David White
Papers Presented
“Jonathan Edwards and Beauty in American Philosophy.” Jonathan Edwards Society,
Northampton, MA, 2008.
“Intro to Bishop Butler,” to Soc of Christian Philosophers at Houghton, May 19, 2006”
“Bishop Butler and Adam Smith, RIT, May 5, 2006
“Dewey’s Art as Experience,” IIFB at Central Division APA, April 28, 2006.
“Sherlock Holmes,” to Popular Culture Association, Atlanta, April 12-15, 2006
“Sherlock Holmes,” to English-Speaking Union, Buffalo, March 14, 2006.
“Field-Being in Western New York.” Paper presented at a day-long workshop presented
by the International Institute for Field-Being prior to the American Philosophical
Association meeting, December 2004.
“Can Field-Being Virtue be Taught?” at International Institute for Field-Being meeting at
the Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, December 2004.
“Satan in the Suburbs,” review presented at American Philosophical Association and at
the Rochester Chapter of the Bertrand Russell Society. 2004
Review of a manuscript on Algernon Sidney Crapsey, an Episcopal clergyman who in
1906 was defrocked after a celebrated heresy trial. Reviewed for the University of
Rochester Press and presented at the New York Archivists’ Conference. 2004
"Remembering Richard Taylor," talk presented at a memorial tribute, Center for Inquiry,
Buffalo, December 2003.
"Lord John Russell," lecture presented to the Rochester Chapter of the Bertrand Russell
Society. 2003
"On Reading Moby-Dick," lecture presented at Writers & Books, Rochester, November
2003.
"Jonathan Edwards and Bishop Butler," presented at the Jonathan Edwards Tercentenary
Celebration, Northampton, October 2003.
"Butler as Pragmatist" presented at a round-table on pragmatism, and "Sunday Theism,"
presented to the philosophy of religion division, at the World Congress of
Philosophy, Istanbul, August 2003.
"Matilda Joslyn Gage," talk presented at the South Place Ethical Society, London, July
2003.
"Review and Refutation of Wittgenstein's Poker," presented to the Rochester Chapter and
at the Annual Meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society, May, 2003.
"Collecting Bishop Butler," display and discussion at the Rochester Bibliophile Society,
April 2003.
"The Hairy Lollipop," poetry reading at St. John Fisher College in the 4-Telling program,
April 2003.
"Ethics of Field-Being," presented at International Institute for Field-Being, American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 2003
"The Pragmatism of Giovanni Papini," paper read at the Pragmatism and Technology
Conference at Rochester Institute of Technology, February 2003
"Field-Being and Dewey's Common Faith," presented at the International Institute for
Field-Being, Fairfield University, 2002.
"Smith, Russell and the Religion of the Future," presented to the Bertrand Russell Society,
annual meeting, 2001.
"Bertrand Russell on the Internet," presented to the Bertrand Russell Society, annual
meeting, 2000.
"Personal Identity," presented at the International Institute for Field-Being, Fairfield
University, 2000.
"Joseph Butler as a Pastoral Philosopher" Department of Philosophy, Trinity College,
Dublin, 2000.
"Joseph Butler and Bertrand Russell," address to the South Park Ethical Society, London,
2000.
"The Love of God" presented at Nazareth College, 2000.
"Russell and Butler on God and Religion" to the Bertrand Russell Society at the American
Philosophical Association, Boston, December 29, 1999.
"The Indian Reception of Butler's Analogy" Presented at the International Institute for
Field-Being, August 1999.
"Damsels in Dialectical Distress." University of Rochester, April 17, 1999.
"The Bounds of Argument and the Bounds of Sense." Philosophy Club Colloquium, SUNY
Geneseo, March 11, 1999.
"The Elimination of Natural Theology." World Congress of Philosophy, Boston 1998.
"The Basic Conditions of Rational Inquiry." International Society for Universalism, 1998.
"Collaboration, Consensus and Conversion." Hunter College, 1990.
"Deism, Skepticism and Butler's Analogy" Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
regional, 1980.