Truman’s 2013 PHRE Undergrad Conference schedule now available

Saturday, November 9, 2013
All sessions will take place in the Alumni Room, Student Union Building.  For more info (including talk abstracts), see the conference webpage.

9:05 am
Welcome to the conference

9:10 am
Ni Addo Abrahams, Missouri State University, “A Fool’s Wisdom (1st Corinthians 1:18-25)”

9:45 am
Adam Stroud, Lindenwood University, “Moral Philosophy in Giordano Bruno’s The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast”

10:20 am
Emma Prendergast, Millikin University, “Mo Tzu’s Law of Universal Mutual Love and the Prisoner’s Dilemma”

10:55 am
Kenny L. Maese, University of Nebraska at Omaha, “A Truth Carried by the Wave: Curving the Perception of Traditional Western Religion”

11:30 am
Ben Conover, Saint Louis University, “The Spooky Metaphysics of Causal Powers”

12:05 pm
Lunch
Keynote Talk: 12:30 pm
Dr. Evan Williams, Truman State University
Topic: Can Environmental Damage Be Both Morally Permissible and Morally Bad?
Georgian Room B, Student Union
Lunch provided

2:00 pm
Anson Tullis, Washburn University, “Fictional Characters and Meinongian Theory of Objects”

2:35 pm
Sean Marren, Drury University, “Heraclitus’ Stratified Ontology alongside Nietzsche’s Neutral Ontology”

3:10 pm
Summer Jensen, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, “Globalization and Islam: A Look at ART Integration in the Muslim Middle East”

3:45 pm
Ian Jones, University of Nebraska at Omaha, “From Asteroids to Skyrim: Ritual Practice and the Gaming Community”

4:20 pm
Elisabeth Bancroft Wessel Meindl, Principia College, “Redefining History, Redefining God”