THE MIDWEST PRAGMATIST STUDY GROUP

of The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

 

Thirteenth Annual Meeting

Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Indianapolis, Indiana USA

 

24-25 September 2011

Saturday Afternoon and Sunday Morning

 

2011 Program

All sessions meet in

Cavanaugh Hall, Room 438

425 University Blvd.

Indianapolis, IN 46202

 

No fee, no registration, open to the public

 

Saturday, September 24, 2011

1:00 PM–2:15 PM:      "'The Universe Living From God Within': The Poetic Self in Emerson"

                                      Christopher C. Paone, Southern Illinois University

 

2:30 PM–3:45 PM:      "The Philosophical Foundations of Du Bois' Politics of Coalition-Building"

                                      Dennis Lunt, Southern Illinois University

 

3:45 PM: Refreshment Break

 

4:15 PM–5:45 PM:      Key Texts Session: "Of the Passing of the First-Born" by W. E. B. Du Bois

                                      and "Experience" and "Threnody" by R. W. Emerson

                                      Discussants: Dwayne Tunstall, Grand Valley State University, and Mike Brady, Southern Illinois University

 

5:45 PM–Business Meeting

 

7:00 PM: Dinner

 

Sunday, September 25, 2011

9:30 AM–10:45 AM:   "The Role of Diversity in Peirce's Objections to Necessitarianism"

                                      David Crawford, Duke University

 

11:00 AM–12:15 PM: "Ecological Existentialism in a Deweyan Vein: Finitude, Heroism, and Prophesy"

                                      Tanya Jeffcoat, University of Central Arkansas

 

Support for this meeting of the Midwest Pragmatist Study Group comes from the Institute for American Thought, the Santayana Edition, the Department of Philosophy, and the American Studies Program in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI.

 

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