia, Necessity is Truth is Virtue of the Nature of all Things (abstract, a copy of the paper is available to participants here); commentator: Philipp Keller
- 15h30-17h: Dan Zeman, Context-sensitivity: Indexicalism, Contextualism, Relativism (a copy of the paper is available to participants here); commentator: Julien Dutant
- 17h30-19h: Mark Textor, The use theory of meaning and semantic stipulation (a copy of the paper is available to participants here); commentator: Philipp Keller
Friday, May 18, SO019 (St.-Ours) ( how to get there):
- 10h30-12h: Luis Robledo, Knowing the possible: on the evidential role of imagination (abstract, a copy of the paper is available to participants here); commentator: Fabrice Teroni
- 14h-15h30: Alexandre Costa-Leite, Combining knowledge and contingency (a related paper is available to participants here, abstract); commentator: Ekain Garmendia
- 16h-17h30: Sarah-Jane Conrad, Kent Bach on Saying and Implicating; commentator: Andreas Pietz
- 18h15-20h (optional and in French): Jonathan Barnes, La Mort N'est Rien Pour Nous

3rd workshop: eidos launch conference

Date: 13-15 September
Place: University of Geneva, "Villa Boninchi" on the shore of Lake Geneva, at route de Hermance 249b, 1246 Corsier GE

Program (click here for a pdf version):

Thursday, 13 September:
- 10-11.30 Carrie Jenkins, A Priori Knowledge:Debates and Developments
- 12-1h15 Andri Töndury, Pragmatic Accounts of the Good Epistemic Standing of Basic Belief-Formation
- 3-4.30 Fabian Dorsch, The Recognition of Aesthetic Qualities
- 5-6.30 Andrew McGonigal, Art, value, and character
Friday, 14 September:
- 10-11.30 Stephan Leuenberger, Metaphysical Probability
- 12-1.30 Andreas Hüttemann, Some Problems with Lewis's Conception of Laws
- 3-4.30 Wolfgang Schwarz, Elementary Beings
- 5-6.30 Ralf Busse, Natural Properties, Physical Quantities and Vectorial Fields
Saturday, 15 September:
- 10.45-12.15 Michael Esfeld, Structures and Functional Properties
- 12.45-2 Wrap Up Discussion

4th workshop: the metaphysics of vectors

Date: 19-21 October
Place: University of Geneva

Program (click here for a pdf version):

Friday, 19 October, B111 ("Bastions", 1st floor)
- 9-12, Philipp Keller, e - Formal Concepts in a Material World. Truthmaking and Exemplification as Types of Determination
- 3-6, Luc Schneider, Kinds of Instances. A logical and metaphysical inquiry into the Ontological Square
- 6-8, Dean Zimmerman, "Philosophy of Religion"
Saturday, 20 October, L208 (department building [2, rue de Candolle], 2nd floor)
- 9-12, Pierre Grenon, On Relations
- 3 - 4.30, Peter Simons, Vectors and Beyond: Geometric Algebra and its Philosophical Significance
- 5-6.30, Daniel Nolan , Finite Quantities (and vectors)
Sunday, 21 October
- 9.30-11, Barry Smith, How the Philosophy of Science can Help Biomedical Research
- 11.30-1, John Bigelow, Vectors and the passage of time
- 3-4.30, Stephan Leuenberger, Counterparts of Vectors
- 5-6.30, Ralf Busse, The Humean's fundamental vector fields

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