OCTOBER 8-11, 2003

WELCOMING DINNER - OCTOBER 8th, 2003 (BEGINS AT 8 P.M.)

prepared by Alissa Betz, Assistant to the Chair

HARRIMAN HALL 214

ALL SESSIONS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WILL BE HELD IN THE

STUDENT ACTIVITIES CENTER (SAC) THIRD FLOOR

RECEPTIONS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY (5:30-7:00 - HARRIMAN 214)

BOOK EXHIBIT (BOOKS PUBLISHED BY STONY BROOK PHILOSOPHY DOCTORATES AND FACULTY) & REFRESHMENTS: SAC 302

ALL SATURDAY SESSIONS - CHARLES B. WANG CENTER

LECTURE HALL 1 & 2 (MORNING)

THEATER (AFTERNOON PLENARY)

CONFERENCE ROOM 104 (BOOK EXHIBIT AND REFRESHMENTS)

CONFERENCE AND DEPARTMENTAL DIINER

PHILOSOPHY DOCTORATES, FACULTY, AND GRADUATE STUDENTS

SUNWOOD - COCKTAILS @ 7:00 ; DIINER @ 8:00

Special thanks to:

The Stony Brook Alumni Association

Shirley Strum Kenny, President, Stony Brook

Robert McGrath, Provost and Academic Vice-President

Gail Habicht ,Vice-President for Research

Lawrence Martin, Dean, Graduate School

James Staros, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Lorenzo Simpson, Chair, Philosophy Department

Kelly Oliver, Previous Chair, Philosophy Department

The Faculty of the Stony Brook Philosophy Department

Stony Brook Ph.D.s in Philosophy

Stony Brook Philosophy Graduate Students

Michael Sigrist, Conference Assistant

Alissa Betz, Assistant to the Chair

Anna Brewer, Graduate and Undergraduate Secretary

Stony Brook Office of Conferences & Special Events

Charles B. Wang Center

Gary G. Van Sise, Director, Audio-Visual Services

Moore's Market Catering

Sunwood

THURSDAY AFTERNOON - OCTOBER 9th, 2003 (2:00-5:00)

HEIDEGGER [SAC 303]

Organized by Gary E. Aylesworth (Philosophy, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL)

Moderated by: TIMOTHY HYDE (Stony Brook Philosophy Graduate Student)

GARY E. AYLESWORTH (Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL)

"Is there a Sign?/Gibt es einen Zeichen?": Heidegger and the Question of Postmodernity [Dissertation: "From Grounds to Play: A Comparative Analysis of Wittgenstein and Heidegger" (1986)]

MARK TANZER (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Denver, CO) Heidegger on A Priori Synthetic Judgments

[Dissertation: "Ethics and Human Purpose: Toward a Heideggerian Ethics" (1992)]

DAVID PETTIGREW (Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT) Heidegger in New Haven

[Dissertation: "The Crisis of Reason in Modern Philosophy: The Pathological in the Case of Kant and Freud" (1991)].

DANIEL TATE (Philosophy, St. Bonaventure, NY)

Art and Festivity in Gadamer and Heidegger

[Dissertation: "Hermeneutics and Aesthetics: Heidegger and Art" (1990)

THURSDAY EVENING - OCTOBER 9th, 2003 (5:30-7:00)

HARRIMAN HALL 214

RECEPTION:

Celebrating Stony Brook Women in Philosophy

with a book party recognizing the recent publication:

The Subject of Care:

Feminist Perspectives on Dependency

Edited by Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen K. Feder

Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.

COMMENTS BY:

EVA FEDER KITTAY (PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, STONY BROOK)

ELLEN K. FEDER (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, WASH D.C.)

FRIDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 10th, 2003 (2:00-5:00)

PUBLIC PHILOSOPH [SAC 303]

Organized by Sharon Meagher (Philosophy, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA)

Moderated by: SERENE KHADER(Stony Brook Philosophy Graduate Student)

SHARON MEAGHER (Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA) Philosophy and the City

[Dissertation: "MacIntyre and Habermas in Conversation: Toward a Dialogic Narrative Approach to Ethics" (1991)]

MARCOS BISTICAS-COCOVES (Philosophy and Religious Studies, Morgan State University) Black Bloc, Pink Bloc: Reflections on the Tactics of the Anti-Globalization Movement [ Dissertation: "Man and Woman in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit" (1997)]

JANICE MCLANE (Philosophy and Religious Studies, Morgan State University, MD) Starving for Power: Web Sites as Public Anorexia [ Dissertation: "Controlling Nature, Controlling Woman: The Metaphysical Project of Mastery" (1988 ) ]

FRIDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 10th, 2003 (2:00-5:00)

TRANSCENDENCE, THE TRANSCENDENTAL AND PRAXIS [SAC 305]

Organized by Brian Schroeder (Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY)

Moderated by: ETHAN KOSMIDER (Stony Brook Philosophy Graduate Student)

BRIAN SEITZ (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Babson College, Wellesley, MA)

The Practical Necessity of the Receding Transcendental: A Material Phenomenology

[Dissertation: "The Production of Political Representations"(1989)]

KEVIN MACDONALD (Philosophy, Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC)

Beyond the Becoming of Truth: Reflections on Agamben's Coming Community

[Dissertation: "Writing the Active: Nietzsche's Address to the Individual" (1990)]

BRIAN SCHROEDER (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY)

The Inoperative Earth

[Dissertation: "Violence and the Absolute" (1990)]

RON SCAPP (Associate Professor of Philosophy, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Bronx, NY) Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: From Ethnography to Material Phenomenology

[Dissertation: "A Question of Voice: The Search for Legitimacy" (1990)]

RECEPTION: Honoring Martha Smith (Friday 5:30-7:00)

(Philosophy Graduate Secretary, 1976-2000)

HARRIMAN 214

Welcoming Remarks: LAWRENCE MARTIN (Dean of the Graduate School, Stony Brook University)

8:00 - PARTY @ ROMAN ALTSHULER'S HOUSE (obtain map & bring drinks)

FRIDAY MORNING OCTOBER 10th, 2003 (9:00-10:45)

READINGS BETWEEN [SAC 305]

Organized by Roger Bell (Philosophy, Sonoma State University, CA)

Moderated by: MEGHANT SUDAN (Stony Brook Philosophy Graduate Student)

ROGER BELL (Professor of Philosophy, Sonoma State University, CA)

"Readings between Cavell and Derrida "

[Dissertation:"The Theme of Originary Expression in Genetic Phenomenology," 1990]

THOMAS P. BROCKELMAN (Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY) "Technology & Fantasy: Slavoj Zizek's Critique of Cyber-Capitalism"

[Dissertation:"Rethinking Modernity through Modernism: A Psychoanalytic and Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Art and Architecture" (1992)]

BRUCE MILEM (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SUNY New Paltz, NY)Defining Negative Theology [ Dissertation: "Meister Eckhart: Image and Discourse in Four German Sermons" (1997)]

FRIDAY MORNING OCTOBER 10th, 2003 (10:45-12:00)

FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY [SAC 304]

Organized by Sarah Clark Miller (Philosophy, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN)

Moderated by: SABRINA HOM (Stony Brook Philosophy Graduate Student)

SARAH CLARK MILLER (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Memphis, TN)

Agency and Dignifying Care

[Dissertation: The Duty to Care: Need and Agency in Kantian and Feminist Ethics (2003)]

BARBARA ANDREW (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ) Counterpoint and Harmony in Feminist Ethics

[Dissertation: A Feminist Ehtic of Freedom and Care (1997)]

SATURDAY MORNING OCTOBER 9th, 2003 (9:00-12:00)

FOUCAULDIAN TERRITORIES [WANG LECTURE HALL 2]

Organized by James Bernauer (Philosophy, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA)

Moderated by: ANDRES COLAPINTO (Stony Brook Philosophy Graduate Student)

JAMES BERNAUER (Professor of Philosophy, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA)

Michel Foucault's Philosophy of Religion.

[Dissertation: "The Thinking of History in the Archaeology of Michel Foucault" (1981)]

ELLEN FEDER (Philosophy and Religion, American University, Washington, D.C.)

The Subject of Violence: The Discursive Production of the Dangerous Individual

[Dissertation: "Disciplining the Family: Feminism, Foucault and the Institution of Difference"(1996)]

FRED EVANS (Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA)

Philosophical Nuances on Rushdie's Midnight's Children

[Dissertation: "The Psychology of the `Last Man': Cognitive Psychology and Modern Nihilism" (1986)]

LEONARD LAWLOR (Professor of Philosophy, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN)

Un Ecart Infime: The Critique of the Concept of Lived-Experience in Foucault

[Dissertation: "Event and Iterability: The Difference between The Thought of Ricoeur and Derrida." (1988)]

SATURDAY MORNING OCTOBER 11th, 2003 (9:00-12:00)

CHARLES B. WANG CENTER (LECTURE HALL 1 & 2)

BOOK EXHIBIT & REFRESHMENTS: CONFERENCE ROOM 104

THE IMPACT OF JUSTICE BUCHLER: AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY AT STONY BROOK [WANG LECTURE HALL 1]

Organized by Richard E. Hart (Cyrus H. Holley Professor of Applied Ethics and Professor of Philosophy, Bloomfield College, NJ)

Moderated by: ROGER LOPEZ (Stony Brook Philosophy Graduate Student)

RICHARD E. HART (Cyrus H. Holley Professor of Applied Ethics and Professor of Philosophy, Bloomfield College, NJ) Ontological Parity and Philosophy (Teaching) [Dissertation: "Theories of Literature: A Comparative, Metaphysical Study" (1984)]

MARJORIE MILLER (Professor of Philosophy, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY) The Power of Ordinal Metaphysics [Dissertation: "The Concept of Identity in Aristotle, Locke and Buchler" (1980)]

ARMEN MARSOOBIAN (Professor of Philosophy and Editor-in-Chief, METAPHILOSOPHY, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT) Breaking the Semantic Strangehold on Meaning: The Case of the Arts [Dissertation: "Probing the Consummatory: John Dewey's Metaphysics of Experience" (1984)]

JOHN RYDER (Director, Office of International Programs, SUNY Central Administration, Albany, NY) The Implications of Ordinality [Dissertation: "Ordinality, Language-Games and Sunyata: Their Implications for Religion" (1982)]

ROBERT KENT BUNCH (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bloomfield College, NJ) The Powers of Buchler's Metaphysics" [Dissertation: "What Is A Theory? A Systematic Inquiry Into the Nature of Theories and How They Can Be Analyzed, Evaluated and Compared" (1998)]

JAMES CAMBELL (Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH and Fulbright Senior Scholar, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 2003-2004) Some Reminiscences of Justus Buchler [Dissertation: "Reconstruction in the Thought of John Dewey and George Herbert Mead" (1979) ]

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THOMAS SLAUGHTER (Professor of Philosophy, Bloomfield College, NJ) has indicated that he will be in attendance at the conference but is unable to offer a paper. We are delighted that he will join us and hope that others will be able to attend as well.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION - OCTOBER 11th, 2003 (2:00-5:00)

BOOK EXHIBIT & REFRESHMENTS: WANG CONFERENCE ROOM 104

"THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STONY BROOK PHILOSOPHY DOCTORAL PROGRAM" CHARLES B. WANG CENTER (THEATRE)

PRELIMINARY REMARKS: HUGH J. SILVERMAN (Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature; Conference Organizer and Placement Director)

INTRODUCTION: LORENZO SIMPSON (Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department)

Faculty participants (not listed in any particular order) :

KELLY OLIVER (Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies)

"Back to the Future"

EDWARD S. CASEY (Leading Professor of Philosophy)

"What Makes Up A Philosophical Community?"

EVA FEDER KITTAY (Professor of Philosophy)

'Too bad you gave up philosophy for feminism'or Why Feminist Philosophy has flourished at Stony Brook in its Graduate Students"

DON IHDE (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and current Graduate Director)

"What Worked?"

RITA NOLAN (Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of the Graduate School)

"Philosophy's Stewardship of Free Inquiry"

DONN WELTON (Professor of Philosophy)

"Defying Style"

EDUARDO MENDIETA (Associate Professor of Philosophy)

"Tradition Is Not What Remains But What Is Preserved"

PETER MANCHESTER (Associate Professor of Philosophy)

"Philosophy from Downstairs"

GARY MAR (Associate Professor of Philosophy)

ALLEGRA DE LAURENTIIS (Assistant Professor of Philosophy)

MARY C. RAWLINSON (Dean, Eugene Lang College, New School University, New York City)

The following regret that they will be out of town on Saturday, but that they should be able to attend sessions earlier in the conference.

C. LEE MILLER (Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences)

ROBERT P. CREASE (Professor of Philosophy and Historian at Brookhaven National Labratories)

HARVEY CORMIER (Associate Professor of Philosophy)

The following Stony Brook PhDs have sent their regrets that they are unable to attend:

Allen S. Weiss (New York University)

Matt Biro (Art Dept, University of Michigan)

Evan Selinger (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY)

Drew Leder (Professor of Philosophy, Loyola College of Maryland, Baltimore, MD)

Shari Stone-Mediatore (Philosophy, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH)

Brian Beakley (Philosophy, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL)

Kathleen Wallace (Professor of Philosophy, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY)

Richard White (Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University, Omaha, NE)

Adrian Johnstone (Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

Talia Welsh (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee at Chatanooga, Chatanooga, TN)

Anthony Steinbock (Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL)

James P. Clarke (Assistant Director, University Honors Program, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY)

Mark Roberts (Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY)

Julia Jansen (Lecturer in Philosophy, University College, Cork, Ireland)

James Hatley (Philosophy, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, MD)?

Elizabeth Baeten (Philosophy, Emerson College, Boston, MA)

Jed Donelan (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH)

Claude Evans (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis MO)

Jean Keller(Associate Professor of Philosophy, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, St. Joseph, MN)

Chuck Wright (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, St. Joseph, MN)

Lanei Rodemeyer (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA)

Richard A. Cohen (Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC)

David Strong (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT)

Daniel Kealey currently in private practice (http://www.philosophicalcounseling.com) and teaching part-time for National University & University of Phoenix.

Catherine Kemp (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University, University Park, PA)

Amy R. Baehr (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY)

James Pearce (Philosophy, Illinois Central College, E. Peoria, IL)

Terry Pinkard (Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)

Susan Bordo ( Professor of English and Women's Studies and holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky.,Lexington, KY)

SATURDAY EVENING COCTAIL RECEPTION - OCTOBER 11th, 2003 (7:00-8:00)

SUNWOOD

PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT

FALL DINNER PARTY & FESTIVITIES

SUNWOOD

STONY BROOK

PHILOSOPHY FACULTY

PHILOSOPHY DOCTORATES