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CAVE HILL PHILOSOPHY SYMPOSIUM 2009

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 NOVEMBER 19, 2009

8.30 am - 9.00 am Registration (outside Shell Suite)

9 am - 9.15 am: Session 1
OPENING SESSION

Dr Pedro Welch, Dean, Faculty of humanities and Education: Introductory Remarks

Chair: Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo

9.15 am - 11.15 am: Session 2
Knowledge in Africana philosophy

• Michael Monahan: Race, Gender, and the Purification of Reason
• Tunde Bewaji: Leadership, Knowledge and National Development
• Elaine Rocha: History of Racism in the 20th Century: a call for new epistemologies
• Clevis Headley: Logic, Mathematics and Knowledge: On the Epistemology of Negritude or Negritude as Epistemoogy

Chair: Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo

11.15 am - 11.30 am Coffee break

11.30 am - 12.30 pm: Session 3
Feminist perspectives

• Catherine Gardner: The Early Feminist Epistemology of Frances Wright: Interconnectivity and Synthesis
• John Partridge: Feminist History of Ancient Philosophy: Defending the Inheritance Approach Against an Ideological Critique

Chair: Felicia Browne

1.15 pm - 3.15 pm: Session 4
Testimony

• Sarah Hoagland: Giving Testimony and the Coloniality of Knowledge
• Bryan Reece: On the Psychological Nature and Intersubjective Force of Epistemic Reasons
• Radim Hladik: Memories of the States, Histories of the Historians: Epistemologies of the Pasts in the Czech Republic and South Africa

Chair: Cameron McCarthy

3.15 pm - 3.30 pm Coffee Break

3.30 pm - 5.30 pm: Session 5
Epistemology 1

• Curtis Forbes: Practical Inadequacy: Bas van Fraassen's Failures of Systematicity
• James DiGiovanna: Understanding as a component of knowledge
• Leon Reynolds: An Epistemological Position: Knowledge by sensation is the only knowledge that can be regarded as truth
• Tim Kunke: The State of Knowing

Professor Lorraine Code: "Testimony, Incredulity, and the Power of Ignorance"

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2009

9.00 a.m. - 9.45: Session 6

Distinguished Alumnus Lecture
Cameron McCarthy: Re-reading Class, Re-reading Cultural Studies, Re-reading Tradition

Chair: Ed Brandon

9.45 a.m. - 9.50 a.m.: Launch of the Caribbean Journal of Philosophy

9.50 a.m. - 10.10 a.m. Coffee

10.10 a.m. - 11.40 a.m. Session 7
Epistemology 2

• Summer Renault-Steele: Sensing Hierarchy: Considering the Aesthetics of Epistemic Authority
• Nada Gligorov: Plasticity, Phenomenal Character and Brain Qualia
• Sandra McCalla: Human Knowledge, Survival Values and Social Order

11.40 a.m. - 12.40 a.m: Session 8
Literature and Knowledge

• Roxanne Burton: TBA
• Kahiudi C. Mabana: Oral Tradition, Myth and Education in African Francophone Literature

Chair: TBA

12.40 pm - 1.30 pm: Lunch

1.30 pm - 3.30 pm Session 9
Morality and Law

• Roger Marples: Is moral knowledge possible?
• Theresa Tobin: Moral Objectivity as Trustworthiness
• Camille Monahan: Court Constructed Theories of Gender: Knowing Man and Woman in an American Employment Law Context
• Simeon Mohansingh: The Epistemological Dilemma for Stem-cell Research

Chair: Sherry Asgill

3.30 pm - 4.30 pm: Session 10
ROUND-TABLE on Code's Ecological Thinking: the Politics of Epistemic Location
Lorraine Code
Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo
Ed Brandon
Felicia Browne

4..30 - Vote of Thanks
Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo

4.30 - 7.00 Reception