Philosophy Dialogue Series 2021

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24th Annual Texas State University

Philosophy Student Symposium - Day 2


April 24th, 2021


SESSION FIVE: ARISTOTELIAN VIRTUE ETHICS

 

"The Shortcomings of the Skill Analogy in Understanding Virtue"


David Ortiz

Graduate Student, University of Florida

 

Respondent: Daphne Pons


"Perfectionism and Disability: Towards an Inclusive Perfectionist Framework"


Daphne Pons

Graduate Student, Loyola University Chicago


Respondent: David Ortiz


SESSION SIX: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

 

"Choices Without Contingencies: Framing an Objection to Rawls' Scheme on Behalf of the Especially Effortful"


Juliet Isselbacher

Undergraduate Student, Harvard College


Respondent: Trevor Kosloski


"Totalizing Capital, Totalizing Connectivity: A Marxist Understanding of Data Production and the Abstract Human"


Trevor Kosloski

Undergraduate Student, Georgia State University Honors College


Respondent: Juliet Isselbacher


SESSION SEVEN: PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY

"Digital Sovereignty: Rights, Power, and Censorship in the World of Online Speech"


Max Hurwitz

Graduate Student, Boston College


KEYNOTE ADDRESS, DAY 2

"Womanist Art: A Medium to Liberation"


Nathaniel Rodriguez Sosa

M.A. Texas State University

Former President of Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honors Society


SESSION EIGHT: QUEER THEORY

 

"Homeless Queer-Punk American Anarchism (or, Steal From Places, Not From Faces)"


Zane Shirley

Undergraduate Student, Texas State University


Respondent: Walker Peatross


"Identity, Expression, and Community: What Phenomenology Teaches Us About Being Queer in Rural America"


Walker Peatross

Graduate Student, University of Texas El Paso

Respondent: Zane Shirley