The 34th annual meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy
University of California, San Diego
May 18-21, 2006.
University of California, San Diego
May 18-21, 2006.
List of Talks:
(See schedule for times and locations.)
- Andrew M. Bailey - Biola University
"Some Unsound Arguments for Incompatibilism." - Jonathan Bain - Humanities & Social Sciences Polytechnic University
"Emergent Spacetime and Structural Realism." - Derek Ball - University of Texas, Austin
"Bound Variables and Monstrous Semantics." - Bryson Brown - University of Lethbridge
"Achilles, Van Fraassen and the Laws of Nature." - Otávio Bueno - University of South Carolina
"An Anti-Realist Account of the Application of Mathematics." - Charles S. Chihara - University of California, Berkeley
"Burgess' Scientific Arguments for the Existence of Mathematical Objects." - Murray Clarke - Concordia University
"A Solution to the Radical Concept Nativism Puzzle." - Mark Colyvan - University of Queensland
"Relative Expectation Theory." - Gabriel Uzquiano Cruz - Ohio State University
"What's in a Receptacle." - Max Deutsch - East Carolina University
"The One and Only Argument for Radical Millianism." - Fred Dretske (Keynote) - Duke University
"What Change Blindness Teaches About Conscious Experience." - Branden Fitelson - University of California, Berkeley
"Kim's Argument for the Unconfirmability of Disjunctive Laws." - Roman Frigg & Carl Hoefer - London School of Economics & London School of Economics
"Probability in Spontaneous Localisation Approaches to Quantum Mechanics." - Nicholas Georgalis - East Carolina University
"Before Twin Earth." - Alan Hájek - Australian National University
"A Puzzle About Degree of Belief." - Charles M. Hermes - Florida State University
"Defending Weak Centering." - Sarah Hoffman - University of Saskatchewan
"You Can't Mean That: Yablo's Figuralist Account of Mathematics." - Franz Huber - California Institute of Technology
"The Consistency Argument for Ranking Functions." - Michael Huemer - University of Colorado
"Weak Bayesian Coherentism." - Steve Kimbrough & Robert Axtell - University of Pennsylvania & The Brookings Institute
"On Concepts of Rationality in Games." - Boris Kment - University of Michigan
"The Similarity Account of Counterfactuals." - François Lepage & Serge Lapierre - Université de Montréal & Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne
"A Generalized Kleene 3-value Logic." - Chuang Liu - University of Florida (Cancelled)
"Approximation and its measure." - Kirk Ludwig & Susan Schneider - University of Florida & Moravian College
"Fodor's Challenge to the Classical Computational Theory of Mind." - P.D. Magnus - University at Albany, SUNY
"Eliminating Induction." - Edwin Mares - Victoria University of Wellington
"The Fact Semantics for Ramified Type Theory and the Axiom of Reducibility." - Patricia Marino - University of Waterloo
"Toward a Modest Correspondence Theory of Truth: Predicates and Properties." - Robert K Meyer - Australian National University
"AI, ME & LEWIS (Abelian implication, Material equivalence & C I Lewis 1920)." - Martin Montminy - University of Ottawa
"Two Contextualist Fallacies." - Michael Nelson - University of California, Riverside
"Actuality and Counterparts." - Shaun Nichols (Keynote) - University of Utah
"Intuitions and Individual Differences: The Knobe Effect Revisited." - Dilip Ninan - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Illusions of Influence in Newcomb's Problem." - Robert Northcott - University of Missouri, St. Louis
"Natural-born determinists: Ex post versus ex ante judgments of probabilistic causation." - Kenneth A. Presting - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Valuation of Choices." - Gurpreet S. Rattan - University of Toronto
"Sense, Analyticity, and Anti-Individualism: a New Choreography." - Greg Ray - University of Florida
"On the Independence of What Our Thoughts are About." - Steven Savitt (Keynote) - University of British Columbia
"Time in the Special Theory of Relativity." - Brian Skyrms - Univeristy of California, Irvine
"Signals: Evolution and Learning." - Paul D. Thorn - University of Arizona
"Rationality and Inconsistent Beliefs." - Susan Vineberg - Wayne State University
"Proof and Explanation in Mathematics." - Charles Wallis - California State University, Long Beach
"The Proper Role of Know How in Epistemology." - Sarah Wright - University of Georgia
"Epistemic Virtues and Reasoning about Probability."
Registration Information:
The registration fees for the conference this year are as follows:
- Faculty Registration (includes banquet) = $55 (US)
Graduate Student Registration (does not include banquet) = Free
Banquet (for graduate students and/or significant others) = $40 (US)
Please make your check payable to the Society for Exact Philosophy, and mail by May 18th to:
SEP c/o Vikki Devries
Department of Philosophy 0119
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0119
Schedule & Events:
Click here for the conference schedule.
Annual Banquet:
The Society for Exact Philosophy 2006 banquet will be held the evening of Saturday, May 20 at the Brockton Villa.
Transportation Information:
We recommend Cloud 9 Shuttle for service from the airport.
Transportation has been arranged between the Empress Hotel and the UCSD conference location in the mornings and after the completion of each day's sessions.
Transportation links:
- SEP 2006 Transportation Page - Contains walking directions from the Empress Hotel to the Brockton Villa, as well as instructions on the use of public transportation between hotel, conference, and banquet locations.
- San Diego MTS - Provides even more detailed instructions on the use of public transportation in and around San Diego.
- UCSD campus maps
Where to Stay:
Hotel accomodations for the conference were provided byEmpress Hotel in La Jolla ($119/night).
