Program & Schedule 2013
4th Moravian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
March 16, 2013
All rooms located in Haupert Union Building (HUB)
8:15-9:00 Registration
The HUB Lounge
8:45-9:00 Welcome and Announcements
The Snyder Room, HUB
Dr. Jim Sklanik
9:15- 10:10 Panel 1: Aesthetics
The Snyder Room, HUB
Chair: Dr. Cantens
Candice Travis (Lehigh University) The Anxious Leap Frog
Ryan Deifer (Northampton Community College) Existentialism and Kurt Cobain
Kevin Gialanella (East Stroudsburg University) Authentic Art
10:15-10:55 Panel 2: Religion
The Snyder Room, HUB
Chair Dr. Naraghi
Breandon Velazquez (Northampton Community College) Voltaire: Reason in the Dark
Christopher Palmer (Temple University) God Unshackled: Reflections on Necessity within Leibniz’s Metaphysics
10:55-11:05 Break
11:05-12:00 Panel 3: Ancient
The UBC Room, HUB
Chair: Dr. Bowers
Jason Silverberg (Muhlenberg) On Aristotelian Friendship: Resolving a Logical Tension
Michael Johnson (Temple) Living the Good Life Through Love
William Cheung (Brooklyn College) On Suffering—Nietzsche Against Epicurus
12:05-1:00 Panel 4: Language and Literature
The UBC Room, HUB
Chair: Dr. Falla
Elise Haas (University of Pittsburg) The Structure of Language
Briana Henry (University of Pennsylvania) Naming of W
Kathryn Miller (ƽ) Fortinbras the Moral Center of Hamlet: An Analysis of Hamlet Using Aristotelian Ethics
1:00-2:00 Lunch
The Pavilion, HUB
2:00-2:15 Department Awards
2:15-3:15 Plenary Talk
Dr. Roslyn Weiss, Clara H. Stewardson Professor of Philosophy, Lehigh University, Justice in Republic I
3:20-4:30 Panel 5: Environmental Ethics
The UBC Room, HUB
Chair: Dr. Moeller
Grace King (ESU) Globalization: The Unstoppable Force
Katherine Johnson (Marywood University) Land Ethic Reconsidered
Caroline King (Muhlenberg College) Motivation and Moral Action: A Revision of Mark D. Reid’s “Moral Agency in MamaliaI”
Gerald Brunell (ESU) A Teleology of Transhumanism
4:35-5:45 Panel 6: Metaphysics
The UBC Room, HUB
Chair: Kathryn Miller
Diana Yarzagaray (Marywood University) An Interpretation of What-Is: Parmenides as a Dualist
Gavin Jones (Lafayette) Problems of the Mind-Body Problem
Jonathan Roberts (The King’s College) Tropes, Universals, and the Four-Category Ontology
Madison Zebrine (ƽ) On Bundle Theory
5:45-5:55 Closing
Program Coordinators: Kathryn Miller '13 and Madison Zebrine '13