2015 Meeting of the SCSP
Wofford College
Friday March 27 & Saturday March 28
Schedule at a glance:
Friday
12:00-2:00 Registration
2:00 Welcome
2:30-3:30 Session 1
3:45-4:45 Session 2
5:00 Keynote Address
6:00-7:30 Reception
Saturday
9:00-11:00 Session 3
11:15-12:15 Session 4
12:30 Break
2:45-4:15 Session 5
4:30-6:30 Session 6
6:45 Presidential Address
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Full schedule:
Friday, March 27
12:00 Registration and Check-In Olin Foyer
2:00-2:15 General Welcome Olin 101
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Dennis Wiseman, Provost, Wofford College
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J. Aaron Simmons, Society President
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Kevin DeLapp, Society Vice-President and Conference Program Chair
2:30-3:30 Concurrent Sessions
Session 1A: Nietzsche Olin 220
Chair: Stephen Michelman (Wofford College)
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C.J. Davies (Vanderbilt University) “Speculative Realism and Nietzsche’s Two Critiques of Metaphysics”
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Malcolm Munson (Greenville Technical College) “Hitler, Nazism, and Nietzsche’s ‘Dangerous Ideas’”
Session 1B: Free Will Olin 218
Chair: Beau Branson (University of Notre Dame)
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Peter Furlong (University of North Carolina, Asheville) “Evaluating Event-Causal Chance Incompatibilism”
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Michael Crawford (Furman University) “Reliability and Reductionism: Making Room for the Mental”
Session 1C: Relativity and Quantum Mechanics Montgomery TBD
Chair: Luke Roelofs (University of Toronto)
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Cristin Chall (University of South Carolina) “Doubts for the Non-Empirical Theory Assessment of String Theory”
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Chris Arledge (Ohio University) “A Relativistic Proposal for the Problem of the Receptacle”
3:45-4:45 Concurrent Sessions
Session 2A: Biology and Normativity Olin 220
Chair: Sumner Arbuckle (Wofford College)
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Ryan Marshall Felder (Binghamton University) “Noncognitivism’s Evolutionary Underpinnings”
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Erik A. Anderson (Furman University) “Pleasure over Biology: an Alternative to Alexander Pruss’s Conception of Marital Sex”
Session 2B: Metaphysics Olin 218
Chair: TBD (Wofford College)
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William A. Bauer (North Carolina State University) “Powers ≠ Qualities”
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Adam Omelianchuk (University of South Carolina) “Why Can’t Substances Be Part of Other Substances?”
Session 2C: Mind and Self Montgomery TBD
Chair: Brenna Byler (Converse College)
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David De Bruijn (University of Pittsburgh) “The Understanding and the Imagination”
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Luke Roelofs (University of Toronto) “Rational Agency without Self-Awareness: Could ‘We’ Replace ‘I’?”
5:00 Keynote Address McMillan Theatre
David B. Wong (Duke University)
“Relativism and Moral Ambivalence between Relationship and Autonomy”
6:00-7:30 Reception Martha Cloud Chapman Gallery
Saturday, March 28
9:00-11:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 3A: Virtue and Duty Olin 220
Chair: C.J. Davies (Vanderbilt University)
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Markus Weidler (Columbus State University) “Witnessing: Karl Kraus as a Critical Resource for Virtue Ethics”
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Nora Grigore (University of Texas at Austin) “On the Difficulty of Accounting for Supererogation”
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James Grindeland (University of North Georgia and Piedmont College) “Is Kant’s Groundwork Frankfurtian Bullshit?”
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Sungwoo Um (Duke University) “Virtue, Virtuous Activity, and Moral Self-Indulgence"
Session 3B: Philosophy of Religion Olin 218
Chair: Kyle Keefer (Converse College)
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Rickey J. Ray (Northeast State Community College) “Heaven is in the Picture: Reclaiming the Grammar of a Religious Concept”
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Jacob Given (Villanova University) “Letting the Finite Vanish: Hegel, Tillich, and Caputo on the Ontological Philosophy of Religion”
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Beau Branson (University of Notre Dame) “Scriptural Arguments in Philosophical Theology”
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Samantha Menapace (Furman University) “Abraham is Accepted”
Session 3C: Justice and Respect Olin 213
Chair: Julie Edwards (Converse College)
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Justin P. Holt (New York University, Gallatin) “Does Distributive Justice Require the Participation of the Advantaged? Redistribution versus Asset Creation”
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Jordan Dopkins (University of Florida) “Insular Communities and Multiculturalism in Robert Nozick’s Framework for Utopias”
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Alexis Elder (Southern Connecticut State University) “A Theory of Intergroup Offense and Respect”
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Julinna C. Oxley (Coastal Carolina University) “Gender and the Ethics of Political Representation”
Session 3D: Happiness Olin 201
Chair: Brenna Byler (Converse College)
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Matthew J. Kisner (University of South Carolina) “Hobbes’s Criticism of Eudaimonism and the Origin of Morality”
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Craig E. Bacon (University of South Carolina) “Proportionality, Maximization, and the Highest Good”
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Michael Dale (Brandeis University) “What is the Psychological State of Happiness?”
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Sara Kolmes (Florida State University) “Anxiety and Well-Being”
11:15-12:15 Concurrent Sessions
Session 4A: Moral Psychology and Responsibility Olin 220
Chair: Craig Bacon (University of South Carolina)
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Brenna Byler (Converse College) “The Role of Moral Imagination in Motivating Moral Conversion”
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George Stametz (Florida State University) “On Zimmerman’s ‘Taking Luck Seriously’”
Session 4B: Skepticism in Early Modern Philosophy Olin 218
Chair: James Bednar (Wofford College)
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Benjamin McCraw (University of South Carolina - Upstate) “A Reidean Transcendental Argument against Skepticism”
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Nathan Sasser (University of South Carolina) “Hume’s Rhetorical Rationale for Sometimes Talking Like an Inductive Skeptic”
Session 4C: Philosophy of Time Olin 213
Chair: Laura Morales (Converse College)
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David Taylor (North Carolina State University) “Dynamic B-Series”
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Gerad Gentry (University of South Carolina) “A Hegelian Variation on Time: An Answer to Problems of the Persistence of Concrete Particulars”
12:30-2:30 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 the Gingko Room (downstairs in Burwell) during this time. The Meeting is open to South Carolina based instructional faculty of any rank.
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Additionally, the Holcombe Room (downstairs in Burwell) will be reserved as an open space for any interested undergraduate students to meet and talk informally with graduate students and early-career faculty about the experience of graduate study in philosophy, the sociology of the profession, etc.
2:45-4:15 Concurrent Sessions
Session 5A: Philosophy of Language Olin 220
Chair: Rickey J. Ray (Northeast State Community College)
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Julia Azarova (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) “Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy of Metaphor”
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Henry Schiller (Edinburgh University) “Making Sense of Intention”
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Justin Weinberg (University of South Carolina) “What We Want to Hear”
Session 5B: Knowledge and Justification Olin 218
Chair: Benjamin McCraw (University of South Carolina - Upstate)
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Gary Stephen Elkins (Toccoa Falls College) “Rethinking Religious Epistemology: Finding a Middle Ground between Fideism and Natural Theology (and annoying everyone in the process)”
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Brandon Boesch (University of South Carolina) “Representational Force, Surrogate Reasoning, and Inference”
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Jay Carlson (Loyola University – Chicago) “Seemings and Cognitive Achievement: An Examination of Two Accounts of Know-How”
Session 5C: Descartes and the Ontological Argument Olin 213
Chair: Charley Kay (Wofford College)
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Timothy Kirschenheiter (Wayne State University) “God’s Perfection Does Not Imply Necessity”
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Garry Moore B. Soronio (University of California, Los Angeles) “René Descartes’ Ontological Argument for God’s Existence and the Foundation for Certainty”
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Mark Stone (Furman University) “Externalism and the Cartesian Circle”
Session 5D: Values and Institutions Olin 201
Chair: Gerad Gentry (University of South Carolina)
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James Rhea (University of South Carolina) “Consensus Formation and Medical Liberalism: Coming to Agree about the Goals of Clinical Ethics”
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Roel Feys (University of South Carolina) “The Ethics of Allocating Health Care Resources through Institutions for Collective Action”
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Samuel Klein (Furman University) “Beyond the Artworld: The Aesthetics of Outsider Art”
4:30-6:30 Concurrent Sessions
Session 6A: Death and Evil Olin 220
Chair: TBD (Wofford College)
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Gregory Moss (Clemson University) “Evil is Less Than Nothing: Meister Eckhart on Evil”
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Oren Magid (Georgetown University) “Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy of Death”
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Caley Howland (Furman University) “Rough Heroes Undermine the Banality of Evil”
Session 6B: Guns and War Olin 218
Chair: Julinna C. Oxley (Coastal Carolina University)
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Emily M. Crookston (Coastal Carolina University) “Drone’s: Froom Just War Theory to Creating a Culture of Ethics”
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Jonathan Trerise (Coastal Carolina University) “Just Espionage Theory – A First Approximation”
Session 6C: Animals and the Environment Olin 213
Chair: Nancy Williams (Wofford College)
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Michael Allen (East Tennessee State University) and Erica von Essen (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) “The Republican Zoopolis: Towards a New Legitimation Framework for Relational Animal Ethics”
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Teddy Corcoran (Washington & Lee University) “The Ethical Hunter”
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Rick Elmore (Appalachian State University) “Not For Us: Realism, Pessimism, and Anthropocentrism in an Indifferent Universe”
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Charles Dalrymple-Fraser (University of Toronto) “The Conception Argument for Climate Change Enaction”
Session 6D: Phenomenology & Subjectivity Olin 201
Chair: Jacob Given (Villanova University)
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Christopher R. Tracy (Central Connecticut State University) “Cure By Etiology: The Conscience, the Self, and the Other”
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Frederic Besnard (University of Brest) “Lived Experience and International Mobility: A Phenomenological Study”
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Dante Durrman (Furman University) “Subjective Reduncancy”
6:45 Montgomery Room (Burwell)
Presidential address and banquet
Presentation of Society awards for student papers
