SPCW 2002 ConferenceSanta Fe, New Mexico
Sunday, July 21 4:00 – Arrival at St. John’s College Registration – 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Monday, July 22 8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome and Introduction
9:30 Lani Roberts (Oregon State University) “A Feminist Critique of Moral Relativism”
10:30 Trudy Conway “Nussbaum’s Cosmopolitanism: Contingencies That Matter” (Mount Saint Mary’s College MD)
1:00 Andrew Fiala (University of Wisconsin) “Toleration and the Limits of the Moral Imagination”
2:00 Joseph Orosco (Oregon State University) – “La Democracia Cosmica: Participatory Democracy in Rendon’s Chicano Manifesto”
3:00 Social
Tuesday, July 23 9:30 Patrick Hayden (Northwestern State University) “Humanitarian Injustice and Moral Obligations”
10:30 Siegfried Van Duffel (Gehnt University, Belgium) “Natural Rights and Individual Sovereignty”
1:00 Christopher Framarin (University of New Mexico) “Character and Judgement”
2:00 Steven Schroeder (Roosevelt University) “Notes Toward a Philosophy of Nonviolence: A City in Which Violence Is Not Necessary”
4:00 Business Meeting – Joe Frank Jones, Chair
Wednesday, July 24 TRIP Bandelier National Monument, where we will crawl around on and in the cave dwellings, leaving St. John’s at 8:30 AM. There are other opportunities available that day and evening, as you can see below.
Thursday, July 25 9:00 Ralph Ellis (Clark Atlanta University) “Image of the Self and Narcissism”
10:00 Joe Frank Jones (Barton College) “A Phenomenological Analysis of Police Corruption”
11:00 Charles Harvey (University of Central Arkansas) “Generalized Eros: A Problem of Limited Resources”
2:00 Edward Ragsdale (Los Angeles) “Gestalt Theory, Relativism, and the Dance of Truth and Blindness”
3:00 Cynthia Townley (Nevada) “Trust and the Curse of Cassandra”
4:00 Edward Grippe (Connecticut) “Consequentialism, Negative Responsibility, and Rationality in a Post 9/11 America”
7:00 Group Dinner
Friday, July 26 9:00 David Chan (University of Wisconsin) “Human Dignity and the Human Genome”
10:00 Pam Racansky (Oregon State University) “Understanding Cultural Competence and its Need in the Western World”
11:00 Chris Chapman (Seattle)“Designing Software Ethics”
2:00 Rob Loftis (Auburn University)“Three Problems for the Aesthetic Foundations of Environmental Ethics”
3:00 Ron Sandler (Southern Illinois University) “Culture and the Specification of Environmental Virtue”
4:00 Noel Boulting (England) “Utopian Aspirations Without Utopia: Vichian Paradoxes”
Saturday, July 27 8:30 Jonathan Ellsworth (Chicago) “The Art of Living and the Love of Wisdom: A Response to Nehamas”
9:30 Rick Furtak (Chicago)“The Concept of Absurdity in the Work of Albert Camus: Historical Misunderstandings and Contemporary Applications”
10:30 Patricia Thompson (CUNY)“Fatal Abstractions: A Hestian/Hermean Perspective on Love and Work”