Frontiers of Philosophy: 42 Years of Stony Brook Philosophy Department PhDs
April 26-28, 2013
Stony Brook University
Wang Center
Official Event Program
Please click here for a pdf of the official event program: Frontiers of Philosophy Program. Thank you!
For a downloadable version of the conference poster, please click here: Frontiers of Philosophy
Registration
For a downloadable version of the conference poster, please click here: Frontiers of Philosophy
Hotels
Holiday Inn Express
Reservations can be made by
calling 1-800-HOLIDAY or
www.stonybrookny.hiexpress.com or
calling 631-471-8000
Use the block code FOP to get the conference rate of $129/room/night with breakfast included. Reservations at the discounted rate will be available until April 11th.
Hilton Garden Inn Stony Brook
1 Circle Road
Stony Brook, New York, 11794, USA
631-978-7205
For reservations, please click below:
http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/groups/personalized/I/ISPSBGI-FRT-20130425/index.jhtml
Conference Rate: $139 per night, without breakfast included. Reservations at the discounted rate will be available until
March 26th.
FRIDAY, APRIL 26th
10:00am -5:00pm Theatre Lobby, Charles B. Wang Center
Registration
11:00-11:30am Lecture Hall II, Charles B. Wang Center
WELCOME
Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., President of Stony Brook University
“Frontiers of Philosophy: 42 Years of Stony Brook Philosophy Department PhDs”
Eduardo Mendieta, Professor and Department Chair
“Conference Recorder: Invitation and Request”
Sharon Meagher, ‘91, University of Scranton
“Welcome”
Matthew Colson, Executive Director of Alumni Relations
“Conference Information”
Eduardo Mendieta
11:30am-1:00pm Lecture Hall II, Charles B. Wang Center
STONY BROOK’S HEIDEGGER
Chair: Jason Jorjani
“Authenticity and Publicity in Heidegger”
Michael Sigrist, ‘09, George Washington University
“Authenticity and Autonomous Agency”
Roman Altshuler, ‘10
“Heidegger, Nietzsche, and the Question of Laughter”
Gary Aylesworth, ‘81, Eastern Illinois University
“Heidegger and His Publishers: On the Making Public of Thought"
Andrew Mitchell, ’01, Emory University
1:00-2:30pm Lunch Break – On your own
2:30-3:45pm Lecture Hall II, Charles B. Wang Center
OUTSIDE PHILOSOPHY: BEING PHILOSOPHICAL ELSEWHERE
Chair: Hamad Mohammed
“The Other 10%: Fulfillment Outside Academia?”
Scott Weiner, ’89, BlueC Studio
“Philosophy Used and Abused in Teaching High School and Defending the Accused”
Larry Kupers, ’83, Office of Defender Services, Administrative Office of the United States Courts
“Four Ways Out: Some”
Ron Scapp, ’90, College of Mount Saint Vincent
“Remembering Philosophy: Being a Philosophical Being”
Jay Williams, ’84, Schiff Hardin LLP
4:00-5:15pm Lecture II, Charles B. Wang Center
THE PHILOSOPHY AND PEDAGOGY OF DAVID B. ALLISON
Chair: Timothy A. D. Hyde, ’04, Stony Brook
- Lysanne Fauvel, ’09, Southwestern University
- Alphonso Lingis, Emeritus, Penn State
- Tina Chanter, ’87, Professor, Depaul University
- Babette Babich, ‘82, Professor, Fordham University
5:15-5:30pm Lecture II, Charles B. Wang Center
REMEMBERING JUSTUS BUCHLER
James Campbell, ’79, University of Toledo
5:30-7:30pm Chapel, Charles B. Wang Center
WELCOME RECEPTION
Introduction
Eduardo Mendieta, Chair of the Department of Philosophy
Welcome
Dennis A. Assanis, Provost of Stony Brook University
“Eating Wolves: A Stony Brook Legacy? Remarks on ‘The Tribe’”
Tom Thorp, ‘93, Saint Xavier University
SATURDAY, APRIL 27TH
8:30am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:30-10:15am Lecture Hall II, Charles B. Wang Center
PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE
“But is it Philosophy?” Cancelled
Susan Bordo, ‘82, Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities, University of Kentucky
Introduced by Tim Johnston
10:30am -12:30pm Lecture Hall II, Charles B. Wang Center
STONY BROOK FEMINISMS
Chair: Nathifa Greene
“Feminism and What Philosophy Does (Not) Know”
Gaile Poulhaus, ‘03, Miami University (Ohio)
“Jane Addams and Jane Jacobs: Two Exemplary Philosophical Street Walkers”
Sharon Meagher, ‘91, University of Scranton
“From Sex to Gender and Back Again”
Ellen Feder, ‘96, American University
“Is Kinship Always Already Racial?”
Sabrina Hom, ‘09, Georgia College and State University
“Arendt’s Critique of Romantic Introspection”
Emily Zakin, ‘97, Miami University
12:30-1:30pm Chapel, Charles B. Wang Center
BAG LUNCH
Remarks Nancy Squires, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
1:30-2:15pm Wang Theater
ETHICS AND FOOD
“(The Return of) Food Ethics: 3 Challenges for our Time”
Paul B. Thompson, ‘80, W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University
Introduced by Danae Mcleod
2:30-4:15pm Lecture Hall II, Charles B. Wang Center
NATURE AND/OR TECHNOLOGY
Chair: Daniel Susser
“Environmental Imagination”
Irene Klaver, ‘96, University of North Texas
“Little Wing”
Lawrence Cahoone, ‘85, College of the Holy Cross
“All Natural Things Shining: Re-Valuing Nature”
David Strong, ‘90, Rocky Mountain College
“Multistability and the Philosophy of Technology”
Robert Rosenberger, ‘08, Georgia Institute of Technology
“A Phenomenology of Fences”
Brian Seitz, ’89, Babson College
“Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology, and Cognitive Science”
Susan Bredlau, ‘06, Emory University
4:30-4:45pm Lecture Hall II, Charles B. Wang Center
INTRODUCTION AND APPRECIATION OF CHARLES JOHNSON
“Ethics of a Tightrope Walker”
Richard Hart, ‘84, Bloomfield College
5:00-5:45pm Lecture Hall II, Charles B. Wang Center
“The Never Settled Wonderment About Literature and Philosophy”
Charles Johnson, ‘88, S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Endowed Professor of English, University of Washington, Emeritus
6:15pm VAN LEAVES FROM ADMIN LOOP FOR SUNWOOD
6:30-9:00pm GALA DINNER
Sunwood
6:45-7:00 Sunwood
PRESENTATION OF THE DON IHDE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI PRIZE
Speaker: Don Ihde
Remarks by Eva Feder Kittay and Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professors
SUNDAY, APRIL 28TH
8:30am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:30-10:15am Lecture Hall II, Charles B. Wang Center
THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
“Freedom in Nature: Hegel’s Naturalism”
Terry P. Pinkard, ‘75, University Professor, Georgetown University
Introduced by: Eva Boodman
10:30am -12:30pm Lecture Hall II, Charles B. Wang Center
INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Chair: Adam Israel
“Snubnosedness; or, On Aristotle and the Form of Matter”
Sean Kirkland, ‘03, DePaul University
“Global Ethics Education: A Decolonial Critique”
Shari Stone-Mediatore, ‘97, Ohio Wesleyan University
“Passive Synthesis and Habit in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty”
Whitney Howell, ‘12, Stony Brook University
“I Show You a Mystery”
Karmen MacKendrick, ‘94, Le Moyne College
“Hegel and the Legal Conditions of Action”
Shannon Hoff, ‘05, Institute of Christian Studies
Alumni Attending
Roman Altshuler, ‘10
Gary Aylesworth, ‘81, Eastern Illinois University
Roger Bell, ‘90, Sonoma State University
Susan Bordo, ‘82, University of Kentucky
Susan Bredlau, ‘06, Emory University
Lawrence Cahoone, ‘85, College of the Holy Cross
James Campbell, ‘79, University of Toledo
Tina Chanter, ’87, DePaul University
Richard Cohen, ‘79, University of Buffalo
Lysane Fauvel, ‘09, Southwestern University
Ellen Feder, ‘96, American University
Richard Hart, ‘84, Bloomfield College
Shannon Hoff, ‘05, Institute for Christian Studies
Sabrina Hom, ‘09, Georgia College and State University
Timothy Hyde, ‘04, Stony Brook University
Charles Johnson, ‘88, University of Washington
Serene Khader, ‘08, Stony Brook University
Sean Kirkland, ‘03, DePaul University
Irene Klaver, ‘96, University of North Texas
Larry Kupers, ’83, Office of Defender Services, Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Karmen MacKendrick, ‘94, Le Moyne College
Sharon Meagher, ‘91, University of Scranton
Marjorie Miller, '80, SUNY Purchase College
Andrew Mitchell, ‘01, Emory University
Charles Munitz, ‘79, Boston Arts Diary
Terry Pinkard, ‘75, Georgetown University
Gaile Pohlhaus, ‘03, Miami University (Ohio)
Robert Rosenberger, ‘08, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ron Scapp, ‘90, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Brian Schroeder, ‘90, Rochester Institute of Technology
Brian Seitz, ‘89, Babson College
Michael Sigrist, ‘09, George Washington University
Thomas Slaughter, Jr., ‘88, Bloomfield College
Anthony Steinbock, ‘93, Southern Illinois University
Shari Stone-Mediatore, ‘97, Ohio Wesleyan University
David Strong, ‘90, Rocky Mountain College
Paul Thompson, ‘80, Michigan State University
Thomas Thorp, ‘93, Saint Xavier University
Kathleen Wallace, ‘83, Hofstra University
Scott Weiner, ‘89, BlueC Studio
Jay Williams, ’84, Schiff Hardin LLP
Emily Zakin, ‘97, Miami University
5:00-7:00pm: AESTHETIC DESSERT
As a fitting coda to the conference, Professors Megan Craig and Ed Casey invite you to join them for the opening reception of an exhibition of their paintings, along with those of Christina Maile and Parviz Mohassel, at the Westbeth Gallery in New York.
Free Variation
Westbeth Gallery, 155 Bank Street, West Village, NYC
(enter through the courtyard)
Opening Reception: 5:00-7:00 pm
Upcoming Events
Department of Philosophy Commencement
Friday, May 24th, 1:30 pm
Harriman 214
