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
Saturday January 20, 2007
8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Opening Remarks
Dr. Scott R. Stroud, Director, Society for Student Philosophers,
University of Texas at Austin
Dr. David Sosa, Chair, Department of Philosophy,
University of Texas at Austin
8:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Panel One
Topics in Metaphysics
Chair: Malte Willer, University of Texas at Austin
“The Concept of Disposition”
Steven Halady,
State University of New York, Buffalo
“Libet and the Accuracy Problem of Subjective Timing”
Adam Feltz, Florida State University
“What can Four-Dimensionalists coherently say?”
Amanda Hicks, State University of New York, Buffalo
10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Panel Two
Topics in Ancient Philosophy
Chair: Benjamin Rider, University of Texas at Austin
“How Obsolete is Aristotle’s View on the Soul?”
Andrei Zavaliy, CUNY Graduate Center
“The Unity of the Polity: Proclus v. Aristotle”
Kevin Honeycutt, Emory University
“Another Look at Parmenides’ Poem”
Kristin Hulburt, University of Chicago
12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break
Public Service for Dr. Robert Solomon, noon, at the Campus Club in Walter Webb Hall (at Guadalupe and 25th street)
3:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Panel Three
Topics in Epistemology & Philosophy of Mind
Chair: Timothy Pickavance, University of Texas at Austin
“The Value Problem and Valuable Justification”
John Gabriel, University of Missouri, Saint Louis
“Statistics and Randomness”
J. Clayton Shoppa, Boston College
“A Defense of Neale on the Problem of Incompleteness”
Adam True Bendorf, Western Michigan University
4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Break
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Keynote Address I
“Asian Ars Erotica and the Transfiguration of the Commonplace”
Dr. Richard Shusterman, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University
6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Reception
7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. Panel Four
Judgment and Emotion in Moral Philosophy
Chair: Eleanor Vernon, University of Texas at Austin
“Asymmetries in Folk Judgments of Responsibility and Intentional Action”
Jennifer Wright, University of Wyoming,
John Bengson, University of Texas at Austin
“Regret, Responsibility, and Revision”
Audrey Anton, Ohio State University
Sunday, January 21, 2007
8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Panel Five
Topics in Aesthetics
Chair: Jenn Neilson, University of Texas at Austin
“Are There Philosophical Problems? Metaphysics and the Ontology of Aesthetics”
Michael Hannon, York University
“When Bad is Good: Can Ethicism really account for the Morally Bad but Aesthetically Good?”
Alisa Wandzilak, State University of New York, Buffalo
“Hume's Aesthetics: The Circle Completely Broken”
Joseph J. Hinkins, Grand Valley State University
9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Panel Six
New Approaches to Old Themes in German Philosophy
Chair: Blinn Combs, University of Texas at Austin
“Nietzsche and Buddhism: Eternal Recurrence and the Escape from Reincarnation”
Heidi Sloan, Baylor University
“A Modest Refutation”
Dustin Tune, University of Mississippi
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Keynote Address II
“Language as logos and Language as Talk: The Work of Philosophy”
Dr. Alexander P.D. Mourelatos, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, University of Texas at Austin
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Break
2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Panel Seven
New Approaches to Ethics and Action
Chair: Danielle Carducci, University of Texas at Austin
“Species Value and the Implications of Objective, Pluralistic Species Concepts for Species Conservation”
Benjamin Shinn Horne, Colorado State University
“On Folk Ascriptions of Intentional Action”
Jeff Dauer, University of Missouri-St. Louis
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Panel Eight
Skepticism, Epistemology, and Logic
Chair: Hsiang-Yun Chen, University of Texas at Austin
“Metajustification, Skepticism and the A Priori”
Andrew D. Spear, State University of New York, Buffalo
“Lotteries and Defeaters”
Jeremy E. Finzel, Biola University
“Doubting Doubt about the Laws of Logic”
John Milanese, State University of New York, Albany
5:15 p.m. – Closing / Goodbyes
Dr. Lori Witthaus, Assistant Director, Society for Student
Philosophers, Southwest Minnesota State University
The SSP would like to thank the sponsors of this event for their gracious support.