About the Miami Forum The Miami Forum hosts graduate student presentations and discussions of philosophy.  It is the meeting place where insights and criticisms are given free play among the graduate students about their own work.  It is also where graduate students discuss conference presentations, funding, and other aspects of the profession of philosophy.  The Miami Forum is the birthplace of the first graduate student philosophy conference at the University of Miami. Below is a list of past presidents, calendar of events, and an archive.  All current graduate students are invited to request meetings of the Forum by contacting the acting president. The Governance of the Miami Forum 1. Except for the discrepancies made here, the Miami Forum shall be conducted as stipulated by Kreider and Shaffer, 1995. 2. The President of the Miami Forum shall solicit presentations and discussions from graduate students in the UM department of philosophy. 3. The President shall decide all matters of scheduling of events. 4. The President shall hold meetings for important graduate student affairs, e.g., electing a graduate student representative to the faculty meetings. 5. The outgoing president shall appoint the incoming president according to the advice of the active Forum members and the past presidents. 6. The Miami Forum president shall make every effort to aid graduate student conferences hosted by the UM department of philosophy. 7.  Candidates for president must be distinguished as leaders; preferably by standing as a conference organizer. Presidents Shane Oakley: 2005-Present Jeremy Morris: 2002-2004 Michael Veber:  2000-2002 Len Olsen:  1999-2000 Michael J. Shaffer:  1995-1999 Calendar Click here to view the Calendar   Archive 2007   2006     Fredrik Haraldsen - "Descriptive Names" - Friday, November 10, 2006 Daniel Cohen - "Value as Immediate Access to an Objective Truth" - Friday, October 6, 2006 Mark Warren - "Dennetizing Tye: A Consideration of Michael Tye's PANIC Criteria for Phenomenal Content" - Friday, September 22, 2006 Ben Burgis - "God, the Origin of the Universe, and the Instantiation of Transfinite Set Theory" - Friday, September 8, 2006  Aaron Wilson - "Pragmatism and the Heroic"- Friday September 1, 2006 Mike McCracken - "Propositions as Mind and Language - dependent Entites: A Deflationary View of the Ontology of Propositions - Friday March 31, 2006         2005   2004 Kristjan Laasik - "Searle on Consciousness and Intentionality" - Friday, December 9, 2005 Eric Sternberg - "Utilitarianism and Love", Friday, October 21, 2005 Noel Alphonse - "Reductive Heuristics for Finding Emergence" - Friday, October 7, 2005 Brian Mondy - "Toward an Understanding of epistemic Obligation" - Friday, September 30, 2005  Shane Oakley -"Bayesian Updating and Testimonial Evidence" - Friday September 23, 2005 Kristin Borgwald - "Sidewalk Showdowns: Protecting Women's Reproductive Rights"  - Friday, September 2, 2005 Ryan Lake - "Personal Foreknowledge and the Improbability of Time Travel" - Friday April 15, 2005 Jeremy Morris - "Indexicals and Epistemology" - March 11, 2005 Shane Oakley - “Why a Humean Should Not Regret Prudential Considerations” - Friday, February 18, 2005   Michael McCracken - "Virture and Uncodifiability" - Friday, November 19, 2004 Christopher Weaver - "The Comparative Plausibility of Theory-Based versus Method-Based 'No Miracle Argumesn' for Scientific Realism" - Friday, October 29, 2004 Liz Giles - Leading Discussion of "When Is Reasoning Visual?" by George Stiny - Friday, October 22, 2004 Osvil Acosta-Morales - "Doxastic Courage The Will to Believe as Epistemic Virtue" - Friday, October 15, 2004 Meggan Payne - "For Endurantism But not of it:  The New Dualist Theory of Identity and Persistence" - Friday, September 24, 2004 Jeremy Morris - "A Priori Justification and Metajustification" - Friday, September 17, 2004 Jonathan Quianzon - "Three Senses of Would Conditionals" - Friday, September 10, 2004 Shirong Luo - "Character, Good Samaritans, and the Fundamental Attribution Error Comments on a paper by Gilbert Harman" - Friday, April 30, 2004 His-Heng Cheng - "Defending the ScotuPeirce Conception of Reality" - Friday, February 6, 2004         2003   2002 Osvil Acosta-Morales - “Self as a Series of Contextual Dispositions for Experience” - October 24, 2003 Nenad Popovic - "The Liar and the Strengthened Liar" - Friday, October 17, 2003 Mike McCracken - "Cleaning Up Schiffer's Deflationary Account of Fictional Characters" - Friday, October 10, 2003 Shane Oakley - "On the Relationship Between Russell's Mathematics and Ontology" - Friday, September 5, 2003    Osvil Acosta-Morales - "From Fabllibilism to Skepticism" - September 13, 2005 Jeremy Morris - "Sense without Fit"