UVIC Philosophy Students' Union

Here are some updates on the schedule for the Conference:

Revised Schedule

8:30 - 9:30 Breakfast!
9:30 - 10:40 Introduction and Undergraduate Presentations (#1 & 2)
10:40 - 10:50 AM Break!
10:50 - 11:40 Undergraduate Presentation #3
11:40 - 12:40 Lunch!
12:40  - 1:40 Keynote Address: Dr. Mike Raven on
                   “There is a Problem of Change”
                   (Click for the Penultimate draft!)
1:40 - 2:00 PM Break
2:00 - 2:45 Presentation #4
2:45 - 3:30 Presentation #5
3:30 - 4:15 Presentation #6

Dinner at the Grad Lounge
After-Party

Also, a number of abstracts are available for viewing in the posts below:

Laura Marino Rugeles (VIU) — “Libertarianism Without Luck”

Sam Girmwarnauth (Grand Valley State University) — TBA

Angella Yamamoto (U of A) — “Could Reasons for Belief Undermine Earl Conee and Richard Feldman’s Evidentialism?”

Alexandra Mogyoros (U of Guelph) — “The Ethics of Biobanking”

(NOTE: All abstracts are property of their authors and should not be reproduced in contexts outside of this conference.)

Hope to see you all there! You can join by going to our Facebook Group at http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=324932841462&ref=ts .

Best,
Mike.

EDIT:

P.S. Oh, and here’s my abstract:

 What do we owe each other in times of war and can due respect for individual autonomy and human rights be reconciled with the necessary conduct of warfare? Prima facie, it appears antithetical to the exercise of war to enshrine considerations of human rights and individual responsibility when warfare is by contemporary definitions “the actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict of political communities”, and not individuals. I will maintain throughout this paper, however, that individuals are morally and conceptually prior to the state. In doing so, I will examine arguments for an against the moral equality of soldiers thesis, the view that, granted the limited epistemic access of combatants to the justice of their cause, both just combatants and unjust combatants have an equal right to engage with one another on the battlefield. I will also examine arguments for an against civilian immunity from attack, arguing against Igor Primoratz’ influential justification of terroristic military action against democratic societies on the basis of command responsibility. I will then engage in a discussion of the justifiability of killing in war in general, and draw from this several pertinent revisions to the just war tradition concerning when an agent is to count as a combatant and when they are to be granted immunity.