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Topic: Alternative Feminist Solutions to the Dilemma of Social Justice in a Foundationless World

Chair: Edward Grippe (Norwalk Community College)

Speakers:

Edward Grippe (Norwalk Community College)

“The Challenges for a Feminist Standpoint Theory on Social Justice”

Ashby Butnor (Ithaca College)

“Cultivating Self, Transforming Society: Buddhist and Feminist Perspectives on Social Justice”

Naomi Scheman (University of Minnesota)

“Neither at Home nor on Holiday: Wittgenstein, Feminism, and a Politics of Diaspora”
 

 

 

Topic: Enactivism vs. Reductivism in Philosophy of Mind

Thursday, April 19, 9:00-12 a.m.

Program Chair: Ralph D. Ellis

Speakers

Natika Newton: "The Action Theory of Intentionality and Consciousness"

John Bickle: "Ruthless Reductivism and Extended Mind Arguments"

Nicholas Georgalis: "The Necessity and Irreducibility of First-Person Concepts for a Theory of Mind"

Ralph Ellis: "Action, Self-organization, and the Compatibility of Nonreductive Physicalism with Causal Closure"

 

 

 

Session I: Religion, Love, and the Abyss

Thursday, April 5, 6-9 PM

CHAIR: J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Hartwick College

Andrew Fiala (California State University, Fresno):“Ethics, Reason, and God.”

Charles W. Harvey (University of Central Arkansas): "Narcissism, Fundamentalism and the Dirty Trick of Infinitude"

David Chan (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point): "The Possibility of Philosophy as Religion".

Ralph Ellis (Clark Atlantic University): “Rethinking Love and the Abyss

Session II: Moral Perception

Saturday, April 7, 6-9

Henry O. Jacoby, (East Carolina University): "What Is A Theory Of Moral Perception?"

Jennifer Cole Wright, (University of Wyoming): “The Role of Moral Perception in Mature Moral Agency”

J. Jeremy Wisnewski, (Hartwick College): “Ethics and Aesthetics as One: Remarks on the Primacy of Moral Perception”

 

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