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Conference Venue:
Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, CA/USA
Irvine, United States
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Details
The graduate students of the University of California, Riverside (Department of Philosophy) and the University of California, Irvine (Department of Philosophy & Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science) invite submissions for the 2025 UCR-UCI Graduate Philosophy Conference. The conference will be held in-person on October 25, 2025, at UC Irvine.
Keynote Speaker:
Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California)
Speakers:
- Brett Park, University of Pittsburgh
- Kevin Guasselin, University of Rochester
- Changshuo Sun, University of Miami
- Svenja Schimmelpfennig, University of Southern California
- Jack Henry, University of Nebraska
- Erica Nicolas, University of Nebraska
- Carlos Tavernier, University of St Andrews
- Joseph O'Brien, University of California, San Diego
- Liz Sato, California State University, Long Beach
- David North, Princeton University
Agenda:
9:00 - 9:20 AM
Coffee & Light Breakfast
9:20 - 9:30 AM
Welcome
9:35 - 10:35 AM
Room A:
Kant and the Crisis of Male Friendship (Carlos Tavernier)
Room B:
From Silo to Safari: Letting Scientific Inquiry Roam Free (Joseph O'Brien)
10:40 - 11:40 AM
Room A:
Backgrounding Belief (David North)
Room B:
There is No Epistemic Condition on Evidence Possession (Kevin Gausselin)
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Room A:
Hume's Theory of Belief and the Belief in God (Liz Sato)
Room B:
How to be a Truth-Conditionalist: A Conjunctive Semantics for Slurs (Svenja Schimmelpfennig)
12:50 - 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Room A:
The Puzzle of Accommodation and the Multidimensionality of the Emotions (Jack Henry)
Room B:
Against Non-Evidential Epistemic Justification for Commitments to Hinge Propositions
3:05 - 4:05 PM
Room A:
Grief as an Indicator of Love (Erica Nicolas)
Room B:
Causation as a Cognitively Anchored Concept (Brett Park)
4:10 - 4:25 PM
Break
4:25 - 5:55 PM
Keynote: Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California
6:30 PM
Dinner
Commentators:
- Julia Stubbs (UCI_DOP)
- Russell Ming(UCI_DOP)
- Rachel Torres (UCI_DOP)
- Eyob Zewdie (UCI_DOP)
- Adrian Jacobs (UCI_DOP)
- Christian Torsell (UCI_LPS)
- Jordan Fisher (UCR)
- Elise Johnston (UCR)
- Keilee Bessho (UCR)
- Aaron Morris (UCR)
Send questions to ucrucigradconference@gmail.com