This two-day conference will celebrate the work of Richard Cartwright, a dominant presence at MIT, who died in December 2010. Talks will be given by some of his former students: Richard Boyd, Delia Graff Fara, Marga Reimer, Scott Soames, and Linda Wetzel.

All are welcome.

Program

2.00 - 3.15 Richard Boyd
Causation, Representation and the Metaphysics of Aggregate Phenomena: A Hume-unfriendly Approach

3.15 - 3.45 tea break

3.45 - 5.00 Delia Graff Fara
Cartwright's matches and the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit

Evening: Dinner

Saturday 1st October 2011

10.00 - 11.15 Marga Reimer
On Seeing Things When You're Not: Reflections on Macbeth's Dagger

11.15 - 11.45 coffee break

11.45 - 1.00 Scott Soames
What is the Frege/Russell Analysis of Quantification? [Abstract]

1.00 - 2.00 lunch (8th floor common space)

2.00 - 3.15 Linda Wetzel
It Ain't Superficially So