2023 Conference Program

 The Creighton Club

New York State Philosophical Association

168^th Conference Program

Saturday October 21^st, 2023

500 Hall of Languages

Syracuse University

Schedule of Events

8:30am            Coffee and snacks

9:00am            Laura Tomlinson Makin (Colgate University), "Normative Entailment and Practical Reasoning"

§  Comments by Sanggu Lee (Syracuse University)

10:15am          Coffee break

10:30am           Alex Fisher (Cambridge University), "Virtual Reality, Perception, and Imagination" (co-winner of the Graduate Student Presentation Award)

§  Comments by Jared Peterson (SUNY Oswego)

11:45am          Lunch break

1:30pm            Kellan Daniel Leo Head (Syracuse University), "Against Veritism" (co-winner of the Graduate Student Presentation Award)

§  Comments by Autumn Harrison (Syracuse University)

2:45pm            Coffee break

3:00pm            Georges Dicker (SUNY Brockport), "Locke: Soft Determinist, or Libertarian?"

§  Comments by Michaela Tiller (St. Michael's College)

4:15pm            Business meeting

Keynote Address

Figleaves for Racism and Falsehood

Jennifer Saul (University of Waterloo)

4:30pm

MEETING DETAILS: the 2023 meeting will be on the campus of Syracuse University, in 500 Hall of Languages (on the fifth floor, where the philosophy department is located). 

Campus parking is open to guests on weekends.  The most conveniently located lots are the Lyman Hinds Lot and the Quad Lot.  See the North Campus parking map here:

http://parking.syr.edu/visitors-to-campus/campus-maps/

Participants can purchase lunch at the Marshall Square Mall, which is a five minute walk from the conference.  For those interested in venturing further afield, there are also many restaurants in downtown Syracuse and the nearby Westcott neighborhood.

RSVP: there will be an informal dinner held after the conference at the expense of attendees (location TBD).  Please email us at thecreightonclub@gmail.com if you plan to attend so that we can make a more accurate reservation.

Call For Papers: 168th Meeting of the Creighton Club

 

Call for Papers

The 168th Meeting of the Creighton Club

The New York State Philosophical Society

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

Keynote speaker:

Jennifer Saul

University of Waterloo

The Creighton Club, founded in 1921, is the principal historic meeting ground for philosophers in upstate and western New York. Our annual meeting consists of an invited keynote address and four papers, including one graduate student paper selected for the Graduate Student Presentation Award. All of the papers except for the keynote address will have a commentator.

                                                         

Guidelines for paper submission:

·      Papers in any philosophical area are welcome.

·      Membership is not required for consideration or acceptance.

·      Papers should be no more than 5000 words (for a presentation time of 30 minutes) and must include an abstract of up to 150 words.

·      Students wishing to be eligible for the Graduate Student Presentation Award should indicate graduate student status both in the submission email and the submission itself.

·      Other than graduate students noting their status, papers should be anonymized for review.

·      Papers should be submitted as a pdf attachment to TheCreightonClub@gmail.com

·      Anyone interested in commenting should let us know as soon as possible, with an indication of your fields of interest.

Submission deadline: August 1, 2023

Notification will be given by September 10, 2023

Submissions, offers to comment, and inquiries should be sent to TheCreightonClub@gmail.com