Society for Student Philosophers Annual Conference
October 1-2, 2005
Program
Saturday, October 1
9-9:15am Opening Remarks
Scott R. Stroud, Director, Society for Student Philosophers, Temple University
Dr. Kelly Parker, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Grand Valley State University
Dean Frederick Antczak, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Grand Valley State University
9:15 - 11:15 Panel One: Ethics, Practical Judgment, and Moral Theory
Chair: Lori Witthaus, Grand Valley State University
"Problems with Situationism and First-Person Deliberation"
Brandon Warmke, Northern Illinois University
"Foolish Games: Hobbes and the Safer Strategy of Trustworthiness"
Iskra Fileva, Boston University
"Stratified Pluralism"
John Weller, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“The Senecan Self in the ‘Epistulae Morales’”
Charles A. Hobbs, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
11:15-12:00 Break, refreshments provided
12:00- 1:30 Keynote Address
"Radical Evil in the Lockean State: The Neglect of the Political Emotions"
Dr. Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
1:30 - 3:00 Lunch
3:00-4:45 Panel Two: Philosophy, Progress, and Belief
Chair: John Uglietta, Grand Valley State University
"A Picture held us Captive: A Case Study in Wittgensteinian Philosophical Therapy"
Mark Alfano, Princeton University
"Linguistic Rule Following as Ineffable Know-how in Light of a Use-based Theory of Meaning: Wittgenstein and Polanyi"
Daniel Stephens, Grand Valley State University
"Children, Philosophy, and Diagrammatics"
Deborah Foucault Etheridge, Montclair State University
"Belief and Responsibility"
Jonathan Matheson, University of Rochester
4:45 - 5:00 Break
5:00-6:45 Panel Three: New Directions in Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
Chair: Ronald Loeffler, Grand Valley State University
"Color Experience: Content, Character, and the Enduring Contingency"
Liberty Jaswal, University of California at San Diego
"John Perry on Tense and Qualia"
Sabrina Bano Jamil, Florida State University
"Friedman’s Neo-Kantianism and Quinean Holism"
Michael J. DeMoor, Institute for Christian Studies
"Contextualism Exposed" Michael Martin, Northern Illinois University
Sunday, October 2
9-10:30am Panel Four: Aristotle on Ethics and Virtue
Chair: Matthew Fitzsimmons, Grand Valley State University
"Politics III.4: Distinguishing Good Persons from Good Citizens"
Eric Chelstrom, State University of New York at Buffalo
"O Dearest Friend, Shalt Thou Mine Lover Be? Love as an Excess of Friendship in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics"
Emil Salim, Texas A & M University
"‘What it’s like’ to be a Person of Practical Wisdom: An Analysis of the Phenomenology of Practical Experience in Aristotle’s Ethics and Psychology"
Andrew D. Spear, State University of New York at Buffalo
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:15 Panel Five: Looking at the Emotions
Chair: Alessandro Giovannelli, Grand Valley State University
"Modular Affective Judgments: A Defense of the Judgment Theory of Emotion"
Leonard Flier, State University of New York at Buffalo
"Love at First Sight: Is it possible?"
Jenifer Kalamian, California State University Long Beach
"Amusement and the Philosophy of Emotion: An Estimate and Proposal"
Joseph T. Palencik, State University of New York at Buffalo
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Panel Six: Kant: Epistemological and Moral Themes
Chair: Scott R. Stroud, Temple University
"A Defense of Kant’s Transcendental Argument for Realism"
Henry Southgate, Northwestern University
"Aristotle and Kant: Superficial Similarities and Underlying Differences"
Anthony Carreras, Duquesne University
"Duty and Inclination: Defending Kant against accusations of misanthropic Friendships and the ‘Moral Automaton’ Problem"
Audrey Anton, State University of New York at Buffalo
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:45 Panel Seven: Virtue and Enlightenment, East-West
Chair: Jacob Heidenreich, Grand Valley State University
"Absurd Autonomy: Kant, Camus, and the Gita"
Benjamin Lukey, University of Hawaii at Manoa
"Aporia, or Understanding Virtue: A Study in Meno’s Paradox"
Octavian Gabor, Purdue University
"The Obligations of the Enlightened Self in Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave' and the Zen 'Ox-herding Pictures’"
Rob Golder, Swarthmore College
4:45 - 5:00 Closing / Goodbyes
Dr. Lori Witthaus, Grand Valley State University