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Thursday, April 10
7:30-9:30 pm Welcoming Reception (Presenters, Discussants,
Philosophy Majors & Faculty)
Friday, April 11
8:30-9:30 Breakfast (Le
Café)
9:30-11:00
Sessions IA
& IB
IA: AT
THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS: Offensive
Humor & Tragic Pleasure (Craven
Lounge)
On “Offensive
Humor”
Daniel
Baron – Brandeis
University
(Waltham,
MA)
Discussant:
Samuel Alaimo (SUNY Oneonta)
Mimesis, Catharsis, and Pleasure:
An Investigation
into Aristotle’s Tragic Pleasure
Bradley
Elicker – Temple
University
(Philadelphia,
PA)
Discussant:
Peter G. Res (Hartwick College)
IB: ART,
POWER, & POLITICAL REVOLUTION (Morris 103)
A
Comparison of the Historical and Theoretical
Approaches to the Visual Aesthetic
Matthew
D. Mingus – Ashland
University
(Ashland,
OH)
Discussant: Matt LaVine (SUNY
Potsdam)
Marx’s Revolution that
Was Not to Be, and the Problem
of Estrangement that it Leaves Behind:
Analyzed, Explained, and Considered through the
Theories of Adorno
Guy
Schoettl – SUNY Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)
Discussant:
Tyler Vice (SUNY Oneonta)
11:15-12:15 Yoga: Philosophy and
Guided Meditation (Craven Lounge)
Ashok
Malhotra (SUNY
Oneonta)
12:15-1:30 Lunch (Otsego Grille)
1:30-3:30 Sessions IIA
& IIB
IIA:
PARADOX, EDUCATION, & THE GOOD LIFE (Craven Lounge)
An Attempted Resolution of a
Paradox Concerning
Engagement with Fiction
Michael
Willenborg – University
of Hawaii (Honolulu,
HI)
Discussant:
Samuel Alaimo (SUNY Oneonta)
Ms. Goode and Mr. Fairborne: A
Dialog
David
Whitehead – Buffalo
State
College (Buffalo,
NY)
Presented
with the assistance of Samuel Alaimo (SUNY Oneonta)
Discussant:
Emily Carroll (SUNY Oneonta)
Sincerity and Living Wisely
Paul
Turner – Marshall
University
(Huntington,
WV)
Discussant:
IIB: MORAL
PHILOSOPHY
(Morris 103)
A Denial of Photocopy Virtue: A
Problem of Student
Passivity in Moral Education
Kristin
Williams – Reed
College
(Portland,
OR)
Discussant:
Thor Kasenko (SUNY Oneonta)
The
Case for Kalderon’s Moral Fictionalism
Corin
T. Fox – Virginia
Commonwealth
University
(Richmond,
VA)
Discussant: Lawrence
Faulstich (Binghamton University)
The End of Anthropodicy: Suffering,
Eschatology, and
Symmetrics in Levinas
Joel
Michael Reynolds – University
of Oregon (Eugene,
OR)
Discussant: Ross Laurence Wolfe
(Penn State)
3:30-4:00
Coffee Break
4:00-5:30
Session IIIA
& IIIB
IIIA:
ETHICAL CONTROVERSIES (Craven Lounge)
The Moral Permissibility of
Euthanasia: A Response to
Daniel Callahan
Thomas
Carnes – United States
Military Academy
(West
Point, NY)
Discussant:
Roy Allen Otto III (Trinity University)
Turned Away: The Exclusion of the
Mentally Incompetent
from the Electorate
Tanja
Magas – Barnard
College, Columbia University
(New
York, NY)
Discussant: Dan Oliver (Ashland
University)
IIIB:
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS & KNOWLEDGE (Morris 103)
An Aristotelian Critique of the
Mathematical Approach
to the Study of Being
Robert
Talley – St
John’s College
(Annapolis,
MD)
Discussant:
Kristin Williams – Reed College
Qualia-States and Event-Memory:
Empirical Support for
the Deconstruction of Qualia
William
J. Brady – University
of North Carolina
(Chapel-Hill,
NC)
Discussant:
Corin T. Fox (Virginia Commonwealth University)
6:00-7:30 President’s
Banquet (Otsego
Grille - reservations required)
7:30-9:00 Keynote Address: Kah Kung
Cho (Buffalo)
The
Importance of the Art of Living (Craven
Lounge)
9:00-11:00 President’s
Reception
(Le Café)
Saturday, April
12
8:30-9:30 Breakfast (Le
Café)
9:00/9:30-11:00
Sessions IVA
& IVB
IVA: TO
BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE (Morris 103: 9:00-11:00)
The Ontological Argument of Saint
Anselm
of Canterbury;
William Rowe Sheds New Light on an Old
Subject
Marina Michelle van Overhagen
– Hamilton
College (Clinton,
NY)
Discussant:
Brian Ballard (University
of California,
Santa
Cruz)
Pluralism as Agnosticism in William
James
Ali
Kinsella – University
of Dayton (Dayton,
OH)
Discussant: Christopher Hallquist
(University of Wisconsin)
Negligence of Belief
Jesse
Hancock – SUNY Potsdam
(Potsdam,
NY)
Discussant: Kenneth Brenner (SUNY
Oneonta)
IVB:
SOCIAL JUSTICE, SEX, AND DISCRIMINATION (Craven Lounge: 9:30-11:00)
Pornography
as the Downfall of Nozick
Roy
Allen Otto III – Trinity
University
(San
Antonio, TX)
Discussant:
Matthew Cedar (SUNY Oneonta)
The Proper Place
for Homosexuality in the Doctrine of
Creation and the Inherent Immorality of Discrimination
Jeremy
Redlien – SUNY Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)
Discussant: David Naples (SUNY
Oneonta) or Matthew D. Mingus (Ashland University))
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:30 Sessions VA, VB
& VC
VA:
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION (Craven Lounge)
A Minimal Argument from
Evil
Christopher Hallquist – University
of Wisconsin
(Madison,
WI)
Discussant: Paul Tritschler (SUNY
Oneonta)
Augustine
and Plato via the
Neoplatonists: Was Plato a Pre-Christian Christian?
Carrie L. Bates – SUNY Potsdam
(Potsdam,
NY)
Discussant: Dave Naples (SUNY
Oneonta)
Theism, Naturalism, and Creative
Anti-realism: A Modern Trilemma
Brian Ballard – University
of California
(Santa
Cruz, CA)
Discussant:
Thomas Bennett (SUNY Oneonta)
VB:
POSSIBLE WORLDS
(Morris 103)
Substance, Causation, and Free Will
in Spinoza and
Leibniz
Ross
Laurence Wolfe – Penn State (State College, PA)
Discussant: Matthew D. Mingus
(Ashland University)
Sacred and Vicious Circles:
The Impact of Limits on
Understanding and Possible Worlds in Derrida
Lorin
Jackson – Haverford
College (Haverford,
PA)
Discussant:
Joel Michael Reynolds (University of Oregon)
Time’s Broken Arrow: An
Examination of Time, Time
Travel, and Temporal Paradox
Michael
Mesceda – SUNY Oneonta (Oneonta, NY)
Discussant:
Andrew Stoecker (SUNY Oneonta)
VC:
NIETZSCHE & HEIDEGGER: Friends & Critics (Morris 104)
[11:30-12:50]
Del
Sentimiento Trágico de la Vida and die
Ewige
Wiederkehr: An Essay Concerning the Immortality of
the Soul
Ronald Baumiller – Duquesne University (Pittsburgh,
PA)
Discussant:
Heidegger, Irigaray, and the
Critique of
Nietzsche’s Subjectivity
Benjamin Schultz – Swarthmore College (Swarthmore,
PA)
Discussant: Ali Kinsella
(University of Dayton)
1:30-4:00
Awards Banquet (Otsego
Grille – reservations required)
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