The Metaphysical Society of America
Founded: 1950 Divider Member: American Council of Learned Societies
 

60th Annual Meeting

Emory University

Imagination, Reason, and the Real

March 13–14, 2009

 

 

Friday, March 13, 2009           Location: White Hall 205, on Emory Quad

 

11:00 AM — 2:30 PM     Registration.   Fee $15.00

 

Society for the Study of Process Philosophies

                            

1:00 — 2:30

Chair: Brian G. Henning  Gonzaga University

Topic: Imagination in Process: Realization and the Unrealized

 

Vincent Colapietro  The Pennsylvania State University

Routes of Inheritance: Paradigmatic Instances and Unexplored

Possibilities

 

Jude Jones  Fordham University

“Imagine There’s No Heaven”: The Urgency of the Actual World

 

2:30 — 2:45          Break

 

Metaphysical Society of America

 

2:45 — 3:45          Session 1

Chair: Thora Ilin Bayer  Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans

 

Jeffrey Dirk Wilson  Mount St. Mary’s University

The Metaphysics of Poetic Wisdom

 

3:45 — 4:00          Break

 

4:00 — 5:30          Keynote Address

 

The Critical Role of Imagination

 

Richard J. Bernstein

New School for Social Research

 

 

5:30 — 7:00          Reception to follow

Saturday, March 14, 2009         Location: Carlos Museum, 3rd floor

                                                                      on Emory Quad

9:00 AM — 9:15   Welcome

 

9:15 — 10:15        Session 2

Chair: Raymond Barfield  Duke University

 

C. Wesley DeMarco  Clark University

Reason, Imagination, and Reality

 

10:15 — 10:30      Break

 

10:30 — 11:30      Session 3

Chair: Frederick R. Marcus  Emory University

 

James W. Felt  Santa Clara University

Novelty in the Possible and the Actual

 

11:30 — 12:00      Business Meeting

 

12:00 — 2:00        Lunch (See list of nearby restaurants)

 

2:00 —3:00           Session 4

Chair: Charlotte Thomas  Mercer University

 

Dennis L. Sepper  University of Dallas

The Being of Imagination’s Motions in Aristotle and Saussure

 

3:00 — 3:15          Break

 

3:15 — 4:15          Session 5

Chair: Ann Hartle  Emory University

 

Owen Goldin  Marquette University

Aristotle on First Philosophy and the Imagination

 

4:15 — 4:30          Break

4:30 — 6:00          Location: White Hall 205

 

Presidential Address

Myth and Metaphysics

Donald Phillip Verene

Emory University

 

7:00            Banquet      Location: Carlos Museum, 3rd floor