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                      2006 Fordham Philosophical Society Conference

                                        “The Future of Philosophy”

 

                                                                    Schedule

 

                                                               Fordham University (Rose Hill Campus)

                                                                                 Bronx, New York

                                                                       O'Hare Room, Walsh Library

 

 

March 3rd, 2006 (Friday)

 

12:00pm      Registration

 

12:45pm      Opening Remarks

 

1:00pm         “The Logic of Situations: Reflections on the post-Heideggerian Paradigm in Recent French Philosophy,”

                     Phillip Honenberger (Temple University)

                     -Respondent: David Storey (Fordham University)

 

2:00pm         “What would be a Concrete Ontology of the Abstract Sensible,” Bruno Besana (Paris VIII University)

                     -Respondent: Jared Woodard (Fordham University)

 

3:00pm         “A Mathematical Ethics: the Spinozistic Future of Philosophy,” Karolina Hubner (University of Chicago)

                     -Respondent: Daniel Fincke (Fordham University)

 

4:00pm         “Overcoming Anthropology: Nietzsche, Ecology and the Philosophy of the Future,”

                     Matthew Rukgaber (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

                     -Respondent: Mary Gennuso (City University of New York)

 

5:00pm         “Toward an Active Ethics of Epistemology,” CJ Boyd (Vanderbilt University)

                     -Respondent: Daniel Breyer (Fordham University)

 

6:00pm         Dinner Break

 

7:30pm         Opening Night Plenary Address: “The Future of Epistemology,” Professor John Greco (Fordham University)

                     Faculty Lounge, McGinley Center

 

9:00pm         Reception


 

March 4th, 2006 (Saturday)

 

9:00am         Continental Breakfast

 

9:15am          “The History of the Future: Violence, Repetition, and Renewal in Heidegger's Method,”

                     Gregory Esplin (Purdue University)

                     -Respondent: Rosa Slegers (Fordham University)

 

10:15am        “The Hindrance of Method: Through a Consideration of Russell's Analytic Method,”

                     Mark Young (University of Ottawa)

                     -Respondent: Charles Lassiter (Fordham University)

 

11:15am        “Philosophy and the Future: The Problem of the Infinite in Edmund Husserl and Alain Badiou,”

                     Tzuchien Tho (University of Georgia)

                     -Respondent: David Zinn (Fordham University)

 

12:15pm       Lunch Break

 

1:30pm         Keynote Address: "Philosophy as a Creative Repetition," Professor Alain Badiou (École normale supérieure)

                    Flom Auditorium, Walsh Library

 

3:00pm        Reception

 

4:00pm         “Love and Philosophy: On Alain Badiou’s Conditions of Philosophy,” Devin Zane Shaw (University of Ottawa)

                     -Respondent: Adam Konopka (Fordham University)

 

5:00pm         “Hegel and the Future of Philosophy,” Allen Thomas Jones (Catholic University of Leuven)

                     -Respondent: Eleanor Helms (Fordham University)

 

6:00pm         “Beyond the Death of the Subject: A Possibility for Philosophical Possibilities,” David Zoller (Fordham University)

                     -Respondent: Jane Dryden (Fordham University)

 

7:30pm         Banquet at Umberto's Clam House (Arthur Ave. & 186th St)