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2005 Pacfic Division Program
Mini-Conference on the Philosophy of the Emotions
The Organizing Committee for the Mini-Conference on the Philosophy of the Emotions is composed of Robert Solomon (University of Texas) - Chair, John Deigh (University of Texas), Ronald de Sousa (University of Toronto), Paul Griffiths (University of Queensland), Kathleen Higgins (University of Texas), Jerome Neu (University of California-Santa Cruz), and Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati)
Mini-Conference on Richard Rufus of Cornwall
The Organizing Committee for the Mini-Conference on Rufus of Cornwall is composed of Rega Wood (Stanford) - Chair, Andrew Arana (Kansas State University), John Carriero (University of California-Los Angeles), Victor Caston (University of California-Davis), Neil Lewis (Georgetown University), Christopher J. Martin (University of Auckland), Alva Noe; (University of California-Berkeley), and Jennifer Ottman (Stanford University).
The Executive Committee thanks Stanford University's Deans of Research and Humanities for generously supplementing APA Pacific Division support for the Richard Rufus of Cornwall mini-conference.
Tuesday
Late Afternoon, March 22
MI-A. Mini-Conference on the Philosophy of the Emotions
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.,
Topic: Opening Address
Welcome:
Robert Solomon (University of Texas-Austin)
Speaker: Paul Ekman (University of California-Berkeley)
"A
Conversation with Paul Ekman on Emotions and Deception"
A display of books on Philosophy of the Emotions will be available in the lobby of the Tower Salon.
A small reception will be held in the lobby of the Tower Salon after the talk.
Wednesday
Morning, March 23
MII-A. Mini-Conference on the Philosophy of the Emotions
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.,
Topic: Basic Emotions and the Relation between Neurology and Philosophical Theories of Emotion
Panelists:
Paul Griffiths (University of Queensland)
Robert
Levenson (University of California-Berkeley)
Jesse
Prinz (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Jenefer
Robinson (University of Cincinnati)
Wednesday
Afternoon, March 23
MIII-A. Mini-Conference on the Philosophy of the Emotions
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.,
Topic: Cognitive Theories of Emotion
This session will be conducted using an Octavian Discussion format to facilitate spontaneity and broad discussion. The session will open with two designated speakers at the table making very short introductory statements to set up the discussion. Then there will be a general discussion during which members of the audience will fill the other chairs at the table on a rotating basis.
MIII-B. Mini-Conference on the Philosophy of the Emotions
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Topic: The Role of Emotions in Ethics
This session will be conducted using an Octavian Discussion format.
Oxford University Press and the APA Pacific Division invite you to a reception at 5:00 p.m. in the lobby of the Tower Salon following this last session of the Mini-Conference on the Philosophy of the Emotions.
MIV-A. Mini-Conference on Richard Rufus of Cornwall
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.,
A discussion of difficult passages from Richard Rufus of Cornwall's commentary on Aristotle's De anima. For full details, see II-I on the Main Program.
For details of the entire program of the Mini-Conference on Richard Rufus of Cornwall, see Man Program II-I (Wednesday at 4:00 p.m.), Main Program III-F (Thursday at 9:00 a.m.), and Main Program V-C (Thursday at 5:00 p.m.).
Main
Program
Wednesday,
March 23, 2005
Executive Committee Meeting
4:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Registration
11:00 a.m. -10:00 p.m., Mezzanine
Placement Information
11:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m., Mezzanine
Reception
5:00 p.m.,
Wednesday
Early Afternoon, March 23
Session I — 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
I-A. Invited Symposium: Philosophy and Popular Culture
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Eric Bronson (Berkeley College)
Speakers:
Craig Delancey (State University of New York-Oswego)
“Passion,
Reason, and Rock”
William
Irwin (Kings College)
“What
Is Popular Culture?”
Ted
Schick (Muhlenberg College)
“Popular
Culture and the Philosophy of ‘What If?’”
I-B. Invited Symposium: Hegel’s Logic and Analytic Philosophy: The Topic of Language
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Aaron Bunch (Loyola University-Chicago)
Speakers:
David Kolb (Bates College)
“The
Necessities of the Logic?”
John
McCumber (University of California-Los Angeles)
“Hegel
and ‘Natural Language’”
Angelica
Nuzzo (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
“Metaphor,
Vagueness, and Meaning Variance in Hegel”
Tom
Rockmore (Duquesne University)
“Some
Recent Analytic ‘Realist’ Readings of Hegel”
I-C. Author Meets Critics: Joseph Rouse, How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Mark Lance (Georgetown University)
Critics:
Karen Barad (Mount Holyoke College)
Brian
Cantwell Smith (University of Toronto)
Rebecca
Kukla (Carleton University)
Author:
Joseph Rouse (Wesleyan University)
I-D. Author Meets Critics: Michael P. Lynch, True to Life
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.,
Chair: Merrill Ring (California State University)
Critics: Gila Sher (University of California-San Diego)
Marian David (University of Notre Dame)
Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Author: Michael P. Lynch (University of Connecticut)
I-E. Colloquium: Consequentialism
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.,
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Chair: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)
Speaker: Eric Moore (Longwood University)
“Objective Consequentialism, Right Actions, and Good People”
Commentator:
Don Habibi (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair: Elizabeth Forrester (Sacramento City College)
Speaker: Jean-Paul Vessel (New Mexico State University)
“What Objective Consequentialism Must Be Like”
Commentator: Mary Coleman (Bard College)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair: Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto)
Speaker: Paul Weirich (University of Missouri)
“Utility Maximization Generalized”
Commentator: Henry R. West (Macalester College)
I-F. Symposium/Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.,
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Gary Varner (Texas A&M University)
Speakers: Philip A. Robbins (Washington University in St. Louis) and Anthony I.
Jack (Washington University in St. Louis)
“The Phenomenal Stance”
Commentators: Heidi Maibom (Carleton University)
Rob Rupert (Texas Tech University)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
Clark Glymour (Carnegie Mellon University)
Speaker:
Darren Abramson (Indiana University)
“Computability
Theory and the Philosophy of Mind”
**Winner
of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator:
Anthony Dardis (Hofstra University)
I-G. Symposium/Colloquium: Abortion
1:00-4:00 p.m.,
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair:
Mark Brasher (TransPacific Hawaii College/St. Francis International
Center for Healthcare
Ethics)
Speaker:
Stephen Munzer (University of California-Los Angeles)
“Motives,
Conditional Intentions, and Abortion”
Commentators:
Mary Anne Warren (San Francisco State University)
Margaret
Battin (University of Utah)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
Susan Finsen (California State University-San Bernadino)
Speaker:
Francis J. Beckwith (Baylor University)
“Needy
Beings and Being Needy: A Response to David Boonin’s
Distinction Between Responsibility for Existence and Responsibility
for Neediness”
Commentator:
David Boonin (University of Colorado-Boulder)
I-H. Colloquium: Ancient Philosophy
1:00-4:00 p.m.,
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Chair:
Ruby Blondell (University of Washington)
Speaker:
Marina Berzins McCoy (Boston College)
“Performative
Aspects of Socratic Questioning”
Commentator:
Jill Gordon (Colby College)
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair:
Gale Justin (California State University, Sacramento)
Speaker:
Alejandro Santana (University of Portland)
“The
Problem of the Socratic Elenchus: Is its Constructivist Assumption
Justified?”
Commentator:
Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
William Prior (Santa Clara University)
Speaker:
Naomi Reshotko (University of Denver)
“Necessity,
Sufficiency, and Instrumentalism and the Socratic Quest for
Wisdom”
Commentator:
Mark McPherran (University of Maine-Farmington)
Wednesday
Late Afternoon, March 23
Session II — 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
II-A. Workshop for Philosopher-Citizens: How to Write for the Op-Ed Pages
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.,
Chair:
John Lachs (Vanderbilt University)
Speakers:
Susan Anderson (University of Connecticut)
Gregory
Pence (University of Alabama-Birmingham)
Carlin
Romano (Philadephia Inquirer)
II-B. Author Meets Critics: Albert Casullo, A Priori Justification
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Tim Black (California State University-Northridge)
Critics:
Tony Brueckner (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Robin
Jeshion (Yale University / University of
California-Riverside)
Author:
Albert Casullo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
II-C. Author Meets Critics: Alison Stone, Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.,
Chair:
J. M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College)
Critics:
Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University)
Edward
Halper (University of Georgia)
Author:
Alison Stone (Lancaster University)
II-D. Author Meets Critics: Allan Silverman, The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato’s Metaphysics
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Sean Kelsey (University of California-Los Angeles)
Critics:
Mary Margaret McCabe (King's College London)
Michael
Ferejohn (Duke University)
Author:
Allan Silverman (Ohio State University)
II-E. Colloquium: Character
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.,
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
David W. Shoemaker (Bowling Green State University)
Speaker:
Todd C. Calder (University of Victoria)
“Evil
Character”
Commentator:
Daniel M. Haybron (Saint Louis University)
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chair:
Marissa Lelanuja (University of Utah)
Speaker:
Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah)
“Going
From Bad (Or Not So Bad) To Worse: On Harmful Addictions and Habits”
Commentator:
Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California)
II-F. Colloquium: History of Analytic Philosophy
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.,
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Joe Ulatowski (University of Utah)
Speaker:
Patrick Kenny (University of Rochester)
“Frege
on Definition”
Commentator:
Kelly Dean Jolley (Auburn University)
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chair:
Kenneth Lucey (University of Nevada-Reno)
Speaker:
Aaron A. Schiller (University of California-San Diego)
“That
Other Myth: Understanding Sellars’ Myth of Jones”
**Winner
of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator:
Richard Manning (Georgetown University)
II-G. Colloquium: Political Philosophy
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.,
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Jeremy Anderson (University of Redlands)
Speaker:
Jeffrey C. Brand-Ballard (George Washington University)
“Transcending
the Debate between Inclusive and Exclusive Legal
Positivists”
Commentator:
Kenneth Einar Himma (Seattle Pacific University)
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chair:
Margaret Walker (Arizona State University)
Speaker:
Charles L. Howell (Minnesota State University-Moorhead)
“Liberalism
and Children’s Internalization of Values”
Commentator:
Rachel Singpurwalla (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
II-H. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.,
Topic: Thinking Theater: Using Drama to Teach Philosophy to High School Students
Chair:
Betsy Newell Decyk (California State University-Long Beach)
Speakers:
Sharon Kaye (John Carroll University)
“Wonderings:
A New Philosophy Textbook for Thinking Theater”
Paul
Thomson (John Carroll University)
“Bringing
Philosophy Alive: An Experimental Course in Thinking Theater”
Robert
Prisco (John Carroll University)
“The
Role of Documentary Video in Thinking Theater”
Dan
Matusicky and Rhiannon Lathy (John Carroll University)
“Our
Experience as TAs for Thinking Theater”
II-I. Mini-Conference on Richard Rufus of Cornwall
4:00-6:00 p.m.,
Topic: Establishing the Text of a Critical Edition: Problems in Optics
Chair:
Neil Lewis (Georgetown University)
Participants:
Max Etchemendy (Stanford University)
Dorothea
Frede (Hamburg University)
Christopher
J. Martin (University of Auckland),
Jennifer
Ottman (Stanford University),
Michael
Smith (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Olga
Weijers (Constantijn Huygens Instituut)
Rega
Wood (Stanford University)
RECEPTION
5:00 p.m.
Oxford University Press and the APA Pacific Division invite you to a reception at 5:00 p.m. in the lobby of the Tower Salon following this last session of the Mini-Conference on the Philosophy of the Emotions.
Group Meetings, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism, Session 1,
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy,
International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 1,
Group Meetings, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
North American Spinoza Society,
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 1,
Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 1,
Sartre Group,
Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session 1,
Society for German Idealism, Session 1,
Gandhi/King Society,
Philosophy of Religion Group,
Concerned Philosophers for Peace,
Group Meetings, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
American Society for Aesthetics,
North American Society for Social Philosophy,
International Institute for Field Being, Session I,
Thursday,
March 24, 2005
Registration
8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m., Mezzanine
Book Displays
11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Placement Information
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m., Mezzanine
Placement Interviewing
8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., Cambridge, Bristol, Ascot, Derby
Annual Business Meeting
12:00-1:00 p.m., Colonial Room (mezzanine)
Carus Lecture I
1:00-2:00 p.m., Colonial Room (mezzanine)
Annual Reception
9:00 p.m.-midnight,
Thursday
Morning, March 24
Session III — 9:00 a.m. - noon
III-A. Invited Symposium: Change-Blindness
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
David Rosenthal (City University of New York)
Speakers:
Michael Tye (University of Texas-Austin)
“Change
Blindness and the Refrigerator Light Illusion”
Guven
Guzeldere (Duke University)
"Change
Blindness"
Commentator:
Mohan Matthen (University of British Columbia)
III-B. Author Meets Critics: Dale Jamieson, Morality’s Progress
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Sara Goering (University of Washington)
Critics: Colin Allen (Indiana University)
N. Ann Davis (Pomona College)
Robert
Elliot (University of the Sunshine Coast)
Katie McShane (North Carolina State University)
Ani
Satz (Law School, Emory University)
Author:
Dale Jamieson (New York University)
III-C. Author Meets Critics: Robert Brandom, Tales of the Mighty Dead
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Paul Hurley (Pomona College)
Critics:
Danielle Macbeth (Haverford College)
Robert
Pippin (University of Chicago)
John
Haugeland (University of Chicago)
Author:
Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh)
III-D. Invited Symposium: Hobbes and Justice
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Steven Arkonovich (Reed College)
Speakers:
Michael Green (University of Chicago)
“Liberty
in Leviathan”
Russell
Hardin (New York University)
“Hobbes’s
Social Science”
Commentators:
Steve Hetcher (Law, Vanderbilt University)
Gerardo
Vildostegui (University of California-Berkeley)
III-E. Invited Symposium: Leibniz: Mathematics and Nature
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Donald Rutherford (University of California-San Diego)
Speakers:
Richard Arthur (McMaster University)
“’A
Complete Denial of the Continuous’? Leibniz’s Philosophy
of the Continuum”
Daniel
Garber (Princeton University)
“Leibniz:
Applying Mathematics to the Physical World”
Commentator:
Domenico Bertoloni-Meli (Indiana University)
III-F. Mini-Conference on Richard Rufus of Cornwall
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Topic: Funding Research in Philosophy (European and U.S. Models Compared)
Chair:
Rega Wood (Stanford University)
Speaker:
Dorothea Frede (Hamburg University)
"Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)"
Speaker:
Olga Weijers (Constantijn Huygens Instituut)
"Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Royal Netherlands Academy
of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and Centre Nationale de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS)"
Speaker:
Kenneth Kolson (National Endowment for the Humanities)
"National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)"
Speaker:
AndrŽ De Tienne (Indiana University)
"Peirce
Edition Project"
Speaker:
Edward Zalta (Stanford University)
"Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy"
III-G. Colloquium: Action Theory
9:00 a.m. - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Andy Egan (Australian National University)
Speaker:
Eric Swanson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Common
Attitudes”
Commentator:
Michelle Maiese (University of Colorado-Boulder)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Edward Maine (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker:
Sarah Stroud (McGill University)
“Deliberation
in the Third Person”
Commentator:
Bryce Huebner (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
Cindy Holder (University of Victoria)
Speaker:
Abigail Gosselin (University of Colorado-Boulder)
“Problems
with Agent-Centered Accounts of Responsibility”
Commentator:
Seth Shabo (University of Vermont)
III-H. Colloquium: Epistemology
9:00 - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Gary Ebbs (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Speaker:
Peter Markie (University of Missouri-Columbia)
“Knowing
How Isn’t Knowing That”
Commentator:
Aaron Zimmerman (University of California-Santa Barbara)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Stephen Simon (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker:
George Streeter (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
“The
Legacy of Foundationalism”
Commentator:
Reza Lahroodi (University of Northern Iowa)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
Shari Starrett (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker:
Jennifer Lackey (Northern Illinois University)
“Why
We Don’t Deserve Credit for Everything We Know”
Commentator:
Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University)
III-I. Colloquium: Foucault and Irigaray
9:00 - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Kari Middleton (Syracuse University)
Speaker:
Christina L. Hendricks (University of British Columbia)
“Foucault’s
Kantian Critique: Philosophy and the Present”
Commentator:
Craig Hanks (Texas State University-San Marcos)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Lee A. McBride III (Saint Mary’s College of
California)
Speaker:
Amy Allen (Dartmouth College)
“Foucault,
Autonomy, and the Genetic Fallacy”
Commentator:
Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
Sharyn Clough (Oregon State University)
Speaker:
Sarah K. Donovan (Wagner College)
“Rereading
Irigaray’s Spinoza: Thinking Through ‘Corporeality’
With Gatens and Lloyd”
Commentator:
Diane Perpich (Vanderbilt University)
III-J. Colloquium: Philosophy of Science
9:00 a.m. - noon,
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Neocles Serafimidis (University of Washington)
Speaker:
Anjan Chakravartty (University of Toronto)
“Scientific
Kinds and the New Essentialism”
Commentator:
Sherrilyn Roush (Rice University)
10:00 -11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Thomas Nickles (University of Nevada-Reno)
Speakers:
Matthew Rellihan (Georgetown University) and Nathaniel Goldberg
(Mount Saint Mary’s University)
“There’s
No Escaping It: Incommensurability and Concept
Acquisition”
Commentator:
Jose Martin (University of Nevada-Reno)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
Kelly Becker (University of New Mexico)
Speaker:
Chase B. Wrenn (University of Alabama)
“Moderate
Rationalism’s Problem with Induction”
Commentator:
Troy Cross (Yale University)
III-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Topic: Perspectives on Philosophy On-Line
Chair:
Royce Jones (University of Illinois-Springfield)
Speakers:
Patrick Suppes (Stanford University)
“Teaching
Computer-based Logic and Probability from Kindergarten to 12th Grade”
Peter
Boltuc (University of Illinois-Springfield)
“Can
True Philosophy be Taught Online?”
Marvin
Croy (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
“Teaching
On-Line Courses to On-Campus Students: Practical and Ethical
Questions”
Group Meeting, 9:00 a.m. - noon
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
North American Nietzsche Society, Hampton
ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
noon-1:00 p.m. Colonial (mezzanine)
Thursday
Afternoon, March 24
Carus Lectures
1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Colonial (mezzanine)
Introduction:
Calvin Normore (University of California-Los Angeles)
Speaker:
Tyler Burge (University of California-Los Angeles)
"Perceptual
Objectivity: Lecture I"
Session IV — 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
IV-A. Invited Symposium: The Personal Philosophical: Doing Philosophy Through Autobiography
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
RosemarieTong (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Speaker:
Christine Overall (Queen’s University)
“Writing
What Comes Naturally? The Pleasures and Perils of Autobiographical
Philosophy”
Speaker:
Carol Quinn (University of North
Carolina-Charlotte)
“Palimpsest”
Speaker:
John Whitmire (Haverford College)
“Questioning
the Self: Continental Autobiography”
Speaker:
Sara Ruddick (New School University)
“Practicing
the Personal Philosophical”
IV-B. Invited Symposium: Cartesian Theories of Perception
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University)
Speaker:
Larry Nolan (California State University-Long Beach)
“Imagination
and Reason in Malebranche’s Theory of Vision in God”
Speaker:
Alison Simmons (Harvard University)
“Guarding
the Body: A Cartesian Phenomenology of Perception”
Commentator:
Tad Schmaltz (Duke University)
IV-C. Author Meets Critics: Luc Bovens and Stephan Hartmann, Bayesian Epistemology
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Branden Fitelson (University of California-Berkeley)
Critics:
Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
James
Joyce (University of Michigan)
Clark
Glymour (Carnegie Mellon University)
Authors:
Luc Bovens (London School of Economics)
Stephan
Hartmann (London School of Economics)
IV-D. Mini-Conference on Richard Rufus of Cornwall
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Topic: Mind, Science, and Theology in Richard Rufus’s Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima
Chair:
Victor Caston (University of California-Davis)
Speaker:
Christopher J. Martin (University of Auckland)
“Richard
Rufus on Sense Perception: The Physiology of Spiritual
Change”
Speaker:
A. Mark Smith (University of Missouri-Columbia)
“Intromission
and Extramission Accounts of Vision”
Speaker:
Neil Lewis (Georgetown University)
“Human
reproduction: Theology meets Aristotle in the works of Richard
Rufus”
Speaker:
Jennifer Ottman (Stanford University)
“The
Influence of Aristotelian Psychology on Rufus’ Account of Free
Will”
Commentator:
Rega Wood (Stanford University)
IV-E. Double Symposium: Motivational Internalism
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Richard Galvin (Texas Christian University)
Speaker:
Christian B. Miller (Wake Forest University)
“Motivational
Internalism: A New Problem”
Speaker:
Jakob Elster (University of Oslo)
“Can
the Level of Our Moral Motivation Influence the Content of Our Moral
Duties?”
Commentators:
Alan Goldman (College of William and Mary)
Steven
Sverdlick (Southern Methodist University)
IV-F. Colloquium: Well-Being
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
2:00 - 3:00 p.m
Chair:
Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)
Speaker:
Matthew C. Cashen (Washington University in St. Louis)
“False
Happiness”
Commentator:
Nancy Snow (Marquette University)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University)
Speaker:
Christopher H. Toner (Air University)
“Aristotelian
Well-Being: A Response to L. W. Sumner’s Critique”
Commentator:
Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Mark McEvoy (Hofstra University)
Speaker:
Lawrence J. Jost (University of Cincinnati)
“Aristotelian
‘Eudaimonia:’ What’s God Got to Do with It, Do with
It...?”
Commentator:
Corinne Gartner (Stanford University)
IV-G. Colloquium: Epistemology
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair:
Philip Nickel (University of California-Irvine)
Speaker:
Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)
“Epistemic
Compatibilism”
Commentator:
Baron Reed (Northern Illinois University)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
Scott Hendricks (Clark University)
Speaker:
Thomas D. Senor (University of Arkansas)
“Lackey
on Memory as a Generative Epistemic Source”
Commentator:
Thomas Blackson (Arizona State University)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Matthew Davidson (California State University-San Bernadino)
Speaker:
Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay (Montana State University)
“Belief
and Beyond: Toward a New Orientation in Epistemology”
Commentator:
Glenn Ross (Franklin and Marshall College)
IV-H. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair:
Christopher Hom (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Speaker:
Paul Saka (University of Houston)
“The
Argument From Ignorance Against Truth-Conditional
Semantics”
Commentator:
Douglas Patterson (Kansas State University)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
Avrum Stroll (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker:
Gurpreet Rattan (University of Toronto)
“I-language,
E-language, and Semantic Intuitions”
Commentator:
Dean Pettit (University of North Carolina)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Patricia Hanna (University of Utah)
Speaker:
Ronald W. Loeffler (Grand Valley State University)
“Normative
Phenomenalism”
Commentator:
Jay F. Rosenberg (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
IV-I. Colloquium: Philosophy of Religion
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair:
Josh Bright (University of California Riverside)
Speaker:
Klaas Kraay (Ryerson University)
“Mission
Impossible? God and the Hypothesis of No Prime Worlds”
Commentator:
Kevin Timpe (University of San Diego)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
Daniel Campana (University of La Verne)
Speaker:
John T. Bengson (University of Wyoming)
“On
the Value of Mystical and Religious Experience”
Commentator:
Michael Almeida (University of Texas-San Antonio)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Aimee Koeplin (Loyola Marymount University)
Speaker:
Sander H. Lee (Keene State College)
“Rights,
Morality, and Faith in the Light of the Holocaust”
Commentator:
Andrew Eshleman (University of Arkansas-Little Rock)
IV-J. Colloquium: Gadamer and Habermas
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair:
James Faulconer (Brigham Young University)
Speaker:
David T. Vessey (University of Chicago)
“Gadamer
and the Fusion of Horizons”
Commentator:
David Weberman (Georgia State University)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
Iain Thomson (University of New Mexico)
Speaker:
Lenny Moss (University of Notre Dame)
“Habermas,
Human Nature and the Anthropological Framework of Critical
Theory”
Commentator:
Hans-Herbert Kšgler (University of North Florida)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Lani Roberts (Oregon State University)
Speaker:
Jari I. Niemi (Purdue University)
“The
Foundations of Habermas’s Discourse Ethics”
Commentator:
Andy Wallace (Sonoma State University)
IV-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Topic: Philosophical Issues on War in a Time of Terrorism
Chair:
Blane Neufeld (Stanford University)
Speaker:
Larry May (Washington University in St Louis)
“Humanity
and Torture”
Speaker:
Lionel K. McPherson (Tufts University)
“What
Is Distinctively Wrong about Terrorism?”
Speaker:
David Rodin (Oxford University/The Australian National
University)
“Torture
in War”
IV-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Blacks in Philosophy
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Topic: Author Meets Critics: John McClendon, C.L.R. James’s “Notes on Dialectics:” Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism
Chair: Terry Day (Independent Scholar)
Critics: Costa Bagakis (San Francisco State University)
Malik Simba (California State University-Fresno)
Author: John McClendon (Bates College)
Thursday
Early Evening, March 24
Session V — 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
V-A. Author Meets Critics: Nancy Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom
5:00 - 7:00 p.m,
Chair:
Christina Bellon (California State University-Sacramento)
Critics:
Susan Brison (Dartmouth College)
Marilyn
Friedman (Washington University in St. Louis)
Author:
Nancy Hirschmann (University of Pennsylvania)
V-B. Special Meeting of California State University Philosophy Department Chairs
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Topics: Transfer Curriculum and Other Issues
V-C. Symposium: Philosophy of Language
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Mark Crimmins (Stanford University)
Speaker:
Roger Wertheimer (Agnes Scott College)
“Quotations,
Displays, and Autonomes”
Commentators:
Reinaldo Elugardo (University of Oklahoma)
Marga
Reimer (University of Arizona)
V-D. Symposium: Testimony
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Mitch Avila (California State University Fullerton)
Speaker:
Christopher R. Green (University of Notre Dame)
“Testimony
and the Transmission of Defeaters: Some Light from the Law of
Constructive Knowledge, Justifiable Reliance, and Imputed Knowledge
by Agents”
Commentators:
Jonathan Adler (Brooklyn College/Graduate School, City University of
New York)
Peter
Graham (University of California-Riverside)
V-E. Colloquium: Metaphysics
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chair:
Jeffrey Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Speaker:
James D. Rissler (Notre Dame University)
“Does
Armstrong Need States of Affairs?”
Commentator:
Gerald Vision (Temple University)
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Chair:
L. A. Paul (University of Arizona)
Speaker:
Josh Parsons (University of California-Davis)
“Is
Everything a World?”
Commentator:
Kristopher McDaniel (Syracuse University)
V-F. Colloquium: Logic
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.,
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chair:
Ali Kazmi (University of Calgary)
Speaker:
Gabriel Uzquiano (University of Rochester)
“The
Price of Universality”
Commentator:
Michael Hand (Texas A&M University)
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Chair:
Herminia Reyes (University of San Diego)
Speaker:
Christopher A. Pynes (University of Tennessee)
“Events,
Mass Terms, and Logical Form”
Commentator:
Ray Jennings (Simon Fraser University)
V-G. Colloquium: Philosophy of Literature
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chair:
Dustin Stokes (University of British Columbia)
Speaker:
Mark Silcox (Auburn University)
“Does
the Reader Make the Text?: Some Thoughts on Literary
Competence”
Commentator:
William P. Seeley (Brooklyn College)
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Chair:
Betsy Newell Decyk (California State University-Long Beach)
Speaker:
Amy Coplan (California State University-Fullerton)
“Catching
Characters’ Emotions”
Commentator:
Thomas Leddy (San Jose State University)
V-H. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Topic: Asian American Philosophy and Contemporary Thinkers: Derrida, Said, and Chomsky
Chair:
Falguni Sheth (Hampshire College)
Speaker:
Kyoo Lee (LaGrange College)
“Buttery
Flies: Ironies of M. Butterfly Read Through a Triangular Intersection
Between Rorty, Derrida, and West”
Speaker:
Darrell Moore (DePaul University)
“Edward
Said and Asian American Philosophical Practice”
Speaker:
Gary Mar (University at Stony Brook, State University of New
York)
“Democratizing
Higher Education: Some Disciplinary Strategies from Chomsky for Asian
American Studies”
Commentator:
Falguni Sheth (Hampshire College)
V-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Pre-College Philosophy
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Topic:
Philosophical Communities On-Line
Speaker:
Mark Hannah (Immortal Drum Productions)
“Building
Online Philosophical Communities Using Emerging Internet Marketing
Techniques”
Topic:
Update on North American High School Philosophy Association
Speakers:
Ken Knisely (Milk Bottle Productions)
Tom
Doyle (University of California-Irvine)
V-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers and the Society for Philosophy and Technology
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Topic: Computers and the Mediation of Human Experience
Chair:
Noam Cook (San Jose State University)
Speakers:
Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University)
“Online
Community: It’s Real and It’s Happening”
John
Sullins (Sonoma State University)
“Beyond
Our Biology”
V-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Topic: Advice for Those Who Will Be in the Job Market Next Year
Speakers:
Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College)
Larry
May (Washington University in St. Louis)
V-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)
Speaker:
Theodore Schick (Muhlenberg College)
“Choice,
Purpose, and Understanding: Neo, the Merovingian, and the
Oracle”
Speaker:
Harold Weiss (Northampton Community College)
“The
Matrix, the Cave, and the Classroom”
Commentator:
Daniel Palmer (Kent State University-Trumbull Campus)
Thursday
Evening, March 24
Group Meeting, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
Society of Christian Philosophers,
Group Meetings, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 2,
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 1,
Society for Business Ethics,
Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 2,
Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session 1,
Kierkegaard Society,
Philosophy of Time Society,
North American Kant Society, Session I,
Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session I,
Western Phenomenology Conference,
Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy,
Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy (co-sponsored by the APA
Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered
People in the Profession),
North American Wittgenstein Society,
History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society,
Group Meeting, 9:00-11:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism, Session 2,
Annual Reception
9:00 p.m.-midnight, Colonial (mezzanine)
Friday,
March 25, 2005
Registration
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Mezzanine
Book Displays
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Placement Information
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Mezzanine
Placement Interviewing
8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., Cambridge, Bristol, Ascot, Derby
Continuation of Annual Business Meeting (if needed)
noon - 1:00 p.m., Colonial (mezzanine)
Carus Lecture II
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.,
Symbolic Logic Association Reception
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Presidential Address
7:00-8:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom (mezzanine)
Presidential Reception
8:00-10:00 p.m., Italian Room (mezzanine) Ê
Friday
Morning, March 25
Breakfast Meeting of the APA Committee on Inclusiveness
8:00 a.m., Board Room
Breakfast Meeting of the 2005/2006 Pacific Division Program Committees
8:00 a.m., Hampton
Session VI — 9:00 a.m. - noon
VI-A.
Invited Symposium: Naturalized Metaethics
9:00
a.m. - noon,
Chair:
John Doris (Washington University in St. Louis)
Speaker:
Allan Gibbard (University of Michigan)
“Moral
Feelings and Moral Concepts”
Speaker:
Michael Gill (University of Arizona)
“Empirical
Metaethics and Our Miscellaneous Moral Discourse”
Speaker:
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)
“Framing
Moral Intuitions”
VI-B. Invited Symposium: The Psychology of Non-Conceptual Content
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Jonathan Cohen (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker:
Jerry Fodor (Rutgers University)
“Nonconceptual
Content”
Speaker:
Richard Heck (Harvard University)
“Are
There Different Kinds of Content?”
Commentator:
Alex Byrne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
VI-C. Invited Symposium: Hegel’s Transformation of Fichtean Thought
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Will Dudley (Williams College)
Speaker:
Dean Moyar (The Johns Hopkins University)
“Fichte’s
Method of Self-consciousness in Hegel’s
Phenomenology”
Commentator:
Wayne Martin (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker:
Paul Redding (University of Sydney)
“Fichte’s
Role in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Chapter
4”
Commentator:
Scott Jenkins (Reed College)
Speaker:
Allen Wood (Stanford University)
“Fichtean
Themes in Hegel’s Dialectic of Recognition”
Commentator:
Klaus Brinkman (Boston University)
VI-D. Invited Symposium: Foucault and Critical Disability Theory
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Alexa Schriempf (Pennsylvania State University)
Speaker:
Licia Carlson (Seattle University)
“Problematizing
Disability Within and Beyond the Foucauldian Text”
Speaker:
Kathryn Morgan (University of Toronto)
“Social
Eugenics and the Eradication of ‘Gender-Disabled’
Subjects”
Speaker:
Shelley Tremain (University of Toronto-Mississauga)
“Reproductive
Freedom, Self-Regulation, and the Government of Impairment in
Utero”
Commentator:
Jana Sawicki (Williams College)
VI-E. Author Meets Critics: Jenefer Robinson, Deeper than Reason: Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and Art
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Ronald de Sousa (University of Toronto)
Critics:
Kathleen Higgins (University of Texas-Austin)
Alex
Neill (Southampton University)
Robert
Solomon (University of Texas-Austin)
Author:
Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati)
VI-F. Colloquium: Action Theory
9:00 a.m. - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Malek Khazaee (California State University-Long Beach)
Speakers:
Donald P. Smith (Virginia Commonwealth University) and E. J. Coffman
(University of Notre Dame)
“A
Principled Argument for Agency Theory”
Commentator:
Meg Bowman (University of Utah)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Angie Harris (University of Utah)
Speaker:
G. F. Schueler (University of New Mexico)
“A
Puzzle About the Humean Theory of Motivation”
Commentator:
Mark Phelan (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
David Widerker (Bar-Ilan University)
Speaker:
H. E. Baber (University of San Diego)
“Meet
the Meat: So, Where’s the Beef?”
Commentator:
Evan Tiffany (Simon Fraser University)
VI-G. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
9:00 a.m. - noon,
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Susan Schneider (Moravian College)
Speaker:
Daniel Korman (University of Texas-Austin)
“What
Anti-Individualists Should Say About Dry Earth”
**Winner
of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator:
Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Patti Nogales (California State University-Sacramento)
Speaker:
Sven Bernecker (University of Manchester)
“Rule-Following
and Externalism”
Commentator:
Ori Simchen (University of British Columbia)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
Byeong-Uk Yi (University of Minnesota)
Speaker:
Sam Scott (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Saying
Something About Santa Claus: Empty Names, Gappy Propositions, and
Literal Meaning”
Commentator:
Thomas Hofweber (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
VI-H. Colloquium: Aristotle
9:00 a.m. - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Aphrodite Alexandrakis (Barry University)
Speaker:
Maria M. Adamos (Georgia Southern University)
“The
Unity of Emotion: An Aristotelian Solution”
Commentator:
David Demoss (Pacific University)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
David Freelove (University of California-Davis)
Speaker:
Travis L. Butler (Iowa State University)
“Aristotle
and Dual Complexity”
Commentator:
Phil Corkum (University of California-Los Angeles)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
James Butler (Berea College)
Speaker:
Margaret E. Scharle (Reed College)
“The
Role of the Elements in Understanding Aristotle’s Natural
Teleology”
Commentator:
Blake Hestir (Texas Christian University)
VI-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation (co-sponsored by The Karl Jaspers Society of North America, and The Hannah Arendt Circle)
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Topic: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics
Chair:
Dianne Taylor (John Carroll University)
Speaker:
Joseph Margolis (Temple University)
“Moral
Philosophy After 9-11”
Speaker:
Tomoko Iwasawa (Kogakuin University)
“Politicizing
Cultural and Religious Mythology”
Speaker:
Helgard Mahrdt (University of Oslo)
“Freedom
in Politics is not a Phenomenon of the Will:
Hannah
Arendt on Thinking, Opinion, and Acting”
Commentator:
Mohammad Ashraf Adeel (University of Peshawar)
VI-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Topic: Can Analytic Philosophy Flourish in the Hispanic World?
Chair:
Graciela De Pierris (Stanford University)
Speaker:
Jorge Gracia (University at Buffalo, State University of New
York)
“Analytic
Philosophy and the History of Philosophy in Latin America”
Speaker:
Ernesto Rabossi (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
“Is
It So Important that Analytical Philosophy Flourish in
Iberoamerica?”
Speaker:
Luis Valdes Villanueva (Universidad de Oviedo)
“The
Peculiar Reception of Analytic Philosophy in Spain”
Commentator:
Otavio Bueno (University of South Carolina)
VI-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Topic: Self and Consciousness in Chinese Philosophy
Chair:
Chang-Seong Hong (Minnesota State University-Moorhead)
Speaker:
James Behuniak, Jr. (Sonoma State University)
“Dewey,
Dao, and Method”
Speaker:
Jiyuan Yu (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
“Relational Self and Social Animal”
Speaker:
Amy Olberding (University of Oklahoma)
“Personal
Style and Moral Sensibility in The Analects”
Commentator:
Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University)
Continuation of Annual Business meeting (if needed)
noon - 1:00 p.m.,
Friday
Afternoon, March 25
Carus Lectures
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.,
Introduction:
Joseph Tolliver (University of Arizona)
Speaker:
Tyler Burge (University of California-Los Angeles)
"Perceptual
Objectivity: Lecture II"
Session VII — 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
VII-A. Invited Symposium: Special Memorial Session on Richard Wollheim’s Philosophy
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Kayley Vernallis (California State University-Los Angeles)
Speaker:
Peter Goldie (King's College London)
“Emotion
and Imagination”
Speaker:
Robert Hopkins (University of Sheffield)
“Painting,
History, and Experience”
Speaker:
Peter Kivy (Rutgers University)
“The
Rebirth of Aesthetics: Praising Wollheim and Pressing On”
Speaker:
Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago)
“The
Bodily Mind”
VII-B. Invited Symposium: Moral Psychology in Ancient China
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Craig K. Ihara (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker:
Chad Hansen (University of Hong Kong)
“Learning
to Be Natural: The Dialectic of Daoism”
Speaker:
Benjamin Wong (Nanyang Technological University)
“The
Moral and Political Psychology of the Daxue”
Speaker:
Eric Hutton (University of Utah)
“Character
and Virtue in Early Confucianism”
VII-C. Invited Symposium: Life
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
John Sullins (Sonoma State University)
Speaker:
Mark Bedau (Reed College)
“The
Problem of Life”
Speaker:
Carol Cleland (University of Colorado)
“Defining
‘Life’”
Speaker:
Michael Ruse (Florida State University)
“Organized
Complexity: The Mark of the Living?”
VII-D. Invited Symposium: Plato’s Philebus
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Christine J. Thomas (Dartmouth College)
Speaker:
Dorothea Frede (University of Hamburg)
“The
Concept of Happiness in Philebus”
Speaker:
Russell Dancy (Florida State University)
“The
Limits of Being in the Philebus”
Commentator:
George Rudebusch (Northern Arizona University)
VII-E. Invited Symposium: Contextualism and Subject-Sensitive Invariantism
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Stewart Cohen (Arizona State University)
Speaker:
John Hawthorne (Rutgers University)
“Invariantism
in Epistemology: Some Competing Views”
Speaker:
Jason Stanley (Rutgers University)
“Interest-Relative
Invariantism”
Speaker:
Jonathan Schaffer (University of Massachusets)
“The
Irrelevance of the Subject”
VII-F. Author Meets Critics: Alva Noe, Action in Perception
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Nathan Westbrook (University of California-Irvine)
Critics:
Sean Kelly (Princeton University)
John
Campbell (University of California-Berkeley)
Michael
Martin (University College, London University)
Author:
Alva Noe; (University of California-Berkeley)
VII-G. Author Meets Critics: James Sterba, The Triumph of Practice Over Theory in Ethics
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Troy Jollimore (California State University-Chico)
Critics:
Julia Driver (Dartmouth College)
Sharon
Lloyd (University of Southern California)
Alastair
Norcross (Rice University)
Author:
James Sterba (Notre Dame University)
VII-H. Colloquium: Metaethics
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair:
Mark Balaguer (California State University-Los Angeles)
Speaker:
Stephen R. Grimm (University of Notre Dame)
“Nameless
Values?”
**Winner
of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator:
Noell Birondo (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
Fritz Allhoff (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Speaker:
Christopher M. Grau (Florida International
University)
“Irreplaceability,
Unique Value, and Intrinsic Value”
Commentator:
William Tolhurst (Northern Illinois University)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Mark Alfino (Gonzaga University)
Speaker:
James Liszka (University of Alaska-Anchorage)
“What
is Pragmatic Ethics?”
Commentator:
G. Randolph Mayes (California State University-Sacramento)
VII-I. Colloquium: Consciousness
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
Michael Nelson (Yale University/University of
California-Riverside)
Speaker:
Uriah Kriegel (University of Arizona)
“Phenomenal
Consciousness and Access Consciousness: A New Account of Their
Relationship”
Speaker:
Massimo Grassia (Columbia University)
“Phenomenality
as Accessibility: A Methodological Argument”
Commentator:
Georges Rey (University of Maryland)
4:00. - 5:00 p.m.
Chair: David Hunter (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
Speaker: Paul D. Raymont (University of Toronto)
“Rosenthal
on Inaccurate HOTs”
Commentator:
Bernard W. Kobes (Arizona State University)
VII-J. Colloquium: Fichte and Hegel
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair:
Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University)
Speaker:
Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University)
“Fichte’s
Self-Positing Subject”
Commentator:
Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves (Morgan State University)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
David Boersema (Pacific University)
Speaker:
James Kreines (Yale University)
“The
Philosophical Appeal of Hegel’s Metaphysical
Idealism”
Commentator:
Lydia Moland (Babson College)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Bertha Alvarez (Purdue University)
Speaker:
Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida)
"Bounded Communities, International Law, and Hegel's Conception of a Situated Cosmopolitanism"
Commentator: Allegra de Laurentiis (University at Stony Brook, State University of New York)
VII-K. Special Session Arranged by the Association for Symbolic Logic
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Topic: Juried Papers
Chair: Shaughan Lavine (University of Arizona)
Speaker: Dominic J.D. Hughes (Department of Computer Science, Stanford University)
"Proofs Without Syntax"
Speaker: Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University)
"How to Prove the Consistency of Elementary Arithmetic"
Speaker: Michael Rescorla (University of California-Santa Barbara)
"Church's Thesis and the Conceptual Analysis of Computability"
Speaker: Matthew E. Moore (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
"Naturalism, Truth and Beauty in Mathematics"
Speaker: Otavio Bueno (University of South Carolina)
"Pluralism about Logical Pluralism"
Speaker: Majid Amini (Virginia State University)
"Justification of Deduction"
A reception follows this session.
VII-L. . Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Topic: Multiculturalism and Women’s Rights
Chair:
Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto)
Speaker:
Baukje Prins (University of Groningen)
“Cultural
Rights and the Autonomy of Women: The Dutch Case”
Speaker:
Pascale Fournier (School of Law, Harvard University/McGill
University)
“The
Reception of Islamic Family Law in Western States: Can Muslim
Subaltern Women Speak?”
Commentator:
Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)
VII-M. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Topic: Brainstorming Session
Chair: Roger Wertheimer (Agnes Scott College)
APA members are invited to participate in a forum to develop suggestions
and ideas for the new APA Committee on Public Philosophy.
Friday
Early Evening, March 25
Session VIII — 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
VIII-A. Invited Paper: Equality and Race
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Lorraine Besser-Jones (Stanford University)
Speaker:
Laurence Thomas (Syracuse University)
“Conceptions
of Equality and the Kantian Paradigm”
Commentators:
Paul C. Taylor (Temple University)
Angela
Smith (University of Washington)
VIII-B. Invited Paper: Stoic Psychology
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Voula Tsouna (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Speaker:
John Cooper (Princeton University)
“The
Emotional Life of the Wise”
Commentators:
Rachel Barney (University of Toronto)
Raphael
Woolf (Harvard University)
VIII-C. Author Meets Critics: Carol C. Gould, Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Nancy Daukas (Guilford College)
Critics:
James Bohman (St. Louis University)
James
Nickel (Arizona State University)
Author:
Carol C. Gould (George Mason University)
VIII-D. Author Meets Critics: Robert Audi, The Good In The Right: A
Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Mark Timmons (University of Arizona)
Critics:
Thomas Hurka (University of Toronto)
Candace
Vogler (University of Chicago)
Author:
Robert Audi (Notre Dame University)
VIII-E. Author Meets Critics: Crawford Elder, Real Natures and Familiar Objects
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Cindy Stern (California State University-Northridge)
Critics:
William Carter (North Carolina State University)
Amie
Thomasson (University of Miami)
Author:
Crawford Elder (University of Connecticut)
VIII-F. Symposium: Moral Responsibility
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Michael N. Liston (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Speaker:
Manuel R. Vargas (University of San Francisco)
“Moral
Influence, Moral Responsibility”
Commentators:
Andrei Buckareff (University of Rochester)
Elizabeth
Harman (New York University)
VIII-G. Colloquium: Respect
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chair:
Charles Griswold (Boston University/Stanford Humanities
Center)
Speaker:
Kenneth E. Shockley (University at Buffalo, State University of New
York)
“On
Being Party to Respectful Practices”
Commentator:
Paul Hughes (University of Michigan-Dearborn)
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Chair:
Debra Jackson (California State University-Bakersfield)
Speaker:
Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
“Arrogance,
Respect, and Self-Respect: A Feminist View”
Commentator:
Elizabeth Brake (University of Calgary)
VIII-H. Colloquium: Pictures
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.,
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chair:
Robert Hopkins (University of Sheffield)
Speaker:
John V. Kulvicki (Dartmouth College)
“Pictorial
Realism as Verity”
Commentator:
Catharine Abell (Macquarie University)
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Chair:
Thomas Herrnstein (University of Utah)
Speaker:
John W. Bender (Ohio University)
“Exemplification
and Expression in Painting: Goodman’s Theories are
Wrong”
Commentator:
James Harold (Mount Holyoke College)
VIII-I. Colloquium: Metaphysics
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chair:
Daniel A. Krasner (University of California-Los Angeles)
Speaker:
Matthew H. Slater (Columbia University)
“The
Arbitrariness of Mereological Immoderation”
**Winner
of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator:
Ted Sider (Rutgers University)
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Chair:
Trent Dougherty (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Speaker:
Jeffrey H. Green (University of Notre Dame)
“A
Critique of the Jumping Animals Account of Resurrection”
Commentator:
Michael Bruno (University of Arizona)
VIII-J. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chair:
Marc Joseph (Mills College)
Speaker:
Henry Jackman (York University)
“Holistic
Atomism: Semantics Between the Old Testament and the
New”
Commentator:
Matt Phillips (City College, City University of New York)
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Chair:
Jeffrey King (University of Southern California)
Speaker:
Salvatore Florio (The Ohio State University)
“’That’-Clauses,
Propositions, and Substitutivity”
Commentator:
Peter Hanks (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
VIII-K. Colloquium: Descartes
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chair:
Ryan Hickerson (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker:
David L. Clemenson (University of St. Thomas)
“Descartes’
Direct Realisms”
Commentator:
Kurt Smith (Bloomsburg University)
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Chair:
Kristen Irwin (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker:
Matthew J. Kisner (University of South Carolina)
“Against
a Psychologistic Reading of Descartes”
Commentator:
David Cunning (University of Iowa)
VIII-L. Author Meets Critics: Kenneth Westphal, Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Realism
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Rod Bertolet (Purdue University)
Critics:
Rolf George (University of Waterloo)
William
Harper (University of Western Ontario)
Author:
Kenneth R. Westphal (University of East Anglia)
RECEPTION
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
The Symbolic Logic Association hosts this reception..
Presidential Address
7:00 - 8:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom
Introduction:
Jeffrie Murphy (Arizona State University)
Speaker:
Hubert Dreyfus (University of California-Berkeley)
"How
Analytic Philosophers Can Profit From What Continental
Philosophers
Say About Everyday Skillful Coping"
PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION
8:00 - 10:00 p.m., Italian Room
Group Meetings, 8:15 - 11:15 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Association of Chinese Philosophers in America,
Society for Empirical Ethics,
Society for Skeptical Studies, Session 1,
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy,
International Institute for Field-Being, Session 2,
Radical Philosophy Association,
Society for Student Philosophers, Session 1,
Association of Informal Logic and Critical Thinking,
North American Kant Society, Session 2,
Society for Women In Philosophy, Session 1,
Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals,
Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion,
International Hobbes Association, Session 1,
The Karl Jaspers Society of North America and The Hannah Arendt Circle (co-sponsored by the APA Committee on International Cooperation),
Society for German Idealism, Session 2,
International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 1,
Saturday,
March 26, 2005
Registration
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Mezzanine
Book Displays
8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Placement Information
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Mezzanine
Placement Interviewing
8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., Cambridge, Bristol, Ascot, Derby
Continuation of Annual Business meeting (if needed)
noon - 1:00 p.m., Colonial (mezzanine)
Carus Lecture III
1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Colonial (mezzanine)
Saturday Morning, March 26
Breakfast Meeting of the APA Committee on the Status of Women
8:00 a.m., Board Room
Session IX — 9:00 a.m. - noon
IX-A. Invited Symposium: Virtue and Sex
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Heather Battaly (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker:
Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
“Wickedness
and Some of the Other Faces of Sexual Intemperance”
Speaker:
Lara Denis (Agnes Scott College)
“Animality,
Agency, and Abortion”
Speaker:
Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma)
“Carnal
Wisdom and Sexual Virtue”
Commentator:
John Bishop (University of Auckland)
IX-B. Invited Symposium: Evolution and Rationality
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Patrick Rysiew (University of British Columbia)
Speaker:
Jose Bermudez (Washington University in St Louis)
“Evolution,
Massive Modularity, and Rationality”
Speaker:
David Papineau (King's College London)
“Truth,
Normativity, and Natural Selection”
Speaker:
Christopher Stephens (University of British Columbia)
“Evolution,
Emotion, and Decision”
Commentator:
Paul Griffiths (University of Queensland)
IX-C. Invited Symposium: Samuel Todes, Body and World
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Hubert Dreyfus (University of California-Berkeley)
Speakers:
Piotr Hoffman (University of Nevada-Reno)
Adrian
Cussins (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)
Dagfinn
Follesdal (Stanford University)
Shaun
Gallagher (University of Central Florida)
Taylor
Carman (Barnard College)
IX-D. Invited Symposium: Presocratic Philosophy
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Victor Caston (University of California-Davis)
Speaker:
Daniel W. Graham (Brigham Young University)
“On
the Nature of Things”
Speaker:
John Palmer (University of Florida)
“Parmenides’
Three Ways”
Speaker:
Patricia Curd (Purdue University)
“Gorgias
and What-Is-Not”
IX-E. Author Meets Critics: Susan Hurley, Justice, Luck, and Knowledge
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Thomas Christiano (University of Arizona)
Critics:
Gary Watson (University of California Riverside)
Samuel
Freeman (University of Pennsylvania)
Richard
Arneson (University of California-San Diego)
Author:
Susan Hurley (University of Warwick)
IX-F. Colloquium: Metaethics
9:00 a.m. - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Mane Hajdin (Dominican University of California)
Speaker:
Teemu Toppinen (University of Helsinki)
“No
Harm Done in the Expressivist Circles”
**Winner
of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator:
Nathan Nobis (University of Rochester)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
J. Thomas Cook (Rollins College)
Speaker:
Todd Bernard Weber (Monterey Peninsula College)
“Analyzing
Wrongness as ‘Sanctionworthiness’”
Commentator:
Elinor Mason (University of Edinburgh)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
Clifford Anderson (California State University-Sacramento)
Speaker:
Jason R. Kawall (Colgate University)
“On
Johnson, Rightness, and Virtuous Ideal Observers”
Commentator:
Julie Tannenbaum (University of California-Santa Cruz)
IX-G. Colloquium: Kantian Ethics
9:00 a.m. - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Jocelyn Hoy (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Speaker:
Karen S. Feldman (University of California-Berkeley)
“On
Arendt, Privacy and Orality”
Commentator:
Katalin Makkai (Barnard College)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Justin Kalef (University of Victoria)
Speaker:
Daniel B. Dennis (University of Edinburgh)
“Kant’s
Account of Treating Human Beings as Ends: Moral Harm, Natural Harm
and Perfect Duty”
**Winner
of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator:
Sean McAleer (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
Tim Christie (University of British Columbia)
Speaker:
John R. Wright (Miami University)
“Legislating
the Moral Law: Anscombe’s ‘Modern Moral
Philosophy’”
Commentator:
Scott Anderson (University of British Columbia)
IX-H. Colloquium: Perception
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Janet Levin (University of Southern California)
Speakers:
Ben Caplan (University of Manitoba) and Timothy Schroeder (University
of Manitoba)
“On
the Content of Experience”
Commentator:
Michael Thau (Temple University)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Ram Neta (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Speaker:
Michelle I. Montague (University of California-Irvine)
“Russell’s
Principle and a Problem with Vision”
Commentator:
Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
Melinda Hogan (Kwantlen University College)
Speaker:
Cara Spencer (Howard University)
“Unconscious
Vision and the Platitudes of Folk Psychology”
Commentator:
John Jacobson (University of California-San Diego)
IX-I. Colloquium: Hume
9:00 a.m. - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco)
Speaker:
Steven Gamboa (California State University-Bakersfield/Claremont
Graduate University)
“Hume
on Resemblance, Relevance, and Representation”
Commentator:
Mark Collier (Pomona College)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Ronald McIntyre (California State University-Northridge)
Speaker:
Graciela De Pierris (Stanford University)
“Hume,
the Mechanical Philosophy, and the Idea of Necessity”
Commentator:
Saul Traiger (Occidental College)
11:00 - noon.
Chair:
G. J. Mattey (University of California-Davis)
Speaker:
William E. Morris (Illinois Wesleyan University)
“The
Myth of Hume’s Compatibilism”
Commentator:
Jeffrey Tlumak (Vanderbilt University)
IX-J. Colloquium: Philosophy of Science
9:00 a.m. - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Paul Roth (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Speaker:
William H. Krieger (California State Polytechnic
University-Pomona)
“Against
a Unified Method: A Case Study in Geography and
Archaeology”
Commentator:
Scott Hutson (Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Michael Malone (Northern Arizona University)
Speaker:
Daniel P. Steel (Michigan State University)
“Rethinking
the Naturalism/Interpretivism Debate in Philosophy of Social
Science”
Commentator:
Harold Kincaid (University of Alabama-Birmingham)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
David Kaspar (University of Nevada-Reno)
Speaker:
Anna Alexandrova (University of California-San Diego)
“Connecting
Rational Choice Models to the Real World”
Commentator:
Don Ross (University of Cape Town/University of Alabama-Birmingham)
IX-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Topic: International Trade, Responsibility, and Global Justice
Chair:
Debra Satz (Stanford University)
Speaker:
Iris Marion Young (University of Chicago)
“Responsibility
and Global Justice”
Speaker:
Mathias Risse (Harvard University)
“Fairness
in International Trade”
Speaker:
Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego State University)
“Justice,
Trade, and Development”
IX-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Topic: The Belmont Report: The 25th Anniversary
Chair:
Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
Speaker:
Tom Beauchamp (Georgetown University)
“The
Belmont Report: Some Second Thoughts”
Speaker:
Ruth Macklin (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
“The
Belmont Principle of Justice: An Idea Whose Time Has Come”
Speaker:
Alex John London (Carnegie Mellon University)
“Justice
in The Belmont Report and the Social Division of Labor”
Speaker:
Jodi Halpern (University of California-Berkeley)
“Respect
for Persons: How Emotions Influence the Ability to Consent to
Research”
Speaker:
Franklin G. Miller (National Institutes of Health)
“The
Ethical Significance of Distinguishing Clinical Research and Medical
Care”
IX-M. Special Session Arranged by the Association for Symbolic Logic
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Topic: Revising Beliefs about Game Theory: Strategies for Rational Choice
Chair:
Anthony S. Gillies (University of Michigan)
Speaker: Robert Stalnaker (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
"Counterfactuals and Dispositions in Games"
Speaker: Rohit Parikh (City University of New York)
"Going Beyond First Order Logic"
Speaker: Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam/Stanford University)
"Update
and Revision in the Course of a Game".
Continuation of Annual Business Meeting (if needed)
noon - 1:00 p.m., Colonial (mezzanine)
Saturday
Afternoon, March 26
Carus Lectures
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.,
Introduction:
Amelie Rorty (Harvard University)
Speaker:
Tyler Burge (University of California-Los Angeles)
"Perceptual
Objectivity: Lecture III"
Session X — 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
X-A. Invited Symposium: Special Memorial Session on Joel Feinberg's Philosophy
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Speakers:
Jules Coleman (Yale University)
Richard
Arneson (University of California-San Diego)
Christopher
Heath Wellman (Washington University in St Louis)
X-B. Invited Symposium: Promises
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Jennifer Hudin (University of California-Berkeley)
Speaker:
Margaret Gilbert (University of Connecticut)
“Three
Dogmas about Promises”
Speaker:
Michael Pratt (Queen’s University)
“Voluntary
Obligations in Law and Morality”
Commentator:
Niko Kolodny (Harvard University)
X-C. Invited Symposium: Phenomenology
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California-Riverside)
Speaker:
Charles Siewert (University of California-Riverside)
“The
Relevance of Phenomenology”
Speaker:
Terence Horgan (University of Arizona)
“The
Phenomenology of Agency”
Speaker:
Galen Strawson (University of Reading/City University of New York
Graduate Center)
“Why
Intentionality Entails Consciousness”
X-D. Invited Symposium: Plato, Pythagoras, and the Pythagoreans
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Richard McKirahan (Pomona College)
Speaker:
Luc Brisson (CNRS Paris)
“Pythagoreanism
in Plato: The Case of Philolaus”
Speaker:
Charles Kahn (University of Pennsylvania)
“What
Is Pythagorean in Plato?”
Commentator:
Carl Huffman (DePauw University)
X-E. Colloquium: Epistemology
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair:
Peter Kung (Pomona College)
Speaker:
Larry A. Herzberg (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
“Constitutivism
and Knowing One’s Emotional State”
Commentator:
York Gunther (California State University-Northridge)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky)
Speaker:
Andrew M. Cullison (University of Rochester)
“Privileged
Access, Externalism, and Ways of Believing”
**Winner
of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator:
Krista Lawlor (Stanford University)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Albert Flores (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker:
Edward S. Hinchman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
“Judging
as Inviting Self-Trust”
Commentator:
Robert Barnard (University of Mississippi)
X-F. Colloquium: Applied Ethics
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair:
Ben Bradley (Syracuse University)
Speaker:
Michael Otsuka (University College, London University)
“Should
We Save the Greater Number? A Defence of Taurek Against Kamm and
Scanlon”
Commentator:
Sarah McGrath (Holy Cross College)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
Jeffery D. Smith (University of Redlands)
Speaker:
Adam D. Moore (University of Washington)
“Toward
Informational Privacy Rights”
Commentator:
Judith Wagner DeCew (Clark University)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Sibyl Schwarzenbach (The Graduate Center, City University of New
York)
Speaker:
Eric H. Reitan (Oklahoma State University)
“Defining
Terrorism”
Commentator:
Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
X-G. Colloquium: Kant
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair:
Michael Hardimon (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker:
Timothy Rosenkoetter (Dartmouth College)
“Can
Kant’s Analytic Judgments Be True?”
Commentator:
R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
William Peck (Reed College)
Speakers:
Alexander Rueger (University of Alberta) and Sahan Evren (Middle East
Technical University)
“Natural
Beauty as a Symbol of the Systematicity of Nature”
Commentator:
Andrew Chignell (Cornell University)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)
Speaker:
Lara Ostaric (University of Notre Dame)
“Point
of View of Man or Knowledge of God? An Answer to Beatrice
Longuenesse”
**Winner
of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator:
Beatrice Longuenesse (New York University)
X-H. Colloquium: Time
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Chair:
Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)
Speaker:
Lawrence B. Lombard (Wayne State University)
“Scope
Fallacies and the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics”
Commentator:
Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chair:
James Crippen (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker:
Tony Roark (Boise State University)
“Aristotelian
Temporal Passage”
Commentator:
Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
William O. Stephens (Creighton University)
Speaker:
Eric Lewis (McGill University)
“Chrysippus,
Cyclical Time and the Master Argument”
Commentator:
Scott Rubarth (Rollins College)
X-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committees on Inclusiveness, the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People, and the Status of Women
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.,
Topic: Considering Same-Sex Marriage: Spring 2005 Reflections
Chair:
Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (Washington State University)
Speaker:
Joan Callahan (University of Kentucky)
“Why
Marriage Matters - At Least for Now”
Speaker:
Richard D. Mohr (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“Lesbian
and Gay Marriage: Leftist Challenges, Liberal Solutions”
Speaker:
Adele Mercier (Queens University)
“Can
Semantics Stop Same-Sex Marriage?”
X-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation (co-sponsored by the Averroes and Enlightenment International Association)
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.,
Topic: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics: The Problematics of Change in the Middle East
Chair:
Alan Olson (Boston University)
Speakers:
Judith Kipper (Director, Middle East Forum, Council on Foreign
Relations)
Mona
Abousenna (Ain Shams University)
John
Silber (Boston University)
David
Rasmussen (Boston College)
Paul
Kurtz (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
Mourad
Wahba (Ain Shams University)
David
George (University of Newcastle)
Krzysztof
Michalski (Boston University/University of Warsaw)
X-K. Special Session Arranged by the Association for Symbolic Logic
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Topic: Logic Instruction and Philosophy Graduate Training
Co-Chairs:
Richard Zach (University of California-Irvine) and Andy Arana (Kansas
State University)
Discussants:
Delia Graff (Cornell University)
Michael
Glanzberg (University of California-Davis)
Ted
Sider (Rutgers University)
X-L. Author Meets Critics: David Charles, Aristotle on Meaning and Essence
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.,
Chair: Chris Bobonich (Stanford University)
Critics: Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)
Alan Code (University of California Berkeley)
Author: David Charles (Oxford University)
Saturday
Early Evening, March 26
Session XI — 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
XI-A. Invited Paper: Literary Interpretation
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)
Speaker:
Stephen Davies (University of Auckland)
“Author's
Intentions and Literary Interpretation”
Commentators:
Aaron Meskin (Texas Tech University)
Sherri
Irvin (Carleton University)
XI-B. Invited Paper: Platonic Psychology
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Charles Young (Claremont Graduate University)
Speaker:
Rachana Kamtekar (University of Arizona)
“Speaking
with the Same Voice as Reason: Personification in Plato’s
Psychology”
Commentators:
Anthony Long (University of California-Berkeley)
Charles
Kahn (University of Pennsylvania)
XI-C. Author Meets Critics: Eric Watkins, Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Mary Domski (California State University-Fresno)
Critics:
Manfred Kuehn (University of Marburg)
Martin
Schonfeld (University of South Florida)
Author:
Eric Watkins (University of California-San Diego)
XI-D. Author Meets Critics: Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore, Insensitive Semantics
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Takashi Yagisawa (California State University-Northridge)
Critics:
Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University)
John
MacFarlane (University of California-Berkeley)
Authors:
Herman Cappelen (University of Oslo)
Ernie
Lepore (Rutgers University)
XI-E. Author Meets Critics: Thomas Ryckman, The Reign of Relativity: Philosophy in Physics, 1915-1925
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Arthur Fine (University of Washington)
Critics:
Michael Friedman (Stanford University)
Donald
Howard (University of Notre Dame)
Author:
Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University)
XI-F. Colloquium: Dispositions and Causes
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chair:
Brendan O’Sullivan (Rhodes College)
Speaker:
Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University)
“A
Definition of Disposition”
Commentator:
John Heil (Monash University/Washington University in St. Louis)
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Chair:
Brad Armendt (Arizona State University)
Speaker:
Mathias F. Frisch (University of Maryland)
“Causes,
Counterfactuals, and Non-Locality”
Commentator:
Cei Maslen (Florida State University)
XI-G. Invited Symposium: Prophetic Vision, Imagination, and Resurrection – Aspects of the Soul in Islamic Philosophy
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Shahwali Ahmadi (University of California-Berkeley)
Speaker:
Kiki Kennedy-Day (Rutgers University-Newark)
“Resurrection
as a Metaphor in the Writings of Ibn Sina”
Commentator:
Mehdi Aminrazavi (University of Mary Washington)
Speaker:
Taneli Kukkonen (University of Victoria)
“Apprehending
the Divine: An Arabic Addition to Aristotle’s Scheme
of
Faculties
in De Anima”
Commentator:
Mohammad Azadpur (San Francisco State University)
XI-H. Symposium: Value Realism
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Peter French (Arizona State University)
Speaker:
Sharon A. Street (New York University)
“A
Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value”
**Winner of the 2005 Jean Hampton Prize**
Commentators:
Paul Bloomfield (University of Connecticut)
Earl
Conee (University of Rochester)
XI-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Blacks in Philosophy
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.,
Topic: Political Ontology and Race
Chair: Mary Beth Mader (University of Memphis)
Speaker: Ronald Sundstrom (University of San Francisco)
"The Political Ontology of Race"
Speaker: Falguni Sheth (Hampshire College)
"The Technology of Race"
Commentator: Mary Beth Mader (University of Memphis)
XI-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Topic: Berger Prize Essay: David Reidy's “Hate Crimes, Oppression, and Legal Theory”
Chair: Richard Arneson (University of California-San Diego)
Speakers: Michael Blake (Harvard University)
Julie Van Camp (California State University-Long Beach)
Respondent: David Reidy (University of Tennessee)
XI-K. Special Session Arranged by the Association for Symbolic Logic
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Chair: Shaughan Lavine (University of Arizona)
Speakers: Rohit Parikh (City University of New York), Eric Pacuit (City University of New York), and Eva Cogan (City University of NewYork)
"The Logic of Knowledge Based Obligation"
Speaker: Neil W. Tennant (Ohio State University)
"On Minimal Mutilation"
Jun Miyoshi (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
"Conversations and Situations"
Philip Ehrlich (Ohio University)
"The Absolute Arithmetic Continuum and its Peircean Counterpart"
Group Meeting - Added Session, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Group Meetings, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Society for Skeptical Studies, Session 2,
International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western
Philosophy, Session 2,
International Hobbes Association, Session 2,
Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session 2,
Group Meetings, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
International Institute for Field Being, Session 3,
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 2,
Society for the Study of Process Philosophies,
The Averroes and Enlightenment International Association (co-sponsored by the APA Committee for International Cooperation),
International Society for Environmental Ethics,
Society for Student Philosophers, Session II,
Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session 2,
Society for Women In Philosophy, Session 2,
Association for Philosophy of Education,
American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy,
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 2,
Society for Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts,
Sunday,
March 27, 2005
Sunday
Morning, March 27
Session XII — 9:00 a.m. - noon
XII-A. Invited Symposium: The Cognitive Science of Religion
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Shaun Nichols (University of Utah)
Speakers:
Robert McCauley (Emory University)
“Philosophical
Naturalism and The New Psychology of Religion”
Pascal
Boyer (Washington University)
“Explaining
Religion”
Jesse
Prinz (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
“Religion,
Genealogy, and Values”
XII-B. Invited Symposium: Rationalism in German Idealism
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Peter Thielke (Pomona College)
Speakers:
Paul Franks (Notre Dame University)
“Kant’s
Dirty Laundry: Intellectual Intuition in German Idealism”
Sebastian
Gardner (University of London)
‘German
Idealism and the Form of Philosophical Explanation”
Commentator:
Yitzhak Melamed (Yale University)
XII-C. Author Meets Critics: Lawrence Blum, ‘I’m Not a Racist, ButÉ’: The Moral Quandary of Race
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
David Kim (University of San Francisco)
Critics:
Eamonn Callan (Stanford University)
Tommie
Shelby (Harvard University)
Ronald
Sundstrom (University of San Francisco)
Author:
Lawrence Blum (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
XII-D. Author Meets Critics: Paul Humphreys, Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method
9:00 a.m. - noon,
Chair:
Jim Woodward (California Institute of Technology)
Critics:
Malcolm Forster (University of Wisconsin)
Paul
Teller (University of California-Davis)
Author:
Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia)
XII-E. Colloquium: Kantian Ethics Applied
9:00 a.m. - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Kym Maclaren (Northern Arizona University)
Speaker:
Monica Greenwell Janzen (University of Minnesota)
“Hospitality
Reinterpreted”
Commentator:
Bernard Jackson (Ithaca College)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Leslie Francis (University of Utah)
Speaker:
Karen E. Stohr (Georgetown University)
“Kantian
Latitude and the Problem of Obligatory Aid”
Commentator:
Kelly Sorensen (Ursinus College)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
Jacquelyn Kegley (California State University-Bakersfield)
Speaker:
Andrew G. Sneddon (University of Ottawa)
“Rawlsian
Decision-Making and Genetic Engineering”
Commentator:
Anita Ho (St. Catherine's College)
XII-F. Colloquium: Political Philosophy
9:00 a.m. - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Chris Griffin (Northern Arizona University)
Speaker:
Lori Watson (Eastern Michigan University)
“Political
Liberalism and Oppression: A Defense of Strong
Reciprocity”
Commentator:
Victoria Davion (University of Georgia)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
Speaker:
Walter E. Schaller (Texas Tech University)
“Is
Political Liberalism the Death of Human Rights? Rawls,
Reasonableness, and Relativism”
Commentator:
Eric Cavallero (Tulane University)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
Colin Bird (University of Virginia)
Speaker:
Gillian G. Brock (University of Auckland)
“Global
Equality of Opportunity: Can We Formulate a Compelling Positive
Version of the Ideal?”
Commentator:
Avery Kolers (University of Louisville)
XII-G.Colloquium: Environmental Philosophy
9:00 a.m. - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Shelby Weitzel (College of the Holy Cross)
Speaker:
Patrick R. Frierson (Whitman College)
“Adam
Smith and the Possibililty of Sympathy with Nature”
Commentator:
Robert Figueroa (Colgate University)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Ralph Acampora (Hofstra University)
Speaker:
Steve Vanderheiden (University of Minnesota)
“Climate
Change and the Challenge to Moral Responsibility”
Commentator:
Todd Weber (Monterey Peninsula College)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
James Anderson (University of San Diego)
Speaker:
Ramona Cristina Ilea (University of Minnesota)
“The
Capabilities Approach and Non-Human Animals”
**Winner
of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator:
Lawrence J. Nelson (Santa Clara University)
XII-H. Colloquium: Action Theory
9:00 - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Diana Buccafurni (University of Utah)
Speaker:
Randolph K. Clarke (University of Georgia)
“Prize-Winning
Decisions”
Commentator:
Eric Mandelbaum (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Douglas W. Portmore (California State University-Northridge)
Speaker:
Pamela Hieronymi (University of California-Los Angeles)
“Reasons,
Actions, and Attitudes”
Commentator:
Clayton Littlejohn (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
11:00 a.m. - noon
Chair:
Bonnie Paller (California State University-Northridge)
Speaker:
Alistair M. Macleod (Queen’s University)
“Does
the Instrumental Doctrine of Rationality Accommodate Even
Instrumental Rationality?”
Commentator:
Howard Hewitt (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
XII-I. Colloquium: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
9:00 - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair:
Bonnie Kent (University of California-Irvine)
Speaker:
Anthony J Lisska (Denison University)
“Perception
and Phantasm in Aquinas’s Philosophy of Mind”
Commentator:
Rebecca Goldner (Villanova University)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Kay Mathiesen (Montclair State University)
Speaker:
Shelley Weinberg (University of Toronto)
“Hobbesian
Naturalism: The Reciprocity Between Sovereign Authority and
Individual Liberty”
Commentator:
Peter Vandershraaf (Carnegie Mellon University)
11:00 a.m. - noon
Chair:
Nicholas Jolley (University of California-Irvine)
Speaker:
Samuel C. Rickless (University of California-San Diego)
“Is
Locke’s Theory of Knowledge Inconsistent?”
Commentator:
Lex Newman (Univeristy of Utah)
XII-J. Colloquium: Metaphysics
9:00 - noon,
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Chair: Douglas C. Long (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Speaker: Alyssa Ney (Brown University)
“Can an Appeal to Constitution Solve the Exclusion Problem?”
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Thomas Bontly (University of Connecticut)
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Chair:
Adam Kovach (Marymount University)
Speaker:
Paul Audi (Princeton University)
“Determinables
and Causation: A Critique of Yablo’s Account of Mental
Causation”
Commentator:
Mark McCullagh (University of Guelph)
11:00 - noon
Chair:
William Rottschaeffer (Lewis and Clark College)
Speaker:
Richard D. Schoonhoven (U. S. Military Academy)
“Causation
and Unification”
Commentator:
Wei-min Sun (California State University-Northridge)
Group
Program
Wednesday
Evening, March 23
Group Session GI — 6:00-8:00 p.m.
GI-1. Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism, Session 1
6:00-8:00 p.m.,
Author Meets Critics: Allen Wood, Karl Marx
Chair:
Nancy Zeigler (University of San Francisco)
Critics:
Phil Gasper (Notre Dame de Namur University)
"Philosophy
and Revolution: Reading Marx to Change the World"
Debra
Satz (Stanford University)
"The
Marxist Critique of Rights: Themes from Allen Wood's Karl Marx"
Author:
Allen Wood (Stanford University)
GI-2. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
6:00-8:00 p.m.,
Topic: Deliberative Democracy
Chair:
Kaarina Beam (Linfield College)
Speaker:
Gregory Fernando Pappas (Texas A & M University)
"Dewey and Deliberative Democracy"
Speaker:
Judith Green (Fordham University)
"Democratic
Epistemology and Social Hope"
GI-3. International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 1
6:00-8:00 p.m.,
Topic: Confucians after Confucius
Chair
and Commentator: Wei-min Sun (California State University-Northridge)
Speaker:
Alexus McLeod (University of Oklahoma)
"Beyond Qingtan: Reappraising the Philosophical Method of Wang
Chong"
Speaker:
Xudong Fang (Shanghai University)
"Other’s
Pain: A Mediation on Ch’eng Hao’s Doctrine 'By Jen
the Innumerable Things Are Regarded as One Substance'"
Group Session GII — 6:00-9:00 p.m.
GII-1. North American Spinoza Society
6:00-9:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Steve Barbone (San Diego State University)
Speaker:
Eman Fallah (California Institute of Integral Studies)
"Emotional
Regulation and the Role of Metacognition is Spinozistic
Psychology"
Speaker:
Paul Hoskins (Olympic College)
"Winged Horses and Trees of Life"
Speaker:
Nicola Marcucci (Independent Scholar)
"Movement
and Incompleteness in Spinoza's Conception of Citizenship"
GII-2. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 1
6:00-9:00 p.m.,
Author
Meets Critics: Andrew Fiala, Practical Pacifism
Critics:
Trudy Conway (Mount Saint Mary's University)
Lani Roberts (Oregon State University)
Author: Andrew Fiala (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)
GII-3. The Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 1
6:00-9:00 p.m.,
Topic: History, Postcolonialism, and India
Chair/Commentator:
Mark Bevir (University of California-Berkeley)
Speaker:
Lori Witthaus (Grand Valley State University)
"Doing
Philosophy Outside of History: Indian Philosophy and the Denial of Supersession"
Speaker:
Matt Baxter (University of California-Berkeley)
"Subaltern
Studies as Philosophy and History"
Speaker:
Hira Singh (York University)
"Popular
Protests and Populist Historiography in Postcolonial India"
GII-4. Sartre Group
6:00-9:00 p.m.,
Topic: Sartre and Violence: Philosophical and Psychiatric Perspectives
Speaker: Ron
Santoni (Denison University)
"Sartre
on Violence: Curiously Ambivalent: a discussion"
Speakers:
Adrian Mirvish (California State University-Chico) and Lissa Rechtin
(Kaiser Permanente Medical Group)
"An
Anatomy of Terrorism: The Application of Sartrean Principles"
Commentator:
Gregory Tropea (California State University-Chico)
GII-5. Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session 1
6:00-9:00 p.m.,
Topic: Heidegger and Foucault
Chair:
John M. Rose (Goucher College)
Speaker:
Dana Belu (City University of New York)
“Between
Realism and Idealism: Heidegger and Wittgenstein on Technology”
Speaker:
J. Jeremy Wisnewski (East Carolina University)
“Heidegger
and the Natural Attitude”
Speaker:
Lee Braver (Hiram College)
“Foucault
on Putnam: Why Anti-realism Should be Historical and Ethical”
GII-6. Society for German Idealism, Session 1
6:00-9:00 p.m.,
Author Meets Critics: Kimberly Hutchings, Hegel and Feminist Philosophy
Chair:
J. M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College)
Critics:
Alison Brown (Northern Arizona University)
Jeffrey
A. Gauthier (University of Portland)
Author: Kimberly Hutchings (London School of Economics and Political
Science)
GII-7. Gandhi/King Society
6:00-9:00 p.m.,
Topic: "Taking Up 'The Hispanic Challenge': Latinos Unmasking Huntington's Who Are We?"
Chair:
Steve Martinot (San Francisco State University)
Speaker:
Jose-Antonio Orosco (Oregon State University)
"Huntington
del otro lado/from the other side"
Speaker:
Andrew Valls (Oregon State University)
"What
it means to be Hispanic"
Speaker:
Eduardo Mendieta (University at Stony Brook, State University of New
York)
"Critique
of pure arrogance"
GII-8. Philosophy of Religion Group
6:00-9:00 p.m.,
Author Meets Critics: J. Howard Sobel, Logic and Theism
Chair:
R. Douglas Geivett (Biola University)
Critics:
Robert Koons (University of Texas-Austin)
Thomas
Sullivan (St. Thomas University)
Charles
Taliaferro (St. Olaf College)
Author:
J. Howard Sobel (University of Toronto)
GII-9 Concerned Philosophers for Peace
6:00-8:00 p.m.,
Topic: The Next Four Years
Moderator:
Cathy Growdon (California State University-Chico)
Speaker:
Kelly Candaele (Journalist/Screenwriter)
"Spiritual
Politics"
Speaker:
Ron Hirschbein (California State University-Chico)
"Cognitive
Insolence"
Speaker:
Judith Presler (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
"Habeas
Corpus and the Open Society"
Group Session GIII — 8:00-10:00 p.m.
GIII-1. American Society for Aesthetics
8:00-10:00 p.m.,
Topic: The Epistemology of Pictures
Chair:
Amie Thomasson (University of Miami)
Speaker:
Robert Hopkins (University of Sheffield)
"Learning
from Pictures"
Speaker:
Aaron Meskin (Texas Tech University)
"Beauty
through Photography"
Commentator:
Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana University)
GIII-2. North American Society for Social Philosophy
8:00-10:00 p.m.,
Topic: Terrorism, Just War Theory, and Human Rights
Chair:
Glen Pettigrove (Santa Clara University)
Speakers:
Richard Buck (Mount Saint Mary's College)
Jordy
Rocheleau (Austin Peay State University)
GIII-3. International Institute for Field Being, Session I
8:00-10:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Kwang-Sae Lee (Kent State University)
Speaker:
John Quinn (University of Dayton)
“An
Islamic Environmental Ethic: The 99 Beautiful Names”
Speaker: Marc
Applebaum (Saybrook Graduate School)
“Presence
and Absence in Merleau-Ponty and Hairi-Yazdi”
Thursday,
March 24
Group Session GIV — 9:00 -noon
GIV-1. North American Nietzsche Society
9:00 - noon,
Topic: Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity
Chair:
R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)
Speakers:
Bernard Reginster (Brown University)
Tamsin
Shaw (Princeton University)
Commentator:
Van Harvey (Stanford University)
Group Session GV — 7:00 -9:00 p.m.
GV-1. Society of Christian Philosophers
7:00-9:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Richard Otte (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Speaker:
Bruce Gordon (Baylor University)
"Quantum
Field Theory and Process Thought: An Unnecessary and
Problematic
Union."
Commentator:
Brad Stone (Loyola Marymount University)
Group Session GVI — 7:00 -10:00 p.m.
GVI-1. International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 2
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Topic: Emotion, Harmony and Human Reality in Chinese Philosophy
Chair:
Robin R. Wang (Loyola Marymount University)
Speaker:
Robert Allinson (University of Hong Kong)
“The
General and the Patriarch', Hui-Neng and the Philosophy of the
Emotions”
Speaker:
Stephen C. Angle (Wesleyan University)
“Challenging
Harmony”
Speaker:
Thomas Sherman (Loyola Marymount University)
“The
Religious Character of Zhuangzi's Dao and the Sage's Relationship to
the Dao”
Commentator:
Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee (University of Mary Washington)
GVI-2. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 1
7:00 -10:00 p.m.,
Topic: Issues in Comparative Philosophy
Chair:
Peter Groff (Bucknell University)
Speaker:
Peter Groff (Bucknell University)
“Leaving
the Garden: al-Razi and Nietzsche as Wayward Epicureans”
Speaker: Walter Benesch (University of Alaska-Fairbanks)
“The
Accommodation of Change in Process Logics: East/West”
Speaker:
Nicholas F. Gier (University of Idaho)
“Hindu
Virtue Ethics”
Commentators:
Marc Applebaum (Saybrook Graduate School)
Wei-min Sun (California State
University-Northridge)
GVI-3. Society for Business Ethics
7:00 -10:00 p.m.,
Topic: Political Theory and Organizations - A Retrospective Examination of
Christopher McMahon's Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management
Chair:
Jeffery Smith (University of Redlands)
Speakers:
Nien-hÌäÌüå½ Hsieh (University of Pennsylvania)
Jeff
Moriarty (California State University-Long Beach)
Hans
van Oosterhout (Erasmus University)
Author:
Christopher McMahon (University of California-Santa Barbara)
GVI-4. Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 2
7:00 -10:00 p.m.,
Topic: Understanding Individuals and Collectivities
Chair:
Colin Bird (University of Virginia)
Speaker:
Stephen D. Ross (Binghamton University)
"Memories,
Images, Borders: Forgotten Histories"
Speaker;
Naomi Choi (University of California-Berkeley)
"Crafting
Aggregate Historical Concepts"
Speaker:
Ron Mallon (University of Utah)
"Anti-essentialism,
Culture, and Individual Difference"
Commentator:
Mark Bevir (University of California-Berkeley)
GVI-5. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session 1
7:00 -10:00 p.m.,
Chair
and Commentator: Valentine Moulard-Leonard (University of Memphis)
Speaker:
Amy Coplan (California State University-Fullerton)
"Caring
About Characters: Three Determinants of Emotional Engagement"
Speaker:
Christopher M. Grau (Florida International University)
"Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Morality of Memory"
Speaker:
Sander Lee (Keene State College)
"Hitchcock's
Heideggerian Breakdown"
GVI-6. Kierkegaard Society
7:00 -10:00 p.m.,
Topic: Kierkegaard and 20th-Century Continental Thought
Chair
and Commentator: Anthony Rudd (St. Olaf College)
Speaker:
Jeffrey Hanson (Fordham University)
"Returning
the Gift of Death: Derrida and Kierkegaard"
Speaker:
Matthew J. Frawley (Princeton University)
"Kierkegaard's
Mystical Absolutist Understanding of Neighbor-Love"
Speaker:
Iben Damgaard (University of Copenhagen)
"Temporality,
Narrative and Otherness: Kierkegaard and Ricoeur"
Speaker:
Raj Sampath (Independent Scholar)
"The
Problem of Parousia in the Philosophies of Kierkegaard and Heidegger"
GVI-7. Philosophy of Time Society
7:00 -10:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia)
Speaker:
Craig Callender (University of California-San Diego)
“Time’s
Ontic Voltage”
Commentator:
Michael Nelson (Yale University)
Speaker:
Michael Tooley (University of Colorado-Boulder)
“Presentism”
Commentator:
Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)
GVI-8. North American Kant Society, Session I
7:00 -10:00 p.m.,
Topic: Kant's Theoretical Philosophy
Chair:
Peter Thielke (Pomona College)
Speaker:
Joongol Kim (University of Notre Dame)
"Euclidean
Geometry as the Science of Pure Space"
Commentator:
Daniel Sutherland (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Speaker:
Melissa Merritt (Georgia State University)
"Science
and the Synthetic Method of the Critique of Pure Reason"
Commentator:
William Bristow (University of California-Irvine)
GVI-9. Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session I
7:00 -10:00 p.m.,
Topic: Speech and Desire, Public and Private
Chair:
John M. Rose (Goucher College)
Speaker:
Marina McCoy (Boston College)
"Rhetoric
and Audience in Plato's Protagoras and Gorgias"
Speaker:
Michael M. Shaw (Utah Valley State College)
“Leo
Strauss and the Ignoble Lie”
Speaker:
John Mouracade (Oklahoma Baptist University)
“Realism,
Hedonism, and Desire in Plato
GVI-10. Western Phenomenology Conference
7:00 -10:00 p.m.,
Topic: A Session on the Work of Jacques Derrida
Chair:
Daniela Vallega-Neu (Caifornia State University-Stanislaus)
Speaker:
Benjamin Prior (University of Toledo)
"
Derrida and Justice"
Speaker:
David (Vanderbilt University)
"The
Eleventh Plague"
Speaker:
Alejandro A. Vallega (California State University-Stanislaus)
"The
Painting of DiffŽrance (the Sensibility of Thought"
GVI-11. Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
7:00 -10:00 p.m.,
Topic: Symposium: Mind, Brain, and Values
Chair:
David Woodruff Smith (University of California-Irvine)
Speakers:
Terence Horgan (University of Arizona)
Mark
Timmons (University of Arizona)
Jeffrey
Yoshimi (University of California-Merced)
GVI-12. Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy (co-sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in the Profession)
7:00 -10:00 p.m.,
Topic: Honoring Mark Chekola
Chair:
Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (Washington State University)
Speaker:
Mark Chekola (Minnesota State University-Moorhead)
"Lives
and Loves That Dared Not Speak Their Names: Well-Being and LGBT Persons"
Discussants:
Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin)
Raja
Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Carol
Quinn (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Anita
Silvers (San Francisco State University)
GVI-13. North American Wittgenstein Society
7:00 - 10:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Stephen Simon (California State University-Fullerton)
Fred
Mosedale (Millikin University/Founding Editor, Philosophical Investigations)
"Wittgenstein
and Ebersole"
Commentator:
Merrill Ring (California State University-Fullerton)
Jeffrey
T. Johnson (University of Minnesota)
"When
We Understand"
Commentator:
Andrew Hsu (University of California-Los Angeles)
Charles
(Rich) Booher (University of Chicago)
"Conceptualizing
in Recognition: Travis vs. McDowell"
Commentator:
John W. Powell (Humboldt State University)
GVI-14. History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society
7:00 - 10:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Peter Stone (Stanford University)
Speaker: Jane
Duran (University of California-Santa Barbara)
"Russell
on History and Intrinsic Value”
Commentator: Rosalind Carey (Lehman College, City University of New
York)
Speaker:
Bruce Fraser (Indian River College)
“From
Necessity to Nativism: How Analytic Philosophy Inspired the Chomskian
Revolution”
Commentator:
Peter Stone (Stanford University)
Speaker:
Sandra Lapointe (Concordia University)
"Bolzano
On Axioms, 'Grounding,' And Synthetic A Priori Knowledge”,
Group Session GVII — 9:00 -11:00 p.m.
GVII-1. Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism, Session 2
9:00-11:00 p.m.,
Topic: Marxism, Socialism, and Social Justice
Chair:
Rita Manning (San Jose State University)
Speaker:
Rodney G. Peffer (University of San Diego)
"The
New G.A. Cohen, Social Justice, and Marxism"
Speaker:
Olufemi Taiwo (University of Seattle)
"Premature
Autopsies: Or Why Marxism May Have a Bright Future"
Commentator:
Jeff Paris (University of San Francisco)
Friday,
March 25
Group Session GVIII — 8:15 -11:15 p.m.
GVIII-1. Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
7:00 -10:00 p.m.,
Author Meets Critics: Kuang-ming Wu, Cultural Hermeneutics: Daoism and Phenomenology
Chair:
Jay Goulding (York University)
Critics:
Maja Milcinski (Ljubljana University)
"The
Problem of Daoist Hermeneutics"
Hwa Yol Jung (Moravian College)
“Transversality,
Sinism, and Kuang-Ming Wu's Cultural Hermeneutics”
Jay
Goulding (York University)
"Kuang-ming
Wu and Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Daoism and Phenomenology”
Masami
Tateno (Nihon University)
“Time
and Dao in Zhuangzi: Dao from a viewpoint of Time”
Ruth
Chao (University of Missouri-Columbia)
“
Kuang-ming Wu's Inter-Subjective Reflections on Psychology”
Author:
Kuang-ming Wu (Michigan State University)
GVIII-2. Society for Empirical Ethics
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Topic: Empirical Approaches to Moral Responsibility
Chair:
William Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College)
Speaker:
William Casebeer (Naval Postgraduate School)
"The
Neuroscience of MoralAgency: Toward a Compatibilist Detente"
Speaker:
John Doris (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Contextualism
about Moral Responsbility"
Speaker:
Shaun Nichols (University of Utah)
"Natural
Incompatibilism: A Partial Defense"
Speaker:
William Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College)
"Doing
the Wrong Thing: Cogntive Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement"
GVIII-3. Society for Skeptical Studies, Session 1
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Author
Meets Critics: Duncan Pritchard, Epistemic Luck
Chair:
Richard Greene (Weber State University)
Critics:
Ram Neta (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
John
Greco (Fordham University)
Sanford
Goldberg ( University of Kentucky)
Guy
Axtel (University of Nevada-Reno)
Author:
Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling)
GVIII-4. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Chair:
Julius Moravscik (Stanford University)
Speaker:
Denis Vlahovic (University of St. Thomas)
"Plato
on episteme and knowing logoi"
Speaker:
Scott Rubarth (Rollins College)
"Aristotle,
Epistemic Exemplars, and Virtue Epistemology"
Speaker:
Gale Justin (California State University-Sacramento)
"Problems
in the Phaedo Cyclical Argument"
GVIII-5. International Institute for Field-Being, Session 2
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Chair:
Miran Bozovic (University of Ljubljana)
Speaker:Martin
Schonfeld ((University of South Florida)
“Philosophical
Dynamics in Leibniz, Euler, and Kant: the History of Energy”
Speaker:
Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University)
“Power
Concrescence: the Field-Being Concept of Living Force—with
Specific Reference to the Concept of Qi in Chinese Cosmology”
GVIII-6. Radical Philosophy Association
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Topic: Can Dialectical Thought Still Speak in a Postmodern World?
Chair:
Urszula Wislanka (Independent Scholar)
Speaker:
Tom Jennot (Gonzaga University)
"Dialectics
and Postmodernism: Hegel at the End of the Road"
Speaker:
Ron Kelch (Independent Scholar)
"Hegel's
Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization for Today's World"
Speaker:
Eugene Gogol (Independent Scholar)
"The
Hegelian-Marxism of Raya Dunayevskaya in the Present Moment"
GVIII-7. Society for Student Philosophers, Session 1
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Chair:
Jennifer Wright (University of Wyoming)
Speaker:
Colin Koopman (McMaster University)
"William
James's Politics of Personal Freedom"
Speaker:
Fritz J. McDonald (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
"Kant
on Possession, Property, and Distributive Justice"
Speaker:
Garret Merriam (Rice University)
"Locke
and Intellectual Property Rights"
Speaker:
Eric Hall (Loyola Marymount University)
"The
Role of Doubt and Skepticism in Hegel's System"
GVIII-8. Association of Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Chair: Jan Sobocan (Althouse College, University of Western Ontario)
Topic: Theoretical Issues
Speaker:
Lilian Bermejo-Luque (University of Murcia)
"The Relationship between Reasoning and Arguing"
Commentator:
Jerry Cederblom (University of Nebraska-Omaha)
Topic: Forum on Standardized Critical Thinking Tests
Speaker:
Kevin Possin (Winona State University)
"Assessing
Critical Thinking Assessment Tests"
Speaker:
Leo Groarke (Wilfrid Laurier University)
"What
is Wrong with the CCTST? Critical Thinking Testing and Educational Accountability"
Speaker:
Donald Hatcher (Baker University)
"Using
the Ennis-Weir and the CCTST for Outcomes Assessment: Which Test Should
You Choose?"
Commentator:
Jan Sobocan (Althouse College, University of Western Ontario)
GVIII-9. North American Kant Society, Session 2
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Topic: Kant's Practical Philosophy
Chair:
Anne Margaret Baxley (Virginia Tech University)
Speaker:
Melissa Zinkin (Binghamton University, State University of New York)
"Respect
for the Law and the Use of Dynamical Terms in Kant's Theory of Moral
Motivation,"
Speaker:
Patrick Frierson (Whitman College)
"Kant's
Empirical Account of Human Action"
Commentator:
Jeanine Grenberg (St. Olaf College)
GVIII-10. Society for Women In Philosophy, Session 1
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Topic: Public Health Ethics
Chair:
Michael Boylan, (Marymount University)
Speaker:
Rosemarie Tong (University of North Caroline-Charlotte)
"Taking
on 'Big Fat': The Relative Risks and Benefits of the War Against
Obesity"
Speaker:
Jacquelyn Kegley (California State University-Bakersfield)
"A
New Framework for Facilitating Decision-Making About Genetic
Information"
Speaker:
Wanda Teays (Mount St. Mary's College)
"From
Fear to Eternity: Riding the Waves of Violence"
GVIII-11. Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Chair
and Commentator: Mylan Engel, Jr. (Northern Illinois University)
Speaker:
Robert P. Lovering (American University)
"Why
Environmental Virtue Ethics Fails to Justify Hunting"
Commentator:
Ralph Acampora (Hofstra University)
Speaker:
Monica L. Gerrek (Bowling Green State University)
"Another
Look into 'The Moral Status of Animals in Eighteenth-Century British
Philosophy"
Commentator:
Dale E. Miller (Old Dominion University)
Speaker:
Gary Steiner (Bucknell University)
"Do
Animals Employ Concepts? A Reflection on the Controversy"
GVIII-12. Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Topic: Knowledge, Belief and Justification
Speaker:
Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)
"Pyrrho
and the 'Naked Wise Men': What Did the Greek Skeptics Learn from Indian
Philosophy"
Speaker:
Kisor K. Chakrabarti (Ferris State University)
"The
Problem of Induction: Gangesa Versus Russell, Strawson and Popper",
Speaker:
Victoria Harrison-Carter (University of Glasgow)
"The
Early Nyaya and Recent Direct Realism: On Repeating Old Mistakes",
Speaker:
Chandana Chakrabarti (Elon University)
"Indeterminate
Perception, Knowledge by Acquaintance and Pure Experience: Nyaya,
Russell and James"
Speaker:
Stephen Kaplan (Manhattan College)
"Advaita,
Contradiction and the Turn to Analogy"
Speaker:
Shyam Ranganathan (York University)
"Patanjali
on Moral Knowledge and Moral Justification"
GVIII-13. International Hobbes Association, Session 1
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Moderator:
Kristana Arp (Long Island University)
Speaker:
Steve Viner (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Hobbes
on the Inseparability of Natural and Civil Law"
Commentator:
Eleanor Curran (Keele University)
Speaker:
Jeremy Anderson (University of Redlands)
"Transcendent
Interests in Behemoth"
Commentator:
Juhana Lemetti (University of Helsinki)
Speaker:
Erin Kealey (Boston College)
"The
Need for the Leviathan: The Hobbesian Analysis of Human Behavior"
Commentator:
Martin Harvey (Cleveland State University)
GVIII-14. Karl Jaspers Society of North America and Hannah Arendt Circle (co-sponsored by the APA Committee on International Cooperation)
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Topic: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics
Chair:
Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University)
Speaker:
Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University)
“Jaspers,
Heidegger, and Hannah Arendt”
Speaker:
Glen Pettigrove (Santa Clara University)
“Arendt
on Forgiveness”
Speaker:
Malek Khazaee (California State University-Long Beach)
“The
Looming Clouds of a Stateless Totalitarianism of the Spirit”
Commentator:
Joseph Prabhu (California State University-Los Angeles)
GVIII-15. Society for German Idealism, Session 2
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Chair:
Aaron Bunch (Loyola University Chicago)
Speaker:
Michael Allen (Saint Louis University)
"Structural Domination and Intersubjective Recognition in the
Modern State: Hegel and the Distinctive Value of Freedom"
Speaker:
Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida)
"Hegel
and Eurocentrism"
Speaker:
Ernesto V. Garcia (Columbia University)
"Hegel's
Critique of Kant's Transcendental Idealism in the 1807 Phenomenology:
The Untold Story"
GVIII-16. International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western
Philosophy, Session 1
8:15 -11:15 p.m.,
Topic: Gongsun Long's "White-Horse-Not-Horse" Argument and Contemporary Philosophy
Facilitator:
Stephen C. Angle (Wesleyan University)
Roundtable
Panelists: Chung-ying Ching (University of Hawaii-Manoa)
Yiu-ming
Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Chad
Hansen (University of Hong Kong)
Bo
Mou (San Jose State University)
Saturday,
March 26
Group Meeting - Added Session, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
Topic: New Issues in Just War Theory
Chair: Don Scheid (Winona State University)
Speakers: John Lango (Hunter College)
"The Ethics of UN Peacekeeping Operations"
Edward Mendieta (University of California - Santa Cruz)
"Michael Walzer's Arguing About War - One Step Forward, Three Back"
Commentator: Don Scheid (Winona State University)
Group Session GIX — 7:00 -9:00 p.m.
GIX-1. Society for Skeptical Studies, Session 2
7:00 -9:00 p.m.,
Chair:
Tim Black (California State University-Northridge)
Speaker:
Richard Greene (Weber State University)
"Epistemic
Standards"
Speaker:
Sven Bernecker (University of Manchester)
"The
KK Thesis, Zombies and Skepticism"
Speaker:
Ot‡vio Bueno (University of South Carolina)
"Skepticism
About Modal Knowledge"
GIX-2. International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 2
7:00 -9:00 p.m.,
Topic: Language, Mathematics, and Comparative Philosophy
Chair:
Ginny Lin (California Institute of Integral Studies)
Speaker:
Ma Lin (University of Leuven)
"How
can there be a dialogue from house to house?"
Speaker:
Masato Mitsuda (University of San Francisco)
"A
Mathematical Approach to Emptiness"
Discussant:
Fern Alberts (San Jose State University)
GIX-3. International Hobbes Association, Session 2
7:00 -9:00 p.m.,
Speaker:
Iskra Fileva (Boston University)
"Foolish
Games: Hobbes and the Safer Strategy of Trustworthiness"
Commentator:
Susanne Sreedhar (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Speaker:
Nicole Hassoun (University of Arizona)
"Hobbes'
Rati