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PGSA Conference (2019)

22nd Annual University of Kentucky Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference on Social and Political Philosophy
Keynote: Peg Birmingham
 
Saturday March 2nd, 2019
West End, 18th Floor, Patterson Office Tower, University of Kentucky
 
8:30 – 9:30 Coffee and Bagels
 
9:30 – 10: 30 “On the Structure of Date-Relations: An Analysis of Derrida and the Czech Monument Tank No. 23”
Christopher Myers, Fordham University
Commentator: Suraj Chaudhary
 
10: 45 – 11: 45 “Is Heidegger’s Philosophy Inherently Fascist? Caputo’s Un-Defense”
BB Bieganski, University of South Florida
Commentator: John Roso
 
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch
 
1:00 – 2:00 “Recognition at the Dinner Table: Recognition-worthiness and the Consumption of Animals”
Spencer Atkins, University of Tennessee
Commentator: Clay Graham
 
2:15 – 3:15 “Defending Meta-Neutrality in Public Reason”
Ryan Fischbeck, Bowling Green State University
Commentator: Clayton Houdeshell
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3:30 – 5:00 Keynote
 "Democracy, Populism, and Superfluousness: Lessons from Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism"
Peg Birmingham, DePaul University