17th Annual Boston College Philosophy Graduate Conference
"Philosophy of the History of Philosophy"
8-9 April\, 2016 - \;Hovey House Library \;- \;Boston College Chestnut Hill Campus\, Massachusetts
Friday\, April 8\, 2016 &ndash\;
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Session 1 \;| \;Ancient \;| \;9:30 am &ndash\; 10:45 am
Sean Driscoll \;(Boston College) "Reading Plato as Historiography"
Respondent:Ryan Brown/Stephen Mendelsohn \;(Boston College)
Jaron Neufeld \;(Loyola Marymount University) "Against Searle&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Biological Naturalism&rdquo\;: Why Ignore Hylemorphism?"
Respondent: \;Drew Alexander \;(Boston College)
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15-minute break
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Session 2 | \;Ancient Keynote | \;11 am &ndash\; 12:30 pm
Wolfgang R. Mann \;(Columbia University) "'A Never-Ending Task of Approximation': Friedrich Schleiermacher\, August Boeckh\, and Christian August Brandis on the Proper Way to Write the History of Philosophy".
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Lunch \;break \;| 12:30 pm &ndash\; 1:30 pm
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Session 3 | \;Medieval | \;1:30 pm &ndash\; 2:45 pm
Joshua Blander \;(The King's College) "Great Scot! Forward to the Past: What Duns Scotus Offers to Contemporary Theories of Identity and Distinction"
Respondent: \;Benjamin Rusch \;(Boston College)
August Faller \;(Cornell University) "On the Significance of Suá\;rez's Empirical Arguments for Substantial Forms"
Respondent: \;Jordan Lavender \;(Boston College)
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15-minute break
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Session 4 | \;Medieval Keynote \;| \;3 pm &ndash\; 4:30 pm
Claude Panaccio \;(Université\; du Qué\;bec à\; Montré\;al) "What's so Philosophical about Medieval Philosophy?"
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30-minute break
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Session 5 | \;Roundtable \;"Why the History of Philosophy&rdquo\; | 5 pm &ndash\; 6:30 pm
Patrick Byrne\, Richard Kearney\, \;and \;Eileen Sweeney \;(Boston College)
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Saturday\, April 9\, 2016 &ndash\;
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Session 6 | \;Modern \;| \;9:30 am &ndash\; 10:45 am
Norman Whitman \;(Rhodes College) "Spinoza&rsquo\;s Use of Definition: A Historical Tool for Philosophical Emendation"
Respondent: \;Sam Fazekas \;(Boston College)
Adam Shmidt \;(Boston University) "Ethics after Moore or: How I Learned to Chop up Hume on Someone Else&rsquo\;s Guillotine"
Respondent: \;Max Racine/Michael Pope \;(Boston College)
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15-minute break
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Session 7 | \;Modern Keynote \;| \;11 am &ndash\; 12:30 pm
Daniel Garber \;(Princeton University) "Consider the Monads...: What's the Point of Studying Outdated Metaphysics?"
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Lunch break \; \;| 12:30 pm &ndash\; 1:30 pm
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Session 8 | \;Contemporary \;| \;1:30 pm &ndash\; 3 pm
Eugenio Petrovich \;(Università\; degli Studi di Milano) "From Little Philosophy to Big Philosophy. Some Methodological Remarks on the Notion of Author in the History of Contemporary Philosophy"
Respondent: \;Matthew Ray \;(Boston College)
Olga Knizhnik \;(The New School for Social Research) &ldquo\;Intellectual History between Art and Science: Cassirer as Historian of Philosophy&rdquo\;
Respondent: \;Sarah Horton \;(Boston College)
Rylie Johnson \;(Boston College) &ldquo\;Thinking the Abyss of History: Heidegger&rsquo\;s Critique of Hegelian Metaphysics&rdquo\;
Respondent: \;John Bagby \;(Boston College)
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Contact:
Vicente Muñ\;oz-Reja (vicente.munozreja@bc.edu)
Melissa Fitzpatrick (melissa.fitzpatrick@bc.edu) \;