MITing of the Minds 2025
Composed of talks by department faculty and graduate students of past and present.
Thursday, January 30th
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET
Friday, January 31st
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET
This year’s MITing of the Minds is the twenty-first 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, January 30th
10:00 AM Coffee
10:30 AM Daniel Muñoz (UNC Chapel Hill), “Caring Who”
Comments: Felipe Doria (MIT)
12:00 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Katie Zhou (MIT): “Verbal Disputes, Social Totality, and Trans Politics”
Comments: Jack Spencer (MIT)
3:00 PM Teatime/Koosh break
3:30 PM David Hunter (Toronto Metropolitan University), “Sortal Quality and the Ethics of Believing”
Comments: Helena Fang (MIT)
Friday, January 31st
10:00 AM Coffee
10:30 AM Samia Hesni (Boston University), “How Scripts Harm”
Comments: Sakinah Munday (MIT)
12:00 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Kenneth Black (MIT), “What Folk, Scientists, and Folk Scientists Believe”
Comments: Alex Byrne, MIT
3:00 PM Teatime/Koosh break
3:30 PM Richard Holton (Cambridge University), “Moral Kinds and Moral Theories”
Comments: Xin-Hui Yong, MIT