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About the 2007-2008 Conference

Find out more about scheduled talks and events during Ex Nihilo's 2007-2008 conference.

Tentative schedule

Abstracts and commenters will be listed as soon as possible.

As in previous years, conference events will be bracketed by informal social gatherings.

Friday, April 25

7:00 p.m.: Meet-and-greet. Location TBD.
Break the ice! Meet UT students and fellow speakers over dinner, paid for by UT's Undergraduate Philosophy Association.

Saturday, April 26

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.: Coffee and pastries in WAG 316.

9:30 - 10:45 a.m.: Daniel Kirksey, Kansas State University. "Zombies Are There to Stay."

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: Professor J.D. Trout, Loyola University Chicago. "Hooked on a Feeling of Understanding: (Neural) Pathways to Explanation."

12:15 - 1:45 p.m.: Lunch.

1:45 - 3:00 p.m.: Adwait Parker, University of Chicago. "Nietzsche's Immanent Critique."

3:00 - 4:15 p.m.: Joshua Mitchell, University of Virginia. "A Modest Argument for the Hedonistic Account of Pain."

4:15 - 5:30 p.m.: Ingrid Norton, University of Texas at Austin. "The Leap of Responsibility: the Ethics of Hannah Arendt and Reinhold Niebuhr Confront Modern Uncertainty."

6:00 - ???: Dinner and more. Location TBD.