HCC Philosophy Conference 2024

Ninth Annual Philosophy Conference - Philosophy, Humanities and Library Sciences Division

HCC PHILOSOPHY AND HUMANITIES CONFERENCE

Friday, March 22, 2024

 

WHEN: Friday, March 22, 2024  

WHERE: 

Houston Community College

Central campus

1300 Holman St.

Houston, TX 77004

Learning Hub/Harmon Bldg., rm. 100 and 101

     

Free and open to the public. 

 

Website: https://tinyurl.com/PHIL2024 

Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcc2024 

PhilEvents:  https://philevents.org/event/show/114634 

 

Contact: Conference Chairs: 

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 

 

SCHEDULE

Time

Author; Title

8:00  

Refreshments

9:00

Mandi Schaefer -  “Revising Haslam’s Proposed Taxonomy of Mental Illnesses as Kinds of Kinds”

                               Commentary: Colton Llenos

10:00

Colton Llenos – “Mixed Claims, Inductive Risk, and Value-Free Science”

                                Commentary: Mandi Shaefer 

11:00

Robert Tierney – “Some Steps Toward Rehabilitating Hampton’s Expressive Theory of Retribution”

                                Commentary: Parish Conkling

12:00

Lunch provided

1:00

 

Parish Conkling – “Philosophy and Genocide: Towards an Understanding”

                               Commentary: Robert Tierney 

2:00

Matthew Williams- “The Modal-Intentional Structure of Grief”

                                Commentary: Thomas Marre 

3:00

Thomas Marre-  “ Purposes, Prepositions, and Generics”

                                Commentary: Matthew Williams

 

4:00 

End

    

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS  

HCC Philosophy and Humanities Conference

Friday, March 22, 2024

 

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2024

 

The HCC Philosophy and Humanity Conference invites abstracts (min. 500 words) and/or papers (3,000 words) on any topic in philosophy or  humanities.  All accepted papers should be prepared for a 25-minute presentation time, followed by a 5-minute commentary, and a 20-minute discussion.  Presenters are expected to comment.  Conference will be held in person:

 

Please send submissions electronically to: 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcc2024 

 

 (NB, you have to register with EasyChair in order to submit).

 

 LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

Houston Community College

Central campus

1300 Holman St.

Houston, TX 77004

Learning Hub/Harmon Bldg., rm. 100 and 101

WEBSITE: https://tinyurl.com/PHIL2024

Contact: Conference Chair: [email protected]

 

 

 

Previous Conferences 

 

2019.  Anthony Cashio, University of Virginia at Wise "We are Who We Were: Understanding history through the lens of personhood."

2018  Kevin DeLaplante. "Critical Thinking and Tribalism."

https://kevindelaplante.com/about/

2017 John Symons. University of Kansas. "Good to Know! Norms and formal methods for critical thinking."

http://www.johnsymons.net/

2016 Seth Paskin.

Partially Examined Life: https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/

 

 

CONTACT

 

Chair: Jacob Mills [email protected]

Marketing: Lamont Rodgers [email protected] 

Website: Cinnamon Jenson c[email protected]

Chris Jenson [email protected], David Lakios [email protected]