SCHEDULE OF SPEAKERS AND EVENTS

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FRIDAY - Registration: 3:30-4:00 p.m.

Session I: 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Colloquium: Nietzsche / Existentialism / Gender G106 Caldwell Chair: Marina Bykova, NCSU Can Nietzsche's Ubermensch Possess the Virtues? Edwin Bagley Wingate University 4:00-4:40 p.m. Sartre & Maritain: Existential Pathways to the Fraternal City Joseph Pappin USC Columbia 4:40-5:20 p.m. Unsex me Here': The Non-Gendering of 'Women' in Book V of the Republic Cindy Bryson Greenville Technical College 5:20-6:00 p.m.

Colloquium: Metaphysics G108 Caldwell Chair: John Carroll, NCSU Metaphysical Factualism & Constitution without Identity Boris Kukso Duke University 4:00-4:40 p.m. A Biological Approach to Personal Identity: Naturalizing our Persistence Conditions Liz Stillwaggon USC Columbia 4:40-5:20 p.m. History, Chronology and Technological Determinism Michael Ruse Coastal Carolina University 5:20-6:00 p.m.

Colloquium: Mind & Language G109 Caldwell Chair: Dorit Bar-On, UNC Chapel Hill Perspective Shifting with Indexicals Anne Bezuidenhout USC Columbia 4:00-4:40 p.m. Introspection and Qualia Renee Smith Coastal Carolina University 4:40-5:20 p.m. The Collective Mind: Extending the Extended Mind Deborah Tollefsen University of Memphis 5:20-6:00 p.m.

Break for Dinner: 6:00-7:20 (restaurant information at registration desk)

Keynote Address: 7:45-9:15 G107 Caldwell Socrates and the Erotic C.D.C. Reeve UNC Chapel Hill Chair: Guven Guzeldere, Duke University

Reception: 9:15-10:45 p.m.
The Commons (Founders Hall)

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SATURDAY - Registration: 8:30-9:00 a.m.

Session II: 9:00 - 12 noon

Colloquium: Argumentation, Implication, and Decision Theory G106 Caldwell Chair: Michael Pendelbury, NCSU Failed Parodies for Refuting Ontological Arguments Bob Maydole Davidson College 9:00-9:45 a.m. An Improved Reply to the Argument from Categorization Dennis Earle Coastal Carolina University 9:45-10:30 a.m. Why the Notion of Logical Consequence Cannot be Analyzed Otavio Bueno USC Columbia 10:30-11:15 a.m. The Valuation of Choices in the Logic of Decision Kenneth Presting 11:15-12 noon	Invited Symposium: Political Philosophy G111 Caldwell Chair: Lisa McLeod, Guilford College Boundary Issues: Universal Jurisdiction and the Particularity Requirement for Political Obligation Win-Chiat Lee Wake Forest University 9:00-9:40 Respondent: Doug MacLean UNC Chapel Hill		Colloquium: Postmodernism G108 Caldwell Chair: Joseph Pappin, USC Columbia Invoking Eternity: A Philosophic Quartet in Imagined Time Leslee Johnson Mars Hill College 9:00-9:45 a.m. Images, History and the Need for Understanding K.C. Warble USC Columbia 9:45-10:30 a.m. Technology, Language, Poet: Heidegger and the Closure of the Political Sid Littlefield USC Columbia 10:30-11:15 a.m. SCSP Graduate Student Essay Winner Habermas & Marcuse on Technology Daniel Malloy USC Columbia 11:15-12 noon
	Break: 10:30-10:40 a.m.
	Colloquium: Ethical Theory G111 Caldwell Chair: Barbara Levenbook, NCSU Regulative Control and the Subjectivist's View of Moral Responsibility P. Eddy Wilson Shaw University 10:40-11:20 a.m. Moral Ignorance at the Social Level: A Critique of Cheshire Calhoun's Responsibility and Reproach Nancy M. Williams University of Georgia 11:20-12 noon	Colloquium: Modern Philosophy G109 Caldwell Chair: Mark Stone, Furman University Berkeley on Abstraction and the Identity Criterion of Objects Theodore Cooke Belmont Abbey College 10:40-11:20 a.m. Is Kant a Rationalist? Some Responses to Bonjour's Assessment of Kant's Epistemology Nils Rauhut Coastal Carolina University 11:20-12 noon

Lunch (free for registered participants): 12:10-1:25 p.m.

Session III: 1:30-5:30 p.m.

Colloquium: Applied Ethics G111 Caldwell Chair: Robert Hambourger, NCSU Some Ethical Perspectives on Animals as Research Subjects Ellen Ritterskamp UNC Charlotte 1:30-2:15 p.m. Ethical Issues in Long Term Care Margaret Houck USC Columbia 2:15-3:00 p.m. The Last Argument Against Capital Punishment We'll Ever Need Lisa McLeod Guilford College 3:00-3:45 p.m. Break: 3:45-4:00 p.m. A Case for FLOSS in 'The Academy' Vance Ricks Guilford College 4:00-4:45 p.m. Hate Speech as Linguistic Violence William Gay UNC Charlotte 4:45-5:30 p.m.

Colloquium: Ancient Philosophy and Aesthetics G106 Caldwell Chair: Jim Griffis, USC Spartanburg The Slow Boat from Delos or Socrates' Ship Comes In Clint Corcoran High Point University 1:30-2:15 p.m. Plato and Utilitarianism Hans von Rautenfeld USC Columbia 2:15-3:00 p.m. Plato and Levinas: Transcendence and the Discourse before Discourse Malcolm Munson Greenville Technical College 3:00-3:45 p.m. Break: 3:45-4:00 p.m. The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry & Philosophy: Worries about U2 Chris Tollefsen USC Columbia 4:00-4:45 p.m. Somaesthetics: A Reconsideration Eric Mullis USC Columbia 4:45-5:30 p.m.

Invited Panel: Nanotechnology and Society B107 Caldwell Chair: Richard Combes, USC Spartanburg Otavio Bueno, Chris Tuomey, R.I.G Hughes, Chris Robinson USC Columbia 1:30-3:25 p.m. Colloquium: Teaching Philosophy G107 Caldwell Chair: Nils Rauhut, Coastal Carolina University Patricia's Uncle: Theism and Anti-Theism in the Philosophy Classroom Richard Nunan College of Charleston 3:30-4:10 p.m. A Heuristic for Normative Ethics Phil Schneider Coastal Carolina University 4:10-4:50 p.m. Logic Diagrams: A Pedagogical Value in Not Being a Method of Logic Patrick Rardin Appalachian State University 4:50-5:30 p.m.

Colloquium: Epistemology and Metaphilosophy G108 Caldwell Chair: Nancy Daukas, Guilford College Harman's Paradox, Contextualism and Epistemic Principles Michael Veber East Carolina University 4:00-4:40 p.m. Epistemic Contextualism and Epistemic Expressivism Matthew Chrisman UNC Chapel Hill 4:40-5:20 p.m. Performative Transcendental Arguments Adrian Bardon Wake Forest University 5:20-6:00 p.m.

Undergraduate Colloquium G109 Caldwell Chair: Liz Nemitz, Guilford College On Paraconsistency: the Philosophical Utility Behind a Logic of Inconsistency Robert Littlejohn UNC Charlotte 1:30-2:10 p.m. The Societal Good Produced Through Nietzsche's Inner-Worldly Asceticism Blake Holiday Taylor Wingate University 2:15-2:55 p.m. Kierkegaard and the Structure of Home Jack E. Marsh, Jr. UNC Charlotte 3:00-3:40 p.m. Break: 3:40-3:50 p.m. Wrongdoing and Forgiveness Douglas R. Paletta UNC Chapel Hill 3:50-4:30 p.m. Why Should Presentists Believe in Time Travel? Stephen Sutton NC State University 4:35-5:10 p.m.

6:30 SCSP Business Meeting and Banquet
SCSP Presidential Address:
Public Reason: Arguments For and Against War with Iraq.
Mark Stone, Furman University