Department of Philosophy

 

Werkmeister Conference on Folk Concepts: Philosophical

and Psychological Perspectives

(Sponsored by the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Endowment Fund)

January 16-18, 2004

Program

Friday, January 16th

Afternoon Session:

4:00 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.

Speaker: Jonathan Adler (CUNY Graduate Center), "The Truth Aim of Belief and the Unconscious" (Commentator: Frederick Adams, University of Delaware; Moderator: Simon Evnine, University of Miami)

Saturday, January 17th

Morning Session:

9:00 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.

Speaker: Lynn Baker (University of Massachusetts - Amherst), "Everyday Concepts as a Guide to Reality" (Commentator: Ronald Mallon, University of Utah; Moderator: Amie Thomasson, University of Miami)

Speaker: Christopher Hitchcock (California Institute of Technology), "Conceptual Analysis Naturalized? The Case of Causation" (Commentator: Sarah McGrath, College of the Holy Cross; Moderator: Manuel Vargas, University of San Francisco)

Afternoon Session:

2:00 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.

Speaker: Bertram Malle (University of Oregon), "The Empirical Study of Folk Concepts: What Can We Learn?" (Commentator: Joshua Knobe, Princeton University; Moderator: Jennifer Uleman, University of Miami)

Speaker: Ronald Mallon (University of Utah) and Shaun Nichols (College of Charleston), "Cross-Cultural Semantics and the Methodology of Metaphysics" (Commentator: Elizabeth Harman, New York University; Moderator: Kirk Ludwig, University of Florida)

Sunday, January 18th

Morning Session:

9:00 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.

Speaker: Ernest Sosa (Brown University), "Intuitions in Philosophy" (Commentator: Joel Pust, University of Delaware; Moderator: Harvey Siegel, University of Miami)

Speaker: James Uleman (New York University), "Some Problems Posed by the Inherent Polysemy of Mental Traits and Other Mental Concepts" (Commentator: John Doris, University of California - Santa Cruz; Moderator: David Copp, University of Florida)

Conference Participants at Dinner

Saturday, January 17th