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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)
- 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)
- PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: PRAYER(Marsh LL21)
- 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)
- 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)
- PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE (Marsh LL21)
- 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)
