Utah/Idaho Colloquium 2007

Keynote

1-2:00 PM

Room 104 - Daniel Graham, BYU
"Theory, Observation, and Discovery in Early Greek Philosophy"
Session Chair: Leslie Francis

Concurrent
Session 1

2:15 PM

Room 101 - Ben Crowe, Assistant Professor, U of U
"Fichte, Eberhard, and the Psychology of Religion"
Session Chair: Ron Mallon

Room 102 - Bryan Benham, Assistant Professor, U of U
"Human Terrain Teams: Social Science at War"
Session Chair: Jim Tabery

Room 103- Paul Hendengren, Dept. of Philosophy, BYU
"The Ontology of Mathematics"
Session Chair: Clif McIntosh

Room 104 - Travis T. Anderson, Associate Professor, BYU
"Rehabilitating Beauty: Truth and Beauty at the Crossroads of Ethics"
Session Chair: Chrisoula Andreou

Room 334 (Tanner) - Kirk Fitzpatrick, Assistant Professor, Southern Utah
"Imagination, Perception, and Thought in Aristotelian Explanations of Akrasia"
Session Chair: Nick White

Room 336- Pierre Lamarche
"A Rather Deliberate Mis-understanding: On Nietzsche's Resentment
of Pyrrho"
Session Chair: Peggy Battin

Concurrent
Session 2

3:30 PM

Room 101-Kristen Kinjo, Philosophy Student, BYU
Intellectual Property and Plagiarism: “Origin is by no means the beginning.”
Session Chair: Eric Hutton

Room 102- Nathan Rockwood, Graduate Student, U of U
"Berkeley: Necessity of Theism"
Session Chair: Tom Herrnstein

Room 103- Christine Chwaszcza, University of Utah
"What Kind of Rights are Human Rights"
Session Chair: Deen Chatterjee

Room 104- David Grandy, BYU
"Conceptual Nonlocality"
Session Chair: Steve Downes

Room 334 (Tanner)- Kent Robson, Utah State University
"Introduction to Ethics or Moral Philosophy"
Session Chair: Jamie Hardy

Room 336 -Jim Hardy, Research Professor, IdahoState
"Probable Evil"
Session Chair: Lex Newman

Cookie Break

Concurrent
Session 3

4:45 PM

Room 101- William James McCurdy, Idaho State
"Peirce's Three Major Classes of Categorical Syllogism"
Session Chair: Paul Haanstad

Room 102- Mike Pelletti, Visiting Asst. Prof., Idaho State
"The Epistemology of Thomas Hobbes in De Corpore"
Session Chair: Nathan Rockwood

Room 103- Xianduan Shi, Graduate Student, U of U
"Does Lewis's Scorekeeping Account of Vagueness Lead to a Regress?"
Session Chair: Monika Piotrowska

Room 104- David L Paulsen, Professor, BYU
“Must God be Incorporeal”

Room 334 (Tanner)- Nicholas White, Presidential Professor, U of U
"The Real Issue of Self-Predication"
Session Chair: Matt Mosdell

Room 336- Dave Jensen, Assistant Professor, BYU
"Kant and the Moral Problem"
Session Chair: Shawn Trauntvein

Dinner

Drinks

6:00 PM

about 8:00 PM

- Philosohy Department (Tanner)

- Leslie Francis's House