Saturday, 7 November, 2009, 9:30am-6:15pm

PROGRAM (with abstracts and updated room list) is now available! Download here.

Confirmed speakers & talks (as of 4 November):

• Saba Bazargan (UC, San Diego), "On the Permissibility of Participating in Unjust Wars"
• Sara Bernstein (University of Arizona/ UNC-Chapel Hill), “The Social Composition Problem”
• Noell Birondo (Claremont McKenna College), "The Wrong Kind of Reasoning."
• Tim Black (CalState, Northridge), "How To Do Epistemology"
• Michael Cholbi (CalState Poly, Pomona), "A neo-Kantian view of moral dilemmas"
• Amy Coplan (CalState, Fullerton), “Feeling without Thinking: Lessons from the Ancients on Emotion and Virtue Acquisition”
• Sean Greenberg (UC, Irvine), "Controlling Consent: Malebranche on Human Freedom"
• Pamela Hieronymi (UC, Los Angeles) "Of Metaethics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism"
• Kristen Irwin (UCSD/Biola Univ.) "Bayle’s “Qualified Academic Skepticism”
• Agnieszka Jaworska (UC, Riverside) & Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College), "Full Moral Status of the Cognitively Impaired: Rescuing the Commonsense View"
• Brandon Johns (USC), “How to Try without Intending”
• A. J. Julius (UC, Los Angeles), "Wrongness, the fourth dimension"
• JeeLoo Liu (CalState, Fullerton) "Memory, Quasi-memory and Personal Identity"
• Marcy Lascano (CalState, Long Beach) “Early Modern Women on the Cosmological Argument: A Case Study in the Methodology of Feminist Historiography”
• Gideon Manning (Caltech) "Descartes’ genetic answer to the other minds skeptic"
• Thomas Nadelhoffer (Dickinson College/UC, Santa Barbara) "The Threat of Shrinking Agency" (CANCELED)
• Chris Naticchia (CalState, San Bernadino) "Nonideal Normative Theory in International Relations: The Case of Recognition."
• Calvin Normore (UC, Los Angeles) “The Discovery of Self in Avicenna and Olivi”
• Darcy Otto (CalState, San Bernardino), "The Resemblance Relation in Plato's Late Metaphysics" (CANCELED)
• David Pitt (CalState, Los Angeles) "Demonstrative Thoughts"
• Gila Sher (UC, San Diego), "Forms of Correspondence: The Intricate Route from Thought to Reality"
• Clinton Tolley (UC, San Diego), "Kant and Frege on the Generality of Logic"
• Cory Wright (CalState, Long Beach) 'Pluralism about Truth: A Progress Report'
• Aaron Zimmerman (UC, Santa Barbara) "On Inferring "Ought" from "Is""

Confirmed commentators:

• Ahmed Alwishah (Pitzer College)
• Patricia Easton (Claremont Graduate University)
• Stephen Finlay (University of Southern California)
• Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)
• Dustin Locke (Claremont McKenna College)
• Charles Wallis (CalState, Long Beach)
• Masahiro Yamada (Claremont Graduate University)

REGISTRATION:

The conference is free and open to students, faculty, postdocs and independent scholars of philosophy. Pre-registration is not required, but if you're planning to come (and you are not on the program), please send an email to "claremontcollegesphilosophy AT gmail.com," so that we have a rough estimate of the number of attendees.

DIRECTIONS TO PITZER COLLEGE (site of the conference) can be found here. The street address of the College is 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA 91711.

PARKING AND MAP TO CONFERENCE LOCATION: here.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

• Patricia Easton (Claremont Graduate University)
• Michael Green (Pomona College)
• Brian Keeley (Pitzer College)
• Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)\
• Peter Kung (Pomona College)
• Alex Rajczi (Claremont McKenna College)
• Peter Thielke (Pomona College)
• Rivka Weinberg (Scripps College)

Financial support provided by Pitzer College Campus Life Committee and Claremont Colleges Philosophy.