„NATURALISM IN PHILOSOPHY“
19.05 – 21.05.2023
(SOFIA UNIVERSITY, BULGARIA)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
 
 
 
19.05.2023
Aula Magna, Sofia University

 
9.30 – 10.00
 
Official Opening

 
10.00 – 11.30
Keynote Address: Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)  - Naturalism and the Intellectual Legitimacy of Philosophy

11.30 – 11.45
Coffee Break

 
11.45 – 13.15
 
Session 1: Epistemic Naturalism

11.45 – 12.15
Matthias Thymen (Thijs) Hemme (University of Groningen) - Epistemic agents naturalized

12.15 – 12.45
Jonathan Dixon (Wake Forest University) - Experimental philosophy and philosophical scepticsm

12.45 – 13.15
Petar Nurkic (University of Belgrade) - What does a bee know?

 
13.15 – 15.13 Lunch Break

 
15.15 - 16.45
 
Session 2: Naturalism and the Normativity Challenge

15.15 – 15.45
Blanca Luque-Linero (University of Lisbon) - Can naturalistic epistemology be normative?

15.45 – 16.15
 Madelaine Angelova-Elchinova (Sofia University) - Beliefs as Natural Kinds: Credition, Primal Beliefs and Epistemic Normativity

16.15 – 16.45
Sushruth Ravish (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) - Naturalized Social Moral Epistemology

18.30 – Welcome Evening Event (Location TBA)

20.05.2023
 New Conference Hall, Sofia University

10.00 – 11.30
Keynote Address: Bana Bashour (American University of Beirut) - How We Blame: A Naturalized Theory of Moral Responsibility

11.30 – 11.45
Coffee Break

 
11.45 – 13.15
 
Session 3 (New Conference Hall) – Naturalism and the Mental

11.45 – 12.15
Jeremy Pober (University of Antwerp) - Reduction: What? Me Worry?

12.15 – 12.45
Amir Horowitz (Open University of Israel) - Non-metaphysical naturalism – the example of intentionality

12.45 – 13.15
Marina Bakalova (Bulgarian Academy of Science) - The Role of Schemata in Making Sense of
​Expressive Music           
 
13.15 – 15.00 Lunch Break

 
15.00 – 16.30
 
Session 4 (New Conference Hall) – AI, Agency & Behaviour

15.00 – 15.30
Boris Grozdanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) - Are synthetic data and reinforcement learning compatible with naturalism?

15.30 – 16.00
Fiorella Battaglia (University of Salento) - Moral naturalism from the edge of our merging with machines

16.00 – 16.30
Matej Drobňák (University of Hradec Králové) - Naturalized Inferentialism as new behaviourism

16.30 – 16.45
Coffee Break

 
16.45 – 17.45
 
Session 5 (New Conference Hall) – Naturalism and the Philosophy of David Hume

16.45 – 17.15
Daniel Dohrn (University of Milan) - The Humean Project of Naturalizing Modality

17.15 – 17.45
Alex Stamatiadis-Bréhier (Tel Aviv University) - Neo-Humean Moral Contingentism

 
19.00 – Conference Dinner

21.05.2023
New Conference Hall, Sofia University

 
09.30 – 11.00
 
Keynote Address: Mitch Green (University of Connecticut) – How Machines Can Perform Speech Acts

 
11.00 – 11.45
 
Coffee Break

 
11.45 – 13.15
 
Session 6 (New Conference Hall) – Naturalism in Logic & Metaphysics

11.45 – 12.15
Will Moorfoot (University of Southampton) - Indeterministic Grounding, Emergence, and Physicality

12.15 – 12.45
Pablo Caballero Fernández (University of Sevilla) - Naturalising Formal Logic

12.45 – 13.15
Mousa Mohammadian (Ahmedabad University) - Theoretical Virtue in Science and Metaphysics

 
13.15 – 15.15 Lunch Break

 
15.15 – 16.15
 
Session 7 (New Conference Hall) - Challenges to Naturalism

15.15 – 15.45
Johan Heemskerk (University of Warwick) - Naturalistic Theory or Gloss? On the viability of psychosemantic methodology.

15.45 – 16.15

Michael Kolodziej (University of Chicago) -  Natural Kind Sortalism and Taxonomic Cross-Cutting in Biology

16.15 - 16.30 Official Closing Addresses 

 
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