CUNY-Milan Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop in Philosophy
‘Tense’
March 28-29, 2019
Aula 3, Via S. Antonio 5, University of Milan
CUNY-Milan annual interdisciplinary workshop in Philosophy, a joint initiative of both institutions’ philosophy departments, and, more precisely, CUNY Graduate Center and Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences, University of Milan is aimed at promoting advanced studies at the crossroad between philosophy and interrelated disciplines. Last year workshop took place in NYC at CUNY Graduate Center with the topic of Belief. This years’ workshop, second in a series of annual events, will focus on Tense and is taking place in Milan. The organizers are committed to maintain the interdisciplinary character of the workshop.
This year keynote speakers will be:
University of Milan: Alessandro Zucchi and Giuseppe Spolaore (linguistics), Daniel Dohrn (philosophy of language and metaphysics) and Corrado Sinigaglia (cognitive neuroscience).
CUNY Graduate Center: Graham Priest (logic and language), Catherine Wilson (history of philosophy) and David Papineau (philosophy of mind).
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Programme:
28.03
Morning Session
Chair: Nick Young
10.00. – 11.15 Keynote: Catherine Wilson (CUNY) – ‘Fatalism: An Epistemic Strategy for Escaping Ryle’s Dilemma’
11.15. – 11.30. Coffee Break
11.30. – 12.15. Daniele Cassaghi (Milan) – ‘Transparency and the Tense Argument’
12.15. – 13.00. Yale Weiss (CUNY) – ‘Time, Tense, and Eternity in Augustine’s Confessions XI’
13.00. – 14.30. Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Anna Ichino
14.30. – 15.45. Keynote: Corrado Sinigaglia (Milan) – TBA
15. 45 – 16.30. Daria Vitasovic (Milan) – ‘The Subject of Temporal Experience’
16.30. – 16. 45. Coffee break
16. 45. – 18.00. Keynote: David Papineau (CUNY) – ‘Causation and the Direction of Time’
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29.03
Morning Session
Chair: Nick Young
10.00. – 11.15 Keynote: Alessandro Zucchi (Milan) and Giuseppe Spolare (Padua) – ‘On the historic present (context is where our illocutionary commitments lie)’
11.15. – 11.30. Coffee Break
11.30. – 12.15. Victor Carranza (Milan) – ‘Presuppositions and tense’
12.15. – 13.00. Cristian Mariani (Milan) – ‘The Indeterminate Present and the Open Future’
13.00. – 14.30. Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Paolo Baldi
14.30. – 15.45. Keynote: Daniel Dohrn (Milan) – ‘Tense in Conditionals’
15. 45 – 16.30. Vincent Alexis Peluce (CUNY) – ‘The Perception of Time in Intuitionistic Arithmetic’
16.30. – 16. 45. Coffee break
16. 45. – 18.00. Keynote: Graham Priest (CUNY) – ‘Socrates Begins to be White: Medieval Accounts of Tense and Change’
20.00. Conference Dinner
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Organizing Committee:
Milan – Daria Vitasovic, Victor Carranza, Sava Ristić, Luca Marchetti.
CUNY Graduate Center – Vincent A. Peluce, Yale Weiss, Jennifer McDonald, Liam Ryan (Saul Kripke Center).
Everyone is welcome, but please do register for the workshop since places are limited.
E-mail for registration: daria dot vitasovic at unimi dot it.
Funding: Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences.