Robbins Library Notes

Good morning, readers!

Tomorrow, 18 April 2009, will be the date for the 17th Annual Harvard-MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference.  Here are the details, if you are interested in attending:

Dear All,

The organizers of the 17th Annual Harvard-MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference cordially invite you to join us at the conference, being held Saturday, April 18, 2009 in Emerson Hall at Harvard.

The papers to be presented are as follows:

“Are Conciliatory Views of Disagreement Self-Defeating?”
Jonathan Matheson
University of Rochester

“Generics, Semantic Blindness and Mosquitoes”
Rachel Sterken
University of St. Andrew/Oslo

“Double Vision and the Case for Separatism”
Boyd Millar
University of Toronto

“The New-New Problem of Induction”
Jacob Stegenga
University of California, San Diego

This year’s Keynote Address, “The Essential Contextual,” will be given by Professor Robert Stalnaker of MIT.

Further information concerning the conference, including the abstracts of the papers to be presented and the schedule, can be found at the following website:

http://web.mit.edu/gradphilconf/index.html

Breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provided. We hope to see you all there!