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13th annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
April 17-18, 2009

Schedule Overview:

Friday, April 17 (Registration and banquet in the UCC Church next to Pacific's campus, on the corner of College Way and 21st Avenue)

• 4:00-6:00pm Registration
• 6:00-7:00pm Conference banquet
• 7:30-9:00pm Keynote presentation; a live taping of the public radio show, "Philosophy Talk," hosted by John Perry and Ken Taylor, both of Stanford University (McCready Auditorim, in the Taylor-Meade building)

Saturday, April 18 (Registration and all paper sessions in Marsh Hall; meals are in the UCC church)

• 8:00-9:00am Regristration (Marsh Hall second floor lobby)
• 7:00-8:00am Breakfast (UCC church)
• 8:00-9:30am Paper Session #1
• 9:45-11:15am Paper Session #2
• 11:30am-1:00pm Paper Session #3
• 1:00-2:15pm Lunch (UCC church)
• 2:15-3:45pm Paper Session #4
• 4:00-6:15pm Paper Session #5

 

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13th annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
April 17-18, 2009

Detailed schedule:

Friday, April 17 (Registratoin and banquet in the UCC church, next to Pacific's campus, on the corner of College Way and 21st Avenue)

• 4:00-6:00pm Registration

• 6:00-7:00pm Conference banquet

• 7:30-9:00pm Keynote presentation; a live taping of the public radio show, "Philosophy Talk," hosted by John Perry and Ken Taylor, both of Stanford University (McCready Auditorium, in the Taylor-Mead building)

Saturday, April 18 (Registration and all paper sessions in Marsh Hall; meals are in the UCC church)

• 8:00-9:00am Regristration (Marsh Hall second floor lobby)

• 7:00-8:00am Breakfast (UCC church)

• 8:00-9:30 Paper Session #1
  • PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: PRAYER(Marsh LL21)
    • Kevin LaBarre (Western Washington University), "Moral Responsibility and Petitionary Prayer"
    • Commentator: Frank Canepa (George Fox University)
    PUTNAM (Marsh LL5)
    • Ellen Nitchals (Willamette University), "'Meaning and Reference' Revisited"
    • Commentator: Rossy Tzankova (Reed College)
  • GENDER (Marsh 101)
    • Rebecca Coad (University of British Columbia), "Martha Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach and the Problem of Psychological Oppression"
    • Commentator: Mindy Young-Lawson (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)
    • Casie Dunleavy (Central Washington University), "Identity as Fiction and What this Means for Gender Existentially"
    • Commentator: Holly Havens (Grand Valley State University)
  • EVOLUTION (Marsh 106)
    • Danielle Hallet (University of British Columbia), "Romance and the Wonder of Nature"
    • Commentator: Andrew Baumgartner (University of Nebraska, Kearney)
    • Marc Anthony Parker (Birmingham-Southern College), "The Ethical Implications of Evolutionary Theory"
    • Commentator: Spencer Case (Idaho State University)
  • METAPHYSICS (Marsh 201)
    • Pamela Robinson (University of Victoria), "Kripke and Chalmers' 'Intuitive' Arguments against Identity Theories: Why They Fail"
    • Commentator: Glen Nesse (Western Washington University)
  • SOCIAL/POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (Marsh 206)
    • Carl Templin/Franklin Welter (University of Toledo/Bowling Green State University), "Concerning World Domination"
    • Commentator: Chris Palmer (Pacific University)
    • André Cotten (University of Mississippi), "The State of Racism"
    • Commentator: Chris Palmer (Pacific University)
  • DESCARTES (Marsh 207)
    • Amanda Hale (Auburn University), "Descartes' 'Traditional Epistemology'"
    • Commentator: Carrie Tirrell (Willamette University)
  • ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS (Marsh 212)
    • Daniel DiMeo (Knox College), "Environmental Ethics: The Need for a De-disciplined Pragmatic Philosophy"
    • Commentator: Matthew G. Baughman (University of Idaho)
    • Phillip Downes (Central Washington University), "The Kantian Expansion of the Qualifications of Civilization"
    • Commentator:
  • PLATO (Marsh 213)
    • Jonathan Laughlin (Walsh University), "The Pride and Ignorance Found in Euthyphro's Cave"
    • Commentator: Willie Costello (University of Pittsburgh)
    • James Feore (University of Guam), "Plato on America: From Aristocracy to Tyranny"
    • Commentator: Michael Cox (Northern Arizona University)
  • SELF/AUTHENTICITY (Marsh 214)
    • Kaycie Rueter (University of Portland), "Anxiety and Self-Knowledge: Understanding the Origins of Self-Knowledge and Opening up the Possibilities of the Self"
    • Commentator: Ashe, Eli (University of Washington)
• 9:45-11:15 Paper Session #2
  • PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE (Marsh LL21)
    • James Grayot (Humboldt State University), "Philosophical Therapy"
    • Commentator: Ellen Nitchals (Willamette University)
    • Sean Kehr (Portland State University), "How Not To Do Things With Words: Arguments Against Performative Utterances"
    • Commentator: Mike McKearn (Knox College)
    EPISTEMOLOGY (Marsh LL5)
    • Sam Elgin (Reed College), "Knowledge In or Out of Context"
    • Commentator: Yael Benjamin (University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth)
    • Maureen Turner (University of Arizona), "Where, oh where can my little HOTs be?"
    • Commentator: Keith Teltser (West Virginia University)
  • SCIENCE AND RELIGION (Marsh 101)
    • Andrew Baumgartner (University of Nebraska at Kearney), "The Fallacies of Fundamentalism"
    • Commentator: Peter Phalen (Reed College)
    • Shuye Chen (Knox College), "Science and Scientific Creationism"
    • Commentator: Lauren Blesi (Central Washington University)
  • DECISION-MAKING (Marsh 106)
    • Chloe Waterman (Lewis & Clark College), "Refined Desire and the Human Good"
    • Commentator: Kajia Eidse-Rempel (University of Winnipeg)
    • Justin Ranger (Boise State University), "Proof, Custom, and the Nature of Beliefs in Pascal's Philosophy"
    • Commentator: Jacob Zillhardt (St. Olaf College)
  • PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (Marsh 201)
    • Ashley Brumett (Central Washington University), "Cautious Endorsement: Preventing an Extended Mind"
    • Commentator: Wes Anderson (Portland State University)
  • NIETZSCHE (Marsh 206)
    • Shannon Griffin (Northwest Missouri State University), "A Look at the Morals and Ethics orf Friedrich Nietzsche"
    • Commentator: Aaron Frein (University of Puget Sound)
    • Mindy Young-Lawson (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville), "A Nietzschean Response to the Demands of 'Beauty' in Contemporary Western Society"
    • Commentator:
  • METAPHYSICS (Marsh 207)
    • Benjamin Russ (Knox College), "The Meditations and Dreaming: Featuring The Matrix"
    • Commentator: Jordan Park (Boise State University)
    • Eric Gutierrez (Valparaiso University), "Human Freedom and Leibniz's Theodicy: Is God the Author of Evil?"
    • Commentator: Melissa Schumacher (North Carolina State University)
  • SOCIAL/POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (Marsh 212)
    • Alicia M. Donner (Creighton University), "Population Control: Financial Incentives, Freedom and the Question of Coercion"
    • Commentator: Daniel DiMeo (Knox College)
    • Mary Huie (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), "A Response to Sandel Concerning Assisted Reproductive Technology and Its Effects on Solidarity"
    • Commentator:
  • AGENCY/EXPERIENCE (Marsh 213)
    • Sarah Curtis (Pacific Lutheran University), "The Metaphysics of Farming"
    • Commentator: Matt Trotter (Pacific University)
  • ETHICS (Marsh 214)
    • Hannah Tierney (Lewis & Clark College), "Empathy and Moral Agency: A Foray Into the Moral Lives of Autistic and Psychopathic Individuals"
    • Commentator: Evan Westra (University of British Columbia)
    • Mika Maekawa (Smith College), "The Devil Inside: A Psychological Introspection of the Philosophy of Bad Action"
    • Commentator: Thomas Lederer (Kalamazoo College)
• 11:30-1:00 Paper Session #3
  • PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE (Marsh LL21)
  • Matthew Kuhr (Grand Valley State University), "Balding and the King of France: Another Look into the Russell, Strawson Debate"
  • Commentator: Thomas Schulte (Metropolitan State College of Denver)
  • Peter Phalen (Reed College), "Reference, Representation, Truth, and Some Problems That Are Better Left Unsolved"
  • Commentator: Colbert Kirchner (Humboldt State University)
  • VIRTUE ETHICS (Marsh LL5)
  • Spencer Case (Idaho State University), "A Metaphysical Framework for Virtue Ethics"
  • Commentator: Jonathan Lerner (University of British Columbia)
  • Michael Cox (Northern Arizona University), "He Can Have His Cake, but You Can't Eat It, Too: Universal Salvation in the Analects"
  • Commentator: Kevin Quirk (Knox College)
  • EPISTEMOLOGY (Marsh 101)
  • Peter D. Van Elswyk (Biola University), "Recovering Luminosity"
  • Commentator: Ryan Burke (Humboldt State University)
  • Alex von Stein (Lewis & Clark College), "Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic Norms"
  • Commentator: Mary Huie (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
  • METAPHYSICS (Marsh 106)
  • Glen Nesse (Western Washington University), "Atoms and the Void"
  • Commentator: Blake Lavender (Willamette University)
  • Rebecca Ok (Reed College), "On the Consistency of Common Sense and a Kooky View"
  • Commentator:
  • SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY (Marsh 201)
  • Matthew Vanderlaan (University of Portland), "Batman and Overman"
  • Commentator: Sean Kehr (Portland State University)
  • Alex W. Kemmsies (Knox College), "An Account of Statistics in Methodological Individualism"
  • Commentator: Jesse Riehm (Willamette University)
  • PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (Marsh 206)
  • Erik Svetich (Santa Clara University), "A Defense of Scientific Progress"
  • Commentator: Joshua O'Rourke (Reed College)
  • HEGEL (Marsh 207)
  • Emily Long (Lewis & Clark College), "Comparison of Schelling and Hegel's Philosophies of Aesthetics and The Absolute"
  • Commentator: Eli Ashe (University of Washington)
  • PLATO (Marsh 212)
  • Lisa Dennis (Missouri State University), "A Modern Repudiation of The Allegory"
  • Commentator: Allison Glasscock (Western Oregon University)
  • Willie Costello (University of Pittsburgh), "Rethinking the Metaphysical Charge Against Poetry in Republic X"
  • Commentator: Michael Rabenberg (Kenyon College)
  • SELF/AUTHENTICITY (Marsh 213)
  • Kaley Morlock (Knox College), "Welcome to Facebook!: Assessing Existential Values and Authenticity in the Virtual Domain"
  • Commentator: Christian Mecham (Central Washington University)
  • Thomas Lederer (Kalamazoo College), "Individualization in Relation to Language: A Study of Habermas and Lacan"
  • Commentator: Brady Myers (Knox College)
  • DENNETT (Marsh 214)
  • L. Pippa Callanan (Portland State University), "Quining Qualia: The Difficulty of Eliminating"
  • Commentator: Daniel Beck (Miami University of Ohio)
  • Eric J. Ratzel (Knox College), "Delimiting the Explanatory Authority of Heterophenomenology"
  • Commentator: Mike McKearn (Knox College)

   

• 1:00-2:15 Lunch (UCC church)

• 2:15-3:45 Paper Session #4
  • KANT (Marsh LL21)
  • Jacob Zillhardt (St. Olaf Colleg), "Kantian Empathy in Art and the Practical World"
  • Commentator: Meghan Lloyd (Willamette University)
  • Erik Olmstead (Bethel University), "Apperception and the Categories: An Explanation of Kant's Transcendental Deduction"
  • Commentator: Danielle Hallet (University of British Columbia)
  • METAPHYSICS (Marsh LL5)
  • Aaron Pratt (Pacific University), "In Search of Aristotle's Ousia: An Epistemological and Ontological Inquiry"
  • Commentator: Justin Ranger (Boise State University)
  • Ryan Burke (Humboldt State University), "Ratios and the History of Western Philosophy"
  • Commentator:
  • DECISION-MAKING (Marsh 101)
  • Eli Ashe (University of Washington), "A Logical Dilemma"
  • Commentator: Tarin Schalow (Lewis & Clark College)
  • PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (Marsh 106)
  • Wes Anderson (Portland State University), "Paul Churchland on Introspection"
  • Commentator: Maureen Turner (University of Arizona)
  • Randall Ward (Central Washington University), "Self-Recognition and Conscious Awareness"
  • Commentator: Eric Eddy (Whitworth College)
  • FOUNDATIONALISM (Marsh 201)
  • Chelsea Ruxer (University of Evansville), "Externalist Foundationalism"
  • Commentator: Alex von Stein (Lewis & Clark College)
  • Keith Teltser (West Virginia University), "Defense of Givenism"
  • Commentator: Chelsea Ruxer (University of Evansville)
  • RORTY (Marsh 206)
  • Kevin Lande (Montana State University - Bozeman), "Rorty, Relativism, and Ethnocentrism"
  • Commentator: Steve Trbovich (Humboldt State University)
  • Michael Rabenberg (Kenyon College), "Richard Rorty's Defense of Irrationalism"
  • Commentator: Steve Trbovich (Humboldt State University)
  • PHILOSOPHY OF TIME (Marsh 207)
  • Jordan Park (Boise State University), "Time: As Measure of Change"
  • Commentator: Jose Palafox (Reed College)
  • Melissa Schumacher (North Carolina State University), "Counter-Intuitions: Two Views of an Apparent Time-Travel Paradox"
  • Commentator: Rebecca Ok (Reed College)
  • MARX (Marsh 212)
  • Adam Harris (University of Nevada, Reno), "History and the Historical: A Critique of Historical Materialism"
  • Commentator: Elizabeth Parciany (University of Washington)
  • ETHICS (Marsh 213)
  • Daniel Beck (Miami University of Ohio), "Care to be Just: Suggestions for an Integrated Moral Perspective"
  • Commentator:
  • Kajia Eidse-Rempel (University of Winnipeg), "On Abortion"
  • Commentator: Ben Wright (Knox College)
  • AGENCY/EXPERIENCE (Marsh 214)
  • Jake Whipple (Knox College), "Being As Doing"
  • Commentator: Zachary Price (Biola University)
  • Sean Wolfe (Kalamazoo College), "Reconciling Honneth's Theory of Recognition with Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action"
  • Commentator:

   

• 4:00-6:15 Paper Session #5
  • KANT (Marsh LL21)
  • Aaron Frein (University of Puget Sound), "The Dissolution of Kant's Self"
  • Commentator: Eric Ratzel (Knox College)
  • Thomas Schulte (Metropolitan State College of Denver), "Moral Worth and Inclination: What Kant Did Say"
  • Commentator: Phillip Downes (Central Washington University)
  • Mike McKearn (Knox College), "A Study of Civic Attitudes in Kant and Plato"
  • Commentator: Michael Rabenberg (Kenyon College)
  • RELIGION (Marsh LL5)
  • Frank Canepa (George Fox University), "The Russellian World and Deep Religion"
  • Commentator: Jeremiah Hawkins (Willamette University)
  • Lauren Blesi (Central Washington University), "Man's Essential Nature: Feuerbach, Morality, and Medical Practice"
  • Commentator:
  • Jason G. Farris (Walsh University), " Spirituality Is Subjectivity: Kierkegaard's Spiritual Path of Individuality"
  • Commentator: Aaron Pratt (Pacific University)
  • ART/AESTHETICS (Marsh 101)
  • Trevor Martin (Oakland University), "An Acceptable Definition of Art"
  • Commentator: Matthew Kuhr (Grand Valley State University)
  • Bo Pons (University of South Dakota), "Video Games as an Art Form: The Aesthetic Nature of Cheating in Video Games"
  • Commentator: Justin Brock (Willamette University)
  • Christian Mecham (Central Washington University), "To See It Feelingly: The Philosophy of Sound and Echo in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves"
  • Commentator:
  • SKEPTICISM (Marsh 106)
  • Eli Cohn (Lewis & Clark College), "Nozick on Closure"
  • Commentator: Peter VanElswyk (Biola University)
  • Emery K. Way (Southern Oregon University), "Faith, Skepticism, and the Suicide of Reason"
  • Commentator: Shuye Chen (Knox College)
  • HEIDEGGER (Marsh 201)
  • Patrick O'Donnell (Columbia University), "Being-in-the-World, Representation, and Authenticity: Death in Being and Time"
  • Commentator: L. Pippa Callanan (Portland State University)
  • Zachary Price (Biola University), "Word Vomit: A Heideggerian Analysis of Semiotic in Sartre's Nausea"
  • Commentator: Erik Svetich (Santa Clara University)
  • METAPHILOSOPHY (Marsh 206)
  • Brady Myers (Knox College), "'A feature that cuts across the ages': Concept and Immanence in Deleuze and Guattari"
  • Commentator: Katherine Logan Guy (University of Oregon)
  • Steve Trbovich (Humboldt State University), "Philosophical Dogmas and Their Psuedo-Problems"
  • Commentator: Michelle Bingaman (Pacific University)
  • Dennis Lambert (University of San Francisco), "(De)construction / De(con)struction"
  • Commentator: Ian Fontana (University of Idaho)
  • FREE WILL (Marsh 207)
  • Patrick Anderson (Grand Valley State University), "The Dilemma of Foreknowledge: The Shortcomings of Augustine and Others"
  • Commentator: Carl Templin (University of Toledo)
  • Eric Eddy (Whitworth University), "Alternate Choices and Moral Responsibility"
  • Commentator: Davida Grimes (Lewis & Clark College)
  • Evan Westra (University of British Columbia), "The Quantum Coin-Toss: Evaluating Robet Kane's Libertarian Model of Free Will"
  • Commentator:
  • MEDICAL ETHICS (Marsh 212)
  • Alana Murphy (Ithaca College), "Giving Patients Hope and a Future: A Multidiscipliinary and Holistic Approach to Medical Diagnostic Delivery"
  • Commentator:
  • Chris Partridge (Bowling Green State University), "On the Moral Permissibility of Voluntary Amputation"
  • Commentator: Casie Dunleavy (Central Washington University)
  • EXPERIENCE (Marsh 213)
  • Ben Wright (Knox College), "Lucidity While Dreaming and Its Possibilities"
  • Commentator: Alan Peters (Pacific University)
  • Holly Havens (Grand Valley State University), "The Aesthetic Character of Erotic Love"
  • Commentator: Kaley Morlock (Knox College)
  • ETHICS (Marsh 214)
  • Allison H. Glasscock (Western Oregon University), "To Be Truly Happy: Fortune, False Goods, and Happiness in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy"
  • Commentator: Heather Stevens (Whitworth University)
  • Kevin Quirk (Knox College), "Where Do Heroes Go When They Get Old?"
  • Commentator: Sean Irving (Willamette University)
  • Jonathan Lerner (University of British Columbia), "Does It Hurt?: Are Performance Enhancing Drugs Morally Permissible in Sport?"
  • Commentator: Maggie Wigness (Pacific University)