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SUNY Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 
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SUNY Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
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Friday, March 30
11:00 am - 1:00 pm Registration and Opening Reception (Front Lobby) 1:00 - 2:15 pm Inaugural Presentation: Yoga: A Philosophical Demonstration
and Guided MeditationAshok Malhotra (SUNY Oneonta) 2:30 - 3:50 pm Session I: Christian Ethics Michael Alan Payne
The Biblical Approach to Abortion
Virginia Commonwealth University
Discussant: Cynthia Budka (Oneonta)Jason Ohliger
An Ethical Investigation of Christian Missionary Efforts
SUNY Oneonta
Discussant: Elizabeth Verry (Oneonta)4:00 - 6:00 pm Session II (Concurrent Session) A. Language, Analysis, and Social Policy Christopher LaBarbera
Reviving Fighting Words Doctrine: An Expansion of Hostile Environments
Dartmouth College
Discussant: Andy Van Kempen (Potsdam)John E. Turri, Jr.
Self-Critical Method in the Moral Philosophies of Plato and Aristotle
Wayne State University
Discussant: Bryan Aiello (Oneonta)Nate Zuckerman
The Case for Post-Normal Science as an Integral Philosophy of Science
Haverford College
Discussant: Teck Boon Tan (Oneonta)B. Morality and Human Relationships Kevin Collins
Philosophical Foundations of Ayn Rand's Objectivism
SUNY Rockland
Discussant: Jessica Clark (Potsdam)Jesse Lee
Morality and the Relationship
Trinity College
Discussant: John Bova (Towson)Theresa Morris
How Word Relates to the Other, Through Love
SUNY New Paltz
Discussant: Vicky Sands (Oneonta)6:00 - 7:30 pm Dinner (Morris Conference Center) 7:30 - 9:00 pm Keynote Address: Wine, Song, and the Magico-Medicinal
in the Homeric Hymn to DionysosLinda Ardito (Dowling College) 9:00 - 11:00 pm Reception (Le Cafe) Saturday, March 31
9:00 - 10:00 am Breakfast 10:00 - 11:20 am Session III (Concurrent Session) A. Asian Philosophy Erin Cline
No-things that are Some-things: Democritus and Daoists on the Void
Belmont University
Discussant: Melanie Hirt (Belmont)David Tulkin
The Hindu Problem of Evil, Suffering and Sin
Denison University
Discussant: Steve Sacco (Oneonta)B. Existential Themes Tushar Irani
Beyond the Death of God:
The Question of Nihilism in Nietzsche and Pascal
Colgate University
Discussant: John Turri, Jr. (Wayne State)John Bova
Desire-(of)-consciousness
Towson University
Discussant: Soren Dahl (Oneonta)11:30 - 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 - 3:00 pm Session IV (Concurrent Session) A. Philosophy of Education Caroline Marie Watral
A Representative Education
Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: Eric Vanderbles (Oneonta)Bradden R. Kluesner
Good Wood
St. Thomas University
Discussant: Meggan Novotny (St. Thomas)Kevin Stacy
A Case Against Tenure in Higher Education Establishments
United States Military Academy
Discussants: Rich Thomson (Oneonta)
Gordon Marlatt (Oneonta)B. Pragmatism and Communication Andrew J. Forney
Pragmatism and Neo-Pragmatism: Language and "truth"
Western Maryland College
Discussant: Adrian Viens (Toronto)Joanna Doody
Communication in a Practical Light
Simmons College
Discussant: Tushar Irani (Colgate)Adrian M. Viens
Wittgenstein's Rejection of the Private Language Argument:
Implications of the Language-Game of Pain in the
Patient-Physician Relationship
University of Toronto
Discussant: Nate Zuckerman (Haverford)3:15 - 5:15 pm Session V: Comparative Philosophy Erin Cline
Finding the Riverbed: Uncertainty in a Nunamiut Eskimo Village
Belmont University
Discussant: Stephanie Quarto (Oneonta)Justin C. Maaia
The Highest Good: A Kantian and Buddhist Ideal
Suffolk University
Discussant: Malinda Foster (University of Michigan)Priyadarshi Shukla
Notion of Reality in Buddhism and Vedanta: A Philosophical Investigation
Le Moyne College
Discussant: Daniel Bristol (Oneonta)5:30 - 7:00 pm Keynote Address: Chinese Religiousness: A New Look at Godless Confucianism Roger Ames (University of Hawaii) 7:00 - 9:00 pm Awards Dinner (Morris Conference Center)
Website constructed and maintained by Douglas Shrader / Department Chair Philosc@Oneonta.edu November 28, 2001
