KPA 2013 Summer Workshop Schedule

KPA 2013 Summer workshop

Centre College, Danville, KY

Click here for a PDF version of the schedule.

If anyone is interested in attending, please contact Eva Cadavid at eva.cadavid@centre.edu

Thursday, July 18

7:30-8:15 am   Pick-up registration packet  Crounse 468

                        Continental breakfast

8:15 am           Introductions

8:30-9:50 am   Shelly Johnson “My Happiness and Yours: The Crucial Role Happiness Plays in Kant’s Account of the Virtuous and Moral Life”

10:00-11:20 am           Jeffrey Gold “An American Zen Buddhist Perspective on Suffering and Self Hate."

11:30am-1:30pm         Lunch at V-Market  (within walking distance)

1:30-2:50 pm   Manyul Im and A. Minh Nguyen “The Dao of Teaching Chinese Philosophy: Lessons from a Survey”

3:00-4:20 pm   Audrey Anton “Aristotle’s Voluntary Pathe”

4:30-5:50 pm   Eva Cadavid “Aristotle and Mathematical Matters”

Friday, July 19

8:00-8:30 am   Continental breakfast

8:30-9:50 am   J. Jered Janes “Securing a Future: Transcendental Phenomenology and the Contemporary Investigation of Consciousness”

10:00-11:20     Bryan Hall “Fichte’s False Dilemma”

11:30 am         Lunch at V-Market  (within walking distance)

CFA: KPA 2013 Summer Workshop

Kentucky Philosophical Association (KPA)

Summer 2013 Workshop

July 18-19, 2013

Hosted at Centre College, Danville, KY

Call for Abstracts 
Submissions deadline: June 8, 2013

The KPA invites the submission of abstracts for papers (4,000-7,000 words) on any topic in philosophy. We invite faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars to share in the opportunity to present and discuss their current work.

Abstracts should be 150 words or less. A draft of the accepted paper will be due by July 8, 2013 and distributed among the participants. Each participant will have 80 minutes for their work, which includes an overview of the paper and discussion.

Please email submissions to Eva Cadavid at eva.cadavid@centre.edu with the subject line “KPA 2013 workshop abstract”. Include in the email the following information:

1. Title of paper
2. 150-word abstract (attached as a pdf)
3. Author's name
4. Author's institutional affiliation
5. Author's email address
6. Indication whether campus housing will be necessary

Note: Campus housing will be available at the cost of $20/night. Registration fee for the workshop is $25 and covers continental breakfast and boxed lunches for both days.

A pdf version of this CFA is available here.

KPA Spring 2013 Meeting & Program

Kentucky Philosophical Association

Spring 2013 Meeting

Transylvania University

Cowgill Rooms

Lexington, KY 40508

Saturday, March 23rd 8:30am – 5:00pm

Program:

Click here for the full program with abstracts and full meeting information

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.: Registration, Breakfast (Cogwill Center Lobby)

9:00 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.: Concurrent Sessions:

"Reliability and Phenotypic Chauvinism" (Room: Cogwill 102)
Eric Alan Mack (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Commentator: Alexandra Bradner (University of Kentucky)

"Patience as/and Constancy: How Far Can We Go?" (Room: Cogwill 110)
Matt Pianalto (Eastern Kentucky University)
Commentator: W. David Hall (Centre College)

10:00 a.m. -10:55 a.m.:Concurrent Sessions:

"The Importance of Self Knowledge" (Room: Cogwill 102)
Minh Nguyen (Eastern Kentucky University)
Commentator: Peter Fosl (Transylvania University)

"Plato’s Statesman on the Goal of Philosophical Inquiry" (Room: Cogwill 110)
Michael Oliver Wiitala (University of Kentucky)
Commentator: Daniel Sheffler (University of Kentucky)

11:00 a.m. - 11:55 a.m.: Concurrent Sessions:

"Temporal and Spatial Compositional Consistency: An Examination of the Time/Space Analogy Thesis" (Room: Cogwill 102)
Brian Carlson (University of Kentucky)
Commentator: Megan Wallace (University of Kentucky)

"Can Fission Cut It: On the Cognitive Value of Thought Experiments in Personal Identity" (Room: Cogwill 110)
Aleks Zarnitsyn (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Commentator: Michael Horton (U Alabama, Tuscaloosa)

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 pm.: Lunch

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Business Meeting (Cogwill 102)

2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. (Cogwill 102):  

Winner of 2013 KPA Student Essay Contest:
"The Relationship Between the Soul and Plato's Forms and Whether the Soul is the Individuating Force"
Annie Corbitt (Centre College)
Commentator: Shouta Brown (Western Kentucky University)

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Cogwill 102):  

Keynote Address:
"A Heideggerian Critique of Cyberbeing"
Professor Richard Polt (Xavier University) 

Please direct all queries to the KPA President, Bob Sandmeyer.