2009 NNEPA Meeting, October 16-17
Our conference keynoter will be Christine Korsgaard of Harvard University. Professor Korsgaard has done, and continues to do, distinguished work in moral philosophy. She is the author of several books, including The Sources of Normativity (Cambridge, 1996) and, most recently, Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity (forthcoming, spring 2009. Keynote address (draft)
Conference Location and Lodging Information
The conference will be held at UNH's New England Center. Some 25 rooms have been saved. Rooms are $119 for single or double occupancy. Hotel telephone: 800.590.4334 Directions to the center.
The conference registration fee is $25 and the cost of the Friday night banquet is $30. Registration and banquet fees may be paid at registration anytime Friday 10:30-5:00. The menu for the banquet follows the program below.
Parking is free in the lot directly across from the hotel-center and, after 6pm, it is free until morning in the metered spots on the adjacent street.
Program NNEPA `09, UNH, Durham
FRIDAY Oct. 16:
All sessions, including the keynote address, are in the Great Bay Room of the New England Center (NEC). During parallel sessions, this room will be divided into the Great Bay Room A and the Great Bay Room B. So below, an "a" or "b" following a session number means you are in the corresponding divided room, which will be marked accordingly.
Registration: 10:30-5:15. (Great Bay Foyer)
11:00-1:00 Special Undergraduate Session
--Laura LaPlante: Exploring the Rightful Application of Wittgenstein's ‘Forms of Life' and ‘Family Resemblance' in Social Anthropology"
--Rose Horton: Pascal's Wager: A Good Bet
--Joshua Allen: Human Time and Consciousness as Catalyst of the Real
--Ryan Smith: Dualist Problems for Materialist Metaphysics
--Kimberly Chuang: A Sartrean Improvement of the Cartesian Cogito
--Christopher Cogswell: Humor as Freedom
--Jacob Roundtree: Coming Out as a Form of Nietzschean Self-Overcoming
--Laura Nowell: Plato's Feminism
(Chair: Nick Smith)
1:10-2:30
Session 1 a. Ray Perkins: Bertrand Russell, the Bomb and "The Wickedest People Who Ever Lived"
John Kaag: Another Question Concerning Technology: The Ethics of Precision-Guided Munitions
(Chair: Val Dusek)
Session 1 b. Lorraine Besser-Jones: On Being Virtuous and Acting Well
Tim Nulty: Empirical Considerations against Alethic Deflationism
(Chair: Ruth Sample)
2:40-3:20 [40 mins]
Session 2 a. Bernard Gert: Necessary Features of the Basic Normative Concept
(Chair: Robert Louden)
Session 2 b. David Livingstone Smith: Purpose without Agency: A Theory of Self-Deception
(Chair: Tim Triplett)
3:30-4:50 [1hr 20min]
Session 3 a. Carol Hay: A Reconciliation between Radical and Liberal Feminism
John Partridge: Feminist History of Ancient Philosophy
(Chair: Charlotte Witt)
Session 3 b. Michael Kelly: Kant's Theory of Ingratitude as a Root of Nietzsche's "Slave Revolt" in Morality
Gary Overvold: 1911: Modernism, Husserl and Mann
(Chair: Drew Christie)
Reception: 5:00-5:50 (Great Bay Room Foyer)
NNEPA BANQUET (NEC Cafe): 6:00-7:15
7:30-9:00 [1 hr 30]
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Christine Korsgaard: The Origin of the Good and Our Animal Nature. (draft)
SATURDAY Oct. 17th:
Registration period: 9:00-3:00 (Great Bay Foyer)
9:00-11:00 [2hrs]
Plenary Session on the Work of Professor Korsgaard:
Christopher Arroyo, Stefan Bird-Pollan, David Cummisky, Lydia Moland;
Christine Korsgaard.
11:10-12:30 [1hr 20min]
Session 4 a. Jonathan Westphal: An Aristotelian Solution to the Problem of the Measuring of Time
Brian Kiniry: The Possibility of Gold Universes
(Chairs: Bill deVries)
Session 4 b. Jennifer Mulnix: What is Happiness, and Can the Mere Contemplation of It Make One Happier?
Michael Deere: An All Too Human Happiness: Towards a Post-modern Sense of Happiness
(Chair: Lorraine Besser-Jones)
12:40-2:00 [1 hr 20min]
Lunch followed by Business Meeting (NEC Café)
2:10-3:30 [1hr 20min]
Session 5 a. C. Wesley DeMarco: Relativism and Moral Power
Sarah Conly: Utilitarianism & Torture
(Chair: Ray Perkins)
Session 5 b. Timm Triplett: Justified Perceptual Beliefs: New Roles for Certainty and Perceptual Attention
Bill Seeley: Narcissus and the Aboutness of Mental States
(Chair: Mark Okrent)
3:40-5:00 [1hr 20min]
Session 6 a. May Sim: What Aristotle Should Have Said About Megalopsychia
Whit Kaufman: Three Fallacies about Honor
(Chair: Robert McKay)
Session 6 b. Michael Mulnix: Harm, Self-Concerning Conduct and Liberty: Understanding Mill's Harm Principle
Ish Haji & Paul McNamara: Suberogation and Frankfurt Examples*
(Chair: Lloyd Carr)
5:10-5:50 [40 MINS]
Session 7 a. Jeff Beuchner: Naturalized Solutions to Three Skeptical Problems
(Chair: Herman Tavani)
Session 7 b. Karsten Stueber: Imaginative Resistance and its Empathic Dissolution
(Chair: Jerry Dolan)
*McNamara presenting on behalf of both.
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Dinner Buffet Menu
Mixed Garden Greens and Specialty Salads with assorted salad dressings
Fruit Salad
Warm Breads with Butter
Main Course
Four Hot Entrées selected by our Executive Chef:
Beef
Seafood
Poultry
Vegetarian
Chef's Choice Potato or Rice
Chef's Choice of Fresh Vegetable
Homemade Desserts Prepared by our Pastry Chef
Coffee, Tea, Iced Tea & Soft Drinks
