2003 Summer Institute in American Philosophy -- "Pragmatisms Old and New"

University of Oregon, July 7-12, 2003

  Monday July 7 Tuesday July 8 Wednesday July 9 Thursday July 9 Friday July 10 Saturday July 11
8:00 a.m.   Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast

9:00 a.m.
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12:00 p.m.

  Session A1 Session A2 Session C1 Session D1 Session D2

John Danisi (Wagner College) "James and Dewey: On the Notion of the Self" - 1

Danisi, "James and Dewey: On the Notion of the Self" -2

Michael Eldridge (U. of North Carolina, Charlotte) & Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt U.) "Sidney Hook: Public Intellectual" - 1

Doug Anderson (Penn State U.) "Philosophy Americana: the Culture of American Philosophy in American Culture(s)" -- 1: "Avenues to and aims of 'Profession' of American Philosophy"

Anderson, 2: Cultural Appearances of American Philosophy: Emerson and Kerouac, Thoreau and Tammy Wynette, and Dewey and Springsteen"

Mark Johnson (U. of Oregon) "Pragmatism and Cognitive Science" - 1

Johnson, "Pragmatism and Cognitive Science" - 2

Victor Kestenbaum (Boston University) "John Dewey and the Transcendent" - 1 Joseph Margolis (Temple U.) "The Advantages of Pragmatism" - 1 Margolis, "The Advantages of Pragmatism" - Part 2

Kenneth Ketner (Texas Tech. U.) "The Question of Autobiography: By What Method Shall We Interpret Our Own Life (or, Another's, for that Matter)?" - 1

Ketner, "the Question of Autobiography" - 2 James Pawelski (Vanderbilt University), "Pragmatism and Positive Psychology" - 1  Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue U.) & Hans Seigfried (Loyola U. Chicago) "Social Inquiry: Jane Addams and John Dewey" - 1

Seigfried & Seigfried, "Jane Addams and John Dewey" - 2

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch Lunch

Lunch
Wilshire, 2 "Primal roots of American Philosophy"

Lunch Lunch

1 :30 p.m.
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4:30 p.m.

  Session B1 Session B2   Session C2  

Daniel Dombrowski (Seattle U.) "Process Metaphysics" - 1: "Divine Beauty: The Aesthetics of Charles Hartshorne"

Dombrowski, "Process Metaphysics" - 2: "Rorty v. Hartshorne on Metaphysics"

 

Eldridge& Talisse, "Sidney Hook: Public Intellectual" - 2

Concluding Plenary Forum: "Pragmatisms Old and "New" Panelists: Vincent Colapietro, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Joseph Margolis, Bruce Wilshire

Joseph Orosco (Oregon State U.) "Latino/a Conceptions of Race and Ethnicity" - 1 Orosco, "Latino/a Conceptions of Race and Ethnicity" - 2 . Kestenbaum, "Dewey and Frost on Facts and Infinitiest" - 2
Jennifer Welchman (U. of Alberta) "Dewey and Character-Based Ethics" - 1

Welchman, "Dewey and Character-Based Ethics" - 2

Pawelski, "Pragmatism and Positive Psychology" - 2
3:00 p.m.

Registration

         
4:45 p.m.   Conversations with Bruce Wilshire, "Wild Hunger" Plenary Session: Dissertations-in-Progress   A Converstion with Bruce Wilshire, 3: "Fashionable Nihilism"  
6:00 p.m. Reception         Reception
7:30 p.m.           Banquet