Conference Information
2017
11th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference
All sessions at Bernhard Center, room 157
Schedule
Thursday, December 7, 2017
2:00 – 3:00 pm ~ Registration
3:00 – 3:45 pm ~ Joseph Dunne, Wayne State University, “The Role of Choice in Religious Conscientious Exemptions”
3:45 – 4:30 pm ~ Jessica Richardson, Michigan State University, “Scared to Go: On the Implication of Legislation Restricting Transgender Access to Public Gendered Spaces”
4:30 – 5:15 pm ~ Sofie Vlad, Queen’s University, “Moving Towards a Transsexual Metaphysics: An Account of (Trans)sexed Embodiment and (Gender) Dysphoria”
5:15 – 5:30 pm ~ Small break
5:30 – 6:45 pm ~ Talia Mae Bettcher, California State University Los Angeles, “From Embodiment to Empersonment: Starting Points for a New Theory of Trans Gender (Dis)Satisfaction”
7:15 pm ~ Dinner @ Central City Tap House
Friday, December 8, 2017
10:00 – 10:30 pm ~ Coffee, juice, etc.
10:30 – 11:15 pm ~ Hein Bui, Westmont College, “Defending Motivations for the Growing Block: Responding to Merricks”
11:15 – 12:00 pm ~ BB Beiganski, Kent State University, “Hermeneutics and History: The Pre-Philosophical and Postmodern”
12:00 – 12:45 pm ~ Ethan Terill, George Washington University, “Climate Justice: Our Moral Obligations to Future Generations”
12:45 – 2:15 pm ~ Lunch
2:15 – 3:00 pm ~ Jamie Edwards, University of Chicago, “Products of Our Time: Bias, Ideology, Morality”
3:00 – 3:45 pm ~ Chang Liu, University of Western Ontario, “Slurs and the Type-Token Distinction of Their Derogatory Force”
3:45 – 4:30 pm ~ Heather Stewart, University of Western Ontario, “Shared Responsibility for Societal Appearances: On the Collective Effort to Restrict Hate Speech”
4:30 – 4:45 pm ~ Small break
4:45 – 6:00 pm ~ Derrick Darby, University of Michigan, “Dignity and Voting Rights”
6:30 pm ~ Dinner @ Saffron
Saturday, December 9, 2017
10:45 – 11:15 pm ~ Coffee, juice, etc.
11:15 – 12:00 pm ~ Katrina Haaksma, Calvin College, “Identity, Justice, and Resistant Epistemologies: Epistemic Injustice in Defenses of Transracialism”
12:00 – 12:45 pm ~ Michael Willenborg, Baylor University, “Determinism Defeated?”
12:45 – 2:00 pm ~ Lunch
2:00 – 2:45 pm ~ Jonah Nagashima, University of California Riverside, “Time Travel and Determinism”
2:45 – 3:30 pm ~ Yiran Zhang, Loyola University Chicago, “Privatized Prisons and the Criminal (In)justice System”
3:30 – 4:30 pm ~ Daniel Rubio, Rutgers University
4:30 – 4:45 pm ~ Small break
4:45 – 6:00 pm ~ Charles Mills, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Liberalism and Racial Justice”
7:00 pm ~ Dinner @ Hillside Indian Cuisine