GC MLAG – 1st MLAG GRADUATE CONFERENCE
November 10th – 11th 2011
Faculty of Arts – University of Porto (FLUP)
This 1st MLAG Graduate Conference has as its main purpose the presentation and discussion of ongoing doctoral research in the four structuring domains MLAG is currently organized in (Mind and Language, Action, Agency and Rationality, Logic and Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy: history and systems of thought). The conference will also include lectures by invited guest speakers, from Universities which collaborate or have collaborated on MLAG’s projects (Universities of Lisbon, Paris, Jyväskylä, Goethe Universität Frankfurt and Santiago de Compostela).
The language of the conference will be English.Free admission. No registration required.
Further Information: http://mlag.up.pt/
Scientific Committee: Sofia Miguens; João Alberto Pinto
Organizing Committee: Clara Morando; Rui Vieira da Cunha
Program:
November 10th – Departamento de Filosofia
09:00 Manuela Teles MLAG, Bill Brewer on the contents of perception.
Roberta Locatelli UPI-PS, Disjunctivism and puzzling phenomenal characters.
11:00 Paulo Jesus UL, Selfhood as grammatical responsibility: Between the will-to-understand and the will-to-explain.
Clara Morando MLAG, Movement and instantaneity. On the problem of reflexivity.
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Vítor Guerreiro MLAG, What Music Is.
Pedro Borges de Araújo MLAG, Substantia Innominata.
16:00 Tomás Magalhães Carneiro MLAG, What is Philosophy? The “Way of Dialogue”.
17:00 Book Launch Aspectos do Juízo /Aspects of Judgement – Actas do Colóquio Internacional Anual C- MLAG 2009 & 2010 / Proceedings of C-MLAG Annual International Conference 2009 & 2010, Miguens, Pinto e Teles (coords.), Porto, FLUP, MLAG Discussion Papers vol. 4, 2011.
20:00 Dinner
November 11th – Anfiteatro 2
09:00 João Machado Vaz MLAG, Power and beauty in Psychopathology: Eugen Bleuler’s concept of schizophrenia.
João Santos MLAG, Experiencing the World: John McDowell and the Role of Sensibility.
11:00 Tero Vaaja JYU, Meeting Other Minds.
Daniel Ramalho UNL, Paul Churchland’s Call for a Paradigm Shift in Cognitive Science.
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Gerhard Preyer GUF, Higher Order Thoughts and Transitivity.
Oscar Horta USC, The idea of moral personhood under fire.
16:00 Rui Vieira da Cunha MLAG, Theories of personhood.
Luís Veríssimo MLAG, What to expect from a moral theory? The (im)possibility of normative ethics.
20:00 Dinner
MLAG – Mind Language and Action Group – University of Porto
UPI-PS – Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne
UL – University of Lisbon
JYU – University of Jyväskylä
UNL – New University of Lisbon
GUF – Goethe University Frankfurt
USC – University of Santiago de Compostela
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