2018 Conference

USC-UCLA Graduate Philosophy Conference Schedule

March 17th, 2018

USC Department of Philosophy

Mudd Hall of Philosophy

3709 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles

Saturday

9:30am-10:00am: Breakfast Refreshments, USC, Mudd Hall of Philosophy (MHP) 102

Morning Session, MHP 101

10:00am - 11:00am: Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini , Rutgers University

“Slurs are Directives”

Commenter: Jennifer Head

Chair: Catherine Hochman

11:15am - 12:15pm: Andrew Law , University of California Riverside

"From the Fixity of the Past to the Fixity of the Independent"

Commenter: Mahmoud Jalloh

Chair: Nephele Ralli

12:15 - 1:20pm: Lunch, MHP 102

Afternoon Session, MHP 101

1:30pm - 2:30pm: Susanna Melkonian-Altshuler , University of Massachusetts at Amherst &

University of Connecticut

“Is Belief Closed Under Known Entailment?”

Commenter: Torsten Odland

Chair: Nicola Kemp

2:45pm - 3:45pm: Adam Piovarchy , University of Sydney

"Responsibility for Epistemic Injustice"

Commenter: Ayana Samuel

Chair: Paul Garofalo

Keynote Address, MHP 101

4:00pm - 5:30pm: David Chalmers , New York University & Australian National University

“Structuralism as a Response to Skepticism”

6:30pm: Dinner at Bacaro LA

**A dinner reservation has been made for those already directly involved

in the conference. We encourage you to make your own reservations**

8:30pm: Afterparty in Echo Park, 132 S Mountain View Ave, Los Angeles, 90057