Colloquium: Philosophy of Science / Epistemology
(W. Duke 101)

Chair: Richard Combes
USC-Spartanburg

What Is Velocity?
John Carroll
NC State University
4:00-4:40

Undermining Undermined: Why Humean Supervenience Never Needed to be Debugged
John Roberts
UNC-Chapel Hill
4:45-5:25 p.m.

Is Epistemic Justification Closed under Conjunction?
Jarrett Leplin
UNC-Greensboro
5:30-6:10 p.m.

Colloquium: Applied Ethics
(W. Duke 105)

Chair: Laura Duhan Kaplan
UNC-Charlotte

Linking Health and Environmental Concerns in the Web of Causation
Dane Scott
Wake Forest University
4:00 – 4:40 p.m.

Distributive Justice and Clinical Trials in the Third World
D. R. Cooley
East Carolina University
4:45 – 5:25 p.m.

Medical Decision to End Life: An Ethical Continuum
Phil Schneider
Coastal Carolina
5:30-6:10 p.m.

Colloquium: Psychology and Philosophy of Mind
(W. Duke 104)

Chair: Dan Ryder
UNC-Chapel Hill

My Amygdala-Orbitofrontal-Circuit Made Me Do It
William Faw
Brewton-Parker College
4:00 – 4:40 p.m.

Empirical Evidence for a Narrative Concept of Self
John Bickle
East Carolina University
4:45-5:25 p.m.

Dualism and the Cartesian Man of Reason
Hans Muller
UNC-Chapel Hill
5:30-6:10 p.m.

Colloquium: Ethics
(W. Duke 104)

Chair: Michael Ferejohn
UNC-Chapel Hill

Sidgwick, Intuitions, and the Dualism of Practical Reason
Sean McKeever
UNC-Chapel Hill
7:40-8:20 p.m.

The Possibility of Amoralism: A Defense Against Internalism
Brook Sadler
Duke University
8:25 – 9:05 p.m.

How Not to Avoid the Skeptic: Korsgaard’s Regress Argument in The Sources of Normativity
Chris Taylor
UNC-Chapel Hill
9:05 – 9:45 p.m.

Symposium: Epistemology and Literary Criticism
(W. Duke 108B)

Chair: Alfred Nordmann
USC-Columbia

Epistemology, Critique, and the Strategies of the Theater: Discussion of Fredric Jameson’s Brecht and Method
Martin Donougho
USC-Columbia (Philosophy)

Terry Smith
USC-Columbia (Theater and Speech)

Dean Wilcox
NC School of the Arts

Alfred Nordmann
(Philosophy and Theater and Speech)

Hartmut Wickert
Director,Niedersachsische Staatsteater (Hanover)

Undergraduate Papers
(W. Duke 101)

Chair: Ralph Kennedy
Wake Forest

An Aristotelian Defense of Camus’ Meursault
Phillip Barron
U. of Mass. Amherst
7:40-8:10 p..m.

Consciousness and Ethics
John Koelle
UNC-Charlotte
8:10-8:40 p.m.

The Puzzle of Non-Being
Jeremy Morris
UNC-Wilmington
8:45-9:15 p.m.

McKenna’s Semantics
Patrick Warren
USC-Columbia
SCSP Undergraduate Essay Winner
9:15 – 9:45 p.m.

Colloquium: Metaphysics
(W. Duke 105)

Chair: Keith Simmons
UNC-Chapel Hill

What Could Turn Out, Actually Speaking
Janine Jones
UNC-Greensboro
7:40-8:20 p.m.

Supervenience, Determinism and Reality
Roger Sansom
UNC-Chapel Hill
8:25-9:05 p.m.

Realistic Reference to God: Analogy or Univocity?
Philip Rolnick
Greensboro College
9:05 – 9:45 p.m.

Colloquium: Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Narrative
(W. Duke 101)

Chair: Malcolm Munson
Greenville Tech

Francis Lieber and America’s First General Hermeneutics
John Catalano
USC Lancaster
9:30 – 10:10 a.m.

Relations in the Phenomenology of Perception
Jennifer Emmert
USC-Columbia
10:15-10:55 a.m.

The Sort of Story We Have to Tell: Narrative as a Personal Must
Richard Prust
St. Andrews College
11:00 – 11:40 a.m.

Symposium: Introspection and Consciousness
(W. Duke 108B)

Chair: Dorit Bar-On
UNC-Chapel Hill

Speakers:

William Lycan
UNC-Chapel Hill

Fred Dretske
Duke University

Guven Guzeldere and Murat Aydede
Duke University and Univ. of Chicago

Commentator:
Joe Levine
NC State University

Colloquium: Ethics
(W. Duke 104)

Chair: Win-Chiat Lee
Wake Forest

The Moral Argument and Survival
Eddy Wilson
Shaw University
9:30-10:10 a.m.

Is Recklessness the Paradigmatic Immoral Posture?
Greg Weis
USC-Aiken
10:15-10:55 a.m.

Against Equality for All
Hugh Wilder
College of Charleston
11:00-11:40 a.m.

Colloquium: Applications
(W. Duke 105)

Chair: Tom Burke
USC-Columbia

Systems Theory and Speculative Philosophy
Steve Yates
Columbia, SC
9:30-10:10 a.m.

Pragmatism’s Elusive Life Enhancing Social Philosophy
Michael Eldridge
UNC-Charlotte
10:15-10:55 a.m.

Circular Limitations of Intelligence: Bergson’s Organic Epistemology
Michael Ruse
Coastal Carolina
11:00-11:40 a.m.

Colloquium: Political Philosophy
(W. Duke 105)

Chair: Ed Munn
USC-Columbia

Justice, Difference, and Community
Judith Presler
UNC-Charlotte
1:10 – 1:50 p.m.

Republicanism and the Specifically Political Concept of the Common Good
Robert Prevost
Wingate University
1:55-2:35 p.m.

Dewey’s Political Ethics as Applied Philosophy, and the International Primacy of Outlawing War
William Gay
UNC-Charlotte
2:40-3:20 p.m.

Colloquium: History
(W. Duke 104)

Chair: Jim Griffis
USC-Spartanburg

Berkeley’s Mind: Architect of Ideas
Theodore Cooke
Belmont Abbey College
1:10-1:50 p.m.

The Nature of Hume’s Skepticism in the Treatise and the First Enquiry
Janette Blandford
Belmont Abbey College
1:55-2:35 p.m.

Doubts about Dreaming
Mark Stone
Furman University
2:40-3:20 p.m.

Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
(W. Duke 101)

Chair: Anne Bezuidenhout
USC-Columbia

On the Generality of Evans’ Generality Constraint
Stephen Geisz
Duke University
1:10-1:50 p.m.

A Neo-Hintikkian Theory of Attitude Ascriptions
Peter Alward
College of Charleston
1:55-2:35 p.m.

Why Compositionality is Negotiable, After All
Henry Cribbs
USC-Columbia
2:40-3:20 p.m.

Colloquium: Ethics / History
(W. Duke 108b)

Chair: TBA

It looks like Kantianism, It sounds like Kantianism. It must be....
Matt Miller
USC-Columbia
SCSP Graduate Essay Winner
1:10-1:50 p.m.

Ethics Meets Metaphysics in Jewish Mysticism
Laura Duhan Kaplan
UNC-Charlotte
1:55-2:35 p.m.

Daybreak 454: The Temperature at Which Books Burn
Matthew Kenney
USC-Columbia
2:40-3:20 p.m.

Colloquium: History
(W. Duke 101)

Chair: TBA

Why Aquinas Should Keep the Emotions Visceral
Hylarie Kochiras
UNC-Chapel Hill
3:30 – 4:10 p.m.

A Note on Leibniz’s Supposed Flirtation with Occasionalism in the 1669 Letter to Thomasius
Nicholas Okrent
4:15-4:55 p.m.

Physical vs. Moral Causation in Malebranche
Susan Peppers
University of Pennsylvania
5:00-5:40 p.m.

Symposium: Realism and Anti-Realism
(W. Duke 105)

Chair: Chris Tollefson
USC-Columbia

Dividing the World into Objects
Andrew Cortens
Boise State University

Realism, Anti-Realism, and Common Sense
Caleb Miller
Messiah College

What Metaphysical Realism is Not
William Alston
Syracuse University

Colloquium: Feminist/Social Philosophy
(W. Duke 104)

Chair: TBA

Reflections on Nel Noddings’ Women and Evil
Nancy Williams
UNC-Charlotte
3:30-4:10 p.m.

Margaret Cavendish’s Way of Thinking, In Public: A Seventeenth Century Initiative in Feminist Philosophy
L. Leigh Hursh
USC-Columbia
4:15-4:55 p.m.

Domestic Partnerships, Coming to a Legal Theater Near You, or Why Homophobic Reactionaries Should Agitate for Same-Sex Marriages
Richard Nunan
College of Charleston
5:00-5:40 p.m.

Colloquium: Logic / Critical Thinking / Aesthetics
(W. Duke 108b)

Chair: TBA

Venn Diagrams Are Not Real Proof
Patrick Rardin
Appalachian State
3:30-4:10 p.m.

Is There Any Consolation in Critical Thinking?-the use of Boethius’ Consoloation of Philosophy as a text for undergraduate critical thinking courses
Martin Fowler
Elon College
4:15-4:55 p.m.

Two Classics of World Aesthetics: Tolstoy’s What is Art? And Okakura’s The Book of Tea
Frans van der Boger
Appalachian State
5:00-5:40 p.m.