Puget Sound
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
January 31-
February 1 2019
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
Thursday
1/31
2:30-3:20
“Aristotle’s Functionalism: Psyche’s Relevance to Contemporary Philosophy of Mind”
Cassie Finley (Pacific University)
Comments by Holden Chen (Puget
Sound)
Chair: Sienna Murphy
3:30-4:20
“Listening to Music: A Philosophical Account”
Paskalina Bourbon (Pomona College)
Comments by Sammy Jones (Puget
Sound)
Chair: Colleen Hanson
5:00-6:30
Keynote Address
“The Philosophy
of Accidentality”
A talk by Professor Manuel Vargas (University of
California, San Diego)
Keynote
address location: Trimble Hall, Trimble Forum
Abstract available here
Friday 2/1
10:00-10:50
“The Failure of
Hope as an Epistemic Standard”
William Perrin
(Pepperdine University)
Comments by Colleen Hanson (Puget Sound)
Chair: Samantha Lilly
11:00-11:50
“Mt. Olympus, Gotham City, and Metropolis: The Power of Heroism in Shaping Cultures and Futures”
Julia French (University of Notre Dame)
Comments by Sam Place (Puget
Sound)
Chair: Madilyn Ivey
12:00-12:50
“The Truth in the Falsification of Artificial Intelligence”
Mariah Jacobs (Pacific University)
Comments
by August Malueg (Puget Sound)
Chair: Thalia Barr-Malec
2:00-2:50
“UBI as Regular
Payment: Egalitarian Safeguard or Dose of Paternalism?”
Sun Woo Lee (Stanford University)
Comments by Brian Kim (Puget
Sound)
Chair: Guillermo Ruiz
3:00-3:50
“How to Solve Moral Conundrums with Computability Theory”
Jongmin Jerome Baek (University of California, Berkeley)
Comments
by Liam Grantham (Puget Sound)
Chair:
Erland Cain
4:00-4:50
“Statistical Mechanics and the Past Hypothesis”
Angela Lee (University of California, Berkeley)
Comments
by Emory Brigden (Puget Sound)
Chair: James
Conley
Conference
Poster
For more information, email us with any questions.
Puget Sound Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Main Page
Puget Sound Philosophy Department