Puget Sound

Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

February 12-13, 2016
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA

Conference Schedule

All talks other than the keynote addresses are in
Murray Board Room (in Wheelock Student Center)
Read more about the conference here

 

Friday 2/12

10:00-10:50

ÒLiteracy and the SoulÓ

Corey Horn (Eastern Washington University)

Comments by Nick Navarro
Chair: Padideh Aghanoury


11:00-11:50

ÒOn Art, Morality, and the Subject: Revisiting the Relation between Ethics and AestheticsÓ

KŽvin-Orly Irak—ze (Connecticut College)

Comments by Kayla Grueneich
Chair: Gryphon Goodrich

 

12:00-12:50

ÒPhilosophy, Poetry, and the SelfÓ

Siobhain McGuinness (University of Nevada, Reno)

Comments by Nathaniel Bohn
Chair: Colleen Hanson

 

2:00-2:50

ÒPictures of Rule-FollowingÓ

Elek Lane (University of Chicago)

Comments by Jack McGougan
Chair: Chase Chamberlain

 

3:00-3:50

ÒRevisiting RussellÕs Theory of Descriptions,Ó

Patrick Henning (California State University, Fullerton)

Comments by Quinelle Bethelmie
Chair: Karine McCulloch

 

4:00-4:50

ÒThomas Aquinas's Classical Theism on the Goodness of God and Evil as Privatio BoniÓ

Garry Moore Soronio (UCLA)

Comments by Eileen Mapes-Riordan
Chair: Kaitlin Cochran

 

5:30-6:45

Keynote Address

ÒStimulating the Self: Neural Technologies and AgencyÓ
A talk by Professor Sara Goering (University of Washington)
Keynote address location: Tahoma Room, Commencement Hall
Abstract available here
 


Saturday 2/13 

10:00-10:50

ÒWhy Would Berlin Mischaracterize Rousseau?Ó
Sean McGuire (Portland State University)
Comments by Kyle Chong

Chair: Jessica Chan-Ugalde

 

11:00-11:50

ÒHegel on a Better Understanding of FreedomÓ

Gareth Walsh (University of Chicago)

Comments by Reagan Rice

Chair: Conor OÕKeefe

 

12:00-12:50

ÒEmpirical and Epistemological Implications of an

Enactive Sensorimotor Contingency TheoryÓ

Celine Geday (Portland State University)
Comments by Kristoffer Moody
Chair: Rae Nathan

 

2:00-2:50

ÒCircling the Truth: Model Selection Criteria as a

Metric of Verisimilitude in Theory SelectionÓ

K. Raleigh Hansen (Washington State University)

Comments Dylan Livermore
Chair: Peter OÕMeara

 

3:00-3:50

ÒThe Emperor's New Fabric of SpacetimeÓ

Brittney High (Puget Sound)

Comments by Si-Won Song Ô15

Chair: Daniel Noyed

 

4:00-4:50

ÒWhat Exactly is This 'Existentialism' Thing Everyone is Talking About

and Why Would Anyone Ever Want to Achieve it?Ó

Martine Kivatinetz (Puget Sound)

Comments by Maia Bernick Ô15

Chair: Dilara Artikaslan

 

 5:30-6:45

Keynote Address

ÒRelativism and Ambivalence between
Relationship and AutonomyÓ
A talk by Professor David Wong (Duke University)
Keynote address location: Tahoma Room, Commencement Hall
Abstract available here


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