Over the weekend from Feb. 29th to March 3rd philosophy students at Bishop’s hosted the second annual Bishop’s – Mount Allison Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. Six visiting students from the philosophy department of Mount Allison visited Lennoxville and presented papers along with six from Bishop’s. Dr. Jamie Crooks kicked things off with a fantastic keynote, and we all got to know each other at a Saturday night banquet and closing potluck dinner on Sunday. We have prepared a binder containing the presented papers to be kept in the “philosophy library” in the Preston room for student use. The idea hatched last fall at our philosophy department’s Aristotle conference is turning into a long-term collaboration between philosophy students at Bishop’s and Mount Allison; plans are already underway for next year’s conference at Mount Allison, which should be followed by a repeat of this year’s weekend at Bishop’s in 2010.
The papers were as follows:
2 is Not Red or 2 is Non-Red: A comparative analysis of strengths and weaknesses of Algebraic Term Logic and Mathematical Propositional Logic – Vince Light
Altruism, Egoism, and Equality in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics - Sophie Woodrooffe
Causes of Celebration: An Examination of Aquinas’ Five Proofs for the Existence of God – Jake Belford
Who cares? Disinterestedness in Kantian Ethics - Michel-Antoine Xhignesse
Veiled Assumptions: The Rational Project of Rousseau and Kant – Thomas Posie
From Kant to Ross: The Amelioration of Deontological Ethics - Katie Saulnier
How To Avoid Speaking of Ontotheology - Michael Austin
Neighboring Solitudes: An Interpretation of Love in Heidegger’s Being and Time - Joseph Frigault
Revolution and the flickering screen: Aura and cinema in Benjamin’s “The Artwork in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” – Nikita Gourski
I am a machine? - Kelley Consolvo
From Stoicism to Psychology : Combating Reductionist Theories of Animal Emotion in Nussbaum's
Upheavals of Thought –Barbara Kott
“A Mess of Pottage”: The Rejection of Evolution as Symptom, Not Cause - Eleanor Louson
