Philosophy Student Symposium Day 2
The 24th Annual Texas State University
Philosophy Student Symposium
April 23rd & 24th, 2021
April 24th, 2021
SESSION FIVE: ARISTOTELIAN VIRTUE ETHICS
"The Shortcomings of the Skill Analogy in Understanding Virtue"
David Ortiz,
Graduate Student, University of Florida
Respondent: Daphne Pons
"Perfectionism and Disability: Towards an Inclusive Perfectionist Framework"
Daphne Pons,
Graduate Student, Loyola University Chicago
Respondent: David Ortiz
SESSION SIX: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
"Choices Without Contingencies: Framing an Objection to Rawls' Scheme on Behalf of the Especially Effortful"
Juliet Isselbacher,
Undergraduate Student, Harvard College
Respondent: Trevor Kosloski
"Totalizing Capital, Totalizing Connectivity: A Marxist Understanding of Data Production and the Abstract Human"
Trevor Kosloski,
Undergraduate Student, Georgia State University Honors College
Respondent: Juliet Isselbacher
SESSION SEVEN: PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY
"Digital Sovereignty: Rights, Power, and Censorship in the World of Online Speech"
Max Hurwitz,
Graduate Student, Boston College
KEYNOTE ADDRESS, DAY 2
"Womanist Art: A Medium to Liberation"
Nathaniel Rodriguez Sosa,
M.A. Texas State University
Former President of Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honors Society
SESSION EIGHT: QUEER THEORY
"Homeless Queer-Punk American Anarchism (or, Steal From Places, Not From Faces)"
Zane Shirley,
Undergraduate Student, Texas State University
Respondent: Walker Peatross
"Identity, Expression, and Community: What Phenomenology Teaches Us About Being Queer in Rural America"
Walker Peatross,
Graduate Student, University of Texas El Paso
Respondent: Zane Shirley