Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers

Conference ScheduleFriday, April 7th
10:00-noon
Michael Bratman, Stanford University
“Intention, Belief and Instrumental Rationality”
Chair: Scott Shapiro, University of Michigan Law

1:30-3:30
Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan
“Authority and Second-Personal Reasons for Acting”
Chair: Douglas Lavin, Harvard University

3:45-5:45
James Dreier, Brown University
“Practical Conditionals”
Chair: Donald Hubin, Ohio State University

Saturday, April 8th
10:00-noon
Elijah Millgram, University of Utah
“Serial Hyperspecializers and How They Think”
Chair: Daniel Jacobson, Bowling Green State University

1:30-3:30
Peter Railton, University of Michigan
“Practical Competence”
Chair: Niko Kolodny, University of California-Berkeley

3:45-5:45
Joseph Raz, Oxford University/Columbia University
“On Practical Reason”
Chair: Philip Clark, University of Toronto

Sunday, April 9th

10:00-noon
Michael Smith, Princeton University
“The Explanatory Role of Being Rational”
Chair: Ruth Chang, Rutgers University

1:30-3:30
Gary Watson, University of California, Riverside
“Promises and Reasons”
Chair: Michael Thompson, University of Pittsburgh