Between Metaphysics and the Theory of Content

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