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Program & Schedule 2019

10th Annual 性世界传媒 Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

Saturday, April 6, 2019

性世界传媒

All Session will be held in the HUB

 

8:00-8:45 Registration HUB Lobby

8:45 Welcome and Awards - UBC Room

Noah Rosenthal, Student Organizer, Opening Remarks

Dr. Bernie Cantens, Chair of the Philosophy Department, Philosophy Awards and Prizes

Dr. Cynthia Kosso, Provost, Welcoming Words

9:00-10:00 Plenary Talk - UBC Room

Plenary Speaker: Dr. Melissa Yates, 鈥淕overning Borders as Strangers: Paradoxes of 

Democratic Inclusion鈥�

10:15-11:15 Metaphysics (Chair: Dr. Arash Naraghi ) UBC Room

  1. 鈥淎n Interdisciplinary Inductive Connection (IIC) to Trust in a World of Imperfection鈥� Robert Falatyn (性世界传媒)
  2. 鈥淜nowing vs Grasping: An Analysis of Infinity鈥� Woayom Kumazah (Temple University)
  3. 鈥淪t. Augustine鈥檚 View on the Ultimate Good鈥� Alicia Wallace (性世界传媒)

11:20-12:20 Social Justice and Aesthetics (Chair: Dr. Weiss) Snyder Room

  1. 鈥淏eauty in the Eye of Schopenhauer鈥� Jonathan Schillinger (East Stroudsburg University)
  2. 鈥淪imone de Beauvoir on Freedom and Feminism鈥� Danielle Hanson (Northampton Community College)
  3. 鈥淲here is Art and How Did it Get There? The Applications and Implications of Martin Heidegger鈥檚 Theory鈥� Emilia Donnelly (Franklin and Marshall College)

12:25-1:35 Lunch 

1:40-3:00 Free will and Personal Identity (Chair: Dr. Bernie Cantens) Snyder Room

  1.  鈥淎quinas and Aristotle on Will鈥� Will Nolan (Princeton University)
  2. 鈥淓ssential Freedom鈥� Ashley Rasmussen (Northampton Community College)
  3. 鈥淲hat exactly to do with the Other?  Levinas and Camus鈥� Walter Argueta (Manhattanville College)
  4. 鈥淎pollo and Dionysus Symbolism in the Stranger鈥� Joshua Marchak (Northampton Community College)

1:40-3:00 Ethics (Chair: Dr. William Falla) UBC Room

  1.  鈥淭he Value of Plant Life鈥� Daniel Shepard (Princeton University)
  2. 鈥淧ulp Fiction and Censorship鈥� Bobbi Beidleman (Northampton Community College)
  3. 鈥淪inger and Kant Walk into a Pond鈥︹�� Ryan Christian Born (Princeton University)
  4. 鈥淢anipulation: Intuition and Practice鈥� Iskandar Haykel (Princeton University) 

3:00-4:00 Friendship, Romantic Love, and Asceticism (Chair: Dr. Leon Niemoczynski) Snyder Room

  1. 鈥淲hat is Love?  Love Through the Lenses of Asexuality and Aromanticism in Plato鈥檚 Work鈥� Emily Aguilar and Stephanie Tseng (Bryn Mawr College)
  2. 鈥淭he Fire of Karma鈥� Schockency Kailynn (Northampton Community College)

Program Coordinators: Noah Rosenthal 2020, Cody Yarnall 2020, Robert Falatyn 2022, Donna Moyer.

性世界传媒 Philosophy Faculty: Dr. Bernie Cantens, Chair, Dr. Arash Naraghi, Dr. Carol Moeller, Dr. Leon Niemoczynski, and Dr. Bill Falla.