Fifteenth Annual North Florida Student Philosophy Conference
Philosophy and Media
University of North Florida
March 31, 2012
Here is the schedule for the upcoming conference!
Check-In and Hospitality (Lobby, College of Health, Building 39)
9am to 9:15
Welcome Remarks
9:15 to 9:30
- Bert Koegler, Chair of the Department of Philosophy (39/1009)
Plenary Session I
9:30 to 10:45
- Christopher Grau, Clemson University, “Philosophy and Film: What’s the Point?” (39/1009)
Chair: Karla Pierce, Florida State College at Jacksonville
Concurrent Sessions I
10:55 to 11:35
- Bradley Bell, University of North Florida, “An Amoral Ethic: Foucault and Nietzsche” (39/1002)
Chair: Scott Kimbrough, Jacksonville University
- Shad Bauer, Ohio University, “In Search of a Relatively Objective Theory” (39/1003)
Chair: Jon Matheson, University of North Florida
- Felicia Flaum, University of North Florida, “Doing the Impossible: Critiquing the System from the Inside” (39/1026)
Chair: Mitch Haney, University of North Florida
- Matthew Fallings, Miami University, “Becoming Familiar with the Other” (39/2006)
Chair: Erinn Gilson, University of North Florida
Concurrent Sessions II
11:45 to 12:25
- Jordan Dopkins, University of Florida, “On Hobbes’s Fool & the Contexts of Deliberation” (39/1002)
Chair: Karla Pierce, Florida State College at Jacksonville
- Van Tu, University of Colorado, “Aesthetic Contextualism: Explanation and Defense” (39/1003)
Chair: Mitch Haney, University of North Florida
- Lorivie Abapo, University of North Florida, “Advertising Inauthenticity” (39/1026)
Chair: Scott Kimbrough, Jacksonville University
- Matthew Lamb, Colorado State University, “Moral Objectivism, Intuitionism, and Epistemological Queerness” (39/2006)
Chair: Jon Matheson, University of North Florida
Lunch
12:25 to 1:55
Afternoon Check-In and Hospitality (Lobby, Building 39)
1:55 to 2:10
Plenary Session II
2:10 to 3:25 Ellen C. Wagner Lecture
- Amy Wuest, University of Western Ontario, “What Neurath’s ISOTYPE Reveals About the Project of Logical Empiricism.” (39/1009)
Chair: Mitch Haney, University of North Florida
Concurrent Sessions III
3:35 to 4:15
- Brian Bradley Ohlman, Ryerson University, “‘Many Feet, Many Hands, and Many Senses’: A Social Conception of Phronesis” (39/1002)
Chair: Karla Pierce, Florida State College at Jacksonville
- John McCrary, Clemson University, “A Tentative Theory of Filmic Credibility” (39/ 1003)
Chair: Mitch Haney, University of North Florida
- Tim Dacey, University of North Florida, “On the Moral Error Theory: The Argument from Evolution” (39/1026)
Chair: Jon Matheson, University of North Florida
Plenary Session III
4:25 to 5:40
- Vance Ricks, Guilford College, “Gossip in the Digital Age” (39/1009)
Chair: Mitch Haney, University of North Florida
Closing Remarks
5:40 to 5:50
- Mitch Haney, University of North Florida, Department of Philosophy
Congratulations to all of the students presenting papers!