British Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 2007

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British Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 2007
St. Catharine's College, University of Cambridge
14th-16th September 2007

A national conference for all undergraduate-level philosophers.

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Friday 14th September

10.00 am - Registration opens

1.30 pm – Keynote paper: 'The basis of self knowledge'
Professor Quassim Cassam (Cambridge)

3.00 pm - Coffee

3.15 pm - 'Realism in a revolutionary world: the case of structural realism'
Andrew Goldfinch (LSE)

4.00-4.15 pm - Break

4.15 pm - 'Against Nozick on equality and freedom'
Peter Sadler (Birkbeck)

5.00-5.15 pm - Break

5.15 pm - 'Truth in fiction'
Akosua Bonsu (Heythrop)

6.00-7.30 pm - Break for dinner

8.00 pm - Evening Entertainment: Philosophy quiz

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Saturday 15th September

10.00 am - 'Can the sale of human organs from living donors ever be morally acceptable?'
Jonathan Whiteley (Sheffield)

10.45 am - 'Misguided intentions and hypothetical audiences'
Megan Blomfield (Bristol)

11.30-12.00 am - Coffee

12.00 am - 'The implications of an artificial reality'
Chris Brand (Keele)

12.45-2.30 pm - Break for lunch

2.30 pm - Colloquium: Title TBA
Craig French (Heythrop)

4.00-4.30 pm - Coffee

4.30 pm - 'Objectivism, autonomy, and deontology'
Alex Worsnip (Oxford)

5.15 pm - 'The aesthetic value of perfect copies'
Gregor Ulm (KCL)

6.00 - 7.30 pm - Break for dinner

8.00 pm – Chairs Talk: 'The theory of motivating states'

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Sunday 16th September

10.00 am - 'Scepticism and the role of habit in hume’s thought'
Henry Clarke (Heythrop)

10.45 am - 'Is Blackburn's quasi-realism a suitable response to the Frege-Geach problem?'
Edward Grefenstette (Sheffield)

11.30-12.00 pm - Coffee

12.00 pm - Closing session
Conference report
Q&A panel

1.00 pm - Deregister

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The conference is non-profit-making.

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BUPC 2007 - Sponsored by private donation.