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.

      Reception

      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!

      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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