Calvin College & Grand Valley State University
Annual Joint
Undergraduate
Philosophy Conference
Past Conferences
2019: March 29th & 30th
Seventh Annual Calvin-GVSU Undergraduate Conference
Keynote: Noël Carroll
(City University of New York),
“Forget Taste”
2018: April 20-21
Sixth Annual Calvin-GVSU Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Keynote: Margaret Atherton
(University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “Innateness Then: What Locke Thought About Innate Ideas”
2017: March 31/April 1
Fifth Annual Calvin-GVSU Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Keynote: Hud Hudson (Western Washington University),
“Seven Determinisms: Three You Know, Three You Don’t, and One You Thought You Knew”.
2016: April 8-9,
Fourth Annual Calvin-GVSU Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Keynote: Katherine Brading (Notre Dame), “Underdetermination of Theories and What to Do About It”.
2015: March 27-28,
Third Annual Calvin-GVSU Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Keynote: David Manley (University of Michigan), “Fine Tuning and Confirmation Theory”.
CFP Poster Conference Schedule
2014: March 21-22,
Second Annual Calvin-GVSU Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Keynote: Tim O’Connor (Indiana University), “Two Concepts of Emergence”.
CFP Poster Program
2013: April 12-13,
First Annual Calvin-GVSU Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Keynote: Gary Gutting (Notre Dame), “Religion, Atheism, and Agnosticism”.
This Year’s Conference
April 3rd and 4th at GVSU Downtown Campus
Submission Deadline: Friday February 7
Key Note Speaker:
Christina LaFont
(Northwestern University)
This year, we are honored to welcome Dr. Cristina Lafont, Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, as our Keynote Speaker. She works in critical theory and hermeneutics, but her current research is mainly in political philosophy, particularly on questions of democracy. At our conference, she will deliver a talk entitled:
“Democracy without Shortcuts: The Democratic Ideal of Self-Government and the Problem of Blind Deference”
Undergraduates working in all areas of philosophy are encouraged to submit. Full paper requirements and submission details are in the conference
