Experimental Epistemology Research Group
Friday, October 2nd & Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
For a pdf version of the conference program click here
Day 1: Graduate Experimental Philosophy Conference
Friday, October 2nd
All Friday sessions will take place in 280 Park Hall
| 8:00-8:30am | Coffee and Registration |
| 8:30-9:30am | Adam Arico (Arizona), “On the Psychological Origins of Dualism: Dual-Process Cognition and the Explanatory Gap” |
| Commentator: TBA | |
| 9:40-10:40am | Shen-yi Liao & Nina Strohminger (Michigan), “An Experimental Perspective on the Puzzles of Resistance” |
| Commentator: Jill Cumby (York) | |
| 10:50-11:50am | Joshua May (UC Santa Barbara), “What in the World is Weakness of Will?” |
| Commentator: Craig Roxborough (York) | |
| 12:00-1:30pm | LUNCH (141 Park Hall) |
| 1:30-2:30pm | Mark Phelan (Yale), “The Inadequacy of Paraphrase is the Dogma of Metaphor” |
| Commentator: Nicolas McGinnis (Western Ontario) | |
| 2:40-3:40pm | Eric Mandelbaum (UNC-Chapel Hill) & David Ripley (UNC-Chapel Hill & Jean Nicod) “Explaining the Abstract/Concrete Paradoxes in Moral Psychology” |
| Commentator: Michael Patterson (Houston) | |
| 3:50-4:50pm | Jennifer Nado (Rutgers), “Experimental Philosophy and Skepticism” |
| Commentator: Robert Stephens (McGill) | |
| 5:15-7:15pm | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Stephen Stich (Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University), “Experimental Philosophy and the Bankruptcy of ‘The Great Tradition’” |
| 8:00pm | Dinner, Kyoto Restaurant (4060 Maple Rd, Buffalo, NY 14226, 716-836-6688) |
Day 2: Experimental Epistemology Workshop
Saturday, October 3rd
All Saturday sessions will take place in 102 Alfiero Center
| 9:00-9:30am | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:30-10:45am | Michael Bishop (Florida State), “Experimental Epistemology and the Normativity Problem” |
| 10:45-11:00am | Break |
| 11:00-12:15pm | Ram Neta (UNC-Chapel Hill) & Mark Phelan (Yale) “Evidence that Stakes Don’t Matter to Evidence” |
| 12:15-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:45pm | James Beebe (Buffalo), “Surprising Connections Between Knowledge and Action: The Epistemic Side-Effect Effect” |
| 2:45-3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00-4:15pm | Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana), “Humans As Instruments: Or, The Inevitability of Experimental Philosophy” |
| 4:15-4:30pm | Break |
| 4:30-5:45pm | Shaun Nichols (Arizona), “Epistemology and Moral Luck” |
| 7:00pm | Dinner, Toro Tapas Bar (492 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886-9457) |
For a pdf version of the conference program click here
Inquiries: jbeebe2 "at" buffalo "dot" edu