KPA Spring 2014 Meeting

Kentucky Philosophical Association

Spring 2014 Meeting

Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green, KY

Saturday, April 5, 2014 

9:00am – 5:00pm

Program:

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

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

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

"Are Character Intellectual Virtues 'Reliabilist Virtues'?"
Marlin R. Sommers (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
Commentator: Ian Schnee (Western Kentucky University)

"Passive and Active Ignorance"
Kate Johnson (Bellarmine University)
Commentator: Eva Cadavid (Centre College)

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

"Theism, Truthmaking, and Presentism"
Allen Gehring (Brescia University)
Commentator: Rickey Ray (Northeast State Community College)

"A New Analysis of Mercy"
  Kristofer Rhodes (Martin University)
Commentator: Jennifer L. Hudgens (University of Kentucky)

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

"Why Patience is Always a Virtue"
Matthew Pianalto (Eastern Kentucky University)
Commentator: Bob Sandmeyer (University of Kentucky)

"Overcoming Student Aversion to Obligations"
Court Lewis (Owensboro Community and Technical College)
Student Panelists: TBA (Western Kentucky University)

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

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Business Meeting: all are welcome

2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.:  

Winner of 2014 KPA Student Essay Contest:
Emily Sullivan (Western Kentucky University)
Title TBA

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.:  

Keynote Address:
"Are We Responsible? The Neuroscience of Violence"
Valerie Hardcastle (University of Cincinnati) 

Registration Fees:
$20 for regular attendees (including presenters)
$10 for graduate students (including presenters)
Undergrads can attend for free.

The official hotel for the conference is The Staybridge Suites, 680 Campbell Rd, Bowling Green, KY 42104 The phone number is 877-238-8889. Be sure to tell them that you are with the WKU Kentucky Philosophical Association Conference. We have a secure room rate for $79.99 a night. That is good for both Friday and Saturday nights. The hotel has a shuttle that can drop you off at our door on campus and pick you up so long as you tell the front desk beforehand.

Please direct all queries to the KPA President, Audrey Anton at audrey(dot)anton(at)wku(dot)edu.

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)

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.