CAVE HILL PHILOSOPHY SYMPOSIUM 2005

PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS

Papers will be added as they arrive. Most of the abstracts are in .doc format (i.e. Word). Most papers are now in .pdf format, for which you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which may be downloaded for free here:

• Asgill, Sherry (UWI, Cave Hill): "Whatever Happened to Good and Evil"
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• Bamikole, Lawrence (UWI, Mona): "Philosophy as Mirror of Socio-Cultural Realities: a Critique of Dancehall"
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• Bermingham, Eddie (UWI, St. Augustine and St. John's Seminary): "Am I 'in the Caribbean' and (Philosophically) Does it Matter Anyway!?"
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• Bewaji, Tunde (UWI, Mona): "Avoiding the Errors of Ontologies, Meeting the Challenges of Reflective Existence"
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• Boulter, Stephen (Oxford Brookes University): "What Philosophy Is" [though Stephen will not be participating, he has asked us to include his paper in our discussions]
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• Boxill, Bernard (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): "Derek Walcott's One Endeavour"
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• Brandon, Ed (UWI, Cave Hill): "The Anthropocentricity of Norms"
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• Charley, Mejame Ejede (University of Pretoria): "Thought in the Mirror; the Eminently Enigmatic Nature of Philosophy: a Plea for an Intercultural Dialogue"
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• Clarke, Richard (UWI, Cave Hill): "Philosophy or Theory? Rorty on the Contemporary Divide"
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• Critchley, Simon (New School for Social Research/University of Essex): The Split Subject: the Infinitely Demanding Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
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• Dick-Forde, Emily (UWI, Cave Hill): "Prophetic Pragmatism and Social and Environmental Accounting: Kismet?"
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• Fitzgerald, Michael (National University of Singapore): "Towards a Phenomenology of Development"
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• Frank, Kevin (Baruch College, CUNY): "The Philosopher-Calypso King: Masks of Caribbean Carnival"
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• Geofroy, Stephen (UWI, Cave Hill): "Conceptualising Philosophy and its Implications for Curriculum Planning at a Caribbean University"
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• Hutto, Daniel (University of Hertfordshire): "Clarification and the End of Philosophy"
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  • Related Links (these are to URLs external to UWI):
    • "Making Sense of Nonsense: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein" (with J. Lippitt), Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. xcviii, part III, 1998.
    • "Consciousness Demystified" in The Monist, vol. 78 (4), 1995.
• Lwegaba, Anthony (UWI, Cave Hill): " The African Somali Philosophical Model of Society: its Role and Impact on Public Health in War and Immediate Post-War Response in NW Somalia"
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• Mabana, Claver (UWI, Cave Hill): "Self-Actualization in Philosophy and African Literature: a Comparative Reading of Louis Lavelle and Tchicaya U Tam'si"
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• Masolo, D. A. (University of Louisville): "Liberties Revisited: Examining Liberalism in Africa Today"
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• Mulvey, Ben (Nova Southeastern University): "Can there be a Regional (Caribbean ) Philosophy?"
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• Ochieng'-Odhiambo, Frederick (UWI, Cave Hill): "Sagacity in African Philosophy"
• Rutkoff, Rebekah (CUNY Graduate Center): "Cubes, Clouds and Reading the Philosophical Investigations" [though Rebekah will not be participating, she has asked us to include her paper in our discussions]
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• Schuster, Joshua (University of Pennsylvania): "Is Phenomenology a Philosophy of Peace?"
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• Scott, Sibertie (UWI, St. Augustine) "The Philosophy of Science held by Secondary School Science Teachers in Trinidad"
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• Stillwaggon, James (Columbia University): "Backwards and Forwards: Conceptualizing Philosophy's Role in Historical Traditions"
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• Weber, Eric Thomas (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale): "Thinking for a Better Life"
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