American Philosophical Association Pacific Division

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' Rationality Account of Conflict"
Commentator: Bernard Gert (Dartmouth College)

Moderator: Timo Airaksinen (University of Helsinki)

GIX-4. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session 2

7:00-9:00 p.m.,

Speaker: Sherri Irvin (Carleton University)
"Apprehension and Interpretation of Artworks"
Speaker: Bassam Romaya (Temple University)
"Drag Ontology as Visual Art"
Commentator: Sally Markowitz (Willamette University)

Group Session GX — 7:00 -10:00 p.m.

GX-1. International Institute for Field Being, Session 3

7:00 -10:00 p.m.,

Chair: John Quinn (University of Dayton)

Speaker: Kwang-Sae Lee (Kent State University)
“Rorty and Social Practice”
Speaker: Maja Milcinski (University of Ljubljana)
“Field-Being and the Chances of Multiculturalism”
Speaker: Miran Bozovic (University of Ljubljana)
“Zhuang Zi through Early Modern Philosophy”

GX-2. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 2

7:00 -10:00 p.m.,

Topic: Rethinking Moral Approaches

Chair: Robert Allinson (University of Hong Kong)
Speaker: James Behuniak Jr. (Sonoma State University)
“Recovering the Confucian Measure”
Commentator: Robert Allinson (University of Hong Kong)
Speaker: Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee (University of Mary Washington)
"Toward a Hybrid Feminist Theory: Confucian Feminism"
Commentator: Nona Bolin (Memphis College)
Speaker: Kim Skoog (University of Guam)
“Discussing differences in practices of self-death (suicide): A New Typology of Moral Gradations of Suicide”
Commentator: Gene James (University of Memphis)

GX-3. Society for the Study of Process Philosophies

7:00 -10:00 p.m.,

Chair: John Quiring (Center for Process Studies)
Speaker: John Lango (Hunter College, City University of New York)
"Some Questions about the Role of Time in Whitehead's Metaphysics"
Commentator: Leemon McHenry (California State University-Northridge)

A Business Meeting will follow the Philosophical Program.

GX-4. The Averroes and Enlightenment International Association (co-sponsored by the APA Committee for International Cooperation)

7:00 -10:00 p.m.,

Topic: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics - The Problematics of Change in the Middle East (continued from the Main Program)

Chair: Alan Olson (Boston University)
Panelists: Mona Abousenna (Ain Shams University)
David George (University of Newcastle)
Judith Kipper (Director, Middle East Forum, Council on Foreign Relations)
Paul Kurtz (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
Krzysztof Michalski (Boston University/University of Warsaw)
David Rasmussen (Boston College)
John Silber (Boston University)
Mourad Wahba (Ain Shams University)

The APA Committee on International Cooperation wishes to thank the Averroes and Enlightenment International Association for its support of this program.

GX-5. International Society for Environmental Ethics

7:00 -10:00 p.m.,

Chair: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)
Speaker: Patrick Frierson (Whitman College)
"Natural Sentiments: From Adam Smith to Environmental Virtue Ethics"
Commentator: Clare Palmer (Washington University)
Speakers: Derek Turner (Connecticut College) and Kate Kovenock (Connecticut College)
" Reformulating the Precautionary Principle"
Commentator: Gary Varner (Texas A & M University)
Speaker: Ernest Partridge (independent Scholar)
"Disequilibrium Ecology: Much Ado About Nothing"
Commentary: Clare Palmer (Washington University).

GX-6. Society for Student Philosophers, Session II

7:00 -10:00 p.m.,

Chair: Lori Witthaus (Grand Valley State University)
Speaker: Nadia Zabtcheva Kennedy (Montclair State University)
"Towards Integrated Reasoning in a Community of Inquiry"
Speaker: Jennifer Wright (University of Wyoming)
"The Problem with Principles"
Speaker: John Stephen Brunero (Columbia University)
"Wallace and Broome on Instrumental Rationality and Belief Consistency"
Speaker: Patrick Steven Ishizuka (Santa Clara University)
"Monetized Destiny: On the Discursive, Linguistic, and Ideological Expansion of Capital: A Study in Discipline, Analogy, and Commodity Production"

GX-7. Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session 2

7:00 -10:00 p.m.,

Topic: Plato’s Cosmology

Chair: Adriel Trott (Villanova Unversity)
Speaker: Mark Faller (Alaska Pacific University)
“Plato’s Reversed Cosmos and the Conversation of Information”
Speaker: Tim Menta (St. Francis College)
“The Roots of a Theocentric Environmental Ethic: Hartshorne’s Appropriation and Extension of Plato’s Cosmology”
Speaker: Asher Seidel (Miami University of Ohio)
“Mindful Seeing”

GX-8. Society for Women In Philosophy, Session 2

7:00 -10:00 p.m.,

Author Meets Critics: Naomi Zack, Inclusive Feminism

Chair: Alison M. Jagger (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Critics: Ann Garry (California State University-Los Angeles)
Namita Goswami (DePaul University)
Ranjoo Seodu Herr (Bentley College)
Author: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)

The Philosophical Program will be followed by a Business Meeting.

GX-9. Association for Philosophy of Education

7:00 -10:00 p.m.,

Topic: Alienation and Self-Knowledge

Chair: Angela Smith (University of Washington)
Speakers: Pamela Hieronymi (University of California-Los Angeles)
Victoria McGeer (Princeton University)
Commentator: Julie Tannenbaum (University of California-Santa Cruz)

GX-10. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy

7:00 -10:00 p.m.,

Topic: Counseling the Self-Philosophy in Practice

Chair and Commentator: James A. Tuedio (California State University-Stanislaus)
Speakers: J. Michael Russell (California State University-Fullerton)
"Kierkegaard in Philosophical Practice"
Diane Kern (Insight Center)
"Intra-Psychic Engineering: Ethical Considerations"
Paolo Teresa Grassi (Independent Practitioner)
"Philosophical Practice as a Biographical Aptitude"
Terry R. Mathis (University of California-Riverside)
"Comparing Aristotle and Thomas Ogden on Affect and Feeling: A Philosophical Approach to Counseling"

GX-11. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 2

7:00 -10:00 p.m.,

Topic: The Newest Approaches to Personal Identity

Chair: Barbara LaBossiere (California State University-Fresno)
Speaker: Chris Tennberg (University of California-Santa Barbara)
"Personal Identity and DNA"
Speaker: Don Berkich (Texas A and M University-Corpus Christi)
"The Sense of Personal Identity"
Speaker: Michael Wolf (California State University-Fresno)
"Persons, Norms and Practices"
Commentators: Christopher Pynes (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Matt Burstein (Southern Methodist University)

GX-12. Society for Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts

7:00 -10:00 p.m.,

Speaker: Judy Salzman (California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo)
"Peace Through Power: Himsa and Ahimsa in the Martial Arts
Speaker: Richard Schubert (Consumnes River College)
"Filial Piety in the Martial Arts"
Speaker: Alan Back (Kutztown State University)
"Behaving Nonviolently"
Speaker: Joseph Lynch (California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo)
"Self and Non-self in the Martial Arts"