Save the Date: 2015 Meeting

SAVE THE DATE

The 2015 Creighton Club Meeting will be on Saturday, October 17th, 2015 at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY.

Keynote Speaker: Kieran Setiya, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2014 Meeting

The Creighton Club

New York State Philosophical Association

The 160th Conference Program

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Keynote Speaker:

Karen Bennett

Cornell University

“Building and Causing”

4:30 PM

9:00 AM  Kirsten Egerstrom (Syracuse University): “Meaning Without Fulfillment”

            Commentator: Kathryn Phillips (University of Rochester)

10:30 AM  Bradford Skow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): “Explanations, Why-Questions, Reasons, and Causes”

            Commentator: Greg Frost-Arnold (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

1:30 PM  Neil Sinhababu (National University of Signapore): “Ethical Reductionism”

            Commentator: Alexandra King (University at Buffalo)

3:00 PM  David James Barnett (Union College): “A Puzzle about Perceptual Justification”

            Commentator: Earl Conee (University of Rochester)

This year’s conference is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.​

MEETING DETAILS

The 2014 meeting is located on the campus of Syracuse University. Parking is available in the University's Quad 4 (Q4) parking lot, near the corner of Euclid Avenue and College Place. For directions see here. If the Q4 lot is full, park in the Waverly lot, which is just a block down the hill. See a campus map here. A nearby hotel is here.

The location of the conference is 500 Hall of Languages, roughly in the center of campus.  

Lunch will be held in our meeting room. The cost is $13 and you are asked to pay in advance on paypal. Dinner this year is at a local restaurant, Phoebe's, located at 900 East Genesee St., just a ten minute walk from campus. We will order off the menu and you can pay for your meal individually at the restaurant. We need to know if you are attending the dinner so that we can make a reservation of the appropriate size. 

RSVP for lunch and dinner by Monday, September 22 to thecreightonclub@gmail.com.  Please pay for your lunch and/or dues here.

2014 Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

For the Creighton Club 2014 Meeting, Saturday, September 27, 2014 Meeting at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Keynote Speaker: Karen Bennett, Cornell University

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. 

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 .pdf 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: EXTENDED to August 1, 2014

Paper submissions and inquiries should be sent to:

TheCreightonClub@gmail.com

Save the Date: 2014 Meeting

SAVE THE DATE

The 2014 Creighton Club Meeting will be on Saturday, September 27th, 2014 at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY.

Keynote Speaker: Karen Bennett, Cornell University

2013 Meeting Details

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 location of the conference is The Stanford Room, in the Warren Hunting Smith Library. The Library is located on Pulteney St., diagonal from the visitors' parking lot.  Here are links to driving directions, a campus map, and parking map for HWS colleges.  

Meals will be held in the Common Room of the Scandling Campus Center, next to the library.  Dinner entrees this year are Chicken with tomato basil rice pilaf 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 e-mail to krmcdani_at_syr_dot_edu).  Please indicate whether you will attend the lunch and your choice of dinner entrée if applicable.  We encourage everyone to pay online this year before the date of the meeting.  Please pay for your lunch, dinner, and/or dues (if you have not yet done so) here.

2013 Conference Program

(Meeting details forthcoming)

The Creighton Club

New York State Philosophical Association

The 159th Conference Program

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY

Keynote Speaker:

Ned Block

New York University

“Seeing-As in the Light of Vision Science”

4:30 PM

9:00 AM Steve Steward (Syracuse University): “Luck and Control”

Commentator: Adam Bendorf (Cornell University)

10:30 AM Jason Kawall (Colgate University): “Evaluating the Epistemic Status of the Testimony of Converts”

Commentator: James Beebe (University at Buffalo)

1:30 PM Heidi Savage (SUNY Geneseo): “Kypris, Aphrodite, and Venus: Another Puzzle About Belief”

Commentator: Brett Sherman (University of Rochester)

3:00 PM Jason D’Cruz (SUNY Albany): “Trust, Trustworthiness, and the Moral Consequence of Consistency”

Commentator: William FitzPatrick (University of Rochester)

2013 Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

For the Creighton Club 2013 Meeting, Saturday, November 2, 2013 Meeting at Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY

Keynote Speaker: Ned Block, Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Neural Science at New York University

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. 

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 1, 2013

Paper submissions and inquiries should be sent to:

reedp@canisius.edu

Philip Reed

Department of Philosophy

Canisius College

Buffalo, NY 14208