UPCOMING EVENTS

Conference: The Legacy of J. L. Austin

Organiser: Alex Moran 
Location: Bilkent University
Dates: April 7th - April 8th

To Register please send me an email.
The conference is free to attend.
For further details see: https://philevents.org/event/show/137654

List of speakers:

• Mark Eli Kalderon — University College London
• Nikhil Krishnan — University of Cambridge
• Krista Lawlor — Stanford University
• Guy Longworth — University of Warwick
• Michael Martin — University of Oxford
• Marie McGinn — University of York
• Alex Moran — Bilkent University
• Mark William Rowe — (Unaffiliated)
• Eylem Özaltun — Koç University

Bilkent-UNAM Philosophy of Mind Conference 

Organisers: Alex Moran (Bilkent) & Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo (UNAM)
Location: Bilkent University
Dates: May 25th - 27th 2026.

• István Aranyosi — Bilkent University
• Santiago Echeverri — National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
• Katalin Farkas — Central European University
• Anandi Hattiangadi — Stockholm University
• Carlotta Pavese — Cornell University
  
• Susanna Schellenberg —Rutgers University
• James Kinkaid — Bilkent University
• David Papineau - King's College London
• Alex Moran — Bilkent University
• Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo — UNAM
• Sara Papic — Università degli Studi di Milano
• Anna Tsvetkov — Brown University
• Ege Yumuşak — University of Pennsylvania
  
• Cecily Whitely — St Andrews 

 
PAST EVENTS

Conference: Reductionism in metaphysics, meta-ethics, and philosophy of mind

Organisers: Alex Moran & Ralf Bader
Location: Fribourg University
Dates: June 23rd - June 25th 2025.

To register please send me an email.
The conference is free to attend.
For further details see: https://philevents.org/event/show/133474

Click here to download the schedule.

Schedule:

Monday 23rd June

09:30 - 11:00 Selim Berker (Harvard): 'Grounds as Metaphysical Forces: A Critique'
11:30 - 13:00 Karen Bennett, Audrey Powers, Itamar Weinshtock Saadon (Rutgers): 'Laws as Partial Grounds'
14:30 - 16:00 Ralf Bader (Fribourg): 'Laws and Grounds'
16:30 - 18:00 Mark Johnston (Princeton): 'Ontological Reduction, Grounding, Superinternality, Ontological Trash, Emergence, and the Embodiment of Mind'

Tuesday 24 June

09:30 - 11:00 Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm) and Alex Moran (Fribourg): 'Moral Laws are Metaphysically Contingent'
11:30 - 13:00 Gideon Rosen (Princeton): 'Metaethical Non-Naturalism and Mind-Body Dualism: Analogies and Differences'
14:30 - 16:00 James Van Cleve (USC): 'Reduction vs Emergence in Metaphysics and Mind'
16:30 - 18:00 Tim Crane (CEU Vienna): 'Reduction as Explanation: Epistemological not Metaphysical'

Wednesday 25 June

09:30 - 11:00 Damien Aleksiev (Vienna): 'Inconceivability as a Guide to Ground'
11:30 - 13:00 Fatema Amijee (UBC): 'Spinoza's Fork: Why Non-Reductive Necessities Collapse into Neutral Monism'
14:30 - 16:00 Umrao Sethi (Brandeis): 'Mind-Dependence, Reduction and the Sensible Qualities'
16:30 - 18:00 Adam Pautz (Brown): 'Identification Physicalism and Acquaintance with Qualities'

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Workshop: Applications of Grounding II (2024)

Fribourg University
Organisers: Anandi Hattiangadi & Alex Moran
Location: Fribourg University
Dates: July 29th & July 30th (2024)

To register please send me an email.
The workshop is free to attend.

Speakers

Stephan Leuenberger (University of Glasgow)
Taylor Pincin (Columbia University)
Alex Moran (Université de Fribourg)
Henrik Rhydén (Uppsala University)
Ralf Bader (Université de Fribourg)
Francesca Poggiolesi (Université de Paris)
Zachary Blaesi (Austin Community College)
Audrey Powers (Rutgers University)
Carlo Rossi (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)

Please click here to see a schedule as well as abstracts for the talks.

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Workshop: Applications of Grounding I (2023)

Trinity College Dublin & Stockholm University
Organisers: Anandi Hattiangadi, Alex Moran
Location: Trinity College Dublin
Dates: July 13th & July 14th (2023)

To register please email: [email protected]

The workshop is free to attend.

Speakers:

Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm University)
Alex Moran (Trinity College Dublin)
Singa Behrens (Hamburg University)
Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia)
Dominic Alford-Duguid (University of British Columbia)
Donnchadh O’Connaill (Fribourg University)
Damian Aleksiev (Central European University)
Samuel Lee (Linköping University)
Mohsen Moghri (Birmingham University)

Please click here to see a schedule as well as abstracts for the talks.