9TH ANNUAL
GRADUATE PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
February 15-16, 2008  /  Keynote  Alice Dreger  /  Featured Faculty  Stephen Esquith


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SCHEDULE

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 15, 2008

2:00p
Vassiliki Leontis, Bowling Green State University 

“Medical Human Research in Developing Countries: A Feminist Universalist Approach to Women’s
Human Flourishing”

Commentary: Joe Stramondo, Michigan State University

3:00p
Justin Remhof, University of Urbana/Champaign   

“Nietzsche’s Weapon of War: The Method of Science”

Commentary: Carlos Melendez, Michigan State University
   
4:30p FEATURED FACULTY ADDRESS

Stephen Esquith, Michigan State University

“Teaching as a Vocation: Recognizing the Political Responsibilities of Everyday Bystanders”

   
Dinner will follow


SATURDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2008

1:00p   
Jen Rinaldi, York University


“The Moral Obligation to Forgive”

Commentary: Shannon Proctor, Michigan State University

2:00p   
Adam Schechter, Syracuse University

“Patient Responsibility and Reciprocity: How the Ethics of Transplantation Can Illuminate Health Care Generally”

Commentary: Alexandra Valadas, Michigan State University

3:00p
José Luis Fernández, Stony Brook University

“Kant’s Feeling: Why Aesthetic Judgments are De Dicto Exemplary Necessary

Commentary: Matthew Johnson, Michigan State University
   
4:30p KEYNOTE ADDRESS


Alice Dreger, Ph.D., Northwestern University


“Why Phallometers Worked, and Evidence Didn't: Philosophical Aspects of the Intersex Rights Movement”


Reception will follow