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 Iowa Philosophical Society

65th Annual Conference

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa
8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Schedule:

 

8 am - 9am

Registration - Coffee & Pastries
Commons on the Orange Carpet

 

History of Philosophy
Commons - Paris
Chair: Daniel Schultz, University of Iowa

History of Ethics
Commons - Berlin
Chair: Jeff Hoover,
Coe College
Free Will / Agency
Commons - Hedges
Chair: Jim White,
Cornell College
Metaphysics
Commons
- Stockholm
Chair: Matt Drabek,
University of Iowa
9am - 9:40 am "Socrates and the Priority of Philosophy"
By Chad Ray, Central College
"Rereading Hume's Moral Theory with a Moorean Twist" By Kristopher Phillips, University of Iowa "Wanting, WIlling, Trying, & Kane's Theory of Free Will" By John Lemos, Coe College "A Mind-Divided: Can Mind-Partitioning Accounts Make Sense of Self-Deception" By Amber Griffeon, University of Iowa
9:50 am - 10:30 am "Kant's Transcendental Deduction" by David Hill, Augustana College "Spinoza as an Objectivist in his Ethical Theory" by Seth Jones, University of Iowa "Why the Counterfactual Solution to the PRoblem of Moral Luck Requires Libertarianism" by Mark Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and 'Near' Physicalism" by Eric Kraemer, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
10:40 am - 11:20 a.m. "Three Lockean Rebuttals to Support Quality - Monism" by Daniel Yim, Bethel University "The Value of Reason" by Will Reckner, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Responsibility and Alternate Possibilities" by Ryan Long, University of Chicago "Plenitudinarian Endurantism and Conventionality" by Irem Steen, University of Missouri, St. Louis
11:30 am - 1 pm
Lunch Break
  History of Philosophy
Commons - Paris
Chair: Ron Glass,
University of Wisconsin,
La Crosse
Ethical Theory
Commons - Berlin
Chair: Tom Javoroski,
University of Iowa
Socio-Political Philosophy
Commons - Hedges
Chair: Gordon Knight,
University
Metaphysics
Commons - Stockholm
Chair: Tammy Nyden,
Grinnell College
1 pm - 1:40 pm "Coordination & Aggression: Why the Stability of Possession is not always a Prisoner's Dilemma" by William Kline, University of Illinois, Springfield "What Ethical Rationalists Believe, and Why Frankfurt Should Be One" by Scott Forschler, Northland Community and Technical College "What is Global Oppression:" by Alison Wolf, Simpson College "Prudence, Identity, and Identity over Time" by Vaughn Huckfeldt, University of South Dakota
1:50 pm-2:30 pm "Bugbear & Open Door Policy: Epictetus on Death" by William Stephens, Creighton University "Silencing and Virtue" by Chris Pliatska, Creighton University "Human Rights and the Fragmentation of Dignity" by Martin Gunderson, Macalaster College "Kuhn's Paradoxical Non-Relavist / Non-Absolutist Philosophy of Science" by Imafedia Okhamafe, University of Nebraska
2:40 pm - 3:20 pm "Frege's Logic and the Kantian Tradition" by Waldemar Rohloff, University of Missouri, St. Louis "An Internalist Commitment to Morality" by Kirsten Ergstrom, Northern Illinois University "Revolutionary Political Assassination: The Problem of Ends and Means in Camus' Les Justes" by David Bullwinkle, Kirkwood Community College "What does Quantum Mechanics tell us about Time?" by Valia Allori, Northern Illinois University
3:30 pm -4 pm
Business Meeting in Paris, Commons
 
Keynote Address: Tomis Kapitan, Northern Illinois University
"Freedom, Open Alternatives, and Ignorance"
Hedges Conference Room

 
Reception at Brackett House

 

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