2025 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference
Monday April 7, 2025 - Tuesday April 8, 2025
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It’s that time of year again! Join us for exciting debates and new ideas in undergraduate philosophy scholarship at the 2025 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference. Expect two days of insight, discussion, and community.
This year’s keynote speaker is Pirachula Chulanon (TMU), who will be speaking at 3:30 PM on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. Dr. Chulanon’s areas of expertise include Kant, early modern philosophy, philosophy of mind, and aesthetics.
Please check back soon for a fuller event schedule.
Schedule
Monday, April 7 (JHB 418)
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Samantha Filion | “Parmenidean Ascent” |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | David De Martin | “Thomas Aquinas on Divine Causality and Human Free Choice” |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Chi Zhang | “Reasons and Relevant Persons, Degreed Partiality, and Disagreement” |
| 2:00 – 3:00 | Molly Cooper-Gray | “Advanced Dementia: Death of the Organism versus Death of the Person” |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Break | |
| 3:30 – 4:30 | Jonah Stein | “Agent-Causal Hylomorphism” |
Tuesday, April 8 (JHB 418)
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Dalia Golovco | “Truth through Tragedy” |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Zifan Nameer | “The Problem of the Possibility of Metaphysics” |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Joseph Boyce | “Friends of Sinners: An Interpretation and Analysis of Kant’s Argument against Association with the Scandalously Vicious” |
| 2:00 – 3:00 | Krista Wenxin Tao | “Kant and the Category of Substance” |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Break | |
| 3:30 – 5:00 | Pirachula Chulanon (Keynote) | “The Concept of Mind: Rylean and Kantian Reflections” |
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