Past Speakers and Conferences
UNF Ethics Bowl Team
Congratulations to the UNF Ethics Bowl
Team, which went 2-1 at the National Ethics Bowl Competition Thursday, February 28, 2013, earning a ranking of 14th in the nation! SWOOP!
5th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference
Friday, November 2, 2012
University Center, University of North Florida, 12000 Alumni Drive,
Jacksonville, Florida 32224
Alissa Hurwitz Swota, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the
Florida Blue Center for Ethics at UNF, organizes the Fifth Annual Pediatric
Bioethics Conference in Jacksonville. The conference is sponsored by Wolfson
Children's Hospital in partnership with the University of North Florida and the
Florida Bioethics Network.
Overview
This conference will include
sessions on topics such as Pain Management as Moral Obligation, Legal and
Ethical Challenges in Child Protection, Receiving Difficult News: Family
Perspectives, and Assent and Consent: The Role of the Child in Decision-Making.
Why You Should Attend
Ethics committees, practitioners and
public policy experts are faced with difficult ethical challenges that can
benefit from education and opportunities to discuss those challenges with other
professionals. This conference will provide an opportunity to engage peers from
across the region and learn what others are doing to cope with the ethical
issues arising from pediatric medicine.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for
physicians, nurses, social workers, clergy, psychologists, health
administrators, occupational therapists, speech therapists, pediatric mental
health workers, pediatric specialists, medical students, nursing students,
ethicists, philosophers, and others with an interest or a need for continuing
education in the special area of pediatric bioethics.
For more information, please contact
Dr. Alissa Hurwitz
Swota.
2012 Conference
Brochure
Southeastern Epistemology Conference
2012 Conference Schedule
Friday, October 26
9:30 – 10:30
Kevin McCain (Alabama-Birmingham)
“Self-Support or: How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Circle”
10:45 – 11:45 Ted Poston
(South Alabama)
“Locating Bayesianism within
an Explanationist Framework"
12:00 – 2:00
LUNCH BREAK
2:00 – 3:00
Jon Altschul
(Loyola)
“Epistemic Deontology and
Feldman's Role Oughts"
3:15 –
4:15 Chase Wrenn
(Alabama)
"Utility, Virtue, and
Good Scientific Judgment"
4:30 –
5:30 Sarah Wright (Georgia)
“Dual-Aspect Norms of Belief
and Assertion: A Virtue Approach to Epistemic Norms”
Saturday, October 27
9:30 – 10:45
Jon Matheson (North
Florida)
“Evidentialism, Reliabilism,
and the Generality Problem”
11:00 – 12:15 Michael Bishop
(Florida State)
“A Proposed Solution to the
Generality Problem"
12:15 – 2:00
LUNCH BREAK
2:00 – 3:15
Eli Chudnoff (Miami)
“Intuitive Awareness”
3:45 –
5:15 Jack Lyons (Arkansas) -- Keynote
Address
"Cognitive Processes for
Epistemologists"
John C. Maraldo Lecture in Comparative Religion
4th Annual - Zen
Master Dōgen Is Not a Zen Master: Philosophy, Ritual Studies, and the Image of Zen in America
Thursday, April 5, 2012
University Center, University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida 32224
Dr.
Leah Kalmanson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy &
Religion at Drake University.
3rd Annual - The
Philosophy of Practice: A Comparative Approach
Thursday, April 7, 2011
University Center, University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida 32224
Dr. John Maraldo is UNF
Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy &
Religious Studies. Dr. Maraldo is internationally recognized for his
path-breaking studies in Asian & Comparative Philosophy, including books
and numerous articles on Buddhist and Japanese philosophy, in particular on
Nishida, the Kyoto School, and Watsuji. He held several prominent guest
professor posts, including one at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and most
recently at Nagoya University, Japan. The John C. Maraldo Lecture in
Comparative Philosophy honors the life-long achievement of Dr. Maraldo to bring
an intercultural perspective to bear on central philosophical issues, including
ethics, the self, and social and political relations.
Pediatric Bioethics Conference
4th Annual
Friday, November 4, 2011
University Center, University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida 32224
Alissa Hurwitz Swota, Associate Professor
of Philosophy and Director of the Florida Blue Center for Ethics at
UNF, organize the Third Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference. The
conference is sponsored by Wolfson Children's Hospital in partnership
with the University of North Florida and the Florida Bioethics Network.
With talks on pressing issues by experts
in the field, the conference will serve as fertile ground for the
development and elucidation of best practices in pediatric bioethics. This
course is designed for physicians, nurses, social workers, clergy,
psychologists, health administrators, occupational therapists, speech
therapists, pediatric mental health workers, pediatric specialists, medical
students, nursing students, ethicists, philosophers, and others with an interest
or a need for continuing education in the special area of pediatric bioethics. For more information, please contact Dr. Alissa Hurwitz Swota.
A. David Kline Symposium in Public Philosophy
4th Annual
The Ethics of Belief
October 13-15, 2011
Hotel Indigo Conference
Room
9840 Tapestry Park Circle
Jacksonville, FL 32246
The symposium will consist of papers by epistemologists and social
psychologists focusing on contributions to the ethics of belief coming from
virtue epistemology, social epistemology, and the epistemology of disagreement.
The symposium is organized by Assistant Professor Jonathan Matheson (UNF) and
Associate Professor Rico Vitz (Azusa Pacific University) on behalf of the
Florida Blue Center for Ethics.
Participants’ Information:
Heather Battaly (California State University – Fullerton)
E.J. Coffman (University Of Tennessee)
Mark Dechesne (University Of Leiden – Campus The Hague)
Richard Feldman (University Of Rochester)
Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University)
Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University)
Heidi Grasswick (Middlebury College)
Thomas Kelly (Princeton University)
Arie Kruglanski (University Of Maryland.)
Ted Poston (University Of South Alabama)
Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)
Sarah Wright (University of Georgia).
Public Lectures:
Thursday, October 13, 2011
7:00 – 8:30 p.m. “How People Know: A Tale Of Three Psychologies”
Arie Kruglanski (Maryland)
Friday, October 14, 2011
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. “Gather Ye Evidence While Ye May – But How, and How
Much?”
Alvin Goldman (Rutgers)
For more information, please contact Dr. Jonathan Matheson.
Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference
The Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference will again take place annually. Previously held in fall will now be hosted again during the spring fall semester. The conference usually takes place during a weekend, with undergraduate and graduate students from Florida as well as other states in the US, even Canada. The conference includes invited two keynote addresses by distinguished faculty, including the Ellen C. Wagner Lecture, as well as a panel discussion. Recently, the conference has been focused on a theme, such as “Latin American Philosophy” and “Health Care, Conscience, and Property”. Over a hundred student participants, as well as faculty from UNF, JU, FSCJ, Flagler College, Stetson University, and other sister institutions participate in the event.
The conference continues to be an exciting opportunity for UNF philosophy undergraduate and graduate students to present their papers, to serve as chairs of sessions, and to meet students from across the country who share common academic interests. More information will be posted soon. 
Past programs can be found here (PDF):
Philosophy Slams
The Philosophy Slams—public philosophical talks taking up thought- provoking issues—continue to take place, now on an irregular, special event basis. Founded by Associate Professor emeritus Dr. Ellen Wagner, the Philosophy Slams used to be held at the legendary Fuel Coffeeshop in Historic Five Points in Riverside, Jacksonville.
The most recent event was hosted by the UNF Philosophy Club, featuring a discussion by UNF philosophy major Aaron Kenna on the topic: “If You’re an Egalitarian, Why Are You So Rich?” The event took place at the The Grape in St. Johns Town Center (with a special drink menu for the event) and was facilitated by Rico Vitz, UNF Assistant Professor of Philosophy.
For more info, also on other club activities, please see the Club’s Facebook page.
Philosophy Colloquium
The Program maintains an ongoing and interactive Speakers Series. The Series has various goals:
- Acquaint students with current developments in the field;
- Familiarize students with prominent scholars in the field;
- Provide students with better appreciation of the skills and interests of their professors as they participate in discussions;
- Enable students to better appreciate, and gain practice in, the debate and argumentation central to philosophical activity;
- Forge and nurture a community among those interested in philosophy at UNF and in Jacksonville.
The Philosophy Speakers Series has taken and will continue to take many forms: a colloquium with one guest speaker; a panel discussion or forum with UNF philosophers, often with other UNF faculty; and an interdisciplinary symposium that includes philosophers. The Series is often arranged in conjunction with the UNF Philosophy Club. Past speakers have included:
Speakers Series
- Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Kenan Institute for Ethics at Dike University)
- David K. Henderson (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
- Chris Tucker (University of Auckland)
- Linda Martin Alcoff (Syracuse University)
- Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton University)
- Margaret Pabst Battin (University of Utah)
- Seyla Benhabib (Yale University)
- Robert Bernasconi (Memphis University)
- John Brough (Georgetown University)
- Kelly James Clark (Calvin College)
- Annie Cohen-Solal (Cultural Office of French Embassy)
- Robert D'Amico (University of Florida)
- Robert De George (University of Kansas)
- Thomas Donaldson (University of Pennsylvania)
- James Doyle (University of Bristol)
- Owen Flanagan (Duke University)
- Shaun Gallagher (University of Central Florida)
- Joshua Gert (Florida State University)
- Simon Glynn (Florida Atlantic University)
- Christopher Grau (Florida International University)
- Charles B. Guignon (University of South Florida)
- Kenton Harris (University of Miami)
- David Hoekema (American Philosophical Association)
- Hans Ineichen (Emory University / University of Nuremberg, Germany)
- Christoph Jamme (University of Lueneburg, Germany)
- Mark Johnson (University of Oregon)
- Carol van Kirk (Ohio University)
- Donald Kuspit (SUNY Stony Brook)
- Anthony Lisska (Denison Univeristy)
- Sebastian Luft (Emory University)
- Lenny Moss (Notre Dame University)
- Jacob Owensby (Jacksonville University)
- Christian Perring (Dowlling College)
- Robert Pippin (University of Chicago)
- Christopher Pollman (Harvard University, University of Alete, France)
- James Rachels (University of Alabama, Birmingham)
- Manfred Riedel (University of Nuremberg, Germany)
- Michael Ruse (Florida State University)
- Chrisoph Schmidt am Busch (Frankfurt University, Germany)
- Thomas Schmidt (University of Frankfurt, Germany)
- Ofelia Schutte (University of Florida)
- Robert Shain (University of South Florida)
- George Sher (Rice University)
- Karsten Stueber, College of Holy Cross
- Peter Singer (Princeton University)
- Nicolas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College)
- Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
- Klaus Vieweg (University of Jena, Germany)
- Georgia Warnke (University of California, Riverside)
- Gary Watson (Univesity of California, Riverside)
- Joanne Waugh (University of South Florida)
- Michael Zimmerman (Tulane University)
