CAVE HILL PHILOSOPHY SYMPOSIUM 2005
PROGRAMME
All sessions will be held in Lecture Theatre 4 (LT4) of the New Teaching Complex. (The simultaneous panels which comprise Session 5 will be held in LT4 and LR11 [directly opposite].)
Please click on the link to the left for access to the papers. In each panel, presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length, leaving 30 minutes for discussion.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 30, 2005
4 pm - 6 pm
- Late Registration (office of the Faculty of Humanities and Education)
THURSDAY MARCH 31, 2005
8 am - 9 am
- Late Registration Continued (outside LT4 in the New Teaching Complex)
9 am - 9.45 am: Session 1
OPENING SESSION
- Dr. Hazel Simmons-McDonald (Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI, Cave Hill): Welcome Remarks
- Prof. Hilary Beckles (Principal and Pro-Vice Chancellor, UWI, Cave Hill Campus): Opening Address
Chair: Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo
9.45 am - 10.45 am: Session 2
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
- Prof. Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research): "Infinitely Demanding"
Chair: Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo 10.45 am - 11 am
Coffee break
11 am - 12.30 pm: Session 3
CARIBBEAN PHILOSOPHY OR PHILOSOPHY IN THE CARIBBEAN?
- Bermingham, Eddie (UWI, St. Augustine and St. John's Seminary): "Am I 'in the Caribbean' and (Philosophically) Does it Matter Anyway!?"
- Geofroy, Stephen (UWI, Cave Hill): "Conceptualising Philosophy and its Implications for Curriculum Planning at a Caribbean University"
- Mulvey, Ben (Nova Southeastern University): "Can there be a Regional (Caribbean ) Philosophy?"
Chair: Richard Clarke 12.30 pm - 1.30 pm: Lunch
Though the Staff Common Room (the pink building) is still under renovation, lunch is available in the Cafeteria (next to the Students' Guild); lighter fare may be found nearer to hand in the E-Lounge (in the New Teaching Complex, beneath Lecture Room 11).
1.30 pm - 3 pm: Session 4
RE-THINKING ETHICS
- Asgill, Sherry (UWI, Cave Hill): "Whatever Happened to Good and Evil"
- Brandon, Ed (UWI, Cave Hill): "The Anthropocentricity of Norms"
- Stillwaggon, James (Columbia University): "Backwards and Forwards: Conceptualizing Philosophy's Role in Historical Traditions"
Chair: Bernard Boxill
3 pm - 3.15 pm
Coffee Break
3.15 pm - 4.45 pm: Session 5 (Simultaneous Panels)
5A: PHILOSOPHIES OF DEVELOPMENT (LT4)
- Dick-Forde, Emily (UWI, Cave Hill): "Prophetic Pragmatism and Social and Environmental Accounting: Kismet?"
- Fitzgerald, Michael (National University of Singapore): "Towards a Phenomenology of Development"
- 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"
Chair: Jeannette Boxill 5B: INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES (LR11)
- Charley, Mejame Ejede (University of Pretoria): "Thought in the Mirror; the Eminently Enigmatic Nature of Philosophy: a Plea for an Intercultural Dialogue"
- Schuster, Joshua (University of Pennsylvania): "Is Phenomenology a Philosophy of Peace?"
- Scott, Sibertie (UWI, St. Augustine) "The Philosophy of Science held by Secondary School Science Teachers in Trinidad"
Chair: D. A. Masolo
5.30 pm - 8 pm
RECEPTION
This will be held in the Humanities Courtyard. FRIDAY APRIL 1, 2005
9 am - 10.30 am: Session 6
PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS IN THE CARIBBEAN
- Boxill, Bernard (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): "Derek Walcott's One Endeavour"
- Bamikole, Lawrence (UWI, Mona): "Philosophy as Mirror of Socio-Cultural Realities: a Critique of Dancehall"
- Frank, Kevin (Baruch College, CUNY): "The Philosopher-Calypso King: Masks of Caribbean Carnival"
Chair: Stephen Geofroy 10.30 am - 10.45 am
Coffee Break
10.45 am - 12.15 pm: Session 7
WHAT IS AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY?
- Masolo, D. A. (University of Louisville)
- Ochieng'-Odhiambo, Frederick (UWI, Cave Hill):
"Sagacity in African Philosophy"
- Mabana, Claver (UWI, Cave Hill): "Self-Actualization in Philosophy and African Literature: a Comparative Reading of Louis Lavelle and Tchicaya U Tam'si"
Chair: Mejame Charley
12.15 pm - 1.15 pm: Lunch
Though the Staff Common Room (the pink building) is still under renovation, lunch is available in the Cafeteria (next to the Students' Guild); lighter fare may be found nearer to hand in the E-Lounge (in the New Teaching Complex, beneath Lecture Room 11).
1.15 pm - 2.45 pm: Session 8
THE CONTEMPORARY DIVIDE
- Richard Clarke (UWI, Cave Hill) "Philosophy or Theory? Rorty on the Contemporary Divide"
- Hutto, Daniel (University of Hertfordshire): "Clarification and the End of Philosophy"
- Weber, Eric Thomas (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale): "Thinking for a Better Life"
- The following two participants are unable to make it but have asked us to include their papers in our discussions:
- Boulter, Stephen (Oxford Brookes University): "What Philosophy Is"
- Rutkoff, Rebekah (CUNY Graduate Center): "Cubes, Clouds and Reading the Philosophical Investigations"
Chair: Ed Brandon
2.45 pm - 3 pm
Coffee Break
3 pm - 4.30 pm: Session 9
ROUNDTABLE ON SIMON CRITCHLEY'S A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION TO CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY
- Ed Brandon
- Richard Clarke
- Simon Critchley
- Stephen Geofroy
Chair: Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo |
