NPTA Conference Schedule for Spring 2005

Starting time is 9:00 am, with coffee and donuts beginning at approximately 8:30 am.
Conference will be held in Rooms 200 and 204 of Hyer Hall

9:00

Session A
Session B

"On the Severity of Theological and Logical Fatalism"
David Kyle Johnson, University of Oklahoma
Comments: Roberta Ballerin, Southern Methodist University

"A Neo-Kantian reading of On Truth and Lie in a Non-Moral Sense"
Will Smith, Rice University
Comments: Bernard Roddy, Southern Methodist University


10:00

"Rawl's Paradox"
Jason Brennan, University of Arizona
Comments: Steve Hiltz, Southern Methodist University

"On Nietzsche's Early Use of Greek Culture and Thought"
Dale Wilkerson, University of North Texas
Comments: Frederick Hotz, Collin County Community College

11:00
"Is Locke's Private Property Argument Consistent?"
Maxwell Goss, University of Texas at Austin
Comments: Garret Merriam, Rice University
"The Transition to Faith in Kierkegaard Fragments and Postscript: A Reply to Ferreira"
R. Zachary Manis, Baylor University
Comments: Andrew Nam, Baylor University

Noon: Lunch Break

1:30: Business Meeting

2:00: Keynote Address

"Free Will and Neuroscience"
Professor Alfred Mele
William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy
Florida State University

3:00
"When We Act Together"
Sara Rachel Chant, Texas Tech University
Comments: Matt Burstein, Southern Methodist University
"Hegel On Freedom And Rights"
Robert E. Wood, University of Dallas
Comments: Dennis Sepper, University of Dallas

4:00
"Problems With Reasons-Reactivity"
Michael Robinson, Texas Tech University
Comments: Steve Sverdlik, Southern Methodist University
"Bring Home Saint Anselm"
Glenn Chicoine, University of Dallas
Comments: Sarah Byers, University of Dallas

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