The Evolution of Knowledge: Student Conference
Prepared by the Fall 2005 Seminar on Modernity participants
Monday, December 12, 2005
4:00pm “Welcoming Remarks”
4:10 – 5:20 The Ancient Greek World
Jud Kilbourn, “The Human Consciousness as an Experimental System”
Michael Paone, “Institutionalized Doubt: A Cultural Interpretation of Greek Skepticism and the Authority of Truth”
Joe Doyle, “Determinism and Indeterminism: Causation in Aristotle, Hume, and Anscombe”
David Phillippi, “Uncovering Monotheistic Influences in Early Greek Thought”
Evan Overton, “The Aristotelian Conception of Form and the Influence of Dualism on Modern Thought”
Sasha Yakhkind, “The Origins of Dualism”
Jonathan De Favori, “Ancient Greek Sculpture and its modern constraints: Breaking away from the Ideal Human Form”
5:20 – 5:40 Discussion
5:40 – 5:50
Adam Kredo, “Anomie in Saint Augustine’s “Confessions”
5:50 – 6:50 Modernity, the American Case
Darius Barron, “Creating a tool for the empirical study of Modernity”
Stephen Adler, “The Development of the Railroad in America and its Relation to the National Drive in Creating a Dominating American Economy”
Daniel Williams, “American Idealism”
Tarik Adil, “Universal Human Rights”
Thomas Simmons, “Franklin the Patriot and Jefferson the Idealist”
Stephen Adler, “The Development of the Railroad in America and Its Relation to the National Drive in Creating a Dominating American Economy”
6:50 Discussion