2015 Conference Program
22nd Annual Kent State Philosophy Graduate
Student Conference In Remembrance of May 4th
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
March 14, 2015
Special Guest Speaker: Prof. Jim Garrison, Virginia Tech
Prof. Frank Ryan, Program Coordinator
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All paper sessions will be held in Kent Student Center. |
| Registration and Coffee | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Room 310AB 8:30 am |
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| Session I.A | Room 318 | ||
| Chair: Beth Emerson, Kent State University | |||
| Dustin Sigsbee, Wester Michigan University "Moral Disagreement and Audi's Account of Moral Intuitionism" | 9:20 am | ||
| Comment: Kristen Wells, Miami University of Ohio "Comment on Sigsbee" | |||
| Session I.B | Room 310AB | ||
| Chair: Cole Singletary, Kent State University | |||
| Landon Elkind, University of Iowa: "On the Analysis of Soritical Predicates" | 9:20 am | ||
| Comment: Emily Mathias, Western Michigan University "Comment on Elkind" | |||
| Session II.A | Room 318 | ||
| Chair: Kristen Weis, Kent State University | |||
| Shouta Brown, Miami University: "Assenting to the Shock of Film: The Sublime and Sensus Communis in Modernity" | 10:25 am | ||
| Comment: Beth Emerson, Kent State University "Comment on Brown" | |||
| Session II.B | Room 310AB | ||
| Chair: Devon Hawkins, Kent State University | |||
| Manuel Rodeiro, CUNY Graduate Center: "Fundamiddlism: A Person-Dependent Metaphysics" | 10:25 am | ||
| Comment: Zachary Milstead, Western Michigan University "Comment on Rodeiro" | |||
| Session III.A | Room 318 | ||
| Chair: Aaron Schultz, Kent State University | |||
| Scott Simmons, Bowling Green State University, and Mark Wells, The College of Wooster: "The Easy Defense of The Feathered Apes (And the Hard Problems it Raises)" | 11:30 am | ||
| Comment: TImothy Kirschenheiter, Wayne State University "Comment on Simmons and Wells" | |||
| Session III.B | Room 310AB | ||
| Chair: Anthony Paridon, Kent State University | |||
| Robert Long, Brandeis University: "How Wishful Seeing is Not Like Wishful Thinking: Against Siegel's "Control" Case" | 11:30 am | ||
| Comment: Jaryth Webber, University of Texas "Comment on Long" | |||
| Lunch and Keynote Address, 12:30 pm | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Room 306 | |
| Keynote Address, 1:45 pm Prof. Jim Garrison, Virginia Tech: "Individuality, Equality, and Creative Democracy: The Task Before Us" |
Room 310AB | ||
| Session IV | Room 310AB | ||
| Chair: Daniel Robinson, Kent State University | |||
| Anannya Mukherjee, California State University: "Is Femininity Valuable?" | 2:50 pm | ||
| Comment: Rachel McNealis, Miami University of Ohio "Comment on Mukherjee" | |||
| Session V | Room 310AB | ||
| Chair: Steven Winterfeldt, Kent State University | |||
| David Milliern, Harvard University: "Ain't Nobody Got Time for That: The Nature of the Capacities Inhering in Space that Permit the Illusion of Time" | 3:55 pm | ||
| Comment: Kevin Lower, Miami University of Ohio "Comment on Milliern" | |||
| Session VI | Room 310AB | ||
| Chair: Adam Shatsky, Kent State University | |||
| Hannah Laurens, University of Oxford: "Attention determines Action" | 5:00 pm | ||
| Comment: Ryan Comeau, Kent State University "Comment on Laurens" | |||
Logistics
For directions, please visit the Kent State University website. Details
Free parking is available for conference participants in the Kent Student Center visitor lot (free on weekends). Details, scroll down to "Kent Student Center Visitors"
If you have questions please contact: philconf@kent.edu