2015 SUU UPC

2015 SUU Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

Thank you for joining us in celebrating undergraduate scholarship both at Southern Utah University and across the country. The students in the philosophy club put together a particularly impressive undergraduate philosophy conference that we held here on SUU's campus on Saturday, Feb. 7th.

Dr. Kari Theurer (Trinity College) presented a paper titled,

"The Mechanisms of Psychiatric Disorder: Hope for a Unified Science of Mind and Brain?"

In addition to Dr. Theurer's work, we heard the following papers:

" David Hume and Eighteenth Century Historiology"

Robert Lindsey, Southern Utah University

Commentary by: Dr. Kristopher Phillips (SUU)

" Direct Realism and the Argument from Hallucination"

Ross Jensen, University of Utah

Commentary by: Lucas Wentz (SUU)

"​ Who is Locke? An Account of Personal Identity"

Aaron Fawson, Southern Utah University

Commentary by: Katie Barnes (SUU)

" Dignity as Resulting from Value"

Preston Carter, Weber State University

Commentary by: Jordan Perkowski (SUU)