29th Annual Undergraduate
Philosophy Conference Agenda
Saturday, May 3rd
Morris Conference Center, Craven Lounge
8am-9am Presenter’s Breakfast in the Otsego Grille
9am-10:30am
Session 4: Altered States of Consciousness
Chair: Liam Brady
Exploring the Dynamic Interplay Between Being and Becoming
Michel Ghorayeb (SUNY Oneonta)
Discussant: Nick Aliani
Agentive Modality in the Dialogical Roots of Deduction
Saam Nasseri (UC Riverside)
Discussant: Langston Lamitie
10:30am-12pm
Session 5: The Road To Meaning
Chair: Grady Suchocki
Insight Through Travel
John Olubiyi (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
Discussant: Ali Krebs
On Creating a Comprehensive Definition of Life
Brianna Liao-Greene (SUNY Oneonta)
Discussant: Hannah Welch
12pm-12:30pm Break
12:30pm-2pm
Session 6: Reason and Revelation
Chair: Kembely Delacruz
The Productive Cause as an Aspect of a Discriminatory Nous
Samuel Zuckerman (Union College)
Discussant: Saam Nasseri
Codependence Intuition and Religious Experience
Nathan Phillips (York University)
Discussant: Ashley Callaci
2pm-4pm
Session 7: Make It Make Sense
Chair: Amoun Ghorayeb
A Mind in the Material: An argument for the view of a material mind
Nick Aliani (SUNY Oneonta)
Discussant: Phillip Venne
The Value in Pragmatic Detachment
Maxwell Curran (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
Discussant: Brianna Liao-Greene
4pm-5pm
Closing Ceremony