York University's Undergraduate Philosophy Student Association

York University’s National Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Spring 2014

Friday, May 2^nd, 2014
010 Senior Common Room, Vanier College
10am – 5pm

Light breakfast and lunch will be provided.

This year’s conference will feature speakers published in The Oracle: York University’s Undergraduate Philosophical Review. It will also feature exceptional undergraduate philosophy students from across Canada, including speakers from The University of British Columbia and Trent University.

The Oracle is published by York University’s Undergraduate Philosophy Association, Philosophia. Each year, the peer-review committee compiles the most profound undergraduate papers into one review. This philosophical review embodies some of the most prominent topics in philosophy.

Keynote Address: Dr. Shyam Ranganathan

Dr. Ranganathan is interested in non-ethnocentric, and non-anthropocentric models of thought and value. This interest is expressed in his explorations into cross cultural understanding and translation, and in normative questions of how we ought to live. Some examples of the confluence of these interests include his role as translator and commentator of Indian moral philosophy (Patañjali ‘s Yoga Sūtra, Penguin Black Classics 2008), but also work in contemporary analytic philosophy on the problem of translation and moral concepts in cross cultural settings (An Archimedean Point for Philosophy, Metaphilosophy 42:4, 479–519). His current research on similar lines includes editing a volume on Indian Ethics (forthcoming through Bloomsbury Publishers), and in-progress papers on cultural-pluralism and moral controversy.

PhD, Philosophy, York University

MA, South Asian Studies, University of Toronto

MA, Philosophy, University of Toronto