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2026 USC-UCLA Graduate Conference in Philosophy
April 18 @ 10:00 am - 5:50 pm
Saturday, April 18, 2026
UCLA, Royce Hall 314
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Join us for the 2026 USC-UCLA Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy happening on Saturday, April 18, 2026 at UCLA, Royce Hall, Room 314!
The USC-UCLA Graduate Student Conference began in 2006. Each year, the graduate students of the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles solicit high-quality papers in all areas of philosophy from graduate students studying at other departments to be presented at the annual conference.
This year’s keynote address will be given by Julia Staffel (University of Colorado, Boulder), whose talk is titled, “The Planning Fallacy and the Agent’s Perspective.”
Conference Program
Graduate Student Talks: 25 minutes for talk, 5 minutes for commentary, 5 minutes for a reply, 15 minutes for Q&A
10:00 – 10:55: “Innocent Apologies,” Ilya Shemmer (New York University)
11:00 – 11:55: “On inquiring lovingly: A Murdochian account,” Lepei Liu (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
12:00 – 1:20: Lunch (provided)
1:30 – 2:25: “What My Future Beliefs Should Be About,” Konstantinos M. Konstantinou (Stanford University)
2:30 – 3:25: “The Epistemic Rationality of Grit,” Jingzhi Chen (McGill University)
4:00 – 5:50: Keynote Address given by Julia Staffel (Boulder): “The Planning Fallacy and the Agent’s Perspective”
Dinner (for invited speakers and conference organizers) will be held at 6:30 after the conference.
For any questions, please contact uscucla.conference@gmail.com
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