RIT's 10th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

The following talks on Friday, April 12 are free and open to the public: 9:35 - 10:25     Panel I: Utilitarianism and the General Action PrincipleDevin Kalish (RIT) “How Aggregation Can Fail Utilitarianism in the Most Important Ways” Matthew Milone (RIT) “Global Warming and the General Action Principle” Discussant: Augustine Wong (RIT) 10:40 – 11:30     Panel II: Minds, Bodies and EventsNathan McKay (SUNY Brockport) “A Defense of Substance Dualism” Maria Musumeci (LeMoyne College) “Event Evolution: Becoming of the Past, Present and Future” Discussant: Ricardo Aguilera (RIT) 11:30 – 12:45   Lunch 12:45 - 1:35     Panel III: Our IdentitiesLorenzo Benitez (Cornell University) “The Necessity to Personal Identity of ‘Owning’ One’s Episodic Memories” Rachel Alexander (Washburn University) “Tuvel’s Trouble with Identity Transformation” Discussant: Gizem Hussain (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) 1:50 – 2:40     Panel IV: Tokenism and Philosophy on the BattlefieldKim Labby (RIT) “Vicarious Privilege: The Tantalizing Grapes of Tokenism” Jacob Scriffiny (United States Military Academy at West Point) “Discussion on a Soldier’s Necessity for Philosophy” Discussant: Michael Garb (RIT)                         2:55 - 3:45     Panel V: Consent, Coercion and Our BodiesGrace Marshall (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) “Scrapped for Parts: How Biotechnology Has Created a Neo-Capitalist Market of Extracting Bio-Capital From the Poor”  Aynabeth Anderson (Rhodes College) "Killing, Consent, and Kinky Sex: An Ethical Defense of Autassassinophilia" Discussant: Chase Lear (RIT) 4:00-5:30     Keynote AddressCheryl Misak (University Professor and Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto) “Ramsey, Pragmatism, and the Vienna Circle”