Tulane Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

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. 

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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.