FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19
Registration 6:00–7:00PM
Session 1 (Chair: Anne Bezuidenhout, USC-Columbia)
7:00–8:00PM
Bill Martin, DePaul University
‘Some worries about "Buddhism": Kant, Schopenhauer, Bryan
Magee, and the morals of metaphysics’
Comments by Andrew Cathcart, USC–Columbia
Session 2 (Chair: Steve Satris, Clemson University)
8:05–9:05PM Leigh Hursh & David O'Donaghue, USC–Columbia
‘Varieties of philosophical wisdom in a clinical context’
Reception 9:10 PM
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20
Breakfast 8:00AM
Registration 8:30–9:00AM
Session 3 (Chair: Howard Radest, USC-Beaufort)
9:00–9:40AM
Malcolm Munson, Greenville Tech
‘Plato and Levinas: Transcendence and the discourse
before discourse’
9:40–10:20AM
Nils Rauhut, Coastal Carolina
‘Ordinary and aristocratic immorality in Plato’s
Republic’
Morning coffee break 10:20–10:35
Session 4 (Chair: Michael Ruse, Coastal Carolina)
10:35–11:15AM
Mark Stone, Furman University
‘Descartes’ distinction between consciousness and thought’
11:15–11:55AM
Larry Jorgensen, USC-Columbia
Graduate Essay Winner
‘Attending to music: An analysis of Descartes’ contributions to
musical aesthetics’
Lunch 12:00–1:00PM
Session 5 (Chair: Chris Tollefsen, USC-Columbia)
1:05–1:45PM
Michael Halberstam, USC-Columbia
‘Aesthetics of judgment’
1:45–2:25PM
Steve Yates, Columbia, South Carolina
‘Towards a theory of objectivity’
2:25–3:05PM
John Moore, Lander University
‘The Manner of Personalism’
Afternoon coffee break 3:05–3:20PM
Session 6 (Chair: Dan Wueste, Clemson University)
3:25–4:05PM
Sara Shady, USC-Columbia
‘Broadening the problem of substitution failure’
4:05–4:45PM
Stuart Silvers, Clemson University
‘Individualism, internalism, and wide supervenience’
4:45–5:25PM
Matthew Talbert, USC-Columbia
‘Explanation and belief: The Wittgensteinians on religious
skepticism’
Free time 5:30–6:30
Business Meeting 6:30–6:55PM
Banquet and Presidential Address 7:00PM
R.I.G. Hughes, USC–Columbia
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 21
Breakfast 8:00–9:00AM
Session 7 (Chair: Richard Combes, USC-Spartanburg)
9:00–10:00AM
Tom Oberdan, Clemson University
‘Godel, Carnap, and Mathematical Realism’
Comments by Tom Burke, USC-Columbia
Session 8
10:05–11:30AM
Michael Heidelberger, Humboldt University Berlin
‘Extending Reality Through Experimentation’
Panel discussion with Davis Baird (USC-Columbia), Charlie Kay (Wofford),
Alfred Nordmann (USC-Columbia), Tom Oberdan (Clemson) & Kelly Smith
(Clemson)
