KSU Philosophy Student Association: January 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 6TH ANNUAL NORTH GEORGIA STUDENT
PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE AT KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY APRIL 3RD THROUGH APRIL 4TH, 2009
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
DR. THOMAS KASULIS (OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY )

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTION SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 10th, 2009

Submission is open to all students enrolled for undergraduate and graduate study at an accredited institution of higher education during the 2008-2009 academic year. For complete submission guidelines, visit our website at http://philosophystudentassociation.blogspot.com/. Abstracts of 150 words or less will be accepted in lieu of complete papers and must be received via email as an attachment no later than the above date. All submissions must have a .doc or .rtf
file extension in order to be accepted. Notifications will be made via email no later than March 10th 2009. Earlier notifications will be made for papers submitted before the deadline. In addition to your abstract, we must have a completed conference cover sheet, which is
available on our website.

If you have any questions, please email us:
http://philosophystudentassociation.blogspot.com/
Please submit papers to NorthGaConf@yahoo.com
Selected preceedings to be published by North Georgia Philosophy
Studies, a division of the Georgia Philosophy Series in association
with the Philosophy Student Association at Kennesaw State University.
CALL FOR PAPERS

February 3, 2009 Walter Brogan (Villanova)
Walter Brogan is director of graduate studies at Villanova University’s Philosophy Department. He is the editor of Epoché: A Journal in the History of Philosophy and was the co-founder and co‑director of the Ancient Philosophy Society until 2006. Dr. Brogan was a member of the executive committee of the Eastern Division APA from 2002-2005. He was co-director of SPEP from 1998-2001 and was local host in 2006. He is a past director and current member of the board of directors of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Citta di Castello, Italy. His books include: Heidegger and Aristotle: The Twofoldness of Being, SUNY Press, 2005, Thinking in Action: Rethinking the Tradition and the Turn to new Beginnings, Philosophy Today, Volume 45, 2001, Philosophy in Body Culture Time, Philosophy Today, Volume 44, 2000, American Continental Philosophy: A Reader, edited by Walter Brogan and James Risser, Indiana University Press, 2000, Extending the Horizons of Continental Philosophy, Philosophy Today, Volume 43, 1999, Martin Heidegger, Aristotle's Metaphysics IX, 1-3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force, Indiana University Press, 1994.
More information on Walter Brogan can be found here: http://www50.homepage.villanova.edu/walter.brogan/

February 12, 2009 May Sim (College of the Holy Cross)
May Sim received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Her dissertation, Aristotle's Understanding of Form and Universals, was directed by AlasdairC. MacIntyre. She is the contributing editor of The Crossroads of Norm and Nature: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics (1995) and From Puzzles to Principles?: Essays on Aristotle's Dialectic (1999). Her most recent book, Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius, CambridgeUniversity Press (2007), is a comparison of the ethical life in Aristotle and Confucius. Her most recent research projects include "Being and Unity in the Metaphysics and Ethics of Aristotle and Liezi," "Knowledge of theFirst Principles of Virtue in Zhu Xi and Aristotle," and "RethinkingVirtue Ethics and Social Justice with Aristotle and Confucius." She was the President of the Southwestern Philosophical Society (2006) and is the interim director of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy(BACAP 31st Annual Program 2008-09).

March 19, 2009 Peter Hallward, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Middlesex University (London)Peter Hallward BA (Oxford), MA (Yale), PhD (Yale) is Professor of Modern European Philosophy with interests in recent/contemporary French Philosophy, especially Sartre, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, Ranciere; contemporary critical theory; political philosophy and contemporary critical theory; political philosophy and contemporary politics; existentialism; theories of globalization; postcolonial theory. His books include: Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment (London: Verso), 2007, Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation (Verso, 2006), Badiou: A Subject to Truth (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific (Manchester University Press, 2001), Subtractive Philosophy [a wide ranging study of recent French philosophy,with chapters on Bergson, Sartre, Deleuze, Badiou, Levinas, Nancy, Henry, Corbin, Jambet, Rosset and Laruelle], Relational Reality [a longer term project drawing on the resources of the dialectical tradition to reformulate relational or 'transindividual' conceptions of the subject, of commitment, and of conflict], 'Concept and Form: The Cahiers pourl'analyse and Contemporary French Thought', and Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy (London: Continuum, 2004).

March 23, 2009 Roger Ames (University of Hawai`i)
Roger T. Ames received his doctorate from the University of London and has spent many years abroad in China and Japan studying Chinese philosophy. He has been Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Peking University, a fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and has lectured extensively at various universities around the world. Professor Ames has been the recipient of many grants and awards, including the Regents' Merit and Excellence in Teaching 1990-91, and many grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Ames has authored, edited, and translated some 30 books, and has written numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals. He was the subject editor for the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean entries in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Currently he continues to work on interpretive studies and explicitly "philosophical" translations of the core classical texts, taking full advantage in his research of new archaeological finds.

March 26, 2009 Joel Kupperman (University of Connecticut)
Joel Kupperman (Cambridge) works mainly in ethics and aesthetics, with a strong interest in classic Asian philosophy. Current work includes Six Myths About the Good Life (Hackett Books, 2006), Classic Asian Philosophy: A Guide to the Essential Texts, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2006), Ethics and Qualities of Life (Oxford University Press, Spring 2007), and also "A New Look at the Logic of the 'Is'-'Ought' Relation" (Philosophy,2005) and "The Epistemology of Non-Instrumental Value," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2005.

March 31, 2009 Saul Williams

Actor. Poet. Artist. Musician. Performer. Saul is a polymath. We in the PSA are grateful for this opportunity and invite you to engage with him and the audience at Kennesaw State University on March 31 in the Science Auditorium. Check out Saul's bio, music, art, and writing at http://www.saulwilliams.com/ and http://www.myspace.com/saulwilliams.

April 3, 2009 Thomas Kasulis (Ohio State University)
*Spring Keynote Speaker for the North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference (NGSPC)

Thomas Kasulis is past Chair of the Department of Comparative Studies with interests in Comparative Religion, Japanese Religious Thought and Western Philosophy. He has written numerous books and scholarly articles on Japanese religious thought and Western philosophy, including Zen Action/Zen Person (University of Hawaii Press, 1989). He has co-edited for SUNY Press a three-volume series comparing Asian and Western ideas of self in different cultural arenas: Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice (1993), Self as Person in Asian Theory and Practice (1994), and Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice (1998), as well as The Recovery of Philosophy in America: Essays in Honor of John Edwin Smith (1997). He is author of Intimacy and Integrity (Hawaii, 2002), a comparative cultural philosophy of relationship, and is currently working on a short history of Japanese philosophy