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.