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::: center home >> events >> conferences >> other >> 2014-15 >> diversity

Philosophy Meets Cultural Diversity

13-14 March 2015
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

 

     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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