Southeast Philosophy Conference at Clayton State University
Saturday, February 16, 2008
8.30 am to 9.30am
Registration/Coffee
University Center 2nd Floor
9.30 am-10.45 am
UC 420
Robert Case (Clayton State University, GA) On the Nature of God
Ryan Larosa (Clayton State University, GA) On American Foreign Policy: Non-Intervention, an American Tradition
UC 424
Charles Bauch (University of West Georgia) Virtue Ethics and Capitalist Power
Ben Hole (Lewis and Clark College, OR) Aristotle on MEGALOPSUCHIA
10.50 am to 12.05 pm
UC 420
George Allen (Clark University, MA) In Defense of the Circular and Contradictory Nature of Descartes’ Meditations
Timothy James Wright (University of West Georgia) The Sacred Whore
UC 424
Michael Uhall (University of Georgia) 'Talking Wolves' in Sheep's Clothing: Biletzki, Hobbes, and the Primacy of Rhetoric
Jay Mikelman (Tulane University, LA) Thomas Hobbes and the Problem of Suicide Bombers
12.10pm to 1.25 pm Lunch University Center Foyer
1.30 pm to 2.45 pm
UC 420
Jason Shepard (University of South Alabama) Qualia – or Something More Relevant – Regained
Chelsea Ruxer (University of Evansville, IN) Falsity in Physicalism
UC 424
Laura Delgado (University of St. Andrews, UK) Two Problems with Spinoza's Argument for Substance Monism
Geoffrey James (Morehouse College, GA) Why Utilitarianism Does Not Justify Vegetarianism
2.50 pm to 4.15 pm
UC 420
Taurean Webb (Morehouse College, GA) The Importance of Deliberation
Jacob Britten (Grand Valley State University, MI) Implications of Evolution in Epistemology
UC 424
Richard Marrero (University of Alabama Huntsville) Rawls’ Original Position
Michael Hobgood (Clayton State University, GA) Boots on the (Philosophical) Ground: Human Nature According to a Soldier
4.20pm to 5.00pm
UC 420
Jonathan Langlinais (Loyola University, LA) Hegel’s Concept of Virtue as Ethical Phronesis
UC 424
Anna King (Clayton State University, GA) Problems with Secured Boundaries for Women in Book V of Plato’s Republic
