April 16-17, 2004 All activities take place in the  Morris Conference Center. To view individual abstracts , click on the participant's name.

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Friday, April 16

8:00 am --	Registration Table Open (Front Lobby)
9:30 - 11:15 am	Philosophy: Before and After College
	Matthew J. Roberts       Teaching Philosophy to High School Students      DePaul University (Chicago, IL)
	Daniel Bristol (1999 Alumnus)      Messages From the Bottom: Reflections on Life's School of War      SUNY Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)      Discussant: Sandra Finn (SUNY Oneonta, 2003 Alumna)
	Christopher D. Rodkey (1999 Alumnus)      Is Community Possible in Edmund Husserl      and Edith Stein's Phenomenology of Empathy?      Drew University (Madison, NJ)      Discussant: David Schaaf (Binghamton University, 1998 Alumnus)
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 - 3:00 pm	Session I: Moral Responsibility
	Laura Gillespie      Transcending the Individual:      Moral Responsibility and the Interconnected Self      Simmons College (Boston, MA)      Discussant: Heather Mills (Wheaton College)
	Sean Cummings       Animal Liberation: A Critique of Singer's Argument      SUNY Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)       Discussant: Rosanna Higgins (SUNY Potsdam)
3:15 - 4:30 pm	Session II : Asian Philosophy
	Tamar Christmas       Similarities Between Confucius and Aristotle      Morgan State University (Baltimore, MD)       Discussant: Megan McClune (SUNY Oneonta)
	Ted Fox       Zhuangzi, Kierkegaard and Evolutionary Psychology      Belmont University (Nashville, TN)       Discussant: Daniel Bristol (SUNY Oneonta)
4:45 - 6:00 pm	Sessions III .Aand III. B  (Concurrent Sessions)
	A.   Minds and Machines
	Nathan Ballantyne      A Defense of Nozick's "Experience Machine"      University of Toronto (Toronto, CANADA)       Discussant: George Wade (SUNY Potsdam)
	Jeffrey Myers       Hacking as a Focal Practice in the World of Disposable Devices       Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)       Discussant: Desiree Stisi (SUNY Oneonta)
	B. Social and Political Philosophy
	Mario Andres Blanco       Christiano and Hobbes: On the Same Side After All      Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)      Discussant: Constantine Anastasakis (SUNY Oneonta)
	Peter Faben      Wither Determinism:      Marx and the Philosophy of Internal Relations      SUNY Cortland (Cortland, NY)       Discussant: Malcolm Hardy (SUNY Oneonta)
6:00 - 7:30 pm	President's Banquet (Otsego Grille, Morris Conference Center)
7:30 - 9:00 pm	Keynote Address:
	Music and Political Identity
	Kathleen M. Higgins - University of Texas (Austin, TX)
9:00 - 11:00 pm	President's Reception (Le Cafe)

Saturday, April 17

8:30 - 9:15 am	Breakfast (Room 104)
9:15 - 10:30 am	Session IV: Nietzsche
	Matthew J. Roberts       Testing the Human Limits: Nietzsche, Genealogy      and the Necessity for Self-Overcoming       DePaul University (Chicago, IL)       Discussant: David Joseph Burns (DePaul University)
	Jacob W. Skinner      Nietzsche and Adorno's Identity Thinking      University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH)      Discussant: Elizabeth Kent (SUNY Oneonta)
10:45 - 12:30 pm	Sessions V. A and V. B (Concurrent Sessions)
	A.   Mental States
	Anthony C. Russo       Dreaming and Knowing      Salisbury University (Salisbury, MD)       Discussant: Stefan Shirley (SUNY Oneonta)
	Heather Mills       Jackson and Nagel on Consciousness      Wheaton College (Norton, MA)       Discussant: George Wade (SUNY Potsdam)
	Jennifer Lunsford       Afraid of the Dark:      Nagel and Rationalizing the Fear of Death      Hartwick College ( Oneonta, NY )       Discussant: Peter Laffin (SUNY Oneonta)
	B.  Time and Space
	Jeffrey Engelhardt      Persistence and Language in Heraclitus' 'Psuche'      Saint Peter's College (Jersey City, NJ)       Discussant: Benjamin James Murdock (SUNY Potsdam)
	Andrew Moon       Time, Divine Eternity, and the Problem of Creation      Ohio State University (Colombus, OH)       Discussant: Richard Weiner (SUNY Oneonta)
	Marcello Antosh       Remarkable and Unremarkable Worlds      New York University (New York, NY)       Discussant: Stephen Kuzminski (Saint Peter's College)
12:30 - 1:30 pm	Lunch
2:00 - 3:15 pm	Sessions VI .A and VI .B(Concurrent Sessions)
	A.  Philosophy of Religion
	Ryan Stohlman       The Relationship of Philosophy and Theology      in the Works of Thomas Aquinas      Marymount University (Arlington, VA)       Discussant: Robert Axisa (SUNY Oneonta)
	Nick Kasatkin       Hick's "Irenaean Theodicy":      A Theistic Account of Evil at Last?      Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)      Discussant: Bobby Anfang (SUNY Oneonta)
	B.  Epistemology
	Andrew Blaine      Plato's Theaetetus: A Lesson in Philosophy       SUNY Potsdam (Potsdam, NY)       Discussant: John R. Finley (SUNY Oneonta)
	Cesar Estela       The Causal Connection in Knowledge:       Alvin Goldman's "A Causal Theory of Knowing"      Seton Hall University (South Orange, NJ)      Discussant: Mark Himmelstein (SUNY Oneonta)
3:30 - 5:15 pm	Session VII: Freedom, Gender, and Emotion
	Joshua Duclos       Freedom and Foreknowledge:      Redescribing Divine Omniscience      Connecticut College (New London, CT)       Discussant: Matthew Roberts (DePaul University)
	Matthew Landis      Towards a Hermeneutics of Gender      Richard Stockton College of NJ (Pomona, NJ)       Discussant: T.J. Natole (SUNY Oneonta)
	Josephe Michael Vincent      Emotions: Expression, Responsibility and Self-Control       University of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI)         Discussant: Robin Weiss (SUNY Purchase)
5:30 - 7:00 pm	Keynote Address:
	The Politics of Emotion
	Robert C. Solomon - University of Texas (Austin, TX)
7:00 - 9:00 pm	Awards Banquet (Otsego Grille, Morris Conference Center)

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