Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Tentative Schedule
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Friday, April 3
- Registration and Opening Reception (1:30 - 2:00 p.m.)
- Science, Religion, and Human Values (2:00 - 4:00 p.m.)
- Science vs. The Cosmological and Teleological Arguments for the Existence of God
- More Human Than Human: A Critique of Life at the Margins
- Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Moral-Legal Tensions
- It's About Time (2:00 - 4:00 p.m.)
- Temporal Incongruity in Zeno of Elea and its Philosophical Consequences
- The Representative Theory of Memory: A Basic Exegesis of Hobbes, Locke and Hume
- An Explanation and Commentary of W. H. Walsh's Analytical Theory of Historical Knowledge
- Poetry and Metaphor (4:00 - 6:00 p.m.)
- The Thinker as Poet
- Poetry, Time, and the In Between
- Nietzsche's Use of Metaphor
- Moral Knowledge (4:00 - 6:00 p.m.)
- On the Impossibility of Deriving Moral Import Solely From Reason
- Counter-Intuitive Ethics
- Can a Utopia for the Masses Ever Exit?
- Conference Dinner (6:00 - 7:30 p.m.) -- reservations required
- Featured Presentation (8:00 - 9:00 p.m.)
- Friday Evening Social (9:00 - 11:00 p.m.)
Fritz Allhoff
William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA)
Neal D. Carlson
United States Military Academy (West Point, NY)
Yelena Paranyuk
Adelphi University (Garden City, NY)
Jeffrey M.J. Murphy
Xavier University (Cincinnati, OH)
Gary Jay Schwenk
Nazareth College (Rochester, NY)
Albert Castelo
Hunter College (New York, NY)
Robb E. Eason
University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH)
Litia Perta
Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
John Hartmann
Alfred University (Alfred, NY)
Ian Cashman
Marymount University (Arlington, VA)
Meghan Tadel
George Washington University (Washington, DC)
Kathryn Blum
Fordham University (New York, NY)
Contemporary Analytic Philosophy as Reflected in the Work of Monty Python
Gary Hardcastle (Virginia Tech)
- Breakfast (9:00 - 9:45 a.m.)
- Of God and Love (9:45 - 11:45 a.m.)
- Does the Ontological Argument Need Salvaging?
- Divine & Human Love
- A Woman's Place: French Neoplatonic Feminism vs. Platonic Love
- Philosophy and Politics (9:45 - 11:45 a.m.)
- The Republic and Totalitarianism: Did Plato Have A Political Philosophy?
- Whiteness: Being and Seeing White
- The Bed of Power
- Lunch (11:45 - 1:00 p.m.)
- Textual Analysis (1:00 - 3:00 p.m.)
- Wittgensteinian Hermeneutics? Preliminary Sketch of a Reading of Wittgenstein's On Certainty in Comparison to Ricoeur's From Text to Action
- "Hear Say Yes in Joyce": Otherness, Gender, and Derridian Repetition
- A Critical Re-Evaluation of the Esoteric Character of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
- Foundations of Knowledge (1:00 - 3:00 p.m.)
- Descartes' Recurring Problems with Circles
- Putnam, Realism and Perception
- The Hard Problems in Dennett's Evolutionary Account
- Kant, Foucault, and Tibetan Buddhism (3:00 - 5:00 p.m.)
- The Transcendental Ideality of Space and Its Fundamental Assumption
- Alarm Security, Cyborgs, and Foucault
- Great Perfection: The Practical Phenomenology of Tibetan Buddhism
- Human Nature (3:00 - 5:00 p.m.)
- Apollonian, Dionysian and Socratic Views: A Nietzschian Exegesis
- Rousseau Roulette
- Anti-Essentialism and Re-Identification
- Keynote Address (5:00 - 6:30 p.m.)
- Dinner and Awards Ceremony (6:30 - 8:00 p.m.) -- reservations required
- Saturday Evening Social (8:00 - 11:00 p.m.)
An Analysis of St. Anselm's and Plantinga's Theistic Proofs
Erin Kathleen Carter
Taylor University (Upland, IN)
Michael D. Day
Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
Amy Katrin Ferrara
SUNY-Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)
Phil Jenkins
Hunter College (New York, NY)
Joanne Molina
American University (Washington, DC)
John Costa
SUNY-Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)
Kevin Goetz
SUNY-Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)
Litia Perta
Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
Michael Frazer
Yale University (New Haven, CT)
Harjeet S. Parmar
Clark University (Worcester, MA)
Clinton Tolley
Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL)
John Hartmann
Alfred University (Alfred, NY)
Julie Kirsch
SUNY-Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)
Anton Soderman
Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
Daniel J. Bristol
SUNY-Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)
Gary Jay Schwenk
Nazareth College (Rochester, NY)
Amanda Joy Schwarz
SUNY-Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)
Michael D. Day
Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
When Artists Read Philosophers: From Modernism To Postmodernism
Jere Paul Surber (University of Denver)
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