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Phil-Soc undergraduate conference 2012

Locations

(email the convenor for full details), Waterloo Campus

Category

Conference

When

14 (09:30) - 15/04/2012 (17:00)

Contact

Hannah K (Phil-Soc president) via kclphilsoc@gmail.com

Description

The Philosophy Society at King's College London

Undergraduate conference 2012

 

 

Programme:

 

Saturday 14th April

• 09.30–10.00 Conference Opening: Check-in and Welcome
   
• 10.00-11.15 Keynote: Barry Smith, Institute of Philosophy, University of London 
   
• 11.15-12.15 "Interpreting the Gray’s Elegy Argument"
  Dorothy Chen, Columbia University/University of Cambridge (Newnham College)
   
• 12.15-12.30 Break
   
• 12.30-13.30 "Agency, Frankfurt-cases and the compatibility of determinism with free will and moral responsibility"
  Alex Moran, University College London
   
• 13.30-15.00 Lunch
   
• 15.00-16.00 "Can Satre’s idea of the fundamental project be understood in terms of non-thetic consciousness?"
  Dino Jakušić, University of Warwick
   
• 16.00- 17.00 "Brushing Broome aside: Why fairness does not require the proportionate satisfaction of claims"
  James Kirkpatrick and Nick Eastwood, University of Reading
   
• 19.00 onwards Social at The Horse, SE1 7RW

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Sunday 15th April

• 10.00-11.00 "Distributive Justice and the Double Paradox of the Narrative of the Flute"
  Marc Morgan, Trinity College Dublin 
   
• 11.00-12.00 "Invertebrates (not their concepts) confront the Generality Constraint"
  James Matharu, London School of Economics
    
• 12.00-12.15 Break
   
• 12.15-13.30 Keynote: Joachim Aufderheide, King’s College London
   
• 13.30-15.00 Lunch
   
• 15.00-16.00 "Are there biological laws?"
  Felicity Davies, University of Cambridge (Jesus College)
   
• 16.00-17.00 "Two Paradoxes for the Price of Zero"
  Dominic Stolz, University of Reading