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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- The SUNY College at Oneonta will present its
thirteenth annual Undergraduate
Philosophy Conference on Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12, in
the Morris Conference Center on campus. The event attracts talented student
and faculty speakers from a broad spectrum of colleges and universities
throughout the United States. Admission to all presentations in the
conference is free, and members of the community are invited to attend.
This year's conference will feature keynote speaker Kah Kyung Cho, a
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo.
Professor Cho will invite participants to consider lessons they can learn
from Asian philosophy and culture in a presentation entitled "The Importance
of the Art of Living: Eco-ethics and the Art of Living in Harmony with
Nature" on Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Craven Lounge.
Conference activities will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Friday with four
concurrent presentations, including one by SUNY-Oneonta student Guy Schoettl,
who will present "Marx's Revolution that Was Not to Be, and the Problem of
Estrangement that It Leaves Behind: Analyzed, Explained, and Considered
through the Theories of Adorno." In later sessions at the conference,
SUNY-Oneonta student Michael Mesceda will present "Time's Broken Arrow: An
Examination of Time, Time Travel, and Temporal Paradox," and SUNY-Oneonta
student Jeremy Redlien will present "The Proper Place for Homosexuality in
the Doctrine of Creation and the Inherent Immorality of Discrimination."
At 11:15 a.m. on Friday, SUNY-Oneonta Philosophy Professor Ashok Malhotra
will lead a yoga session to introduce participants to the discipline and to
help create a relaxed atmosphere for the conference.
Conference sessions on Saturday will begin at 9 a.m. Presentations will
explore traditional areas of philosophy such as ethics, metaphysics, the
philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of science. Others will explore
controversial issues such as euthanasia, the no-child-left-behind policy,
homosexuality, pornography, and the existence of God.
In all, the conference will feature 30 papers presented by students from
colleges and universities throughout North America, including Brandeis
University, Temple University, the University of Hawaii, the United States
Military Academy, and the University of North Carolina.
All presenters were selected by blind review.
The conference will conclude with an awards banquet on Saturday
afternoon. For several years, the proceedings of the SUNY-Oneonta
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference have been collected and published by
Oneonta Philosophy Studies. The conference is sponsored by Oneonta
Philosophy Studies, the Philosophy Club, Student Association, and Ninash
Foundation.
More information about the conference is available from Dr. Douglas
Shrader, Chair of the SUNY-Oneonta
Philosophy Department,
at (607) 436-2456. A conference schedule and abstracts of accepted papers
are available at the conference's web site at www.oneonta.edu/pc
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