Wisconsin Philosophical Association
Annual Meeting
Saturday, April 3, 2004
Marquette University
Straz Hall

 

Friday, April 2, 2004
Keynote Address
"Coincidences and How to Think About Them"
Elliot Sober (Stanford University)
4pm
David Straz Hall


Saturday, April 3, 2004

Registration ($2) and Donuts
9:15am - 9:45am
Straz Hall 105
  
Faculty/Graduate Students
Straz Hall 105
Undergraduate Students
Straz Hall 350
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
9:45am - 10:00am		  
Session I:10:00am - 10:50am
"Between Platonism and Pragmatism: An Alternative Reading of Plato's Theatetus"
Paul Johnson
St. Norbert College

Session I: 10:00am - 10:50am
"The Question of Wealth Distribution"
Jeremy Bryant
Marquette University
Session II: 11:00 - 11:50am
"Berkeley's Argument Against Abstraction"
Eugene Marshall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
 Session II: 11:00 - 11:50am
"Linguistic Paradigms"
Andrew Utschig
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Business Meeting
12:00pm - 12:05pm		  
Lunch
12:05pm - 1:15pm		  
Faculty/Graduate Students
Straz Hall 105
Faculty/Graduate Students
Straz Hall 350
Session III: 1:15pm - 2:05pm
"Evil, Atrocity, and Harm"
Eric Kraemer
University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse

Session III: 1:15pm - 2:05pm
"Locke and Slavery"
Ron Glass
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse


Session IV: 2:10pm - 3:00pm
"Why Socrates Rejects Glaucon's Version of the Social Contract"
Shane Drefcinski
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
 Session IV: 2:10pm - 3:00pm
"Luck Egalitarianism and the Equal Moral Worth of Persons"
Benjamin Sachs
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Session V: 3:05pm - 4:00pm
"Separate Material Intellect in Averroes' Mature Philosophy"
Richard Taylor
Marquette University


Session V: 3:05pm - 4:00pm
"The Skeptical Argument from Moral Explanations and the A Priori"
Joshua Thurow
University of Wisconsin-Madison


 

 

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