Society for Student Philosophers Annual Conference
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
April 9-11, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
1 - 1:15pm Opening Remarks
Dr. Scott R. Stroud, SSP Director, University of Texas at Austin
1:15 - 3 Panel One: Self, Affect, and Moral Self-Realization
Robert N. Spicer, Rutgers University, “You're There and then You're Not: The Politics of Death and Affect”
Matthew B. Morris, University of Texas at Austin, “The Persuasion of Self in Everyday Life: Erving Goffman, Style, and Poststructuralism”
Julian Roel Gonzalez, Colorado State University, “Exploration of the Capabilities Approach and Its Accessibility”
3 - 4:45 Panel Two: Kant, Communication, and Aesthetic Judgment
Ryan Johnson, Kent State University, “An Accord In/On Kantian Aesthetics”
Elizabeth Fleming, Marshall University, “Limitless Beauty – Sublime?”
Danee Pye, University of Texas at Austin, “The Problem with Genre: Toward a Reinterpretation of Genre as Kantian Schemata”
5 - 7:00 Keynote Address 1
Dr. Gerard A. Hauser, Professor of Communication Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Prisoners of Conscience and the Thick Moral Vernacular of Human Rights”
Saturday, April 10, 2010
8:30 - 9:45 Panel Three: Media, Technology, and Philosophy
Russell Waltz, University of Kansas, “A Broad-Context Perspective: Uncovering the Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of the Distortion of Information via News Presentation”
Daniel Susser, SUNY Stony Brook University, “Absent Bodies: Nietzsche and the Experience of Electronically Mediated Communication”
10 - 12:00 Keynote Address 2
Dr. Larry A. Hickman, Professor of Philosophy & Director of the Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale,
“Communicating Across Religious
Philosophies: Can We All Get Along?”
12 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
2 - 3:45 Panel Four: Phenomenology, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics
J. Scott Andrews, Pennsylvania State University, “Late Husserl for the Rhetorical Critic”
Jessica Brophy, University of Maine, “Challenging Dualisms Through Phenomenological Space: The Bathroom Problem”
Adriana Kowal, Gonzaga University, “Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception: Understanding Ethics through Aesthetics”
4 - 5:45 Panel Five: Complicating Identity and Agency
Hannah Tierney, Lewis & Clark College, “J.C.C. Smart's Denial of the Necessity of Identity”
Joshua Hanan, University of Texas at Austin, “Beyond Hermeneutics: Rethinking Rhetoric's Relationship to Agency and Structure”
Karina V. Vold, University of Toronto, “A Defense of the Extended Mind Thesis”
Sunday, April 12, 2010
8:30 - 10:15am Panel Six: Semantics, Expressivism, and Moral Judgment
Lauren Leydon-Hardy, Brandeis University, “Context Sensitive Semantics and Testimony”
Ralph DiFranco, Texas Tech University, “A Semantic Internalist Account of Racial Epithets”
Andrew Fyfe, University of Washington, “'If I Were You I'd...': Make-Believe Plans and Gibbardian Expressivism”
10:30 – 11:45 Panel Seven: Art and Aesthetic Judgment
Douglas J. Vanston, Marywood University, “Inside and Out: A Dualistic Understanding of Aesthetic Judgments”
Nicole P. D'Amore, Rutgers University, “Inexplicable Variables of Music on Epistemic Memory”
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch (on your own)
1 - 2:15 Panel Eight: Topics in Ancient Philosophy
Catherine E. Morrison, University of Rhode Island, “Letting Something Be said to Us: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and the Ontological Foundations of Doxa”
David Redmond, University of Missouri-St. Louis, “Splitting the Horns of the Euthyphro Dilemma”
2:30 - 3:15 Panel Nine: Disagreement, Meaning, and Possibility in Communication
Matthew Coate, SUNY Stony Brook, “Foucault: On the Threshold of the Unthinkable”
Steve Gallagher, Rutgers University, “Conversational Systems and Meaning”
3:30 – 4:45 Panel Ten: Topics in Ontology and Communication
Sandy Skene, University of Colorado, Denver, “Variable Reality: The Existential Communication of Carnap and Quine”
Brendan Shea, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Much Ado About Nothing: A Bayesian Argument for Ontological Anti-Realism”
4:45 – Closing Remarks