Tulane Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

2025 Tulane Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

All members of the Tulane and New Orleans community - from undergraduate students, graduate students, to faculty members and beyond - are invited to our first Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, sponsored by the Tulane Philosophy Club, Tulane Philosophy Department, and Tulane School of Liberal Arts! The Conference will be a combination of in person and online talks and discussions.

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All talks will be held in Tulane's Lavin-Bernick Center ("LBC")

Friday, October 10

LBC 210, McKeever Room

5:00 - 6:00: Opening Speaker: Daniel Burnston (Associate Professor, Tulane University), "Decision Sciences and the Philosophy of Agency"

6:30: Dinner at Fresco on Maple St.

Saturday, October 11

LBC 201, Race Room

9:00 - 9:30: Breakfast and Coffee

9:35 - 10:20: Greg Ashby (University of New Orleans), "Mind as Becoming" (in person)

10:25 - 11:10: Fox Woodward (University of New Orleans), "Conatus and Enactivism" (in person)

11:15 - 12:00: Ricky Crabtree (UNC-Greensboro), "The Determined Chain" (in person)

12:05 - 12:50: Valeroia Mejia Yabar (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), "A Metaphysical Perspective on Polarization of Beliefs" (via ZOOM)

1:00 - 2:00: Lunch

2:05 - 2:50: Isabela S. Carrilo (Polytechnic University of the Philippines), "Feyerabend's Paratic University" (via ZOOM)

2:55 - 3:40: Paul Galvez (University of the Philippines Diliman), "On Causal-Historical Continuity and Identity" (via ZOOM)

3:45 - 4:30: Christina Landys Herre (University of St. Andrews), "Reimagining Pornographic Speech" (via ZOOM)

4:35 - 5:20: Hoochang Yi (University of St. Andrews), "A Simple Modification of Khoo's Simple Theory of Dogwhistles" (via ZOOM)

5:30: Dinner at Lebanon Cafe on Carrolton Ave 

Sunday, October 12

LBC 201, Race Room

9:00 - 9:30: Breakfast and Coffee

9:35 - 10:20: Macan Moslem-Khani (Kharazmi University), "Russellian Monism, Middle Ground Properties, and Phenomenality" (via ZOOM)

10:25 - 11:10: Payton Robert Nelson (Flagler College), "Defense of Philosophical Anarchy" (in person)

11:15 - 12:00: Mustafa Khuramy (University of Hertfordshire), "Relaxing Aesthetic Non-Naturalism" (via ZOOM)

12:05 - 12:50: Erik Schulz (Arizona State University), "Fictions, Mackie, and Irrealism" (via ZOOM)

12:55 - 1:40: Evan Jack (Tulane University), "Relaxed Realism, Truthmaking, and Metaphysical Weight" (in person)

2:00 - 3:00: Keynote Speaker: Georgi Gardiner (Associate Professor, Tulane University), "Tarot & Dixit: Art-Based Tools for Thought" 

Contact

For questions, including the link for the talks via ZOOM, please contact Evan Jack at Reveal Email Address.