BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230607T140829Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230615 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230617 SUMMARY:Open Minds XVI UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}z1h2-lh99tb qq-t69nin DESCRIPTION:\nOpen Minds is a two-day conference which offers graduate st udents working in all areas of philosophy the chance to present their wo rk and gain feedback in a welcoming and friendly environment. With two p arallel workshop streams running throughout the two days – ‘Applied Phil osophy’ and ‘Theoretical Philosophy’ - the conference seeks contribution s from all areas of philosophy. Our goal is to provide a forum for discu ssing work in philosophy by aspiring philosophers at both Masters and Ph D stages in their careers. From this\, we hope that all who attend devel op valuable philosophical skills and working relationships with other ea rly stage philosophers. To this end we also run two workshop sessions\, one related to career advice and publishing\, and the other on tackling challenges of PhD life.\n\nOpen Minds XVI is generously funded by the So ciety for Applied Philosophy\, the Aristotelian Society\, Analysis Trust \, and the University of Manchester Philosophy Department.\n\n\nLOCATION :\nUniversity of Manchester\, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building\, Ro oms G6 & G7\, Oxford Road\, M13 9PL\n\n\n\nKEYNOTE SPEAKERS:\n\nDr Lucy McDondald\, Philosophy at St. John’s College\, University of Cambridge\n \nTitle: The Intimacy and Abuse\n\nAbstract:\nThough there is considerab le work on neighbouring phenomena like love and friendship\, intimacy it self\, especially intimate interaction\, has been relatively neglected i n analytic philosophy. This is lamentable\, given intimacy’s moral\, pol itical\, and legal significance. In this talk\, I take on two tasks. Fir st\, I offer an account of intimate interaction\, arguing that in an int imate interaction we believe we are seeing another person’s ‘backstage’ self\, and/or that they are seeing ours. Second\, I suggest that a bette r understanding of intimacy will\, perhaps surprisingly\, help us better understand certain forms of wrongdoing\, most notably sexual violence. Sexual violence is wrong for several familiar reasons: it is a violation of the victim’s autonomy\, it causes considerable physical and emotiona l harm\, and it often serves to reinforce oppressive social structures. Yet it is also\, I will argue\, a distinctively intimate kind of wrongdo ing\, which strikes at the victim’s very sense of self. \n\n\nDr Mohamma d Saleh Zarepour\, Department of Philosophy\, University of Manchester\n \nTitle: Intentionality Reconsidered\n\nAbstract: \nI develop and defend an account of mental intentionality—aboutness or directedness—on which all of the following theses are true: (1) Primitivism: Intentionality is a primitive concept\, unanalysable to more basic concepts. Intentionali ty is a conceptually primitive property of our mental states/acts. (2) R elationalism: Intentionality is a relation. To be in an intentional stat e is to bear a specific relation to something (i.e.\, the state's object ). So\, if a mental state has no existing object\, it is not intentional . (3) Anti-Disjunctivism (or the Common Factor View): Empty and non-empt y states of the mind share some common elements.\n\n\nPROGRAMME:\nFor a full programme please follow this link: https://docs.google.com/document /d/19jZNL1VDUY2yx6Ia6YJvFvHGhqnebwNA/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=1155851176504 78922023&rtpof=true&sd=true\n\nREGISTRATION:\nAttendance is free. To reg ister please follow the Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ open-minds-xvi-tickets-159846841205 \n\n\nABOUT KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:\n\nDr Lucy McDonald is a Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. John’s Co llege\, University of Cambridge. Dr. McDonald works mainly on philosophy of language\, ethics\, and feminist philosophy – in particular on respo nsibility\, blame\, theory of speech acts. She has published in various important journals on these subjects. She also engages with many contemp orary issues which demand philosophical investigations. Over the last fe w years\, Manchester has become progressively interested in issues relat ing to the history of political\, especially in feminist philosophy. Her presence will be welcomed by current postgraduate students. Interesting ly\, she has herself been a postgraduate presenter in the Open Minds in the year 2016.\n\nDr. Mohammad Saleh Zarepour is a Lecturer in Philosoph y at the University of Manchester. He is an associate member of the Glob al Philosophy of Religion Project at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Birmingham\, where he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. He is also on the editorial boards of Logic\, Epistemology\, and the Un ity of Science (a Springer book series)\, and Religious Studies (a CUP j ournal). He works primarily in medieval Islamic philosophy\, philosophy of religion\, philosophy of language\, philosophy of mathematics\, and p hilosophy of logic. He has recently published the book Necessary Existen ce and Monotheism: An Avicennian Account of the Islamic Conception of Di vine Unity (CUP\, 2022). Dr. Zarepour is an engaging speaker whom we bel ieve will deliver a fascinating and entertaining keynote lecture. We are also keen to support him as an early career researcher and a new member of the department at Manchester.\n\n\n\nACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\nPhy sical Access: the venue for the event (Humanities Bridgeford Street) is accessible\, but please contact the organisers if you have any specific questions or needs relating to access. We are happy to provide detailed routes and photos of the venue in advance to help with planning your tri p\, and will do what we can to facilitate specific access requests advis ed in advance. For more information on venue accessibility more generall y\, including parking information for blue badge holders\, please visit the UoM website: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/connect/jobs/disabled-appli cants/travel-and-accessibility/.\n\nGeneral: the organising committee ar e committed to providing a supportive and welcoming environment at this and each future workshop. Anyone is free to leave the conference room at any time for any reason\, and a quiet room will be available during the event. If you have any other access requirements\, in terms of equipmen t\, reading materials\, or any other aspect that will help facilitate yo ur attendance and / or ability to present\, please let us know either on your cover note\, or when accepting an offer to present / registering t o attend.\n\n\nPOLICY:\nPhilosophy at the University of Manchester subsc ribes to the British Philosophical Association (BPA) / Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Good Practice Scheme\, and we also have a policy c overing conduct at all of our events\, which our conference will adhere to: http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/philosophy/connect/events /events-policy/.\n\nBefore the conference\, all the organisers will be b riefed on the BPA / SWIP Guidelines for Accessible Conferences and BPA / SWIP Seminar Chairing Suggestions. In addition to this\, at the beginni ng of each session\, all conference attendees will be reminded of our se minar conduct policy.\n STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:G6 & G7\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR