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CAVE HILL PHILOSOPHY SYMPOSIUM 2007

PROGRAMME

All sessions will be held in Room A, The Shell Suite .

Please click on the links for access to the papers.

In each panel, presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length, leaving 10 minutes for discussion.

THURSDAY AUGUST 9, 2007

8 am - 9 am
Registration (outside Shell Suite)

9 am - 9.30 am: Session 1
OPENING SESSION

• Dr. Pedro Welch (Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI, Cave Hill): Introductory Remarks

Chair: Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo

9.30 am - 10.45 am: Session 2
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

• Prof. Lewis Gordon: Not Always Enslaved, Yet Not Quite Free: Philosophical Challenges  from the Underside of the New World

Chair: Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo

10.45 am - 11.00 am
Coffee break

11.00 am - 12.30 pm: Session 3
FREEDOM FROM AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVES

• Maduabuchi Dukor: Racist Ideology and African Unfreedom
• Michael J. Monahan : Conjuring Whiteness: Race and Irish Transportation in 17th Century Barbados
• Ntibagirirwa Symphorien: Investment for Profit and Human Promotion: A Bantu-Philosophical Approach to Economic Ordering (read in absentia)

Chair: Professor D.A. Masolo

12.30 pm - 1.45 pm: Lunch

1.45 pm - 3.15 pm: Session 4
FREEDOM and DETERMINSIM

• Briony Addey: The Premature Dismissal of the Problem of Behavioural Genetics for Freedom
• Ed Brandon : Relativising Freedom and Responsibility
• Dick Stoute: Creating Freedom by Changing the Model

Chair: Roxanne Burton

3.15 pm - 3.30 pm
Coffee Break

3.30 pm - 5.00 pm: Session 5
NEW APPROACHES TO POLITICAL FREEDOM 1

• Roger Marples: Freedom, Autonomy and Well-Being
• Paul Reynolds:The 'Unfreedom' of Freedom: Autonomy, Constraint, Ethics and the Paradox of Freedom
• Daphne M. Rolle: Rethinking Freedom: A Concept for Today

Chair: Aaron Kamugisha

5.30 pm - 8 pm
RECEPTION

This will be held on the Sports Verandah.

FRIDAY AUGUST 10, 2007

9.30 am - 10.30 am: Session 6
NEW APPROACHES TO POLITICAL FREEDOM 2

• Michael Fitzgerald: Uncertain Freedom in Heidegger’s Metaphysical Decade
• David Shikiar: Freedom as a Normative Concept in Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Chair: Stephen Geofroy

10.30 am - 10.45 am
Coffee Break

10.45 am - 12.45 pm: Session 7
FREEDOM AND GENDER ISSUES

• April Bernard: The 21st Century Caribbean Woman’s Question: What is the Meaning of Freedom?
• Roxanne Burton: Self-Determination and the Caribbean Woman
• Stephen Geofroy: Freedom and Caribbean Masculine ‘Re-descriptions’

12.45 pm - 1.45 pm: Lunch

1.45 pm - 3.45 pm: Session 8
ETHICAL ISSUES

• Surendra Arjoon: Reconciling the Person-Situation-Virtue Ethics Controversy
• Kahiudi Mabana: The Price of Freedom by two African Writers: Tchicaya U Tam’si and Ngugi wa Thiong’O
• Frederick O'Chieng-Odhiambo: International Justice and Individual Self-Preservation
  

Chair: Richard Clarke

3.45 pm - 4.00 pm
Coffee Break

4.00 pm - 5.00 pm: Session 9
ROUNDTABLE ON LEWIS GORDON’S EXISTENTIA AFRICANA

• Ed Brandon
• Roxanne Burton
• Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo
• Lewis Gordon

Chair: Surendra Arjoon