The First Annual Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

Sunday, April 19, 2009

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The day will consist of a series of undergraduate philosophy paper presentations. Coffee, snacks, and a light lunch will be provided.

Professor Yitzhak Melamed will deliver the keynote address on “Spinoza’s Deification of Existence.”

Undergraduate Presentations

10:00a.m. – 11:25a.m.

1:45p.m. – 4:30p.m.

10:00 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.

Joseph N. Rees

American University

Making Presuppositions Explicit: What is gained and what is lost?

10:45 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.

Ashley Bohrer

George Washington University

The Allegory of the Artist: A Contradiction at Marx’s Hegelian Core

Keynote Presentation

11:30 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.

Dr. Yitzhak Melamed

The Johns Hopkins University, Professor of Philosophy

Spinoza’s Deification of Existence

12:45 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.

Lunch

1:45 p.m. – 2:25 p.m.

Michael Winnett

The Johns Hopkins University

Scenes from a Chinese Restaurant: A Conversation with Dr. Stanley Cavell

2:30 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.

Tara Rhoades

University of Delaware

Problems for Klein’s Infinitism in the Case of Clearly Justified Beliefs

3:15 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.

Jeremy Goodman

Brown University

Open Moral Questions and Hard Mental Problems

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