2002 Syracuse University

Graduate Student Conference

In Philosophy

 

Friday Mar 1, 2002

 

3:30 – 5:00       “Rule-Circular Justification: Boghossian’s Modus Ponens

                        Author: Eric Gilbertson (Cornell University)

                        Comments: Megan Wallace (Syracuse)

 

5:30 – 7:00       “Rationality, Objectivity and Interpretation: A Discussion of the Structure of Procedural Rationality.”

                        Author: Eleonora Cresto (Columbia University)

                        Comments: Kevin Kukla (Syracuse)

 

Evening            Drinks at Awful Al’s

 

Saturday Mar 2, 2002

 

10:30               Breakfast

 

11:00 – 12:30   “The Clay and the Copper: A Critique of Burke’s Metaphysics of One Object to a Place”

                        Author: Catherine Shmutz (Texas A&M)

                        Comments: Mark Steen (Syracuse)

 

1:00 – 2:30       “The Disenfranchisement of Persons in Rawls’ The Law of Peoples

                        Author: Jeremy Snyder (Georgetown University)

                        Comments: Eric West (Syracuse)

 

2:30 – 3:30       Lunch

 

3:30 – 5:00       “What We Know: A new solution to skepticism”

                        Author: Marcus Arvan (University of Arizona)

                        Comments: Dan Potter-Orr (Syracuse)

 

5:30 – 7:00       Keynote: “Vagueness, Ambiguity, and the Application of Logic”

                        Ted Sider (Syracuse, now Rutgers)

 

8:00                 Dinner at Panda West

 

10:00               End of Conference Reception