The annual USC/UCLA Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy was started in 2006. Its purpose is to bring in graduate students in philosophy from other departments, who' have authored papers of surpassing quality, in all areas of contemporary philosophy. The conference was conceived to run over the course of a weekend in the late winter or early spring. It is funded by USC and UCLA, and is run by graduate students from both departments.

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2011-12: Seventh Annual UCLA / USC Grad Student Conference in Philosophy

Date: Saturday, February 18, 2012

 

Location: USC

 

Keynote Speaker: John MacFarlane, UC Berkeley

 

Other Speakers: TBA

 

For more detailed information, please visit the conference website at

 

http://sites.google.com/site/uscuclaconference/home

 

Organizers: Cecilia Stepp (USC), David Bordeaux (UCLA), Lauren Schaeffer (UCLA), and Matthew Babb (USC)

 

2010-11: Sixth Annual UCLA / USC Grad Student Conference in Philosophy

Date: Saturday, February 26, 2011

 

Location: UCLA

 

Keynote Speaker: Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California

 

Other speakers:

 

Matt Parrott, UC Berkeley: "Senses of First Person Authority"

 

Daniel Harris, CUNY: "Foundations for a Gricean Theory of Meaning"

 

Yael Loewenstein, Virginia Polytech: "Thomasson's Deflationary Metaontology

and Some Limits of Ontological Inquiry"

 

Sean Aas, Brown University: "Reasons: Right and Wrong"

 

For more detailed information, please visit the conference website at

 

http://sites.google.com/site/uscuclaconference/home

 

Or contact John Kwak at johnkwak@usc.edu.

 

 

2009-2010: Fifth Annual UCLA / USC Grad Student Conference in Philosophy

Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010

Location: USC

Key Note Speaker: Pamela Hieronymi, UCLA

“Responsible Activity and the Mind”

Student presenters:

• Andreas Stokke, University of St. Andrews
  “Felicity and Expression in Dynamic Semantics”
• Federico Luzzi, University of Aberdeen
  “Subject-Sensitive Invariantism and Knowledge from Ignorance”
• Nora Berenstain, University of Texas, Austin
  “Necessary Laws and Chemical Kinds: A Case Study in A Posteriori Necessity”
• Ginger Clausen, University of Arizona
  “Virtue and the Right Apportionment of Affection”
• Ryan Millsap, University of Maryland
  “Means-End Transmission and Reasons Against”

Organizers: Alida Liberman, USC and Jesse Summers from UCLA

 

2008-2009: Fourth Annual UCLA / USC Grad Student Conference in PHILOSOPHY

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

UCLA

Keynote Speaker:

Stephen Yablo , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

For more information, please visit the conference website:

http://uscucla.conference.googlepages.com/home

We have chosen the student presenters:

• Tim Button, Cambridge and Harvard University - "What is an Indefinite Totality?"

•  Joe Hedger, Arizona State University - "New York is just New York" 

• Bradley Rettler, University of Notre Dame - "Simple Persistence"

• Brandon Warmke, Florida State University - "In Defense of Invariantism About Moral Responsibility"

• Briggs Wright, University of Texas at Austin - "Many, But Almost Holmes?"

 

 

2007-2008: Third Annual UCLA / USC Grad Student Conference in PHILOSOPHY

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

9.00am - 6.00pm

Mudd Hall of Philosophy

University of Southern California

Reception to follow in 102 Mud Hall of Philosophy

Keynote Speaker:

Judith Jarvis Thomson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 “Turning the Trolley”

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Breakfast: 9:00 am - 9:30 am

102 Mudd Hall of Philosophy

Session 1: 9:30 am – 10:35 am
“Subverting Nonexistence: A Critique of Neo-Meinongianism”
Presenter: Peter Yong, California State University Los Angeles
Commentator: Johannes Schmitt, USC
Chair: Billy Dunaway, USC

Session 2: 10:45 am - 11:50 pm

“Ramsey, Moore, No God”
Presenter: Malte Willer, The University of Texas at Austin
Commentator: Alexandru Radulescu, UCLA
Chair: Marina Folescu, USC

Session 3: 12:00 pm - 1:05 pm

“On Maximal Rationality”
Presenter: Errol Lord, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Commentator: Eileen Nutting, UCLA
Chair: Steve White, UCLA
12:00-1:05pm

Lunch: 1:05 - 2:00pm

102 Mudd Hall of Philosophy

Session 4: 2:00 pm - 3:05 pm

“Defeating Dualism”
Presenter: Tomas Bogardus, The University of Texas at Austin
Commentator: Brent Kious, UCLA
Chair: Tamar Weber, UCLA

Session 5: 3:15 pm - 4:20 pm

“Understanding Causal Overdetermination”
Presenter: Sara Bernstein, University of Arizona
Commentator: Jonathan Weil, USC
Chair: Lewis Powell, USC

Keynote Speaker: 4:30 pm - 6 pm

 “Turning the Trolley”

Judith Jarvis Thomson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Reception 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

102 Mudd Hall of Philosophy

 

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