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50th Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy
October 21, 2016 @ 5:00 pm - October 23, 2016 @ 12:00 pm
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PROGRAM
Friday, October 21, 5:00 – 7:15 PM
“50 Years of Analytic Philosophy,” Douglas Long (UNC, emeritus)
Paper: “Conceptual Ethics and the Work of Metaphysics”, Amie Thomasson (Miami)
Commentator: Ted Sider (Rutgers)
Reception at The Ackland Museum
Saturday, Oct. 22, 10:00 AM – 12:15 PM
“50 Years of the History of Philosophy,” Don Garrett (NYU)
Paper: “Understanding the Object/Property Structure in Terms of Negation”, Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh)
Commentator: Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins)
Saturday, Oct. 22, 2:00 – 4:15 PM
“50 Years of Moral Philosophy,” Simon Blackburn (UNC)
Paper: “What Are Moral Reasons?”, Stephen Darwall (Yale)
Commentator: Julia Markovits (Cornell)
Moderator: Gary Comstock (NCSU)
Saturday, Oct. 22, 5:30 – 6:45 PM
Claire Miller Lecture: “The First-Person and Beyond”, Eli Hirsch (Brandeis)
Moderator: Andrew Janiak (Duke)
50th Chapel Hill Colloquium Banquet at The Carolina Inn
Remarks: “50 Years of the Chapel Hill Colloquium,” William Lycan (UNC, emeritus)
Sunday, Oct. 23, 9:45 AM – 12:00 PM
“50 Years of Philosophy of Science,” John Roberts (UNC)
Paper: “Models from Geometry to Logic”, Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame)
Commentator: Richard Zach (Calgary)
Moderator: Alex Rosenberg (Duke)