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Past Conferences

2007

The Philosophy Department of the Ohio State University cooperates with the University of Maribor (Slovenia) and the University of Rijeka (Croatia) to sponsor an annual philosophy conference at the Inter University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia. This conference is by invitation only.

Specific topics of the conferences vary but in recent years there has been a practice of alternating between a conference focused on problems in metaphysics and epistemology and one focused on issued in moral philosophy. The conference theme for 2007 is epistemology and metaphysics, and the history of these subjects in the early modern period. For these purposes, early modern is construed to include Kant and Thomas Reid.

Conference participants for 2007 include: Louise Antony (Massachusetts), Karen Bennett (Princeton), Hartry Field (NYU), Elizabeth Fricker (Oxford), Mark Hinchliff (Reed), Thomas Hofweber (North Carolina), Sukjae Lee (Ohio State), Janet Levin (Southern California), Joe Levine (Massachusetts), Fraser McBride (Birkbeck College, London), Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers), Nenad Miscevic (Maribor), George Pappas (Ohio State), David Sanson (Ohio State), Larry Shapiro (Wisconsin), Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State), Ted Sider (Rutgers), Sidney Shoemaker (Cornell), William Taschek (Ohio State), Deborah Tollefsen (Memphis), Gabriel Uzquiano (Oxford), and Michael Watkins (Auburn). Dubrovnik is a beautiful city on the Dalmatian coast in Croatia. For more information on Dubrovnik, go to the Information for Current Participants page.

2006

The 2006 OSU/Maribor/Rijeka Conference in Dubrovnik will be in moral philosophy, focusing on the theme of "Regulating Attitudes with Reasons." Conference participants included: Michael Bratman (Stanford), John Broome (Oxford), Ruth Chang (Rutgers), Zac Cogley (OSU), Justin D'Arms (OSU), Dan Farrell (OSU), Allan Gibbard (Michigan), Barbara Herman (UCLA), Pam Hieronymi (UCLA), Don Hubin (OSU), Nadeem Hussain (Stanford), Dan Jacobson (Bowling Green), Karen Jones (Melbourne), Friderik Klampfer (Maribor), Niko Kolodny (Berkeley), Victoria McGeer (Princeton), David Merli (Franklin and Marshall), Nenad Miscevic (Maribor/Budapest), Philip Pettit (Princeton), Matjaž Potrc (Ljubljana), Geoff Sayre-McCord (UNC/Chapel Hill), Tim Scanlon (Harvard), Nishi Shah (Amherst), Seana Shiffrin (UCLA), Tommie Shelby (Harvard), and Sigrun Svavarsdottir (OSU).
Photographs from the 2006 Conference

2005

In 2005, the Conference included papers by: Louise Antony (OSU), Boran Bercic (Riyeka), Elizabeth Fricker (Oxford), David Henderson (Memphis), Noa Latham (Calgary), Janet Levin (USC), Joseph Levine (OSU), Ausonio Marras (Western Ontario), Brian McGlaughlin (Rutgers), Bill Melanson (OSU), George Pappas (OSU), Snježana Prijic -Samaržija (Riyeka), Bill Roche (OSU), Bruce Russell (Wayne State), and Joshua Smith (OSU).
Photographs from the 2005 Conference.

2003

The Conference series was suspended through the rest of the 1990s due to the conflict in Croatia. In 2003, Ohio State University with the University of Maribor and the University of Rijeka rekindled the conference series. Participants in the 2003 OSU/Maribor/Rijeka Conference included: Louise Antony (OSU), Boran Bercic (Rijeka), Alex Byrne (MIT), Friderik Klampfer (Maribor), Joseph Levine (OSU), Johann Marek (Graz), Sarah McGrath (Brandeis), Nenad Miscevic (Maribor/Budapest), George Pappas (OSU), Matjaž Potrc (Ljubljana), Georges Rey (Maryland), William Taschek (OSU), Michael Watkins (Auburn), and Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford).

1989 & 1991

The first OSU/Maribor/Rijeka Conference in Dubrovnik occurred in 1989 and a second was held two years later. These early conferences focused on issues in metaphysics and epistemology with participants such as: Marshall Swain (OSU), Kathleen Wilkes (Kentucky), Alvin Goldman (Rutgers), Simon Blackburn (Cambridge), Richard Feldman (Rochester), David Owens (Cambridge), David Sanford (Duke), Jay Rosenberg (North Carolina), John Biro (Florida), Jonathan Vogel (Amherst), Ausonio Marras (Western Ontario), Zuzana Paruskinova, Petr Kotatko (Czech Academy of Sciences), Josep Corbi (Valencia), Robert Almeder (Georgia State), Joe Tolliver (Arizona), Ray Elugardo (Oklahoma), Nenad Miscevic (Maribor/Budapest), Johann Marek (Graz), Matjaž Potrc (Ljubljana), Terry Horgan (Arizona), and Georges Rey (Maryland, College Park).