the MIT department of linguistics and philosophy presents:
MITing of the Minds 2006
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Partially composed of talks by department faculty and graduate students of past and present. Thursday, January 19th, and Friday, January 20th All are welcome. This year's MITing of the Minds is the Second Annual MIT Philosophy Alumni Conference. The conference aims to showcase recent work in a variety of areas in contemporary philosophy. Presentations will cover topics in metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and ethics, and will be accessible to a broad audience. Each day will feature one talk by an MIT faculty member, one by a current graduate student, and two talks by alumni of the MIT philosophy graduate program. |
| 9:30 | Breakfast | ||
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| 10:00 | Richard Holton | "Exceptions, Rules, and the Law" | |
| Jason Decker | Commentary | ||
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| 11:15 | Break | ||
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| 11:45 | Ishani Maitra | "Why Take Our Word For It?" | |
| Dilip Ninan | Commentary | ||
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| 1:15 | Break for lunch | ||
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| 2:30 | Ulrich Meyer | "Action at a Temporal Distance" | |
| Alex Byrne | Commentary | ||
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| 4:00 | Drinks | ||
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| 9:30 | Breakfast | ||
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| 10:00 | Heather Logue | "Either/Or: disjunctivism for dummies"; [long handout] | |
| Rae Langton | Commentary | ||
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| 11:15 | Break | ||
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| 11:45 | Jennifer McKitrick | "Gender Identity Disorder" | |
| Sally Haslanger | Commentary | ||
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| 1:15 | Break for lunch | ||
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| 2:30 | Caspar Hare | "A Puzzle About Distant Suffering" | |
| Adam Hosein | Commentary | ||
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| 3:45 | Conference ends | ||
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| 6:00 | Dinner | ||
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