2021

Participants:

• Hira Ahmed

• Dominic Alford-Duguid

• Fatema Amijee

• Alisabeth Ayars

• Zach Barnett

• Matt Bedke

• Joshua Blanchard

• Alex Bryant

• Kristin Lee Conrad Kilgallen

• Helen Daly

• Steven Diggin

• Louis Doulas

• Amy Flowerree

• Jennifer Foster

• Jasper Heaton

• Jonathan Ichikawa

• Carrie Jenkins

• Mira Kuroyedov

• Irem Kurtsal

SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY, AUGUST 13

SESSION 1: 8:00–9:30

Paper: "Save the Five: Meeting Taurek’s Challenge"
Author: Zach Barnett
Commentator: Erik Zhang
Commentator: Matt Bedke
Chair: Jonathan Ichikawa

SESSION 2: 10:00–11:30 

Paper: "Phenomenal Transformation and Language Attachment"
Author: Min Tang
Commentator: Joy Shim
Commentator: Jelena Markovic
Chair: Kristin Lee Conrad Kilgallen

SESSION 3: 12:30–2:00

Paper: "On the very idea of an elite conceptual scheme"
Author: Nick Treanor and Mahrad Almotahari
Commentator: Irem Kurtsal
Commentator: Carrie Jenkins
Chair: Linh Mac

SATURDAY, AUGUST 14

SESSION 4: 8:00–9:30

Paper: "Susan Stebbing: The Other Cambridge Common Sense Philosopher"
Author: Louis Doulas
Commentator: Audrey Yap
Commentator: Lewis Powell
Chair: Steven Diggin

SESSION 5: 10:00–11:30 

Paper: "Philosophical Angst"
Author: Joshua Blanchard
Commentator: Paul Prescott
Commentator: Mark Steen
Chair: Dominic Alford-Duguid

SESSION 6: 12:30–2:00

Paper: "The Social Value of Insults"
Author: Adrienne Takaoka
Commentator: Kelsey Vicars
Commentator: Helen Daly
Chair: Carrie Jenkins

SUNDAY, AUGUST 15

SESSION 7: 8:00–9:30

Paper: "Why It Is Not Just “Your Interpretation”: The Epistemology of Sexual Assault Testimony"
Author: Linh Mac
Commentator: Alexandra Lloyd
Commentator: Emily Tilton
Chair: Mira Kuroyedov

SESSION 8: 10:00–11:30 

Paper: "Are women 'free and equal' in Rawls's well-ordered society?"
Author: Jennifer Foster
Commentator: Alex Bryant
Commentator: Jonathan Ichikawa
Chair: Fatema Amijee

SESSION 9: 12:30–2:00

Paper: "When to Psychologize?"
Author: Amy Flowerree
Commentator: Mark Satta
Commentator: Kathryn Pogin
Chair: Hira Ahmed

2019

Participants:

• Ali Abasnezhad

• Michael Randall Barnes

• Brian Berkey

• Kristin Conrad

• Tom Donaldson

• Daniel Drucker

• Gretchen Ellefson

• Maegan Fairchild

• David Friedell

• Jennifer Foster

• Jonathan Gingerich

• James Haughton

• Jasper Heaton

• Samia Hesni

• Sukaina Hirji

• Jonathan Ichikawa

• Minji Jang

• Carrie Jenkins

• Irem Kurtsal

• Joanna Lawson

• Ben Lennertz

Schedule:

MONDAY, August 19

SESSION 1: 10:00–11:30

Paper: The Conscription of Political Representatives
Author: Wendy Salkin
Commentator: Jonathan Gingerich
Commentator: Paul Prescott
Chair: Carrie Jenkins

SESSION 2: 1:30–3:00 

Paper: The Cooperative Principle Revisited
Author: Gretchen Ellefson
Commentator: Jennifer Foster
Commentator: Michael Barnes
Chair: Benjamin Lennertz

SESSION 3: 3:15–4:45

Paper: There is No Pragmatic (or Moral) Encroachment
Author: Keshav Singh
Commentator: Jordan MacKenzie
Commentator: Jonathan Ichikawa
Chair: Joanna Lawson

EVENING SOCIAL EVENTS

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20

SESSION 4: 10:00–11:30

Paper: How to Disrupt a Social Script
Author: Samia Hesni
Commentator: Sukaina Hirji
Commentator: Minji Jang
Chair: Matthew Rachar

SESSION 5: 1:30–3:00

Paper: Arbitrariness and the Long Road to Permissivism
Author: Maegan Fairchild
Commentator: Irem Kurtsal
Commentator: Michaela McSweeney
Chair: Lawrence Wang

SESSION 6: 3:15–4:45

Paper: Grounding and A Priori Epistemology: Challenges for Conceptualism
Author: Wes Siscoe
Commentator: Tom Donaldson
Commentator: Michael Raven
Chair: Kelsey Vicars

EVENING SOCIAL EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21

SESSION 7: 10:00–11:30

Paper: None of These Problems are that “Hard” ... or “Easy”
Author: Lisa Miracchi
Commentator: Joy Shim
Commentator: Jelena Markovic
Chair: Ali Abasnezhad

SESSION 8: 1:30–3:00

Paper: Debunking arguments in normative ethics: a defense
Author: Caleb Perl
Commentator: Chelsea Rosenthal
Commentator: Brian Berkey
Chair: Jasper Heaton

SESSION 9: 3:15–4:45

Paper: The Optionality of Modus Ponens and Other Epistemic Rules
Author: Daniel Drucker
Commentator: Daniel Singer
Commentator: Julia Smith
Chair: Daniel Saunders

EVENING SOCIAL EVENTS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 22

RECREATION DAY

2018

PARTICIPANTS: 

SCHEDULE:

MONDAY, August 20

SESSION 1: 10:00–11:30:

Paper: "What We Epistemically Owe To Each Other"
Author: Rima Basu
Commentator: Mike Ashfield
Commentator: Kathryn Pogin
Chair: Jonathan Ichikawa

SESSION 2: 1:30–3:00: 

Paper: “Coincidences and the Grain of Explanation”
Author: Harjit Bhogal
Commentator: Jennifer Wang
Commentator: Sharon Berry
Chair: Travis LaCroix

SESSION 3: 3:15–4:45

Paper: "History as a Science in Islamic Modernism"
Author: Sara Aronowitz
Commentator: Camil Golub
Commentator: Kris McDaniel
Chair: Jordan MacKenzie

EVENING SOCIAL EVENTS

TUESDAY, AUGUST 21

SESSION 4: 10:00–11:30

Paper: "Against Humean Compatibilism"
Author: Jonah Nagashima
Commentator: Peter Tan
Commentator: Nina Emery
Chair: Chelsea Rosenthal

SESSION 5: 1:30–3:00

Paper: "The Secular Problem of Evil: An Essay in Analytic Existentialism"
Author: Paul Prescott
Commentator: Leigh Vicens
Commentator: Cathy Mason
Chair: David Boylan

SESSION 6: 3:15–4:45

Paper: "A Tale of Two Injustices: Epistemic Injustice in Philosophical Discourse"
Author: Emmalon Davis
Commentator: Ishani Maitra
Commentator: Samia Hesni
Chair: Matthew Dougherty

EVENING SOCIAL EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22

SESSION 7: 10:00–11:30

Paper: "Algorithmic Bias: On the Implicit Biases of Social Technology"
Author: Gabbrielle Johnson
Commentator: Sara Protasi
Commentator: Joy Shim
Chair: Daniel Fogal

SESSION 8: 1:30–3:00

Paper: "Dynamicity and the Metaphysics of Experience: A New Argument Against the B-Theory of Time"
Author: Joanna Lawson
Commentator: Brian Weatherson
Commentator: David Mark Kovacs
Chair: Gretchen Ellefson

SESSION 9: 3:15–4:45

Paper: "Spontaneous Freedom"
Author: Jonathan Gingerich
Commentator: Hallie Liberto
Commentator: Regina Rini
Chair: Thomas Donaldson

EVENING SOCIAL EVENTS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23

RECREATION DAY

2017

participants:

• Fatema Amijee (UT–Austin)

• Matt Bedke (UBC)

• Brian Berkey (Penn–Wharton)

• David Boylan (MIT)

• Lindsay Brainard (Washington University)

• Nathan Cockram (UBC)

• Lindsay Crawford (Connecticut College)

• Heather Demarest (Colorado)

• Matt Duncan (Rhode Island College)

• Tom Donaldson (Stanford)

• Will Fleisher (Rutgers)

• Daniel Greco (Yale)

• Bruno Guindon (UBC)

• Jasper Heaton (UBC)

• Sukaina Hirji (Virginia Tech)

• Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (UBC)

• Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins (UBC)

• Zoë Johnson King (Michigan)

• Lauren Leydon-Hardy (Northwestern)

• Hallie Liberto (Connecticut)

• Kathryn Lindeman (St Louis)

schedule:

MONDAY, JULY 31

SESSION 1: 10:00–11:30

• Paper: Will Fleisher, "Rational Endorsement"

• Comments: Matt Duncan

• Comments: Joshua Schechter

• Chair: Lindsay Brainard

SESSION 2: 1:30–3:00

• Paper: Zoe Johnson King, "We Can Have Our Buck and Pass It, Too"

• Comments: Bruno Guindon

• Comments: Matt Bedke

• Chair: Carrie Jenkins

SESSION 3: 3:15–4:45

• Paper: Kathryn Lindeman, "Think You've Found a Case of No True Scotsman Reasoning? Look Again"

• Comments: Lauren Leydon-Hardy

• Comments: Diana Raffman

• Chair: Tom Donaldson

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1

SESSION 4: 10:00–11:30

• Paper: David Boylan, "What the Future 'Might' Brings"

• Comments: Eric Swanson

• Comments: Yuna Won

• Chair: Heather Demarest

SESSION 5: 1:30–3:00

• Paper: Kathryn Pogin, "Confronting the Epistepocalypse with Faith"

• Comments: Audrey Yap

• Comments: Briana Toole

• Chair: Daniel Singer

SESSION 6: 3:15–4:45

• Paper: Lindsay Crawford, "Believing the Best: On Doxastic Partiality in Friendship"

• Comments: Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa

• Comments: Keshav Singh

• Chair: Mike Raven

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2

SESSION 7: 10:00–11:30

• Paper: Rebecca Mason, "Social Kinds, Essence and Dependence"

• Comments: Jenn Wang

• Comments: Jasper Heaton

• Chair: Nathan Wildman

SESSION 8: 1:30–3:00

• Paper: Daniel Greco, "On the Very Idea of an Epistemic Dilemma"

• Comments: Kurt Sylvan

• Comments: Ginger Schultheis

• Chair: Anna-Sara Malmgren

SESSION 9: 3:15–4:45

• Paper: Samuel Reis-Dennis, "Anger: Scary Good"

• Comments: Sukaina Hirji

• Comments: Brian Berkey

• Chair: Hallie Liberto

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3

RECREATION DAY

2016

participants:

• Julia Langkau (Konstanz)

• Hallie Liberto (Connecticut)

• Ned Markosian (UMass–Amherst)

• Michaela McSweeney (Boston University)

• Li Kang (Syracuse)

• Lucia Munguia (Cornell)

• Phyllis Pearson (UBC)

• Sara Protasi (Puget Sound)

• Michael Raven (Victoria)

• Regina Rini (NYU)

• Chelsea Rosenthal (NYU)

• Richard Sandlin (UBC)

• Jonathan Shaheen (Gent)

• Joshua Schechter (Brown)

• Matthew Smithdeal (UBC)

• Eric Swanson (Michigan)

• Rosemary Twomey (Simon Fraser)

• Jennifer Wang (Stanford)

• Bruno Whittle (Yale)

• Adrian K. Yee (UBC)

schedule:

MONDAY, AUGUST 15

SESSION 1: 10:00–11:30

• Paper: Leif Hancox-Li, "Idealization and Abstraction in Models of Oppression"

• Comments: Chelsea Rosenthal

• Comments: Jasper Heaton

• Chair: Mike De

SESSION 2: 1:30–3:00

• Paper: Joshua Schechter, "The Rational Significance of Etiological Information"

• Comments: Magdalena Balcerak Jackson

• Comments: Ned Markosian

• Chair: Dana Goswick

SESSION 3: 3:15–4:45

• Paper: Eric Swanson, "Metaethics Without Semantics"

• Comments: B. R. George

• Comments: Ephraim Glick

• Chair: Sara Protasi

EVENING SOCIAL EVENTS

TUESDAY, AUGUST 16

SESSION 4: 10:00–11:30

• Paper: Nurbay Irmak, "Artifactual Theory of Words"

• Comments: Carrie Jenkins

• Comments: Jennifer Wang

• Chair: Ariana Falbo

SESSION 5: 1:30–3:00

• Paper: Bruno Whittle, "Size and Function"

• Comments: Mark Balaguer

• Comments: Michaela McSweeney

• Chair: Preston Greene

SESSION 6: 3:15–4:45

• Paper: Regina Rini, "Intuition Inversion; or, The Curious Case of Professor Head's Inverted Intuitions"

• Comments: Brendan Balcerak Jackson

• Comments: Julia Langkau

• Chair: Endre Begby

EVENING SOCIAL EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17

SESSION 7: 10:00–11:30

• Paper: Hallie Liberto, "Exploitation and the Role of Consent"

• Comments: Scott Anderson

• Comments: Abby Jaques

• Chair: Rosemary Twomey

SESSION 8: 1:30–3:00

• Paper: Nina Emery, "Against Radical Quantum Ontologies"

• Comments: Michael Raven

• Comments: Jonathan Shaheen

• Chair: Matt Bedke

SESSION 9: 3:15–4:45

• Paper: Teresa Bruno, "Objectivism without Alienation"

• Comments: Alex DeForge

• Comments: Lucia Munguia

• Chair: Li Kang

EVENING SOCIAL EVENTS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18

RECREATION DAY