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SUNY Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
March 28-29, 2003

Program

All activities take place in the 
Morris Conference Center.
To view individual abstracts , click on the participant's name.
Friday, March 28
 
9:00 am --  Registration Table Open (Front Lobby)
10:00 - 11:15 am Twelve Reasons for Doing Philosophy in High School
Roundtable Discussion with Cooperstown High School Students
11:30 - 12:30 pm Featured Presentation:
     Yoga:  A Philosophical Demonstration 
     and Guided Meditation
     Ashok Malhotra (SUNY Oneonta)
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:45 - 3:45 pm Session I: The Problem of Evil
John A. Houston
     The Trials of Job: A Personal Reflection on an Existential Problem
     Campion College (San Francisco, CA)
     Discussant: Jim Wheeler (SUNY Oneonta)
Meghan J. Clark 
     The Metaphysical Problem of Evil
     Fordham University (Bronx, NY) 
     Discussant: Christopher Collins (SUNY Oneonta)
Allen S. Gehring
     An Edwardsean Response to the Problem of Horrendous Evils 
     Cedarville University (Cedarville, OH) 
     Discussant: 
4:00 - 6:00 pm Session II (Concurrent Session)
A.  Epistemology
Thomas Henthorn 
     Overcoming Objectivism
     Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)
     Discussant: John LeRoux (SUNY Oneonta)
Melissa Kozak 
     The Inevitability of Skepticism
     SUNY Oneonta (Oneonta, NY) 
     Discussant: Brian Berner (SUNY New Paltz)
Jason Hills 
     Normative Values in Contextualism
     Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)
     Discussant: 
B.  Classic Issues: Aristotle, Anselm, and Kierkegaard 
Zina Semenovskaya
     A Critical Review of Aristotle's Arguments 
     for the Eternity of the Universe 
     Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ) 
     Discussant: Andrew Marder (SUNY Potsdam)
Mark Bernier
     The Possibility of St. Anselm
     Rhode Island College (Providence, RI) 
     Discussant: Ann McSpedon (SUNY Oneonta)
Laura Stewart 
     Kierkegaard: A Fairytale of Himself 
     Belmont University (Nashville, TN) 
     Discussant: Kevin Guthrie (SUNY Oneonta)
6:00 - 7:30 pm President's Banquet (Otsego Grille, Morris Conference Center)
7:30 - 9:00 pm Keynote Address: 
     Revising Nature: Thoreau's Work in the Maine Woods
     Judy Schaaf - University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
9:00 - 11:00 pm Reception (Le Cafe) 

Saturday, March 29
 
8:30 - 10:00 am Breakfast (Room 112) 
10:00 - 12:00 noon  Session III: Ethics
Richard Morel 
     Snythesia Ethica, or Johnson’s Amoral Ethical Theory 
     Webster University (St. Louis, MO) 
     Discussant: John Finley (SUNY Oneonta)
John Kane
     Kantian Imagination in a Moral Framework
     Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY)
     Discussant: Andrew Hao (Columbia University)
Sandra Finn 
     Please Call it Euthanasia 
     SUNY Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)
     Discussant: George Wade (SUNY Potsdam)
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch (Room 112) 
1:30 - 3:00 pm Session IV (Concurrent Session)
A.  Art, Beauty, and Experience
Brett Bodemer 
     Haiku: Here’s Looking at You
     University of Hawaii (Manoa, HI) 
     Discussant: Sandra Finn (SUNY Oneonta)
Adam Koropatkin 
     Behold This
     Eastern Connecticut State University (Williamantic, CT)
     Discussant: Frances Bottenberg (SUNY Potsdam)
B.  Philosophy of Science
Jack Marsh
     The Status of Science in Social Discourse 
     University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)
     Discussant: Elizabeth Kent (SUNY Oneonta)
Jonathan Price 
     To Whom Did You Grant the Paradigm, Mr. Kuhn? 
     A Re-Reading of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure
     Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA)
     Discussant: Jonathan Alexander (SUNY Oneonta)
3:15 - 5:15 pm Session V: Power, Identity, and Social Order
Peter Faben
     You vs. Me: Opposi(ng)tional Identities and Movements of Resistance 
     SUNY Cortland (Cortland, NY) 
     Discussant: Rachel Anderson (SUNY Oneonta)
Andrew Hao
     From Suspicion to the Repressive Hypothesis: 
     The Structure of Power and Object in Foucault’s 
     Madness and Civilization and The History of Sexuality: Volume I
     Columbia University (New York, NY) 
     Discussant: Justin Donhauser (SUNY Oneonta)
Emily McRae 
     Moism and Western Philosophy: Altruism vs. Egoism 
     Union College (Schenectady, NY) 
     Discussant: Brett Bodemer (University of Hawaii )
5:30 - 7:00 pm   Keynote Address: 
     Media, Attention, and the Colonization of Consciousness: 
     A Buddhist Perspective
     Peter Hershock - East-West Center, University of Hawaii
7:00 - 9:00 pm  Awards Banquet (Otsego Grille, Morris Conference Center)

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