5th Annual International Conference on Philosophy
31 May & 1-3 June, 2010, Athens, Greece
Sponsored by
THE PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH UNIT OF THE
ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
(AT.IN.E.R.)
Conference Venue: St George Lycabettus Boutique Hotel, 2 Kleomenous Street, Kolonaki, Athens.
Organized by: ATINEP A.E. (atinerae@atiner.gr)
Administration: Fani Balaska, Stavroula Kiritsi, Eirini Lentzou, Konstantinos Manolidis, Katerina Maraki, & Sylia Sakka.
ORGANIZING AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
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Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President and Director, ATINER.
Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Vice-President of ATINER & Professor, Sam Houston State University, USA.
Dr. Patricia Hanna, Professor, University of Utah, USA.
Dr. Panayotis Zamaros, Professor, ECMU, Switzerland.
Dr. Donald V. Poochigian, Academic Member, ATINER & Professor, University of North Dakota, USA.
Dr. Yiorgo Maniatis, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.
Dr. Scott Nelson, Academic Member, ATINER & Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, USA.
Dr. Chrysoula Gitsoulis, Academic Member, ATINER & Adjunct Assistant Professor, City College, City University of New York, USA.
Dr. John Roufagalas, Professor, Troy University, USA & Academic Member, ATINER.
Dr. Ioannis Stivachtis, Academic Member of ATINER and Director, International Studies Program Virginia Tech - Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State
University, USA.
Raymond Paul Petridis Tzombanos, Ph.D. Student, New School for Social Research, USA.
Dr. Margarita Kefalaki, Instructor, ATEI Athens & Researcher, ATINER.
Mr. Christos Frantzeskakis, Researcher, ATINER.
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C O N F E R E N C E P R O G R A M
(The time for each session includes at least 10 minutes coffee break)
Monday, May 31st, 2010
08:00 - 08:30 Registration
08:30 - 09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
 Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, Director, ATINER.
 Dr. Patricia Hanna, Professor, University of Utah, USA.
 Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Vice-President of ATINER and Professor, Sam Houston University, USA.
09:00-10:30
Session I (Room A): 19th and 20th Century Philosophy I
Chair: Pappas, N., Vice-President of ATINER and Professor, Sam Houston University, USA.
1. Pietersma, H., Professor, University of Toronto. Merlean - Ponty’s Doctrine of Objects.
2. Nicholson, C., Professor, Rider University, USA. An Adverbial Interpretation of
Pragmatism.
3. Skrupskelis, A., Associate Professor, University of South Carolina Aiken, USA. A
Phenomenology of Child Play.
09:00-10:30
Session II (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology I
Chair: Hanna, P., Professor, University of Utah, USA.
1. Pistorius, S., Head of Software Department, Software Company, Germany. The Evolution of
Knowledge - A Unified Naturalistic Approach to Evolutionary Epistemology Taking Into
Account the Impact of Information Technology and the Internet.
2. Swiatek, K., Professor, Grant Macewan University, Canada. Metaphysics and Semantics of Folk
Psychology. (Monday, May 31st, 2010)
3. Michaelakis, M., Assistant Professor, Yonsei University, South Korea. Does Preference
Determine Action? A Defense of Davidson’s Principle, P1.
10:30-12:00
Session III (Room A): Ancient Philosophy I
Chair: *Thompson, J., Associate Professor, Christopher Newport University, USA.
1. Carelli, P., Assistant Professor, University of North Florida, USA. True City – True Soul.
2. Aldema, H., Tel Aviv University, Israel. Knowing the Sophist: An Encountering
with the Law.
3. Bohle, B., PhD Student, Freie University, Germany. Plato on Rhetoric – Neoplatonic
Interpretations.
10:30-12:00
Session IV (Room B): Philosophy of Religion
Chair: Naimo, G., Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia.
1. McCann, H., Professor, Texas A & M University, USA. Does God Have Free Will?
2. Artis, A., Assistant Professor, University of Michigan-Flint, USA. Descartes, Luther and the
Fifth Lateran Council.
12:00-13:30
Session V (Room A): Eastern Philosophy
Chair: Carelli, P., Assistant Professor, University of North Florida, USA.
1. Wang, Y., Professor, Rowan University, USA. Paradoxicality of Institution, DeInstitutionalization or the Counter-Institutional in Classical Chinese Chan Buddhist
Thought.
2. Yogi, M., Associate Professor, University of Delhi, India. Middle Path Aristotle and
Buddhism.
3. *Thompson, J., Associate Professor, Christopher Newport University, USA. Reconceiving
Philosophy as Bodily Discipline: Clues from Master Zhu.
12:00-13:30
Session VI (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology II
Chair: Swiatek, K., Professor, Grant Macewan University, Canada.
1. Naimo, G., Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia. Ontology that Matters:
binding relations.
2. Hearn, R., Practicing Attorney – Partner, Racine, Olson, Nye, Budge & Bailey, Chd., USA.
Heidegger’s Ontological Coordination (Gleichschaltung) of Temporality and Language
13:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
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14:30-16:00
Session VII (Room A): Ancient Philosophy II
Chair: Yogi, M., Associate Professor, University of Delhi, India.
1. Lee, M.-Y., Professor, National Pingtung University of Education Taiwan, Republic of
China. A Comparative Study of the Role of Harmony in the Thoughts of Confucius and
Plato on the Cultural Cultivation of Music.
2. Markhinin, V., Professor & Head, Surgut State University, Russia. ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΊΑ: WordConcept.
3. Sars, N., Graduate Student, Bowling Green State University, USA. A New Interpretation
of Plato’s Crito.
16:00-17:30
Session IX (Room A): Ancient Philosophy III
Chair: Colombo, L., Assistant Professor, Bethune-Cookman University, USA
1. Wallace, A., Associate Professor, Sonoma State University, USA. Compassion and Wellbeing: An Aristotelian – Buddhist Perspective. (Monday, May 31st, 2010)
2. Matthews, P.J., Senior Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia.
Friendship and the Common Life: Happiness in a modern Polis.
3. Gitsoulis, C., Adjunct Assistant Professor, City University of New York, USA. The Myth
of Gyges and the Possibility of Altruism.
14:30-16:00
Session VIII (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology III
Chair: Wallace, A., Associate Professor, Sonoma State University, USA.
1. Zouhar, M., Associate Professor, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia. Two Notions of
Rigidity.
2. Hanna, P., Professor, University of Utah, USA. Why there is ‘no such thing as a language’:
Chomsky’s mistake
3. Vuorio, T., Researcher, University of Tampere, Finland. Rorty and the Linguistic Turn.
16:00-17:30
Session X (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology IV
Chair: Szymanska-Swiatek, E., Professor, Grant Macewan University, Canada.
1. Oaklander, I.N., Professor, University of Michigan-Flint, USA. A-and B-theories of Time: A
Debate.
2. Newsome, W., Student, University of Edinburgh, UK. Cultural Models in Adaptation and
Argumentation.
17:30-19:00
Session XI (Room A): 19th and 20th Century Philosophy II
Chair: Gitsoulis, C., Adjunct Assistant Professor, City University of New York, USA.
1. Chow, P.K., Assistant Professor, the Open University of Hong Kong, China. Truth, Proof
and Axiomatic Independence - Turning to Algorithm for an Explication of Wittgenstein’s
Philosophy of Mathematics.
2. Szymanska-Swiatek, E., Professor, Grant Macewan University, Canada. Structural Norms
versus Neuroscientific Facts. (Monday, May 31st, 2010)
3. *Hossein, R., Graduate Student, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran & Hosseini, D., Tarbiat
Modares University, Iran. Another paradox of Williamson's Margin for Error.
20:30 - 22:30 GREEK NIGHT AND DINNER (Details during registration)
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
08:30-10:00
Session XII (Room A): 19th and 20th Century Philosophy III
Chair: *Young, J., Professor, Wake Forest University, USA.
1. Caruso, G., Assistant Professor, Corning Community College, USA. The Folk Psychology of
Free Will: An Argument against Compatibilism.
2. Vergara, C., Ph.D. Student, New School for Social Research, USA. The Perplexity of New
Beginnings: The Will and the Foundation of Freedom. (Tuesday, June 1st, 2010)
3. Kaneti, M., Ph.D. Student, New School for Social Research, USA. Tyranny in the Corner:
Structural Violence and Human Agency.
08:30-10:00
Session XIII (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology V
Chair: *Holman, E., Associate Professor, George Mason University, USA.
1. Adams, F., Chair, Linguistics & Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, USA. The
Semantics, Pragmatics, and Ontology of Fiction.
2. *Fuller, G., Professor, Central Michigan University, USA. Personal Identity and Narratives.
3. Poochigian, D., Professor, University of North Dakota, USA. Being as the Set of All
Things.
10:00-11:30
Session XIV (Room A): 19th and 20th Century Philosophy IV
Chair: Caruso, G., Assistant Professor, Corning Community College, USA.
1. Murray, E., Professor and Chair of Department, Loyola Marymount University, USA. The
Problem with the Censor.
2. *Young, J., Professor, Wake Forest University, USA. Nietzsche and Women.
3. Coimbra Goncalves, R.M., Ph.D. Student, University of Coimbra, Portugal. The Idea of
Colonial Conquest and Christian Evangelization according to its Aristotelian Echoes in Suarez
and Vieira.
4. Naziripour, R., Instructor, Islamic Azad University – karaj Branch, Iran. Metaphysics of Power
and End of Play in Nietzsche's Philosophy.
10:00-11:30
Session XV (Room B): Ethics I
Chair: Poochigian, D., Professor, University of North Dakota, USA.
1. Davila, F., Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine University of Arkansas Medical School and
Chief Medical Officer/VPMA QualChoice Little Rock Ark, USA. When Ethics is the
Problem?
2. Colombo, L., Assistant Professor, Bethune-Cookman University, USA. Thoughts by the Sea,
Reflections on Happiness.
3. *Breuer, M.G., Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Candidate, Heinrich-Heine University of
Dusseldorf, Germany. The Role of Sociological Assumptions in the Construction of Ethical
Theories.
4. Deng, Y., Ph.D. Student, University of Minnesota, USA. Justice, Injustice and Chinese
Soybeans: An Inquiry from the Perspective of Kant’s Publicity Principle. (Tuesday, June 1st,
2010)
11:30-13:00
Session XVI (Room A): Early Modern Philosophy
Chair: Murray, E., Professor and Chair of Department, Loyola Marymount University, USA.
1. Loptson, P., Professor, University of Guelph, Canada. Hume and Ancient Philosophy.
2. Scherer, I., Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland, USA. The Necessity of the
'Necessary Connection': Revisiting Kant's Metaphysics to Save Science.
3. Beaton, R., Ph.D. Student, Toronto University, Canada. Schopenhauer as Internal Critic of
Kant: Holding Kant to a Deterministic Conception of the Inclinations.
11:30-13:00
Session XVII (Room B): Metaphysics and Epistemology VI
Chair: *Fuller, G., Professor, Central Michigan University, USA.
1. *Holman, E., Associate Professor, George Mason University, USA. Phenomenal Concepts
and the Mode of Presentation Problem.
2. O'Loughlin, I., Ph.D. Student, University of Iowa, USA. Connectionist Semantics, Feature
Processing, and the Interpretability of Dimensions in State-Space.
3. Giananti, A., Ph.D. Student, University of Edinburgh, UK. Perceptual Knowledge and
Perceptual Discrimination: a Puzzle for McDowell.
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
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14:00-15:30
Session XVIII (Room A): Islamic Philosophy
Chair: Loptson, P., Professor, University of Guelph, Canada.
1. Alerasoul, S., Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University-Karaj Branch, Iran.,Pourtolami,
M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran& Sayyid Mazhari, M.,
Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran & Naziripour, R., Instructor,
Islamic Azad University , karaj Branch, Iran. Influence of Philosophy on Islamic Mysticism.
2. Farahmand, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Ardebil Branch, Iran. The
Ontology of Light in the Philosophy of Ishraq.
3. Pourtolami, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University-Karaj Branch, Iran, Alerasoul, S.,
Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch,Iran ,Sayyid Mazhari, M.,
Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran.& Naziripour, R., Instructor,
Islamic Azad University , Karaj Branch, Iran .The Role of Theoretical Mysticism in Solving
some Philosophical Controversies
4. Sayyid Mazhari, M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University-Karaj Branch, Iran,
Alerasoul, S., Associate Professor,Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran & Pourtolami,
M., Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch, Iran. Plotinus on Art and
Knowledge.
14:00-15:30
Session XIX (Room B): Ethics II
Chair: Rubarth, S., Associate Professor, Rollins College, USA.
1. Badhwar, N., Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA. Autonomy as a Moral Virtue.
2. Usami, M., Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Intergenerational Rights: A
Philosophical Examination.
3. Ceylan, S.S., Assistant Professor, Marmara University, Turkey. H.L.A. HART: The
Separation of Law and Morals.
4. Kapetanakis, P., Ph.D. Student, University of Edinburgh, UK. Aristotle on Moral
Responsibility and the Situationist Challenge.
15:30-17:00
Session XX (Room A): Ethics III
Chair: Newsome, W., Student, University of Edinburgh, UK..
1. Ayestaran, I., Professor, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.
Sustainability, Science, and Ethics: A New Paradigm for Global Change.
2. Rubarth, S., Associate Professor, Rollins College, USA. Epictetus and the Ethics of Perception.
15:30-17:00
Session XXI (Room B): Ancient Philosophy IV
Chair: Badhwar, N., Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA.
1. Danes, J., Assistant Professor, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Euripides
and Plato on Autochthony.
2. Cashell, K.A., Lecturer, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland. The Transvaluation of
Representation.
17:00 - 20:00 Urban Walk (Details during registration)
20:00 - 21:30 Dinner (Details during registration)
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Cruise: Departure at 07:15 Return at 20:30 (Details during registration)
Friday, June 3rd, 2010
Delphi Visit: Departure at 07:50 Return at 19:30 (Details during registration)
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