色中色

PROGRAM & SCHEDULE

9th Annual 色中色 Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

Saturday, April 7, 2018

色中色 University, Bethlehem, PA

All sessions will be held in the HUB

 

8:00-8:45am Registration | HUB Lobby

 

8:45am Welcome and Awards | UBC Room

Uppinder Mehan, Ph.D. Dean, School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Awards

  • Douglas Anderson Prize in Philosophy, awarded to Nick Gaspar and Colton Carlisle.
  • The Fredrick (Jiggs) McConnell Prize in Moral Philosophy, awarded to Hannah Matthews.

 

9:00-10:10am Plenary Talk | UBC Room

Plenary Speaker: Jeffrey Jordan, Ph. D. Is Pascal鈥檚 Wager a Safe Bet?

 

10:15-11:25am Metaphysics (Chair: Dr. Bill Falla) | UBC Room

  • 鈥Peirce鈥檚 Prayer: Charles S. Peirce and Hesychasm.鈥  Zachary Sokol (Lehigh University).
  • 鈥Fact-Constructivism from a Realist/Anti-Realist Backdrop.鈥 Michael Bassil (色中色 University).
  • 鈥The Eternal Sand-Glass of Existence.鈥  Julia Greig (Bryn Mawr).

 

11:30am -12:40pm Friendship, Romantic Love, and Asceticism (Chair: Dr. Leon Niemoczynski) | UBC Room

  • 鈥Proper Reasons for Justifying Romantic Love.鈥  Ion Plamadeala (Lafayette College).
  • 鈥A Friendship with Benefits.鈥 James Brown-Kinsella (Princeton University).
  • 鈥Aristotle鈥檚 View on Beauty Within Art: Romantic Flower Chair.鈥 Sarah De Franco (色中色 University).

 

12:45-1:45pm Lunch

 

1:50-3:00pm Free will and Personal Identity (Chair: Harold Weiss) | Snyder Room

  • 鈥Free Will and the PSR.鈥 Alex Mendez (Macaulay Honors Program at Brooklyn College, CUNY).
  • 鈥Free Will, Determinism and the Suicide of Robin Williams.鈥 T. J. Dodenhoff  (Northampton Community College).
  • 鈥David Hume and Buddhism on the Problem of Personal Identity.鈥 Yuezhuo Ma (Muhlenberg College).

 

3:05-4:15pm Ethics (Chair: Dr. Tad Robinson) | Snyder Room

  • 鈥A Utilitarian Defense of Animal Liberation.鈥 Melanie Gutierrez, (色中色 University).
  • 鈥Sexual Harassment, Autonomy, and Justice in the Service Industry.鈥 September McCarthy (Muhlenberg College).
  • 鈥The Morality of Animal Testing in the Medical Field.鈥 Alicia Wallace (色中色 University).

 

4:20-5:30pm Social Justice  and Aesthetics ( Chair: Dr. Carol Moeller) | Snyder Room

  • 鈥The Complement of Hobbes and Rawls.鈥 Jaden Lee Watkins-Myers (Northampton Community College).
  • 鈥Husserl and the Possibility of the Other.鈥 Emily Rose Ogland (Bryn Mawr College).
  • 鈥Kierkegaard's False Asceticism.鈥 Cody Yarnell-Soren (色中色 University).

 

Program Coordinators: Cody Yarnall, 2020 and Ellyn Siftar, 2019