Conference Schedule
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Friday, November 20:
11:00am – 12:30pm ET
Speaker: Joseph Cherny, “A Defense of Robert Nozick’s Theory of the Meaning of Life”
Comments: Joshua Hochschild
Speaker: Chad Engelland, “Three Versions of the Question ‘Why is There Something Rather than Nothing?’”
Comments: Timothy Kearns
12:45pm – 2:15pm ET
Speaker: Pol Vandevelde, “The Truth of Interpretation as Illumined by the Good: The Romantic Hermeneutic Ideal of 'Understanding Better'”
Comments: David Vessey
Speaker: Traci Phillipson, “Averroes' Tahafut al-Tahafut, The Third Discussion: A Methodological Approach to Truth”
Comments: Catherine Peters
2:30pm – 4:00pm ET
Speaker: Mathew Lu, “How is Patriotism a Virtue?”
Comments: Christopher Wolfe
Speaker: Harrison Jennings, “A Thomistic Sexual Realism”
Comments: John Skalko
4:15pm – 5:45pm ET
Speaker: Ryan Miller, “Artistic Truth Through the Ages: A Lonerganian Theory of Art History”
Comments: John Dadosky
Speaker: Mark Spencer, “Divine Beauty and Our Obligation to Worship God”
Comments: John Macias
6:00pm – 6:30pm ET
ACPA Business Meeting
6:30pm – 7:30pm ET
Social Hour
7:30pm – 9:30pm ET
Benediction
Presidential Address: Thomas Cavanaugh, "Capax Veritatis: Against Student-Commodification"
Plenary Keynote Address: Katherin Rogers, "Anselm on Truth and Truth-Telling"
9:30pm – 10:30pm ET
Social Hour
Saturday, November 21:
11:00am – 12:30pm ET
Speaker: Joseph Gamache, “Epistemic Relations Between Goodness and Value”
Comments: Geoffrey Karabin
Joshua Hinchie, “Divine Glory: Responding to Another Euthyphro Problem”
Comments: Daniel Maher
12:45pm – 2:15pm ET
Speaker: Christopher Mirus, “Time, Eternity, Relativity, and History”
Comments: Rob Koons
Speaker: Alexander Pruss, “The Cosmos as a Work of Art: A Skeptical Theist Approach That Isn’t Too Skeptical”
Comments: Timothy Pawl
2:30pm – 3:30pm ET
Plenary Keynote Address (Inaugural Nicholas Rescher Lecture): John Haldane, "Beauty before Aesthetics, and Aesthetics after Beauty"
4:00 – 5:30 ET
Speaker: Naomi Fisher, “The Beautiful is a Symbol of the Morally Good: Judgments of Beauty and their Relation to the Supersensible in Kant’s Third Critique”
Comments: Michael Rohlf
Speaker: Alice M. Ramos, “What is the Meaning of Beauty's Leading Us before the Face of God?”
Comments: Beth Rath
5:45pm – 7:15pm ET
Speaker: Michael Rubin (Karen Chan Young Scholar Award Recipient), “Aquinas on Bodily or Sensible Beauty”
Comments: Daniel De Haan
Speaker: Gaston LeNôtre, “Why Is It That ‘Goodness is Good’ but ‘Whiteness is Not White’? Thomas Aquinas, Philip the Chancellor, and their Neoplatonic Sources on Reflex Predication”
Comments: Philip Neri Reese, O.P.
7:15pm-8:00pm ET
Social Hour
8:00pm – 9:30pm ET
Benediction
Presentation of Karen Chan Young Scholar Award
Introduction of Aquinas Medalist by Angela Knobel
Address by Aquinas Medalist: Alfred Freddoso
9:30pm – 10:30pm ET
Social Hour