Program
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Wednesday, April 29
Join conference attendees and presenters for an informal get-together at Bricco, right across the street from the Kent State University Hotel. We'll be gathering in the bar area at 6 p.m., and taking a table for dinner at 7:30 p.m. Feel free to drop by, have a drink or dinner, and meet some serious Sellars scholars. No reservation necessary, but do come prepared to pay for your own drinks and dinner.
Thursday, April 30
Graduate Student Workshop Program
All conference presentations will be held at the Gateway Conference Room on the second floor of the PARTA Building, also known at the Kent Central Gateway, located at the corner of South Depeyster and East Erie Streets, directly across from the Kent State University Hotel.
Time |
Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30 - 9 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 9 - 9:45 a.m. | Preston Stovall, University of Pittsburgh, "On the Ground of Persons in Nature" |
| 9:45 - 10:30 a.m. | Mgr. Stephanie Dach, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, "Sellars and Ultimate Reality" |
| 10:30 - 10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 - 11:30 a.m. | Andrew Parisi, University of Connecticut, "Sellars, Second-Order Quantification, and Ontological Commitment" |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Thomas Dabay, Vanderbilt University, "Transposition as Naturalistic Metaphysics: Carnapian Themes in Sellars' 'Inference and Meaning' " |
| 12:15 - 1:45 p.m. | Lunch Break - Downtown Kent |
| 1:45 - 2:30 p.m. | Matthew Shields, Georgetown University, "Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Philosophical Importance of Creativity: Returning to Sellars on the Question of Conceptual Change" |
| 2:30 - 3:15 p.m. | Kevin Fink, University of South Florida, "An Incoherence in Sellars' Error Theoretical Account of Color Concepts" |
| 3:15 - 3:30 p.m. | Break |
| 3:30 - 4:15 p.m. | Ryo Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan, "Normativity and Nature in W. Sellars: Reconstructing Sellars' Strategy" |
| 4:15 - 5:00 p.m. | Ross Pain, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, "Pragmatism, Naturalism and Abstracta" |
| 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. | Wine and Cheese Reception, Zena's, Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center |
Main Program
Friday, May 1
All conference presentations will be held at the Gateway Conference Room on the second floor of the PARTA Building, also known at the Kent Central Gateway, located at the corner of South Depeyster and East Erie Streets, directly across from the Kent State University Hotel.
Time |
Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 9 - 9:05 a.m. | Opening Remarks Provost Todd Diacon, Kent State University |
| 9:05 - 10:15 a.m. | Keynote Presentation Willem deVries, University of New Hampshire The Causal Articulation of Practical Reality Watch Willem deVries' presentation on YouTube |
| 10:20 - 11:30 a.m. | Carl Sachs, Marymount University Sentience and Sapience: The Place of Enactive Cognitive Science in Sellarsian Philosophy of Mind Watch Carl Sachs' presentation on YouTube |
| 11:35 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. | Jim O’Shea, University College, Dublin Thought, Normativity, and Embodiment in Kant and Sellars Watch Jim O'Shea's presentation on YouTube |
| 12:45 p.m. - 2 p.m. | Lunch Break - Downtown Kent |
| 2 - 3:10 p.m. | David Rosenthal, CUNY Graduate Center Thought, Speech, and Consciousness Watch David Rosenthal's presentation on YouTube |
| 3:15 - 4:25 p.m. | Jeremy Koons, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar Toward a Sellarsian Ethics for the 21st Century Watch Jeremy Koons' presentation on YouTube |
| 4:30 - 5:40 p.m. | David Pereplyotchik, Kent State University Sellars and Psycholinguistics Watch David Pereplyotchik's presentation on YouTube |
| 6:30 - 9 p.m. | Conference Banquet McGilvrey Room, Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center See the More Info page for further details |
Saturday, May 2
Time |
Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30 - 9 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 9 - 10:10 a.m. | Keynote Presentation Huw Price, Cambridge University Wilfrid Sellars Meets Cambridge Pragmatism Watch Huw Price's presentation on YouTube |
| 10:15 - 11:25 a.m. | Boris Brandhoff, University of Bonn, Germany Pure Pragmatics and the Phenomenology of Linguistic Functions: On Sellars’ Non-Factualistic Conception of Philosophy Watch Boris Brandhoff's presentation on YouTube |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:40 p.m. | Danielle Macbeth, Haverford College Natural Truth Watch Danielle Macbeth's presentation on YouTube |
| 12:40 - 2 p.m. | Lunch Break - Downtown Kent |
| 2 - 3:10 p.m. | Dionysis Christias, University of Athens Does Brandom's Kant-Sellars thesis about Modality Undermine Sellars' Scientific Naturalism? Watch Dionysis Christias' presentation on YouTube |
| 3:20 - 4:10 p.m. | Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh On the Way to a Pragmatist Theory of the Categories Watch Robert Brandom's presentation on YouTube |
| 4:10 - 4:30 p.m. | Break |
| 4:30 - 6:45 p.m. | Author Meets Critics: From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars Chair: Michael Hicks, Miami University Watch the full discussion on YouTube |
| 4:30 - 4:40 p.m. | Introduction Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh |
| 4:50 - 5:20 p.m. | Discussant Willem deVries, University of New Hampshire |
| 5:20 - 5:50 p.m. | Discussant Jim O’Shea, University College, Dublin |
| 5:50 - 6:15 p.m. | Replies Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh |
| 6:15 - 6:45 p.m. | Discussion |
| 6:45 - 7 p.m. | Closing Remarks and Thank-you's David Pereplyotchik and Deborah Barnbaum |