History of the Annual Symposium in Philosophy at UNCG

The Department of Philosophy at UNCG has held a symposium almost every Spring since 1976. Each has brought together leading researchers for a lively exchange of ideas on a single topic. The main papers have usually been published together in a book or a single prominent journal. The topics, directors, main speakers and publication details are as follows.

Conceptual Revolutions and Scientific Progress, 1976 (Jarrett Leplin)

Dudley Shapere, Frederick Suppe, Stephen Brush, David Hull

Consciousness and the Brain, 1977 (Arnold B. Levison)

David Rosenthal, Ned Block, Diana Ackerman, Daniel Dennett

Human Rights and Justice, 1978 (Arnold B. Levison and Terrance McConnell)

Alan Gewirth, Lawrence Thomas, Irving Thalberg, Annette Barnes, Kurt Baier

Current Issues in the Philosophy of Mathematics, 1979 (Michael Resnick, UNC-Chapel Hill)

Michael Resnick, Philip Kitcher, Michael Jubien, Scott Weinstein , Hao Wang

Nous, Volume XV, Number 4 (November, 1981)

Current Issues in Epistemology, 1980 (John L. King and Gary Rosenkrantz)

Bruce Aune, Marshall Swain, Fred Dretske, Ernest Sosa, Jaegwon Kim

Philosophical Studies, Volume 40, Number 3, November, 1981

Action, Agency, and the Will, 1981 (Robert B. Rosthal)

Richard Taylor, Hector Castaneda, Myles Brand, Robert Audi, Lawrence Davis

Erkenntnis, Volume 18, Number 2, September, 1982

Scientific Realism, 1982 (Jarrett Leplin)

Ernan McMullin, Arthur Fine, Michael Levin, Ronald Laymon, Richard Boyd

Jarret Leplin (ed) Scientific Realism, U. of California, 1984

The Logic of Religious Concepts, 1984 (Gary Rosenkrantz)

George Mavrodes, Norman Kretzmann, Eleonore Stump, William Mann, Philip Quinn

Faith and Philosophy, Volume 2, Number 4, October, 1985

Rationality and Moral Values, 1985 (Terrance McConnell)

Dan Brock, Lawrence Blum, Stephen Darwall, Norman Dahl, Patricia Greenspan

Philosophical Studies, Volume 50, Number 3, November, 1986

Problems of Existence and Identity, 1986 (Joshua Hoffman)

Nathan Salmon, George Bealer, Terence Parsons, Peter van Inwagen, Ernest Sosa

Philosophical Perspectives, I, 1987

Thought and Reference, 1987 (Gary Rosenkrantz)

John Pollock, Steven Boer, Roderick Chisholm, Robert Stalnaker, Jerrold Katz

Philosophical Studies, Volume 58, Numbers 1-2, February, 1990

The Future of Folk Psychology, 1988 (John Greenwood)

Paul Churchland, Stephen Stich, Jonathan Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Simon Blackburn

John Greenwood (ed) The Future of Folk Psychology, Cambridge, 1991

How Theories Are Constructed: The Methodology of Scientific Creativity, 1989 (Jarrett Leplin)

Dudley Shapere, Don Page, John Norton, Howard Stein, Wyatt Anderson

Jarrett Leplin (ed) The Creation of Ideas in Physics,

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995

Responsibility, 1990 (Michael J. Zimmerman)

Holly Smith, William Rowe, John Martin Fischer, Robert Audi, Peter French

Ethics, Volume 101, Number 2, January, 1991

Approaches to Cognition, 1991 (John L. King)

Michael Bratman, Henry Kyburg,, William Bechtel, Chris Lacher, John Pollock

Minds and Machines, Volumes 2-4 (Feb. 1992, Sept. 1992, Feb. 1993, Jan. 1994); Artificial Intelligence, Sept., 1992.

The Real Things: Studies in Ontology, 1992 (Joshua Hoffman)

John Foster, James Van Cleve, Roderick Chisholm, E.J. Lowe, Peter Simons

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 54, Number 3, 1994

Empirical Equivalence and the Underdetermination of Theories, 1993 (Jarrett Leplin)

Larry Laudan, Ron Giere, Alexander Rosenberg, James Cushing, Ronald Laymon

Rights, 1994 (Terrance McConnell)

Randy E. Barnett, Diana Tietjens Meyers, A. John Simmons, Carl Wellman, George Sher

Law and Philosophy, Volume 14, Number 2, May 1995

Moral Obligation, 1995 (Michael J. Zimmerman)

Fred Feldman, David Copp, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Roy Sorensen, Michael Slote

Utilitas, Volume 7, Number 2, November 1995

Kinds and Categories, 1996 (Gary Rosenkrantz)

Michael Loux, Jonathan Lowe, Eli Hirsch, Jerrold Aronson, Barry Smith

Philosophical Papers, Volume XXVI, Number 1, April 1997

Intrinsic Value, 1998 (Michael J. Zimmerman)

Shelly Kagan, Noah Lemos, Thomas Hurka, Robert Audi, Fred Feldman

The Journal of Ethics, Volume 2, Number 4, 1998

Current Issues in Ontology, 2000 (Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz)

John Heil, Jonathan Lowe, Peter Simons, Ernest Sosa, Dean Zimmerman

Conceiving and Modality, 2002 (Janine Jones)

Tamar Szabo, Stephen Yablo, Kit Fine, Bill Hart, Saul Kripke

Epistemic Justification, 2004 (Jarrett Leplin)

Jonathan Vogel, Peter Klein, Jarrett Leplin, Michael Williams, Ram Neta

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