2023 Conference

2023 USC-UCLA Conference

April 15, 2023

USC, Mudd Hall 101

Keynote Speaker: J. David Velleman

9:45 - 10:30: Coffee & Breakfast: catered by Bird's Nest Café (vegan hash browns, fruit salad, breakfast burritos)

10:30 - 11:30: Steven Hernandez (CUNY Graduate Center): "Rational Communication and Hoping for the Impossible"

Comments by Jungsuk Lee (UCLA) 

Chaired by Irene Bosco (USC)

At Mudd Hall 101

11:40 - 12:40: Ding (University of Arizona): "On Our Own Terms: Trans Women Crafting the Meaning of “Woman”"

Comments by Charlotte Figueroa (USC) 

Chaired by Laura Nicoară (USC)

At Mudd Hall 101

12:40 - 1:40: Lunch: catered by Holbox & Chichen Itza (Taco bar (e.g. cochinita pibil, roasted eggplants), stuffed peppers, vegan tameles) shrimp cocktails, scallop aguachile)

1:40 - 2:40: Shruti Santosh (Washington University in St. Louis): "Abstract Relational Concepts and the Language of Thought Hypothesis"

Comments by Anja Chivukula (USC) 

Chaired by Sahiba Sindhu (UCLA)

At Mudd Hall 101

2:50 - 3:50: Kangyu Wang (London School of Economics): "What is the Point of Relational Equality?"

Comments by Kyle Scott (UCLA) 

Chaired by Daniel Ranweiler (UCLA)

At Mudd Hall 101

3:50 - 4:15: Afternoon refreshments

4:15: - 6:00: Keynote talk: Professor David J. Velleman (NYU): "The Two Normativities"

Chaired by James Johnson (UCLA)

At Mudd Hall 101