Wednesday, February 27, 2008

A Reminder

...that we're meeting Thursday at 7:00 to talk about Korsgaard [link]. Since few people made it to the meeting at which we discussed Parfit, we may want to go back to his paper [link].

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Papers

Here are links to the papers being presented on Saturday. The time at which each paper will be presented is in parentheses.

[.doc] [.pdf] - Andrew Wong - "Personal Value Skepticism" (9:00)
[.doc] [.pdf] - Wesley Bronson - "Intentionality, Intending ..." (10:00) 
[.doc] [.pdf] - Josh Hancox - "The Brothers' Predicament" (12:00) 
[.doc] [.pdf] - Gavin Arnall - "Free To and Responsible..." (1:00)

See two posts down for more information about the conference.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Time Slices

We now have a nifty Google calendar.

See it the usual way [here].
Mac users, subscribe using ICal [here].
Readers of RSS feeds and Firefox users, subscribe [here].

Thanks, Sarah!

Lo, A Conference!

Philugs is pleased to announce that our second annual undergraduate conference will take place this Saturday, February 23rd in the Reynolds Club South Lounge. We'll hear from three undergraduates from out of town, one undergraduate from the University of Chicago, and UChicago's very own Professor James Conant.

Here's the schedule:
9:00 - ANDREW WONG (Wash. U.)
"Personal Value Skepticism"

Comment: Daniel Smyth
10:00 - WESLEY BRONSON (Princeton)
"Intentionality, Intending, and Moral Responsibility"

Comment: Daniel Groll
11:00 - Lunch, provided
12:00 - JOSH HANCOX (UChicago)
"The Brothers' Predicament"

Comment: Elizabeth Shurcliff
1:00 - GAVIN ARNALL (Cornell)
"Free To and Responsible for Producing Jargon"

Comment: Thomas Ferguson
2:00 - PROFESSOR JAMES CONANT
"Cartesian and Kantian Varieties of Skepticism"


Reading copies of all of the undergraduate papers will be made available right here by Wednesday morning, in case you wish to print out a copies to bring along or wish to have a look at the papers in advance.

Everyone is welcome to attend. Hope to see you there!