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SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY
2005 Annual Conference

Furman University
Greenville, South Carolina
Februrary 25-26, 2005

Conference Program | On-Site Registration Information | Hotel Accommodations
Map and Directions | Original Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines
 

SCHEDULE OF SPEAKERS AND EVENTS


FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25
(All Sessions Furman Hall Room 128)

    3:45-4:20pm
Registration (Furman Hall)
 
    4:20-5:40pm
Session FI: Heidegger, Kierkegaard, God and Authenticity
 
                Existentialism and the Ethics of Authenticity
David Przekupowski, University of South Carolina, Columbia
 
God as Presence
Blanche Premo-Hopkins, University of South Carolina, Aiken
 
Moderator: Malcolm Munson, Greenville Technical College
 
    5:40-7:00pm
Dinner Break
 
    7:00-8:20pm
Session FII: Public Reason, Concepts and Properties
 
                An Empirical Account of Public Reason
Mark Stone, Furman University
 
Concepts and Properties
Dennis Earl, Coastal Carolina University
 
Moderator: Nils Rauhut, Coastal Carolina University
 
    9:00pm
Reception at the home of Mark Stone (maps available at registration)

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26
(All Sessions Furman Hall Room 128)

    8:15-8:45am
Registration (Furman Hall)
 
    8:45-10:05
Session SI: Undergraduate and Graduate Paper Award Session
 
                Morality of the Will
Brian Lucier, Wofford College (winner Undergraduate Award)
 
The Beneficial Nature of Virtues
Jeff Turner, University of South Carolina, Columbia (winner Graduate Award)
 
Moderator: Michael Ruse, Coastal Carolina University
 
    10:05-10:15
Break (Continuing Registration)
 
    10:15am-12:15pm
Session SII: Philosophy of Mind, Qualia and Mental Causation
 
                Neural Materialism, Pain's Badness, and A posteriori Identities
Irwin Goldstein, Davidson College
 
Shoemaker's Moderate Qualia Realism and the Transparency of Qualia
Renee Smith, Coastal Carolina University
 
Pollyanna Goes to the Park: A Case Study for Mental Causation
David A. Norman, University of South Carolina, Lancaster
 
Moderator: Liz Stillwaggon, University of South Carolina, Columbia
 
    12:15-1:25pm
Lunch Break
 
    1:25-3:25pm
Session SIII: Modernity, the Cogito and the Self
 
                Modernity and Modernism
Nikola Ristic, University of South Carolina, Columbia
 
Descartes and Methodological Doubt: Was the Cogito Necessary
Steven Yates, University of South Carolina, Upstate
 
The Narcissism that is Not One
Adam Rosen, New School University
 
Moderator: Cynthia Bryson, Greenville Technical College
 
    3:25-3:40pm
Break
 
    3:40-5:40pm
Session SIV: Science, Technology and Values
 
                Hypothetical and Virtual Reality: Simulations as Technicolor Thought Experiments
Liz Stillwaggon, University of South Carolina, Columbia
 
How to Argue (and How Not to Argue) About Values in Science
Kristen Intemann, Coastal Carolina University
 
Toward a Humean Environmental Virtue Ethic: An Explication of Humility
Paul Haught, Newberry College
 
Moderator: (TBA)
 
    5:45pm
Business Meeting
 
    7:15pm
Banquet


 
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