The Centre for Philosophy of Timeof the University of Milan present:

 

CUNY-Milan Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop in Philosophy
‘Tense’

March 28-29, 2019, University of Milan, Via Festa del Perdono, 7

CUNY-Milan annual interdisciplinary workshop in Philosophy, a joint initiative of both institutions’ philosophy departments, and, more precisely, CUNY Graduate Center and Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences, University of Milan is aimed at promoting advanced studies at the crossroad between philosophy and interrelated disciplines. Last year workshop took place in NYC at CUNY Graduate Center with the topic of Belief. This years’ workshop, second in a series of annual events, will focus on Tense and is taking place in Milan. The organizers are committed to maintain the interdisciplinary character of the workshop.

Keynote speakers:

University of Milan: 
Alessandro Zucchi and Giuseppe Spolaore (linguistics), Daniel Dohrn (philosophy of language and metaphysics) and Corrado Sinigaglia (cognitive neuroscience).

CUNY Graduate Center: 
Graham Priest (logic and language), Catherine Wilson (history of philosophy) and David Papineau (philosophy of mind).

 

 

Programme

 

28.03 - Morning Session
Chair: Nick Young

 

10.00. – 11.15 Keynote: Catherine Wilson (CUNY) – ‘Fatalism: An Epistemic Strategy for Escaping Ryle’s Dilemma’

 

11.15. – 11.30. Coffee Break 

 

11.30. – 12.15. Daniele Cassaghi (Milan) – ‘Transparency and the Tense Argument’

 

12.15. – 13.00. Yale Weiss (CUNY) – ‘Time, Tense, and Eternity in Augustine’s Confessions XI’

 

13.00. – 14.30. Lunch


28.03 - Afternoon Session
Chair: Anna Ichino

 

14.30. – 15.45. Keynote: Corrado Sinigaglia (Milan) – TBA

 

15. 45 – 16.30. Daria Vitasovic (Milan) – ‘The Subject of Temporal Experience’

 

16.30. – 16. 45. Coffee break 

 

16. 45. – 18.00. Keynote: David Papineau (CUNY) – ‘Causation and the Direction of Time’

29.03 - Morning Session
Chair: Nick Young 

 

10.00. – 11.15 Keynote: Alessandro Zucchi (Milan) and Giuseppe Spolare (Padua) – ‘On the historic present (context is where our illocutionary commitments lie)’

 

11.15. – 11.30. Coffee Break 

 

11.30. – 12.15. Victor Carranza (Milan) – ‘Presuppositions and tense’

 

12.15. – 13.00. Cristian Mariani (Milan) – ‘The Indeterminate Present and the Open Future’

 

13.00. – 14.30. Lunch

29.03 - Afternoon Session
Chair: Paolo Baldi

 

14.30. – 15.45. Keynote: Daniel Dohrn (Milan) – ‘Tense in Conditionals’

 

15. 45 – 16.30. Vincent Alexis Peluce (CUNY) – ‘The Perception of Time in Intuitionistic Arithmetic’

 

16.30. – 16. 45. Coffee break

 

16. 45. – 18.00. Keynote: Graham Priest (CUNY) – ‘Socrates Begins to be White: Medieval Accounts of Tense and Change’

 

20.00. Conference Dinner

 

 

Organizing Committee:

Milan – Daria Vitasovic, Victor Carranza, Sava Ristić, Luca Marchetti.
CUNY Graduate Center – Vincent A. Peluce, Yale Weiss, Jennifer McDonald, Liam Ryan (Saul Kripke Center).

Everyone is welcome, but please do register for the workshop since places are limited.

E-mail for registration: daria dot vitasovic at unimi dot it.

Funding: Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences.

More info will be available soon.