2nd DUBLIN PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE CONFERENCE 'The Private' Trinity College Dublin & University College Dublin, Ireland 25 – 26 March 2011 Call for papers Submission Deadline: 1 December 2010 Keynote speaker: Ray Monk (Southampton)

David Copperfield begins his story by worrying whether "I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else." How could anybody else play the pivotal role in one’s own story, and whose story is it anyway? There is a host of problems surrounding the issue of personal identity and epistemology of private or first-person character. This conference is organised around that theme, and reflects a diverse range of interests and approaches, since if there’s one thing that oddly unites us it is a great interest in ourselves and a great concern with our privacy.

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Draft programme

FRIDAY 25 March

13.30-14.00 Registration and refreshments

14.00 Session I

• ‘Privacy and the Event; Aesthetic Experience as the Basis for Political Engagement’
  Connell Vaughan, University College Dublin, Ireland

14.45 Session II

• ‘Truly introspective judgements’
  Kevin Reuter, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
• ‘Introspection as the diagnostic tool of self-scepticism’
  Eoin Ryan, Brown University, USA
• ‘Immunity to Error through Misidentification, Nonceptual Contents, and Semantic Relativism’
  Jérémie Lafraire, Institut Jean Nicod, France

16.45 Coffee Break

17.00 - 18.30 Plenary

• Title TBC
  Ray Monk, University of Southampton, UK

19.30 Dinner downtown

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SATURDAY 26 March

09.30 - 10.00 Coffee and Tea

10.00 Session III

• 'Doxastic responsibility – between belief and acceptance’
  Amir Konigsberg, Princeton University, USA, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10.45 Session IV

• ‘Hegel’s Mutual Recognition and the Development of Personal Identity’
  Stephen Hudson, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• ‘Intimate Habits: Connecting Self and Other?’
  Alex South, University of Glasgow, UK
• ‘The Narrative Self and the Body’
  Fiona Ennis, University College Cork, Ireland

12.45 - 13.45 Lunch

13.45 Session V

• ‘On the first step in a private language argument’
  Thomas Raleigh, King’s College, University of London, UK
• ‘Everybody Says ‘I’- A ‘Detectivist Story’ about the First-Person Perspective’
  Anna Ciaunica, University of Burgundy, France

15.00 - 15.15 Coffee Break

15.15 - 16.30 Session VI

• ‘The Alternative Definition of Privacy’
  Marc-André Weber, Neuchâtel University, Switzerland
• ‘The Case(s) of the Litigating Spies: Reputation, Privacy, and Respect’
  Juan Espindola-Mata, University of Michigan, USA

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Venue: The humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD campus.
For directions to the Institute, see here.

Registration is free, but places are limited, so please contact the conference organisers at: UCDgrad2011@gmail.com to reserve a place.