Open Minds XVI

Open Minds is a two-day conference which offers graduate students working in all areas of philosophy the chance to present their work and gain feedback in a welcoming and friendly environment. With two parallel workshop streams running throughout the two days – ‘Applied Philosophy’ and ‘Theoretical Philosophy’ - the conference seeks contributions from all areas of philosophy.Our goal is to provide a forum for discussing work in philosophy by aspiring philosophers at both Masters and PhD stages in their careers. From this, we hope that all who attend develop valuable philosophical skills and working relationships with other early stage philosophers. To this end we also run two workshop sessions, one related to career advice and publishing, and the other on tackling challenges of PhD life.

Open Minds XVI Team

Welcome to the 16th edition of Open Minds, The University of Manchester's graduate philosophy conference!

Humanities Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester

Welcome to Open Minds XVI!Join us for the Sixteenth Edition of Open Minds, which will take place on Thursday, June 15th at 9:00am at the University of Manchester Department of Philosophy, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, Manchester, M15 6GY. This event will take place on 15th &amp; 16th of June showcasing theoretical and applied philosophy talks. This conference has 20 confirmed in-person presenters, as well as in-person keynotes and careers advice sessions.Open Minds is free to attend. Details about the venue will be sent to registered attendees. Refreshments will be provided to registered attendees.This year will feature graduate speakers from universities around the world: National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine), University of Cagliari (Italy), Radbound university Nijmegen (Netherlands), Central European University (Vienna), Universität Bonn (Germany), Middle East Technical university (Turkey), UCL (UK), University of St. Andrews (UK), University of Bristol (UK), and more!The conference features keynote addresses by Dr Lucy McDondald, (University of Cambridge) and Dr Mohammad Saleh Zarepour (University of Manchester). We will also have a talk on academic publishing by Dr. Raamy Majeed (Associate Editor, Australasian Journal of Philosophy) and a careers advice talk by Dr Frederique Janssen-Lauret (University of Manchester) followed by PhD Experience in Contemporary Academia talk by Dr Simon Walgenbach (University of Manchester) Whether you're a student, a researcher, or simply someone who's interested in learning more about philosophy and humanities, Open Minds XVI is the ideal event for you. Come and join us for 2 days of intellectual stimulation and lively debate. We look forward to seeing you there!For conference details, see below:<a href="https://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:z1h2-lh99tbqq-t69nin/open-minds-xvi" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:z1h2-lh99tbqq-t69nin/open-minds-xvi </a>Open Minds XVI is generously supported by grants and bursaries from:The University of ManchesterThe Aristotelian SocietySociety for Applied PhilosophyThe Analysis Trust

Day 1 (15th of June)

Registration/Welcome 

APPLIED STREAM (Room G6, Humanities Bridgeford Street building) 

Philosophy and (un)freedom: Epistemic Role of Philosophy Within Totalitarian 

Vernacular Cosmopolitanism & Narrative: Foundation for Political Action  

Revolutionary Normative Subjectivism

Option value and the preservation of diversity

On Discrimination against Persons with a Criminal Record and Formerly Criminal

THEORETICAL STREAM (Room G7, Humanities Bridgeford Street building) 

Plant Mind and Its Impact on the Definition of the Mind

Verbal disputes and metalinguistic disagreement

Group ontology and the parthood problem

Morality and the Limits of Ambition

Should We Let Go of Our Folk Conceptions of Self and Time

Break

Career Workshop - ‘Demystifying Publication’ 

Lunch

Break 

Keynote 1 –  ‘Intimacy and Abuse’

Conference Dinner at Home Theatre

Day 2  (16th of June)

Stand by Me: A Victim Oriented Defence of Third Party Blame

Mentalisation, Affect and Democratic Possibility

Punishment Moralism

Do you really want to live forever? You should

Should I Give or Save?

Consciousness at one's fingertips

Mindshaping vs. behaviour shaping. An argument from phenomenal variation

Modality is not like Mathematics: On Clarke Doane's Modal Pluralism

Myth of the Given reconsidered

Indeterministic Grounding and Physicality

Workshop on PhD Experience in Contemporary Academia

Keynote 2 –  ‘Intentionality Reconsidered’

Casual Drinks 

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