30th-Anniversary of the Rutgers Philosophy Department
December 6-8th, 2012
Schedule of Events
All events will take place in Brower Commons, Conference Rooms A, B, C, College Avenue Campus.
Thursday, December 6th
5:30pm Departmental Holiday Party
Friday, December 7th
9:30am Coffee/Breakfast
10:15am Greeting; Jeff King, Department Chair
10:30-12:00pm Chair: Dean Zimmerman
Meghan Sullivan - “Against Time Bias”
PhD Rutgers (2011)
Notre Dame University, Department of Philosophy
12:00-1:30pm Lunch Break
1:30-3:00pm Chair: Howard McGary
Gregg Horowitz - “Philosophy Among Others”
PhD Rutgers (1992)
Pratt Institute, Chair, Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies
3:00-3:15pm Break/Coffee
3:15-4:45pm Chair: Bob Matthews
Paul Pietroski - “Procedure Matters”
BA Rutgers (1986)
University of Maryland, Department of Philosophy, Department of Linguistics
5:00-7:00pm Break
7:00pm Departmental Gala Dinner
Chair: Dean Zimmerman
8:00pm Rutgers Philosophy Department Roast
Dean Zimmerman, Peter Kivy, Peter Klein, Brian McLaughlin, Jonathan Ichikawa, Jeff Buechner and others.
Saturday, December 8th
9:30am Coffee/Breakfast
10:30-12:00pm Chair: Ruth Chang
Andrew Sepielli - “The Thin/Thick Dilemma”
PhD Rutgers (2010)
University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy
12:00-1:30pm Lunch Break
1:30-3:00pm Chair: Jonathan Schaffer
Hilary Greaves - “Arguing for Overpopulation”
PhD Rutgers (2008)
University of Oxford, Department of Philosophy
3:00-3:15pm Break/Coffee
3:15-4:45pm Chair: Frankie Egan
Richard Samuels - “Scientific and Ordinary Cognition: Fodor on Holism and Cognitive Architecture”
PhD Rutgers (1998)
Ohio State University, Department of Philosophy
College Avenue Campus