Philosophy Symposium
on the topic of:

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE

March 18-20, 1999

To be held on the CSUF campus in the Titan Student Union Building
Room: Portola Pavilion B

The 29th Annual CSUF Philosophy Symposium will investigate and discuss the relationship between Literature and Philosophy from many different angles and perspectives. Some in the academic community even contend Philosophy does not merely employ literary devices, but that Philosophy is Literature -- and this is sure to be discussed. Questions in ethics, social and political philosophy, and many philosophical issues have been presented through literature. Literature, throughout history, has served as perhaps the most successful vehicle through which Philosophical subject matter has been communicated. In addition to featuring Professors from Philosophy Departments, this event will feature professionals who work in English, Women’s Studies, and Religious Studies Departments. Not only will the event include excellent papers from outstanding scholars, but CSUF students, from both the Philosophy and English Departments of CSUF, will be active in the event through responding to several of the speakers.

This event will be free and open to the public.

CSUF is the only CSU to hold an undergraduate Philosophy Symposium. There is a tradition of excellence associated with this event that will certainly be continued at the upcoming symposium.

EVENT PROGRAM

Thursday, March 18

9:30am Welcome

10am “Epistemology and Literary Form in Plato and Descartes”

Jill Gordon, Colby College
Respondent: Joseph Hwang

1pm “Proust and the Philosophy of Time”

Jeff Mason, Middlesex University, London

3pm "No Escaping Bad Objects: A Psychoanalytic Look at Sartre's NO EXIT"

J. Michael Russell, CSUF
Respondent: Jon Trerise

Friday, March 19

10am “Responding Emotionally to Literature”

Jenefer Robinson, University of Cincinnati
Respondent: Daniel Walker

1pm "In the Beginning With the Word, or, The Significance of Poetry."

John Lysaker, University of Oregon

3pm "Reclaiming a Philosophy of Female Heterosexual Erotics Through Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis."

Kay Stanton, CSUF

4pm As You Like It Shakespeare Society Presents: "the 'O' in Nothingness"

panelists: Christie Diep, Erin Murphy, Cindy Brady
moderated by: Carleen Ibrahim

Saturday, March 20

10am “Coral Reefs, Metaphors, and the Literal: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Language."

Panelists: Bernd Magnus, UC, Riverside
Shari Starrett, CSUF
John Mumm, CSUF
Respondents: Ceylan Cemali, Katie Burnett

1pm "Laguna Women and the ethnographic striptease: Native American Women
writers and philosophy."

Renae Bredin, CSUF

2pm "The Existential Kiss: Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor"

Susan Fleck, CSUF Alumni
Respondents: CSUF Alumni Panel

3pm "Martha Nussbaum in Ethics and Literature - A Cool Place For Characters?"

D.Z. Phillips, Claremont Graduate University

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