The final version of the program for the 2016 RRS Conference is now available. Download a PDF version here.
First Meeting
September 8-10, 2016
Hamilton College
Clinton, NY
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
1:00-6:00 | REGISTRATION: KIRNER JOHNSON LOBBY | |
KRJH 005 | KRJH 125 | |
1:00-2:20 | RORTY’S LIBERALISM Chair: Joel Winkelman (Hamilton College)Mark Sanders (University of North Carolina, Charlotte: Situating Rorty’s Political Philosophy Youjin Kong (Michigan State University): Feminism and Historicist Universalism: A Critical Analysis of Richard Rorty’s Anti-Universalism |
ETHICAL AND EXISTENTIAL CHOICE IN RORTY Chair: Todd Franklin (Hamilton College)Andrew Norris (University of California-Santa Barbara): Metaphysics and Practice After Rorty Nick Sagos (Rutgers University): On What We Cannot Do Without: Rorty on Granularity and Irony |
2:20-2:30 | BREAK | |
2:30-3:50 | THE SELF IN RORTY Chair: Ramón del Castillo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain):Susana de Castro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): Rorty on Freudian Unconscious James Tartaglia (Keele University, UK): Rorty’s Philosophy of Consciousness |
RELIGION AND RORTYAN POLITICS Chair: Christina Willemson (Hamilton College)Martin Müller (Munich Community College, Germany): From Irony to Robust Serenity: Pragmatic Politics of Religion after Rorty Carl Sachs (Marymount University): Rorty’s Aversion to Normative Violence: The Myth of the Given and the Death of God |
3:50-4:00 | BREAK | |
4:00-5:20 | RORTY ON PHILOSOPHY Chair: Marianne Janack (Hamilton College)Carlin Romano (Ursinus College): Rorty and the Fach of Philosophy Marcos Carvalho Lopes (Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira, Brazil): Richard Rorty’s Philosophy as Apology of Poetry |
SECULARISM AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF Chair: Alexandra Plakias (Hamilton College)Michael Bacon (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK): Rorty’s Pragmatist Secularism Neil Gascoigne (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK): Hinge and Bracket: Rorty and Wittgenstein on Religious Belief |
6:30-? | DINNER: Little Pub |
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
Tolles Annex A | Beinecke Events Barn | |
9:00-10:20 | RORTY AND THE CLASSICAL PRAGMATISTS Chair: Katheryn Doran (Hamilton College)Emil Višňovsky (Comenius University, Slovakia): Peirce and/or Rorty? Two Versions of Pragmatism: An Attempt at their Creative Reconciliation Rodolfo Arango (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia): Dewey, Rorty, Democracy |
RORTYAN LIBERALISM AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE Chair: Susan Dieleman (University of Saskatchewan)William Curtis (University of Portland): Rorty and Hayek: Pragmatism as Creative Destruction John Anderson (Mississippi College School of Law): Paintbrushes and Crowbars: Richard Rorty and the New Public-Private Divide |
10:20-10:30 | BREAK: Beinecke Events Barn Lobby | |
10:30-12:30 | INVITED PANEL: RORTY’S ETHICS, NATURALISM, AND REALISM (Beinecke Events Barn)
Chair: Douglas Edwards (Hamilton College) Chris Voparil (Union Institute & University): Rorty’s Ethics |
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12:30-1:40 | LUNCH: Tolles Annex B | |
1:40-2:00 | ANNUAL MEETING – EXECUTIVE ELECTIONS: Beinecke Events Barn | |
2:00-4:00 | INVITED PANEL: RORTY AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY (Beinecke Events Barn) Chair: Peter Cannavo (Hamilton College)Eduardo Mendieta (Penn State University): On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Irony for Democracy: Rorty after Nehamas, Paz, and Wallace Susan Dieleman (University of Saskatchewan, Canada): What Would it Mean to Call Rorty a Deliberative Democrat? Federico Penelas (Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET, Argentina): Hermeneutical Injustice and Liberal Redescription |
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4:00-4:15 | BREAK: SCCT Atrium |
4:15-4:30 | WELCOME: SCCT G027 |
4:30-6:00 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
6:30-8:00 | DINNER: Science Center Atrium |
8:45 | Shuttles pick up attendees and return them to the hotel (Science Center Circle) |
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
SCCT G027 | SCCT G041 | SCCT G042 | |
9:00-10:20 | INTERPRETING RORTY’S RHETORIC Chair: Chris Voparil (Union Institute and University) Santiago Rey (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia): Rorty’s Outrageousness Finney Premkumar (Azusa Pacific University): Richard Rorty: Making the Public More Intellectual and the Intellectual More Public |
ART IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE Chair: Alexis Dianda (New School for Social Research) John Giordano (Merrimack College): Debating Solidarity and Consensus: Rorty and Habermas as Sources for Activist, Dialogical Art Fred Copley: The Boundary of the Private and the Public |
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10:20-10:30 | BREAK: SCCT Atrium | ||
10:30-12:30 | INVITED PANEL: THE POLITICS OF RORTY’S LITERARY TURN (SCCT G027) Chair: Peter Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)Colin Koopman (University of Oregon): Literature and Liberal Progress: Richard Rorty and William James between Public and Private Wojciech Małecki (University of Wroclaw, Poland): Take Care of Sympathy and Freedom Will Take Care of Itself: On Rorty, Novels, and Nonhuman Liberation Ramón del Castillo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain ): Rorty and the Two Nabokovs |
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12:30-1:40 | LUNCH: SCCT Atrium | ||
1:40-3:00 | CULTURE AND IMAGINATION IN RORTY Chair: Marianne Janack (Hamilton College)Alexander Kremer (University of Szeged, Hungary): Rorty and Imagination Serge Grigoriev (Ithaca College): Philosophical Writing and a Naturalist Conception of Culture |
SELF-CREATION, SOLIDARITY, AND PUBLIC/PRIVATE Chair: Colin Koopman (University of Oregon)Tracy Llanera (Macquarie University, Australia): Nihilism and Redemption: Rorty vs. Taylor, Dreyfus, Kelly Brandon Hogan (Howard University): A Hegelian Critique of Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity |
RORTY AND EDUCATION Chair: Alex Livingston (Cornell University)Brandon Priebe (The College at Brockport): Toward a Rortian Pragmatic Pedagogy Steve Stakland (Howard University): Is Education without Dogma Possible? A Critique of Rorty’s Account of Education |
3:00-3:10 | BREAK | ||
3:10-4:30 | RORTY AND LITERATURE Chair: Benjamin Widiss (Hamilton College)Richard E. Hart (Bloomfield College): Literature and Moral Progress: Richard Rorty and John Steinbeck Michael Hodges (Vanderbilt University): Rorty on Orwell and Democracy |
RORTY’S METAPHILOSOPHY Chair: Richard Werner (Hamilton College) Raff Donelson (Northwestern University): Rorty’s Promise in Metaethics Martin Shuster (Goucher College, US): Rorty and (the Politics of) Love |
SCIENCE, ETHICS, POLITICS Chair: Wojchiech Malecki (University of Wroclaw) Nalliely Hernandez (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico): Consequences of Rorty’s Pragmatism in Science: An Unexplored Ethical and Political Turn Tibor Solymosi (Mercyhurst University): Neurophilosophy as Cultural Politics |
4:30-4:45 | BREAK: Chapel | ||
4:45-6:15 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Cornel West introduced by Richard J. Bernstein On Richard Rorty Chapel |
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6:30-8:00 | DINNER: SCCT Atrium | ||
8:30 | Shuttles pick up attendees and return them to the hotel (Science Center Circle) |
With special thanks to:
Helena Laporte-Burns
Dannelle Parker and the Office of Conference Services
Maria Maier and Carolyn Mascaro
Sophie Gaulkin
Willa Rose
The Chauncey Truax Fund
The McCullough Fund
The Hamilton College Philosophy Department