Mississippi Philosophical Association Annual Conference

Mississippi State’s Department of Philosophy and Religion is hosting the Mississippi Philosophical Association’s annual conference Saturday-Sunday [Feb. 9-10] at The Mill at MSU in Starkville. Free and open to the public, this year’s event features two keynote speakers—Paul C. Taylor, the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, and Michael Kremer, the Mary R. Morton Professor of Philosophy and Department of Philosophy chair at the University of Chicago. At 4 p.m. Saturday, Taylor will discuss “The Influence of Dewey on Race Theory (and Other Ways to Do Things with History).” On Sunday, Kremer will give a 4 p.m. presentation titled “‘Animals, Infants and Idiots’: The Exclusion of Intellectual Disability in Gilbert Ryle’s Philosophy of Mind.” Click the link below for more information.