The 12th Annual Shapiro Graduate Philosophy Conference at Brown

Presented by the Philosophy Department at Brown University  

Keynote Speaker:
T. M. Scanlon, Jr.
( Harvard University ) 

October 19, 2007  

3:00 PM
Variability and Skepticism
Nathan Ballantyne
(University of Arizona)
Commentator: Andrew Rotondo

4:30 PM
Clarifying the Obscurity and Confusion in Descartes' Sensory Ideas
Anna Stoklosa
(University of Ottawa)
Commentator: Nicolas Bommarito

6:00 PM
The ‘Geach-Frege' Dilemma for Non-Cognitive Fictionalists
Dan Demetriou
(University of Colorado, Boulder)
Commentator: Derek Bowman

October 20, 2007  

10:30 AM
Aggregation and Morality: Why Headaches Cannot Outweigh Death
Timothy Campbell
(Rutgers University)
Commentator: Sean Aas

12:00 PM
Fairness and Political Duties
Daniel Koltonski
(Cornell University)
Commentator: Dana Howard

2:30 PM
Warrant is Unique
Andrew M. Bailey
(University of Notre Dame)
Commentator: Kevin Morris

4:00 PM
Keynote Address
“Means and Ends”
T. M. Scanlon, Jr.
(Harvard University)