Undergraduate conference

The annual Western Canadian Undergraduate Conference of Philosophy features exceptional undergraduate work from students across North America. The 2014 conference was held on March 22nd at the Chateau Victoria Hotel, featuring talks by students from UVic and UBC.

Schedule:

10:00: Neil Kim, University of British Columbia: "Blaming Attitudes and the Moral Judge"

11:00: Fiona Schick, University of Victoria: "Potentiality in Aristotle's Metaphysics and the Capabilities Approach to Human Rights"

11:50: Lu-Vada Dunford, University of British Columbia: "Imagine Philosophy with Intuitions"

12:30: Lunch

1:20: Zoey Ockenden, University of Victoria: "Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Addressing Humean Skepticism"

2:10: Adrian Yee, University of British Columbia: "In Defense of Logical Pluralism"

3:00: Bianca Crewe, University of Victoria: "Feminist Interpretations of Quinean Naturalism" 

4:00: Keynote Speaker Dr. Chloe Taylor, University of Alberta: "Birth of the Suicidal Subject: Nelly Arcan, Michel Foucault, and Voluntary Death"