30th Annual Undergraduate
Philosophy Conference Agenda
Friday, April 17th
Morris Conference Center
Tentative Schedule
8:30am – 9:30am: Morning Coffee and Registration
9:30am – 10:00am: Opening remarks [ Khalil K. Brown & Ali Krebs]
11:20am – 11:30am: Transition Time
10:00am – 11:20am: Concurrent Session 1
Session 1 A (Craven Lounge): Naming, Knowing, and Being Seen
Chair: Sara Inagaki
Race, Racialization, and the Trouble with Reclassification
Benjamin Cabot | St. Lawrence University
Discussant: Lil Gael Montevecchi | Bennington College
Hyperepisteme and the Ethics of Measured Presence: Lorde and Glissant on Coerced
Visibility
Mason Sanchez | Western Michigan University
Discussant: Hailey McDowell | Bennington College
Session 1 B (Room 130): Mad Marx: Plato Flipped, Aristotle Roasted
Chair: Zach Blaakman
Inverting the Cave: Marx’s Materialist Reconstruction of Platonic Truth
Phillip Venne | SUNY Oneonta
Discussant: Ty Reynolds | The College of Wooster
Examining the Plausibility of Justice as a Form for Plato and Aristotle
Matthew Leon | Tufts University
Discussant: A.J. Furse | The University of West Florida
11:30am – 12:50pm: Concurrent Session 2
Session 2 A (Craven Lounge): The Earth’s Foundation
Chair: Kemberly De La Cruz
Testing the Foundation: A Proposed Architecture of Foundationalist Justification
Alisha Mokal | SUNY New Paltz
Discussant: Mason Sanchez | Western Michigan University
Resituating the Land Ethic
Langston Lamitie | SUNY Oneonta
Discussant: Nathaniel Kenny | SUNY New Paltz
Session 2 B (Room 130): Your Profile is Watching You
Chair: Khalil K. Brown
Gamified Professional Self-Optimization: LinkedIn, Standing Reserve, and Self-
Discipline
Jennalyn Kwasnik | SUNY Stony Brook
Discussant: Delroy Tyrrell | SUNY Oneonta
Infinite Copies, Finite Selves: A Dignity-Based Framework for the Digital Person
Esther Lim | Brown University
Discussant: Nick Aliani | SUNY Oneonta
12:50pm – 1:00pm: Transition Time
1:00pm - 2:00pm: Presenter’s Lunch
2:10pm - 3:30pm: Concurrent Session 3
Session 3 A (Craven Lounge): Receipts or it Didn’t Happen
Chair: Ali Krebs
The Quest for Coherence: Narrativity as Epistemic Justification
Nathaniel Kenny | SUNY New Paltz
Discussant: Therese Shimkus | The University of Scranton
Sartre, Beauvoir, and, Gaslighting: An Essay on Feminist Epistemology and
Metaphilosophy
Lil Montevecchi | Bennington College
Discussant: Mason Lipczenko | St. Mary's College of Maryland
Session 3 B (Room 130): The Brain and Experience
Chair: Luke Romano
Hobbes and C.B. Macpherson: The Specter of the Economic Sovereign in
Contemporary Society
Zach Blaakman | SUNY Oneonta
Discussant: Sarah Gorman | SUNY Binghamton
Self-Deception and the Salience of Perceptual Experience
Carter Lesko | SUNY Albany
Discussant: Nick Aliani | SUNY Oneonta
3:30pm – 3:40pm: Transition Time
3:40pm – 5:00pm: Concurrent Session 4
Session 4 A (Craven Lounge): Who’s to Blame?
Chair: Eva Woodworth
Dual-Level Moral Anthropology
Delroy Tyrrell | SUNY Oneonta
Discussant: Veronica Abel | SUNY Oneonta
When to Blame the Bystander: Voluntary Role Acceptance and the Moral Asymmetry
Between Killing and Letting Die
Sarah Gorman | SUNY Binghamton
Discussant: Carter Lesko | SUNY Albany
5:00pm – 5:30pm: Break
5:30pm - 7:00pm: Conference Alumni Recognition Dinner
WELCOME RETURNING ALUMNI COMMITTEE MEMBERS!
Opening Remarks: Ali Krebs | Kembely De La Cruz | Zach Blaakman | Brianna Liao-Greene | Anastasia Tsopelas
Conference Retrospective: Dr. Michael Koch
7:30pm - 9:00pm: Distinguished Keynote Address
Opening Remarks: Eva Woodworth | Brianna Liao-Greene |Ali Krebs | Luke Romano
Dean's Welcome, Dr. Jeanine Minge
Dr. Neil E. Williams, University at Buffalo
"What is a Cocktail? (Wrong Answers Only)"