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I can announce one more extra credit opportunity–and likely this will be the last.
The RIT Undergraduate Philosophy Conference takes place this coming Friday, April 30. It will be our first such conference but hopefully not our last. It’s possible that one of you will want to submit a paper in coming years!
The same deal holds on this as on previous opportunities: if you attend one of the sessions, then I will move your lowest homework or quiz score up a letter grade, and if your lowest (non-dropped) grade is a zero, then I will change it to a D. How will I know that you have attended? If you see me there and make sure I write myself a note about seeing you there, then that is good enough. I plan to attend about half the talks scattered throughout the day. If I’m not there, then you can write me a note by e-mail describing in a few sentences the talk you attended.
I am guessing that the talks at 1:10 and at 2:30 will be the ones most closely related to our class material, but any session is eligible for extra credit. Be aware that by the end of the day, the conference will likely be running later than this agenda, with the keynote address starting around 4. Here’s the full schedule:
RIT Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Location: Conference Room: 7A-1440
10:00 – 10:15 Opening Remarks
Professor John Capps (Rochester Institute of Technology)
10:20-11:00 “St. Augustine’s Theory of Knowledge and Vedic Philosophy as Described in Bhagavad Gita.” Leigh Oates (Frostburg University) Commentator: Erika Strickland (RIT)
11:00-11:40 “Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy and Punk Aesthetics” Alan Barton (Hartwick College) Commentator: Alex Stubberfield (SUNY Brockport)
Coffee Break
11:50-12:30 “Confronting the Crisis: A Philosophical Examination of the Benefits and Detriments of Education.” (Nora Burleigh, Nazareth College) Commentator:Ashley Aberg (Rochester Institute of Technology)
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-2:10 “Hearing the ‘Fat Lady’s’ Call: The Meaning of Vocation” Joshua Hine (Nazareth College) Commentator: Dana Melchior (Rochester Institute of Technology)
2:10-2:50 “Emotions…Remember Those?” David Whitehead (Buffalo State College) Commentator: Sam Owen (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Coffee Break
3:30 Keynote: “Voices, Oracles, and the Social Body” Professor Fred Evans (Duquesne University)
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