The 30th Annual
Philosophy and Religion
Undergraduate Conference
November 9, 2019
Baldwin Hall Little Theatre
Conference Schedule
Click here for the detailed program with session abstracts.
| TIME | PRESENTER | SCHOOL | PAPER |
| 9:00 AM | DR. DERECK DASCHKE | TSU | INTRO & WELCOME |
| 9:10 | Allie Medler | Truman State University | Locke and the Information Commons: Types of Resources |
| 9:40 | Dakotah Kinsella | Augustana College | The Beauty Within the Individuality of the Self |
| 10:10 | BREAK | ||
| 10:20 | Garrett Bradley | University of Nebraska at Kearney | Beyond Beyond Good & Evil |
| 10:50 | Renee Zwahl | Missouri Western State University | Compassion and Mercy: Building a Better Justice Using Buddhist Ideology |
| 11:20 | Kayley Larson | Augustana College | The Empathy Illusion as a Means for Morality |
| 11:50 | LUNCH | MISSOURI HALL CAFETERIA | |
| 1:00 PM | DR. EVAN FALES | UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | HENRY SMITS LECTURE: “Might the Biblical Miracle Stories be True After All?” |
| 2:00 | Christopher LeWarne | Creighton University | Panpsychism or Neutral Monism: Yet to Make up My Mind |
| 2:30 | MC Raterman | Creighton University | Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign: Astrology, Science and the Phenomenological Attitude |
| 3:00 | Marie Rioux | Benedictine College | Aristotle, Quantum Foundations, and Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword |
| 3:30 | BREAK | ||
| 3:35 | Braidon Brannon | Pittsburg State University | Why the Ethical Perspective of Care Should Guide United Nations Peacekeepers and Mediators in Dealing with Sexual Trauma Worldwide |
| 4:05 | Leo Grantham | Missouri Western State University | Befast: Examining Strategic Nonviolence as a Form of Effective Pragmatic Nonviolence |
| 4:35 | Randhi Perera | Truman State University | Does Buddhism Justify the Righteous War (Dharmayuddha)? |
Find out more about recent past Truman Undergraduate Philosophy and Religion Conferences.
