The Creighton Club
New York State Philosophical Association
Centennial Conference Program
Friday April 8 - Saturday April 9, 2022
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY
The Creighton
Club, founded in 1921, is the principal historic meeting ground for
philosophers in upstate and western New York. Our April 2022 conference
(rescheduled from 2021) is our centennial. The centennial comprises an almost all-keynote
program, featuring Louise Antony, Earl Conee, Nicole Hassoun, Jessica Moss, and Ted
Sider. The conference will also include talks by the three winners of the
Graduate Student Presentation Awards. We would love to have you join us at Colgate University in bucolic Hamilton, NY for this centennial celebration!
The conference is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and by the Marion Hoeflich Memorial Fund (through Colgate University's Philosophy Department). In addition to allowing us to bring in our excellent lineup of speakers, we have some funding for communal meals to encourage interaction and community outside of the talks - how far this will go depends on attendance. Additionally, faculty, staff, and graduate students at institutions that are members of the Central New York Humanities Corridor can apply to have their travel and lodging reimbursed (details available here). Member institutions are: Syracuse University, Cornell University, University of Rochester, Colgate University, Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith College, Skidmore College, St. Lawrence University, Union College, Le Moyne College, and Rochester Institute of Technology.
It would be helpful for planning purposes to have an estimate of the number of attendees. So we'd appreciate if you filled out our RSVP survey through this link. If you are currently unsure, that information helps us plan as well. Thanks so much for promptly providing us this useful info!
Tentative Schedule of Events
Friday April 8
4:30 PM Check in for those who have arrived
Lawrence Hall Lobby - Outside of Lawrence Hall 105
5:00 PM Nicole Hassoun (Binghamton University)
The Minimally Good Life Account of What We Owe to Others and Can Demand
as a Basic Minimum
Lawrence Hall 105
Sponsored by the Colgate Philosophy Department
7:45 PM Dinner for Conference Speakers and Organizers (dinner for others is on their own)
Hamilton Inn
Saturday April 9
8:30 AM Bagels and Coffee
Lawrence Hall 105
9:00 AM Louise Antony (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Why Concepts Cannot, Should Not, and Need Not be Engineered
Lawrence Hall 105
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM Earl Conee (University of Rochester)
Against Absurdity
Lawrence Hall 105
12:15 PM Conference Lunch
1:30 PM Graduate Student Parallel Sessions
Alex Horne (University of Cambridge)
The Self Improvement Machine
Comments by Matt Paskell (Cornell University)
Lawrence Hall 203
Thiago Xavier de Melo (Syracuse University)
Naive Positionalism and Relative Discernibility
Comments by Rafael Perez (University of Rochester)
Lawrence Hall 209
Hannah Winckler-Olick (Cornell University)
de Beauvoir on Value Creation as Complicity
Comments by Huzeyfe Demirtas (Syracuse University)
Lawrence Hall 210
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM Jessica Moss (New York University)
Aristotle's Knowledge
Lawrence Hall 105
4:45 PM Break (and Creighton Club Business Meeting in Lawrence Hall 105)
5:00 PM Ted Sider (Rutgers University)
3D in High-D
Lawrence Hall 105
7:00 PM Dinner for All Conference Attendees
O'Connor Campus Center 135 Media Lounge
Sunday April 10
Morning Hike on local trails (if there is sufficient interest and weather permitting)
