CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

September 8, 2013 (1st day)
 

8.30–9.00  Registration

(Chair: Dr. Adrian Kuźniar, University of Warsaw)

9.00–9.30  Introduction: Dr. Nigel Dower & Prof. Jan Deregowski on Wladek Bednarowski

9.30–10.45  Keynote address: Prof. John Skorupski, University of St Andrews
The Conservative Critique of Liberalism (+ download handout)

10.45–11.15  Coffee break

11.15–12.00  Prof. Tadeusz Buksiński, Adam Mickiewicz University,
Conditional and Unconditional Morality

12.00–12.45  Dr. Nigel Dower, University of Aberdeen
The Idea of Political Community – National, International and Global Community Compared

12.45–13.30  Dr. Rafał Wonicki, University of Warsaw
International Distributive Justice. Egalitarian or Minimalist?

13.30–14.30  Lunch

(Chair: Prof. John Skorupski, University of St Andrews)

14.30–15.15  Dr. Ben Sachs, University of St Andrews
Distribution doesn't Matter Morally

15.15–16.00  Dr. hab. Agnieszka Nogal, University of Warsaw
On Civic Friendship

16.00–16.30  Coffee break

16.30–17.00  PhD presentation: Patrick McDevitt, University of St Andrews
Raz, Wall and the Social Forms Argument

17.00–17.30  PhD presentation: Felix Pinkert, University of St Andrews
Knowledge and Collective Ability

17.30–18.15  Prof. Krzysztof Brzechczyn, Adam Mickiewicz University
On Evolution of Political Thought of “Solidarność” in Years 1980-1981. An Attempt at Model

19.30  Meal in restaurant

 

September 9, 2013 (2nd day)


(Chair: Dr. Jesper Kallestrup, University of Edinburgh)

9.00–9.45  Dr. Joanna Miksa, University of Łódź
Thomas Reid and Immanuel Kant on Virtues

9.45–11.00  Keynote address: Prof. Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund University
Incommensurability and Vagueness - from Values to Probabilities (+ download PP presentation)

11.00–11.30  Coffee break

11.30–12.00  PhD presentation: Chris Ranalli, University of Edinburgh
Robust Epistemological Disjunctivism

12.00–12.30  PhD presentation: Joanna Szelegieniec, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Qualia and Sense-Data – A Comparison of the Thought of C.I. Lewis and G.E. Moore

12.30–14.00  Lunch & short break

(Chair: Prof. Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund University)

14.00–14.45  Prof. Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska, University of Warsaw
Epistemic Contextualism, Question-Sensitivity and Experiments

14.45–15.30  Prof. Leslie Stevenson, University of St Andrews
Self-knowledge in Kant and Sartre (+ download handout)

15.30–16.00  Coffee break

16.00–16.45  Dr. Adrian Kuźniar, University of Warsaw
Moral Epistemology and the Theory of Evolution

16.45–17.30  Dr. Piotr Szałek, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Fictionalism, Quasi-Realism and Pragmatism

17.30–18.15  Dr. Jesper Kallestrup, University of Edinburgh
The Closure Problem for A Priori Physicalism

19.30  Meal in restaurant

 

September 10, 2013 (3rd day)


(Chair: Prof. Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska, University of Warsaw)

9.00–10.15  Keynote address: Prof. Tadeusz Szubka, Szczecin University
The Epistemology of Philosophical Disagreement

10.15–11.00  Prof. Robin Cameron, University of Aberdeen
Fallibilist Reliabilism versus Brain-in-a-Vat Scepticism

11.00–11.30  Coffee break

11.30–12.15  Prof. Adam Grobler, Opole University
Sandwich Theory of Knowledge

12.15–13.00  Dr. Nick Treanor, University of Edinburgh
Truthiness

13.00–14.00  Lunch

(Chair: Prof. Tadeusz Szubka, Szczecin University)

14.00–14.45  Prof. Anna Jedynak, University of Warsaw
Dual Process Theory: Dichotomy or Continuity?

14.45–15.15  PhD presentation: Kyle Irwin Andrew Scott, University of Edinburgh
Disagreement and Bootstrapping

15.15–15.45  PhD presentation: Kinga Jęczmińska, University of Warsaw
Intuitions Behind the Hard Problem of Consciousness

15.45–16.15  Coffee break

16.15–17.00  Dr. hab. Krystyna Misiuna, University of Warsaw
Modeling and Justifying Induction

17.00–17.45  Dr. Krzysztof Posłajko, Jagiellonian University
From Epiphenomenalism to Eliminativism?

(Chair: Dr. Nigel Dower, University of Aberdeen)

17.45–18.15  Closing session: reflections and thanks

19.30  Conference dinner in restaurant