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12th ICP: Program

Tuesday, August 6

1:00-3:00

Registration, Tea and Coffee

Room 227

3:00-3:30

Welcome and Conference Information

Jan Olof Bengtsson, Lund University (Sweden)

Gunnar Broberg, Lund University (Sweden)

Room 201

3:30-4:15

Opening Panel on the History and Purpose of the ICP

Thomas O. Buford, Furman University (USA)

Responses:

Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA)

Jan Olof Bengtsson, Lund University (Sweden)

Room 201

4:15-4:30

Break

4:30-5:30

Keynote Address

Keith Ward, Oxford University (UK)

Absolute and Personalist Idealism

Room 201

5:30-8:00

Welcome Reception

Room 227

Wednesday, August 7

9:00-10:20

Session A:

O. A. Oyowe, University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)

Velleman and the Dis-guises of Self

Geraldine Ng, University of Reading (UK)

Persons, Agency, and the Operations of Blame

Commentator: Richard C. Prust

Room 202

Session B:

Anthony L. Cashio, Manchester University (USA)

Embracing a Personalist Approach to Environmental Philosophy

Jason M. Bell, University of New Brunswick and Mt. Allison University (Canada)

Toward a Methodology Against Genocide

Commentator: Federico Lauria

Room 109

10:20-10:40

Tea and Coffee

10:40-12:00

Session A:

Robert F. DeVall, Jr., West Chester University of Pennsylvania (USA)

Keeping the “I” in the “I-Thou” Relationship: Pringle-Pattison’s Rejection of an Impersonal Absolute

Douglas McDermid, Trent University (Canada)

Are Selves Sui Generis? McTaggart on Immortality and the Argument from Impermanence

Commentator: Jan Olof Bengtsson

Room 202

Session B1 (10:40-11:20):

Anne Runehov, Copenhagen University (Denmark)

The Process of Believing

Commentator: Eike-Henner W. Kluge

Session B2 (11:20-12:00):

Janne Kontala, Åbo Akademi (Finland)

Eastern Spirituality in Sweden: Identifying Emerging Worldview Patterns Amongst Practitioners 

Commentator: Ferdinando Sardella

Room 109

12:00-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:45

Plenary Panel on Hindu Personalism

Kenneth R. Valpey, Oxford University (UK)

Personhood as Multivalent Reality in Premodern Indian Theography

Ithamar Theodor, University of Haifa (Israel)

Resorting to Aesthetics: The Articulation of Divine Personhood in the Vaishnava Vedanta Tradition

Ferdinando Sardella, Uppsala University (Sweden)

Modern Hindu Personalism

Room 201

3:45-4:30

Tea and Coffee

4:30-5:50

Session A:

Lucian Delescu, Berkeley College (USA)

On Darwin’s Account of Consciousness and its Implications for a General Theory of Person

Victoria Höög, Lund University (Sweden)

Persona and Ethos in Contemporary Technoscientific Cultures

Commentator: Anthony L. Cashio

Room 202

Session B:

Soyoung Park, Independent Scholar, Vancouver, BC (Canada)

Suspended Subjectivity: Artistic Intention in Making Art

Jonnie Eriksson, Lund University and Halmstad University (Sweden)

Realist by Nature, by Nature Abstract: Personalist Aesthetics in Mounier and Henry

Commentator: James McLachlan

Room 109

5:50-6:00

Break

6:00-7:00

Plenary

Juan Manuel Burgos, CEU San Pablo University (Spain)              

A New Personalist Proposal: Modern Ontological Personalism

Room 201

Thursday, August 8

9:00-10:20

Session A:

Bogumił Gacka, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (Poland)

Personalism in Brazil

Andris Sevels, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)

Personalistic Mariology of John Paul II

Room 202

Session B:

James Beauregard, Independent Scholar, Manchester, NH (USA)

Neuroethics: A Personalist Approach

Eike-Henner W. Kluge, University of Victoria (Canada)

Personhood, Brain Death and Resource Allocation: The Implications of Aquinas’ Conception of Human Persons                                              

Commentator: Juan Manuel Burgos

Room 109

10:20-10:40

Tea and Coffee

10:40-11:40

Plenary

Fredrik Ullén, Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)

The Creative Person: Neuropsychological Perspectives 

Room 201

AFTERNOON FREE

7:00

Conference Dinner

Friday, August 9

9:00-10:20

Session A:

Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA)

Scheler and the Existence of the Impersonal

James McLachlan, Western Carolina University (USA)

Levinas, the Person, and Eschatology

Commentator: Philip Cronce

Room 202

Session B:

Jerzy Król, State University of Higher Education in Chełm (Poland)

Upbringing and Education from the Personalist Perspective

Inger Enkvist, Lund University (Sweden)

Personalism: Identifying Two Opposite Views of the Teaching Profession

Commentator: Thomas O. Buford

Room 109

Session C:

Agnieszka Gąsior-Mazur, Independent Scholar, Lublin (Poland)

The Development of Person vs. Building the Value of a Company

Ewa Smołka, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)

Openness to Others as a Way of Personal Development

Room 022

10:20-10:40

Tea and Coffee

10:40-12:00

Session A:

Richard C. Prust, St. Andrews University (USA)

The Ragged Edge of our Personal Past

Federico Lauria and Alain Pé-Curto, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

The Situationist Boomerang

Commentator: Michael Thompson

Room 202

Session B:

J. J. MacIntosh, University of Calgary (Canada)

Persons, Identity, and Irenaean Theodicies

Joseph Diekemper, Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland)

Temporality, Creation, and Divine Personhood

Commentator: Eoin O’Connell

Room 109

12:00-2:00

Lunch

2:00- 3:45

Plenary Panel on the Roots of the Philosophical Problem of the Person

Lorenzo Greco, Oxford University (UK)

Hume and the Narrative of the Self

Michael Thompson, University of North Texas (USA)

The Antinomy of Identity: Personal Identity and Time in Modern Philosophy

Daryl L. Hale, Western Carolina University (USA)

Persons as Supra Pretium: Kant’s Neglected Argument for Personalism?

Room 201

3:45-4:30

Tea and Coffee

4:30-5:50

Session A:

Argun Abrek Canbolat, Middle East Technical University (Turkey)

Personhood: From Physical to Social

Simon Smith, Independent Scholar, Haslemere, Surrey (UK)

A Convergence of Cosmologies: Personal Analogies in Modern Physics and Modern Metaphysics

Commentator: Daryl L. Hale

Room 202

Session B:

Ian Winchester, University of Calgary (Canada)

Collingwood’s Conception of Personhood and its Relation to Language Use

Giusy Gallo, University of Calabria (Italy) 

Dialogue and Language: The Way to Be a Person

Commentator: Randall E. Auxier

Room 109

5:50-6:00

Break

6:00-7:00

Plenary

Claes G. Ryn, Catholic University of America (USA)

“Idealistic” Dreaming: The Imagination of Unbounded Egotism

Room 201

Saturday, August 10

9:00-10:20

Session A1 (9:00-9:40):

Erik Persson, Independent Scholar, Harlösa (Sweden)

The Catholic Critics of Personalism: Before and After Father Meinvielle

Commentator: Jerzy Król

Session A2 (9:40-10:20):

Philip Cronce, Chicago State University (USA)

Dewey, Rorty, and Honors Education after the Fall of the Academy

Room 202

Session B1 (9:00-9:40):

Susanna Åkerman-Hjern, Independent Scholar, Stockholm (Sweden)

Swedenborg and the Grand Human

Commentator: James McLachlan

Session B2 (9:40-10:20):

Kerstin Maria Pahl, Humboldt University (Germany)

Timing Life: Portraiture and Biography in 18th Century England

Commentator: Jonnie Eriksson

Room 109

Session C1 (9:00-9:40):

Guillermo Barron, Red Deer College (Canada)

Gender and Personhood

Commentator: Giusy Gallo

Room 022

10:20-10:40

Tea and Coffee

10:40-12:00

Session A:

Christina Conroy, Morehead State University (USA)

Branch-Relative Identity

Eoin O’Connell, Manhattan College (USA)

Inferences to Personhood

Commentator: Randall E. Auxier

Room 202

Session B:

Kenny Siu Sing Huen, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (Brunei)

The Crux of Living a Human Life: From Heidegger to Wittgenstein

Alastair Beattie, University of the Andes (Venezuela)

Person as Platonic Idea Form

Commentator: Douglas McDermid

Room 109

12:00-12:10

Break

12:10-12:40

Closing Panel: Conference Overview and the State of the Person

Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA)

Jan Olof Bengtsson, Lund University (Sweden)

Thomas O. Buford, Furman University (USA)

Room 201

Read more about the 12th International Conference on Persons under Uncategorized or on the conference website.

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