We are happy to announce the CFA for graduate students for the 8th Stockholm Philosophy Graduate Conference. The conference will take place at the University of Stockholm on the 7th and 8th of December, 2023.

The keynote speakers are Peter Adamson and Teresa Marques.

The conference’s aim is to select and showcase excellent graduate work in philosophy. Submissions within all areas of analytic philosophy are welcome. Graduate students are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 800 words (excluding references), along with a cover letter specifying personal information, affiliation and the area of their submission (e.g. history of philosophy, metaethics, epistemology, etc), to stockholmgraduateconf2023@gmail.com. Abstracts should be prepared for blind review and suitable for a 25-30 min presentation. Applicants are expected to provide a final version of their paper (3000-5000 words) one month before the event.

Selected speakers will be assigned a faculty commentator who will provide comments before a general Q&A.

The conference will be held exclusively in person. The deadline for submissions is August 15th, and applicants will be notified about the results by September 30th.

If you have any questions, please email the organizers at stockholmgraduateconf2023@gmail.com.

Welcome to a two-day philosophy conference with talks by Peter Adamson, Teresa Marques and eight international graduate students

The conference is free to attend. No registration necessary. The conference is held in the seminar room “Pärlan” located at Campus Albano Hus 1, floor 6 (Albanovägen 30)

Thursday 7 December
09.45 Welcome address
10.00 Keynote: Peter Adamson (Munich)
Skepticism across borders: Arguments from animal difference in Chinese, Greek, and Arabic philosophy
11.00 Benjamin Chin-Yee and Henrik Røed Sherling (Cambridge)
Clinical communication: A model for scientific assertion?
Respondent: James Nguyen (SU)
Lunch
13.30 Eleena Takashima (Durham)
Xombies as a replacement for philosophical zombies
Respondent: Anandi Hattiangadi (SU)
14.30 Sam Kang (King’s College)
Misleading and context-sensitivity: a look through vagueness
Respondent: Andreas Stokke (Uppsala)
Coffee
16.00 William Moorfoot (Southampton)
The metaphysical exclusion argument for indeterministic grounding
Respondent: Daniel Berntson (Uppsala)
18.30 Conference dinner

Friday 8 December
09.30 Anton Emilsson (Lund)
Genuinely ambiguous agency and taking responsibility
Respondent: Gunnar Björnsson (SU)
10.30 Harry Lloyd (Yale)
The ’my preferred theory approach’ to moral uncertainty
Respondent: Krister Bykvist (SU)
11.30 Lunch
13.00 Valeska Martin (Humboldt)
Being fair to future generations
Respondent: Antoinette Scherz (SU)
14.00 Alfonso Herreros (Munich)
The ascent in the ladder of virtues in the Neoplatonic commentary tradition
Respondent: Miira Tuominen (SU)
15.00 Coffee
15.30 Keynote: Teresa Marques (Barcelona)
The responsibility of individuals