Program

1:00 p.m. Opening Ceremonies and Plenary Session

3714 Harold B. Lee Library (enter library from south)

Keynote Address

Mariam Thalos, University of Utah: “Imitative Reasoning”

2:00 - 6:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

Joseph F. Smith Building (JFSB) ( all “B” numbers in basement)

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A. Logic, Science, Epistemology
K. Codell Carter (BYU), chair

• 2:00p B112 Matt Haber (UU): “Modeling Phylogeny”
• 3:00p B050 David Grandy (BYU): “Why the Constancy of the Speed of Light?”
• 4:00p B112 Luke Glowacki (UU): “A Genetic Account of Innateness Reconsidered”
  • Commentator: Monika Piotrowska (UU)
• 5:00p B112 Christopher Foster (BYU): “A Tarskian Solution to the Problem of the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma”

B. Ethics, Moral Psychology, Aesthetics
Deen Chatterjee (UU), chair

• 2:00p B099 David Jensen (BYU): “How and Why We Have Reasons”
  • Commentator: James Skidmore (ISU)
• 3:00p B099 Matthew Mosdell (UU): “The Tension of Sentiments: Rights and Desert in Mill’s Theory of Justice”
• 4:00p B099 Elijah Millgram (UU): “The Persistence of Moral Skepticism”
  • Commentator: Tom Herrnstein (UU)
• 5:00p B099 Dennis Packard (BYU): “A Process Theory for Actors”

C. History of Philosophy

• 2:00p B030 Carl Levenson (ISU): “Plato’s Euthyphro: Prophecy and Rational Criticism”
• 3:00p B030 James Siebach (BYU) and Daniel Graham (BYU, History of Philosophy Chair),: “Gorgias on Trial”
  • Commentator: Justin Hall (USU)
• 4:00p B030 Charlie Huenemann (USU): “Epistemic Autonomy in Spinoza”
  • Commentator: Russell Wahl (ISU)
• 5:00p B030 Mike Pelletti (ISU): “On the Reasons of Movement, Third Draft: A Significant Work in Leibniz’s Early Oeuvre”

D. Metaphysics

• 2:00p B135 David Paulsen (BYU): “Joseph Smith and the Trinity: An Analysis and Defense of the Social Model of the Godhead”
  • Commentator: Richard Sherlock (USU)
• 3:00p B101 James Faulconer (BYU, Metaphysics Chair): “Hope and Possibility”
• 4:00p B101 Shaun Miller (WSU): “Luce Irigaray: Love Through Sexual Difference”
• 5:00p B101 Paul Hedengren (BYU): “Do Tropes Exist?
  • Commentator: Jonathan Westphal (ISU)

6:00 p.m. Dinner

Alcove JFSB (4 th floor center of east side)

7:00 p.m. Panel Discussion

B192 JFSB

“Academic Freedom and Responsibility”

• Brian Birch (UVSC)
• Leslie Francis (UU)
• Daniel Graham (BYU)
• Charlie Huenemann (USU)