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