Between Metaphysics and the Theory of Content
A conference on themes from Christopher Peacocke’s forthcoming monograph The Primacy of Metaphysics
University of Tübingen
July 4-6, 2018
Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
July 4: Fürstenzimmer, Schloss Hohentübingen
Morning session chair: Hong Yu Wong
9.00 – 10.45 Keynote 1:
Christopher Peacocke (Columbia) – Metaphysics and the Theory of Content
Commentator: Tobias Wilsch (Tübingen)
11.00 – 12.30
Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers) – A Metaphysics-first View of Consciousness
Commentator: Roberta Locatelli (Tübingen)
Lunch
13.30 – 15.00
Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) – The Hard Problem of Temporal Consciousness
Commentator: Chiara Brozzo (Tübingen)
15.15 – 16.45
Dorothea Debus (York) – Perception and Reduction
Commentator: Irina Schumski (Tübingen)
Coffee
17.15 – 18.45
Johannes Roessler (Warwick) – Perception, Knowledge and Concepts
Commentator: Cristina Borgoni (Bayreuth)
Reception 18.45 – 20.00
July 5: Large seminar room, Forum Scientiarum; Keynote in Alte Burse
9.00 – 10.30
Naomi Eilan (Warwick) – Objectivity, Intersubjectivity, Self-consciousness and Metaphysics
Commentator: Anja Berninger (Stuttgart)
10.45 – 12.15
Ralf Bader (Oxford) – Representing Non-symmetric Relations
Commentator: Christoph Michel (Regensburg)
Lunch
13.15 – 14.45
Krisztina Orban – Representation-first for the First Person
Commentator: Wesley Sauret (Tübingen)
14.45 – 16.15
Hong Yu Wong (Tübingen) – Embodiment: Metaphysics and Mental Representation
Commentator: Gregor Hochstetter (Tübingen)
Coffee
Keynote 2 venue: Alte Burse, Room XI
17.15 – 19.00 Keynote 2:
Christopher Peacocke (Columbia) – The Self
Commentator: Denis Buehler (Tübingen)
Reception 19.00 – 20.00
July 6: Hölderlinzimmer, Alte Burse
10.00 – 13.00 Panel discussion with Christopher Peacocke