The Towson University Spring 2009 Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Lecture Hall #0238
10:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m.
Undergraduate Presentations
10:00 a.m. ? 11:00 a.m.
Daniel Murphy
Towson University
?Modal Determinism: The Effect of Determinism and Modal Realism on the Human Condition?
11:00 a.m. ? 12:00 p.m.
Patrick O?Neill
Towson University
?Plenitude and Causal Isolation?
12:00 p.m. ? 1:00 p.m.
Cuong Nguyen
Johns Hopkins University
?Uttering the Mystical: An Analysis of Wittgenstein?s Tractarian Ethical Thought?
1:00 p.m. ? 2:00 p.m.
Paul Kelly
Towson University
?Conceptual Revision and the Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism?
2:00 p.m. ? 3:00 p.m.
Ashley Tyler
St. John?s College
?Maxwell and Method?
3:00 p.m. ? 4:00 p.m.
David Parks
Towson University
?Solitude?
Keynote Presentation
4:00 p.m. ? 5:00 p.m.
Dr. Richard Bett
Johns Hopkins University
?Socratic Ignorance?
Dr. Richard Bett holds a joint appointment in Philosophy and Classics at the Johns Hopkins University. He received his BA from Oxford University and his PhD from UC Berkeley. Professor Bett specializes in ancient Greek philosophy, and has strong interests in ancient and modern ethics and epistemology, as well as Nietzsche. He is the author of ?Pyrrho, His Antecedents and his Legacy,? and of translations of Sextus Empiricus? ?Against the Ethicists,? and ?Against the Logicians.? He is currently editing the ?Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism.? He spent 1994-1995 as a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. From January 2000 to June 2001 he was Acting Executive Director of the American Philosophical Association, and is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of its Eastern Division.
*** This event is free and open to the public. ***
*** Parking will be available in the Towsontown Garage. ***
For more information, contact TU Philosophy Forum President – Paul Kelly at {pkelly2@students.towson.edu} and check out {http://www.towson.edu/philosophyforum/}
