MITing of the Minds 2024
Composed of talks by department faculty and graduate students of past and present.
Thursday, February 1st
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET
Friday, February 2nd
10:00 AM – 6:15 PM ET
This year’s MITing of the Minds is the twentieth annual MIT philosophy alumni conference. The conference will showcase recent work in a variety of areas of contemporary philosophy. Presentations will be accessible to a broad audience.
Talks will be held in-person.
Schedule
Thursday, February 1st
10:00 AM Coffee
10:30 AM Brendan de Kenessey (University of Toronto), “Scorekeeping in a Joint Action Game”
Comments: Elle Kirsch (MIT)
12:00 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Selina Guter (MIT), “Do Humans See Faces as Beautiful?”
Comments: Alex Byrne (MIT)
3:00 PM Teatime/Koosh break
3:30 PM Zoltán Szabó (Yale), “The Ineffability of Causation”
Comments: Kenneth Black (MIT)
Friday, February 2nd
10:00 AM Coffee
10:30 AM Susanna Rinard (Harvard), “Skepticism and the Ethics of Belief”
Comments: Jack Webber (MIT)
12:00 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Bess Rothman (MIT), “Social Constructionism and Self-Referential Kinds”
Comments: Justin Khoo (MIT)
3:00 PM Teatime/Koosh break
3:30 PM Kieran Setiya (MIT), “Freedom and the Will”
Comments: Katie Zhou (MIT)
5:15 PM A panel discussion with the speakers on the job market and the profession in general.
6:15 PM End of Conference