Seventh Biennial UMass Philosophy Homecoming
What could be more fun for Philosophy faculty and grad students than to get together with old Umies to do some philosophy? The Department welcomes back its former students, as it welcomes its incoming class of grad students.
Tentative Schedule
Date
Place
Time
Event
Friday
October 10

Vere Chappell's
17 Harkness Rd, Pelham, MA
(MAP)

 6 p.m. Reception

 

Saturday
October 11

 

 

 

Bartlett 61 9:30 - 10:45 Session 1 Chair Dan Kervick
(Plymouth)		  
Speaker Ned Markosian
(Western Washington)		 “Identifying the Problem of Personal Identity”
Commentator Melinda Roberts
(College of New Jersey)		  
11:00 - 12:15 Session 2      
Chair Mark Aronszajn (Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)  
Speaker Owen McLeod
(Lafayette)		 “Adjusting Utility for Justice”
Commentator Ben Bradley
(Syracuse)		  
  12:15 - 2:00 Lunch in the eatery of your choice
Campus Center 917 2:00 - 4:30 Session 3:
Symposium on Language and Logic 		Chair Mary Litch
(Yale)		  
Speakers Arnie Chien “Scalar Implicature as Explanation”
JC Beall
(UConn)		 “Glutty Borders”
Tom McKay
(Syracuse)		 “Non-Distributive Predication”
Commentator Geoff Goddu
(Richmond)		  
4:45 - 6:00 Session 4 Chair Eric Moore (Longwood)  
Speaker Dan Kaufman
(Florida)		 “The Resurrection of the Same Body: What Locke Should Have (and Could Have) Told Stillingfleet”
Commentator Erik Wielenberg
(Depauw)		  
Blue Wall Bar
(Concourse Level, Campus Center)		 6:15 Happy Hour
  7:30 Dinner at a local restaurant of your choice