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Society for Philosophy
in the Contemporary World |
2:00-3:00 p.m. Registration
3:00-5:00 Open Group Discussion:
What is the role and significance of philosophy in the contemporary world?
5:00-6:00
Reception
9-10:30
Courtney E.
Cole
Afrikaner Claims for Cultural Recognition: Problematizing
the Western Discourse of Multiculturalism
Eddy Souffrant
Unnatural Acts
10:45-12:15
Krassimir
Stojanov
Cosmopolitan Identities as an Issue of the Philosophy of Education
Dawn Jakubowski
Beyond Cultural Survival: Transforming Subjectivity
2:00-4:15
Mary Kate
McGowan,
Pornography and the Power to Subordinate
Marguerite
La Caze,
The Encounter Between Wonder and Generosity
7:00-9:00
Business Meeting -- Stiv Fleishman, Chair
Wednesday, July 25
9:00-10:45
Panel Discussion
Trudy Conway, Jerry Conway, Lani Roberts:
Compassion: Possibilities, Limits, and Barriers
11-12:30
Ana Lita, (NO SHOW)
Aesthetic
Perception and Moral Change in Iris Murdoch’s Ethics
James B.
Sauer,
Why Is A River More than the Water that Runs Through It?:
On the Inherent Value of Ecological Systems
Afternoon Group Activity: Hike??
7:00-9:30
Film and Discussion: Trudy Conway
Thursday, July 26
9:00-10:30
John Draeger,
Social Practice from an Emotional Point of View
Suzanne Cataldi,
Making a Game of Killing: Fantasy, Reality and the Violence at
10:45-12:15
George A. Teschner,
Technology, Time, and the Holocaust
Frank W. Derringh,
Is Coerced Fertility Reduction to Preserve Nature Justifiable?
2:00-4:15
Edward J. Grippe,
Socrates, Plato, and the Tao
Guang-rui
Lu,
The Truth of Western Music, Philosophy, and Contemporary Chinese Symphonies
Michael Krausz,
Making Music: Beyond Intentions
4:30-6:45
Matthew
L. Williamson, (NO SHOW)
Nietzsche’s
Intention: A Historical View
Christopher
Chapman,
Thinking with Heidegger about Software Usability
Peter Gratton, (NO SHOW)
Liquid Rhizomes: Between the Disciplines of Philosophy and Economics
7:00 p.m.
Friday, July 27
9:00-10:30
David DeMoss,
Neuroscience and Free Moral Agency
Dave Beisecker,
Dennett and the Quest for Real Meaning
10:45-12:15
Patricia Kay Trentacoste,
Why Aren’t ‘Moral’ Humans Moral? An Argument for Considering Personality as the Foundational Link between Character and Context
Rick
O’Neil,
Narrative Interests and Posthumous Harm
2:00-5:00
Stiv Fleishman,
Figuring Out How Tnings Are: What We Do With Logic and Without It
Michael Krausz,
Ontology and the Aims of Interpretation: Toward a Constructive Realism
Vera Jakoby,
Discourse and Noetic Uncertainty: Ludwig Wittgenstein
on Cultural Dialogue