20 Apr 2013
Washington DC, U.S.A.
2013 Georgetown University Philosophy Conference: *Reasons and Reasoning*, April 20, 2013 at Georgetown University The full program is below. Please register for the conference at http://sites.google.com/site/guphilosophyconference2013/registration There is a $20 conference fee ($10 for graduate students). *9:30 ? 12:30 Workshops* *Workshop I **Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons *(Tuomo Tiisala, University of Chicago) *Can Pictures Give Reasons? *(Jeff Engelhardt, Siena Heights University) *Feeling one?s reasons: how emotions explain action *(Mary Carman, King?s College London) *Reasons as Genus and Species* (Stephanie Leary, Rutgers University) *Workshop II *A*cting for the Right Reasons, Abilities, and Obligation *(Errol Lord, Princeton University) *How Not to Defend the Factoring Account* (Sarah Raskoff, University of Arizona) *Morally Dependent Reasons and Deep Disagreements *(Cinzia Smothers, Bowling Green State University) *Aristotelian Mind-Dependent Reasons* (Anne Jeffrey, Georgetown University) *Workshop III* *Solving the Problem of Practical Rationality Using a Love Centered Account of Virtue Ethics* (Eric Silverman, Christopher Newport University) *Two Faces of Constitutivism *(Roman Altshuler, SUNY Stony Brook) *The Asymmetry Problem* (Sameer Bajaj, University of Arizona) *Teleology and Rational Action *(Stephen White, Northwestern University) * * *2:00 ? 5:30 Colloquia* *Colloquium I:* 2:00 ? 2:45 *Reasons and the Metaphysics of Epistemology* (Kurt Sylvan, Rutgers University) 2:45 ? 3:30 *Knowledge, Explanation, and Motivating Reasons* (Dustin Locke, Claremont McKenna College) 4:00 ? 4:45 *Do Non-Human Animals Demonstrate?* (Richard Fry, Georgetown University) 4:45 ? 5:30 *The evolving role of rationality in contemporary economics* (Erik Angner, George Mason University) *Colloquium II:* 2:00 ? 2:45 *Mental Agency Doesn?t Matter: A Defense of Metaethics* (Chris Howard, University of Arizona) 2:45 ? 3:30 *How to Derive a Narrow-Scope Requirement from Wide-Scope Requirements*(Michael Titelbaum, University of Wisconsin-Madison) 4:00 ? 4:45 *On the Distinction Between Objective Agent-Relative and Agent Neutral Reasons *(Scott Boykin, Georgia Gwinnett College) 4:45 ? 5:30 *Fine-Tuning Evolutionary Debunking Arguments *(Adam Lerner, Princeton University) *6:00 ? 7:30 Keynote Address; **Political Reasons *(Japa Pallikkathayil, University of Pittsburgh) *7:30 ? 9:00 Reception*