3rd Biennial Philosophy of Disability Conference
March 6-7, 2020
Our conference features papers that engage with disability studies from a philosophical point of view. We are honored to have as our featured keynote speaker this year Professor Elizabeth Barnes of the University of Virginia, who will be giving a lecture called “Gender without Gender Identity: Cognitive Disability and the Need for Gender Inclusion.”
Conference Schedule:
Friday, March 6, 2020:
3:30-3:45pm: Welcome Reception – Opening Remarks by Scott M. Williams (UNC Asheville)
Section 1
3:45-4:30pm: “Ameliorative Inquiries into the Concept of Disability” (Matthew Palynchuk, McGill University; Graduate Student)
4:30-5:15pm: “Valuing Disability In Itself: A Constitutive Account” (Khang Ton, University of California, Davis; Graduate Student)
5:15-5:30pm: Break
Section 2
5:30-6:15pm: “Beyond Beauty: The Venus and Other Deformed Bodies” (Yujia Song, Salisbury University; Assistant Professor)
6:15-7:00pm: “Epistemic Arrogance, Moral Harm, and Dementia” (Frances Bottenberg, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Lecturer)
7:00pm: Dinner
Saturday, March 7, 2020:
8:15-9:00am: Breakfast
Section 3
9:00-9:45am: “A New (Old) Social Model” (Rachel Levit Ades, Arizona State University; Graduate Student)
9:45-10:30am: “Psychological Disability: Taking Seriously, Taking Care” (Alana Wilde, University of Virginia; Graduate Student)
10:30-10:45am: Break
Section 4
10:45-11:30am: “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Disability Narratives” (Michelle Panchuk, Murray State University; Assistant Professor)
11:30-12:15pm: “Disability, Human Flourishing, and Second-Person Relationships” (Audra Goodnight, Villanova University; Postdoctoral Fellow and Matthew Shea, University of California, Los Angeles; Postdoctoral Fellow)
12:15-2:00pm: Lunch
Section 5
2:00-2:45pm: “Profound Intellectual Disability as Neutral Simpliciter” (Ally Peabody Smith, University of California, Los Angeles; Graduate Student)
2:45-3:30pm: “When is it Wrong Not to Have a Child? Parent-Centered Reasons and Conditionally Opting In” (Meredith McFadden, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; Assistant Professor)
3:30-3:45pm: Break
3:45-4:30pm: “You Are Too Stupid to Know Anything: Epistemic Injustice and Cognitive Disability” (Caroline Christoff, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Visiting Assistant Professor)
4:30-5:00pm: Break
Keynote Presentation
5:00-6:15pm: Gender without Gender Identity: Cognitive Disability and the Need for Gender Inclusion” (Elizabeth Barnes, University of Virginia; Professor)
6:15pm: Dinner
For more information and to register for the conference go to:https://www.philosophyofdisabilityconference.eventbrite.com
21st Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
February 7-8, 2020
A symposium providing a professional-style philosophical forum for aspiring undergraduates to present significant and original work. All papers are evaluated by blind review process. Judges from universities with important graduate programs award prizes for the top three presentations. This year’s winners were:
1st Prize – David Kraus, Covenant College – “Affections and Empathy: Is There a Way Forward on the Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance?”
2nd Prize – Matthew Tuten, Western Carolina University – “Mnemotechnology, Transgression, and the Genealogy of the State in Nietzschean Philosophy”
3rd Prize – Noah McKay, Covenant College – “The Many-Persons Argument for Dualism”
Our distinguished judge and keynote speakers this year were Dr. Jay L. Garfield of Smith College and Dr. Daniela Vallega-Neu of The University of Oregon. Dr. Vallega-Neu’s keynote lecture was “The Dis-Appearance of Soul” and Dr. Garfield’s was “The Second Person.” All conference events were held in Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall.
https://www.smith.edu/academics/faculty/jay-garfield
http://philosophy.uoregon.edu/profile/dneu
- 2nd Biennial Conference on the Philosophy of Disability, April 2018
- 21st Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference,February 2020
- 20th Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, February 2019
- 19th Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, February 2018
- 18th Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, February 2017
- 17th Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, February 2016
- Democratic Experimentalism Workshop
- “Consciousness in the Bhagavad Gita” presented by Dr. Keya Maitra as part of the 2012-13 Faculty Lecture Series
- Dr. Bijoy Mukherjee, Vivsa-Bharati University, India
2020 Conference Papers
- Affections and Empathy: Is There a Way Forward on the Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance?(David Kraus, Covenant College)
- Mnemotechnology, Transgression, and the Genealogy of the State in Nietzschean Philosophy (Matthew Tuten, Western Carolina University)
- How Does Art Express? Surveying Intrinsic and Extrinsic Expressionist Theories of Art(Henri Lowe, Covenant College)
- A Foundation for Moral Discourse between the East and the West: A Critical Review of Eric Baldwin’s “On Buddhist and Taoist Morality” (Josiah Taylor, Covenant College)
- (Un)Reformed: A Response to DeRose and Pritchard’s Objection to Properly Basic Religious Beliefs” (Brett Blitch, East Tennessee State University)
- A Decision Procedure for Potentially Causal Omissions(Steven Hernandez, Rutgers University)
- The Liberated Revolutionary: Toward a Deconstructive Approach to Gender Abolition(Virginia P. Weaver, UNC-Asheville)
- The Many-Persons Argument for Dualism (Noah McKay, Covenant College)
- Analytic-Synthetic Distinction in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason(Andrew Swann, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
2018 Conference Papers
- The Possibility of Ethico-Religious Engagement in Levinas and Kierkegaard – Fraser Humphreys, Furman University
- Rereading Hegel on Mutual Recognition: The Internalization of Trapped Spirit – Liam O’Mahony, Appalachian State University
- A de Beauvoirian Analysis For the Reform of Social Structures Via the Black Lives
Matter Movement – Alison Russell, Western Carolina University - Phenomenological Contributions to the Cognitive Sciences – Braxton Bragg, Furman University
- A Conceptual Analysis of Psychiatric Disorder:Towards a Synoptic Vision of Psychiatry –Alex Claxton, University of North Carolina at Asheville
- Locke and Property: Differential Protection – Samuel Morkal-Williams, Warren Wilson College
- Archetypes and Ideology in John Locke – Joshua Sykes, University of North Carolina at Asheville
- On the Infinite – Nicholas R. Baker, Lee University
- Foucault’s Deconstruction of the Subject: A Feminist Epistemological Critique – Victoria Nebolsin, University of North Carolina at Asheville
14th Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
- “Varieties of Democratic Experimentalism” presented by Dr. Brian E. Butler as part of the 2012-13 Faculty Lecture Series
- “Henry of Ghent’s Quodlibet IV, q. 13: Giles of Rome and Giles of Lessines” presented by Dr. Gordon Wilson as part of the 2012-13 Faculty Lecture Series
- “Lived Bodies, Loved Bodies” presented by Dr. Duane Davis as part of the 2012-13 Faculty Lecture Series
- “Queer Identities” presented by Dr. Melissa Burchard as part of the 2012-13 Faculty Lecture Series