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SUNY-Oneonta
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

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Preliminary Program

Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in the Morris Conference Center.
To view individual abstracts, click on the participant's name.

Friday, March 31
 

11:00 am - 1:00 pm	Registration and Opening Reception (Morris Conference Center Lobby)
1:00 - 2:00 pm	Special Presentation:
	Yoga:  A Philosophical Demonstration and Guided Meditation
	Ashok Malhotra (SUNY Oneonta)
2:15 - 4:15 pm	Session I: Philosophy and the Public Realm
	Malinda Foster The Silence of Philosophy in Crito's Exhortation (Plato's Crito) University of Michigan, Dearborn
	Katherine Collins Arendt, Heidegger, and the Decline of the Public Realm University of Massachusetts, Lowell
	Tamara Johnson Political Noise and Vociferous Silence: Heidegger and Nazism Binghamton University
4:30 - 6:30 pm	Session II: Language Games
	John Kaag  The Mask Unmasked: The Role of Hypocrisy in the Dialectic  of Thus Spoke Zarathustra Penn State University
	Andrew Wilson The Nature of Language: Public and Private Macalester College
	Zachary Haines Wittgenstein and Naturalism Macalester College
6:30 - 7:30 pm	Dinner (Otsego Grill, Morris Conference Center)
7:30 - 9:00 pm	Keynote Address:
	Pragmatism and the Future of Confucianism in China
	Joanna Crosby (Morgan State University)
9:00 - 11:00 pm	Reception (Le Cafe)

Saturday, April 1
 

9:00 - 10:00 am	Breakfast (Bacon Activity Center)
10:00 am - Noon	Session III: Ethics: Theory and Practice
	Rachel Houchins Feminine Ethical Theories: Their Validity Tested East Tennessee State University
	Seyra Ahmed The Practice of Physician Assisted Suicide Supported by Kantian Ethics Virginia Commonwealth University
	Michael Alan Payne A Father's Rights in Abortion: Proof That He Has A Say Virginia Commonwealth University
12:00 - 1:30 pm	Lunch (Bacon Activity Center)
1:30 - 3:30 pm	Concurrent Session
	A. Freedom, Happiness, and the Human Condition
	Christine M. Cinquino The Exhilarating Freedom! Hope in Existentialism St. Vincent College
	Malinda Foster The Problem of Happiness in Nietzsche's "Use and Abuse of History" University of Michigan, Dearborn
	Eric Bergmann  The Extraordinary: Movements in Dostoevsky and Nietzsche  Binghamton University
	B. Truth and Beauty
	Scott M. Gleason  Towards a Processean Aesthetics Within a Whiteheadean Metaphysics SUNY Potsdam/Crane School of Music
	Iain Tucker Brown On the Event of Truth: A Discussion of Art, Truth and The Primal Conflict in Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" St. Mary's College of Maryland
	Jason Baumgarth Tradition and Modern Meaning: Society and Relative Truth University of Minnesota, Duluth
3:45 - 5:15 pm	Concurrent Session
	A. Multiple Perspectives: The Search for Common Gound
	Erin Cline Incommensurabilty, Normative Vices, and the Comparative Language Game: A Wittgensteinian Model for Comparative Philosophy Belmont University
	Katherine Collins The Environmental Crisis Through a Buddhist Perspective University of Massachusetts, Lowell
	B. Knowing Whereof We Speak: Language, Experience, and Truth
	Jayson A. White Religious and Non-Religious Language, and Propositions About Human Rights Iowa State University
	Justin C. Maaia The Experience and Expression of Truth Suffolk University
5:30 - 7:00 pm	Keynote Address:
	Whose Rights? Whose Democracy?
	A Confucian Critique of Modern Western Liberalism
	Henry Rosemont, Jr. (Saint Mary's College of Maryland)
7:00 - 8:30 pm	Awards Dinner (Le Cafe)

 

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