Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Schedule
Friday, April 18
- Registration and Opening Reception
- Philosophy of Science Fiction
- Brave New World: The Use of Novel Language in Creating the Gender-Freed Utopian Culture of Feminist Science Fiction
- The Destruction of the Death Star: An Ethical Argument
- Asian and Comparative Philosophy
- Between Eastern and Western Thought:
- The Paradigm of Emptiness:
- Parallels Between Near-Death Experiences
- Dinner (6:00 - 7:30 p.m. -- Otsego Grill)
- Tibetan Buddhism (7:30 - 9:00 p.m. -- Denison Activity Room)
(2:00 - 2:30 p.m. -- Morris Conference Center, Craven Lounge)
(2:30 - 4:00 p.m. -- Craven Lounge)
Justina Williams
SUNY-Oneonta
Nathan Smith and Tiffany Streeter
SUNY-Oneonta
(4:00 - 6:00 p.m. -- Craven Lounge)
Individuation in a Western Setting
John R. Hartmann
Alfred University
A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra
Daniel Bristol
SUNY-Oneonta
and Mystical Experiences
Justin Mandel
SUNY-Oneonta
Lecture, Demonstration, and Guided Meditation
Lama Karma Tsultrim Gyamtso
(Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery -- Woodstock, NY)
- Continental Breakfast
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
- Rational Systematic Thought: Aristotle and Ancient Culture
- Evolution of the One During the Early Medieval Period:
- Inversion of Fate: Boethius' Philosophy From Within
- Knowing and Saying: Philosophy of Language
- The Nature of Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias
- Discussing an Education, as Found in the Phaedrus
- Existence Communication and the Arbitrary Nature of Language
- Lunch (12:00 - 1:00 p.m. -- Morris 104)
- Knowing and Being
- On the Priority of the Epistemic Issues
- Understanding Consciousness
- Surface Spectral Reflectance and Color Objectivisim
- Being and Becoming
- An Alternative Trope Theory of Events
- Nietzsche and the Eternal Recurrence
- Ethics: Aristotle and Kant
- Two Meanings of "Good" in Aristotle's Ethics
- The Possibility of Permissible Suicide Within Kant's Ethical Theory
- Emotions, Gender, and Kantian Morality
- Keynote Address (5:00 - 6:00 p.m. -- Craven Lounge)
- Awards Ceremony (6:00 - 6:30 p.m. -- Craven Lounge)
- Dinner and Closing Reception
(9:30 - 10:00 a.m. -- Morris 104)
(10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. -- Craven Lounge)
John F. Velona
Marymount University
Plotinus to Proclus
David Schaaf
SUNY-Oneonta
David Hodge
SUNY-Buffalo
(10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. -- Morris 103)
Anna Christina Ribeiro
Hunter College (CUNY)
Kevin Goetz
SUNY-Oneonta
Jeffrey F. Dueck
Nyack College
(1:00 - 3:00 p.m. -- Craven Lounge)
to the Metaphysical Issues of Realism
Darin Somma
Virginia Tech
Albert Castelo
Hunter College (CUNY)
Christopher O'Callahan
Rutgers University
(1:00 - 3:00 p.m. -- Morris 103)
David Miguel Gray
Columbia University
David Morgan Svolba
Salisbury State University
(3:00 - 5:00 p.m. -- Craven Lounge)
Ian Cashman
Marymount University
Paul Nguyen
Harvard University
Emily D. Porter
Vassar College
Philosophy and Gender: A First-Person View
Hazel E. Barnes (University of Colorado)
(6:30 - 8:00 p.m. -- Otsego Grill and Craven Lounge)
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