Philosophy Meets Cultural Diversity
13-14 March 2015
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Advance registration is appreciated, but not required.
To register, email Joseph McCaffrey (jbm48@pitt.edu)
Friday
10:00 - 11:15 |
Edouard Machery and Steve Stich
"A Cross-Cultural Approach to Folk Epistemology and Ethics" |
11:15 - 12:30 |
Stephen Phillips
"Cultured Intuitions: Philosophy as Educator" |
12:30 - 2:00 |
Lunch on your own |
2:00 - 3:15 |
Hagop Sarkissian
"The Resonant Self: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Agency" |
3:15 - 4:30 |
Michael Chandler
"Essentialist & Narrative Constructions of Personal Persistence:
A comparison of Canadian Indigenous and culturally mainstream youth" |
4:30-4:45 |
Coffee Break |
4:45-6:00 |
Miri Albahari (on-line)
"The (illusion of) Self as Culturally Invariant from a Buddhist Perspective" |
Saturday
10:00 - 11:15 |
Igor Grossmann (on line)
"Wise Reasoning: Cultural and Individual Variability" |
11:15 - 12:30 |
Shinobu Kitayama
"You and I" in East and West: Neural mechanisms of error processing" |
12:30 - 2:00 |
Lunch on your own |
2:00 - 3:15 |
Winnie Sung
"Weakness of Will in the Mencius" |
3:15 - 4:30 |
Martin Fortier
"Philosophy Meets Amazonian Anthropology: Epistemic intuitions, sensory modalities and supernatural agents" |
4:30-4:45 |
Coffee Break |
4:45-6:00 |
Eve Danziger
"Making Up Our Minds: Cultural diversity in mental-state predication, with special reference to Mopan Maya" |
This project was made possible through the support of a grant from the Fuller Theological Seminary / Thrive Center in concert with the John Templeton Foundation.
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