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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