FRIDAY / MARCH 2
Registration 3:30pm–4:30pm
Session 1 4:30pm–6:00pm
Chair: Daniel Wueste, Clemson University
4:30pm–5:00pm
Deborah Boyle, College of Charleston
Descartes and the Social Context of Knowing
5:00pm–5:30pm
Cynthia B. Bryson, USC-Columbia
Mary Astell: Defender of the "Disembodied Mind"
(Winner of the Graduate Student Essay Prize)
5:30pm–6:00pm
Leigh Hursh, USC-Columbia
Margaret Cavendish Philosophizing on Reason and Emotion: "goeth not
so much
by Rule, & Method, as by Choice"
Official Opening and Welcome 6:00pm–6:10pm
Philip Schneider, Coastal Carolina
Dinner on your own 6:10pm–7:30pm
Presidential Address 7:30pm–8:30pm
Chair: Tom Burke, USC-Columbia
Richard Combes, USC-Spartanburg
A Categorial Analysis of Technology
Reception 8:30pm ...
SATURDAY / MARCH 3
Breakfast 8:00am–9:00am
(Registration 9:00am–11:00am)
Session 2 9:00am–10:00am
Chair: Kelly Smith, Clemson University
9:00am–9:30am
Jennifer Emmert, USC-Columbia
Freedom as Self-Creation: Jaspers' Response to Kant's Third Antinomy
9:30am–10:00am
Sara Shady, USC-Columbia
On Karl Jaspers' Communicative Community
Break 10:00am–10:15am
Session 3 10:15am–11:15am
Chair: Davis Baird, USC-Columbia
10:15am–10:45am
Sid Littlefield, USC-Columbia
Phenomenology with the Other: Levinas and Husserl
10:45am–11:15am
Stuart Silvers, Clemson University
Externalism, Experience, and Perceptual Content
Break 11:15am–11:30am
Session 4 11:30am–12:30pm
Chair: Ed Munn, USC-Columbia
11:30am–12:00pm
Nils Rauhut, Coastal Carolina University
Should Socrates Be Afraid of Death?
12:00pm–12:30pm
Chris Tollefsen, USC-Columbia
I See No Dead People
Lunch on your own 12:30–1:30PM
Session 5 1:30pm–2:30pm
Chair: Michael Ruse, Coastal Carolina University
1:30pm–2:00pm
Philip Schneider, Coastal Carolina University
Equal Employment and the Concept of Business: An Ethical Dilemma
2:00pm–2:30pm
Daniel Wueste, Clemson University
Wal-Mart, Women's Rights, and Emergency Contraception: The Ingredients
of a Cautionary Tale
Break 2:30pm–2:45pm
Session 6 2:45pm–3:45pm
Chair: Tom Burke, USC-Columbia
2:45pm–3:15pm
Anne Bezuidenhout, USC-Columbia
Metaphor and What is Said: A Defense of a Direct Expression View of
Metaphor
3:15pm–3:45pm
John Catalano, USC-Lancaster
Francis Lieber's Theory of Homophany
Break 3:45pm–4:00pm
Session 7 4:00pm–5:00pm
Chair: Richard Combes, USC-Spartanburg
4:00pm–4:30pm
Davis Baird, USC-Columbia
Thing Knowledge: How Engineering Knows
4:30pm–5:00pm
Kelly Smith, Clemson University
What a Genetic Trait is Not
Business Meeting 5:00pm–5:45pm
Chair: Tom Burke, USC-Columbia
Break 5:45pm–7:00pm
Banquet and Presidential Address 7:00pm–9:00pm
Chair: Tom Burke, USC-Columbia
Jim Griffis, USC-Spartanburg
Chicken
SUNDAY / MARCH 4
Breakfast 8:00am–9:00am
Session 8 9:00am–10:00am
Chair: Malcolm Munson, Greenville Tech
9:00am–9:30am
Nikola Ristic, USC-Columbia
Are You/We Ready for the Truth? Nietzsche's Notion of Truth
9:30am–10:00am
Bill Martin, DePaul University (Chicago)
Chess and Philosophy: Notes Toward a Tractatus Caissa Philosophicus
Break 10:00am–10:15am
Session 9 10:15am–11:15am
Chair: Anne Bezuidenhout, USC-Columbia
10:15am–10:45am
David C. Miller, USC-Columbia
Staying Out of Gaol: An Examination of Hume's Doctrine of the Doctrines
of Liberty and Neccesity
10:45am–11:15am
Mark A. Stone, Furman University
Descartes and the Epistemological Problem of Evil
Adjourn
