NORTH TEXAS PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION 2002 SPRING MEETING

Saturday, April 13 Art Institute of Dallas 2nd Floor - Rooms 233, 235, 237/238

PROGRAM SCHEDULE
(N.B. starting time is 8:30am with coffee and donuts beginning approx. 8 am)


8:30

(A) "Narrative, Process, and Ecological Metaphysics: A Fresh Look at an Old Paradigm," Kris Short, University of North Texas
Comments: Scott Bartlett, Southern Methodist University

(B) "Aesthetic Testimony," Aaron Meskin, Texas Tech University
Comments: Mark Webb, Texas Tech University

9:30

(A) "Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao: Its Architecture and Technology," Frederick Hotz, University of North Texas
Comments: Candace Uhlmeyer, The Art Institute of Dallas

(B) "A Criticism of Existential Commitment in Russell's Theory of Descriptions," Jay Newhard, Texas Tech University
Comments: Eric Barnes, Southern Methodist University

10:30

(A) "On Music: A Phenomenological Approach," Robert Wood, University of Dallas
Comments: Steve Friedson, University of North Texas

(B) "Ambiguity, Dissimilarity and Conjunctive Failure," Rui Zhu, Southwest Texas State University
Comments: Steve Hiltz, Southern Methodist University

(C) "Authentically Free: Nietzsche and Democracy," Cody Peterson, University of Texas at Tyler
Comments: Dale Wilkerson, University of Texas at Dallas

11:30 Lunch Break

1:30 Business Meeting

2:00 Keynote Address
"Rawls Revisited: Teaching Us How to Do Philosophy"
Victor Worsfold, University of Texas at Dallas

3:00

(A) "'More than the Original': Gadamer, Plato, and the Question of Mimesis," Jamey Findling, Villanova University
Comments: Rod Coltman, Collin County Community College

(B) "The Limitations of Libertarianism in Bio-Ethics," Stephen Hanson, Southern Methodist University
Comments: Lance Simmons, University of Dallas

(C) "Duns Scotus on the Categories as the Subject of a Science," Lloyd Newton, University of Dallas
Comments: Farshad Sadri, University of Texas at Dallas

4:00

(A) "The Sophistic Mirror of Plato: Comments on the Mirror in Book X of Plato's Republic," Steve Wadsworth, University of Dallas
Comments: Carl Hasler, Collin County Community College

(B) "Moral Dilemmas Secundum Quid, " Tim Dunn, Southern Methodist University
Comments: Alastair Norcross, Southern Methodist University

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