2022 Meeting of the SCSP & NCPS
Converse University
Friday March 25 & Saturday March 26
Schedule at a glance (full schedule below):
Friday
9:00-12:00 Registration
1:15 Opening
2:00-4:15 Sessions 1A-F
4:30-5:30 Keynote Address
5:30-7:30 Reception
Saturday
9:30-11:45 Sessions 2A-F
1:30-3:00 Sessions 3A-G
3:30-5:00 Sessions 4A-G
5:30-7:30 Reception
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Friday, March 25
9:00-12:00 Registration and Check-In Kuhn 2nd floor lobby
1:15 General Welcome Lever Auditorium (Kuhn 203)
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Devi Dillard-Wright (SCSP President) & Stephen Puryear (NCPS President)
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Lienne Medford (Converse Provost)
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Kevin DeLapp (SCSP Vice-President and Conference Program Chair)
2:00-4:15 Concurrent Sessions
Session 1A: Thinking the Political Present Kuhn 101
Chair: Haley Dunn (Converse)
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2:00pm Murray Skees (USC Beaufort), "Towards a Critique of Datafication"
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2:45pm James Manos (Caldwell), "Reflections on the Ethics and Metaphysics of Punishment"
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3:30pm Rick Elmore (Appalachian State), "The Terror of Pragmatic Politics: Adorno's Concept of Non-Violence"
Session 1B: Aesthetics: Music & Games Kuhn 108
Chair: Brooke Perry (Converse)
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2:00pm Ben McCraw (USC Upstate), "Brutal Truth: Modern(ist) Aesthetics and Death Metal"
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2:45pm Stephanie Jennings (Michigan State), "The Heroic Authoritarianism of Monomythic Video Games"
Session 1C: Race & Culture Kuhn 122
Chair: Brett Sherman (USC Columbia)
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2:00pm Talhah Mustafa (Nebraska-Lincoln), "The Role of Culture in Race"
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2:45pm Jaleel Fotovat-Ahmadi (Boston Univ.), "The Moral Significance of Race: Understanding Du Bois through James and Royce"
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3:30pm Hyo Won Seo (Texas A&M), "Born without the Light: Baldwin and Morrison on Fear of the Dark(y)"
Session 1D: Reparations Kuhn 123
Chair: Jeremy Henkel (Wofford)
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2:00pm Mariam Duidam-Kazajian (Indiana Univ.), "Shameful Identities: Reparations and Responsibility" [Zoom]
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2:45pm Khang Tôn (UC Davis), "Reparative Obligations to Refugees"
Session 1E: Normative Claims & Reasons Kuhn 125
Chair: Paul Forrester (Yale)
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2:45pm Jake Khawaja (Rutgers), "The Combining View of Claims"
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2:45pm Stephanie Hoffmann (Wisconsin-Madison), "Moral Encroachment and the Distinction between Right Kinds of Reasons
and Wrong Kinds of Reasons"
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3:30pm Henrique Cassol (Missouri-St. Louis), "Blind Spot and Clear View Reasons: A Dual Solution to the Internal vs. External
Reasons Debate"
Session 1F: Dignity & Democracy Kuhn 337
Chair: Nancy Williams (Wofford)
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2:45pm Eric Scarffe (Florida International), "Toward a Dignity-Based Account of International Law"
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3:30pm Joseph Porter (UNC Chapel Hill), "Two Arguments Against Democracy from Political Irresponsibility"
4:30pm Keynote Address Lever Auditorium (Kuhn 203)
Chair: Devi Dillard-Wright (USC Aiken)
Speaker: George Yancy (Emory University)
“Black Embodiment and the Violence of Whiteness”
5:30-7:30pm Reception Lever 2nd floor lobby & lounge
Saturday, March 26
9:30-11:45 Concurrent Sessions
Session 2A: Trust & Authority Kuhn 101
Chair: Jonathan Dixon (Wake Forest)
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9:30am Brett Sherman (USC Columbia), "Power and Openness"
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10:15am Saba Bazargan-Forward (UC San Diego), "Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability"
Session 2B: Anti-Racism Kuhn 108
Chair: Brooke Perry (Converse)
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10:15am Paul Wilson (Shaw), "Dismantling Racist Institutions for Transitional Justice"
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11:00am Bowen Zheng (Wake Forest), "How Do Words Manipulate? Debunking Trumps' Anti-Asian Racist Utterance"
Session 2C: Philosophy of Religion Kuhn 123
Chair: Benny Mattis & Sloane Hopkins (Covenant)
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10:15am Ryan Kulesa (Missouri), "Counterfactual Dependence is Sufficient for Divine Causation" **NCPS Grad Prize**
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11:00am Chet Duke (Univ. South Florida), "The Faith of Man in Himself: Locating Feuerbach in Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra"
Session 2D: Virtue Kuhn 125
Chair: Bill Davis (Covenant)
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10:15am Guss Duindam (Michigan-Ann Arbor), "The Formula of Universal Law and Kant's Virtue Ethics" [Zoom]
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11:00am Daniel Grasso (Missouri-St. Louis), "Virtue Ethics and Radical Conversion: A Skill Disanalogy"
Session 2E: French Political Philosophy Kuhn 336
Chair: Cameron Carsten (Wofford)
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10:15am Kristina Grob (USC Sumter), "The Master's Tools, Revisited: Implicit Gender Essentialisms in Second Wave Beauvoir Scholarship"
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11:00am Maia Wellborn (Univ. Oregon), "Violence as Disalienation: Reading Embodied Resistance in Fanon"
Session 2F: Applied Ethics Kuhn 337
Chair: Beth Hupfer (High Point)
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9:30am Gavin Markovic (Charleston), "Changing the Model of the Criminal Justice System" **SCSP Undergrad Prize**
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10:15am Ginny Coleman (Queen's Univ. Charlotte), "The Ethics of Non-Therapeutic Infant Male Circumcision in the U.S.: An
Exploration through Theory" **NCPS Undergrad Prize**
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11:00am Tobias Flattery (Wake Forest), "Do Robots Deserve Moral Rights? Even If Not, Should We Treat Them As If They Do?"
11:45-1:30pm Break
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See insert included with registration materials for lunch suggestions
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The SCSP Business meeting will be held in Mickel Library 201 during this time. The meeting is open to South Carolina based instructional faculty of any rank.
1:30-3:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 3A: Pedagogy Kuhn 101
Chair: Kristina Grob (USC Sumter)
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1:30pm Mark Herman (Arkansas State), "From Outside or Inside? Priming Intro Students' Philosophical Disposition"
Session 3B: Philosophy of Language Kuhn 108
Chair: Brett Sherman (USC Columbia)
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1:30pm Jeffrey Kaplan (UNC Greensboro), "Semantic Power"
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2:15pm Josephine Lovejoy (Wisconsin-Madison), "An Inquiry into the Necessity of Language for Metaphorical Understanding"
Session 3C: Faith Kuhn 122
Chair: Paul Wilson (Shaw)
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1:30pm Nathan Fredere (Covenant), "The Paradox of Faith in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling"
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2:15pm Chris Tweed (Christopher Newport), "An Argument for the Perspectival Account of Faith"
Session 3D: Conspiracy Theories Kuhn 123
Chair: Haley Dunn (Converse)
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1:30pm Mark Stone (Furman), "Is There a Problem with Conspiracy Theories?"
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2:15pm Ryan Ross (Johns Hopkins), "Conspiracy Theories in Echo Chambers"
Session 3E: Mind & Consciousness Kuhn 125
Chair: Brooke Perry (Converse)
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1:30pm Lorenzo Manuali (Stanford), "The Dual Learning and Motivation Dysfunction Theory of Addictive Desire: A Neurophilosophical Theory"
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2:15pm Will Leonard (Univ. Arizona), "The Science of Consciousness and the Foundations of Phenomenology"
Session 3F: Platonism Kuhn 336
Chair: Daniel Grasso (Missouri-St. Louis)
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1:30pm Daniel Larkin (Georgia Southern), "Appearances Can be Revealing: The Truth Behind the Seven Accounts of Sophistry in
Plato's Sophist"
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2:15pm Benny Mattis, "Anamnetic Eschatology in Five Gospels"
Session 3G: Science Kuhn 337
Chair: Mary Owens Davidson (Converse)
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1:30pm Jim Stewart (USC Columbia), "What is Ad Hocness?" **SCSP Grad Prize**
3:30-5:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 4A: Interpreting Hume Kuhn 101
Chair: Kristy Stapleton (Covenant)
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3:30pm Nathan Sasser (Greenville Tech), "What Livingston Got Right--and Wrong--about Hume's Concept of Philosophy"
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4:15pm Alayna Bradberry (Covenant), "An Analysis of Max Grober's The Steady Contempt of Life"
Session 4B: Moral Psychology Kuhn 108
Chair: Kristina Grob (USC Sumter)
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3:30pm Michael Bruckner (Wisconsin-Madison), "Resemblance, Magnetism, Role? A Metasemantic Challenge for Moral Thought
Pluralism"
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4:15pm Nathan Wood (Central Piedmont), "Can You Forgive Me? A Preliminary Analysis of a Problem"
Session 4C: Evidence & Explanation Kuhn 122
Chair: Brooke Perry (Converse)
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3:30pm Jonathan Barker (Wake Forest), "Explanation and Defeat" **NCPS Faculty Prize**
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4:15pm Paul Forrester (Yale), "Two Kinds of Epistemic Permissivism"
Session 4D: Skepticism Kuhn 123
Chair: Jeremy Henkel (Wofford)
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3:30pm Jeremy Henkel (Wofford), "How to Respond to Vaccine Skepticism: A Nyāya-Based Account"
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4:15pm Jonathan Dixon (Wake Forest), "Dismissing Skepticism"
Session 4E: Nominalism Kuhn 125
Chair: Bailey Szustak (Illinois-Chicago)
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3:30pm Daniel Berntson (Rutgers), "Nominalism and Immutability"
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4:15pm Patrick Rardin (Appalachian State), "The Problem with Conscious Apprehension for Deflationary Nominalists"
Session 4F: Ancient Political Philosophy Kuhn 336
Chair: Haley Dunn (Converse)
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3:30pm Chrysoula Gitsoulis (CUNY), "The Individual vs. the State: A Study of Socrates and Antigone"
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4:15pm Kennon Later (Wake Forest), "Epicurean Hedonism and Justice: Is Beneficial Coexistence Possible for the Individual and the
Community"
Session 4G: Time Kuhn 337
Chair: Hyo Won Seo (Texas A&M)
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3:30pm Sam Scott (Kent State), "It's about Time: 'Ticking' Off Mark Heller"
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4:15pm Katherine Valde (Wofford), "Biological Timescales and the Processual Nature of Life" **SCSP Faculty Prize**
5:30-7:30 Phifer Science Building, 1st & 2nd floor lobbies
Closing Remarks, Reception, and Awards Ceremony