Thursday, April 15, 2010

Philosophy conference to start Friday

Philosophy conference to start Friday

Philosophy conference to start Friday

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 01:09 AM PDT

Staff Report

ONEONTA _ The State University College at Oneonta will present its 15th annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference on Friday and Saturday in the Morris Conference Center on campus. The event attracts student and faculty speakers from colleges and universities throughout North America and beyond. Presentations are open to the public at no charge.

This year's conference will feature keynote speaker Andrew Light, director of the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Light will speak on "Finding a Future for Climate Ethics" at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center.

Conference activities will begin in the Craven Lounge at 9 a.m. Friday with sessions titled "Hobbes & Marx: Social & Political Concerns" and "Kant & Nietzsche: Ethical Concerns." Each session will feature papers by two to three students, as well as discussion with others.

Throughout the conference, presentations will explore traditional areas of philosophy such as ethics, metaphysics, the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science. Other presenters will explore issues such as "Implications of Facebook on the Human Condition" and "Homosexuality, Post-Modernism, and Marriage in Crisis."

Conference sessions Saturday will begin at 9 a.m. with panels on "Philosophical Issues in Contemporary Society" and "Philosophy of Language."

This year's program features more than 50 students, representing 31 different institutions in 17 states, as well as Canada and Lebanon. Presenters include students from SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College, as well as Princeton, Yale, the University of Hawaii and others. All papers were selected for presentation by blind review.

Four SUNY Oneonta students were selected as presenters: Angela Hotaling, who will speak on "Sellars' Scientific Image and the Absent Individual"; Eian Kantor on "How Should I Live?"; Brian Miller on "Contextually Speaking"; and David Naples on "Homosexuality, Post-Modernism, and Marriage in Crisis."

Alan Barton from Hartwick College will present "Wittgenstein, Knowledge, and Gettier Paradoxes."

The conference will conclude with an awards banquet Saturday afternoon.

For more information about the conference, call Distinguished Teaching Professor Douglas Shrader at 436-2690. A preliminary conference program and abstracts of papers are available online at www.oneonta.edu/pc.

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