The department will hold its 5th in-house graduate philosophy conference on Friday and Saturday, October 12-13, 2012.
The purpose of the event is to give students the chance to present and discuss their research and learn about each others' work and to welcome new students. Each student will have 20-30 minutes to present a talk or paper followed by 20-25 minutes of discussion. So roughly 50 minutes are allotted to each presenter.
Tentative Schedule:
5th Annual In-House Philosophy Graduate Conference
Friday and Saturday, October 12-13, 2012
OPEN TO PUBLIC- Philosophy Dept., Zrinyi utca 14, 4th floor
Keynote Speaker: Simon Rippon, CEU and Oxford University
Friday, October 12
(For abstracts please scroll down to the ikon at the end)
9:15 – 9:30 Coffee (4th floor lounge)
Session 1: 9:30-10:15
A Kristina Pucko: In a Complicated Relationship with Role Functionalism (Chair: Michael Griffin rm. 412)
B Mojca Kuplen: An Explanation of Ugliness in Art: The Kantian Perspective (Chair: David Weberman rm.411a)- CANCELLED
Session 2 10:30-11:15
A Andrea Csillag: Unconscious mental states (Chair: David Weberman rm. 412)
B Maria Asavei: The Beauty We Fear: Functional Beauty and Political Art - CANCELLED
Session 3 11:30- 12:15
A Anna Rez: Controlling Beliefs (Chair: Ferenc Huoranszki rm. 412)
B Cecilia Lippai: The role of wilderness in environmental theory and action (Chair: David Weberman rm. 411a)
LUNCH BREAK
Session 4 2:00 – 2:45
A Munir Kayaligil: Alternative Approaches to Causal Difference-Making (Chair: Ferenc Huoranszki rm. 412)
B Laszlo Kajtar: Between Psychological and Narrative Approaches to Personal Identity through Time: The Case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Chair: David Weberman rm. 411a)
Session 5 3:00 – 3:45
A Holger Thiel: What a Difference does it make? (Chair: David Weberman rm .412)
B Magdolna Nyulaszi: The Soul as a Principle of Individuation and a Criterion of Identity in the Stoic Theory (Chair: Gabor Betegh rm. 411a)
Session 6 4:00 – 4:45
A Daniel Kodaj: Analytic idealism (Chair: David Weberman rm. 412)
B Mate Veres: Ex consensu omnium: Are some of those Stoic arguments really that bad? (Chair: Gabor Betegh rm. 411a)
Keynote Address 5:00 – 6:15
Simon Rippon: Trolley Problems, Moral Expertise, and Moral Vagueness (Chair: Gabor Betegh rm. 412)
6:15 Wine Reception (4th floor lounge)
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Saturday October 13
9:15 – 9:30 Coffee (4th floor lounge)
Session 7 9:30-10:15
A Elena Popa: Reasoning with causes: intervention and probability (Chair: Ferenc Huoranszki rm. 412)
B Brent Franklin: Problems Justifying Property with a No-Worsening Proviso (Chair: Michael Griffin rm 411a)
Session 8 10:30-11:15
A George Tudorie: The Schreber case, a century later (Chair: Hanoch Ben-Yami rm. 412)
B Attila Mraz: Is there procedural legitimacy in constitution-making? (Chair: Zoltan Miklosi rm. 411a)
Session 9 11:30- 12:15
A Nenad Petkovic:Knowing that you're dreaming: Lucid dreams and the no-knowledge assumption (Chair: Katalin Farkas rm. 412)
B Orsi Reich: Justice and Smoking (Chair: Zoltán Miklósi rm. 411a)
LUNCH BREAK
Session 10 2:00 – 2:45
A Hywel Griffiths: The uses of mathematics in physics (Chair: Hanoch Ben-Yami rm. 412)
B Ursa Mavric : Legitimate Boundaries, Residual Right Argument and Secession (Chair: Katalin Farkas rm. 411a)
Session 11 3:00 – 3:45
A Gergo Somodi: Semantics vs. Pragmatics of Metaphor (Chair: Katalin Farkas rm. 412)
B Anton Markoc: Intention, Permissibility, and Choice (Chair: Andres Moles rm. 411a)
Session 12 4:00 – 4:45
A.Isik Sarihan: Non-Representational Mental States or Non-Endorsed Representations? Another Case Against Qualia (Chair: Katalin Farkas rm. 412)
B Yulia Kanygina: Can There Be Genuine Moral Duties to Oneself? (Chair: Andres Moles rm. 411a)
Session 13 5:00-5:45
A Viktor Ilievski : Traces of the Platonic Theory of Evil in the Theaetetus
(Chair: Gabor Betegh rm. 412)
B Sharon Casson: A pragmatic interpretation of the original Gettier cases as an argument for keeping the Justified True Belief analysis of knowledge (Chair: Michael Griffin rm. 411a)
7:00 Dinner at Restaurant Ruben (1053 Magyar u. 12-14)
