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2024 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference
Monday April 8, 2024 - Tuesday April 9, 2024
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It’s that time of year again! Join us for the freshest ideas in undergraduate philosophy scholarship at the 2024 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference. Expect two days of insight, discussion, and community.
As special guest and keynote speaker, we are excited to welcome Kym Maclaren, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University. Dr. Maclaren’s areas of expertise include phenomenology, existentialism, 20th-century French philosophy (especially Merleau-Ponty), the philosophy of mind and embodiment, philosophical psychology, and social philosophy. Dr. Maclaren also founded the Transformative Justice Project (TJP) at Ryerson University (now TMU), in collaboration with community organizations.
The keynote is entitled “Finding or Losing Oneself through Belonging? The Totalizing Dangers of Community,” and will be given 5-7 PM on Monday, April 8, 2024.
Schedule
Monday, April 8 (JHB 100)
9:00-10:00
Coffee and Pastries
10:00-11:00
“Castles, Colonies, and Canada: On the Phenomenology of Multiculturalism”
Salem Kakish
11:00-12:00
“The Force of Experience: A Peircean Response to Radical Internal World Skepticism”
Dihan Niloy
12:00-1:00
“Numbers That Matter: Counting Lives and Persons”
Joseph Boyce
1:00-2:00
Lunch
2:00-4:00
Break for solar eclipse (maximum coverage: 3:19)
4:00-5:00
“The Phenomenological Experience of Buddhist Meditation”
Mridula Sathyanarayanan
5:00-7:00
Keynote: “Finding or Losing Oneself through Belonging? The Totalizing Dangers of Community”
Kym Mclaren (TMU)
Tuesday, April 9 (JHB 418)
9:00-10:00
Coffee and Pastries
10:00-11:00
“Does Parmenides Save the Theory of Forms from Its Greatest Difficulty?”
Evelyn Rose Maude
11:00-12:00
“The Spontaneous Destruction of Everything: Vasubandhu on Momentariness”
Aleksi Toiviainen
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:00
“Fragments and Limbs: Is Unity Enough for Nietzschean Freedom?”
Luca Bon
2:00-3:00
“Can Vigilantism be a Form of Civil Disobedience? Understanding Organized Violence as a Communicative Act”
Olivia Sun
3:00-4:00
“Sexual Liberalism as Wantonism: A Frankfurtian Defense of Srinivasan’s Politics of Desire”
Louis Chiu
4:00-5:00
“Is Descartes’s Ontological Argument Circular?”
Siwon Yoo
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