5th Annual International Conference on Philosophy 31 May & 1-3 June, 2010, Athens, Greece Sponsored by THE PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH UNIT OF THE ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (AT.IN.E.R.) Conference Venue: St George Lycabettus Boutique Hotel, Kleomenous Street, Kolonaki, Athens Organized by: ATINEP A.E (atinerae@atiner.gr) Administration: Fani Balaska, Stavroula Kiritsi, Eirini Lentzou, Konstantinos Manolidis, Katerina Maraki, & Sylia Sakka ORGANIZING AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dr Gregory T Papanikos, President and Director, ATINER Dr Nicholas Pappas, Vice-President of ATINER & Professor, Sam Houston State University, USA Dr Patricia Hanna, Professor, University of Utah, USA Dr Panayotis Zamaros, Professor, ECMU, Switzerland Dr Donald V Poochigian, Academic Member, ATINER & Professor, University of North Dakota, USA Dr Yiorgo Maniatis, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Dr Scott Nelson, Academic Member, ATINER & Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, USA Dr Chrysoula Gitsoulis, Academic Member, ATINER & Adjunct Assistant Professor, City College, City University of New York, USA Dr John Roufagalas, Professor, Troy University, USA & Academic Member, ATINER Dr Ioannis Stivachtis, Academic Member of ATINER and Director, International Studies Program Virginia Tech - Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA Raymond Paul Petridis Tzombanos, Ph.D Student, New School for Social Research, USA Dr Margarita Kefalaki, Instructor, ATEI Athens & Researcher, ATINER Mr Christos Frantzeskakis, Researcher, ATINER C O N F E R E N C E P R O G R A M (The time for each session includes at least 10 minutes coffee break) Monday, May 31st, 2010 08:00 - 08:30 Registration 08:30 - 09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks • Dr Gregory T Papanikos, Director, ATINER • Dr Patricia Hanna, Professor, University of Utah, USA • Dr Nicholas Pappas, Vice-President of ATINER and Professor, Sam Houston University, USA 09:00-10:30 Session I (Room A): 19th and 20th Century Philosophy I Chair: Pappas, N., Vice-President of ATINER and Professor, Sam Houston University, USA Pietersma, H., Professor, University of Toronto Merlean - Ponty’s Doctrine of Objects Nicholson, C., Professor, Rider University, USA An Adverbial Interpretation of Pragmatism Skrupskelis, A., Associate Professor, University of South Carolina Aiken, USA A Phenomenology of Child Play 09:00-10:30 Session II (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology I Chair: Hanna, P., Professor, University of Utah, USA Pistorius, S., Head of Software Department, Software Company, Germany The Evolution of Knowledge - A Unified Naturalistic Approach to Evolutionary Epistemology Taking Into Account the Impact of Information Technology and the Internet Swiatek, K., Professor, Grant Macewan University, Canada Metaphysics and Semantics of Folk Psychology (Monday, May 31st, 2010) Michaelakis, M., Assistant Professor, Yonsei University, South Korea Does Preference Determine Action? A Defense of Davidson’s Principle, P1 10:30-12:00 Session III (Room A): Ancient Philosophy I Chair: *Thompson, J., Associate Professor, Christopher Newport University, USA Carelli, P., Assistant Professor, University of North Florida, USA True City – True Soul Aldema, H., Tel Aviv University, Israel Knowing the Sophist: An Encountering with the Law Bohle, B., PhD Student, Freie University, Germany Plato on Rhetoric – Neoplatonic Interpretations 10:30-12:00 Session IV (Room B): Philosophy of Religion Chair: Naimo, G., Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia McCann, H., Professor, Texas A & M University, USA Does God Have Free Will? Artis, A., Assistant Professor, University of Michigan-Flint, USA Descartes, Luther and the Fifth Lateran Council 12:00-13:30 Session V (Room A): Eastern Philosophy Chair: Carelli, P., Assistant Professor, University of North Florida, USA Wang, Y., Professor, Rowan University, USA Paradoxicality of Institution, DeInstitutionalization or the Counter-Institutional in Classical Chinese Chan Buddhist Thought Yogi, M., Associate Professor, University of Delhi, India Middle Path Aristotle and Buddhism *Thompson, J., Associate Professor, Christopher Newport University, USA Reconceiving Philosophy as Bodily Discipline: Clues from Master Zhu 12:00-13:30 Session VI (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology II Chair: Swiatek, K., Professor, Grant Macewan University, Canada Naimo, G., Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia Ontology that Matters: binding relations Hearn, R., Practicing Attorney – Partner, Racine, Olson, Nye, Budge & Bailey, Chd., USA Heidegger’s Ontological Coordination (Gleichschaltung) of Temporality and Language 13:30 - 14:30 LUNCH 14:30-16:00 Session VII (Room A): Ancient Philosophy II Chair: Yogi, M., Associate Professor, University of Delhi, India Lee, M.-Y., Professor, National Pingtung University of Education Taiwan, Republic of China A Comparative Study of the Role of Harmony in the Thoughts of Confucius and Plato on the Cultural Cultivation of Music Markhinin, V., Professor & Head, Surgut State University, Russia ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΊΑ: WordConcept Sars, N., Graduate Student, Bowling Green State University, USA A New Interpretation of Plato’s Crito 16:00-17:30 Session IX (Room A): Ancient Philosophy III Chair: Colombo, L., Assistant Professor, Bethune-Cookman University, USA Wallace, A., Associate Professor, Sonoma State University, USA Compassion and Wellbeing: An Aristotelian – Buddhist Perspective (Monday, May 31st, 2010) Matthews, P.J., Senior Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia Friendship and the Common Life: Happiness in a modern Polis Gitsoulis, C., Adjunct Assistant Professor, City University of New York, USA The Myth of Gyges and the Possibility of Altruism 14:30-16:00 Session VIII (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology III Chair: Wallace, A., Associate Professor, Sonoma State University, USA Zouhar, M., Associate Professor, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Two Notions of Rigidity Hanna, P., Professor, University of Utah, USA Why there is ‘no such thing as a language’: Chomsky’s mistake Vuorio, T., Researcher, University of Tampere, Finland Rorty and the Linguistic Turn 16:00-17:30 Session X (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology IV Chair: Szymanska-Swiatek, E., Professor, Grant Macewan University, Canada Oaklander, I.N., Professor, University of Michigan-Flint, USA A-and B-theories of Time: A Debate Newsome, W., Student, University of Edinburgh, UK Cultural Models in Adaptation and Argumentation 17:30-19:00 Session XI (Room A): 19th and 20th Century Philosophy II Chair: Gitsoulis, C., Adjunct Assistant Professor, City University of New York, USA Chow, P.K., Assistant Professor, the Open University of Hong Kong, China Truth, Proof and Axiomatic Independence - Turning to Algorithm for an Explication of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics Szymanska-Swiatek, E., Professor, Grant Macewan University, Canada Structural Norms versus Neuroscientific Facts (Monday, May 31st, 2010) *Hossein, R., Graduate Student, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran & Hosseini, D., Tarbiat Modares University, Iran Another paradox of Williamson's Margin for Error 20:30 - 22:30 GREEK NIGHT AND DINNER (Details during registration) Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 08:30-10:00 Session XII (Room A): 19th and 20th Century Philosophy III Chair: *Young, J., Professor, Wake Forest University, USA Caruso, G., Assistant Professor, Corning Community College, USA The Folk Psychology of Free Will: An Argument against Compatibilism Vergara, C., Ph.D Student, New School for Social Research, USA The Perplexity of New Beginnings: The Will and the Foundation of Freedom (Tuesday, June 1st, 2010) Kaneti, M., Ph.D Student, New School for Social Research, USA Tyranny in the Corner: Structural Violence and Human Agency 08:30-10:00 Session XIII (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology V Chair: *Holman, E., Associate Professor, George Mason University, USA Adams, F., Chair, Linguistics & Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, USA The Semantics, Pragmatics, and Ontology of Fiction *Fuller, G., Professor, Central Michigan University, USA Personal Identity and Narratives Poochigian, D., Professor, University of North Dakota, USA Being as the Set of All Things 10:00-11:30 Session XIV (Room A): 19th and 20th Century Philosophy IV Chair: Caruso, G., Assistant Professor, Corning Community College, USA Murray, E., Professor and Chair of Department, Loyola Marymount University, USA The Problem with the Censor *Young, J., Professor, Wake Forest University, USA Nietzsche and Women Coimbra Goncalves, R.M., Ph.D Student, University of Coimbra, Portugal The Idea of Colonial Conquest and Christian Evangelization according to its Aristotelian Echoes in Suarez and Vieira Naziripour, R., Instructor, Islamic Azad University – karaj Branch, Iran Metaphysics of Power and End of Play in Nietzsche's Philosophy 10:00-11:30 Session XV (Room B): Ethics I Chair: Poochigian, D., Professor, University of North Dakota, USA Davila, F., Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine University of Arkansas Medical School and Chief Medical Officer/VPMA QualChoice Little Rock Ark, USA When Ethics is the Problem? Colombo, L., Assistant Professor, Bethune-Cookman University, USA Thoughts by the Sea, Reflections on Happiness *Breuer, M.G., Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Candidate, Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf, Germany The Role of Sociological Assumptions in the Construction of Ethical Theories Deng, Y., Ph.D Student, University of Minnesota, USA Justice, Injustice and Chinese Soybeans: An Inquiry from the Perspective of Kant’s Publicity Principle (Tuesday, June 1st, 2010) 11:30-13:00 Session XVI (Room A): Early Modern Philosophy Chair: Murray, E., Professor and Chair of Department, Loyola Marymount University, USA Loptson, P., Professor, University of Guelph, Canada Hume and Ancient Philosophy Scherer, I., Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland, USA The Necessity of the 'Necessary Connection': Revisiting Kant's Metaphysics to Save Science Beaton, R., Ph.D Student, Toronto University, Canada Schopenhauer as Internal Critic of Kant: Holding Kant to a Deterministic Conception of the Inclinations 11:30-13:00 Session XVII (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology VI Chair: *Fuller, G., Professor, Central Michigan University, USA *Holman, E., Associate Professor, George Mason University, USA Phenomenal Concepts and the Mode of Presentation Problem O'Loughlin, I., Ph.D Student, University of Iowa, USA Connectionist Semantics, Feature Processing, and the Interpretability of Dimensions in State-Space Giananti, A., Ph.D Student, University of Edinburgh, UK Perceptual Knowledge and Perceptual Discrimination: a Puzzle for McDowell 13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH 14:00-15:30 Session XVIII (Room A): Islamic Philosophy Chair: Loptson, P., Professor, University of Guelph, Canada Alerasoul, S., Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University-Karaj Branch, Iran.,Pourtolami, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran& Sayyid Mazhari, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran & Naziripour, R., Instructor, Islamic Azad University , karaj Branch, Iran Influence of Philosophy on Islamic Mysticism Farahmand, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Ardebil Branch, Iran The Ontology of Light in the Philosophy of Ishraq Pourtolami, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University-Karaj Branch, Iran, Alerasoul, S., Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch,Iran ,Sayyid Mazhari, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran.& Naziripour, R., Instructor, Islamic Azad University , Karaj Branch, Iran The Role of Theoretical Mysticism in Solving some Philosophical Controversies Sayyid Mazhari, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University-Karaj Branch, Iran, Alerasoul, S., Associate Professor,Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran & Pourtolami, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran Plotinus on Art and Knowledge 14:00-15:30 Session XIX (Room B): Ethics II Chair: Rubarth, S., Associate Professor, Rollins College, USA Badhwar, N., Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA Autonomy as a Moral Virtue Usami, M., Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Intergenerational Rights: A Philosophical Examination Ceylan, S.S., Assistant Professor, Marmara University, Turkey H.L.A HART: The Separation of Law and Morals Kapetanakis, P., Ph.D Student, University of Edinburgh, UK Aristotle on Moral Responsibility and the Situationist Challenge 15:30-17:00 Session XX (Room A): Ethics III Chair: Newsome, W., Student, University of Edinburgh, UK Ayestaran, I., Professor, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain Sustainability, Science, and Ethics: A New Paradigm for Global Change Rubarth, S., Associate Professor, Rollins College, USA Epictetus and the Ethics of Perception 15:30-17:00 Session XXI (Room B): Ancient Philosophy IV Chair: Badhwar, N., Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA Danes, J., Assistant Professor, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Euripides and Plato on Autochthony Cashell, K.A., Lecturer, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland The Transvaluation of Representation 17:00 - 20:00 Urban Walk (Details during registration) 20:00 - 21:30 Dinner (Details during registration) Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 Cruise: Departure at 07:15 Return at 20:30 (Details during registration) Friday, June 3rd, 2010 Delphi Visit: Departure at 07:50 Return at 19:30 (Details during registration) ... Psychology (Monday, May 31st, 2010) Michaelakis, M., Assistant Professor, Yonsei University, South Korea Does Preference Determine Action? A Defense of Davidson’s Principle, P1 10:30-12:00 Session III... B., PhD Student, Freie University, Germany Plato on Rhetoric – Neoplatonic Interpretations 10:30-12:00 Session IV (Room B): Philosophy of Religion Chair: Naimo, G., Lecturer, University of Notre... Australia, Australia Ontology that Matters: binding relations Hearn, R., Practicing Attorney – Partner, Racine, Olson, Nye, Budge & Bailey, Chd., USA Heidegger’s Ontological Coordination (Gleichschaltung)