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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
The Richard Rorty Society 