THE 41ST ANNIVERSARY MEETING

April 11 and 12, 2008

University of North Texas, Denton
Environmental Education, Science and Technology Building
On the corner of Mulberry and Avenue C

Keynote Address
“The Policing of Race Mixing and the Birth of Biopower”
Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis

Saturday, April 12
1:00-2:30 pm

Distinguished Lectures Friday and Saturday
by Robert Bernasconi (Memphis) and Geoff Waite (Cornell),
eight Invited Lectures, and over 60 papers by participants
representing 28 universities and colleges from 14 states

THE NTPA MAIN SPEAKERS SERIES: FRIDAY SCHEDULE

1:20-2:00 PM
ROOM B

INVITED SPEAKER
“Philosopher Kings and Bureaucrats”
Robert Frodeman, University of North Texas, Denton

2:05-3:00 PM
ROOM B

“Kant, Heidegger, and Human Freedom: The Nationalization and Denationalization of Patriotism”
Julie Kuhlken, Concordia University (Austin)

Comments: Janae Sholtz, University of Memphis

3:05-4:00 PM
ROOM B

INVITED SPEAKER
“Historically Unaffected Consciousness?: Gadamer, Blumenberg, and Philosophical Voyeurism”
Bruce Krajewski, Texas Woman’s University, Denton

4:05-5:00 PM
ROOM B

“Is Levinas a Moral Perfectionist? Reading Cavell Reading Levinas”
Scott Davidson, Oklahoma City University

Comments: Martin Yaffe, University of North Texas, Denton

5:05-6:30 PM
ROOM B

FRIDAY’S DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Sponsor: Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas

“Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights”
Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis

6:35-7:30 PM
ROOM B

“Being-toward-death and Heidegger’s Metaphysics of Feeling”
Sharin Elkholy, University of Houston-Downtown

Comments: Gilbert Garza, University of Dallas

FRIDAY’S COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

1:00- 2:10 PM
ROOM C

Colloquium 1
Turning Outward, (Re) Turning Inward: Plato, Augustine, and the Directions of Thinking
Chair: Keith Brown, Independent Scholar

Paper 1
“As, when grain is shaken and winnowed: Sight, Errant Cause, and Creation in Plato’s Timaeus”
Jordan Batson, University of North Texas, Denton

Paper 2
“Eternity and Distension: From Spatial to Moral Time”
John James, University of Dallas

Paper 3
“Augustine and Intentionality: The Divine Auto-Seduction”
Jared Bly, University of North Texas, Denton

2:15-3:55 PM
ROOM C

Colloquium 2
New Readings of Plato
Chair: Frederick Hotz, Collin College (Texas)

Paper 1
“Gripping the Golden Cord: Freedom and Determinism in Plato’s Laws”
Siobhan McLoughlin, University of New Mexico

Paper 2
“Plato as Jungian Artist: Socrates as Archetypal Psychologist”
Martha Beck, Lyon College (Arkansas)

Paper 3
“Pluralistic Plato”
Nathan McCullough, Kent State University

4:00-5:00 PM
ROOM C

Colloquium 3
Readings in Ancient Philosophy: Hellenism
Chair: James Kirk, Collin College (Texas)

Paper 1
“The Problem of Magnanimity in Cicero’s On Duties”
Brian Harding, Texas Woman’s University, Denton

Paper 2
“The Best Possible World for Zeus”
Rory Goggins, University of Dallas

5:05-6:30 PM
ROOM B
FRIDAY’S DISTINGUISHED LECTURE

6:35-7:35 PM
ROOM C

Colloquium 4
Pragmatism in Context: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
Chair: Frederick Hotz, Collin College (Texas)

Paper 1
“The Idea of a Modern Conception of Nature in Nietzsche and Dewey”
Carl Sachs, University of North Texas, Denton

Paper 2
“William James as Kantian Ethicist”
Jim Shelton, University of Central Arkansas

6:35-7:35 PM
ROOM D

Colloquium 5
Topics in Epistemology: Metaphor and Rival Theories of Truth
Chair: James Kirk, Collin College (Texas)

Paper 1
“Taking Context Seriously in Metaphor”
Jason Southworth, University of Oklahoma

Paper 2
“A Plural Idealistic Philosophy of Truth: The Coherence Theory of Truth
Incorporates the Correspondence Theory of Truth”
Ashley Hardcastle, University of North Texas, Denton

SATURDAY PROGRAM

8:00-8:40 AM: NTPA Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:40-10:00 AM
ROOMS B-D
Colloquia 6-8

THE NTPA MAIN SPEAKERS SERIES: SATURDAY SCHEDULE

9:00-10:00 AM
ROOM A

“Existent(s)—Hegel’s Critique of the In-Itself: Notes Towards an Immanent and Relational Ontology”
Levi Bryant, Collin College (Texas)

Comments: Janae Sholtz, University of Memphis

10:05-11:20 AM
ROOM A

NTPA VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
"Heidegger, Paul Watson, and the Look of Leviathan"
Luanne Frank, University of Texas-Arlington

Comments: Frederick Hotz, Collin College (Texas)

ROOMS B-D
Colloquia 9-11

11:25 AM-12:25 PM
ROOM A

SATURDAY’S DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Sponsor: Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages, Texas Woman’s University, Denton

“What is (Communist) Political Philology?”
Geoff Waite, Cornell University

ROOM B

INVITED SPEAKER
“Ontological Model Pluralism”
Denny Bradshaw, University of Texas-Arlington
11:25 AM-12:25 PM
ROOM C
Colloquium 12

12:25-1:00 PM: LUNCH BREAK (ON SITE)

1:00-2:30 PM
ROOM A

NORTH TEXAS PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION’S KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Sponsor: Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas

A Welcome to the North Texas Philosophical Association from the Hosting Institution
Robert Frodeman, University of North Texas, Denton

Keynote Address
“The Policing of Race Mixing and the Birth of Biopower”
Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis

2:35-3:40 PM
ROOM A

INVITED SPEAKER
“The Transformation of Analysis in Bergson”
Pete Gunter, University of North Texas, Denton

ROOMS B-D
Colloquia 13-15

3:45-4:50 PM
ROOM A

THE DASEIN ADDRESS
Sponsor: Dallas Area Seminar for European Inquiry

"Being Human and the Question of Being: On the Unitary Ground of Individual and Cultural Pluralism."
Robert E. Wood, University of Dallas

ROOM B

“Humeanism, Compatibilism, and the Problem of Superhuman Ability”
Annemarie Butler, Iowa State University

Comments: Andrew Pavelich, University of Houston-Downtown

SATURDAY’S COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
8:40-10:00 AM
ROOM B

Colloquium 6
Topics in the Philosophy of Science and Science Policy
Chair: Andrew Pavelich, University of Houston-Downtown

Paper 1
"The Death of the ‘World’: Modern Science's Nihilism"
Mark Mysak, University of North Texas

Paper 2
“The Elimination of R-Laws”
William A. Bauer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Paper 3
“Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts: Shifting Paradigms in Science Policy”
Jonathan Parker, University of North Texas

ROOM C

Colloquium 7
Topics in the Philosophy of Aesthetics: An Engagement of Contrasting Perspectives,
Historical/Contemporary -Oriental/Occidental
Chair: Julie Kuhlken, Concordia University (Austin)

Paper 1
“On the Peculiar Role of Sight in the Appreciation of Nude Sculptures Covered by Wet Drapery
(in Herder’s Sculpture)”
Vinod Lakshmipathy, Rice University

Paper 2
“The Beauty of Nature from the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Environmental Aesthetics”
Gao Shan, University of North Texas, Denton

Paper 3
“Ecological Citizenship and Environmental Art”
Jason Simus, University of North Texas, Denton

ROOM D

Colloquium 8
Topics in Contemporary Thought: Hermeneutics and Literature
Chair: Jordan Batson, University of North Texas, Denton

Paper 1
“A Daring Hospitality: A Phenomenology of Shared Poetic Time”
Andy Amato, University of Texas-Dallas

Paper 2
“A Life Story: Ricoeur and Identification with Nature through Literature”
Nathan Bell, University of North Texas, Denton

Paper 3
“Nancy and Neruda: Poetry Thinking Love”
Joshua M. Hall, Vanderbilt University

10:05-11:20 AM
ROOM B

Colloquium 9
Analytic Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion
Chair: Andrew Pavelich, University of Houston-Downtown

Paper 1
“A Kalam Argument from the Number of Beings”
Ryan Byerly, Baylor University

Paper 2
“Conservation, Discontinuous Time, and Causal Continuity”
Eric Yang, University of Oklahoma

ROOM C

Colloquium 10
Ethics and Politics at the Limits of Thinking
Chair: Dale Wilkerson, University of North Texas, Denton

Paper 1
“The Constancy of Ethics: Substitution in Emmanuel Levinas and Giorgio Agamben”
Christopher Fox, Newman University (Kansas)

Paper 2
“Conceptualizing the Limits of Tolerance: Laclau and Mouffe on the Politics of Exclusion”
Wade Roberts, Oklahoma City University

ROOM D

Colloquium 11
River Spheres: Integrating Social-Political, Philosophical, And Cultural Thoughts on Water Issues
Chair: Irene Klaver, University of North Texas, Denton
Participants: TBA

11:25 AM-12:25 PM
ROOMS A-B
MAIN SPEAKERS SERIES

ROOM C

Colloquium 12
Topics in the Philosophy of Religion: Kierkegaard on Morality and Love
Chair: Mary Ann Pauken, University of Dallas

Paper 1
“Social Morality and Social Misfits: Comparing Confucian LI and Hegelian Sittlichkeit
in Light of Criticism from Zhuangzi and Kierkegaard”
Daniel Johnson, Baylor University

Paper 2
“Erotic Love, Friendship, and Christian Love in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love”
Mike Jones, University of Dallas

12:25-1:00 PM: Lunch Break (On Site)

1:00-2:25 PM
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

2:35-3:40 PM
ROOM A
MAIN SPEAKERS PROGRAM

ROOM B

Colloquium 13
Topics in Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes
Chair: Gilbert Garza, University of Dallas

Paper 1
“Freedom Without Indifference: Descartes on Human Free Will”
Francesca di Poppa, Texas Tech University

Paper 2
“Descartes, His Mediator, and the Source of Our Childhood Prejudices”
Fred Ablondi, Hendrix College (Arkansas)

ROOM C

Colloquium 14
Topics in Medieval Philosophy: The Problem of Knowledge
Chair: Mary Ann Pauken, University of Dallas

Paper 1
“Ockham’s Two Forms of the Universal Concept”
Stephen Striby, St. Mary’s University (Texas)

Paper 2
“Augustine Against Skepticism”
Adam C. Pelser, Baylor University

ROOM D

Colloquium 16
Topics in 20th Century Philosophy: Deconstruction—Deleuze and Heidegger
Chair: Carl Sachs, University of North Texas, Denton

Paper 1
“Deconstruction, Translation and Pure Language in Heidegger’s The Origin of the Work of Art”
Phil Bouska, SUNY-Manhattan

Paper 2
“An Introduction to Diagrammatics”
Ryan Johnson, Kent State University

3:45-4:50 PM
ROOMS A-B
MAIN SPEAKERS SERIES

4:55-6:00 PM

ROOM A

Colloquium 16
The Theological Turn in Recent Phenomenology
Chair: Adam Miller, Collin College (Texas)

Paper 1
“Divine Revelation: Saturated Phenomena and the Limits of Experience”
Aaron E. Hinkley, Rice University

Paper 2
“Five Themes in New Phenomenology”
J. Aaron Simmons, Hendrix College (Arkansas)

ROOM B

Colloquium 17
Topics in Ancient Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle
Chair: Farshad Sadri, Independent Scholar

Paper 1
“No Nudes: Plato’s Sketches of the Soul”
John Tutuska, University of Dallas

Paper 2
“More Familiar to Us vs More Familiar Simpliciter”
Hammad A. Hussain, University of Oklahoma

ROOM C

Colloquium 18
Ethics, Episteme, and Praxis
Chair: Jason Simus, University of North Texas, Denton

Paper 1
“The Character of Pain Education for Women”
Nance Cunningham, University of Oklahoma

Paper 2
“Toward a Narratology for Applied Ethics”
J. Jeffrey Tillman, Wayland Baptist University (Texas)

6:00-6:30 PM
ROOM TBA
NTPA BUSINESS MEETING

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