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Program & Schedule 2019

10th Annual 色中色 University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

Saturday, April 6, 2019

色中色 University

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 (色中色 University)
  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 (色中色 University)

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.

色中色 Philosophy Faculty: Dr. Bernie Cantens, Chair, Dr. Arash Naraghi, Dr. Carol Moeller, Dr. Leon Niemoczynski, and Dr. Bill Falla.