Undergraduates in philosophy might be interested in this international undergraduate conference in philosophy at KCL in early April.
Keynote Speakers: Professor A C Grayling (Birkbeck) and Dr Eleanor Knox (KCL)
Places are limited, so for registration and venue information, please email kclphilsoc@gmail.com
Details here:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/events/archive/ugconf2011.aspx
Programme
Saturday, April 2nd
09:30 Conference Opening: Check-in and Welcome
10:00-11:30 Keynote by A.C. Grayling
11:30-12:30 “Moral Disagreement and the 'Impartial Spectator’” James Matharu , London School of Economics
12:30- 13:30 “Discussion of Social Components of Pathology” Lily Bristow, Bristol
13:30 -15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 "Describing the Indescribable Heidegger and Husserl" Harry Lewendon, Liverpool
16:00-17:00 "Do some theories of truth help explain Verisimilitude better than others?" Ben Weisz, Cambridge (Trinity College)
*Social events will be held in the evening for all conference participants*
Sunday, April 3rd
9:30 Day Two Opening
10:00-11:00 "Can Machines be Murdered" Alex Miller Tate & Rory Scott, Birmingham
11:00-12:00 "The Impossible Heap: The Representation of Apocolypse in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame” Diana Martin, University of Bucharest and European College of Liberal Arts Berlin
12:00- 13:30 Keynote by Eleanor Knox
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 "Does Modality Supervene on Actuality?" Emily Adlam, Oxford (Queen's College)
16:00-17:00 "Rawlsian Objections Against Utilitarianism as a Theory of Distributive Justice and Equal Consideration" Dimitar Milanov, Nottingham
Registration
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