Friday, March 27, 2009

9:00 - 9:30am  Opening Remarks

            Dr. Scott R. Stroud, SSP Director, University of Texas-Pan American 

            Dr. Michael Faubion, Chair, Department of History & Philosophy, University of Texas-Pan American

9:30 - 12:00  Panel One: Explorations in Power, Art, and Knowledge 

Chair:  Bianca Cantu, University of Texas-Pan American

Ryan Johnson, Kent State University, “Locating the Abject in the Third Critique"

Ravi Doshi, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, “Power:  An Examination of John Locke and A.N. Whitehead”

Nan Rankin, Austin Peay State University, “John Stuart Mill’s Higher and Lower Pleasures: A

            Reexamination”

Edric Pacheco, University of Texas-Pan American, “Isn’t There Something More? Revisiting Descartes’ Sixth Meditation”

12:00- 2:00  Lunch (on your own) 

2:00 - 4:00  Keynote Address  

Dr. Roger T. Ames, University of Hawaii at Manoa, “Confucian Role Ethics: A Vision of the Moral Life”

Chair:  Edric Pacheco, University of Texas-Pan American

Joshua Trevino, University of Dallas, “The Rhetorical Art: A Psychology of Phaedrus" 

Kristl Nowell, State University of New York at Buffalo, “Self-Sufficiency in Aristotle: The Necessity of Friendship” 

Tiffany Speegle, College of Wooster, “‘Have You No /Aidōs/?’: The Positive Value of Shame in Homer, Plato, and Aristotle” 

Mary Anne Taylor, University of Texas at Austin, “Nails on a Chalkboard:  An Aristotelian and Contemporary Examination of the Biology of Voice in Feminine Style”

Saturday, March 28, 2009

9 – 10:45am  Panel Three: Nietzsche’s Legacy in Philosophy   

Chair:  Sherley Edinbarough, University of Texas-Pan American

Bruce Johnson, Nebraska Wesleyan University, “Nietzsche’s Man of the Future” 

Aaron McClain, University of Tennessee, “Contempt and Disgust in the Journey of Zarathustra” 

Steven J. Winkelman, University of St. Thomas, “Virtue, Universality, and Inclination: Nietzsche's Critique of Kant's Moral Philosophy”

11:00 – 12:45 Panel Four: Language, Knowledge, and Other Minds 

Chair:  Roel Cantu, University of Texas-Pan American

Manoranjan Mallick, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, “Revisiting Solipsism: A Wittgensteinian Way” 

Jose Raul Davis, Texas A&M University, “The Blessed Heretic: An Apologetic Meditation on the Philosophy of the God Intoxicated Man” 

Raphael Ng, University of Toronto, “Poetic Language and the Hermeneutic Process of Bearing the Message”

12:45 - 2:00  Lunch (on your own)

2:00 - 3:45   Panel Five: Philosophy and Human Flourishing 

            Chair:  Flor Rodriguez, University of Texas-Pan American

Andrew Johnson, Louisiana State University, “Empire-building: Territory and Population” 

Audrey Anton, Ohio State University, “Is There Really a Relationship Between Moral Responsibility and Blameworthiness?”

Gregory Wolcott, Loyola University Chicago, “Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach and the Problem of Religion”

Chair:  Ashley Cedillo, University of Texas-Pan American

Veronica Sosa, St. Mary’s University, “Today’s Middle Schools: A Philosophical & Psychological Critique of Policy & Practice” 

Ashley Bohrer, George Washington University, “Monumental Architecture as a Monumental Problem” 

Ryan Pollock, University of Dayton, “The Mass Media and Internet as Trans-actional Modes of Communication” 

Clancy Smith, Duquesne University, “Stratification and Social Psychology:  A Deleuzian Reading of Pragmatic Habit Formation”