the MIT department of linguistics and philosophy presents:
MITing of the Minds 2007
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Partially composed of talks by department faculty and graduate students of past and present. Saturday, January 27th, and Sunday, January 28th All are welcome. This year's MITing of the Minds is the Third Annual MIT Philosophy Alumni Conference. The conference will 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 talks by MIT faculty members, current students, and alumni of the graduate program. |
| 9:30 | Breakfast | ||
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| 10:00 | Rae Langton | "Disenfranchised Silence" (paper in pdf) | |
| Tom Dougherty | Commentary | ||
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| 11:30 | Break | ||
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| 11:45 | Robert Stainton | "The Varieties and Plausibility of Sentence Primacy" (paper in pdf) | |
| Robert Stalnaker | Commentary | ||
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| 1:15 | Break for lunch | ||
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| 2:45 | Susanna Rinard | "How Should a Bayesian Respond to the Ravens Paradox?" | |
| Agustìn Rayo | Commentary | ||
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| 4:15 | Break | ||
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| 4:30 | Carolina Sartorio | "Omissions and Causalism" (paper in pdf) | |
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Richard Holton | Commentary | |
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| 5.45 | First day ends | ||
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| 8:00 | Party | ||
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| 9:30 | Breakfast | ||
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| 10:00 | Adam Elga | "Probabilities Should be Perfectly Precise" | |
| Caspar Hare | Commentary | ||
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| 11:30 | Break | ||
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| 11:45 | Ephraim Glick | "Two Sorts of Intentional Identity?" | |
| Dilip Ninan | Commentary | ||
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| 1:15 | Break for lunch | ||
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| 2:45 | Alex Byrne | "Possibility and Imagination" | |
| Lauren Ashwell | Commentary | ||
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| 4:15 | Conference ends | ||
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