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Lycanfest

Friday, March 24, 2023
12:00am – 11:59pm

Storrs Campus
Humanities Institute Conference Room

The Department of Philosophy, Cognitive Science Program, and Humanities Institute are delighted to co-host a day-long Workshop on the Philosophical Contributions of William G. Lycan on March 24, 2023. Please see the schedule below. Each talk is 35 minutes followed by a 10 minute Q& A. There will be 15 minute breaks between talks.

09:00 - 09:45: Ted Parent (Nazarbayev U.): "Mitigating Metaphilosophical Despair"

10:00 - 10:45: Ram Neta (UNC): "What sort of thing could do what Lycan takes intuitions to do?"

11:00 - 11:45: Jan Michel (Dusseldorf): "Discoveries and the Paronymy of General Terms"

Lunch Break

01:00 - 01:45: Ruth Millikan (UConn): "What knowledge is! or a neglected dimension of language"

02:00 - 02:45: Charity Anderson (Baylor U.),"On Progress in Philosophy"

03:00 - 03:45: Paul Bloomfield (UConn): "Whiff of Morality?"

04:00 - 04:45: Angela Mendelovici (Toronto): "Three Perspectives on Perspective"

05:00 - 06:00: William G. Lycan Replies

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please let us know by emailing philosophy@uconn.edu.

Contact:

Mitch Green | mitchell.green@uconn.edu

Philosophy Department (primary), Cognitive Science Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humanities Institute, UConn Logic Group Colloquium, UConn Master Calendar

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