30th Annual Undergraduate
Philosophy Conference Agenda
Saturday, April 18
Morris Conference Center
Tentative Schedule
7:30am - 8:30am: Breakfast and Opening Remarks
8:30am - 9:50am: Session 5
Session 5 (Craven Lounge): What is Time? | Time is Not What it Seems| The Illusion of Time
Chair: Leonella Abreu Garcia
God’s-Eye View and Time Travel: Eternalism, Presentism, and Movement Through
Time
Hailey McDowell | Bennington College
Discussant: Alisha Mokal | SUNY New Paltz
Reconciling A-Time & B-Time
Ty Reynolds | The College of Wooster
Discussant: Phillip Venne | SUNY Oneonta
9:50am - 10:00am: Short Break
10:00am - 11:20am: Session 6
Session 6 (Craven Lounge): Philosophy Will Fix You (Maybe)
Chair: Anastasia Tsopelas
Wittgenstein and Nāgārjuna: Philosophy as Therapy
Mason Lipczenko | St. Mary's College of Maryland
Discussant: Zach Blaakman | SUNY Oneonta
Attentive Attribution: Discussion on Discord in Disagreements
John Olubiyi | University of Hawaii
Discussant: Langston Lamitie | SUNY Oneonta
11:20am - 12:00pm: Coffee Break
12:00pm - 1:20pm: Session 7
Session 7 (Craven Lounge): Wit and Confusion
Chair: Brianna Liao-Greene
Is Wit a Joke?: Absurdity and the Limits of Aristotelian Moderation
A.J. Furse | The University of West Florida
Discussant: Luke Romano | SUNY Oneonta
On the Cultivation of Confusion: Pensee Pensante and the Refusal of Fascist Certainty
Eleanor Harrison | College of Saint Scholastica
Discussant: Eva Woodworth | SUNY Oneonta
1:20pm - 1:30pm: Short Break
1:30pm - 3:30pm: Session 8
Session 8 (Craven Lounge)(Final Session): The Individual, the State, and the Heavenly
Chair: Veronica Abel
Free Will, Sin, and the Saints: the Problem of Heavenly Freedom
Therese Shimkus | The University of Scranton
Discussant: Jennalyn Kwasnikr | SUNY Stony Brook
Resentment Beyond Rank
Jackson Giannasio | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Discussant: Esther Lim | Brown University
Hobbes and C.B. Macpherson: The Specter of the Economic Sovereign in
Contemporary Society
Zach Blaakman | SUNY Oneonta
Discussant: Sarah Gorman | SUNY Binghamton
3:30pm - 4:30pm: Closing Ceremony