Dependencies and Differences Conference Schedule

University of Alberta Philosophy Graduate and Postgraduate Conference Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 6-8 May 2016

26 April 2016

Friday, May 6th:

3:00 Conference Check-in (Tory Building)

4:00-6:00 Keynote: Christine Overall

Title: "What-If Any-Is the Value of Gender?"

Tory Breezeway (T-BW 2)

6:30 Reception (Ingo Brigandt's)

Saturday, May 7th: *** All graduate and post-graduate presentations shall take place in Assiniboia Hall, room 2-02A (ASH 2-02A)***

9:00-9:30 Breakfast (ASH 2-02A)

9:30-10:10 Hande Tuna, University of Alberta

Paper: "On Politics and Law: An Analysis of Pinar Selek Case"

10:15-10:55 Vicente Muñoz-Reja Alonso, Boston College

Paper: "Fundamental ontology, ontological difference and the problem of grounding"

11:00-11:40 Olivia Schuman, York University

Paper: "Knowing a genetic donor: is it my right?"

11:45- 1:30 Lunch

1:30- 2:10 Ryan William Beitz, Loyola Marymount University

Paper: "Heidegger's (Materialist) Metaphysics of Emergence in "The Origin of the Work of Art""

2:15-2:55 Joseph Rees, Georgetown University

Paper: "Recognitive Entanglement"

4:00-6:00 Keynote: Alice MacLachlan

Title: "Navigating Dependencies in Collaborative Reproduction"

Tory Breezeway (T-BW 2)

7:00 Dinner (Padmanadi)

Sunday, May 8th:

9:00-9:30 (Breakfast)

9:30-10:10 Nicholas McGinnis, University of Western Ontario

Paper: "Conceptual Difference, Conceptual Dependence"

10:15-10:55 Rajdeep S. Gill, University of British Columbia and Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Paper: "Archives Re/Imagined: Knowledge Regimes, Social Structuring, and Science"

11:00-11:40 Charles Rodger, University of Alberta

Paper: "Squaring the Cartesian Circle: Descartes as a Transcendental Philosopher"

Conference Poster