KPA Fall 2011 Meeting Program

Full program (with abstracts) here.

The Fall 2011 Meeting of the Kentucky Philosophical Association will convene at:

Northern Kentucky University
Science Center 302 and 304
Highland Heights, KY 41099

On:

Saturday, October 22, 2011
8:30 am-4:30 pm

Keynote Address: Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern University)
Presidential Panel: "Women and Philosophy"

Program as follows:

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8:30-9:00 am Registration, Breakfast, Welcome

9:00-10:00 am Concurrent Session I

Audrey Anton, Western Kentucky University
“Willing, Unwilling, and Binding Addiction”
Commentator: Zachary Purdue, Kent State University

Elaine Blum, Kent State University
“Queering Kristeva’s Subjectivity”
Commentator: Benjamin Norris, The New School for Social Research

10:00-11:00 am Concurrent Session II

Ryan Comeau, Kent State University
“Incommensurability and Anti-Realist Worries: Thomas Kuhn’s Underlying
Semantic Commitments”
Commentator: Joseph Spino, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Peter Murphy, University of Indianapolis
“Justified, Despite an Unjustified Pedigree”
Commentator: Audrey Anton, Western Kentucky University

11:00-Noon Concurrent Session III

Benjamin Norris, The New School for Social Research
“Harm as a New Approach to Ugliness in the Critique of Judgment”
Commentator: Jerome Langguth, Thomas More College

Ruth Poproski, Carnegie Mellon University
“Cooperativity and the Role of Common Interest in Gricean Pragmatics”
Commentator: Ian Schnee, Western Kentucky University

Noon-1:30 pm Lunch

1:30-2:30 pm Concurrent Session IV

Henry Southgate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Hegel and the Identity of Indiscernibles”
Commentator: Daniel Kirchner, Centre College

Morey Williams, Boston College
“Asking the Right Questions: A Discussion of the Role of Women in
Book V of Plato’s Republic”
Commentator: Erin Tarver, Georgetown College

2:30-3:30 pm Keynote Address

Sandy Goldberg, Northwestern University
“Mutuality and Assertion”

3:30-4:30 pm Presidential Panel

Nancy Hancock, Northern Kentucky University
Laura Newhart, Eastern Kentucky University
Pamela Ryan, Morehead State University (Chair)
Erin Tarver, Georgetown College
“Women and Philosophy”

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REGISTRATION
The meeting is open to the public. A $5 registration fee is required, for both KPA members and nonmembers.

DIRECTIONS AND PARKING
For directions and parking, please click here or here. Visitor parking: maximum $5 per day.

HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS
The nearest accommodations to the NKU campus would be either the Hampton Inn & Suites at 10 Hampton Lane, Wilder KY 41076 (859-441-3049) (website) or the Country Inn & Suites at 10 Country Drive, Wilder KY 41076 (859-441-3707) (website).

CONTACT
Local Contact: Dr. Nancy Hancock, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Northern Kentucky University, Nunn Drive, Highland Heights, KY 41099, hancockn@nku.edu, 859-572-6401.
KPA Contact: Dr. Minh Nguyen, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Eastern Kentucky University, 521 Lancaster Avenue, Richmond, KY 40475, minh.nguyen@eku.edu, 859-626-2335.