State University of New York at Oneonta ![]()
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Program
To view individual abstracts, click on the participant's name.Friday, April 16
- 11:00am - Registration open
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm - Chinese Calligraphy: A Philosophical Demonstration
Shen Pingde (Xian, China)
2:10 - 3:20 pm Student papers: Concurrent Session I
A. Perspectives on the "I" (room 102)
Priyadarshi Shukla
B. Ancient Thought (room 104)
Hegel And Shankarachrya: On the Non-Dualistic ‘I'
LeMoyne College
Syracuse, NYIain Tucker Brown
A Buddhist Analysis of the Structure and Function of Causality
In Martin Buber's I-It and I-Thou Spheres of Relation
St. Mary's College
St. Mary's City, MD
Tara K. Hogan
Justice Outside the Polis in Aristotle's Politics and Nicomachean Ethics
Mary Washington College
Fredericksburg, VATimothy Gilmore
Epictetus' Stoicism
SUNY New Paltz
New Paltz, NY
3:45 - 5:30 pm Student papers: Concurrent Session IIA. Science, Psyche, and Society (room 102)
Brian Mello, Colleen McClain, Mike Franz
B. Logic and Epistemology (room 104)
Science, Technology, and Man's Project to be God
Fairfield University
Fairfield, CTRobert I. Haley
How and Why We Should Defend Society From Science
Canisius College
Buffalo, NYChristopher Arroyo
The Philosophy of Psychology and the Metaphysics of Persons
Saint John's University
Jamaica, NY
M. Drummond Royal
A Critique of David B. Annis' contextualist Theory of epistemic Justification
Wheaton College
Wheaton, ILMatthew A. Ferkany
An Analysis of Deontic Logic and Chisolm's Paradox
Oakland University
Rochester, MIDavid J. Schummer
William Alston on Epistemology and Religion
University of Buffalo
Buffalo, NYSaturday, April 17
- 5:45 - 7:00 pm Dinner (Otsego Grill, Morris Hall)
- 7:15 - 8:45 pm Keynote Address:
The Fractal Self and the Organization of Nature:
The Daoist Sage and Chaos Theory
David Jones (Kennesaw State University)
- 9:00 - 11:00 pm Reception (Hunt Union Cafe)
- 8:30 - 9:30 am - Breakfast
9:30 - 11:15am Student papers: Concurrent Session III
A. Mind, Ethics, and Evolution (room 102)
Daniel Bristol
B. Thinking the World (104)
The Nature of Mind In Tibetan Buddhist Ethical Theory
SUNY Oneonta
Oneonta, NYKatherine Collins
Buddha, Kant, and the Ethical Consequences of Suicide
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell, MAPhil Jenkins
Objectivity and Evolution in Ethics
Hunter College
New York, NY
Aaron Meyer
Constructing a Framework Over Reality: A Relativistic View of Reality and Human Awareness
SUNY Rockland Community College
Suffern, NYMeghan Tadel
Mind, Brain Coincidence
George Washington University
Arlington, VANathan C. Doty
Intuitions in Conceptual Shape? Misconceptions and Motivations
Haverford College
Haverford, PA
1:00 - 2:15 pm Student papers: Concurrent Session IVA. Self and Other: East and West (room 102)
Robert Erlewine
B. Reading Philosophers: Text and Context (room 104)
An Attack On Tradition
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MDChristopher Martin
Heidegger, Lao Tzu and Dassein
Mary Washington College
Fredericksburg, VA
Clinton Tolley
A More Palatable Plato:
A Dialectical Reading of the Platonic Dialogues
Wheaton College
Wheaton, ILJonathan C. Messinger
Contextual Influences on Wittgenstein's Philosophy
Clark University
Worcester, PA
2:30 - 4:15 pm Student papers: Concurrent Session V A. Freedom and Responsibility (room 104)
David Manley
B. God and Mind (room (102)
Freedom, Responsibility, and Derived Natures
Boston College
Brighton, MAMelvin L. Rogers
The Anatomy of Liberalism
Amherst College
Amherst, MABrett Bisgrove
The Freedom That Fear Hath Wroth
SUNY Oneonta
Oneonta, NY
Christopher Rodkey
Nietzschean Christology
Saint Vincent College
Latrobe, PATimothy J. Weidemann
The Angry God and the Active Intellect
SUNY New Paltz
New Paltz, NYM. Drummond Royal
On Questioning the Christian Faith: A Hermeneutic Paradox
Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm Keynote Address:
Buddhism, Race, Class, Sexuality and Gender
in the Modern World
Jennifer Manlowe (Long Island University)- 6:00 - 8:00 pm Awards Dinner (Otsego Grille, Morris Hall)
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