Morning Sessions
Session 1: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Session 2: Philosophy of Science
Session 3: Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language
Afternoon Sessions
Session 4: Modern Philosophy
Session 5: Ethics and Political Philosophy
Session 6: Philosophy of Mind
All paper sessions will be held in the Burton D. Morgan Center.
Room 216
Chair: Andrew Jordan, Otterbein University
9:30 a.m.
Pascal Massie, Miami University of Ohio: "From Epoche to Ataraxia: The Story of Apelles in Sextus Empiricus"
Comment: Michael Baumer, Cleveland State University
10:45 a.m.
Anthony Lisska, Denison University: "The Ventricle System and the Internal Senses in Medieval Cognitive Theories"
Comment: Arnold Smith, Kent State University
Room 218
Chair: Sara Worley, Bowling Green State University
9:30 a.m.
Danny Pearlberg, The Ohio State University: "Making Sense of the Different Senses of 'Explanation'"
Comment: Travis Hreno, University of Akron
10:45 a.m.
Henry Kreuzman, The College of Wooster: "Philosophical Methodology: A Defense of Appeal to Intuitions?"
Comment: Deborah Smith, Kent State University
Room 219
Chair: Sergio Gallegos, Denison University
9:30 a.m.
Wesley Dempster, Bowling Green State University: "Free Will and Wholehearted Ambivalence"
Comment: Andrew Kissel, The Ohio State University
10:45 a.m.
Michael Miller, The Ohio State University: "Constitutivity and Verbal Disputes"
Comment: Wesley Cray, The Ohio State University
Slayter Union, 3rd Floor
Anthony Chemero, University of Cincinnati: "Radical Embodied Cognitive Science"
Burton Morgan Lecture Hall, 1st Floor, Burton D. Morgan Center
Room 216
Chair: John McHugh, Denison University
2:15 p.m.
C. Mickey Lorkowski, University of Akron: "Hume's Indifference to Ideas"
Comment: Joel Schickel, University of Dayton
3:30 p.m.
Joseph Novak, Cleveland State University: "Substance without attributes: An objection to Spinoza's proof for substance monism"
Comment: Ben Cordry, Lorain County Community College
Room 218
Chair: Steven Vogel, Denison University
2:15 p.m.
Brian McLean, The Ohio State University: "What's so Good about Non-Existence? An Alternative Explanation of Four Asymmetrical Value Judgments"
Comment: Scott Simmons, Bowling Green State University
3:30 p.m.
Peter Bornschein, Bowling Green State University: "Libertarianism, Freedom, and Self-Ownership"
Comment: Daniel Roach, Kent State University
Room 219
Chair: Barbara Fultner, Denison University
2:15 p.m.
Iris Spoor, University of Cincinnati: "'Superduper' or Superfluous? Terry Horgan’s Supervenience and Jessica Wilson’s challenge"
Comment: Joe Reich, The Ohio State University
3:30 p.m.
Dimitria Gatzia, The University of Akron Wayne College: "Cognitive Penetration and the Nature of Experience"
Comment: Joel Richeimer, Kenyon College
Registration and all paper sessions, including the keynote address, will be held in the Burton D. Morgan center at Denison University. Registration will open at 9 a.m., on the second floor of the Morgan Center. Directions to Denison can be found on the Denison University website. The Morgan Center is building number 10 on the printable Denison map which is also available on that same webpage. Lunch will be held in the Slatyer Union which is building 8 on that same map.
Free parking is available for OPA registrants. Attendees should park in the Visitor Parking Garage (the actual name!). There is a P with an arrow behind building number 8 on the campus map. There is an entrance directly from the garage to the second floor of the Burton Morgan Center where registration will be held.
If you have questions please contact:
Andrew Mills, Program Coordinator (program@ohiophilosophy.org)