Symposium Archives

This is an archive of the weekly Philosophy Symposium presentations beginning in the fall of 2009. Further details of the presentations can be found in the corresponding blog posts.

~|FALL 2011|~

12-7-2011		Kathleen O’Bannon, “A Deontological Analysis of Literature and its Virtues”
11-30-2011		Eddy K. Chen, “Quantum Mechanics and God”
11-23-2011		Special Thanksgiving Symposium
11-16-2011		Yunus Prasetya, “Divine Impassability”
11-9-2011		Noah Cawley, “Three Views on Modality”
11-2-2011		Landon Oaks, “Loving the Good”
10-19-2011		Chad McIntosh, “Accepting Universalist Passages at Fave Value”
10-12-2011		Eddy K. Chen, “On Improving the Kalaam Cosmological Argument”
10-5-2011		Scott Wolcott, “Philosophy in the Modern Church”
9-28-2011		Kelly James Clark, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Graduate School”
9-21-2011		Trent Dougherty, “Is Alvin Plantinga a Crypto-Evidentialist?”
9-14-2011		Fall 2011 Kick Off

~|SPRING 2011|~

4-27-2011		End of the semester celebration
4-20-2011		Carsten Hamann, “Two Shades of Modern Mathematical Realism & Where They Go Wrong”
4-13-2011		Yemi Dada-Daodu, “Some Refelections Divine Simplicity”
4-6-2011		Liz Jennings, “Exclusion as Embrace: The Intersection of Care Theory & Excommunication
3-30-2011
3-23-2011
3-16-2011
3-9-2011		Nathaniel Cha, “Aztec Time and Philosophy: In Search for Neltiliztli”
3-2-2011		Lander Hultin, “Avoiding the Hollow & Empty: Philosophy & Idolatry in the Postmodern Age”
2-23-2011		Katy O’Bannon, “An Existentialist Critique of Existentialism: Authenticity and Egoism”
2-16-2011		Nathaniel Ma “Hegemonic Masculinity in the Rhetoric of Plato’s Gorgias: Callicles and Socrates” (presented by Lander Hultin)
2-9-2011		Cameron Gibbs, “Berkley and His Critics: Why There Still Might be Reason to Doubt the Material World”

~|FALL 2010|~

12-8-2010		Scott Wolcott, “Eudaimonism, Divine Commands, and Abraham’s Dilemma”
12-1-2010		Prof. Daniel Herrick, “Aristotle’s Philosophy of Mathematics”
11-17-2011		Prof. Christina Van Dyke, personal statement workshop
11-10-2010		Noah Cawley, “An Argument Against Incompatibilist Free-Will from Middle Knowledge”
11-3-2010		Lander Hultin, “Heiddegger, Levinas, and Apologetics”
10-20-2010		Nathaniel Cha and Michael McCloskey, “Zezek on Christianity”
10-13-2010		Chad McIntosh, “Homosexual Behavior and Philosophical Argument”
10-6-2010		Prof. Kelly James Clark, ”How to Get Into Graduate Schools”
9-29-2010		Josh Schendel, “Thomistic Dualism: Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Human Beings”
9-22-2010		Michael McCloskey, “Are Christianity and Ayn Rand’s Objectivism Compatible?”
9-15-2010		Fall 2010 Philosophy Symposium Kickoff

~|SPRING 2010|~

5-12-2010		End of the Year Celebration
5-5-2010		Cedric Parsels, “Wittgenstein and Philosophical Theology”
4-21-2010		Tim Perrine, “The Nature of Christian Philosophy”
4-14-2010		Michael McCloskey, “An Argument for the Immorality of Capitalism”
4-7-2010		Kristin Foltz, “Rationality and Kierkegaard’s Absolute Choice: A Response to MacIntyre’s Objection”
3-31-2010		Chad McIntosh, “Intelligent Design 101”
3-17-2010		Cameron Gibbs, “Mereological Nihilism and Dualism”
3-10-2010		Emmalon Davis, “God, Chance, Purpose, Evolution”
3-3-2010		Chad McIntosh, “The Plausibility of Naturalistic Moral Realism”
2-17-2010		Luis Oliveira, “How Not to Explain our Moral Intuition Away”

~|FALL 2009|~

11-18-2009		Chad McIntosh, “Theism and the Metaphysics of Meaning & Value”
11-11-2009		Aaron Rathbun, “The Philosophy Behind Biblical Inerrancy”
10-23-2009		Tim Perrine and Luis Oliveira, a discussion on thought experiments
10-14-2009		Tim Vander Veen and Tim Perrine, a discussion on the nature of assertion
9-30-2009		Tim Perrine, “Conditional Moral Veganism”
9-23-2009		Chad McIntosh, “S5, God, and Numbers”
9-16-2009		Philosophy Symposium Fall Kickoff