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Events from Fall 2010 & Spring 2011

» Carlos Bernal-Pulido (Macquarie Law School) "Legal Philosophy By Means of Conceptual Analysis Or By Means of Reflective Equilibrium?"
» James Justus (FSU) "The Fact-Value Distinction in the Teleological Sciences"
• Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference:
» Daniel Tigard (Brandeis) "The Will to Love: A Response to Harry Frankfurt"
» Jay Quigley (Florida State) "A Rebuttal of Greene's Attack on Deontology"
» Tyler Paytas (Washington Univ) "In Defense of Scalar Consequentialism"
» John Robert Mahlan (Virginia) "Why the Principle of Charity Does Not Entail [. . .]"
» Brandon Hogan (Pittsburgh) "To Know is to Do"
» Sommer Hodson (Rochester) "Against Contrastive Knowledge"
» Justin Bzovy (Manitoba) "Destroy All Music"
» Sharon Berry (Harvard) "Combinatorial Possibility and the Access Problem"
» Jaime Ahlberg (UF) "Ideal Justice: The Role of Full Compliance"
» Andrew Melnyk (Missouri) "The Two Dimensional Argument Against Materialism: Some Doubts"
• Michael Sandel (Harvard) "Doing the Right Thing in Public and Private Life"
» Peter Lewis (Miami) "Free Will and Superdeterminism"
» Amie Thomasson (Miami) "Fictionalism and Deflationism"
» Kirk Ludwig (Indiana) "Corporate Speech in Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission"
» Charles Guignon (USF) "Questioning the Obvious: The Humanities as Gadfly"
» Greg Ray (UF) "Meaning and Truth"
• Florida Philosophical Association
• 15th Annual Food & Talk:
» "Does Science Need Philosophy?"

Events from Fall 2009 & Spring 2010

» Eli Chudnoff (Miami) "Lewis Carroll and the Psychology of Inference"
» Sara Rachel Chant (U Missouri-Columbia) "The Equilibrium Approach to Collective Responsibility"
• Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference:
» Richard Vulich (UC Irvine) "Higher-Order Evidence Reconsidered"
» Bill Simkulet (Kansas) "Moral Intentionalism"
» Jed Silverstein (Brown) "John Rawls and the Future of Deliberative Democracy"
» Joshua Shepherd (Florida State) "Caring, Guidance and Agency"
» Jared Poon (UC Davis) "Great Divides"
» Adrian Kwek (Harvard) "The Predictive Character of Casual Explanations and Fodor's Cross-Context Test"
» Ryan Hay (USC) "Hybrid Expressivism, Slurs and Jerks"
» John J. Craw (Illinois) "Transmission Failure Success"
» Prof. Kirk Ludwig (UF) "Collective Action, Constitutive Rules and Proxy Agency"
» Prof. Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (Chapel Hill) "A Moral Argument Against Moral Dilemmas"
» Sungho Choi (Kyunghee & Queen's-Kingston) "Finkish Dispositions and Contextualism"
» Gwen Bradford (Yale) "Difficulty"
» Clair Morrissey (UNC-Chapel Hill) "The Nuremberg Problem and Its Problems"
» Jada Twedt Strabbing (Princeton) "Moral Responsibility for Attitudes"
» Victoria Costa (FSU) "Justice, Moral Development, and the Family"
» Roger Ariew (USF) "The Cogito in 1634-1635"
• Food and Talk: What is the Good Life?
• Florida Philosophical Association Conference
» Michael McKenna (FSU) "Conversation and Responsibility"

Events from Spring 2009

» Jon Tresan (UF) "Two Cognitive Effects of Moral Passion"
» Gurpreet Rattan (Toronto) "The Semantic Significance of Disagreement"
• SEG'09: Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference:
» David Copp (UF) "Toward a Pluralistic and Teleological Theory of Normativity"
» Michael Jubien (UF) "Dualizing Materialism"
» Daniel Burnston (Georgia State) "Teleosemantics, Externalism, and the Content of Theoretical Concepts"
» Andrew Choi (Ohio State) "Acting on Instinct"
» Robert Farley (Chicago) "Quine's Indispensability Argument"
» Anders Floor (Austin) "Similarity as a Multiple Internal Relation and Its Relevance for Kripkenstein's Skeptical Problem"
» Peter Evans (Sydney) "Finding Time in Temporal Structure: Minkowski Spacetime and the Block Universe View"
» Flora Lee (Cornell) "Reviving the Libertarian Flicker-of-Freedom Response to Indeterministic Frankfurt-Style Cases"
» Jason Miller (Florida State) "Strength of Will Without Will-Power: A Reply to Richard Holton"
» Jada Twedt Strabbing (Princeton) "Understanding Attributability"
» Orlin Vakarelov (Arizona) "The Historical Necessity of Life for Cognition"
» Aaron Wilson (Miami) "An Embedding Problem for Modal Expressivism"
» Robert Kane (Austin) "Free Will: New Directions for an Ancient Problem"
» Michael Jubien (UF) "Attitudes without Propositions"

Events from Spring 2008 & Fall 2008

» Victoria Costa (FSU) "Neorepublicanism, Freedom as Non-Domination and Civic Virtue"
» Malcolm Schofield (Cambridge) "Aristotle and Democracy"
• The Evolution of Morality Series:
» Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth) "Moral Intuitions as Heuristics"
» Susan Dwyer (Maryland, Baltimore Co.) "Biomorality: Moral Rationalism Done Right"
» Geoff Sayre-McCord ( Chapel Hill) "Evolution, Morality, and Doing the Right Thing Because It Is Right"
• SEG'08: Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference:
» William G. Lycan (Chapel Hill) "Giving Dualism its Due"
» John Ku and Howard Nye (University of Michigan) "Norm Descriptivism: An Account of Normative Guidance and Inquiry"
» Travis Rodgers (FSU) "Assessing the Efficacy of the Epistemic Intuitions: Sosa’s Truth Reliability Criterion"
» Nathan Robert Cox (University of Kansas) "Mere Indeterminacy or Pernicious Underdetermination: Lepore & Ludwig's Virtual Reality Suit Contra Radical Interpretation"
» Barak Krakauer, (UMASS Amherst) "A Classical Account of Counterpossibles"
» David M. Krueger (Albany) "A Fresh Look at the Argument from Underconsideration"
» Julianne Chung (Calgary) "The Assumptions Account of Knowledge Attributions"
» Jonathan Weil (USC) "Advice for Dispositional Essentialists"
» Ryan M. Tanner (Calgary) "Against Intrinsic Value"
» Markus Glodek (University of Texas at Austin) "A New Conception of Nonexistent Objects"
» Marina Oshana (University of Florida)
• UF/FSU Graduate Philosophy Conference:
» Travis Rodgers (FSU) "Strawsonian Moral Communities and the Problem of No Ill Will"
» Carlos Bernal Pulido (UF) "Living Together in a Legal Practice. Is the Law a Collective Intentional Activity?"
» Zach Martin (FSU) "Reason Changed in Whose View?"
» Jared Poon (UF) "Impossible Scenarios in Meaningful Thought Experiments"
» John Carpenter (FSU) "Descartes’ Antithetical Role in the History of Epistemology"
» George Belic (UF) "Compatibilism, the 4-Case Argument and How Others Would Fare"
» Rico Vitz (UNF) "Lies, Captivating Lies, and Religious Belief: Hume on the Learned Elite and 'the Christian Superstition'"
» Juho Ritola (Univ of Turku, Finland) "Harmless Epistemic Circularity"

Events from Fall 2007

• Necessity and Possibility Conference:
» George Bealer (Yale) "Impossibility as Logical Inconsistency"
» Frank Jackson (ANU) "Reflections on Two Space-ism Versus One Space-ism"
» Michael Jubien (UF) "World Enough and Possibility"
» Kirk Ludwig (UF) "De Re Necessities"
» Alan Sidelle (Wisconsin) "Conventionalism and the Contingency of Conventions"
» Russell Dancy (FSU) "Knowing and Being: Plato's Extension of the Theory of Forms in Republic V 475-480"
» Alan Carter (Glasgow) "A Plurality of Values"
» Fernando Teson (FSU-Law) "Kantianism and the Justice of Legislation"

Events from Spring 2007

» Jon Tresan (UF) "Reconceiving What We Ultimately Care About"
» Elaine Sternberg (Leeds) "A Critique of the Stakeholder Doctrine"
• Association for Symbolic Logic Conference
» Scott Kimbrough (Jacksonville U) "On Holding Responsible"
• SEG'07: Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference
» David McNaughton (FSU) "Humility"
• Annual Food & Talk: "Thought Experiments & Intuition Pumps"
» Michael Jubien (UF) "Some Thoughts About Names"

Events from Fall 2006

» Kirk Ludwig (UF) "Skepticism, Logical Independence, and Epistemic Priority"
» Murat Aydede (UF) "Is Feeling Pain the Perception of Something?"
• The Annual R.M. Hare Lecture:
» Earl Conee (Rochester University) "The Best Alternative"
• 2006 Florida Philosophical Association Conference:
» Murat Aydede (UF) "Secondary Qualities and the Grain Problem"
» David Copp (UF) "Ought’ Implies ‘Can’ and the Derivation of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities"
» Kirk Ludwig (UF) Symposium on Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality
» Greg Ray (UF) 2006 FPA Presidential Address: "Fifty-Two Pick Up"
» Harvey Siegel (Miami) "In Defense of the Objective Epistemic Approach to Argumentation"

Events from Spring 2006

» Jozef Müller (Princeton) "Aristotle on the role of desires in decision"
» Ravi Sharma (Cal State, Long Beach) "The anatomy of an illusion: On Plato's supposed commitment to self-predication"
» Nathan Powers (Princeton) "Ancient Versions of the Argument from Design"
» Ishtiyaque Haji (U Calgary) "Source Incompatibilism, Desert, and the Intrinsic Value of Worlds"
» John Earman (U Pittsburgh) "Einstein's 'Biggest Blunder', Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe"
• Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference:
» Julie Ponesse (Western Ontario) "Aristotle on Tyche and the Biological 'Roots' of Character"
» Eli Chudnoff (Harvard) "Fact, Evidence, and Epistemic Justification"
» Chrysoula Gitsoulis (CUNY) "A Critique of Kripke's Argument from Error Against Dispositional Theories of Meaning"
» Ernest Lepore (Rutgers) "Content and Context"
» Nathan Hanna (Syracuse) "The Relativity of Relevance: A New Take on Moral Relativism"
» Kalbir Sohi (Oxford) "Analyticity and Concepts: Can a Line be Drawn?"
» Vincent Picciuto (Virginia) "What Non-Conscious Experience Doesn't Show"
» Dana Goswick (UC Davis) "Counterfactual Analysis and Causal Overdetermination"
» Kelly Trogdon (U Mass) "Testimony, Inference to the Best Explanation, and the Condorcet Jury Theorem"
» Dimitria Gatzia (Syracuse) "Fictional Colors"
» Michael De (Simon Fraser) "Essentialism, Reference, and Quantified Modal Logic"
» Ernest Lepore (Rutgers) "Context and Quotation"

Events from Fall 2005

» Shaun Gallagher (UCF) "Three Arguments Against Simulation Theory"
» Noa Latham (U Calgary) "Fundamental Laws and Causation"
» Alan Nelson (UC Irvine) "Explanation in Cartesian Science"
» Milos Arsenijevic (U Belgrade) "A New Reconstruction of Zeno's Flying Arrow"
• Florida Philosophical Association Conference
» Paul Teller (UC Davis) "The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth"
» Sigrun Svavarsdottir (Ohio State University) "Moral Motivation"

Events from Spring 2005

» Ryan Nichols (Calvin College) "Thomas Reid on Molyneux's Problem"
» Stewart Duncan (U Nebraska, Lincoln) "Locke, Thoughts of Substances, and What Substance Really Is"
» Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State Univ & St. Andrews, Scotland) "Humpty Dumpty on Vagueness"
» Jeffrey McDonough (UC Irvine) "Leibniz on Internal Teleology and the Laws of Optics"
» Timothy Rosenkoetter (Dartmouth) "A Geometrical Ethics: Kant on Constructing the Moral Law"
» Mark Sainsbury (U Texas, Austin) "Understanding as Immersion"
• Action & Agency Conference:
» Alfred Mele (Florida State) "Free Will and Neuroscience"
» Randolph Clarke (Univ Georgia) "Commanding Intentions and Prize-Winning Decisions"
» Michael Zimmerman (U North Carolina) "Deontic Luck"
» Robert Kane (U Texas, Austin) "Three Freedoms and What They Tell Us about Agency, Responsibility and Free Will"
» Timothy O'Connor (Indiana Univ) "Freedom With a Human Face"
» Jaegwon Kim (Brown Univ) "Understanding Actions: Normativity and the Agent's Point of View"
» Kirk Ludwig (Univ of Florida) "Collective Intentional Behavior from the Standpoint of Semantics"
• 10th Annual Food & Talk:
» David Copp (UF) & Richard Haynes (UF) "Reason, Controversy and Neutrality"

Events from Fall 2004

» Merold Westphal (Fordham Univ) "Heidegger, Aquinas, and Onto-Theology"
• 2004 R.M. Hare Lecture:
» Fred Feldman (Univ Mass) "The Open Question Argument: What it isn't and What it is"
• Florida Philosophical Association conference
» Eleonore Stump (St. Louis Univ) "Personal Reflections and Moral Residue: The Holocaust and Stain on the Soul"
» Stewart Cohen (Arizona State Univ) "Knowledge Ascriptions and Practical Reasoning"
» Richard Feldman (Univ Rochester) "Epistemological Puzzles About Disagreement"

Events from Spring 2004

Joseph Levine (Ohio State) "On the Objects of Thought and Perception"
Pierre Jacob (CNRS) "Do We Know How We Know Our Own Minds Yet?"
Pierre Jacob (CNRS) "Grasping and Perceiving Objects"
Pierre Jacob (CNRS) "Scope and Limits of Chomsky's Naturalism"
John Deigh (U Texas, Austin) "Emotion and Values"
C.D.C. Reeve (Chapel Hill) "Philosophy, Rhetoric and Love in Plato"
Michael Slote (Miami) "Moral Sentimentalism"
George Bealer (University of Colorado) "Mental Causation"
John Fischer (UC Riverside)"Responsibility & Manipulation"
Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy:
 Raffaella De Rosa (U South Carolina) "Conceptualist vs. Platonist Accounts of Cartesian Essences: A False Debate?"
Stewart Duncan (U Nebraska) "Locke and the 'obscure and relative Idea of Substance in general'"
Todd Ryan (Trinity College) "Bayle's Critique of Lockean Superaddition"
Talia Bettcher (CSU, Los Angeles) "Mind Dependence in Berkeley's Philosophy"
Matt Hettch (North Carolina State) "Revising Leibnizian Monads: Christian Wolff and the Metaphysical Foundations of Newtonian Science"
9th Annual Food & Talk "Is Philosophy Still the Love of Wisdom?"
8th Annual UF/FSU Graduate Philosophy Conference "Say More"

Events from Fall 2003

Martine Nida-Ruemelin (Fribourg)   "Phenomenal Concepts & Phenomenal Properties"
Neil Tennant (Ohio State)   "A General Theory of Abstraction Operators"
William Demopolous (W. Ontario)   "Neo-Fregeanism, & the Analysis of Number"
Susan Hurley (Warwick)  "Imitation, Media Violence & Freedom of Speech"
Jonathan Dancy (Reading)  "Acting in the Light of Appearances"
Conference on Early Modern Women Philosophers (Dec 6th):
 Eileen O'Neill (U. Mass), "Marie le Jars de Gournay: Scepticism and the Querelle des Femmes"
Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser), "Reconstructing Elisabeth's Moral Philosophy"
Sarah Hutton (Middlesex), "Anne Conway and Spinoza"
Patricia Springborg (Sydney), "Astell and Drake on Freedom from Domination"

Events from 2002-2003

John Heil (Davidson) "Properties and Powers"
Robert Sleigh (Amherst) "Leibniz and Theodicy"
Mark Moyer (Vermont) "Defending Coincidence"
Joseph Vidal-Rosset* (Bourgogne) "Les lectures de Descartes-- Quelques réflexions sur la philosophie française contemporaine"
James Nickel (Colorado) "Autonomy and Procedural Independence."
Irving Block (Western Ontario) "The Origins of Aristotle's Philosophy"
Jonathan Vogel (Amherst) "The Modal Conception of Knowledge"
George Bealer (Colorado) "A Definition of Necessity and Possibility"
Marina Oshana (Bowling Green) "Autonomy and Self-Identity"
David Copp (Bowling Green) "Grounding a Modest Conception of Rationality"
Andre Gallois (Syracuse) "McTaggart for Now..."
Ernest Lepore (Rutgers) "Context Shifting Arguments"
Anthony Brueckner (UC Santa Barbara) "Two Transcendental Arguments Concerning Self-Knowledge"
Myles Burnyeat (Oxford) "Weakness of Belief"
Richard Rorty (Stanford)* "Analytic Philosophy and Narrative Philosophy"
Raimo Tuomela (Helsinki) "We-Intentions Revisited"
Michael Jubien (UC Davis) "On Analyzing Modality"
Jaegwon Kim (Brown) "Agency & Self-Knowledge"
Ernest Sosa (Brown) "Self-Knowledge"
Ram Neta (Utah) "Why Should We Trust Our Senses?"
Florida Philosophical Association Meeting* (Nov 21-23)