Reading Owens (Workshop by and on David Owens)

Type: 
Workshop
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Gellner
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 9:00am
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Date: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a workshop titled `Reading Owens`

                                                       

 

Date and Location: November 15th, CEU Monument Buiding 1st floor, Gellner room

The one-day workshop is dedicated to the philosophical works of Prof. David Owens (http://sites.google.com/site/davidowensphilosophy/), faculty member of the Philosophy Department at University of Reading, currently visiting professor at NYU. Presentations aim to cover all the major topics in Prof. Owens’s works, from causation to epistemic normativity, from self-knowledge to promising.

Program

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11:00-11:40 Dániel Kodaj: Nomological relevance and higher-order properties

11:40-12:20 Zsuzsanna Balogh: Does the first-person concept characterise the rational animal?

12:20-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:40 Anna Réz: Responsibility for Believing

14:40-15:20 Anton Markoc: A New Look at Scanlon's Account of Promising

15:20-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00 David Owens: Habit, Policy and Convention