Tuesday, September 20, 2016

The Creighton Club
New York State Philosophical Association

The 162nd Conference Program
Saturday October 1st 2016
Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS


8:30 AM          Coffee & Pleasantries

9:00 AM          Philip Corkum (University of Alberta): “Metaphysical Explanation”
o   Commentator: Paul Audi (University of Rochester)

10:15 AM        Coffee & Pleasantries

10:30 AM        Shieva Kleinschmidt (University of Southern California): “Fusion First”
o   Commentator: Douglas Edwards (Hamilton College)

11:45 AM        Business Meeting

12:00 PM        Lunch

1:30 PM          Kolja Keller (University of Rochester): “Vagueness and Luminosity”
o   Commentator: A. Arturo Javier-Castellanos (Syracuse University)

2:45 PM          Coffee & Pleasantries

3:00 PM          Stefanie Rocknak (Hartwick College): “Hume and the External World”
o   Commentator: Georges Dicker (SUNY Brockport)

4:15 PM          Coffee & Pleasantries

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Fads and Fallacies of Analytic Ontology
Achille Varzi (Columbia University)


4:30 PM


MEETING DETAILS: The 2016 meeting is located on the campus of Syracuse University. Parking is available in the University's Quad 4 (Q4) parking lot, near the corner of Euclid Avenue and College Place. For directions see here. If the Q4 lot is full, park in the Waverly lot, which is just a block down the hill. See a campus map here. A nearby hotel is here.

The location of the conference is 107 Hall of Languages, roughly in the center of campus.  


Participants can purchase lunch at the Marshall Square Mall.