This weekend, senior philosophy majors will be presenting their senior philosophy workshop papers at the very first Senior Philosophy Conference on Saturday, Feb. 3, 12:15 - 5 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 4, 9:45 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
The department has moved away from an exam-only capstone experience to a combination capstone, in which senior majors take one exam each in ancient and modern philosophy, and then write and present a 15-20-page argumentative paper on a topic of their choice. The paper is defended in front of the department faculty and an audience of friends, family and peers.
Please join us in Oden Hall L100:
Saturday, Feb. 3
- 12:15 p.m. Welcome
- 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Florian Nero, “Veganism and Porphyry”
- 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Lucas Dunst, “Gender and Mind: Towards an Adaptive Ontology of Gender”
- 3 - 4 p.m. Jake Donaldson-Reid, “Shortcomings of Love with a Mind Reader”
- 4 - 5 p.m. Andrew Woollard, “Dennett’s Confusion: The Yorick-Hubert Distinction”
Sunday, Feb. 4
- 9:45 a.m. Welcome
- 10 - 11 a.m. Viv Muzilla, “Meta-Ethics of Practical Ethics in The Lives of Animals”
- 11 a.m. - noon. Gideon Malherbe, “Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy”
- 1 - 2 p.m. Collin Witt, “Descartes’ Deception”
- 2 - 3 p.m. Mazai Almeida-Warwin, “Despair in the Post-Modern Western World”
- 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Tucker Fulton, “A Merleau-Pontian View of Pain”
- 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Pritish Das, “A Close Reading of Descartes’ Bete Machine and Understanding Cartesian Race through Animality”