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DAVID LEWIS AND HIS PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
17-19 June 2019, University of Manchester
All keynote talks are in the Cordingley Lecture Theatre, ground floor, Humanities Bridgeford Street.
Day 1 – Monday, 17 June 2019
| 12.00pm | Coffee, tea & biscuits available |
| 1.00pm | Welcome (Helen Beebee and Anthony Fisher) |
| 1.15pm | Keynote: Angelika Kratzer (UMass-Amherst): ‘David Lewis and how we think about natural language semantics today’
Chair: Helen Beebee (Manchester) |
| 2.30pm | Coffee & cake |
| 3.00pm | Cordingley Theatre (virtual): Fatema Amijee (Simon Fraser): ‘The rationalist foundations of Hume’s Dictum’ / Chair: Edward Elliott (Leeds)
Hanson Room: Michelle Liu (Oxford): Lewis on qualia and revelation’ / Chair: Joel Smith (Manchester) |
| 3.30pm | Cordingley Theatre (virtual): Insa Lawler (Ruhr University Bochum), ‘David Lewis on non-declarative sentences: setting the record straight’ / Chair:Edward Elliott (Leeds)
Hanson Room:Seamus Bradley (Leeds), ‘Lewis, laws and similarity; an incongruence in Lewis’s Humean supervenience project’ / Chair:Joel Smith (Manchester) |
| 4.00pm | Break |
| 4.15pm | Keynote (virtual): Daniel Nolan (Notre Dame): ‘What would Lewis do?’
Chair: Anthony Fisher (Manchester) |
| 5.30pm | Drinks at Navarro Lounge, University Green (own expense) |
| 6.30pm | Dinner, Mowgli, University Green (if you’ve booked) |
Day 2 – Tuesday, 18 June 2019
| 9am | Coffee, tea & biscuits |
| 9.30am | Keynote: John Bigelow (with Martin Leckey) (Monash): ‘New work for properties of properties’
Chair: John Heil (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| 10.45am | Break |
| 11.00am | Cordingley Theatre (virtual): Michaelis Michael (UNSW): ‘David Lewis and the nature of logical space’ / Chair: Seamus Bradley (Leeds) |
| 11.30am | Cordingley: Jade Fletcher (Edinburgh): ‘Piecing together Lewis’s philosophy of language’ / Chair: Seamus Bradley (Leeds)
G32: David Efird (York), ‘David Lewis and his place in the history of analytic theology / Chair:Anthony Fisher (Manchester) |
| 12pm | Lunch |
| 1.00pm | Cordingley: Edward Elliott (Leeds): ‘What is Lewisian interpretivism?’ / Chair: Neil McDonnell (Glasgow) |
| 1.30pm | Break |
| 1.45pm | Keynote: Frederique Janssen-Lauret and Fraser MacBride (Manchester): ‘David Lewis and the Age of Metaphysical Revolution’
Chair: Thomas Uebel (Manchester) |
| 3.00pm | Coffee & cake |
| 3.15pm | Keynote (virtual): Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers): ‘Lewis on what else there Is’
Chair: Alastair Wilson (Birmingham) |
| 4.30pm | Break |
| 4.45pm | Keynote (virtual): Sara Bernstein (Notre Dame): ‘Paradoxes of time travel to the future’
Chair: Fraser MacBride (Manchester) |
| 6.00pm | End |
| 7.00pm | Dinner at Abode Manchester (near Piccadilly Station; only if you’ve booked) |
Day 3 – Wednesday, 19 June 2019
| 9am | Coffee, tea & biscuits |
| 9.30am | Keynote: Frank Jackson (ANU): ‘Lewis: metaphysics first’
Chair: Hugh Mellor (Cambridge) |
| 10.45am | Coffee & cake |
| 11.00am | Cordingley Theatre: Alastair Wilson (Birmingham): ‘Plenitude and recombination’ / Chair: Ann Whittle (Manchester)
Boardroom, 2nd floor, Arthur Lewis Building: David Balcarras (MIT): ‘Meaning by convention’ / Chair: David Efird (York) |
| 11.30am | Cordingley Theatre: Lilith Newton (Edinburgh): ‘David Lewis and context-sensitivity in modal epistemology’ / Chair: Ann Whittle (Manchester)
Boardroom, 2nd floor, Arthur Lewis Building: William Kilborn & Bridger Landle (York): ‘Many, but one’ / Chair: David Efird (York) |
| 12.00pm | Break |
| 12.15pm | Keynote: Wolfgang Schwarz (Edinburgh), ‘Lewis’s empiricism’
Chair: Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Manchester) |
| 1.30pm | End |
