Conferences

Ethics in Democracy

20 March 2010, Virginia Tech
Pamplin Hall, Room 30

Morning session

• 9:30 - 10 AM Welcome
• 10 AM - 11 AM “Diversity, Democracy, and Dialogue in a Human Rights Framework”
  Carol Gould
  City University of New York
• 11 AM - 12 PM “Oughts and Cans, or What Does Global Poverty Mean for You and Me?”
  Judith Lichtenberg
  Georgetown University

12 - 1:30 PM Lunch break

Afternoon session

• 1:30 - 2:30 PM “On McClesky vs Kemp: The Challenge of Race to Equal Protection”
  John Gulley
  Winston-Salem State University
• 2:30 - 3:30 PM “Concerns about Our Choice: Considerations on the Climate Change Crisis”
  Tim Luke
  Virginia Tech

Darwin's On the Origin of Species and Its Influence

4 November 2009, Virginia Tech
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• Robert Richards, The University of Chicago
• Frank Sulloway, The University of California at Berkeley
• Philip Kitcher, Columbia University

Conference schedule

Meaning and Modern Empiricism

11-13 April 2008, Virginia Tech

The Department of Philosophy hosted a conference on Meaning and Modern Empiricism on 11-13 April 2008.

• Keynote speaker: Kenneth P. Winkler (Yale), "Signification, Intention, Projection"
• Peter Distelzweig (Pittsburgh), "Language, Memory and Universality in Hobbes' Philosophy of Language"
• Katherine Dunlop (Brown), "Geometry and the Generality of Signs in Berkeley's Principles and New Theory of Vision"
• Daniel Flage (James Madison), "Berkeley's Contingent Necessities"
• Melissa Frankel (Harvard), "Something-We-Know-Not-What, Something-We-Know-Not-Why: Berkeley, Meaning, and Minds"
• Michael Jacovides (Purdue), "How Berkeley Corrupted his Capacity to Conceive"
• David Landy (UNC), "Sellars on Hume and Kant on Representing Complexes"
• William Edward Morris (Illinois Wesleyan), “Meaning(fulness) without Metaphysics: Another Look at Hume's ‘meaning-empiricism’”
• Walter Ott (Virginia Tech), "What Can Causal Claims Mean?"

Regional Working Conference on Wittgenstein

12-15 April 2007, Virginia Tech

The Department of Philosophy hsoted a regional working conference on Wittgenstein on 12-15 April 2007.

• Heather Gert (UNC Greensboro), "Wittgenstein on the Concept of a Rule"
• Miriam McCormick (Richmond), "Wittgenstein and Necessary Beliefs"
• William Brenner (Old Dominion), "Wittgenstein's `Kantian Solution'"
• James Klagge (Virginia Tech), "Redeeming the Word: `Genug'"
• Susan Sterrett (Duke), "Wittgenstein and Aeronautics"
• David Cerbone (West Virginia), "Wittgenstein and Idealism"
• James Peterman (University of the South), "Wittgensteinian Thoughts about Moral Particularism"
• Christopher Hoyt (Western Carolina), "On the Very Idea of a Third Wittgenstein"
• Duncan Richter (VMI), "Did Wittgenstein Disagree with Heidegger"

Second Annual Atlantic Coast Pragmatism Association Meeting

31 March - 1 April 2007, Virginia Tech

The Department of Philosophy hosted the second annual Atlantic Coast Pragmatism Association meeting on 31 March to 1 April 2007.

• Michael Eldridge (UNC Charlotte), "No Permanent Solutions: Pragmatic Idealism and Giving People What They Want"
• Jayne Tristan (UNC Charlotte), "Dewey's Footnote on the Natural History of Logical Forms"
• Tom Burke (South Carolina), Great Text Discussion: John Dewey, "The Pattern of Inquiry"
• Robert Gertz (Temple), "A Step Taken in the Fog: The Aesthetic Ambiguity of Deweyan Philosophy"
• Philip Olson (Virginia Tech), "Virtue in INquiry"
• Jim Garrison (Virginia Tech), "What Dewey's Metaphysics is Not"