[Bups-l] Programme for the BUPS Spring Conference 2008

[Joe Cunningham]

Hello everyone,
 
Please find below a provisional copy of the programme for the BUPS Spring Conference 08. The programme will also be available from our website shortly. For those of you who haven't yet registered for the conference may I encourage you to do so here:
 
http://www.bups.org/pages/confs/register.shtml
 
Many thanks,
 
Joe Cunningham
pp.BUPS Committee 
 
 
 
 
 
BUPS Spring Conference 2008 Programme
University of Oxford Faculty of Philosophy
 
Saturday 19th April 
 
8.30 am – Registration opens
 
10.00 am – Keynote paper: ‘Vats, sets, and tits’
Professor Adrian Moore (Oxford)
 
11.30 - 11.45 pm –Break
 
11.45 pm – ‘Justifying the state – democracy and arbitration’
Alex Worsnip (Oxford)
 
12.30 pm – ‘Is there a non-realist construal of Kripke semantics for quantified modal logic which is acceptable as a semantic theory?’
Michael Price (Leeds)
 
1.15-2.30 pm – Break for lunch
 
2.30 pm – ‘Capturing the essentials of personhood: Parfit, brain-slices, and psycho-functionalism’
Leah Wilkinson (UCL)
 
3.15 pm - ‘The ‘well, that’s what you say’ argument’ 
 Nickolas Montgomery (UEA)
 
4.00-4.30 pm – Coffee Break 
 
4.30 pm - ‘Bell’s theorem and the problem of locality’
Max Jones (Bristol)
 
5.15 pm - ‘Authentic life standards: a conception of happiness and well-being’
 James Souter (Exeter)
 
6.00-6.15 pm – Break
 
6.15 pm – Closing Session 
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