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There is a general view that developments in experimental psychology, neurophysiology, and associated life sciences are superseding the kind of understandings the humanities have offered us, as a guide to human nature.
In this talk I ask whether this is true, and develop some reasons for caution.

Block seminar with Simon Blackburn.

18.03.2013 10:15-12:00 MIS03 3014
18.03.2013 15:15-16:00 MIS03 3016
19.03.2013 10:15-16:00 MIS03 3014
20.03.2013 10:15-16:00 MIS03 3014
21.03.2013 10:15-16:00 MIS03 3014
22.03.2013 10:15-16:00 MIS03 3014

According to an orthodox view, co-referential expressions like “Hesperus” and “Phosphorus” are associated with different modes of presentation. This explains why a competent and rational speaker who finds the sentence “Hesperus is Hesperus” trivial can find the sentence “Hesperus is Phosphorus” informative. This paper introduces a pragmatist account based on …

Monday January 28 :
09.30-10.30 Jacob Naito (Fribourg), “Mental Action”
10.45-11.45 Pietro Snider (Lausanne), “Why Feeling? From Turing Machines to Feeling Machines”
14.00-15.00 Salim Hirèche (Geneva), “Modality, essence, and dispositions”
15.15-16.15 Emmanuel Baierlé (Fribourg), “Agentive Phenomenology”

Tuesday January 29 :
09.30-10.30 David Jolidon (Fribourg), “Specious Present and his content”
10.45-11.45 Hannes …

Antirealism in Metaethics: Program
Monday, December 10:
Arrival
Night in Geneva
Tuesday, December 11:
08.45-09.15: Welcome session
09.15-10.45: Jussi Suikkanen
11.00-12.30: Don Loeb
12.30-14.15: Lunch
14.15-16.00: Matthew Chrisman
16.15-18.00: James Dreier
20.00: Dinner
Night in Geneva
Wednesday, December 12:
Train Geneva-Fribourg
12.15-13.30: Lunch
13.30-16.00: James Dreier and Matthew Chrisman
16.30-18.00: …