Program & Schedule 2019
10th Annual 51勛圖厙 Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Saturday, April 6, 2019
51勛圖厙
8:00-8:45 Registration HUB Lobby
8:45 Welcome and Awards - UBC Room
Noah Rosenthal, Student Organizer, Opening Remarks
Dr. Bernie Cantens, Chair of the Philosophy Department, Philosophy Awards and Prizes
Dr. Cynthia Kosso, Provost, Welcoming Words
9:00-10:00 Plenary Talk - UBC Room
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Melissa Yates, ���Governing Borders as Strangers: Paradoxes of
Democratic Inclusion���
10:15-11:15 Metaphysics (Chair: Dr. Arash Naraghi ) UBC Room
- ���An Interdisciplinary Inductive Connection (IIC) to Trust in a World of Imperfection��� Robert Falatyn (51勛圖厙)
- ���Knowing vs Grasping: An Analysis of Infinity��� Woayom Kumazah (Temple University)
- ���St. Augustine���s View on the Ultimate Good��� Alicia Wallace (51勛圖厙)
11:20-12:20 Social Justice and Aesthetics (Chair: Dr. Weiss) Snyder Room
- ���Beauty in the Eye of Schopenhauer��� Jonathan Schillinger (East Stroudsburg University)
- ���Simone de Beauvoir on Freedom and Feminism��� Danielle Hanson (Northampton Community College)
- ���Where is Art and How Did it Get There? The Applications and Implications of Martin Heidegger���s Theory��� Emilia Donnelly (Franklin and Marshall College)
12:25-1:35 Lunch
1:40-3:00 Free will and Personal Identity (Chair: Dr. Bernie Cantens) Snyder Room
- ���Aquinas and Aristotle on Will��� Will Nolan (Princeton University)
- ���Essential Freedom��� Ashley Rasmussen (Northampton Community College)
- ���What exactly to do with the Other? Levinas and Camus��� Walter Argueta (Manhattanville College)
- ���Apollo and Dionysus Symbolism in the Stranger��� Joshua Marchak (Northampton Community College)
1:40-3:00 Ethics (Chair: Dr. William Falla) UBC Room
- ���The Value of Plant Life��� Daniel Shepard (Princeton University)
- ���Pulp Fiction and Censorship��� Bobbi Beidleman (Northampton Community College)
- ���Singer and Kant Walk into a Pond��色�� Ryan Christian Born (Princeton University)
- ���Manipulation: Intuition and Practice��� Iskandar Haykel (Princeton University)
3:00-4:00 Friendship, Romantic Love, and Asceticism (Chair: Dr. Leon Niemoczynski) Snyder Room
- ���What is Love? Love Through the Lenses of Asexuality and Aromanticism in Plato���s Work��� Emily Aguilar and Stephanie Tseng (Bryn Mawr College)
- ���The Fire of Karma��� Schockency Kailynn (Northampton Community College)
Program Coordinators: Noah Rosenthal 2020, Cody Yarnall 2020, Robert Falatyn 2022, Donna Moyer.
51勛圖厙 Philosophy Faculty: Dr. Bernie Cantens, Chair, Dr. Arash Naraghi, Dr. Carol Moeller, Dr. Leon Niemoczynski, and Dr. Bill Falla.