Society for Student Philosophers Annual Conference (2008)

University of Texas at Austin

Conference Location:

Lady Bird Johnson Conference Room,

Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA Building),

5th Floor, Room 160

Map of Surrounding Area

Saturday, March 1, 2008

8:45 - 9:00am Opening Remarks

Dr. Scott R. Stroud, SSP Director, University of Texas at Austin

Dr. David Sosa, Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin

9:00 - 10:45 Panel One: Topics in Moral & Political Philosophy

Tyler Paytas, University of Missouri - St. Louis “In Defense of the Harm Principle”

Travis N. Rieder, University of South Carolina, “Justifying Justifiability: Saving Scanlon for the Humeans”

Christopher Cloos, San José State University, “Reflective Equilibrium and the Dependence Problem”

11:00 - 12:30 Keynote Address

Dr. Thomas Scanlon, Harvard University, "Reasons and Rationality"

12:30- 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

2:00 - 3:45 Panel Two: Topics in Moral & Political Philosophy

Matthew Carey Jordan, Ohio State University, “The Real Moral ‘Ought’”

Hitoshi Arima, University at Buffalo, SUNY, “Explanation and Intuition: An Argument against Moral Realism”

John Milanese, University at Albany, SUNY, “Democracy and the Epistemology of Crowds”

4:00 - 6:15 Panel Three: Topics in Metaphysics and Epistemology

Mark Alan Grant, New York University, “Some Thoughts on Peacocke's Metasemantic Theory of the A Priori”

Chrysoula Gitsoulis, CUNY Graduate Center, “Are the Real Numbers Listable?”

Jonathan Charles Wright, Biola University, “The Instability of Arguments for Moderate Contextualism”

Matthew E. Kuhr, Grand Valley State University, “The Significance of Context”

 

Sunday, March 2, 2008

8 – 9:45am Panel Four: Topics in Nietzsche

Kevin W. Luczak, Biola University, “On Nietzsche’s Free Spirits: Bad Belief and the New Ideal”

Jacob Stegenga, University of California, San Diego, “Nietzsche’s Lovely Paths of Truth”

Ian Wasser, Palm Beach Community College, “Reductionism and the Will to Power”

10:00 – 11:15 Panel Five: Free Will and Rational Agency

Audrey Anton, Ohio State University, “Must Indeterminate Rational Actions be Random?”

Mikhail Predtetchenski, Southwestern University,  “That Which Does Not Have a Name: James and Huxley on Mystical Experiences”

11:30 - 12:45 Panel Six: Topics in Modern Philosophy

Nathan James Rockwood, University of Utah, “Berkeley: Necessity of Theism”

Michael Hicks, Virginia Commonwealth University, “How Rene Descartes Could Possibly Be: A New Look at an Old Modal Argument”

12:45 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

2:00 - 3:15 Panel Seven: Philosophical Issues at the Intersection of Science and Culture

Susan L. Smith, University at Buffalo, SUNY, “On the Possibility of Biological Ethnicity”

Bradley Onishi, University of California Santa Barbara, “Heidegger, Subjectivity and Information Technologies”

3:30 – 4:45 Panel Eight: New Perspectives on Ancient Philosophy

Yvana L. Mols, Trinity International University, “Simone Weil’s Philosophy of Education and Ancient Stoic Philosophical Pedagogy”

Mark Piper, St. Louis University, “Hursthouse's Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, the Slide into Consequentialism, and the Problem of Instrumentally Successful Vice”

4:45 – Closing/Goodbyes

* Papers selected for Presentation, but unable to attend:

Errol Lord, University of Nebraska, “Belief, Evidence, and Practical Reasons”

Justin Clarke-Doane, New York University, “Platonic Semantics”