Friday, October 19

Bldg/Rm

8:00 pm-10:00 pm

Video Clips/Discussion:  James Hansen on global warming and global dimming; Katrina; Ken Deffeyes and others on peak oil/suburbia.  Incidentally, both Hansen and Deffeyes were recently featured speakers at The Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter.

HH 307

Responders:  Heidi Wetherall, and Tanya Smutka, Biology Department, Inver Hills Community College

Saturday

7:45 am.-10:30 am

Registration.  Some fruit, donuts, assorted muffins, and beverage.

HH 203

Session 1

9:00-9:50 am

A.

“Moralizing the definition of ‘Terrorism.’” Phil Mouch, Minnesota State University-Moorhead

HH 309

Responder: Don Scheid, Minnesota State University-Winona

Chair:

B.

“Two Dogmas of Cognitive Science,” David Cole, University of Minnesota-Duluth

HH 306

Responder:  Peter Hanks, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Chair:  Don Allen, Inver Hills Community College

C.

“The Place of Personal Relationships in Kantian Moral Theory,” Mariella Bramer University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.

HH 307

Responder: John Van Ingen, University of St. Thomas

Chair:

D.

“Thinking Outside the Big Box:  Sustainability, Environmental Ethics and Superstores,” Amy Ihlan, Macalester College

HH 206

Responder:  Scott Borchers, Bemidji State University

Chair

E.

“Some Textbook Discrepancies,”  Casey Swank, Minnesota State University-St. Cloud

B 211

Responder:  David Beard, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Chair:

F.

“Sartre and the Environment:  Why is Sartre Scared of Animals?,” Scott Borchers, Bemidji State University.

B 210

Responder:  Steve Hartlaub, Inver Hills Community College

Chair:

Session 2

10-10:50 am

A.

“The Ethics of Race as a Proxy for Genetic Ancestry,” Jennifer Faust, California State University-Los Angeles.

B 201

Responder:  Michael Root, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Chair

B.

“Plato’s Arguments for Ideas,” Richard Berg, Lakeland University, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

B 202

Responder: Elizabeth Arnold, Inver Hills Community College

Chair:

C.

“Saving Time:  How Attention Explains the Utility of Supposedly Superfluous Representations,” Jason Ford, University of Minnesota-Duluth

B 207

Responder:  Wade Savage, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Chair

D.

“Kantian and Consequentialist Ethics:  The Gap Can Be Bridged,” Scott Forschler, Northland Community College, East Grand Forks, Minnesota

B 209

Responder:  Jovana Davidovic, University of Minnesota

Chair

E.

“Towards the Development of a New Paradigm for Environmental Ethics,” Kristen Peterson, Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College

B 210

.

Responder:  Toben Lafrancois,  St. Olaf College & Research Associate,  St. Croix Watershed Research Station, Science Museum of Minnesota, Marine on St. Croix, MN

Chair:

Guest Presenter

Jennifer Everett, Ph.D.

LA 210

11:05 am-12:05 pm

“Sustainability in Higher Education: Implications for the Disciplines.” Dr. Everett, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, is an environmental philosopher specializing in animal ethics, consumption, and institutional ethics of sustainability.  Currently the ‘Sustainability Programs Coordinator’ at DePauw University, Dr. Everett was until recently a member of the Philosophy Department at Carleton College and had previously held a visiting position at Macalester College.

12:10 pm

Lunch in Cafeteria, followed by a short business meeting.

(The Student Center Building is directly across from the Business Building.)

Student Center Bldg.

Session 3

1:00-1:50 pm

A.

“Public Funding for a Kantian Education,” Marisol Brito, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

HH 206

Responder:

Chair:

B.

“The Reign of ‘Terror’: Ethics and Contemporary Political Rhetoric,” Tomis Kapitan, Philosophy Chair, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb

HH 306

Chair: Elizabeth Arnold, Inver Hills Community College

C.

“Teleology, Aristotelian Virtue, and Right,” Sean Walsh, University of Minnesota-Duluth

HH 307

Responder:  Andrew Platt, St. Cloud State University

Chair: 

D.