GREENSBORO SYMPOSIUM IN PHILOSOPHY 2000

March 31 - April 2, 2000 Faculty Center

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Joshua Hoffman & Gary Rosenkrantz, Symposium Directors

CURRENT ISSUES IN ONTOLOGY

SESSION I Friday, March 31, 8:00-10:00 p.m.

"LEVELS OF REALITY AND THE REALITY OF LEVELS"
 
Speaker: John Heil Davidson College
Commentator: Dorit Bar-On UNC-Chapel Hill
Chair: Janine Jones UNC-Greensboro

 

SESSION II Saturday, April 1, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

"SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE AND SPATIOTEMPORAL COINCIDENCE"
 
Speaker: Jonathan Lowe University of Durham
Commentator: David Robb Davidson College
Chair: Joshua Hoffman UNC-Greensboro

 

SESSION III Saturday, April 1, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

"EPISTEMOLOGY AND ABSTRACT REALISM"
 
Speaker: Ernest Sosa Brown University
Commentator: Trenton Merricks Virginia Commonwealth University
Chair: David Sanford Duke University

 

SESSION IV Saturday, April 1, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

"THE UNIVERSE"
 
Speaker: Peter Simons University of Leeds
Commentator: Achille Varzi Columbia University
Chair: Gary Rosenkrantz UNC-Greensboro

 

SESSION V Sunday, April 2, 10-12 noon

"SUBSTANCE DUALISM AND EMERGENCE"
 
Speaker: Dean Zimmerman University of Notre Dame
Commentator: Randy Carter NC State University
Chair: Ralph Kennedy Wake Forest University

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Registration: UNCG students, faculty and staff, free; others, $25.

Please make checks payable to Department of Philosophy, UNCG

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