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UCiP Schedule

UCiP Schedule

Saturday, November 9th, 2024

  • 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | WELCOME
    • Tower Room (348):

      Check-in & Breakfast: Join Dr. John Koolage for a brief welcome message and breakfast!

  • 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM | PRESENTATIONS
    • Tower Room (348):

      Anna McConnell, Idaho State University: “The Interplay of Internalism and Externalism”
      Comments: Nathan Thomas, Pepperdine University

    • Alumni Room (342):

      Jade Hua, University of Florida: “Which Equality is More Just? An Investigation of Two Egalitarian Theories of Justice”
      Comments: Eli Card, Eastern Michigan University

  • 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | PRESENTATIONS
    • Tower Room (348):

      Nathan Thomas, Pepperdine University: “No Believers Know: A Case Against Gail Fine's Critique of the Two Worlds Theory in Plato's Meno”
      Comments: Everett Peabody, Eastern Michigan University

    • Alumni Room (342):

      Jiayuan Zhang, University of Florida: “Shared Guidance”
      Comments: Priya Ghotane, Eastern Michigan University

  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | PRESENTATIONS
    • Tower Room (348):

      Megan Bonne, Duke University: “Can the biological concept of epigenetics affect our understanding of philosophical determinism and free will?”
      Comments: Jonah Huskey-Wright, Eastern Michigan University

    • Alumni Room (342):

      Evan Zicklin, Loyola Marymount University: “Choking Hegemonic Masculinity, and Perfectionism”
      Comments: Marie Peterson, St. Mary’s University of San Antonio

  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | LUNCH & KEYNOTE
    • Guild Room (330):

      Hallie Liberto, University of Maryland

  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | ACTIVITIES
    • Guild Room (330):

      Extended Q & A: Join the keynote speaker after lunch to continue discussing their presentation.

  • 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | PRESENTATIONS
    • Tower Room (348):

      Joseph Funk, Idaho State University: “Deontic Caring”
      Comments: Eleanor Brannen, Georgia College and State University

    • Alumni Room (342):

      High School Presenters

      • Jiaqi Huang, “Carceral Feminism: Is Criminal Justice a Solution to Gender Based Violence?”
      • Alexandra Pryplesh, “Our Moral Consideration of Non-Human Animals”
      • Mike Yimer, “The Moral Inequality account of Blame and Forgiveness”
  • 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM | PRESENTATIONS
    • Tower Room (348):

      Marin Schwarz, Washburn University: “Redistribution on Trial: Rawls, Nozick, and the Social Security Dilemma”
      Comments: Jay Christensen, Eastern Michigan University

    • Alumni Room (342):

      High School Presenters

      • Jennifer Tang, “Please Like, Comment, and Repost: On the Moral Implications of Performative or Low Effort Activism”
      • Kathryn Plotner, “The Ethical Duty of Competence”

Sunday, November 10th, 2024

  • 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | WELCOME
    • Tower Room (348):

      Check-in & Breakfast: Join Dr. John Koolage for a brief welcome message and breakfast!

  • 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM | PRESENTATIONS
    • Tower Room (348):

      Eleanor Brannen, Georgia College and State University: “Intersectional Environmentalism and the Future of Care”
      Comments: Jacqueline Deinek, Eastern Michigan University

    • Alumni Room (342):

      Ava MacDonald, Georgetown University: “Trust in Testimony: Standpoint Theory and Moral Reasoning”
      Comments: Paige Hannan, McMaster

  • 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | PRESENTATIONS
    • Tower Room (348):

      Paige Hannan, McMaster University: “Between Belief and Blame”
      Comments: AAnna McConnell, Idaho State University

    • Alumni Room (342):

      Kevin Young, Southern Utah University: “Learning Moves in Game Theory”
      Comments: Jade Hua, University of Florida

  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | PRESENTATIONS
    • Tower Room (348):

      Aleksei Alward, Eastern Michigan University: “Dialectic Disorder: Integrating cultural influence on diagnostic kinds”
      Comments: Ava MacDonald, Georgetown

    • Alumni Room (342):

      Jason Folk, Eastern Michigan University: “A Scientist and a Journalist Walk Into A Bar: An Exploration of the Inner Workings of Science-Media Relations”
      Comments: Megan Bonne, Duke University

  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | LUNCH
    • Guild Room (330):

      Lunch: Join presenters, commenters, and guests for lunch.

  • 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM | ACTIVITIES
    • Tower Room (348):

      Barriers to Epistemic Success in Purportedly Deliberative Democratic Spaces - An Exploratory Dialogue

  • 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | PRESENTATIONS
    • Tower Room (348):

      Shuyun NIU, Hong Kong Baptist University: “Comparison and Complementarity Between Wang Yangming's Heart-mind is Principle and Edmund Husserl's Intentionality in Phenomenology”
      Comments: Aleksei Alward, Eastern Michigan University

    • Alumni Room (342):

      Nathan Graves, Kennesaw State: “Essential Secrets: How Soren Kirekegaard and Friedrich Schlegel Found a New Home in the Postmodern Condition”
      Comments: Jiayuan Zhang, University of Florida

  • 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | PRESENTATIONS
    • Tower Room (348):

      Adeline Navarro, Wayne State University: “Political Posters, Periperformativity, and Power”
      Comments: Jason Folk, Eastern Michigan University

    • Alumni Room (342):

      Marie Peterson, St. Mary’s University of San Antonio: “Ethnorace and Latine Decolonial Feminisms: Filling the Gaps of Erasure”
      Comments: Gracie Hand, Eastern Michigan University

  • 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM | CLOSING CEREMONY
    • Tower Room (348):

      Closing Ceremony: Join the UCiP Team as we thank you for your participation!

See you this weekend!

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