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7th Annual
Rocky Mountain Student Philosophy Conference

March 11-12, 2005

Keynote Address:
March 11th 7-9 PM, HELLEMS 252

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Mark Johnston (Princeton)

About the conference: The graduate students of CU-Boulder’s Department of Philosophy would like to invite the public and surrounding philosophical community to our annual student-run conference. There is no registration fee. Please contact us at rmc@colorado.edu if you have any questions.

Mar. 11
Hellems 252
7:00
Keynote Address:
"Better than Knowledge?: The Function of Sensory Awareness"

Mark Johnston (Princeton)

8:45
Reception (Hellems 247)
Mar. 12
Hellems 211
Hellems 237
9:00 – 10:00 Coffee & c. (Morris Reading Room, Hellems 269)
10:00
“Intuition, Perception and Introspection: One of these things is not like the others”

Kelby Mason (Rutgers)

Commentator: Dan Demetriou
“Contextualism, Skepticism and the Lottery”

Michael Mutalipassi
(Arizona State University)

Commentator: Josh Rasmussen
11:00

“Justifying Conditionalization: Conditionalization maximizes expected epistemic utility”

Hilary Greaves & David Wallace (Rutgers)

Commentator: Scott Hagaman

“The Role of Images in Plato’s Seventh Letter”

Yancy Hughes Dominick (University of Kansas)

Commentators: Mary Krizan & Brian Robinson

12:00
“Dry Earth: An Internalist Wet Dream?”

Daniel Korman (UT Austin)

Commentator: David Liebesman

“Defending the Permissibility of Lies: A Kantian perspective”

Brian Gallagher (Beloit College)

Commentator: Steven James

1:00 – 2:30 Lunch
2:30
“How to Perceive the Past with Your Eyes Shut”

John Bengson (University of Wyoming)

Commentator: Michael Zerella

“Conditional Desires”

Shieva Kleinschmidt (Western Washington University)

Commentator: Rachael Uris

3:30
“Factivity Without Safety”

Dennis Whitcomb (Rutgers)

Commentator: Christian Lee

“Aristotle’s Function Argument: Solid and compelling”

Jacqueline Victor (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Commentator: Omid Bachari

4:30
“Is Ethics a Skill? A developmental account of ethical know-how”

Jennifer Wright (University of Wyoming)

Commentators: Jason Hanna & Brian Stern

“Dispositions, Property Monism, and the Multiple Realization Objection”

Alexander Skiles (University of Georgia, Athens)

Commentator: Evan Pushchak