Programme
Please note that programme is subject to change. You can find a .pdf of the programme here.
All talks take place at Faculty of Philosophy. Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG.
Handouts for the talks can be found here.
Saturday 10th November
09.00-9.30
Registration, Coffee, and Breakfast
Foyer
09.30-11.00
Billie (Gene) Is Not My Mother: Defining Biological Parenthood
Teresa Baron (Southampton) Faculty Respondent: Steve Clarke
Ryle Room
Conflict Resolution: Demoting the Enkratic Principle
Claire Field (St Andrews) Faculty Respondent: Bernhard Salow
Lecture Room
11.00-11.30
Coffee Break
11.30-13.00
A Case of the Unenforceability of Surrogacy Contracts: Can Unilateral Contracts Integrate Autonomy-Respecting Surrogacy Agreements?
Maria-Jose Pietrini-Sanchez (Sheffield) Faculty Respondent: César Palacios-González
Ryle Room
Paradoxical Desires
Ethan Jerzak (UC Berkeley) Faculty Respondent: Joel David Hamkins
Lecture Room
13.00-14.30
Lunch Break
14.30-16.00
Bias and Belief
Brett Karlan (Princeton) Faculty Respondent: Rachel Fraser
Ryle Room
We Are Living in a Predictable World and I Am a Predictable Girl: Voluntary Servitude, Social Construction, and Predictive Processing
Wilson Lee and Kathryn Nave (Edinburgh) Faculty Respondent: Mari Mikkola
Lecture Room
16.00-16.30
Coffee Break
16.30-18.00
KEYNOTE: A Toxic Brew: Sexism and Misogyny
Martha Nussbaum (UChicago)
Lecture Room
18.00-19.00
Wine Reception
Ryle Room
19.00
Conference Dinner
Al-Shami
Sunday 11th November
09.00-9.30
Registration, Coffee, and Breakfast
Foyer
09.30-11.00
Modality, Fundamentality, and Quantificational Truth
Qiong Wu (Boston University) Faculty Respondent: Timothy Williamson
Ryle Room
The Body: Power and Resistance
Maura Ceci (Leiden) Faculty Respondent: Alexander Prescott-Couch
Lecture Room
11.00-11.30
Coffee Break
11.30-13.00
Ontological Fundamentality
Joaquim Gianotti (Glasgow) Faculty Respondent: Alexander Kaiserman
Ryle Room
Winning
Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt (MIT) Faculty Respondent: Guy Kahane
Lecture Room
13.00-14.30
Lunch Break
14.30-16.00
Sympathetic Feeling as the Medium of Duty: Rethinking Kant’s Duty of Sympathy
Zhiyu Luo (St Andrews) Faculty Respondent: Jeremy Fix
Ryle Room
The Unbearable Circularity of Easy Ontology
Jonas Raab (Manchester) Faculty Respondent: Ofra Magidor
Lecture Room
16.00-16.30
Coffee Break
16.30-18.00
KEYNOTE: Building the World without Relations. The Master Builders: Anaxagoras, Plato, Aristotle.
Anna Marmodoro (Durham / Oxford)
Lecture Room
18.00
Wine Reception
Ryle Room