Long Island Philosophical Society (LIPS)

Founded 1964

    For over forty years, the Long Island Philosophical Society has been actively organizing meetings and conferences on a host of philosophical topics.  The Society has held meetings at many institutions on geographic Long Island, including SUNY Stony Brook, Adelphi University, Long Island University's Brooklyn and C.W. Post Campuses, Farmingdale State University, New York Institute of Technology, St. John’s University, and Suffolk County Community College.

The Long Island Philosophical Society is pleased to announce that CALIPSO (Conference Addresses of the Long Island Philosophical Society Online) has gone live. 

 

Long Island Philosophical Society

October 24, 2009  Meeting

Long Island University,  C.W. Post Campus

 

 

Directions/Campus Map: 

http: //www.cwpost.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/location/directions.html

Please park where convenient – See lots on campus map

Best to enter through West Gate

 

 

•••••••Program••••••          

 

 

Registration and Breakfast:   9:00 a.m.  -  10:00 a.m.

Great Hall (#1 on campus map)

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Concurrent Morning Sessions:  10:00 a.m.  – 12 noon

Hunt Room (Next to Great Hall), Great Hall,

and Library (#31 on Campus map)

 

 

 

Session 1:  Aesthetics, Chess and Human Rights          Library – Rm 354      

Chair:  John F. DeCarlo, Hofstra University

 

Anton Alterman,  Independent Scholar, “Chess and Necessity”

Commentator:  Glenn Statile,  St. John’s University

Glenn Statile, St. John’s University, “The Concept of Beauty in Chess”

Commentator:  Anton Alterman, Independent Scholar

Jacob Berger, CUNY Graduate Center, “The Situationist Challenge to Aristotle’s Aesthetics”

Commentator:  John F. DeCarlo,  Hofstra University

Mary Gennuso,  CUNY CityTech, “Problems of Pluralism in the

Human Rights Debate”

                         

Session 2:  Ancient Philosophy                                                   Hunt Room

Chair:  Luis E. Navia, New York Institute of Technology

 

Justin Humphreys, New School,  “Cause and Motion: The Relation of Stoic Logic to Determinism”

William Evans, St. Peter’s College,  “On Teaching Plato’s Republic as a Dialogue on the Education of the Soul”

Commentator:  Luis E. Navia,  NYIT

William Christian Fritsch, “Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Plato’s Charmides, and Shame”

 

 

 

 

Session 3: Epistemology, Business and Logic               Library – Rm 355

Chair:  Chrysoula Gitsoulis

 

Sophie Berman, St. Francis College,  “An Epistemology of Thanksgiving”

Thomas Avery, St. John’s University, “Three Problems of Stakeholder Theory”

Chrysoula Gitsoulis,  City College, “Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox”

 

 

 

 

Session 4:  Teaching Philosophy and the Person           Great Hall

Chair:  Margaret Cuonzo,  LIU – Brooklyn

 

Steven Finn,  United States Military Academy,  “Calibrating Students for Peer Review with Norming Sessions”

James Friel,  SUNY Farmingdale,  “What is a Person”

Commentator:  Margaret Cuonzo,  LIU – Brooklyn

             3.    Michael Knoll, Independent Scholar, “Primitive Philosophy”

4.    Aaron Rizzieri,  LaGuardia Community College,  “What Every

       Reasonable Embryo Would Consent To”

 

 

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Lunch:  12:00 Noon – 1:00 p.m.

Great Hall

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Keynote Session:  1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Great Hall

 

 

  Announcements and Awards --  Glenn Statile and

  James P. Friel – Cochairs of LIPS

  Margaret Cuonzo – editor of CALIPSO

                    Introduction of Keynote Speaker – Arthur Lothstein

                                                                                          

                                 

Keynote Speaker:  Harvey Cormier

SUNY Stonybrook

 

 

“NEW PRAGMATISTS, NEOPRAGMATISM

AND JAMES’S  PRAGMATISM”

                                                        

Concurrent Afternoon Sessions:  2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Great Hall, Hunt Room and 3^rd Floor Library

 

 

Session 5:  The Thought of William James                                       Hunt Room

Chair:  Richard Hart,  Cyrus H. Holley Professor of Applied Ethics at 

                                    Bloomfield College

 

John Danisi, Wagner College, “James on Consciousness and

              Self”

             2.  Robert Gurland, New York University, “James’s Moral

              Philosophy”

             3.  Arthur Lothstein,  LIU – C.W. Post,  “The Moment of Transition:

              Emerson, James, and Radical Empiricism”

 

 

 

Session 6:  Language and Continental Philosophy                 Great Hall

Chair:  C. Alexander Evans,  CUNY Graduate Center

 

Charles Lassiter, Fordham University, “Speaker Meaning and Unmeant Conversational Implicature”

Alina Feld, LIU – C.W. Post, “Melancholy and the Genesis of

The Self:  Michel Henry and Maine de Biran”

Amanda Pawloski, Santa Croce (Rome), “Internal Time

Consciousness and Self-Agency: A Critique of Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology of Temporal Experience”

            

Session 7:  NeuroScience, Plato and Schopenhauer     Library – Rm 354

Chair:  David Becker, St. John’s University

 

Mario Carbone,  St. John’s University,  “Contemporary

Neurotheology: Battling for the Brain and the Conflict Between Philosophy, Religion, and Science”

Timothy Hyde,  SUNY Stonybrook, “An Interpretation of the

Construction of the Divided Line”

David Becker, St. John’s University, “Schopenhauer, Tolstoy and the Death of Prince Andrei Bolkonsky”

Session 8:  Risk, Justice, Privacy and Criminality                Library – Rm 355

Chair:  Cory Styranko, St. John’s University

 

Daniel Fernandez,  St. John’s University, “Risk Cognition and

Practical Reasoning: A Dilemma”

Robert Robinson,  University of Georgia,  “On Justice,

     Equality, Fairness, and Respect”

Tony Doyle,  John Jay College, “Privacy, Free Expression, and  

Compromising Images”

Jason Mallory,  Raritan Valley Community College,

“Alienation, Criminality and (Human) Nature”

 

 

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Reception:  4:30 p.m.  – 5:00 p.m. ** GREAT HALL ** 

Long Island

Philosophical

Society (LIPS)