SEG'07: Conference Schedule

All talks will take place in the Health Professions, Nursing, and Pharmacy building (HPNP) on the campus of the University of Florida. You can also get this schedule with all abstracts showing.

Friday, March 23^rd

1:00 - 2:00 pm — Registration (Courtyard HPNP)

2:00 - 3:15 pm

· Room G307—
Andrew Alwood (Cornell University)
"Preserving Hume’s Law"
Commentator: Nobel Ang
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· Room G301A—
Elisabeta Sarca (Boston University)
"Leibniz and Krikpe on Trans-World Identity"
Commentator: Shawn Burtoft
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3:30 - 4:45 pm

· Room G301A—
Richard Vulich (University of California Irvine)
"Frege’s Sharpness Requirement and Natural Language"
Commentator: Chris Lubbers
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· Room G307—
Steven W. Halady (SUNY Buffalo)
"Merricks, Causation, and Powers"
Commentator: David Tostenson
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· Room G301—
Dustin Locke (University of Michigan)
"A Defense of Ramseyan Humility"
Commentator: Elka Shortsleeve
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5:00 - 6:15 pm — Keynote Address

· Room G101—

Jonathan Schaffer (UMass, Amherst)
“On What Grounds What”
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6:30 pm — Reception (Room G103)

Saturday, March 24^th

9:00 - 10:00 am — Registration & Breakfast (Main Lobby HPNP)

10:00 - 11:15 am

· Room G301A—
Octavian A. Busuioc (Queen's University, Kingston ON Canada)
“Thinking of Particulars in a Conceptual World”
Commentator: Casey Woodling
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· Room G307—
Blake Roeber (Northern Illinois University)
"Contextualism and Virtue Perspectivism: How to Preserve Our Intuitions About Knowledge and ‘Knows’"
Commentator: Kevin Savage
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11:30 am - 12:45 pm

· Room G301A—
C. Daniel Dolson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"On Naming Everything"
Commentator: Jesse Butler
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· Room G307—
Jonathan Scott Miller (Bowling Green State University)
"Are Mystical Experiences Evidence for the Existence of a Transcendent Reality? An Evaluation of the Metaphysical Claims of Eugene d’Aquili and Andrew Newberg"
Commentator: Ed Perez
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1:00 - 2:45 pm — Lunch Break

3:00 - 4:15 pm

· Room G301A—
Jason Waller (Purdue University)
“Spinoza’s Attributes and the ‘Intermediate’ Distinctions of Henry of Ghent and Duns Scotus”
Commentator: Eugene Zaldivar
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· Room G307—
Jeremy J. Kelly (University of South Florida)
"The Purification and Elimination of Correspondence: a re-examination of the Austin-Strawson debate"
Commentator: Emil Badici
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4:30 - 5:45 pm —
Faculty Speaker

· Room G101—
John Biro (Univ of Florida)
“Things and Stuff”
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6:30pm —
Conference party (location TBA)