2022 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference

It’s that time of year again! Join us to learn about and celebrate the exciting research done by our undergraduates in philosophy. Look forward to 10 insightful and probing presentations by the students on their current work, as well as to a keynote address, titled “Cultivating Perception,” by Professor Helen Fielding of Western University. Dr. Fielding holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Philosophy and Women’s Studies and Feminist Research. Her expertise lies with 20th-century continental philosophy, in particular feminist phenomenology, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, perception, and phenomenological aesthetics.

Events will take place in person but will also be live-streamed. Zoom meeting links: see below

All talks will be in JHB 418, except those that take place Friday morning: these will take place in JHB 100.

Schedule

Friday, April 8, 2022

10:05 – Opening remarks in JHB 100

10:10 – 11:00 – Radheesh Ameresekere, “The Fact of Reason in Kantian Metaethics”

11:10 – 12:00 – Jairo Martinez, “Beyond Inclusion: Rethinking Cosmopolitanism through Africana Political Philosophy”

12:00 – 1:00 – break

1:10 – 2:00 – Heidi Marie Knechtel, “On the Paradox of Love and its Necessity” (JHB 418)

2:10 – 3:00 – Tessa Ai-Lin Ng, “To Hell with the PII: Arguments from the Quantum Realm” (JHB 418)

Saturday, April 9, 2022

10:05 – Opening remarks, JHB 418

10:10 – 11:00 – Mathieu Duguay, “An Issue for Stalnaker’s Context-Sensitive Account of De re Belief Attributions”

11:10 – 12:00 – Zenon MacKinnon, “The Sacred Centre and the Anthropological Machine: Generative Anthropology and Giorgio Agamben’s Political Philosophy”

12:00 – 1:00 – break

1:10 – 2:00 – Tofael Nuruddin, “Wholistic Approaches: An Analysis of Indigenous and Islamic Environmental Ethics”

2:10 – 3:00 – Yiting Tang, “The Overcoming of Skepticism”

3:15 – 4:45 – Keynote address, Professor Helen Fielding (Western), “Cultivating Perception”

Questions? Email Julia Smith.