Student Research Presentations
- Alex Clark, "True Beliefs and Their Utility in Pragmatism's Conception of Truth," 2015 Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Armstrong State University and Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GA, April 25, 2015.
- Jessica Holloman, "What is Worth Knowing", UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March 25, 2015.
- Alex Clark, "The Philosophic Nature Will Eventually Belong to the Practicing Jain Layman", 14th Annual Steven Humphrey Student Philosophy Colloquium, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, November 14, 2014.
Vanova Robles, "Cyborg Ethics: A Post-Humanist Critique of Animal Essentialism in DeGrazia's Human Identity and Bioethics," 10th Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, March 28-29, 2014.
- Amy Hayes, "Emerson + Honey Boo Boo = WINNING!," Georgia Southern Pop Culture Conference, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, April 19 - 20, 2013.
- Lindy Oller, "Beyond Plato's Cave: An Allegorical Investigation of Human Development," Georgia Southern Pop Culture Conference, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, April 19 - 20, 2013.
- C. Moose Wylde, "Why Shouldn't I get a Tattoo: A Virtue Ethical Approach," Georgia Southern Pop Culture Conference, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, April 19 - 20, 2013. (To be published in the conference's Proceedings.)
- Dalila Ozier, "The Lesbian in Love: Female Homosexuality as an Escape from Male Power?," National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2013, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, April 11 - 13, 2013.
- Amy Hayes, "Neighbor Love: Ned Flanders Channels Kierkegaard," Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy, April 2013.
- C. Moose Wylde, "The Story of Our Body," 14th Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of North Carolina--Asheville, Asheville, NC, March 23, 2013. (Winner, Best Presentation: 2nd Place)
- Dalila Ozier, "The Lesbian in Love: Female Homosexuality As an Escape from Male Power?" UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March 13, 2013.
- Alex Richardson, "Building a Bridge Toward Praxis: Moving from Heideggerian Thought to a Pragmatic Environmental Ethic in an Epoch of Urgency," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March 13, 2013.
- Lindy Oller, "Beyond Plato's Cave: An Allegorical Investigation of Human Dwelling," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March 13, 2013.
- Savannah Grizzard, "A 'Queery' of Social Structure: Applying Young's Phenomenological Social Critique to Homosexual Behavior," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, March 6, 2013.
- Chazz Hall, "Questioning Nature: An Inquiry into the Piety of Thought," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, March 6, 2013.
- Amy Hayes, "Neighbor Love: Ned Flanders Channels Kierkegaard," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, March 6, 2013.
- Joshua Moore, "Modern Dwelling Through Artful Architecture: Locating Humanity in the Unification of the Built and Natural Environments," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, March 6, 2013.
- Lindy Oller, "Beyond Plato's Cave: An Allegorical Investigation of Human Development," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, March 6, 2013.
- Alex M. Richardson, "Escaping Invisibility: A Phenomenological Deconstruction of Normative Heterosexuality in Contemporary Society," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, March 6, 2013.
- Matthew Soulsby, "Socratic Irony: It Is Not Done Boastfully," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, March 6, 2013.
- C. Moose Wylde, "Harmony and Love in The Symposium," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, March 6, 2013.
- C. Moose Wylde, "The Story of Our Body," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, March 6, 2013.
- Amy Hayes, "Neighbor Love - Ned Flanders Channels Kierkegaard," Sixth Annual Southeast Philosophy Congress, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA, February 2013.
- Alex Richardson, "Building a Bridge Toward Praxis: Moving from Heideggerian Thought to a Pragmatic Environmental Ethic in an Epoch of Urgency," Sixth Annual Southeast Philosophy Congress, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA, February 2013.
- C. Moose Wylde, "The Story of Our Body," Sixth Annual Southeast Philosophy Congress, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA, February 2013.
- Dalila Ozier, "May The Best Method Win: Cartesian Skepticism Versus The Pragmatic Maxim," 2012 Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium, Albany State University, Albany, Georgia, October 25, 2012.
- Micah Dickie "Reactions to Sartre's Call to Responsibility," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 12, 2012.
- Micah Dickie, "An Exploration of Peirce’s Method of Science," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 12, 2012.
- RaeAnna Hogle "Camus vs. DeBeauvoir," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 12, 2012.
- Kevin King, "Divine Revelation and Instrumental Religion," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 12, 2012.
- Andrew McKown "Atheist and Religious Existentialism," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 12, 2012.
- Alex Richardson, "Perniciously Relative: A Critical Analysis of Dewey’s Pragmatic Account of Truth," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 12, 2012.
- Alex Richardson, "Perniciously Relative: A Critical Analysis of Dewey’s Pragmatic Account of Truth," 9th Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 6-7, 2012. (Included in the Selected Proceedings of the conference.)
- Kevin King, "Socrates and Law as One’s Own," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), April 3, 2012. (First Place Winner; also presented at Big Night)
- Dalila Ozier "Leaving the Vat: A Critical Examination of Putnam’s Brains," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), April 3, 2012.
- Joshua Moore, "Libertarianism," National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2012, Weber State University, Ogden, UT, March 29 - 31, 2012.
- Alex Richardson, "Perniciously Relative: A Critical Analysis of Dewey’s Pragmatic Account of Truth," Fifth Annual Southeast Philosophy Congress, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA, February 18, 2012.
- Matt Lee, "Ancient Philosophy and Modern Medicine," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 7, 2011.
- Elizabeth Mathis, "Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and Concepts of Personhood," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 7, 2011.
- Lewis Williams, "A Defense of Suicide," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 7, 2011.
- Joshua Moore, "Hume's Natural Religion: Challenging the Status of Philo as Hume's Mouthpiece," National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2011, Ithaca University, Ithaca, NY, March 31 - April 2, 2011.
- Leviell Waits, "Charles Sanders Peirce: Discrepancies with the Final Opinion," Fourth Annual Southeast Philosophy Congress, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA, February 18-19, 2011.
- Philip Brewer, "Heidegger and the Ontological Difference: Listening to What Speaks in Heidegger's 'Es Gibt'," 7th Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 16-17, 2010. (Included in the Selected Proceedings of the conference.)
- Donny Smith, "Dewey and Truth as Epistemology," 7th Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 16-17, 2010. (Included in the Selected Proceedings of the conference.)
- Charles Bauch, "David Lynch's The Elephant Man and Martin Heidegger: Freaks in a Technological World," 24th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, April 17, 2010.
- Alice Barker, "A Critical Evaluation of Peirce's Defense of the Method of Science in 'The Fixation of Belief,'" UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 8, 2010.
- Kevin King, "Theory and Practice," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 8, 2010.
- Eduardo Mendez, "The Will to Believe and Academic Honesty," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 8, 2010.
- Donny Smith, "Dewey and Truth as Epistemology," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 8, 2010.
- Philip Brewer, "The Distinction Between Being and Beings: Listening to What Speaks in Heidegger’s 'Es Gibt'," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March 3, 2010.
- Geoff Lundeen, "Gadamer and Constitutional Hermeneutics," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March 3, 2010.
- Eduardo Mendez , "Heidegger and the Question Concerning Education," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March 3, 2010. (Third Place Winner)
- Anna Potter, "The Political and the Poetic: Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt on Discourse," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March 3, 2010. (Second Place Winner)
- Charles Bauch, "Heidegger, Worldhood, and The Rosary," 2009 Undergraduate English and Philosophy Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 9, 2009.
- Charles Bauch, "Virtue Ethics and Capitalist Power," 2009 Culture and Conflict Conference, Macon State College, Macon, GA, April 4, 2009.
- Timothy Wright, "Facebook Me: A Phenomenological Examination of the Virtual Community," 2009 National Technology and Social Science Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 5-7.
- Charles Bauch, "Heidegger, Worldhood, and the Rosary," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March, 2009. (Third Place Winner)
- Geoff Lundeen, "Søren Kierkegaard’s 'Anti-Intellectualism'", UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March, 2009. (First Place Winner; also presented at Big Night)
- Donny Smith, "Suicide as the Fundamental Philosophical Problem," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March, 2009.
- Timothy Wright, "Facebook Me: A Phenomenological Examination of the Virtual Community," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March, 2009.
- Charles Bauch, "Heidegger, Worldhood, and The Rosary," 2009 Meeting of the Georgia Collegiate Honors Council, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, February 27-28.
- Timothy Wright, "Facebook Me: A Phenomenological Examination of the Virtual Community," 2009 Meeting of the Georgia Collegiate Honors Council, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, February 27-28.
- Charles Bauch, "A Phenomenological Understanding of the Rosary Considering Heidegger’s Conception of Worldhood," Second Annual Southeast Philosophy Congress, Clayton State University, Atlanta, GA, February 14, 2009. (Included in the Proceedings of the conference.)
- Timothy Wright, "Facebook Me: A Phenomenological Examination of the Virtual Community," Second Annual Southeast Philosophy Congress, Clayton State University, Atlanta, GA, February 13, 2009.
- Charles Bauch, "Virtue Ethics and Capitalist Power," 2008 Undergraduate English [and Philosophy] Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 3, 2008.
- Philip Brewer, "Unmasking the Underground," 2008 Undergraduate English [and Philosophy] Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 3, 2008.
- Shelley Donaldson, "A Reformed View of Natural Theology," 2008 Undergraduate English [and Philosophy] Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 3, 2008.
- Anna Potter, "The Whole Nine Yards, or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Existentialists," 2008 Undergraduate English [and Philosophy] Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 3, 2008.
- Timothy Wright, "The Sacred Whore," 2008 Undergraduate English [and Philosophy] Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 3, 2008.
- Charles Bauch, "Virtue Ethics and Capitalist Power," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March 2008. (Second Place Winner)
- Philip Brewer, "Inertia, the Best Good, and the Proliferation of Doubt: Inquiry into a Postmodern Underground," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March 2008.
- Timothy Wright, "The Sacred Whore," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March 2008.
- Charles Bauch, "Virtue Ethics and Capitalist Power," Southeast Philosophy Conference, Clayton State University, Atlanta, GA, February 16, 2008. (Included in the Proceedings of the conference.)
- Timothy Wright, "The Sacred Whore," Southeast Philosophy Conference, Clayton State University, Atlanta, GA, February 16, 2008.
- Philip Brewer, "Truth Beyond Meaning," Fifth Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 6-7, 2007.
- David Ellis, "Morality and the Absurd," Fifth Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy COnference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 6-7, 2007.
- Timothy Wright, "'What's It All For?' An Examination of the Original Purpose of Government and a Critique of the Results," Fifth Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy COnference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 6-7, 2007.
- David Ellis, "Morality and the Absurd," Annual Georgia Student Philosophy Symposium, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, March 30, 2007.
- Philip Brewer, "Truth Beyond Meaning," Eleventh Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference, Jacksonville, FL, March 9-10, 2007.
- David Ellis, "Morality and the Absurd," Eleventh Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference, Jacksonville, FL, March 9-10, 2007.
- Charles Bauch, "Not Just Deserts, but the Whole Meal," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), March 2007.
- Michelle Fellows, "Peirce's Appropriately Named Argument for the Reality of God," Tenth Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference, Jacksonville, FL, March 10-11, 2006.
- Michelle Fellows, "A Defense of Prejudice," Fourth Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, March 30-April 1, 2006.
- Kristina Swim, "Was Martin Heidegger Duped by Nazism?", Fourth Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, March 30-April 1, 2006. [Winner, "Distinguished Undergraduate Philosophy Paper" Award ]
- Timothy Wright, "A Defense of Ethical Egoism," Fourth Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, March 30-April 1, 2006.
- David Ellis, "The Problems with Capital Punishment, and Possible Resolutions," UWG Research Day, Humanities Section, March 2006. (Second Place Winner)
- Brian Larkin, "Virtue Ethics and the Military Profession, Third Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 2, 2005.
- Kristina Swim, "Was Charles Peirce a Phenomenologist?," Third Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 2, 2005.
- Michelle Fellows, "Love is Truth," Third Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 1, 2005.
- Karen Reed, "Kantian Friendship," Third Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 1, 2005.
- Michelle Fellows, "Love is Truth," University of Memphis Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN, February 24, 2005.
- Karen Reed, "Kantian Friendship," UWG Research Day, Humanities Section, February 2005.
- Kristina Swim, "'I a Child and Thou a Lamb': Leon Kass' Criticism of Reproductive Human Cloning," UWG Research Day, Humanities Section, February 2005. (Second Place Winner)
- Kristina Swim, "Was Charles Peirce a Phenomenologist?," 52nd Annual Southeastern Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA, February 26, 2005.
Kristina Swim, "'I a Child and Thou a Lamb': Leon Kass' Criticism of Reproductive Human Cloning," Second Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 10, 2004.
- Shannon Kelley, "De/Construction, Discourse, and Power: Some Thoughts on the Implications for Political Action in Post-Modern Theory," Fifth Annual Southern Appalachian Philosophy Conference, University of North Carolina - Asheville, Asheville, NC, April 13, 2002.
- Melissa Reeve, "Persuasion in Plato's Protagoras," Fifth Annual Southern Appalachian Philosophy Conference, University of North Carolina - Asheville, Asheville, NC, April 13, 2002.