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Persons Conference


  • University of Michigan-Flint 303 East Kearsley Street Flint, MI, 48502 United States (map)

Program

Friday, 16 June

Holism, Narrative, and Paradox: New Criteria For Settling Disputes in Personal Identity
Jaron Cheung
SUNY University at Buffalo

Engineering the concept of "person"
Irene Olivero
University of Genoa

Persons, Person Stages, and the Problem of Adaptive Preferences
Mark Greene
University of Delaware

Naturalizing Persons
Eric Kraemer
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Narrative Unity and the Passing of Time
Sean T. Murphy
Providence College

The Integrated Theory of Personal Identity: A Proposal
Roxanne Burton
The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

The Fragmentation of Self
Pixie Shen
University of Notre Dame

Keynote Address

Me, Everywhere, All at Once
Marya Schechtman
University of Illinois at Chicago

Saturday, 17 June

Two Candidate Cases of Plural Personhood
Elizabeth Schechter
University of Maryland

Is Anyone on First? Sport, Agency, and the Divided Self
Jeffrey Fry
Ball State University

Brutal Personal Identity
Peihong (Karl) Xie
SUNY University at Buffalo

'Who am I' before 'How am I': Objections to the two central claims of Subject Body Dualism
Danqi Wang
University College, Dublin

Sentimentalist Conditions on Moral Personhood
Sean Kermath
SUNY University at Buffalo

Talk
Simon Cushing
University of Michigan-Flint

 

Keynote Speaker

Marya Schechtman, PhD
LAS Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
University of Illinois Chicago

Special Issue

A special issue of the Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics (JCN), edited by Simon Cushing, will be based on the proceedings of this conference. All papers presented will be eligible for inclusion in this issue of JCN.

Organization

The Center for Cognition and Neuroethics
A joint affiliation between the Insight Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience and the University of Michigan-Flint Philosophy Department—will host this two-day conference.

Organizer

Simon Cushing
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Michigan-Flint

For more information, please email simoncu@umich.edu.

Registration Fee

$20. The registration gateway will open April 1, 2023.

Hotel Information

See our location and logistics page.

Location

Center for Cognition and Neuroethics
University of Michigan-Flint
303 East Kearsley Street
Flint, Michigan 48502-1950
United States

 
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