Auburn Philosophy Conference
8th Annual Conference: Aristotle and Kant in Conversation
Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities at Pebble Hill
Auburn, Alabama
March 24-25, 2016
Speakers:
Talbot Brewer, University of Virginia
Agnes Callard, University of Chicago
Kyla Ebels-Duggan, Northwestern University
Stephen Engstrom, University of Pittsburgh
Erica Holberg, Utah State University
Tamar Schapiro, Stanford University
Karen Stohr, Georgetown University
Michael Thompson, University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer Whiting, University of Pittsburgh
Julian Wuerth, Vanderbilt University
Schedule:
Thursday
9:00-10:15 Julian Wuerth: “Virtue and Kant’s Irreducibly Sensuous Human”
10:25-11:40 Erica Holberg: "Getting to Virtuous Agreement with the Agreeable for Kant"
11:40-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:15 Tamar Schapiro: “What could ‘incline without necessitating’ the will?”
2:25-3:40 Agnes Callard: “Aristotle's Non-Comparative, Non-Reflective Theory of Deliberation”
3:50-5:05 Jennifer Whiting: TBA
Friday
9:00-10:15 Talbot Brewer: “Acknowledging Others”
10:25-11:40 Michael Thompson: “The Human is Nothing Alien to Me”
11:40-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:15 Kyla Ebels-Duggan: “Inarticulacy and Reasonable Commitments”
2:25-3:40 Karen Stohr: "Knowing Better: Self-Improvement in Aristotle and Kant"
3:50-5:05 Stephen Engstrom: "Virtue and Vice in Aristotle and Kant"
Organizers:
Jennifer Lockhart
Sponsors:
AU Department of Philosophy
AU College of Liberal Arts
AU Philosophy Club
Conference Registration: Registration this year is complimentary. You only have to sign in, but not to pay anything. You can sign in by sending an e-mail to Jennifer Lockhart or Keren Gorodeisky.
Conference Location: Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities at Pebble Hill
Accommodations: Speakers and guests will be staying at the Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center.
Auburn, Alabama: Auburn is located in east central Alabama, on I-85, 100 miles southwest of Hartsfield Jackson Airport, about 110 miles southwest of the center of Atlanta, and 40 miles east of Montgomery. In the area one may find such attractions as the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, the Martin Luther King Jr. historical district, FDR’s Little White House, Callaway Gardens, the first confederate White House, the Montgomery Civil Rights Memorial, the Rosa Parks Museum, the George Washington Carver Museum at the Tuskegee Institute, and the Blount Shakespeare Theatre.
Last Updated: March 14, 2016