2012 Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

For the Creighton Club 2012 Meeting, Saturday, November 10, 2012 Meeting at Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY

Keynote Speaker: Thomas Hurka, Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto

The Creighton Club, founded in 1921, has been the principal meeting ground for philosophers in upstate New York.  Our annual meeting consists of one invited paper, and four selected papers.  One will be a graduate student paper selected for the Graduate Student Presentation Award.  Each selected paper will have a commentator.  All presented papers will be printed in the Proceedings of the Creighton Club.

Guidelines for paper submission

1. Papers in any philosophical area are welcome.  Membership is not required for consideration or acceptance.

2. Papers should have a presentation time of approximately 30 minutes. Please submit papers as a Word attachment to the email address below.

3. Graduate student submissions are quite welcome.  They must indicate their status as graduate students to be eligible for the Graduate Student Presentation Award.

4. Papers under consideration for publication or presentation elsewhere are welcome.

Submission deadline: September 10, 2012

Paper submissions and inquiries should be sent to:

reedp@canisius.edu

Philip Reed

Department of Philosophy

Canisius College

Buffalo, NY 14208

Meeting Details

The meeting date is November 5, 2011. The meeting is located on the beautiful campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. Parking is available in the Medbery visitors’ lot. The building/room for the conference is Trinity 305. The Salisbury Center at Trinity Hall faces Seneca Lake along S. Main St. (Route 14). From the visitors’ parking lot, walk east towards Main St. and then South; Trinity will be on your right past the flagpole. Here are links to driving directions, a campus map, and parking map for HWS colleges. If there are any last-minute problems, please call Harold Hodes (607-273-7328).

Meals will be held in the Common Room of the Scandling Campus Center. Dinner entrees this year are Chicken Marsala or Tofu with mushrooms and sugar snap peas. The dinner costs $27 and the lunch costs $13. We request an RSVP for meals as soon as possible (send an e-mail to reedp_at_canisius_dot_edu). Please indicate whether you will attend the lunch and your choice of dinner entrée if applicable. Please be sure to bring to the conference a check or cash to cover meal costs.

157th Annual Meeting

The Creighton Club

New York State Philosophical Association

The 157th Conference Program

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY

Keynote Speaker: Louise Antony

8:30 AM coffee, etc.

9:00 AM Graduate Student Award Presentation:

Kelly Anne McCormick (Syracuse University) “Problems for Revisionism about Moral Responsibility”

Commentator: Stephen Mahaffey (Cornell University)

10:15 AM coffee break

10:30 AM John Keller (Niagara University) “Paraphrase, Semantics, and Ontology”

Commentator: David Braun (University at Buffalo)

11:45 AM Business Meeting

12:00 – 1:30 LUNCH

1:30 PM Richard Reilly (St. Bonaventure University) “Can Libertarianism Account for Weakness of Will?”

Commentator: Derk Pereboom (Cornell University)

2:45 PM coffee break

3:00 PM Daniel Koltonski (SUNY Binghamton) “Personal Pursuits, Global Poverty, and the Demands of Beneficence”

Commentator: John Bennett (University of Rochester)

4:15 PM coffee break

4:30 PM Keynote Address: Louise Antony (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “The Openness of Illusions”

6:30 PM reception (cash bar)

7:00 PM DINNER

2011 CFP available

The Call for Papers for the Creighton Club's 2011 meeting is now posted here.

This year's meeting is November 5th, and the deadline for submissions is September 9th.

As in recent years, the conference will take place at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, in Geneva, NY.