NPTA Annual Meeting
8 April 2006
University of North Texas, Denton
EESAT Building

8:00 - 8:50 Registration - Coffee and Continental Breakfast

Schedule of Presentations

Biographies of presenters and panel members are available here.

Room #1
9:00 - 11:00

Waterways Panel 2006: Sponsored by The Philosophy of Water Project at the University of North Texas

Moderator: Pat Sewell, University of North Texas
"Water Sustainability and Texas Law: Navigating Between Systems of
Catchment and Catch-all"
Ashlee Dunham and Irene Turner, University of North Texas

"Framing Resource Management Issues through the Eyes of Lewis & Clark:
The Case of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument"
Scott Friskics, University of North Texas

"Tragedy of the Commons in New Orleans: Private Interests and Public
Imagination along the Mississippi River"
Erin Daly and Deborah Viera, University of North Texas

Room #2
9:00 - 10:00

"On the Internalism Requirement, Formulation by Christine Korsgaard and Michael Smith"
Angela Thurmond, Louisiana State University
Commentator: Clayton Littlejon, Southern Methodist University

Room #3
9:00 - 10:00

"Some Notes on Gadamer's Reading of Plato"
Jamey Finley, Newman University
Commentator: Rod Coltman, Collin County Community College

Room #2
10:00-11:00

"On Beauty and Suffering and Our Sense of the Sacred",
Douglas A. Gilmour, University of Incarnate Word
Commentator: Frederick Hotz, Collin County Community College

Room #3
10:00-11:00

"Girard and Agamben: The Surrogate Victim, homo saceur, and the Origin of our Politics"
Christopher Fox, Newman University
Commentator: Dale Wilkerson, University of North Texas

Room #1
11:00-12:30

Feature Panel: "Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Are They Really Back Together Again?"
Baird Callicott, University of North Texas
Alastair Norcross, Rice University

Moderator: Gene Hargrove, University of North Texas
Sponsored by the Center for Environmental Philosophy

12:30-1:25 Lunch Break

1:30-1:55 Business Meeting (Room #1)

Room #1 2:00- 3:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS "Liminal Philosophy: Negotiating Resistance at the Limits of Representation" David Wood, Vanderbilt University Welcome and Introductory Remarks Robert Frodeman, Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas

3:00-4:00

Room #1
DASEIN Panel: "Subtracting the Subject"
Levi Bryant, Collin County Community College
Adam Miller, Collin County Community College
Moderator: Rod Coltman, Collin County Community College

Room #2
"The Supererogation Problem"
Daniella Wenner, Rice Univeristy
Commentator: Eduard Pauley, University of North Texas

Room #3
"Fatalism, the Real way Out: The Failure of Frankfurt, Three-Valued Logic, and Open Theism"
David Kyle Johnson, The University of Oklahoma
Commentator: Roberta Ballarin, Southern Methodist University

4:00-5:00

Room #1
"Paul Ricoeur and the Nazis"
David Kaplan, University of North Texas
Commentator: Martin Yaffe, University of North Texas

Room #2
"Zagazebski's Indexical Definitions of Right and Wrong"
Robert Johnson, The University of Oklahoma
Commentator: Steven Hilz, Southern Methodist University

Room #3
"How the Cookie Crumbles: Harry Frankfurt's and Michael Smith's Theories of Freedom and Responsibility"
Franklin D. Worrell, Louisiana State University
Commentator: Steven Sverdlik, Southern Methodist University

5:00-6:00

Room #1
"A New Conception of Moral Rules: Adam Smith and the Particularist-Generalist Debate"
Andrew Terjesen, Austin College
Commentator: TBA

Room #2
"Providence and Anthropomorphism in History and Politics: An Essay in History of Philosophy"
Joe Barnhart, University of North Texas
Commentator: James Kirk, Collin County Community College

Room #3
"Ontology, the Ontic Sciences, and the Problem of Reality in Heidegger's Being and Time"
Aaron E. Hinkley, Rice University
Commentator: Luanne Frank, The University of Texas at Arlington

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