Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 2006

EMU River rooms (conjoined: alsea, coquille)

FRIDAY May 12
2:00 Patrick Moore Women and Gay Men: Paths of Intersection
2:30 Kelly Fleish A Silent Interlocutor encounters Plato's Republic
3:00 Michael Brown Opposing Vulgar Dialectics
3:30 Break
3:45 Orren Johnson Mythos and Image: Necessary, Yet Incomplete Accounts of What Is
4:15 Daemion Lee Epithumia in the Republic
4:45 Laura Langdon Creating Freedom in a Society of Sexual Difference
5:15 Jesse Jenkins Autonomy, Individualism and the Decentered Relational Self in Axel Honneth and Catriona Mackenzie
5:45 Break
6:00 Adam Arola The Tyranny of Authenticity: Adorno, Art, and the Individual

SATURDAY May 13
1:00 Kim Garchar So What Does It Mean to Be a Philosopher? A Defense of Philosophy as Communal Activity
1:50 Taeva Shefler A Critical Look at the Prison-Industrial Complex
2:30 Bryan Clark Opening Spinoza's Ethics: Geometry, Metaphor and Philosophy
3:00 Break
3:15 Siniva Bennett Semiotics of Destruction
3:45 Ryan Murphy Experience of Jordan
4:20 Max Goins Totalitarianism and Politics of Representation: Bataille, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarth and the Question of Justified Delimitations
5:10 Dan Johnson William James, Cornelius Van Till and the Problem of the One and the Many
5:40 Break
6:00 John Lysaker Extolling Art in an Intolerable World