SLACRR 2017 Program

All talks are in the Moonrise Hotel. 


Sunday, May 21

5:00-6:45 Keynote address: Kieran Setiya (MIT)
"Ignorance, Beneficience, and Rights"

 
7:00 Dinner
Later Drinks @ Moonrise Hotel Rooftop

Monday, May 22

9:00-10:15
Stephen White (Northwestern)
Predicting failure
Chair:  Rima Basu (USC)
 
10:35-11:50 Rachel Johnson (Trinity)
Practical deliberation and background conditions on normative reasons for action"
Chair: Zoe Johnson King (Michigan)

 
11:50 Lunch Break
   
1:45-3:00 Kevin Dorst (MIT)
“Evidence: A guide for the uncertain”
Chair: Laura Callahan (Rutgers)
   
3:20-4:35 Michael Titelbaum (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Reason without reasons for
Chair: Nandi Theunissen (Johns Hopkins)
   
4:55-6:10 Ralph Wedgwood (USC)
“Against evidence”
Chair: Charles Bouchard (Rutgers)
   
7:00 Dinner
Later Drinks @ Moonrise Hotel Rooftop

Tuesday, May 23

9:00-10:15 Renee Bolinger (USC)
The rational impermissibility of accepting racial generalizations
Chair: Julianne Chung (Louisville)
   
10:35-11:50 Matthew Smith (Leeds)
“Rationalize this!”
Chair: Devlin Russell (Toronto)
   
11:50 Lunch Break
   
1:45-3:00 David Horst (Unicamp)
How is reasoning norm-guided?
Chair: Gregory Antill (Claremont McKenna)
   
3:20-4:35 Amy Flowerree (Northwestern)
Alethic reasons for action?
Chair: Jamie Fritz (Ohio State)
   
4:55-6:10 Daniel Fogal (Uppsala)
Structural requirements and the primacy of pressure
Chair: John Keller (Niagara)
   
7:00 Dinner
Later Drinks @ Moonrise Hotel Rooftop