April 15-16, 2005 All activities take place in the  Morris Conference Center. To view individual abstracts , click on the participant's name .

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Friday, April 15

8:00 am --	Registration Table Open (Front Lobby) Continental Breakfast (Craven Lounge)
9:15 - 11:00 am	Session I: Comparative Philosophy: East Meets West
	Travis Wade Holloway      Heidegger/Asian Thought      Belmont University (Nashville, TN)      Discussant: Daniel P. Muhleman (SUNY Oneonta)
	Jeff McClain      Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript and the Bhagavad-Gita :      Ontology and God’s Existence      The University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)      Discussant: Martin Lewis (Montana State University: Bozeman, MT)
	Antti Kasko      The Logos of the Dao: Exploring the Shared Philosophy of Heraclitus and Xunzi      Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA)      Discussant: Ian Mevorach (Middlebury College: Middlebury, VT)
11:15 - 12:15 pm	Featured Presentation
	Yoga: A Philosophical Demonstration and Guided Meditation
	Ashok Malhotra (SUNY Oneonta)
12:15 - 1:15 pm	Lunch
1:30 - 2:45 pm	Session II: Moral Dilemmas
	Nick Kasatkin      On Moral Permissibility of Cloning      Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)      Discussant: Sean Cummings (SUNY Oneonta)
	Marie Montesano      The Moral Dilemma of the Professional Dilemma of Military Professionals      Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, NY)      Discussant: John R. Finley (SUNY Oneonta)
3:00 - 4:15 pm	Session III : Artistic Value
	Mary Katherine Price      Plato, Imitation, and Truth: The Danger of Standing at a Distance      Nazareth College (Rochester, NY)      Discussant: Andrew Blaine (SUNY Potsdam)
	Maureen Foster      Popular Art: An Evaluation of an Art Form      Cazenovia College (Cazenovia, NY)      Discussant: Jared Whalen (SUNY Oneonta)
4:30 - 6:15 pm	Sessions IV.A and IV.B  (Concurrent Sessions)
	A. Reason, Emotion, and Language
	Anthony C. Russo      Clarifying the Reason/Emotion Question      Salisbury University (Salisbury, MD)        Discussant: Kristen Dewey (SUNY Oneonta)
	Craig Roxborough      Cognition and the Environment      University of Toronto (Toronto, CANADA)       Discussant: Dave Backer (The George Washington University: Washington, DC)
	Robert Farley      Language, Representation, and Different Kinds of Minds      Ursinus College (Collegeville, PA)      Discussant: Robert Farrelly (SUNY Oneonta)
	B.  Kierkegaard and Heidegger: Knowledge, Truth, and Ek-sistence
	Jacob Tuttle      Kierkegaard’s Pragmatic Epistemology      St. Thomas University (St. Paul, MN)      Discussant: Bryan Schuff (SUNY Oneonta)
	Matthew Jasilli      The Inherent Potential of Truth: A Look at Heidegger’s Expression of his Views on Truth      Trinity College (Hartford, CT)        Discussant: Alexis M. Blackman (Nazareth College)
	Kevin R. Collen      Actions and Possessions: A Critique of Heidegger’s Letter on Humanism /      the Consequences of Ek-sistence      Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)      Discussant: Brian Cobb (SUNY Oneonta)
6:15 - 7:30 pm	President's Banquet (Otsego Grille, Morris Conference Center -- Reservations Required)
7:30 - 9:00 pm	Keynote Address
	Shall All Reason, or Shall One Reason for All?       Communities of Inquiry in Islamic Philosophy
	Tamara Albertini - University of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI)
9:00 - 11:00 pm	President's Reception (Le Cafe)

Saturday, April 16

8:30 - 9:30 am	Continental Breakfast (Craven Lounge)
9:30 - 10:45 am	Session V: Of Time and Dreams
	Heather Mills      Tautologies of Time: An Ayer-type Critique of Shoemaker's Temporal Vacuums      Wheaton College (Norton, MA)       Discussant: Guy Schoettl (SUNY Oneonta)
	Malcolm Hardy      The Endless Possibilities of a Life Consumed by Dreaming      SUNY Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)      Discussant: Chad Caza (SUNY Oneonta)
11:00 - 12:15 pm	Sessions VI. A and VI. B (Concurrent Sessions)
	A.   Philosophy Through Literature
	Tyler M. Schuenemann      Paneloux and the Plague      University of Wisconsin La Crosse (La Crosse, WI)        Discussant: John Conrad Robinson (Centre College: Danville, KY)
	Elizabeth Thompson      A Comparison of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with the Ethical Theories of      Immanuel Kant’s Deontology, Right’s Ethics, and Contemporary Buddhism      Pennsylvania State University        Discussant: Desiree Stisi (SUNY Oneonta)
	B.   Nietzsche
	Richard Bodio      Nietzsche Reads DH Lawrence      Providence College (Providence, RI)      Discussant: Howard Fitzpatrick (SUNY Oneonta, class of 1999)
	Karl J. Southgate      Nietzsche’s Conception of Seriousness      St. Mary’s College of Maryland (St. Mary’s City, MD)        Discussant: Sean Cummings (SUNY Oneonta)
12:15 - 1:15 pm	Lunch
1:30 - 3:15 pm	Sessions VII .A and VII .B (Concurrent Sessions)
	A.   Wisdom of the Ages
	Anthony Mohen      Zoroaster: Prophet or Philosopher?      Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)      Discussant: Emann Allebban (University of Michigan: Dearborn, MI)
	Alexis M. Blackman      Complicating Catharsis: Plato on the Body      Nazareth College (Rochester, NY)      Discussant: Michael Petrolle (SUNY Oneonta)
	Emann Allebban      Desiring the Divine: A Critical Evaluation of Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover      University of Michigan (Dearborn, MI)      Discussant: Richard Weiner (SUNY Oneonta)
	B.   Never Mind Wittgenstein
	John Conrad Robinson      The Resurgence of Mind: Active Epiphenomenalism and the Will      Centre College (Danville, KY)      Discussant: Craig Roxborough (University of Toronto: Toronto, CANADA)
	Dave Backer      Dear Dr. Wittgenstein      The George Washington University (Washington, DC)      Discussant: Anthony C. Russo (Salisbury University: Salisbury, MD)
	Jen-you Hwang      Form of Life: Wittgenstein, Conway, Nussbaum      Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)      Discussant: Anthony C. Russo (Salisbury University:Salisbury, MD)
3:30 - 5:15 pm	Session VIII: Chinese Thought
	Jacob Paine      Confucian Roles in the Zhuangzi      Belmont University (Nashville, TN)        Discussant: Jen-you Hwang (Bryn Mawr College: Bryn Mawr, PA)
	Ian Mevorach      Christianity and Confucianism: Aquinas and Mencius      Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)      Discussant: Ryan Moody (SUNY Oneonta)
	Zachary C. Callaghan       It’s Just Music      University of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI)         Discussant: Phillip G. Borrelli (SUNY Buffalo)
5:30 - 7:00 pm	Keynote Address
	The Implications of the Origins of the Daodejing for Philosophy
	Ronnie L. Littlejohn - Belmont University (Nashville, TN)
7:00 - 9:00 pm	Awards Banquet (Otsego Grille, Morris Conference Center -- Reservations Required )

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