8th Annual Conference of the American Association of Mexican Philosophers will take place at Columbia this spring (April 24-26). The Association is mainly a group of Mexican philosophers based in the United States. We hold a conference every year to discuss our work and get to know each other better, as well as the philosophical community of the hosting institution. The topics of the talks reflect the interests of each year’s presenters, and this year they go from the philosophy of mind & language, to the philosophy of physics, metaphysics, and metaethics.
CUNY PhD Students Adriana Renero and Javier Gómez-Lavín will present.
8th Annual Conference
Columbia University, New York
April 24-26, 2015
FRIDAY, APRIL 24
Room: 304 Hamilton
8:00 – 9:00 am Coffee & Bagels
9:00 – 10:15 am Jorge Pablo Oseguera Gamba (Florida State University) “Debunking Ethical Intuitionism” Commentator: Carlos Núñez (Stanford University)
10:35 – 11:50 pm Viorica Ramírez de Santiago (UNAM) “An alternative interpretation of Plato’s beard” Commentator: Azenet López (University of Miami)
12:00 – 2:10 pm Lunch
2:10 – 3:15 pm Elías Okón (UNAM) “Benefits of objective collapse models for cosmology and quantum gravity”
Commentator: Porter Williams (Columbia University)
3:45 – 5:00 pm Sofía Ortiz-Hinojosa (MIT) “Transformative Experiences and Imagination”
Commentator: Carla Merino (Arizona State University)
SATURDAY, APRIL 25
Room: 716 Philosophy Hall
9:00 – 10:00 am Coffee & Bagels
10:00 – 11:15 am Ricardo Mena (UNAM) “Vagueness”
Commentator: Martín Abreu (NYU)
11:45 – 1:00 pm Teresa Bruno (Syracuse University) “Externalism meets Alienation”
Commentator: Jesús Aguilar (Rochester Institute of Technology)
1:00 – 3:00 pm Lunch
3:00 – 4:15 pm Felipe de Brigard (Duke University) “Vivacity and the distinction between memory and imagination”
Commentator: Javier Gómez-Lavín (CUNY)
8:00 pm Dinner at a local restaurant
SUNDAY, APRIL 26
Room: 716 Philosophy Hall
9:00 – 10:00 am Coffee & Bagels
10:00 – 11:15 am Miguel Ángel Sebastián (UNAM) “A Naturalist Model of the Subjectivity of Experience”
Commentator: Sergio Gallegos (MSU Denver)
11:45 – 1:00 pm Adriana Renero (CUNY) “Introspection”
Commentator: Laura Pérez (Harvard University)
1:00 – 3:00 pm Lunch
3:00 – 4:15 pm Agustín Rayo (MIT) (co-authored with Adam Elga) “Fragmentation and Information Access”
Commentator: Nemira Gasiunas (Columbia University)