2008 Program

NASPH 2008

September 26-27

DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Friday, September 26

9:00am | Welcome and Coffee

9:15am | Kurt Mertel, Queen’s University, “Gadamerian Themes in McDowell’s Recent Philosophy”

Commentator: TBA

Moderator: Jamey Findling, Newman University

10:45am | Robert Valgenti, Lebanon Valley College, “The Forgotten Lineage of Hermeneutics: Critique, Deduction, and Principle

Formation”

Commentator: Andrea Rehberg, Bilkrent University

Moderator: Ted George, Texas A&M

12:00pm | Lunch

2:00pm | Invited Speaker: Lawrence Schmidt, Hendrix College, “Critique: The Heart of Philosophical Hermeneutics”

Moderator: David Ingram, Loyola University

3:45pm | Keynote Address: Georgia Warnke, University of California, Riverside, “Hermeneutics and Critique”

Moderator: Lauren Swayne Barthold, Gordon College

6:00pm | Reception, DePaul Philosophy Department

Saturday, September 27

9:00am | Coffee

9:15am | Nikolay Tugushev, Stony Brook, “Structuralism, Hermeneutics, and Translation: Performance of Sameness-in-Difference”

Commentator: TBA

Moderator: TBA

10:45am | Peter Fristedt, Stony Brook, “Gadamer and the Paradox of the Sache”

Commentator: Monica Vilhauer, Roanoke College

Moderator: Walter Brogan, Villanova University

12:00pm | Lunch

2:00pm | David Vessey, Grand Valley State University, “The Role of the Concept ‘Person’ in Gadamer’s Philosophical

Hermeneutics”

Commentator: TBA

Moderator: Bruce Ellis Benson, Wheaton College

3:30pm | Invited Speaker: Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame, “Hermeneutics and Inter-Cultural Dialogue”

Moderator: David Pellauer, DePaul University

6:00pm | Banquet, Sun Wah Chinese BBQ, 1132 Argyle ($20.00/person)