Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 2024
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Saturday, April 20
10am - 11am — Jeffrey Blustein (CUNY): “Self-Blame, Agent-Regret and Moral Responsibility”
11am - 11:30am — Cade Schafer (Binghamton): “Serving the Other: Levinasian Alterity and a Reconceptualization of Volunteer Ethics”
11:30am - 12pm — Woojin Jim (Harvard): “Algorithmic Inferences, Privacy Rights, and Public Information”
12pm - 1pm — Lunch Break
1pm - 2pm — Sandra Shapshay (CUNY): “Aesthetic Perception, Wonder, and Intrinsic Value of Nature”
2pm - 2:30 pm — Charlette Hwang (Claremont McKenna): “Alternative Ontology for Ante Rem Structuralism Based on Huayan Buddhist Metaphysics”
2:30pm - 3pm — Maggie Li Zhang (Pomona): “Black Hegel, Aporetic Desire”
3pm - 4pm — Jay Bernstein (New School): “The Death of Nature: Ecocide and the Idea of Climate Justice”
4pm - 5pm — Graham Priest (CUNY): “Change, Time, and Contradiction: Some Scenes from the History of a Problem”
Sunday, April 21
10am - 11am — Marko Malink (NYU): Title forthcoming; presenting on the relationship between logic and metaphysics in Aristotle
11am - 11:30am — Noa Guerra Travasos (University of Edinburgh): “Artificial intelligence, human wit: A reply to Buckner”
11:30am - 12pm — Ritvik Rathore (University of Edinburgh): “The case for a radical hypothesis of extended cognition”
12pm - 2pm — Lunch Break
2pm - 2:30pm — Maja Longfors (University of Edinburgh): “Seeing is Believing(?): Hacking, van Fraassen, and the Microscopic Gaze”
2:30pm - 3pm — Jasmine Elmrabti (UNC): “Weakly Timeless Emergence & the Siegel-Carver Model for Mechanistic Phenomenological Laws”
3pm - 4pm — Carol Rovane (Columbia): Unity and Disunity in Human Knowledge
4pm - 5pm — Tim Maudlin (NYU): “The Great Rift in Physics: Tension Between Relativity and Quantum Theory”
Meet Our 2024 Student Speakers:
Maggie Li Zhang: “Black Hegel, Aporetic Desire”
Maggie Zhang is a sophomore at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where she studies philosophy and English. Her interests include 20th-century continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial theory.
Woojin Lim: “Algorithmic Inferences, Privacy Rights, and Public Information”
Woojin Lim is a student in Philosophy and Government at Harvard University, with a particular interest in tech governance. He is an undergraduate fellow at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics and a researcher at the Getting-Plurality Research Network, which works at the intersection of AI and democracy.
Jasmine Elmrabti: “Weakly Timeless Emergence & the Siegel-Craver Model for Mechanistic Phenomenological Laws”
Jasmine Elmrabti is an undergraduate studying physics & mathematics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is interested in the philosophy, mathematical nature, and applications of quantum theory from micro- to macroscopic scales. Her scientific work to date has focused on the quantum physical and chemical profiles of biological structures, supporting ongoing work at the Quantum Biology Laboratory in Washington, D.C., the University of Luxembourg, and UNC-CH. In academic philosophy of physics, Jasmine is concerned with descriptions of quantum objects –– such as quantum gravity –– and their implications on trans-scale conceptions of spacetime.
Cade Schafer: “Serving the Other: Levinasian Alterity and a Reconceptualization of Volunteer Ethics”
Cade Schafer is a first-year Philosophy student at Binghamton University. Currently, his research interests include applied ethics and meta-ethics, East-West comparative philosophy, and German existentialism and phenomenology. Beyond this, he also has an interest in Philosophical Pessimism and philosophy of gender.
Charlette Hwang: “Alternative Ontology for Ante Rem Structuralism Based on Huayan Buddhist Metaphysics”
Noa Guerra Travasos: “Artificial intelligence, human wit: A reply to Buckner”
Currently a 3rd year Philosophy and Psychology student at the University of Edinburgh, Noa has a background in Ancient Greek and continental philosophy, with a special fondness for existentialism. Her current research is at the intersection between cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind.
Ritvik Rathore: “The case for a radical hypothesis of extended cognition”
Ritvik Rathore is from London and is currently a third-year at the University of Edinburgh, studying Philosophy and Economics. His main areas of interest are Logic, Decision Theory, and Philosophy of Mind.