Society for Student Philosophers Conference, Temple University

October 16-17, 2004

  All panels will be held in Anderson Hall, Room 1123  

Saturday (October 16, 2004)

8:45-9:00am             Donuts & Coffee (Anderson Hall 1123)

9-9:15              Welcome

Dr. Philip Alperson, Temple University

Scott R. Stroud, Temple University

9:15-10:45             Panel 1: Ancient Philosophy, East and West

Chair: Lori Witthaus, Grand Valley State University

Alan Pichanick, University of Chicago

“Self-Knowledge, Tyranny, and the Delphic Oracle in Plato’s Charmides”

Michael Weinman, New School for Social Research

“Nous and/as Aisthesis: Aristotle on Thinking and Being”

David Slakter, University of Oklahoma

“Just vs. Unjust Action in the Gorgias and the Gītā” 

10:45-12:15             Panel 2: Philosophy of Language

Chair:  Matthew Turner, Temple University

Jeremy E. Henkel, University of Hawaii at Manoa

“Saving Wittgenstein from Humpty Dumpty: An Account of Misuse in Language”

Michael R. Hude, University of Dallas

“The Private Language Debate Adrift: Ayer’s Error in His Response to         Wittgenstein”

Timothy Otchy, Georgia State University

“Metalanguage in the Chinese Room: A Reexamination of Searle” 

12:00-1:30              Lunch (on your own) 

1:30-3:00             Panel 3: German Philosophy and Beyond

“Kant and the Limit of Autonomy” 

Greg Wolff, Goucher College

“The Imperatives of Alterity: Kant, Levinas and Lingis” 

Jeffrey Linz, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

3:00-4:00             Panel 4: Explorations in Rhetoric and Death

                        Chair: Jennifer Wright, University of Wyoming 

Emily Catherine Katz, Duquesne University

“The Requirements for a True Art of Rhetoric in the Phaedrus” 

“Lucretius, Nagel, and the Fear of Death”

4:00PM-            Keynote Address, followed by a reception

                        Dr. Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania

                                    “Kant’s System of Duties”

Sunday (October 17, 2004)

8:45-9:00am             Donuts & Coffee

9-10:30              Panel 5: Topics in Ethics and Social Thought

Chair: Joan Grassbaugh Forry, Temple University

Jennifer Wright, University of Wyoming

“Toward an Alternative Conception of Moral Excellence: A Developmental

Account of Ethical Expertise”

 Robert Williams, Cornell University

“How Frankfurt's Notion of Free Will is Incompatible with Determinism”

  Daniel Stephens, Grand Valley State University

“Confucianism, Pragmatism, and Socially Beneficial Philosophy”

10:30-12:00             Panel 6:  Poets, Madmen, and the Psyche

Chair:  Frances Bottenberg, Temple University 

Alexandra Heifetz, Northwestern University

“A Philosophical Diagnosis for Nietzsche's Madman” 

Heather Wilburn, Oklahoma State University

“Summoning the Poet” 

Jason Radford,  Appalachian State University

“Psyche, Society, and their Relation”

12:00-1:30              Lunch (on your own) 

1:30-3:00             Panel 7: Topics in Aesthetics

Chair: Farhang Erfani, Villanova University 

Sean Landis, Texas Tech University

“Hume's Standard of Taste: Resolving Aesthetic Disputes” 

Roy Ben-Shai, New School University

“After Experience: Remarks and Afterthoughts on Dewey's Aesthetics” 

Marina Folescu, University of Western Ontario

“Is There More to Visual Representation than Depiction?”

3:10-4:50             Panel 8: Topics in Epistemology

Chair: Benjamin A. Gorman, Temple University 

Adam Feltz, Florida State University

“What is Intuition’s Place in Philosophical Inquiry?” 

Ekaterina Vavova, Mount Holyoke College

“In Defense of Externalism” 

Jonathan Matheson, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

“Examining the Role of Evidence in Plantinga’s Epistemology of Proper Functioning” 

 Conference support graciously provided by the Temple Society of Fellows in the Humanities

 For more information on the SSP, visit http://members.aol.com/Stphilsociety