5th Annual International Conference on Philosophy 31 May & 1-3 June, 2010, Athens, Greece

09:00-10:30 Session II Room B: Metaphysics and Epistemology I Chair: Hanna, P., Professor, University of Utah, USA.. 12:00-13:30 Session V Room A: Eastern Philosophy Chair: Carelli, P.,

5th Annual International Conference on Philosophy

31 May & 1-3 June, 2010, Athens, Greece

Sponsored by

THE PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH UNIT OF THE ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

(AT.IN.E.R.)

Conference Venue: St George Lycabettus Boutique Hotel , 2 Kleomenous Street, Kolonaki, Athens.

Organized by: ATINEP A.E ( atinerae@atiner.gr )

Administration: Fani Balaska, Stavroula Kiritsi, Eirini Lentzou, Konstantinos Manolidis, Katerina Maraki, & Sylia Sakka.

ORGANIZING AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

 Dr Gregory T Papanikos, President and Director, ATINER

 Dr Nicholas Pappas, Vice-President of ATINER & Professor, Sam Houston State University, USA

 Dr Patricia Hanna, Professor, University of Utah, USA

 Dr Panayotis Zamaros, Professor, ECMU, Switzerland

 Dr Donald V Poochigian, Academic Member, ATINER & Professor, University of North Dakota, USA

 Dr Yiorgo Maniatis, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

 Dr Scott Nelson, Academic Member, ATINER & Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, USA

 Dr Chrysoula Gitsoulis, Academic Member, ATINER & Adjunct Assistant Professor, City College, City University of New York, USA

 Dr John Roufagalas, Professor, Troy University, USA & Academic Member, ATINER

 Dr Ioannis Stivachtis, Academic Member of ATINER and Director, International Studies Program Virginia Tech - Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA

 Raymond Paul Petridis Tzombanos, Ph.D Student, New School for Social Research, USA

 Dr Margarita Kefalaki, Instructor, ATEI Athens & Researcher, ATINER

 Mr Christos Frantzeskakis, Researcher, ATINER

C O N F E R E N C E P R O G R A M (The time for each session includes at least 10 minutes coffee break) Monday , May 31 , 2010st

08:00 - 08:30 Registration

08:30 - 09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

 Dr Gregory T Papanikos, Director, ATINER

 Dr Patricia Hanna, Professor, University of Utah, USA

 Dr Nicholas Pappas, Vice-President of ATINER and Professor, Sam Houston University, USA

09:00-10:30

Session I (Room A): 19 th and 20 th Century Philosophy I

Chair: Pappas, N., Vice-President of ATINER and Professor, Sam Houston University, USA.

1 Pietersma, H., Professor, University of Toronto Merlean - Ponty’s Doctrine of Objects

2. Nicholson, C., Professor, Rider University, USA An Adverbial Interpretation of

Pragmatism

3 Skrupskelis, A., Associate Professor, University of South Carolina Aiken, USA A

Phenomenology of Child Play

09:00-10:30 Session II (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology I Chair: Hanna, P., Professor, University of Utah, USA.

1 Pistorius, S., Head of Software Department, Software Company, Germany The Evolution of Knowledge - A Unified Naturalistic Approach to Evolutionary Epistemology Taking Into Account the Impact of Information Technology and the Internet

2 Swiatek, K., Professor, Grant Macewan University, Canada Metaphysics and Semantics of Folk Psychology (Monday, May 31st, 2010)

3 Michaelakis, M., Assistant Professor, Yonsei University, South Korea Does Preference Determine Action? A Defense of Davidson’s Principle, P1

10:30-12:00

Session III (Room A): Ancient Philosophy I

Chair: *Thompson, J., Associate Professor, Christopher Newport University, USA.

1 Carelli, P., Assistant Professor, University of North Florida, USA True City – True Soul

2 Aldema, H., Tel Aviv University, Israel Knowing the Sophist: An Encountering

with the Law

3 Bohle, B., PhD Student, Freie University, Germany Plato on Rhetoric – Neoplatonic

Interpretations

10:30-12:00 Session IV (Room B): Philosophy of Religion Chair: Naimo, G., Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia.

1 McCann, H., Professor, Texas A & M University, USA Does God Have Free Will?

2 Artis, A., Assistant Professor, University of Michigan-Flint, USA Descartes, Luther and the Fifth Lateran Council

12:00-13:30

Session V (Room A): Eastern Philosophy

Chair: Carelli, P., Assistant Professor, University of North Florida, USA.

1 Wang, Y., Professor, Rowan University, USA Paradoxicality of Institution,

De-Institutionalization or the Counter-Institutional in Classical Chinese Chan Buddhist

Thought

2 Yogi, M., Associate Professor, University of Delhi, India Middle Path Aristotle and

Buddhism

3 *Thompson, J., Associate Professor, Christopher Newport University, USA Reconceiving

Philosophy as Bodily Discipline: Clues from Master Zhu

12:00-13:30 Session VI (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology II Chair: Swiatek, K., Professor, Grant Macewan University, Canada.

1 Naimo, G., Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia Ontology that Matters: binding relations

2 Hearn, R., Practicing Attorney – Partner, Racine, Olson, Nye, Budge & Bailey, Chd., USA Heidegger’s Ontological Coordination (Gleichschaltung) of Temporality and Language

14:30-16:00

Session VII (Room A): Ancient Philosophy II

Chair: Yogi, M., Associate Professor, University of Delhi, India.

1 Lee, M.-Y., Professor, National Pingtung University of Education Taiwan, Republic of

China A Comparative Study of the Role of Harmony in the Thoughts of Confucius and

Plato on the Cultural Cultivation of Music

2 Markhinin, V., Professor & Head, Surgut State University, Russia ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΊΑ:

Word-Concept

3 Sars, N., Graduate Student, Bowling Green State University, USA A New Interpretation

of Plato’s Crito

14:30-16:00 Session VIII (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology III Chair: Wallace, A., Associate Professor, Sonoma State University, USA.

1 Zouhar, M., Associate Professor, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Two Notions of Rigidity

2 Hanna, P., Professor, University of Utah, USA Why there is ‘no such thing as a language’: Chomsky’s mistake

3 Vuorio, T., Researcher, University of Tampere, Finland Rorty and the Linguistic Turn

16:00-17:30

Session IX (Room A): Ancient Philosophy III

Chair: Colombo, L., Assistant Professor, Bethune-Cookman University, USA

1 Wallace, A., Associate Professor, Sonoma State University, USA Compassion and

Well-being: An Aristotelian – Buddhist Perspective (Monday, May 31st, 2010)

2 Matthews, P.J., Senior Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia

Friendship and the Common Life: Happiness in a modern Polis

3 Gitsoulis, C., Adjunct Assistant Professor, City University of New York, USA The Myth

of Gyges and the Possibility of Altruism

16:00-17:30 Session X (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology IV Chair: Szymanska-Swiatek, E., Professor, Grant Macewan University, Canada.

1 Oaklander, I.N., Professor, University of Michigan-Flint, USA A-and B-theories of Time: A Debate

2 Newsome, W., Student, University of Edinburgh, UK Cultural Models in Adaptation and Argumentation

17:30-19:00

Session XI (Room A): 19 th and 20 th Century Philosophy II

Chair: Gitsoulis, C., Adjunct Assistant Professor, City University of New York, USA.

1 Chow, P.K., Assistant Professor, the Open University of Hong Kong, China Truth, Proof

and Axiomatic Independence - Turning to Algorithm for an Explication of Wittgenstein’s

Philosophy of Mathematics

2 Szymanska-Swiatek, E., Professor, Grant Macewan University, Canada Structural Norms

versus Neuroscientific Facts (Monday, May 31st, 2010)

3 *Hossein, R., Graduate Student, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran & Hosseini, D., Tarbiat

Modares University, Iran Another paradox of Williamson's Margin for Error

20:30 - 22:30 GREEK NIGHT AND DINNER (Details during registration)

Tuesday , June 1 st , 2010

08:30-10:00

Session XII (Room A): 19 th and 20 th Century Philosophy III

Chair: *Young, J., Professor, Wake Forest University, USA.

1 Caruso, G., Assistant Professor, Corning Community College, USA The Folk Psychology of

Free Will: An Argument against Compatibilism

2 Vergara, C., Ph.D Student, New School for Social Research, USA The Perplexity of New

Beginnings: The Will and the Foundation of Freedom (Tuesday, June 1st, 2010)

3 Kaneti, M., Ph.D Student, New School for Social Research, USA Tyranny in the Corner:

Structural Violence and Human Agency

08:30-10:00 Session XIII (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology V Chair: *Holman, E., Associate Professor, George Mason University, USA.

1 Adams, F., Chair, Linguistics & Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, USA The Semantics, Pragmatics, and Ontology of Fiction

2 *Fuller, G., Professor, Central Michigan University, USA Personal Identity and Narratives

3 Poochigian, D., Professor, University of North Dakota, USA Being as the Set of All Things

10:00-11:30

Session XIV (Room A): 19 th and 20 th Century Philosophy IV

Chair: Caruso, G., Assistant Professor, Corning Community College, USA.

1 Murray, E., Professor and Chair of Department, Loyola Marymount University, USA The

Problem with the Censor

2 *Young, J., Professor, Wake Forest University, USA Nietzsche and Women

3 Coimbra Goncalves, R.M., Ph.D Student, University of Coimbra, Portugal The Idea of

Colonial Conquest and Christian Evangelization according to its Aristotelian Echoes in Suarez

and Vieira

4 Naziripour, R., Instructor, Islamic Azad University – karaj Branch, Iran Metaphysics of Power

and End of Play in Nietzsche's Philosophy

10:00-11:30 Session XV (Room B): Ethics I Chair: Poochigian, D., Professor, University of North Dakota, USA.

1 Davila, F., Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine University of Arkansas Medical School and Chief Medical Officer/VPMA QualChoice Little Rock Ark, USA When Ethics is the Problem?

2 Colombo, L., Assistant Professor, Bethune-Cookman University, USA Thoughts by the Sea, Reflections on Happiness

3 *Breuer, M.G., Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Candidate, Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf, Germany The Role of Sociological Assumptions in the Construction of Ethical Theories

4 Deng, Y., Ph.D Student, University of Minnesota, USA Justice, Injustice and Chinese Soybeans: An Inquiry from the Perspective of Kant’s Publicity Principle (Tuesday, June 1st, 2010)

11:30-13:00

Session XVI (Room A): Early Modern Philosophy

Chair: Murray, E., Professor and Chair of Department, Loyola Marymount University, USA.

1 Loptson, P., Professor, University of Guelph, Canada Hume and Ancient Philosophy

2 Scherer, I., Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland, USA The Necessity of the

'Necessary Connection': Revisiting Kant's Metaphysics to Save Science

3 Beaton, R., Ph.D Student, Toronto University, Canada Schopenhauer as Internal Critic of

Kant: Holding Kant to a Deterministic Conception of the Inclinations

11:30-13:00 Session XVII (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology VI Chair: *Fuller, G., Professor, Central Michigan University, USA.

1 *Holman, E., Associate Professor, George Mason University, USA Phenomenal Concepts and the Mode of Presentation Problem

2 O'Loughlin, I., Ph.D Student, University of Iowa, USA Connectionist Semantics, Feature Processing, and the Interpretability of Dimensions in State-Space

3 Giananti, A., Ph.D Student, University of Edinburgh, UK Perceptual Knowledge and Perceptual Discrimination: a Puzzle for McDowell

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00-15:30

Session XVIII (Room A): Islamic Philosophy

Chair: Loptson, P., Professor, University of Guelph, Canada.

1 Alerasoul, S., Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University-Karaj Branch, Iran.,Pourtolami,

M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran& Sayyid Mazhari, M.,

Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran & Naziripour, R., Instructor,

Islamic Azad University , karaj Branch, Iran Influence of Philosophy on Islamic Mysticism

2 Farahmand, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Ardebil Branch, Iran The

Ontology of Light in the Philosophy of Ishraq

3 Pourtolami, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University-Karaj Branch, Iran, Alerasoul, S.,

Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch,Iran ,Sayyid Mazhari, M.,

Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran.& Naziripour, R., Instructor,

Islamic Azad University , Karaj Branch, Iran The Role of Theoretical Mysticism in Solving

some Philosophical Controversies

4 Sayyid Mazhari, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University-Karaj Branch, Iran,

Alerasoul, S., Associate Professor,Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran & Pourtolami,

M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran Plotinus on Art and

Knowledge

14:00-15:30 Session XIX (Room B): Ethics II Chair: Rubarth, S., Associate Professor, Rollins College, USA.

1 Badhwar, N., Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA Autonomy as a Moral Virtue

2 Usami, M., Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Intergenerational Rights: A Philosophical Examination

3 Ceylan, S.S., Assistant Professor, Marmara University, Turkey H.L.A HART: The Separation of Law and Morals

4 Kapetanakis, P., Ph.D Student, University of Edinburgh, UK Aristotle on Moral Responsibility and the Situationist Challenge

15:30-17:00

Session XX (Room A): Ethics III

Chair: Newsome, W., Student, University of Edinburgh, UK

1 Ayestaran, I., Professor, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

Sustainability, Science, and Ethics: A New Paradigm for Global Change

2 Rubarth, S., Associate Professor, Rollins College, USA Epictetus and the Ethics of Perception

15:30-17:00 Session XXI (Room B): Ancient Philosophy IV Chair: Badhwar, N., Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA.

1 Danes, J., Assistant Professor, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Euripides and Plato on Autochthony

2 Cashell, K.A., Lecturer, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland The Transvaluation of Representation

17:00 - 20:00 Urban Walk (Details during registration)

20:00 - 21:30 Dinner (Details during registration)

Wednesday , June 2 , 2010nd

Cruise: Departure at 07:15 Return at 20:30 (Details during registration)

Friday, June 3 , 2010rd

Delphi Visit: Departure at 07:50 Return at 19:30 (Details during registration)