The 11th Arché Graduate Conference will be an international event that will select talented graduate students from around the world for two days of research-led presentations and discussion, and provide students with the opportunity to engage with the work of two distinguished keynote speakers.

Programme

Saturday 13th October

10:00-11:30  Keynote – Kathrin Glüer-Pagin (Stockholm), ‘Experience, Reasons and Rationality’
12:00-13:00  Becky Millar (Edinburgh), ‘Gestalt Shifts and Multisensory Perceptual Objects’

Lunch

14-15: 15:15  Nils Franzén (Uppsala), ‘Sensibilism and Imaginative Resistance’
15:30-16:30  Joaquim Giannotti (Glasgow), ‘Ontological Fundamentality’
17:00-18:00 Arianna Falbo (Brown), ‘Permissive Epistemic Standards and Rational Isolation’

Sunday 14th October

10:00-11:30 Keynote – Tim Button (Cambridge), ‘Loving the Universe’
11:45-12:45 Jonas Raab (Manchester), ‘The Unbearable Circularity of Easy Ontology’

Lunch

13:45-14:45 M.A. Hunter (LSE/UC Davis), ‘Racial Descriptivism and Modal Profile Tests: a defeating blow?’
15:00-16:00 Taylor-Grey Miller (UT Austin), ‘In What Sense (If Any) Is Meaning Normative?’
16:15-17:15 Jaime Castillo-Gamboa (USC), ‘Epistemicism and Moral Non-Naturalism: A Reply to Constantinescu’

*Thanks to funding from the Scots Philosophical Association and the Analysis Trust, we are able to pay for childcare and travel for audience members. For more information, email kpp2@st-andrews.ac.uk.*