Dear all,

I am pleased to invite you to a book symposium on Matt Duncan’s Present to the Mind: Acquaintance and Its Significance, which will take place on August 10, 2024 at the University of Fribourg (Room MIS 10 01.04).

Matt Duncan will briefly present five chapters of his forthcoming book, and each presentation will be followed by a comment and a Q&A.

Here is the programme:

9:00–10:00: Chapter 3, “Strong Acquaintance Exists”
Discussant: Bruno Cortesi

10:15–11:15: Chapter 5, “Awareness is Knowledge”
Discussant: Roberto Keller

11:30–12:30: Chapter 6, “What is Knowledge of Things?”
Discussant: Davide Bordini

12:30–14:00: Lunch break

14:15–15:15: Chapter 8, “Acquaintance is Aesthetically Significant”
Discussant: Alessandro de Cesaris

15:30–16:30: Chapter 9, “Acquaintance is Emotionally Significant”
Discussant: Isabel Kaeslin

If you’d like to participate and receive the chapters we’ll discuss, please send me an email at:
sharon.casu@unifr.ch.