2013 Meeting Details

The meeting is located on the beautiful campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. Parking is available in the Medbery visitors’ lot. The location of the conference is The Stanford Room, in the Warren Hunting Smith Library. The Library is located on Pulteney St., diagonal from the visitors' parking lot.  Here are links to driving directions, a campus map, and parking map for HWS colleges.  

Meals will be held in the Common Room of the Scandling Campus Center, next to the library.  Dinner entrees this year are Chicken with tomato basil rice pilaf or Tofu with mushrooms and sugar snap peas.  The dinner costs $27 and the lunch costs $13.  We request an RSVP for meals as soon as possible (send e-mail to krmcdani_at_syr_dot_edu).  Please indicate whether you will attend the lunch and your choice of dinner entrée if applicable.  We encourage everyone to pay online this year before the date of the meeting.  Please pay for your lunch, dinner, and/or dues (if you have not yet done so) here.

2013 Conference Program

(Meeting details forthcoming)

The Creighton Club

New York State Philosophical Association

The 159th Conference Program

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY

Keynote Speaker:

Ned Block

New York University

“Seeing-As in the Light of Vision Science”

4:30 PM

9:00 AM Steve Steward (Syracuse University): “Luck and Control”

Commentator: Adam Bendorf (Cornell University)

10:30 AM Jason Kawall (Colgate University): “Evaluating the Epistemic Status of the Testimony of Converts”

Commentator: James Beebe (University at Buffalo)

1:30 PM Heidi Savage (SUNY Geneseo): “Kypris, Aphrodite, and Venus: Another Puzzle About Belief”

Commentator: Brett Sherman (University of Rochester)

3:00 PM Jason D’Cruz (SUNY Albany): “Trust, Trustworthiness, and the Moral Consequence of Consistency”

Commentator: William FitzPatrick (University of Rochester)