Guest Speakers

09:00 - 10:00

Opening

Ahmad-Hossein Sharifi
(Tehran) 09:00 - 10:00 (GMT) 05:30 - 6:30

 

 

10:00 - 11:00

Naturalizing “Aboutness”

Seyed N. Mousavian
(Tehran) 10:00–11:00 (GMT) 06:30–07:30

 

 

11:15 - 12:15

Becoming Naturalized

Aboutorab Yaghmaie
(Tehran) 11:15–12:15 (GMT) 07:45–08:45

 

 

13:30 - 14:30

Is Methodological Naturalism Justified?

Hamed Bikaraan-Behesht
(Tehran) 13:30–14:30 (GMT) 10:00–11:00

 

 

14:30 - 15:30

Value-ladenness of Science and Ethical Naturalism

Meysam Mohammad Amini
(Tehran) 14:30–15:30 (GMT) 11:00–12:00

 

 

15:45 - 16:45

The Early Greek Philosophers’ Physicalism from the Mystics’ and Illuminationists’ Point of View

Shahram Pazouki
(Tehran) 15:45–16:45 (GMT) 12:15–13:15

 

 

16:45 - 17:45

Can Science Challenge Philosophical Naturalism?

Zahra Zargar
(Tehran) 16:45–17:45 (GMT) 13:15–14:15

 

 

17:45 - 18:45

Plantinga on Naturalism and the Possibility of Knowledge

Narges Nazarnejad
(Tehran) 17:45–18:45 (GMT) 14:15–15:15

 

 

 

09:00 - 10:00

What Is Naturalism?

Graham Oppy
(Tehran) 09:00–10:00 (GMT) 05:30–06:30

 

 

10:00 - 11:00

Naturalizing Intelligence, Turing-Style

Diane Proudfoot
(Tehran) 10:00–11:00 (GMT) 06:30–07:30

 

 

11:15 - 12:15

Naturalizing Intellectualism: A Peircean Pragmatist Account

Cathy Legg
(Tehran) 11:15–12:15 (GMT) 07:45–08:45

 

 

13:30 - 14:30

Naturalism and Mathematics

Tim Williamson
(Tehran) 13:30–14:30 (GMT) 10:00–11:00

 

 

14:30 - 15:30

Naturalism and the Dissemination of Knowledge

Gary Kemp
(Tehran) 14:30–15:30 (GMT) 11:00–12:00

 

 

15:45 - 16:45

Must Atheists and Humanists Be Committed to Naturalism?

Stephen Law
(Tehran) 15:45–16:45 (GMT) 12:15–13:15

 

 

16:45 - 17:45

A Naturalistic Approach to Moral Epistemology

Hilary Kornblith
(Tehran) 16:45–17:45 (GMT) 13:15–14:15

 

 

18:00 - 19:00

Naturalizing Scientific Metaphysics: Epistemological Challenges

Anjan Chakravartty
(Tehran) 18:00–19:00 (GMT) 14:30–15:30

 

 

19:00 - 20:00

Nietzsche’s Naturalism

Brian Leiter
(Tehran) 19:00–20:00 (GMT) 15:30–16:30

 

 

 

09:00 - 10:00

Kripkenstein’s Monster is Alive and Well!

Alex Miller
(Tehran) 09:00–10:00 (GMT) 05:30–06:30

 

 

10:00 - 11:00

Naturalism – Why be Relaxed?

Daniel Hutto
(Tehran) 10:00–11:00 (GMT) 06:30–07:30

 

 

11:15 - 12:15

Against Perrin’s Embodied Causalism: Still No Evidence for the Necessity of Appropriate Causation

Kirk Michaelian
(Tehran) 11:15–12:15 (GMT) 07:45–08:45

 

 

13:30 - 14:30

Valence Asymmetries in Thick Terms

Isidora Stojanovic
(Tehran) 13:30–14:30 (GMT) 10:00–11:00

 

 

14:30 - 15:30

Propositional Attitudes and Normative Essences

Nick Zangwill
(Tehran) 14:30–15:30 (GMT) 11:00–12:00

 

 

15:45 - 16:45

Epistemology Radicalized

Quassim Cassam
(Tehran) 15:45–16:45 (GMT) 12:15–13:15

 

 

16:45 - 17:45

Normativity’s Challenge to Naturalism

Paul Boghossian
(Tehran) 16:45–17:45 (GMT) 13:15–14:15

 

 

18:00 - 19:00

Naturalism and the ‘Linguistic Turn’

Paul Horwich
(Tehran) 18:00–19:00 (GMT) 14:30–15:30

 

 

19:00 - 20:00

Naturalism and Tolerance

Peter Hylton
(Tehran) 19:00–20:00 (GMT) 15:30–16:30

 

 

20:00 - 21:00

What Sort of Naturalism Should We Pursue?

Helen Longino
(Tehran) 20:00–21:00 (GMT) 16:30–17:30

 

 

 

09:00 - 10:00

Judgment, Reasoning and Naturalism

Philip Pettit
(Tehran) 09:00–10:00 (GMT) 05:30–06:30

 

 

10:00 - 11:00

Naturalising the Philosophy of Time

Heather Dyke
(Tehran) 10:00–11:00 (GMT) 06:30–07:30

 

 

11:15 - 12:15

Making Responsible: The Shaping of Moral Capacities

Victoria McGeer
(Tehran) 11:15–12:15 (GMT) 07:45–08:45

 

 

13:30 - 14:30

Pragmatism as an Offshoot of Naturalism

Simon Blackburn
(Tehran) 13:30–14:30 (GMT) 10:00–11:00

 

 

14:30 - 15:30

Naturalistic Emergence

Stephen Mumford
(Tehran) 14:30–15:30 (GMT) 11:00–12:00

 

 

15:45 - 16:45

Norms, Normativity, and Naturalism

Anandi Hattiangadi
(Tehran) 15:45–16:45 (GMT) 12:15–13:15

 

 

16:45 - 17:45

Considerations on Naturalism

Peter Van Inwagen
(Tehran) 16:45–17:45 (GMT) 13:15–14:15

 

 

18:00 - 19:00

Quine and Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism

David Papineau
(Tehran) 18:00–19:00 (GMT) 14:30–15:30

 

 

19:00 - 20:00

Choosing Naturalism as a Starting Point

Daniel Dennett
(Tehran) 19:00–20:00 (GMT) 15:30–16:30

 

 

20:00 - 21:00

The Islamicization of Naturalism

Muhammad Legenhausen
(Tehran) 20:00–21:00 (GMT) 16:30–17:30

 

 

 

09:00 - 09:30

McDowellian Naturalism and Strong Emergence

Tony Cheng
(Tehran) 09:00–09:30 (GMT) 05:30–06:00

 

 

09:45 - 10:15

A Strong Emergentist View on Naturalism: A Unifying Picture Without Physicalism

Kerim Can Kıraç
(Tehran) 09:45–10:15 (GMT) 06:15–06:45

 

 

10:30 - 11:00

Why Naturalism Cannot (Merely) Be an Attitude

Thomas J. Spiegel
(Tehran) 10:30–11:00 (GMT) 07:00–07:30

 

 

11:30 - 12:00

What Does Lassie Know? Cognitive Ethology and Epistemic Games

Petar Nurkić
(Tehran) 11:30–12:00 (GMT) 08:00–08:30

 

 

12:15 - 12:45

Naturalism in Modern European Philosophy of the 17th and 18th Centuries

Tomasz Stefaniuk
(Tehran) 12:15–12:45 (GMT) 08:45–09:15

 

 

13:00 - 13:30

MIND THE GAP: The Explanatory Gap and the Promise of Applied Phenomenology in the Cognitive Sciences

Jessica D. Bicking
(Tehran) 13:00–13:30 (GMT) 09:30–10:00

 

 

15:00 - 15:30

The Confutation of the “Pure Nature" System

Franco Manni
(Tehran) 15:00–15:30 (GMT) 11:30–12:00

 

 

15:45 - 16:15

Neither Individuals nor Relations? A Criticism of Ontic Structural Realism from a Naturalistic Stance

Justin Peterson Holder
(Tehran) 15:45–16:15 (GMT) 12:15–12:45

 

 

16:30 - 17:00

Why Must an Adequate Naturalism Accommodate Substantial Normative Notions?

Ozer Turker
(Tehran) 16:30–17:00 (GMT) 13:00–13:30

 

 

17:30 - 18:00

Introducing Nietzsche’s Naturalized Metaphysics

Justin Remhof
(Tehran) 17:30–18:00 (GMT) 14:00–14:30

 

 

18:15 - 18:45

Theoretical Virtue in Science and Metaphysics: A Proposal for Naturalized Metaphysics

Mousa Mohammadian
(Tehran) 18:15–18:45 (GMT) 14:45–15:15

 

 

19:00 - 19:30

Moore’s Open Question Argument and Intension-Extension Conflation

Omid Karimzadeh
(Tehran) 19:00–19:30 (GMT) 15:30–16:00