Toronto Graduate Student Conference

Action, Agency and Explanation
May 8-9, 2009
Keynote: John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh

Friday, May 8, 2009

8:00-9:00:

Breakfast

9:00-10:00:

“A Plea for Practices”,
Octavian A. Busuioc (Queen’s)
Commentary by Alexander Shoumarov

10:15-11:15:

“Naturalism and Moral Skepticism”,
Brian Ballard (UC, Santa Cruz)
Commentary by Kyle Menken

11:15-12:45:

Lunch

12:45-1:45:

“A Dilemma for Setiya’s Virtue Theory of Reasons”,
Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (UC, Riverside)
Commentary by Mark Schranz

2:00-3:00:

“Agency, Self-Knowledge and Functionalism”,
Ariel Zylberman (Toronto)
Commentary by G. Anthony Bruno

3:15-5:00:

Keynote: “What is the Content of an Intention in Action?”,
John McDowell (Pittsburgh)

5:30-7:30:

Reception at the Faculty Club

Saturday, May 9, 2009

8:00-9:00:

Breakfast

9:00-10:00:

“Thomson’s Turn, Dual Process Theories of Moral Judgment and the Epistemic Status of Ethical Intuitions”,
Mark S. Makin (Yale)
Commentary by Steven Zylstra

10:15-11:15:

“Dewey on Thinking and Acting”,
Christopher Collins (Virginia)
Commentary by Diana Heney

11:30-12:30:

“The Epistemology of Embodied Action”,
Andreas Elpidorou (Boston)
Commentary by Kenneth Boyd

12:30-2:00:

Lunch

2:00-3:00:

“Desires as Sub-Agential Evaluations of the Good”,
Avery Archer (Columbia)
Commentary by Chris Langston

6:30:

Conference Dinner

See conference website here.