2016/2017 Presentations

WIPS Coordinator – James D Taplin

Fall 2016 Presentation Schedule

September 9th
Jake Jackson, “‘Of Suicide’ without Sentiment: an Inconsistent Humean Morality” 

September 13th
Michael Glass, “Structural Realism and the Argument from Theory-Change”

September 21st
Jackson Hoerth, “Embodied Foundations: Merleau-Ponty and the Fore-Structure of the Body”

September 30th
Kate Brelje, “The Complexity of Play: A response to Guyer’s analysis of Play in Schiller’s Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man” 

October 7th
Dan Dalmonte, “How Philosophy Reflection Stacks Up Against Common Sense”

October 21st
Katie Brennan, “Nietzsche’s Hamlet Puzzle: Life Affirmation in The Birth of Tragedy

November 4th
Aleksandra Alcaraz, “A Cyborg Person”

November 18
Atina Knowles, “Are the Gettier Cases Examples of Justified Beliefs?”

December 2nd
Keli Birchfield, Special Session on “Lawnchair Philosophy”

Spring 2017 Presentation Schedule

March 10th
Kat McKay, “The Blame Machine: Personal Choice, Belief Structures, Boundaries, and Motivation”

March 31st
Moonyoung Hwang, “Emotion and Truth”

April 21st
Michael Glass, “Kierkegaard and Belief in an Interfaith World”