UTSC Association of Philosophy Students

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University of Toronto Scarborough

FIFTH ANNUAL Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

10 03 2012

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UPDATED KEYNOTE: ANDREW SEPIELLI, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Due to an urgent and unfortunate family emergency, Professor Ruth Chang is unable to attend the conference Saturday, March 10. We extend our heartfelt sympathies and hope that all will be well for Professor Chang and her family.

In Professor Chang's stead, we have invited and confirmed UTM's Andrew Sepielli as our keynote presenter. Professor Sepielli's research interests include moral psychology, moral realism, moral uncertainty, normative ethics, phenomenology, philosophy, and practical rationality. He will be delivering a talk entitled, "Disagreement and the Structure of Epistemic Normativity."

Selected Publications

Keynote Speaker: Ruth Chang, Rutger's University

Dr. Chang's research interests concern fundamental questions about values, reasons, and agency. She is currently writing a book, Making it Matter, which explores and develops a view of the will according to which agents can, under the appropriate circumstances, quite literally will considerations to be reasons.

This view presents itself as the most plausible expression of the central Kantian idea that rational agents do not simply passively receive reasons by discovering or recognizing them but have a more active role in determining what reasons they have. It thus provides an alternative—and, I suggest, plausible—way of understanding the autonomy and freedom of rational agency.

Selected Publications, Philpapers

CONFERENCE PAPERS ONLINE

Several of the presenters have offered to make the presented versions of their papers available to conference attendees (or those who were unable to attend). Please find links to the PDF files below.

• Augie Faller: "On the Sensitivity of What is Said (and Heard)"
• Trystan Goetze: "On Harms Arising from Credibility Excess and a Reworking of Testimonial Justice as a Mean"
• Ben Waltmann: "Synaesthetic Metaphors"

Location

MW 160 (Management Wing)

University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, ON M1C 1A4

Campus Map

2012 Selection Committee

David Balcarras, Mike Derewonko, Tyler Dilnot, Robyn Forman, Heather Hutchinson, Danielle Lediard, Ryan Khan, Jem Rosario, Rixin Wang, Kevin Wang.

Attending the Conference

If you are presenting at this year's conference, or just planning on attending, we recommend the following hotels, located in downtown Toronto.

• The Holiday Inn Bloor-Yorkville: just next door to the University of Toronto's Jackman Humanities building (home to the Philosophy Department at the St. George campus at U of T).
• The Fairmont Royal York

We also encourage presenters or attendees flying into Toronto to consider Porter Airlines for direct flights into Toronto from select destinations.

Undergraduate presenters are eligible for $500 reimbursement for travel and accommodations expenditures. Please see our Reimbursement Policies for additional information or email us to make inquiries.

Noumena Submission Guidelines

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30.04.2012
Download: Submission Guidelines (PDF)

Selection for papers presented at this year's conference is now complete, but we are still accepting submissions for Noumena. If you submitted a paper to the conference (and to the journal), please be aware that we have not yet settled on selections for the journal.

Submissions should be between 3,000–5,000 words and may not exceed 6,000 words. All papers must be submitted with a title page that incorporates the following:

• The author's name, institution, and contact information (this includes a mailing address, email address, and telephone number where we may reach you).
• A concise abstract outlining the paper's topic and central thesis.

Papers selected for publication must be made available in .DOC or .DOCX format, and are subject to additional requirements. Authors should consult our editorial policies.