Syracuse University

Graduate Conference in Philosophy

February 28 – March 1, 2003

 

All presentations given in the Killian Room (500 Hall of Languages).

 

Friday February 28

 

3:30 – 5:00 pm “Which Way to (a priori) Success?

                                    Author: Phillip Ebert (St. Andrews)

                                    Commentator: Brendan Murday (Syracuse)

 

5:00 – 5:30                   Refreshments (538 Hall of Languages)

 

5:30 – 7:00 pm “The Problems of Material Constitution and Mental Causation”

                                    Author: Christopher Green (Notre Dame)

                                    Commentator: Shannon Love (Syracuse)

 

Saturday March 1

 

10:30                           Breakfast (538 Hall of Languages)

 

11:00 – 12:30               “Health Resource Allocation in a Rawlsian Framework”

                                    Author: Benjamin Sachs (Wisconsin-Madison)

Comments: Mike McFall & Dimitria Gatzia (Syracuse, presented by Mike McFall)

 

1:00 – 2:30                   “Program Execution in Connectionist Networks”

                                    Author: Martin Roth (UC Davis)

Comments: Kora Smith & Rachel Briggs (Syracuse, presented by Kora Smith)

 

2:30 – 3:30                   Lunch (538 Hall of Languages)

 

3:30 – 5:00                   “Counterfactuals and Goodman’s Puzzle”

                                    Author: Adam Sennet (Rutgers)

                                    Comments: Edison Barrios (Syracuse)

 

5:30 – 7:00                   Keynote: “Classes, Worlds and Hypergunk”

                                    Daniel Nolan (Syracuse)

 

8:00                             Dinner at Panda West              

                                    Marshall Street

 

10:30                           End of Conference Reception

                                    106 Greenwood Place

                        (315-426-2612)