Saturday, September 19 2026, 9am - 5pm 115 Peabody Hall The Philosophy Graduate Student Association hosts the second annual Student Philosophy in the South (SPITS) conference on Saturday, September 19 from 9am to 5pm. Philosophy graduate students from throughout the region will gather to think through problems in contemporary philosophy. Register Here! Student Philosophy in the South 2026 Tentative Program: 9:00-9:30 am Welcome and Coffee 9:30- 10:15am Ryne Barry (University of Kentucky) “Myth in Plato’s Phaedrus as Constituting Philosophical Life” Commentary: Nathan Hanes [UGA] & Zoe Simmons [UGA] 10:15-10:20 am Break 10:20 – 11:05am Carter Weinstein (University of South Carolina) “Objects and their Signs: Extending the Attitudinal theory of Emotion” Commentary: Alex Hollatz-Guatella [UGA] & Libby Dudley [GSU] 11:05-11:10am Break 11:10 – 11:55 am Yuki Inayoshi (University of Arkansas) “The Package deal account of Laws and Pragmatic Utility” Commentary: Kobina Korankye [UGA] & Thomas Griner [UGA] 12:00-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-1:45pm Sujung Kwon (Emory Univeristy) “The Phenomenology of Shame and the Alienation among Rape Victims” Commentary: Jacob Russell [UGA] + Maia Brown [GSU] 1:45-1:50 pm Break 1:50-2:35pm Julia Rowe (Loyola Marymount University) “Essential Accidentality – Uranga on the Question of Mexican-ness and Human Existence” Commentary: Xuechen Guo [UGA]& Ettesaf Rayan [UGA] 2:35-2:40pm Break 2:40-3:25pm Brant Entrekin (University of Tennessee) “The Epistemology of Calling-in” Kebron Wormley [UGA] & Joshua Holt [UGA] 3:25-3:30pm Break 3:30-5pm John Basl (Northeastern University) Keynote Speech "An Ethics Ecosystem for AI: Why? What? How?” Register here!
