Announcement of the Chambers Philosophy Conference Series:

The department is pleased to announce a new series of conferences, The Chambers Philosophy Conference Series. This conference series is made possible by the generous gifts to the department of Robert R. Chambers. The department is also grateful for support for this conference series from the College of Arts and Sciences.

The first conference in this series is the 2nd Annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop . Organized by Al Casullo, this conference is scheduled for October 17-18, 2008. Participants include:

Mike Bergmann, Purdue

Brit Brogaard, Missouri-St.Louis/ANU

Tyler Burge, UCLA, keynote

Juan Comesaña, Wisconsin

Andy Egan, Michigan

Adam Leite, Indiana

Peter Markie, Missouri

Jonathan Weinberg, Indiana

Additional information is available at the Conference Website.

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The second conference in this series is Epistemic Modals . It is being organized by Janice Dowell and John Gibbons and is planned for the spring of 2010. Participants include:

Keith DeRose, Yale

Thony Gillies, University of Michigan

Kai von Fintel, MIT

Angelika Kratzer , University of Massachusetts-Amherst

John MacFarlane, UC-Berkeley

Robert Stalnaker, MIT

Eric Swanson, University of Michigan

The third conference in this series is Epistemology . It is being organized by David Henderson and is planned for the 2010-1 academic year.

The fourth conference in this series is Ethics . It is being organized by Joe Mendola, David Sobel, and Mark van Roojen. It is planned for the 2011-2 academic year.

Further conferences in this series are anticipated.