Puget Sound

Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

September 18-19, 2014
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA

Conference Schedule

All talks other than the keynote address are in Trimble Forum, Trimble Hall

Thursday 9/18

1:00-1:50

 Ҏarrow Bridge Games and Their Rescue of Rational Constraints in Moral ContractualismӼo:p>

Gabriel Rusk (University of Denver)

Comments by Maia Bernick

Chair: Jeff Nickels

2:00-2:50

ҕnified Teleology: Paul Taylorճ Biocentric Egalitarianism Through AristotleӼ/span>

Zoe Grabow (DePaw University)

Comments by Austen Harrison

Chair: Rae Nathan

 

3:00-3:50

ҁ Marxist Critique of the Individual, Rational, Self-Interested, Wealth MaximizerӼo:p>

Betty Stoneman (Utah Valley University)

Comments by Lee Pennebaker

Chair: Leigh Orlando-Ward

 

4:10-5:00

Ҋustification of Memory BeliefsӼo:p>

Qimin Liu (University of Washington)

Comments by Taylor Empey

Chair: Sam Bailey

 

5:10-6:00

҂y No Mere MeansӼo:p>

Lu-Vada Dunford (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Comments by Abby Osborne

Chair: Reagan Rice

 

Friday 9/19 

10:00-10:50

Ґhilosophical ConsolationӼo:p>

Sam Taylor (Texas A&M)

Comments by Brittney High

Chair: Quinelle Bethelmie

 

11:00-11:50

Ґragmatic-Expressivist Semantics in Ovid's PoeticsӼo:p>

Jaryth Webber (University of Texas – Arlington)

Comments by Samantha Hartenbaum

Chair: Martine Kivatinetz

 

12:00-12:50

҃ontrasting Models of the God-World Relation: Avicenna, Maimonides and Al-ShahrastānīӼo:p>

Harrington Critchley (University of King's College, Canada)

Comments by Matthew Williams (University of Hawaii)

Chair: Kyle Chong

 

2:00-2:50

ҁ Self-Defeat Objection to Inductive SkepticismӼ/span>

Sam Director (Whitworth University)

Comments by Si-Won Song

Chair: Dylan Livermore

 

3:00-3:50

The Hidden Point of Intersection-Bio-politics in Foucault and AgambenӼo:p>

Jason Walsh (Case Western University)

Comments by CJ Queirolo

Chair: Kristoffer Moody

 

4:00-4:50

ҁristotle's Prime Mover: How to Import the Good into the WorldӼo:p>

Zack Stout (Reed College)

Comments by Kayla Grueneich

Chair: Benjamin Fallis

 5:30pm

Keynote Address

"The Moments of a Life:
Some Similarities Between Life and Literature"

A talk by Professor Marya Schechtman
(University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Philosophy)

Keynote address location: Tahoma Room, Commencement Hall
For more information about the keynote address, click here.

 

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