Kevin Aho, University of South Florida Introduction It is common to find Heidegger’s Being and Time located under the genre of 20th century existentialism with the works of Sartre, Camus, and Jaspers, along with his 19th century counterparts, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. This is due in large part to Heidegger’s conception of “authenticity,” a way of […]

Farhang Erfani, Villanova University True union, or love proper, exists only between living beings who are alike in power and thus in one another’s eyes living beings from every point of view; in no respect is either dead for the other. This genuine love excludes all opposition. Hegel, “Love” Under democracy the state of servitude […]

Winner of the Gerritt and Edith Schipper Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Dave Monroe, University of West Florida Introduction Ingmar Bergman’s Persona is a film that defies easy analysis and description. One becomes quickly disoriented in a labyrinth of flash backs, dream sequences, and […]

Author’s Opening Remarks Margaret McLaren, Rollins College First, I want to say thank you for inviting me to do this symposium. My book, Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity was published in October 2002. My opening remarks will summarize some of its main themes but, of course, I cannot cover everything I discuss in the book. […]

Book Symposium Michael Ruse, Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? (Harvard UP, 2003) Introduction Dan White, Florida International University This promises to be an interesting session based on the book by Professor Ruse. Professor Ruse has published numerous books and articles on Darwinian biology: The Evolution Wars, The Philosophy of Biology, Can a […]

Book Symposium Michael Ruse, Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? (Harvard UP, 2003) Purposiveness is not Paradoxical: All Living Organisms are Teleological, and That’s the Origin of All “Value,” from Amoebas to Humans Ronnie Hawkins, University of Central Florida I’ll start off by saying that I am certainly not one of the logical […]

Jason St. John Oliver Campbell, University of South Florida Introduction In the Charmides, Socrates sets out to critique the Apollonian conception of self-knowledge, illustrated by Apollo’s precept, know thyself, inscribed on the portals at Delphi (164d4-164e2). Socrates cannot jeopardize his piety through mounting an attack directly against Apollo. Thus, the Socratic elenchus begins with Charmides […]

Lasse Thomassen, University of Essex On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction and The Liberating Power of Symbols stand at each end of Jürgen Habermas’s attempt to develop a theory of communicative action, universal pragmatics, and discourse ethics. On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction is a collection of preliminary studies of communicative action and universal pragmatics […]

Presidential Address of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, 2005 Jim Perry, Hillsborough Community College Antonyms are words that mean opposite or even contradictory things. “Open” and “shut” are antonyms, as are “up” and “down.” What interests me this evening is auto-antonyms, words that mean the opposite of themselves, such as “sanction,” […]

Presidential Address of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Shelley M. Park, University of Central Florida Good evening. I hope you have enjoyed your time today and are looking forward to tomorrow’s events as well, as am I. On behalf of all of us, let me extend my thanks to Vice President […]