2025 Tulane Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
All members of the Tulane 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 and the Tulane Philosophy Department! The Conference will be a combination of in person and online talks and discussions.
Friday, October 10
LBC 210, McKeever Room
5:00 - 6:00: Opening Speaker: Daniel Burnston (Associate Professor, Tulane University), Title TBA
6:30: Dinner
Saturday, October 11
LBC 201, Race Room
9:00 - 9:30: Breakfast and Coffee
9:35 - 10:20: Greg Paul Ashby, "Mind as Becoming"
10:25 - 11:10: Fox Woodward, "Conatus and Enactivism"
11:15 - 12:00: Ricky Crabtree, "The Determined Chain"
12:05 - 12:50: Macan Moslem-Khani, "Russellian Monism, Middle Ground Properties, and Phenomenality"
1:00 - 2:00: Lunch
2:05 - 2:50: Eva Patenaude, "An Alternative Conception of Synesthesia and Applications to Qualia Theory"
2:55 - 3:40: Valeroia Mejia Yabar, "A Metaphysical Perspective on Polarization of Beliefs"
3:45 - 4:30: Isabela S. Carrilo, "Feyerabend's Paratic University"
4:35 - 5:20: Paul Galvez, "On Causal-Historical Continuity and Identity"
5:25 - 6:10: Christina Landys Herre, "Reimagining Pornographic Speech"
6:15 - 7:00: Hoochang Yi, "A Simple Modification of Khoo's Simple Theory of Dogwhistles"
7:30: Dinner
Sunday, October 12
LBC 201, Race Room
9:00 - 9:30: Breakfast and Coffee
9:35 - 10:20: Payton Robert Nelson, "Defense of Philosophical Anarchy"
10:25 - 11:10: Mustafa Khuramy, "Relaxing Aesthetic Non-Naturalism"
11:15 - 12:00: Erik Schulz, "Fictions, Mackie, and Irrealism"
12:05 - 12:50: Evan Jack, "Relaxed Realism, Truthmaking, and Metaphysical Weight"
1:00 - 2:00: Keynote Speaker: Georgi Gardiner (Associate Professor, Tulane University), Title TBA
Contact
For questions, please contact Evan Jack at Reveal Email Address.