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2023 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference
Monday April 17, 2023, 8:00 am - Tuesday April 18, 2023, 5:00 pm
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The 2023 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference is coming up, as always promising to offer food for thought, showcasing some of the best undergraduate research done in Philosophy at the current moment. The featured keynote speaker will be Sol Goldberg, an associate professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.
The event will take place in person (JHB 418), but those wanting to join via Zoom, please see below.
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Schedule
Student presentations will be 25-30 minutes long, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A
Monday, April 17
9:00-10:00
Coffee and Pastries
10:00-11:00
“Free Will Skepticism and Punishing Suspects” (Alexander Trachsell)
11:00-12:00
“Something Real Within: Fernando Pessoa, Free Will, and Evolutionary Moral Theory” (Thiago Amaral Da Silva)
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:00
“The Dialectic of Moral Perception” (Madison Zacharias)
2:00-3:00
“Bound upon the Hand or Written on the Heart: Dignity’s Proper Place in a Free Society” (Joseph Boyce)
3:00-4:00
“All Time Must Pass” (Aman Sakhardande)
4:00-5:00
“Fear and Trembling and a Contract with God: Understanding Faith in the Face of Absurdity” (Odessa Hewitt-Bernhard)
Tuesday, April 18
9:00-10:00
Coffee and Pastries
10:00-12:00
Keynote: “Bored to Death? Williams on an Immortal Character” (Sol Goldberg, Toronto)
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:00
“Do Objects and Events Overdetermine Effects?” (Simon Navarrete)
2:00-3:00
“Harmonic Oscillators All the Way Down? An Epistemic Investigation on the Ubiquity of Harmonic Oscillators” (Aayu Pandey)
3:00-4:00
“Ordinary Objects and Representationalism” (Fei Long Zhou)
4:00-5:00
“A Pragmatic Account of Causal Generalization: Connecting Wittgenstein, Lewis, and Ramsey” (Kai Zhang)
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