Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Program


	April 6-8, 2006 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 7

8:00 AM Registration Table Open
Continental Breakfast

9:10 -10:25 AM Session I. Philosophy: East to West

Session Chair: Malcolm Hardy

Paul D’Ambrosio
“The universe is a finger, all things are a horse” A Daoist Critique of the Primacy of Aristotle’s Principle of Non-Contradiction
Merrimack College
Discussant: Aaron B Creller

Aaron Creller
Lao Tzu and Heraclitus and a Transcendent Ethic
Central Michigan University
Discussant: Matt Mucci (from Eastern Connecticut State)

10:30 - 11:15 AM Malcolm Hardy, Chair
Presentations by Cooperstown High School students

11:30 - 12:30 PM Dr. Ashok Malhotra
Yoga Presentation

12:30 - 1:30 PM
Break for Lunch

1:30-2:45 PM Session IIa. Educational Eros
Session Chair: Desiree Stitsi

Tom Mangione
“A Good Conversation”: Plato’s Symposium, Nietzsche and a Philosophical Eros
George Mason University; Fairfax, Virginia
Discussant: Sam Alaimo

Gavin Fee
The Human Situation
State University of New York at Oneonta
Discussant: Matt Cedar

1:30-2:45 PM Session IIb. Filling Deficiency through Reproduction
Session Chair: Jerry Sardella

Qi Lu
Traditional Chinese Symbols of Reproduction as Reflected in Excerpts of Lao Tzu’s Writings
Eastern Connecticut State University
Discussant: Paul D'Ambrosio

Philip Walsh
Dogen’s Genjo Koan: Full of Deficiency, Deficient of Fullness
Villanova University
Discussant:

3:00-4:15 PM Session IIIa. Nietzsche: Eternal, Free and False?
Session Chair: Ryan Moody

Jared Van Vranken
Eternal Recurrence
SUNY College at Fredonia
Discussant: Elizabeth Ensell

Jeremy Forsterr
The Nietzschean Free-Spirit and Falsification
Brown Universityy
Discussant: Waylon Bryson

3:00-4:15 PM Session IIIb. Sacred and Secular Politics
Session Chair: Jerry Sardella

Nathan Matusick
Fear and Trembling From God in Politics
Corning Community College
Discussant: Gavin Fee

Patrick J. Connolly
Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf
Georgetown University
Discussant:

4:30-6:15 PM
Session IVa. Some of its Parts
Session Chair:

Michael Hicks
Mereological Co-Location and Limited Discourse
Virginia Commonwealth University
Discussant:

Chris Biermann
Epistemicism: Optimum Solution to Sorites
Dartmouth College
Discussant: Emilio Reyes Le Blanc

Enoch Lambert
Hacking and Human Kinds
Cornell University
Discussant:

4:30-6:15 PM
Session IVb. What Ought One Do?
Session Chair: Molly Wetherbee

Whitney Trettien
Kant’s Invention of Autonomy: Misconstruing Evil and the Individual
University of Maryland
Discussant: Ian Sampler

Waylon M. Bryson
The Fetus is Trapped in a Metaphysical No-Man’s-Land!-A Continental Philosopher’s Approach to Abortion
Washington State University
Discussant:

Phillipp Rabovsky
God and Morals
SUNY Potsdam
Discussant: Guy Shoettl

6:15 - 7:30 PM

President's Banquet

7:30 - 9:00 PM Keynote Address - Dr. Hope K. Fitz
Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Connecticut State University
"Comparative Philosophy: Theory and Practice"

9:00 - 11:00 PM President's Reception (Le Cafe)

SATURDAY, APRIL 8

8:30 - 9:30 AM
Continental Breakfast

9:30-10:45 AM

Session Va. Heidegger: Religion and Nihilism
Session Chair:

Evan Anhorn
Heidegger and Nihilism: In Response to the Criticism of Hans Jonas
Connecticut College
Discussant:

Timothy Jussaume
A Heideggerian Approach to Religion
College of the Holy Cross
Discussant: Molly Wetherbee

9:30-10:45 AM
Session Vb. Self and Morals
Session Chair: Ryan Moody

Nathaniel Brown
“Scaling Back our Significance: A Proposition to Justify Prudential Concern”
Union College
Discussant:

Ashley J. Inglehart
The Incompatibility of Parfitian Survival and Parfitian Morality
Virginia Commonwealth University
Discussant: Eric Gabrielson

11:00-12:15 PM
Session VIa. Science and Knowledge
Session Chair:

Justin Brozanski
On Epistemological Absence and the Aim of Science
Flagler College
Discussant: Joshua Earlenbaugh

Jama Oliver
The Coherence Theory of Knowledge: A Brief Overview and Answers to Objections
East Tennessee State University
Discussant: Chris Biermann

11:00-12:15 PM Session VIb. Deterministic Technology?
Session Chair:

Shanna Hollich
Is Determinism Really As Deterministic As We Have Determined It to Be?
Brandeis University
Discussant: Morgan Hardy (Columbia University)

Phillip John Torres
On the Genealogy of Technology
University of Maryland
Discussant: Kenneth Brenner

12:30 - 1:15 PM Lunch?

1:30-3:15 PM
Session VIIa. Love, Prison: No Exit
Session Chair: Molly Wetherbee

Jake Feldman
Analysis of Concrete Relations with Others as Found in No Exit
SUNY Potsdam
Discussant: Jerry Sardella

Jonathan Gingerich
The Progressive Possibilities of Love
Georgetown University
Discussant: Rachele Hall

Dunstan McNutt
A Prisoner’s Tale, with an Introduction
East Tennessee State University
Discussant: Anne Higgins

1:30-3:15 PM
Session VIIb. Function, Information and Cognition
Session Chair:

Joshua Earlenbaugh
Systematic Function and Heuristic: A Synthetic Methodology
University of Missouri – Kansas City
Discussant:

Karl Mill
Information Processing and Consciousness
Marist College
Discussant: Shanna Hollich

Emilio Reyes Le Blanc
Dismantling Drestke: a Sellarsian theory of change blindness
University of Toronto
Discussant: Joshua Earlenbaugh

3:30-5:15 PM Session VIII : Philosophy? Conference?
Session Chair: Malcolm Hardy

Stefan Livingstone Shirley
Strait Jackets, Blinders, and What are we really arguing about anyway?
College/University: SUNY-Oneonta
Discussant: Morgan Hardy

Joshua Wolak
Autochthony: Heidegger, Meta-Philosophy and Meditation
Belmont University
Discussant: Chad Caza

Brooke Rudow
Awe: A Philosophical Analysis of an Amazing Emotion
University of Hawaii
Discussant: Molly Wetherbee

5:30 - 7:00 PM
Keynote Address -Dr. Paul Santilli
Professor of Philosophy, Siena College
"The Inhuman"

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Awards Banquet

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	FRIDAY, APRIL 7
8:00 AM	Registration Table Open Continental Breakfast
9:10 -10:25 AM	Session I. Philosophy: East to West
	Session Chair: Malcolm Hardy
	Paul D’Ambrosio “The universe is a finger, all things are a horse” A Daoist Critique of the Primacy of Aristotle’s Principle of Non-Contradiction Merrimack College Discussant: Aaron B Creller
	Aaron Creller Lao Tzu and Heraclitus and a Transcendent Ethic Central Michigan University Discussant: Matt Mucci (from Eastern Connecticut State)

10:30 - 11:15 AM	Malcolm Hardy, Chair Presentations by Cooperstown High School students

11:30 - 12:30 PM	Dr. Ashok Malhotra Yoga Presentation

12:30 - 1:30 PM	Break for Lunch

1:30-2:45 PM	Session IIa. Educational Eros Session Chair: Desiree Stitsi
	Tom Mangione “A Good Conversation”: Plato’s Symposium, Nietzsche and a Philosophical Eros George Mason University; Fairfax, Virginia Discussant: Sam Alaimo
	Gavin Fee The Human Situation State University of New York at Oneonta Discussant: Matt Cedar

1:30-2:45 PM	Session IIb. Filling Deficiency through Reproduction Session Chair: Jerry Sardella
	Qi Lu Traditional Chinese Symbols of Reproduction as Reflected in Excerpts of Lao Tzu’s Writings Eastern Connecticut State University Discussant: Paul D'Ambrosio
	Philip Walsh Dogen’s Genjo Koan: Full of Deficiency, Deficient of Fullness Villanova University Discussant:

3:00-4:15 PM	Session IIIa. Nietzsche: Eternal, Free and False? Session Chair: Ryan Moody
	Jared Van Vranken Eternal Recurrence SUNY College at Fredonia Discussant: Elizabeth Ensell
	Jeremy Forsterr The Nietzschean Free-Spirit and Falsification Brown Universityy Discussant: Waylon Bryson

3:00-4:15 PM	Session IIIb. Sacred and Secular Politics Session Chair: Jerry Sardella
	Nathan Matusick Fear and Trembling From God in Politics Corning Community College Discussant: Gavin Fee
	Patrick J. Connolly Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf Georgetown University Discussant:

4:30-6:15 PM	Session IVa. Some of its Parts Session Chair:
	Michael Hicks Mereological Co-Location and Limited Discourse Virginia Commonwealth University Discussant:
	Chris Biermann Epistemicism: Optimum Solution to Sorites Dartmouth College Discussant: Emilio Reyes Le Blanc
	Enoch Lambert Hacking and Human Kinds Cornell University Discussant:

4:30-6:15 PM	Session IVb. What Ought One Do? Session Chair: Molly Wetherbee
	Whitney Trettien Kant’s Invention of Autonomy: Misconstruing Evil and the Individual University of Maryland Discussant: Ian Sampler
	Waylon M. Bryson The Fetus is Trapped in a Metaphysical No-Man’s-Land!-A Continental Philosopher’s Approach to Abortion Washington State University Discussant:
	Phillipp Rabovsky God and Morals SUNY Potsdam Discussant: Guy Shoettl


6:15 - 7:30 PM	President's Banquet

7:30 - 9:00 PM	Keynote Address - Dr. Hope K. Fitz Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Connecticut State University "Comparative Philosophy: Theory and Practice"

9:00 - 11:00 PM	President's Reception (Le Cafe)

	SATURDAY, APRIL 8
8:30 - 9:30 AM	Continental Breakfast
9:30-10:45 AM	Session Va. Heidegger: Religion and Nihilism Session Chair:
	Evan Anhorn Heidegger and Nihilism: In Response to the Criticism of Hans Jonas Connecticut College Discussant:
	Timothy Jussaume A Heideggerian Approach to Religion College of the Holy Cross Discussant: Molly Wetherbee

9:30-10:45 AM	Session Vb. Self and Morals Session Chair: Ryan Moody
	Nathaniel Brown “Scaling Back our Significance: A Proposition to Justify Prudential Concern” Union College Discussant:
	Ashley J. Inglehart The Incompatibility of Parfitian Survival and Parfitian Morality Virginia Commonwealth University Discussant: Eric Gabrielson

11:00-12:15 PM	Session VIa. Science and Knowledge Session Chair:
	Justin Brozanski On Epistemological Absence and the Aim of Science Flagler College Discussant: Joshua Earlenbaugh
	Jama Oliver The Coherence Theory of Knowledge: A Brief Overview and Answers to Objections East Tennessee State University Discussant: Chris Biermann

11:00-12:15 PM	Session VIb. Deterministic Technology? Session Chair:
	Shanna Hollich Is Determinism Really As Deterministic As We Have Determined It to Be? Brandeis University Discussant: Morgan Hardy (Columbia University)
	Phillip John Torres On the Genealogy of Technology University of Maryland Discussant: Kenneth Brenner

12:30 - 1:15 PM	Lunch?

1:30-3:15 PM	Session VIIa. Love, Prison: No Exit Session Chair: Molly Wetherbee
	Jake Feldman Analysis of Concrete Relations with Others as Found in No Exit SUNY Potsdam Discussant: Jerry Sardella
	Jonathan Gingerich The Progressive Possibilities of Love Georgetown University Discussant: Rachele Hall
	Dunstan McNutt A Prisoner’s Tale, with an Introduction East Tennessee State University Discussant: Anne Higgins

1:30-3:15 PM	Session VIIb. Function, Information and Cognition Session Chair:
	Joshua Earlenbaugh Systematic Function and Heuristic: A Synthetic Methodology University of Missouri – Kansas City Discussant:
	Karl Mill Information Processing and Consciousness Marist College Discussant: Shanna Hollich
	Emilio Reyes Le Blanc Dismantling Drestke: a Sellarsian theory of change blindness University of Toronto Discussant: Joshua Earlenbaugh

3:30-5:15 PM	Session VIII : Philosophy? Conference? Session Chair: Malcolm Hardy
	Stefan Livingstone Shirley Strait Jackets, Blinders, and What are we really arguing about anyway? College/University: SUNY-Oneonta Discussant: Morgan Hardy
	Joshua Wolak Autochthony: Heidegger, Meta-Philosophy and Meditation Belmont University Discussant: Chad Caza
	Brooke Rudow Awe: A Philosophical Analysis of an Amazing Emotion University of Hawaii Discussant: Molly Wetherbee

5:30 - 7:00 PM	Keynote Address -Dr. Paul Santilli Professor of Philosophy, Siena College "The Inhuman"

7:00 - 9:00 PM	Awards Banquet