Athens Institute for Education and Research Arts and Sciences Research Division Philosophy Research Unit 8th Annual International Conference on Philosophy 27-30 May 2013, Athens, Greece PROGRAM Conference Venue: St George Lycabettus, Kleomenous Street, 106 75 Kolonaki, Athens, Greece ORGANIZING AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Dr Gregory T Papanikos, President, ATINER Dr Patricia Hanna, Head, Philosophy Research Unit of ATINER & Professor, University of Utah, USA Dr George Poulos, Vice-President of Research, ATINER & Emeritus Professor, University of South Africa, South Africa Dr Nicholas Pappas, Vice-President Academic, ATINER & Professor, Sam Houston University, USA Dr Donald V Poochigian, Professor, University of North Dakota, USA Dr Mechthild Nagel, Professor, SUNY Cortland, USA Dr Michael Paraskos, Provost, Cornaro Institute, Cyprus Dr Kiriake Xerohemona, Lecturer, Florida International University, USA Dr Michael Aristidou, Assistant Professor, Barry University, USA 10 Dr Chrysoula Gitsoulis, Adjunct Lecturer, City College, City University of New York, USA 11 Dr Gregory A Katsas, Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER & Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece 12 Ms Lila Skountridaki, Researcher, ATINER & Ph.D Student, University of Strathclyde, U.K 13 Mr Vasilis Charalampopoulos, Researcher, ATINER & Ph.D Student, University of Stirling, U.K Administration Fani Balaska, Stavroula Kiritsi, Eirini Lentzou, Konstantinos Manolidis, Katerina Maraki & Celia Sakka C O N F E R E N C E P R O G R A M Monday 27 May 2013 08:00-08:30 Registration 08:30-09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks • Dr Gregory T Papanikos, President, ATINER • Dr Nicholas Pappas, Vice-President of Academics, ATINER & Professor, Sam Houston University, USA • Dr Patricia Hanna, Head, Philosophy Research Unit of ATINER & Professor, University of Utah, USA 09:00-10:30 Session I (Room A): Phenomenology Chair: Dr Patricia Hanna, Head, Philosophy Research Unit of ATINER & Professor, University of Utah, USA Steven Burik, Lecturer, Sim University, Singapore Polemos and Dao: Conflict and Harmony in Heidegger and Zhuangzi *Giuseppe (Joseph) Naimo, Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, Australia Temporal Being and the Authentic Self Raluca Badoi, Ph.D Student, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania Levinasian Insomnia: Between Ontology and Ethics 09:00-10:30 Session II (Room B): Epistemology Chair: Dr Nicholas Pappas, Vice-President Academic, ATINER & Professor, Sam Houston University, USA John Williams, Associate Professor, Singapore Management University, Singapore Eliminativism, Dialetheism and Moore’s Paradox Nevin Climenhaga, Ph.D Student, University of Notre Dame, USA Cartesianism and Epistemic Normativity M Alipour Kalaei, Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Islamic Studies, Iran Does Epistemic Justification Come in Degrees? 10:30-12:00 Session III (Room A): Philosophy of Science Chair: *Giuseppe (Joseph) Naimo, Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, Australia 10:30-12:00 Session IV (Room B): Philosophy of Religion & Value Theory Chair: John Williams, Associate Professor, Singapore Management University, Singapore *Donald Poochigian, Professor, University of North Dakota, USA Bohm’s Paradox Paul Lewis, Professor and Chair of Department of Philosophy, Bethel College, USA and the Conscious Observer On the Philosophical Possibilities for a Constructive Theology of Self Joseph Thompson, Associate Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA Two Bettina Muller, Ph.D Student, University of Duesseldorf, Germany What is Good Dogmas of Reductionism: On the Irreducibility of Self-Consciousness and the Impossibility of Neurophilosophy Elena Popa, Ph.D Student, Central European University, Hungary Causation and Scientific Inquiry: Lewis versus Woodward 12:00-13:30 Session V (Room A): Ancient I Chair: *Donald Poochigian, Professor, University of North Dakota, USA 12:00-13:30 Session VI (Room B): Aesthetics Chair: Paul Lewis, Professor and Chair of Department of Philosophy, Bethel College, USA Aristotelis Santas, Professor, Valdosta State University, USA Aristotelian Ethics and Ewa Bobrowska, Assistant Professor, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland Biophilia Paraesthetics: Irvine School of Aesthetic Theory and Criticism Ioannis Christodoulou, Lecturer, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Nous and Phantasia Daniel Gustafsson, Ph.D Student, University of York, UK The Love of Art in Aristotle’s On the Soul Pritika Nehra, Researcher, Indian Institute of Technology, India Moral Explanation in Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics 14:00-15:00 Lunch (details during registration) 15:00-16:30 Session VII (Room A): Ethics Chair: Aristotelis Santas, Professor, Valdosta State University, USA Arul Raj Madalai Muthu, Ph.D Student, KU Leuven, Belgium The Ambivalence of Gift-Giving *Antoine Panaïoti, Lecturer, McGill University, Canada No-self and Altruism: What is the Relation? Trina Mamoon, Associate Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA Russian Modernism or Mysticism? Vladimir Solovyev as Philosopher 17:00-19:30 Session VIII (Room A): Philosophy of Religion Chair: *Antoine Panaïoti, Lecturer, McGill University, Canada Drago Djuric, Associate Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia Al-Kindi's and W L Craig's Cosmological Arguments *Saladdin Ahmed, PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa, Canada Re-introducing Philosophy to the Critique of Religion Sinem Elkatip Hatipoglu, Assistant Professor, Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey The Token Condition and the Possibility of Consciousness without Self-Consciousness Sander Wilkens, Privatdozent, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Amendments to the Theory of Recognition Sri Poedjiastoeti, PhD Student, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia Harmony without Conformity 21:00–23:00 Greek Night (Details during registration) Tuesday 28 May 2013 08:30-10:00 Session IX (Room A): Philosophy of Mind Chair: Roderick Long, Professor, Auburn University, USA Edouard Asseo, France Theory of Consciousness Tae-Kyung Kim, Ph.D Student, University of York, UK Colour Perception and Conceptual Contents: Is the Content of Colour Experience Entirely Determined by the Physical Property? Takuya Niikawa, Ph.D Student, Hokkaido University, Japan The Disagreement on Naïve Realism and its Analysis 10:15-11:45 Session XI (Room A): Existentialism Chair: *Rafael Lucas, Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande Norte, Brazil Roderick Long, Professor, Auburn University, USA Shakespeare, Godwin, Kafka, and the Political Problem of Other Minds William O’Meara, Professor, James Madison University, USA Kierkegaard and Moral Guilt 10:15-11:45 Session XIII (Room B): Phenomenology Chair: *Maria Adamos, Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University, USA Cristian Tiple, PhD Student, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Crisis and Ideology 12:00-13:30 Session X (Room A): Ancient II Chair: William O’Meara, Professor, James Madison University, USA 12:00-13:30 Session XIV (Room A): Ethics & Political Philosophy Chair: Dr Patricia Hanna, Head, Philosophy Research Unit of ATINER & Professor, University of Utah, USA Anastasia Gritsenko, Researcher, University of London, UK On Buddhist Michelle Ciurria, Ph.D Student, York University, Canada The Standard of the Happiness and Aristotle’s eudemonia: A Paradoxical Account? Reasonable Person: An Avoidability Approach (Tuesday 28 May 2013) Ilse Somavilla, Researcher, University of Innsbruck, Austria Thaumazein in *Rafael Lucas, Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande Norte, Brazil On Ancient Greek Philosophy and Wonder in the Writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein Individual and State in Bentham and Mill’s Utilitarianism *Maria Adamos, Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University, USA The Ancients, the Vulgar, and Hume’s Skepticism (Tuesday 28 May 2013) 13:30-14:30 Lunch (Details during registration) 14:30-16:00 Session XV (Room A): Open Session Chair: *Stephen Steinberg, Lecturer in Philosophy and Advisor to the President, University of Pennsylvania, USA Dale Jacquette, Professor, University of Bern, Switzerland Semantic Intentionality and Intending to Act Jaya Ray, Assistant Professor, Delhi University, India Scope of Semantic Innocence Kam Ming Yip, Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China A Critical Survey of Classification of Fallacies 17:30-20:30 Urban Walk (Details during registration) 21:00-22:00 Dinner (Details during registration) Wednesday 29 May 2013 Cruise: (Details during registration) Thursday 30 June 2013 Delphi Visit: (Details during registration) ... Recognition Sri Poedjiastoeti, PhD Student, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia Harmony without Conformity 21:00–23:00 Greek Night (Details during registration) Tuesday 28 May 2013 08:30-10:00 Session... Philosophy to the Critique of Religion Sinem Elkatip Hatipoglu, Assistant Professor, Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey The Token Condition and the Possibility of Consciousness without Self-Consciousness... University of London, UK On Buddhist Michelle Ciurria, Ph.D Student, York University, Canada The Standard of the Happiness and Aristotle’s eudemonia: A Paradoxical Account? Reasonable Person: An Avoidability