2nd Annual
Rocky Mountain Student
Philosophy Conference
University of Colorado at
Boulder
April 14-15, 2000
Keynote Speaker: Professor
Robert Solomon, University of Texas, Austin
The 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Student Philosophy Conference
will take place on Friday, April 14, and Saturday, April 15, 2000.
Undergraduate and Graduate students from around the country will
be delivering papers on a wide range of philosophical topics. All
talks are free and open to the public.
Schedule of Events
Friday, April 14:
Keynote Address
by Robert Solomon:
"Emotions and the Future of Philosophy"
Professor Solomon of the University of Texas at
Austin will deliver the Keynote address.
5:30pm DeLattre Room (Hellems 196):
Reception
7:00pm, The Mediterranean:
Conference Dinner
All conference
participants are invited to join us at "The Med" with
Professor Solomon for dinner.
Saturday, April 15:
Continental Breakfast
Join us in the
DeLattre Room (Hellems 196) as we prepare our minds and
our stomachs for the day ahead! Plenty of coffee will be provided!
9:30am - 6pm Hellems 191 & 193:
Student Papers
Papers will be given
in two concurrent sessions, each paper being allotted about 60
minutes. Speakers will have about 20 minutes to read their papers.
Commentators will then be given about 10 minutes to respond
before the floor is opened to questions. We will take a break at
around 12:30pm for lunch.
| Time |
Hellems 191 |
Hellems 193 |
| 9:30am |
You
did what? To Whom? When? A defense of Epicurius Kevin
Zollman (Undergraduate), Kansas State
|
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS The
Epistemology of Hegel's Introduction to the Phenomenology
of Spirit Eugene Marshall (Undergraduate), Missouri
|
| 10:30am |
Individuals
in the Original Position and Communitarian Justice Ryan
Haas (Graduate), Loyola
|
The
Threefold Synthesis in the Subjective A Deduction Bryan
Hall (Graduate), CU-Boulder
|
| 11:30am |
Authenticity
and Nozick's Experience Machine Joe Corabi (Undergraduate),
St. Joseph's
|
Wittgenstein:
Thought, Logic, and the Method of Philosophy Akinori
Hayashi (Graduate), Michigan State
|
| 12:30pm |
Lunch |
Lunch |
| 2pm |
Fairness, Globalization, and the Obligation to Educate
Jayson White (Undergraduate), Iowa State
|
TINY
and ATOMS: Constituting Micro-Sculptures Roxanne
Fay (Graduate), MIT
|
| 3pm |
Civic
Education and Human Passions in Hobbes Steve Finn (Graduate),
Villanova
|
Childhood
Cognition: A Fuzzy, More Plausible Piaget? Jason
Lott (Undergraduate), Alabama
|
| 4pm |
Degrees
of Greatness? -A Critique of Ontological Hierarchizing in
Rationalistic Objectivist Theology Ng Kum-Hoon (Graduate),
CU-Boulder
|
Substitutivity
and Context John Sahs (Undergraduate), Illinois
State
|
| 5pm |
TBA |
How
to Count Cats Andy Egan (Graduate), MIT
|
| 6pm |
Reception |
Reception |
| 8pm |
Party! |
Party! |
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