Program & Schedule 2019
10th Annual 91心頭 Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Saturday, April 6, 2019
91心頭
8:00-8:45 Registration HUB Lobby
8:45 Welcome and Awards - UBC Room
Noah Rosenthal, Student Organizer, Opening Remarks
Dr. Bernie Cantens, Chair of the Philosophy Department, Philosophy Awards and Prizes
Dr. Cynthia Kosso, Provost, Welcoming Words
9:00-10:00 Plenary Talk - UBC Room
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Melissa Yates, Governing Borders as Strangers: Paradoxes of
Democratic Inclusion
10:15-11:15 Metaphysics (Chair: Dr. Arash Naraghi ) UBC Room
- An Interdisciplinary Inductive Connection (IIC) to Trust in a World of Imperfection Robert Falatyn (91心頭)
- Knowing vs Grasping: An Analysis of Infinity Woayom Kumazah (Temple University)
- St. Augustines View on the Ultimate Good Alicia Wallace (91心頭)
11:20-12:20 Social Justice and Aesthetics (Chair: Dr. Weiss) Snyder Room
- Beauty in the Eye of Schopenhauer Jonathan Schillinger (East Stroudsburg University)
- Simone de Beauvoir on Freedom and Feminism Danielle Hanson (Northampton Community College)
- Where is Art and How Did it Get There? The Applications and Implications of Martin Heideggers Theory Emilia Donnelly (Franklin and Marshall College)
12:25-1:35 Lunch
1:40-3:00 Free will and Personal Identity (Chair: Dr. Bernie Cantens) Snyder Room
- Aquinas and Aristotle on Will Will Nolan (Princeton University)
- Essential Freedom Ashley Rasmussen (Northampton Community College)
- What exactly to do with the Other? Levinas and Camus Walter Argueta (Manhattanville College)
- Apollo and Dionysus Symbolism in the Stranger Joshua Marchak (Northampton Community College)
1:40-3:00 Ethics (Chair: Dr. William Falla) UBC Room
- The Value of Plant Life Daniel Shepard (Princeton University)
- Pulp Fiction and Censorship Bobbi Beidleman (Northampton Community College)
- Singer and Kant Walk into a Pond Ryan Christian Born (Princeton University)
- Manipulation: Intuition and Practice Iskandar Haykel (Princeton University)
3:00-4:00 Friendship, Romantic Love, and Asceticism (Chair: Dr. Leon Niemoczynski) Snyder Room
- What is Love? Love Through the Lenses of Asexuality and Aromanticism in Platos Work Emily Aguilar and Stephanie Tseng (Bryn Mawr College)
- The Fire of Karma Schockency Kailynn (Northampton Community College)
Program Coordinators: Noah Rosenthal 2020, Cody Yarnall 2020, Robert Falatyn 2022, Donna Moyer.
Moravian Philosophy Faculty: Dr. Bernie Cantens, Chair, Dr. Arash Naraghi, Dr. Carol Moeller, Dr. Leon Niemoczynski, and Dr. Bill Falla.