PAST CONFERENCES
This page is still under construction. Dave Beisecker (a professor of philosophy at
the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a member of the Mountain-Plains
executive committee) has undertaken to construct a history of the
conference. He has obtained a great deal
of information from Paul Gery (retired professor and emeritus member of the
committee), but we are still missing some of the history. We’d welcome you to look at what we have, and
if you can supply what we’re missing, send an e-mail to Dr. Beisecker at dbeiseker@unlv.edu.
|
Year |
Dates |
Host Institution |
Theme or Keynote
Speaker |
|
1947 |
Nov.
22 |
|
Symposium
on the History and Status of Philosophy in the Mountain-Plains Region |
|
1948 |
|
|
???
Perhaps "The Conflict of Naturalism and Non-Naturalism" |
|
1949 |
|
|
Relations
Between Theory and Practice |
|
1950 |
|
Univ.
of Denver |
Philosophical
Alternatives |
|
1951 |
|
|
Fundamental
Issues in Philosophy |
|
1952 |
|
|
Symbols |
|
1953 |
|
|
Knowledge
and Value |
|
1954 |
|
|
Philosophy
and Culture |
|
1955 |
|
|
Philosophy
of the Rational and the Non-Rational |
|
1956 |
|
|
Philosophy
and Politics |
|
1957 |
|
Aspen
Institute |
Myth
and Truth |
|
1958 |
|
|
Ideological
Struggle for Power |
|
1959 |
|
|
What
Has Become of Evolution and the Genetic Method? |
|
1960 |
|
Kansas
State Univ. |
The
Possibilities of Analytic Philosophy |
|
1961 |
|
|
The
Philosophy of Whitehead |
|
1962 |
|
|
Our
Knowledge of Value |
|
1963 |
|
US
|
Perception |
|
1964 |
|
|
Analogies |
|
1965 |
|
Colorado
State Univ. |
Natural
law |
|
1966 |
|
Oklahoma
State Univ. |
Philosophy
of the Social Sciences |
|
1967 |
|
|
Marxism
Today |
|
1968 |
|
|
Philosophy
of Mind |
|
1969 |
|
|
The
Philosophy of Language |
|
1970 |
|
Kansas
State Univ. |
Philosophy
Since 1950 (John Hospers, Carl Wellman??) |
|
1971 |
|
|
Philosophy
of Action ( |
|
1972 |
|
Wichita
State Univ. |
Bertrand
Russell and Contemporary Anglo-American University (Leonard Linsky) |
|
1973 |
Sep.
27-9 |
|
Aesthetics
(Darnell Rucker) |
|
1974 |
Oct.
3-5 |
Oklahoma
State Univ. |
Kant
and Contemporary Philosophy ((Theodore Mischel) |
|
1975 |
Sep.
25-27 |
|
The
Philosophy of History and the Social Sciences (Alan Donagan) |
|
1977 |
Apr.
1-3 |
|
Human
Rights (Kurt Baier and Jeffrie
Murphy) |
|
1977 |
Oct.
13-15 |
Kansas
State Univ. |
Metaphor
(Paul Ricoeur) |
|
1978 |
Oct.
12-14 |
|
Contemporary
Ethical Problems |
|
1979 |
Sep.
27-29 |
|
???
(Manuel Davenport??) |
|
1980 |
Oct.
2-4 |
|
Philosophy
in the Modern World (??, we only have a tentative program for this one) |
|
1981 |
Oct.
9-10 |
|
The
History of Western Philosophy to 1800 (we have no program for this one!!) |
|
1982 |
Oct.
7-9 |
|
Method
in Philosophy (Richard Brandt, Roderick Chisholm) |
|
1983 |
Sep
29-Oct 1 |
|
??? Relativism (Virgil Aldrich) |
|
1984 |
|
Washburn
Univ. |
Carl
Cohen (“1984”) |
|
1985 |
|
Univ.
of Wyoming |
|
|
1986 |
|
|
|
|
1987 |
|
Santa
Fe, NM |
|
|
1988 |
|
Kansas
City, MO |
|
|
1989 |
Sep.
28-30 |
|
Language
and Communication (Henry Johnstone) |
|
1990 |
|
Central
State Univ. |
|
|
1991 |
|
Colorado
State Univ. |
|
|
1992 |
|
Washburn
Univ. |
Ronald
Giere |
|
1993 |
|
|
Hubert
Dreyfus |
|
1994 |
|
Creighton
Univ. |
James
Rachels |
|
1995 |
|
College
of Santa Fe |
|
|
1996 |
|
Oklahoma
State Univ. |
Tom
L. Beauchamp (The Distinction between Killing and Letting Die) |
|
1997 |
|
|
Carol
Becker |
|
1998 |
|
Univ.
of Central OK |
Simon
Blackburn |
|
1999 |
|
Colorado
State Univ. |
Frederick
Ferre |
|
2000 |
|
|
Alan
Soble |
|
2001 |
|
US
|
William
Lycan |
|
2002 |
|
Univ.
of Nevada, Las Vegas |
Robert
Brandom |
|
2003 |
|
|
|
|
2004 |
|
Fort
Hays State Univ. |
Marcia
Eaton |
|
2005 |
|
|
John
Searle |
|
2006 |
|
|
Robert
Kane |
|
2007 |
|
Univ.
of Denver |
John
Doris |
|
2008 |
|
Fort
Hays State Univ. |
Ted
Sider |
|
2009 |
|
Univ.
of Nevada, Reno |
Avrum Stroll |
|
2010 |
|
Washington
& Jefferson, PA |
Mark
Lance |
|
2011 |
|
Univ.
of Colorado, Denver |
Mitchell
Aboulafia |
|
2012 |
|
Buena
Vista Univ., IA |
Robert
Audi |
|
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