2018
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