Perspectival Thoughts and Facts
The FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network PETAF is the first research and training network exclusively in philosophy ever to be financed by the European Commission. It aims to serve as a European research and training platform for joint philosophical research on perspectival thought, its linguistic expression and its consequences for our conception of objective, mind-independent reality. PETAF’s research programme, which runs for four years, addresses both general issues in metaphysics and in logic and semantics and specific issues in more specialised areas in which perspective-bound cognition plays a pivotal role, i.e. the philosophy of space and time, the philosophy of alethic and epistemic modality, the philosophy of subjectivity and consciousness, and the philosophy of norms and value.
Subjectivity Workshop
21-23 September 2011, Budapest
List of Speakers:
Keynote Speaker – Brie Gertler, (University of Virginia)
Rory Madden - University College London
Francois Recanati - Institiute Jean Nicod
Location: Central European University, 1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9, Gellner Room
Programme
Wednesday, 21st of September
14:00-14:45 Coffee & Tea
14:40 – 14:45 Welcome
14:45-15:45 Barry C. Smith, University of London: The Fragility of Self‑Knowledge
16:00-17:30 Keynote Speaker – Brie Gertler, (University of Virinia): Observational self-knowledge and the demands of rational agency
17.30-19.00 Wine Reception
Thursday, 22nd of September
09:00-10:00 Francois Recanati, Institiute Jean Nicod: Epistemic transparency in the mental file framework
10:15-11:15 Åsa Wikforss, Stockholm University: Knowing Our Own Beliefs
11:30-12:30 Aidan McGlynn, University of Aberdeen: Luminous Beings are We
12:30-14:00 Lunch (arranged for conference participants)
14:00-15:00 Janine Gühler, University of St. Andrews (ESR): Abstraction of mathematical objects in Aristotle
15:15-16:15 Tom Avery, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (ESR): Seeing Particular Objects
16:30-17:30 Giovanni Merlo, University of Barcelona (ESR): The Univocity of Phenomenal Facts
17:45–18:45 Howard Robinson, CEU: ineliminability - and maybe the primacy - of subjectivity
19:00-19:50 PETAF board meeting
20:00 Conference dinner
Friday, 23rd of September
09:00-10:00 Nenad Petkovic, CEU: Epistemological and metaphysical peculiarities of lucid dreams
10:15-11:15 Patrick Greenough, University of St. Andrews: How to be a Neo-Cartesian
11:30-12:30 Rory Madden, University College London: Thinking-Parts and Thinking Parts
