PROGRAM & SCHEDULE
9th Annual Moravian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Saturday, April 7, 2018
91看片, Bethlehem, PA
All sessions will be held in the HUB
8:00-8:45am Registration | HUB Lobby
8:45am Welcome and Awards | UBC Room
Uppinder Mehan, Ph.D. Dean, School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Awards
- Douglas Anderson Prize in Philosophy, awarded to Nick Gaspar and Colton Carlisle.
- The Fredrick (Jiggs) McConnell Prize in Moral Philosophy, awarded to Hannah Matthews.
9:00-10:10am Plenary Talk | UBC Room
Plenary Speaker: Jeffrey Jordan, Ph. D. Is Pascal鈥檚 Wager a Safe Bet?
10:15-11:25am Metaphysics (Chair: Dr. Bill Falla) | UBC Room
- 鈥Peirce鈥檚 Prayer: Charles S. Peirce and Hesychasm.鈥 Zachary Sokol (Lehigh University).
- 鈥Fact-Constructivism from a Realist/Anti-Realist Backdrop.鈥 Michael Bassil (91看片).
- 鈥The Eternal Sand-Glass of Existence.鈥 Julia Greig (Bryn Mawr).
11:30am -12:40pm Friendship, Romantic Love, and Asceticism (Chair: Dr. Leon Niemoczynski) | UBC Room
- 鈥Proper Reasons for Justifying Romantic Love.鈥 Ion Plamadeala (Lafayette College).
- 鈥A Friendship with Benefits.鈥 James Brown-Kinsella (Princeton University).
- 鈥Aristotle鈥檚 View on Beauty Within Art: Romantic Flower Chair.鈥 Sarah De Franco (91看片).
12:45-1:45pm Lunch
1:50-3:00pm Free will and Personal Identity (Chair: Harold Weiss) | Snyder Room
- 鈥Free Will and the PSR.鈥 Alex Mendez (Macaulay Honors Program at Brooklyn College, CUNY).
- 鈥Free Will, Determinism and the Suicide of Robin Williams.鈥 T. J. Dodenhoff (Northampton Community College).
- 鈥David Hume and Buddhism on the Problem of Personal Identity.鈥 Yuezhuo Ma (Muhlenberg College).
3:05-4:15pm Ethics (Chair: Dr. Tad Robinson) | Snyder Room
- 鈥A Utilitarian Defense of Animal Liberation.鈥 Melanie Gutierrez, (91看片).
- 鈥Sexual Harassment, Autonomy, and Justice in the Service Industry.鈥 September McCarthy (Muhlenberg College).
- 鈥The Morality of Animal Testing in the Medical Field.鈥 Alicia Wallace (91看片).
4:20-5:30pm Social Justice and Aesthetics ( Chair: Dr. Carol Moeller) | Snyder Room
- 鈥The Complement of Hobbes and Rawls.鈥 Jaden Lee Watkins-Myers (Northampton Community College).
- 鈥Husserl and the Possibility of the Other.鈥 Emily Rose Ogland (Bryn Mawr College).
- 鈥Kierkegaard's False Asceticism.鈥 Cody Yarnell-Soren (91看片).
Program Coordinators: Cody Yarnall, 2020 and Ellyn Siftar, 2019