Online Philosophy Conference Underway

Here are the papers currently under discussion, followed by the papers to be posted next week.

Sunday April 30 - Saturday May 6

The papers, commentary, and responses have been compiled here.

1. Mary Coleman (Bard College), “Holistic Directions of Fit and Smith’s Teleological Argument,” with commentary by Michael Smith (Princeton). (discussion)

2. Julia Driver (Dartmouth), “Luck,” with commentary by Hans Maes (The University of Kent). (discussion)

3. Noa Latham (University of Calgary), “Fundamental Laws,” with commentary by Cei Maslen (Victoria University). (discussion)

4. Alfred Mele (Florida State University), “Practical Mistakes and Intentional Actions,” with commentary by Jing Zhu (Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of the Sciences) & Andrei Buckareff (Franklin and Marshall). (discussion)

5. Stephen Stich (Rutgers) and Daniel Kelley (Rutgers), “Two Theories about the Cognitive Architecture Underlying Morality,” with commentary by Michael Cholbi & Peter Ross (Cal State Polytechnic). (discussion)

6. Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto), “Non-reductive Physicalism and Degrees of Freedom,” with commentary by Michael Strevens (New York University). -discussion-

7. Outstanding Undergraduate Paper: Andrew Bailey (Biola University), “Some Unsound Arguments for Incompatibilism,” with commentary by John Martin Fischer (University of California-Riverside). (discussion)

Sunday May 7 - Saturday May 13

1. David Chalmers (Australian National University), “Probability and Propositions,” with commentary by David Braun (University of Rochester).

2. John Fischer (University of California-Riverside) “Freedom, Foreknowledge, and Frankfurt: A Reply to Vihvelin,” with commentary by Kadri Vihvelin (University of Southern California).

3. Brie Gertler (University of Virginia), “A Fregean Argument against Externalism,” with commentary by Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky).

4. Benj Hellie (University of Toronto) “That Which Makes the Sensation of Blue a Mental Fact,” with commentary by Adam Pautz (University of Texas—Austin).

5. Thomas Hurka (University of Toronto), “Value and Friendship: A More Subtle View,” with commentary by David McNaughton (Florida State University).

6. Uriah Kriegel (University of Arizona), “Real Narrow Content".

7. Stacey Swain, Joshua Alexander, and Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana University) “The Instability of Philosophical Intuitions,” with commentary by Adam Feltz (Florida State University).

8. Amie Thomasson (University of Miami), “Answerable and Unanswerable Questions,” with commentary by Jason Turner (Rutgers University).