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The Metaphysics and Epistemology of the Self
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This is the third and final conference of the Leverhulme International Network project "What's So Special about First-Person Thought?". If you would like to attend, there is no need to register, everyone is welcome. Please get in touch with us if you have any questions. We hope to see you there!

Monday, 24 June

 9:00 -10:20 Aidan McGlynn (Edinburgh) Wh-Misidentification and Judgments About One’s Past

 10:20 - 10:35 Coffee break

 10:35 - 11:55 Anna Giustina (ENS, Paris) Introspective Knowledge by Acquaintance

 12:00 - 1:10 Lunch

 1:10 - 2:30 Dilip Ninan (Tufts University) Branching and Assertion

 2:35 - 3:55 Daniel Morgan (York) De Se vs De Nunc

 3:55 - 4: 10 Coffee Break

 4:10 - 5:30 Simon Prosser (St Andrews) Thank Goodness for the First-Person Perspective

Tuesday, 25 June

 9:00 - 10:20 Clas Weber (University of Western Australia) Material People in Logical Space: A Two Dimensionalist Approach to the Self

 10:20 - 10:35 Coffee break

 10:35 - 11:55 Dorit Bar-On (University of Connecticut) “I”, My Self, and My Mental States

 12:00 - 1:10 Lunch

 1:10 - 2:30 Manuel García-Carpintero (Barcelona) Token-Reflexive Self-Concepts

 2:35 - 3:55 Léa Salje (Leeds) Fishbones, Foetuses and the First Person

 3:55 - 4: 10 Coffee Break

 4:10 - 5:30 Annalisa Coliva (UC Irvine) The Quiet Self

 Further information and abstracts available here: https://desethought.wordpress.com/conference-2019/

 This is the third and final conference of the Leverhulme International Network project What’s So Special about First-Person Thought?

Conference Organizers: Stephan Torre (stephan.torre@abdn.ac.uk) and Irmina Zborowska (irmina.zborowska@abdn.ac.uk). Thank you to Aidan McGlynn (Edinburgh) and the University of Edinburgh for assistance with organizing this event.

Hosted by
What's So Special about First-Person Thought?
Venue
Project room 1.06, 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JU