2024 PHI PRO

19th Annual International Conference on Philosophy
Program (Athens Local Time)

27-30 May 2024
9 Chalkokondili Street, 10677 Athens, Greece

(Note 1: the program is organized along time slots and not according to common theme)
(Note 2: at the end of each session questions and discussions will follow)

Monday 27 May 2024

08.30-09.15
Registration

09:15-10:00
Opening and Welcoming Remarks:

  • Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER.
10:00-11:30 Session 1
Session 1a
Moderator: Mark Fagiano,  Deputy Head, Philosophy Unit, ATINER & Assistant Professor, Washington State University, USA.		 Session 1b
Moderator: Tennyson Samraj, Professor, Burman University, Canada.		 Session 1c
Moderator: Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca, Associate Professor, European University Cyprus, Cyprus.
  1. Peter Vranas, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
    Title: Permission-Prohibition Configurations.
  2. Martyna Koszkalo, Professor, University of Gdańsk, Poland.
    Title: John Duns Scotus’s Analysis of the Structure of the Will in the Light of 14th Century Philosophical and Theological Discussions.
  1. Stephan Unger, Professor, Saint Anselm College, USA.
    Title: The Ancient Roots of Classical Liberalism.
  2. Oidinposha Imamkhodjaeva, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
    Title: War, Peace, and the Search for Meaning: Tolstoy and the Crisis of Our Times.
  3. Jianjun Zhang, Professor, Philosophy Department & Director, Institute for Modern Logic and Application, Nanjing University, China.
    Title: The Pragmatic Nature of Generalized Logical Paradoxes and the RZH Criterion for Paradox Resolution.
  1. Patrick Downey, Professor, St. Mary’s College of California, USA.
    Title: From Private Bodies to a Shareable Body Politic. A Theological Solution to a Foundational Political Problem.
  2. Zeev Herzog, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
    Title: Was Monotheism the Dominant Religion in the Kingdom of Judah? A View Through an Archaeological Lens.
  3. Sanaa Riaz, Associate Professor, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA.
    Title: Spirits and Social Agency.

 

11:30-13:00 Session 2
Session 2a
Moderator: Natasza Szutta, Associate Professor, University of Gdańsk, Poland.		 Session 2b
Moderator: Oidinposha Imamkhodjaeva, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA.		 Session 2c
Moderator: Robert Aleksander Maryks, Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
  1. Side Emre, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, USA.
    Title: On the Cusp of Divine Truths and the Everlasting Quest for Knowledge: Diagramming Esoteric Knowledge in Sixteenth Century Ottoman Sufi Literature.
  2. Silvia Gullino, Assistant Professor, University of Padua, Italy.
    Title: The Origin of Soul’s Passions and Vices: The Influence of Platonic and Aristotelian Doctrines on Evagrius Ponticus’ Thought.
  1. Xavier Pavie, Professor, ESSEC Business School, International College of Philosophy, Université Paris Nanterre, France.
    Title: Non-Standard Philosophy, A Necessity for a New Era of Innovation.
  2. Cong Cong, Chair Professor, Nanjing University IAS & Co-Director, Nanjing-Birmingham-Phoenix Shakespeare Centre, China.
    Title: Politics and Philosophy of the Aged: Senior Rulers More Sinn’d against than Sinning.
  3. Eric B. Litwack, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Sheffield & Faculty, Philosophy and Information Studies, Syracuse University in London, UK.
    Title: The Aesthetics of Humanoid Robot Design: The Psychological and Ethical Dimensions.
  1. Olivier Hamel, Professor, University Toulouse 3, France.
    Title: Dentistry and Spirituality; A French Perspective.
  2. Hanna Herzog, Professor Emerita, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
    Title: Religious Resurgence Between Inclusion and Exclusion: Gender Perspectives of the Israeli Case.
  3. Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca, Associate Professor, European University Cyprus, Cyprus.
    Title: The Role of Teachers in the Development of Children’s and Adolescents’ Spirituality According to Maslow.

 

13:00-14:30 Session 3
Session 3a
Moderator: Olga Gkounta, Researcher, ATINER.		 Session 3b
Moderator: Ori Soltes, Teaching Professor, Georgetown University, USA.
  1. Mark Fagiano, Assistant Professor, Washington State University, USA.
    Title: Moral Education: From Thought Experiments to Embodied Experience.
  2. Jevgenija Sivoronova, Researcher, Daugavpils University, Latvia.
    Title: Academics’ Meanings of Knowledge Sources.
  3. Montserrat Sobral Dorado, PhD Candidate, National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain.
    Title: An Approach to Eroticism through our Aesthetic Experience with the Odyssey.
  1. Joseph Bush, Professor Emeritus, Wesley Theological Seminary, USA.
    Title: God’s Oikos: Fifty Years of Ecumenical Thinking about Ecology and the Economic Trinity.
  2. Nadja Furlan Stante, Professor, Science and Research Centre Koper (ZRS Koper), Slovenia.
    Title: A Call for Women’s Engagement in Environmental Interreligious Peacebuilding.
  3. Jonathan Milevsky, Educator, Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, Canada.
    Title: Yos’l Rakover Talks to God: Seeing Zvi Kolitz’ Famous Novel through the Lens of Joseph Soloveitchik’s Philosophy.

14:30-15:30 Lunch

15:30-17:00 Session 4
Moderator: Mohammad Ashraf Adeel, Professor, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA.
  1. Martin Peterson, Professor, Texas A&M University, USA.
    Title: A Compromise Between Utilitarianism and Duty Ethics?
  2. Thomas B. Ellis, Professor, Appalachian State University, USA.
    Title: Just Athens and Jerusalem? What about Benares? Ulysses, Abraham, and Uddhava at the Cross-cultural Roads.
  3. Hatice Zeynep Coskunkan, Master’s Graduate, Koç University, Türkiye.
    Title: The Value of Insatiable Curiosity.

 

17:00-18:30 Session 5
Moderator: Alberto Merzari, PhD Student, University of Padua, Italy.
  1. Samir Roy, Professor, National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research (NITTTR), Kolkata, India.
    Title: The Missing Link between the Strong AI Thesis and Searle’s Chinese Room Argument.
  2. Aylon Cohen, Lecturer, Freie Universität – Berlin, Germany.
    Title: How does the Body Signify Meaning? Gesture, Affect and Signification in the Work of Norbert Elias.
  3. Johannes Wirtz, Teacher, Gymnasium (German High School), Erzbischöfliche Ursulinenschule Hersel, Germany.
    Title: Is Classical Music Superior to Pop Music? On the Structure of the Evaluation of Music.

20:30-22:30
Athenian Early Evening Symposium (includes in order of appearance: continuous academic discussions, dinner, wine/water, music)

Tuesday 28 May 2024

09:00-10:30 Session 6
Session 6a
Moderator: Anita Leirfall, Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway.		 Session 6b
Moderator: Zeev Herzog, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
  1. Tennyson Samraj, Professor, Burman University, Canada.
    Title: Naming and meaning delineated in the Context of the Essence/Existence Distinction.
  2. John Lizza, Professor, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA.
    Title: A Prescriptive Metaphysics of Death.
  3. Reinhard Neck, Professor Emeritus, University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
    Title: A Critical Discussion of Some Theories of Justice: G.A. Cohen versus John Rawls.
  1. Robert Aleksander Maryks, Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
    Title: Recovering Forgotten Religious Tumults: Crisis of Civic Values in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania.
  2. Ori Soltes, Teaching Professor, Georgetown University, USA.
    Title: Shaping God in Modernity: From Descartes to Spinoza.
  3. Anthony Nderitu, Teacher, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, UK.
    Title: Hallmarks of Religious Extremism in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

 

10:30-12:00 Session 7
Session 7a
Moderator: Jacek Dobrowolski, Professor, University of Warsaw, Poland.		 Session 7b
Moderator: Anthony Nderitu, Teacher, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, UK.
  1. Anita Leirfall, Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway.
    Title: On the Perception of Forces. Some Kantian Reflections.
  2. Andrew Ward, Honorary Life Fellow in Philosophy, University of York, UK.
    Title: The Judgment of Taste: Hume versus Kant.
  3. Alberto Merzari, PhD Student, University of Padua, Italy.
    Title: A Philosophy for Leisure: From Aristotle to Keynes, Goethe, and Heidegger.
  1. Mohammad Ashraf Adeel, Professor, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA.
    Title: Revelation and Virtue.
  2. Robert Bishop, Professor, Wheaton College, USA.
    Title: Contextual Emergence and Consciousness.

 

12:00-13:30 Session 8
Moderator: Montserrat Sobral Dorado, PhD Candidate, National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain.
  1. Jacek Dobrowolski, Professor, University of Warsaw, Poland.
    Title: Nietzsche: Romanticism, Modernity and Modernism – A New Reading.
  2. Natasza Szutta, Associate Professor, University of Gdańsk, Poland.
    Title: Is Phronesis an Expert Skill?
  3. Petros Satrazanis, PhD Candidate, University College Dublin, Ireland.
    Title: Costas Axelos’ Planetary Thought: Challenging Boundaries and Embracing Enigma.

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Session 9
Moderator: John Lizza, Professor, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA.
  1. Cristina Rossitto, Professor, University of Padua, Italy.
    Title: The “Appetite” (Orexis) in Animals and Man According to Aristotle’s De Anima.
  2. James Downey, Associate Professor, Hollins University, USA.
    Title: On Truth Relativism.
  3. Swagata Ghosh, Assistant Professor, University of North Bengal, India.
    Title: Nature of Vedic Ethics and its Critique as Soteriology.
  4. Katherine Cooklin, Professor, Slippery Rock University, USA.
    Title: Foucault on Subjugated Knowledge and Emancipatory Aims.

 

17:00-20:00 Session 10
Old and New-An Educational Urban Walk
The urban walk ticket is not included as part of your registration fee. It includes transportation costs and the cost to enter the Parthenon and the other monuments on the Acropolis Hill. The urban walk tour includes the broader area of Athens. Among other sites, it includes: Zappion, Syntagma Square, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Ancient Roman Agora and on Acropolis Hill: the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion, and the Parthenon. The program of the tour may be adjusted, if there is a need beyond our control. This is a private event organized by ATINER exclusively for the conference participants.

20:30-22:00
Dinner

Wednesday 29 May 2024
An Educational Visit to Selected Islands
or Mycenae Visit

Thursday 30 May 2024
Visiting the Oracle of Delphi

Friday 31 May 2024
Visiting the Ancient Corinth and Cape Sounion



 


Conference Venue: 9 Chalkokondili Street, 10677 Athens, Greece


 


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