PROGRAM
(NOTE: This Web version of the program
will be updated as information becomes available. The final printed version will be
distributed at the conference)
THE NEW
JERSEY REGIONAL PHILOSOPHY ASSOCIATION
Fall Meeting
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Kirby Hall, Lodi Campus, Felician College
262 South Main Street, Lodi, New Jersey 07644
(NOTE: For directions to Felician College, click
HERE)
| Session/Time |
Place |
Event |
Opening:
9:00 - 9:45 |
Third Floor, Kirby Hall |
Registration and Breakfast |
9:45
a.m. to 11:30 a.m. -- CONCURRENT SESSIONS I
Session I:
Ancient Philosophy
Chair: Bernard Roy, (Ramapo) |
Kirby
333 |
1) David Robertson (Felician): "Laughter"
Commentator: John Peterman, (WPUNJ) |
|
2)
Carrie-Ann Biondi Khan, (John Jay): “Socratic
Teaching: It's not just The Paper Chase"
Commentator: Irfan Khawaja, (John Jay) |
Session II:
Thoughts and their Objects
Chair: Daniel Shepherd (Fordham) |
Kirby 334 |
1)
Michelle Montague, (University of
California, Irvine): “Russell's Principle and a Problem with
Vision"
Commentator: Margaret Cuonzo, (LIU) |
|
2)
Casey
Karbowsky, (Chicago): “Vagueness does not
Entail Unrestricted Composition"
Commentator: Geoff Anders (Rutgers) |
Session III:
Philosophy of Mind
Chair: Mike Collins (CUNY) |
Kirby 335 |
1)
Stephen O'Sullivan, (Suffolk
Community College): “The Poverty of
Reduction”
Commentator: Lowell
Kleiman, (Suffolk Community College) |
|
2)
Peter Langland-Hassan (CUNY): “Imagery,
Evidence and the Mind-Body Problem"
Commentator:
Stephanie Wykstra, (Rutgers) |
Session
IV: Ontology
Chair:
Richard
Burnor (Felician) |
Kirby 206 |
1) David Pereplyotchik, (CUNY): “Comments on
Ontological Hierarchies”
Commentator:
(TBA) |
|
2)
Erik Anderson, (Drew): “Generalizing
Scientific Essentialism”
Commentator: Kirk McDermid (Montclair) |
Session V:
Undergraduate Session
Chair:
Ben
Vilhauer (WPUNJ) |
Kirby
224 |
1) Anatoly
Nickvoloda, (WPUNJ): "Cross-modal Mapping in Sensory-Motor
Approach to Perception" |
|
2) Alex Vereschagin, (WPUNJ): "Multi-Level Processing Theory of
Consciousness" |
11:45
a.m. - 12:45 p.m. -- LUNCH
Mail Building Cafeteria
12:45
p.m. - 2:30 p.m. -- PLENARY
SESSION
Plenary
Session:
Moderator: Richard Burnor, (Felician) |
Lecture Hall,
Main Building
2nd Floor |
"The Mark of the Social"
John Greenwood, (CUNY
Graduate Center)
Commentator: David Shein, (Bard)
|
2:45 p.m.
- 4:30 p.m. -- CONCURRENT SESSIONS II
Session I:
Ethics
Chair: Leonidas Bouritsas, (Stevens) |
Kirby 333 |
1) Steve Ross
(Hunter, CUNY Graduate Center): "Intentional Realism and
Moral Realism"
Commentator: Tobyn de Marco (Bergen) |
2) Stephanie
Burdick (Montclair): "Ethical Inquiry: Ethical Study through
Experienced Ethics"
Commentator: Richard Hart (Bloomfield) |
Session II:
Knowledge
Chair:
Lisa Dolling (Stevens) |
Kirby 407 |
1) Daniel
Shepherd, (Fordham): “Definitive
Knowledge and Knowledge Fulfillment”
Commentator: David Benfield (Montclair) |
2) Aderemi
Artis (Colgate): “Power, Knowledge, and Love: Francis
Bacon's Forgotten Trinity":
Commentator: Vanda Bozecevic (Bergen) |
Session III:
Free Will / Determinism
Chair: Donald Casey
(Felician) |
Kirby 335 |
1)
Ben Vilhauer, (WPUNJ): “Humean
Strategies for Hard Determinism"
Commentator: Paul Eckstein (Bergen) |
2) Christiana
Arp (LIU): "Free Will, The Future of an Illusion "
Commentator: Paul Eckstein (Bergen) |
Session IV:
Philosophy of Mind
Chair: Peter Langland-Hassan (CUNY) |
Kirby
206 |
1 Peter Mandik (WPUNJ):
"Introspecting Brain States as Such"
Commentator: Jared Blank, (CUNY)
2) Mike Collins (CUNY): "A Rejection of the Hot Theory of
Consciousness"
Commentator: David Pereplyotchik, (CUNY) |
Session
V
Justification
Chair: Yvonne Raley, (Felician) |
Kirby
224 |
1) Mehul Shah,
(Baruch): "Is it Justifiable to Abandon All Search for a Logic
of Discovery?"
Commentator: Rick Kamber, (TCNJ)
2) Mark McEvoy, (Hofstra): "The
Epistemological Status of Computer Assisted Proofs"
Commentator: Catarina Dutilh Novaes, (Leiden) |
Session
VI
Advising a Philosophy Club
Chair: Nadia Kennedy, (Montclair) |
Kirby
334 |
1) Lisa Cassidy, (Ramapo):
"Advising an Undergraduate Philosophy Club"
Commentator: George Abaunza, (Felician) |
4:30 p.m.
-- Reception
3rd Floor Faculty Lounge Kirby Hall
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