Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium
2018 Undergraduate Conference
The College of New Jersey
April 7, 2018
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9:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast: Social Science Building Atrium
9:30-10:50 AM: First Morning Sessions
Social Science Building Room 223
Chair: TBA
9:30-9:50: Ruiwei Shen, Mount Holyoke College, “Conceptual Possibility and Imagination,” Mount Holyoke
9:50-10:00: Comments
10:00-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:35 Emmanuel Ogwu, “Scientific Models and Literary Fiction,”
Arup Jesuit University, Harare, Zimbabwe.BY SKYPE
10:35-10:50 Discussion
Social Science Building Room 225
Chair: TBA
9:30-9:50: Saisuma Veerapaneni, “A Refutation of the Advaitan Account of the Self,” The College of New Jersey
9:50-10:00: Comments
10:00-10:15: Discussion
10:15-10:35: Vincent Carchidi, “The Limits of Just War Theory How Power and Morality Are Intimately Linked,” Rosemont College
10:35-10:50: Discussion
Social Science Building Room 226
Chair: Nina Navazio
9:30-9:50: Oleg Smirnov, Jr., “The Art of Nothingness,”
West Virginia University
9:50-10:00: Comments
10:00-10:15: Discussion
10:15-10:35: Steve Yang, “Concept of God—A Synthesis of Two Realms,” Vanderbilt University
10:35-10:50: Discussion
11:00AM -12:20 PM: Second Morning Sessions
Social Science Building Room 223
Chair: TBA
11:00-11:20 Kyra Hoerr, “Idealization on a Temporal Scale and the Case for Optimality Models,” Bryn Mawr College
11:20-11:30: Comments
11:30-11:45: Discussion
11:45-12:05: Michael Valeri, “An Analysis of Crispin Wright’s Alethic Pluralism,” Hamilton College
12:05-12:20 Discussion
Social Science Building Room 225
Chair: Jake Veliky
11:00-11:20 Alexander Jin, The Right to Dignity: Towards a Better Understanding of Morality in Death,” Swarthmore.
11:20-11:30: Comments
11:30-11:45: Discussion
11:45-12:05: Paul Park, “Critique of Peter Singer’s notion of Marginal Utility,” Gordon College.
12:05-12:20 Discussion
Social Science Building Room 226
Chair: Robert (Nick) Nicholoff
11:00-11:20 Yena Choi, “Degree in Pleas,” Florida State University
11:20-11:30: Comments: Robert (Nick) Nicholoff
11:30-11:45: Discussion
11:45-12:05: Priten Shah, “Transferable Obligations; Solving the Injustice of Forced Parental Support,” Harvard College
12:05-12:20: Discussion
12:30 AM -1:20 PM: Lunch: Social Science Building Atrium
1:30-2:50 PM: Welcome and Featured Speaker: Library Auditorium
Welcome:
Richard Kamber, Professor of Philosophy,
The College of New Jersey
Thomas Handler: President, Board of Governors,
Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium
Jane Wong, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
The College of New Jersey
Featured Speaker
Elizabeth Harman, The Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University
“#metoo and the Failure to Warn Others”
3:00-4:30 AM: Afternoon Sessions
Social Science Building Room 223
Chair: TBA
3:00-3:20: Jessie Doble,
“Interacting with the Environment: An Analysis of Andy Goldsworthy’s Art Among Allen Carlson’s Models of Nature Appreciation.”
3:20-3:30: Comments
3:30-3:45: Discussion
3:45-4:05: Michele Snyder, “An Analysis of Emily Brady’s and Richard Austin’s Critique of Nature Aesthetics and Ethics,” Stockton University,
4:05-4:20: Discussion
Social Science Building Room 225
Chair: Gianna Mellilo
3:00-3:20: Felicia Selvakumar, “The Collision Between Women, Pornography, Ethics, and the Law,” The College of New Jersey
3:20-3:30: Comments: Gianna Mellilo
3:30-3:45: Discussion
3:45-4:05: Charlotte Xu, “Body As A Physical Container of Gender: An Explanation for Transgender Rage,” Bryn Mawr
4:05-4:20: Discussion
Social Science Building Room 226
Chair: TBA
3:00-3:20: Emily Cook, “The Seductive Trap of a False Online Life,” Temple University
3:20-3:30: Comments
3:30-3:45: Discussion
3:45-4:05: Samantha Locklear, “Deontology in Fences,” Neumann University
4:05-4:20: Discussion