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| Main Program |
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| Wednesday Morning, March 22 |
| Session MI - 9:00-Noon |
| MI-A. | Mini-Conference on Secrecy |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Martin Frické (University of Arizona) |
| | David Woolwine (Hofstra University) |
| Speakers: | Adam Moore (University of Washington) |
| "Privacy, Secrecy and Government Surveillance" |
| | Philip Doty (University of Texas - Austin) |
| "The Ethics of Managing Risk Through Secrecy" |
| Commentators: | Kenneth Himma (Seattle Pacific University) |
| | Kay Mathiesen (University of Arizona) |
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| Wednesday Afternoon, March 22 |
| Session I - 1:00-4:00 PM |
| I-A. | Colloquium: Aesthetics |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Herminia Reyes (San Diego State University) |
| Speaker: | Robert A. Stecker (Central Michigan University) |
| "Do All Valuable Artworks Possess Aesthetic Value?" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Flo Leibowitz (Oregon State University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley (California State University - Bakersfield) |
| Speaker: | James Harold (Mount Holyoke College) |
| "On Judging the Moral Value of Narrative Artworks" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Tanya Rodriguez Eckman (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Brian Laetz (University of British Columbia) |
| Speaker: | Susan E. Spaid (Independent Scholar) |
| "Isness: A Philosophy for Avant-Gardes (2000/2005)" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Mary Wiseman (City University of New York - Brooklyn College) |
| I-B. | Colloquium: Ancient Philosophy |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Amy Coplan (California State University - Fullerton) |
| Speaker: | Emanuela Bianchi (University of California - Berkeley) |
| "The Errant Feminine in Plato's Timaeus" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Maria Paleologou (California State University - Bakersfield) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Joel A. Martinez (University of Arizona) |
| Speaker: | Matthew Carter Cashen (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| "Happiness, Eudaimonia, and Descriptive Adequacy" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Blake Hestir (Texas Christian University) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Matthew Strohl (Princeton University) |
| Speaker: | Tiberiu M. Popa (Butler University) |
| "Glancing at the Invisible (On Inference in Aristotle's Science)" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Mark Faller (Alaska Pacific University) |
| I-C. | Colloquium: Epistemology |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Jeffrey Roland (Louisiana State University) |
| Speaker: | Dennis Whitcomb (Rutgers University) |
| "Factivity Without Safety" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Mark Heller (Syracuse University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Brian Glenney (University of Southern California) |
| Speaker: | Christopher Tillman (University of Rochester) |
| "If It Were the Case that Counterfactuals Behaved Differently in Attitude Reports, It Might Be the Case that They Are Contex-Sensitive" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Peter Alward ( University of Lethbridge) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Robert Shanklin (University of Southern California) |
| Speaker: | Douglas N. Kutach (Brown University) |
| "Similarity Is a Bad Guide to Counterfactual Truth" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Christopher Gauker (University of Cincinnati) |
| I-D. | Colloquium: Ethics |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Stephanie Patridge (Otterbein College) |
| Speaker: | Sonia Sikka (University of Ottawa) |
| "On the Value of Happiness: Herder Contra Kant" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Rachel Zuckert (Rice University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Pekka Vayrynen (University of California - Davis) |
| Speaker: | Benjamin A. Sachs (University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
| "Can There Be Reasons that Don't Require?" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Jill Graper Hernandez (University of Memphis) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Daniel Campana (University of La Verne) |
| Speaker: | Luke Robinson (University of California - San Diego) |
| "Conflicts of Obligation: A Dispositionalist Account" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Manuel Arriaga (California State University - San Marcos) |
| I-E. | Colloquium: Mind and Representation |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | William Wilkerson (University of Alabama - Huntsville) |
| Speaker: | Mark Timothy Phelan (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| "The Red Herring of Compositionality and Beyond" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Thomas Bontly (University of Connecticut) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Bonnie Paller (California State University - Northridge) |
| Speaker: | Justin C. Fisher (University of Arizona) |
| "Representational Content and the Keys to Success" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Simon Evnine (University of Miami) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Mark Addis (University of Central England) |
| Speaker: | Paul Saka (University of Houston) |
| "Ambiguity and the Representation Problem" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Clifton McIntosh (University of Utah) |
| I-F. | Colloquium: Moral Psychology |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Gary Watson (University of California - Riverside) |
| Speaker: | David Shoemaker (Bowling Green State University) |
| "Identification, Responsibility, and The Whim Problem" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Matt Talbert (University of California - San Diego) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Robert Paul (Reed College) |
| Speaker: | Teemu Toppinen (University of Helsinki and University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| "The Passions That Rule" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Robert Epperson (Western Washington University) |
| Speaker: | Shieva J. Kleinschmidt (Rutgers University) |
| "Conditional Desires" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Marc Baer (University of California - Irvine) |
| I-G. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Biology |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Yoichi Ishida (University of Nevada - Reno) |
| Speaker: | Bence Nanay (University of California - Berkeley) |
| "The Individuation of Trait Types and the Aetiological Theory of Function" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Robert Richardson (University of Cincinnati) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Tom Nickles (University of Nevada - Reno) |
| Speaker: | Kenneth A. Presting (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| "Stability and Biology: The Case of Like-Begets-Like" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Christopher Horvath (Illinois State University) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Eric Desjardins (University of British Columbia) |
| Speaker: | Matthew H. Slater (Columbia University) |
| "Epistemicism Can't Save the Individuality of Species" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Christopher Stephens (University of British Columbia) |
| I-H. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Language |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Joseph Ulatowski (University of Utah) |
| Speaker: | Bradley Rives (Union College) |
| "An Empirical Defense of Recognitional Concepts" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Imogen Dickie (University of Toronto) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Michael P. Wolf (California State University - Fresno) |
| Speaker: | Michael A. Rescorla (University of California - Santa Barbara) |
| "Predication and Cartographic Representation" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | William Taschek (Ohio State University) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Andrew P. Mills (Otterbein College) |
| Speaker: | Elisabeth Camp (Harvard University) |
| "Why Isn't Sarcasm Semantic, Anyway?" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | David Shier (Washington State University) |
| I-I. | Colloquium: Political Philosophy |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Ellen Cox (Transylvania University) |
| Speaker: | Nicole Hassoun (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| "World Poverty and Individual Freedom" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Sally J. Scholz (Villanova University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Chris Brown (University of Arizona) |
| Speaker: | Ben Bradley (Syracuse University) |
| "A Paradox for Theories of Welfare" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Simon Keller (Boston University) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Henry West (Macalester College) |
| Speaker: | Andrew F. Smith (State University of New York - Stony Brook) |
| "Liberal Pluralism and the Case for Freedom as Non-Domination" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Christopher Griffin (Northern Arizona University) |
| I-J. | Colloquium: Virtue Ethics |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Larry Fike (Yakima Valley Community College) |
| Speaker: | Daniel Haybron (St. Louis University) |
| "Well-Being and Aristotelian Perfection" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Corinne Gartner (Princeton University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Stephen Brown (Briar Cliff College) |
| Speaker: | Anne Margaret Baxley (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| "Is Virtue Priceless?" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Sean McAleer (University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Sharyn Clough (Oregon State University) |
| Speaker: | Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University) |
| "Virtue and Reliability" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Derek Turner (Connecticut College) |
| I-K. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Politics, Immigration and Identity in the Americas |
| Chair: | Scott Pratt (University of Oregon) |
| Speakers: | Jose-Antonio Orosco (Oregon State University) |
| "Cesar Chavez on Latino Immigration and Nonviolent Culture" |
| | John Kaag (University of Oregon) |
| "Huntington and Immigration" |
| | Grant Silva (University of Oregon) |
| "Mestizaje, the Melting-pot, and Identity" |
| Commentator: | Scott Pratt (University of Oregon) |
| I-L. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Blogging as a Tool for Philosophical Discourse: The State of the Art |
| Speakers: | Kenny Easwaran (University of California - Berkeley) |
| | Jonathan Kvanvig (University of Missouri - Columbia) |
| | Gillian Russell (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| | Brian Weatherson (Cornell University) |
| I-M. | Mini-Conference on Secrecy |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Don Fallis (University of Arizona) |
| | Peter Lewis (University of Miami) |
| Speakers: | Mark Alfino (Gonzaga University) |
| "Ethical Issues in Trade Secrets for Professional Services" |
| | David Resnik (Independent Scholar) |
| "Secrecy in Scientific Research" |
| Commentators: | Tony Doyle (City University of New York - Hunter College) |
| | Catherine Womack (Bridgewater State College) |
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| Wednesday Early Evening, March 22 |
| Session II - 4:00-6:00 PM |
| II-A. | Invited Paper: Ethics and Aesthetics |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | William Peck (Reed College) |
| Speaker: | Derek Matravers (Open University) |
| "Art or Morality: Which Is More Important?" |
| Commentators: | Julia L. Driver (Dartmouth College) |
| | Eileen John (Warwick University) |
| II-B. | Colloquium: Applied Ethics |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Judith Wagner DeCew (Clark University) |
| Speaker: | Lorraine Besser-Jones (University of Waterloo) |
| "The Implications of Social Psychology for Corporate Responsibility" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Lisa Rivera (University of Massachusetts - Boston) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Rebekah L. H. Rice (Whitworth College and Brown University) |
| Speaker: | Scott A. Anderson (University of British Columbia) |
| "Can You Coerce Someone with a Death Wish?" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Mary Clayton Coleman (Bard College) |
| II-C. | Colloquium: Pragmatism |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | David Boersema (Pacific University) |
| Speaker: | Juan Ferret (University of Texas - El Paso) |
| "The Metaphysics of Pragmatism and Radical Empiricism" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | David Vessey (University of Chicago) |
| Speaker: | Mark M. Sanders (St. John's University) |
| "Rorty's Hope for Philosophy" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | John Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College) |
| II-D. | Colloquium: Probability |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Matt Haber (University of California - Davis) |
| Speaker: | Kent W. Staley (St. Louis University) |
| "Probability in Fine-tuning Design Arguments" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Jonathan Weisberg (Rutgers University) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Branden Fitelson (University of California - Berkeley) |
| Speaker: | Greg Novack (University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
| "Unification and Partition-Variance" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Fabrizio Cariani (University of California - Berkeley) |
| II-E. | Symposium: Ancient Philosophy |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Sean Kelsey (University of California - Los Angeles) |
| Speaker: | Philip Corkum ( University of Alberta) |
| "Aristotle on Consciousness" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Margaret Scharle (Reed College) |
| | Paul Studtmann (Davidson College) |
| II-F. | Symposium: Mental Causation, Reduction, and Supervenience |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Benj Hellie (University of Toronto) |
| Speaker: | Eric Hiddleston (Wayne State University) |
| "The Reductivist's Troubles with Mental Causation" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Karen Bennett (Princeton University) |
| | Janice Dowell (Bowling Green State University) |
| II-G. | Symposium: Terrorism |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Anne Baril (University of Arizona) |
| Speaker: | Mohammed Abed (University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
| "The Meaning and Meaningfulness of Terrorism" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Steven Scalet (State University of New York - Binghamton) |
| | Andrew Valls (Oregon State University) |
| II-H. | Mini-Conference on Secrecy |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Keynote Address |
| Chair: | Kay Mathiesen (University of Arizona) |
| Speaker: | Alasdair Roberts (Syracuse University) |
| "Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age" |
| Commentator: | Alan Mattlage (University of Maryland - College Park) |
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| Thursday Morning, March 23 |
| Session III - 9:00-Noon |
| III-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Joshua Gert, Brute Rationality |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Fred Schueler (University of New Mexico) |
| Critics: | Paul Hurley (Pomona College) |
| | Christian Miller (Wake Forest University) |
| | Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto) |
| Author: | Joshua Gert (Florida State University) |
| III-B. | Invited Symposium: Autonomy/ Freedom of Will |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Bonnie Kent (University of California - Irvine) |
| Speakers: | Daniel Guevara (University of California - Santa Cruz) |
| "Freedom of the Will, Autonomy and Normativity" |
| | Nomy Arpaly (Brown University) |
| "Freedom Vs. Reason" |
| Commentators: | Sarah Buss (University of Iowa) |
| | Oliver Sensen (Tulane University of New Orleans) |
| III-C. | Invited Symposium: Moral Phenomenology |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Mark Timmons (University of Arizona) |
| Speakers: | John J. Drummond (Fordham University) |
| "Moral Phenomenology and Moral Intentionality" |
| | Julia Annas (University of Arizona) |
| "The Phenomenology of Virtue" |
| | Stephen Darwall (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor) |
| "The Second-Personal Phenomenology and Psychology of Reactive Attitudes" |
| III-D. | Invited Symposium: Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Donald Rutherford (University of California - San Diego) |
| Speakers: | Yitzhak Melamed (University of Chicago) |
| "The Metaphysics of the 'TTP'" |
| | Edwin Curley (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor) |
| "The Development of Spinoza's Political Philosophy from the 'TTP' to the 'TP'" |
| Commentator: | Michael Rosenthal (University of Washington) |
| III-E. | Invited Symposium: The Ethics of Outsourcing |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Norah Martin (University of Portland) |
| Speakers: | John McCall (St. Joseph's University) |
| "Justifying a Liveable Wage" |
| | Denis Arnold (University of Tennessee - Knoxville) |
| "The Ethics of Global Outsourcing" |
| Commentator: | Richard DeGeorge (University of Kansas) |
| III-F. | Invited Symposium: Time and Necessity |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Joseph Keim Campbell (Washington State University) |
| Speakers: | L. Nathan Oaklander (University of Michigan - Flint) |
| "Is the Future Open?" |
| | Mark Hinchliff (Reed College) |
| "The Future's Got a Hole In It" |
| | Tomis Kapitan (Northern Illinois University) |
| "Time, Necessity, and Ability" |
| III-G. | Colloquium: Epistemology |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Scott Hendricks (Clark University) |
| Speaker: | Matthew Bedke (University of Arizona) |
| "Developmental Process Reliabilism and a Theory of Evidence" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Patrick Rysiew (University of British Columbia) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Asta Sveinsdottir (San Francisco State University) |
| Speaker: | Christopher R. Green (University of Notre Dame) |
| "Testimony and Memory as Generative Epistemic Sources" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Matthew Davidson (California State University - San Bernadino) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Tuomas Manninen (University of Iowa) |
| Speaker: | Eric J. Loomis (University of South Alabama) |
| "Criteria and Defeasibility: When Good Evidence Is Not Good Enough" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Michael Hodges (Vanderbilt University) |
| III-H. | Colloquium: Perception |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Michael Watkins (Auburn University) |
| Speaker: | John T. Bengson (University of Texas - Austin) |
| "How to Perceive the Past with Your Eyes Shut" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Aaron Meskin (University of Leeds) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Mariam Thalos (University of Utah) |
| Speaker: | Matthew Rellihan (Georgetown University) |
| "The Medium Is Not The Message" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Muhammad Ali Khalidi (American University - Beirut) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Alyssa Ney (University of Rochester) |
| Speaker: | Kenneth Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana) |
| "Understanding the Embodiment of Perception" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Anne Jacobson (University of Houston) |
| III-I. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Philosophy of Language |
| Chair: | Robert Stainton (University of Western Ontario) |
| Speakers: | Eleonora Orlando (Universidad de Buenos Aires) |
| "Meaning and Attitude: Different Kinds of Contextual Dependence" |
| | Maite Ezcurdia (Universidad Autónoma de Méjico) |
| "Moderate Contextualism and What Is Said" |
| | Oswaldo Chateaubriand (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) |
| "Sense, Connotation, and Reference" |
| Commentator: | Mark Sainsbury (University of Texas - Austin) |
| III-J. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Topic: | The Ethics of Foreign Intervention |
| Chair: | Morton Winston (College of New Jersey) |
| Speakers: | Michael Blake (University of Washington) |
| "Excuses for Intervention" |
| | Larry May (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| "Humanitarian Intervention, Bombing and Collective Liability" |
| | George R. Lucas, Jr. (United States Naval Academy) |
| "Intervention or Prevention?" |
| | Virginia Held (City University of New York - Graduate School) |
| "Principled Differences" |
| Commentators: | Deen K. Chatterjee (University of Utah) |
| | Don. E. Scheid (Winona State University and United States Naval Academy) |
| III-K. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of American Indians in Philosophy |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Aspects, Elements and Foundations of Indigenous Sovereignty |
| Chair: | Thomas Norton-Smith (Kent State University) |
| Speakers: | Gordon Christie (University of British Columbia) |
| "Emergent Sovereignty in the Canadian Context" |
| | Steve Russell (Indiana University - Bloomington) |
| "Indigenous Individual Rights: Theory, Praxis and 'Special Privileges'" |
| | Margaret Mutu (University of Auckland) |
| "Indigenous Sovereignty in New Zealand: The Maori Concept and Practice of Tino Rangatiratanga" |
| | Lee Hester (University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma) |
| "The Political, Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Indian Sovereignty" |
| | Rebecca Tsosie (Arizona State University) |
| "What Does It Mean to 'Build a Nation'? Re-imagining Indigenous Political Identity in an Era of Self-Determination" |
| III-L. | Special Session: Workshop for Philosopher-Citizens: How to Reach the Public |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Speakers: | Susan Anderson (University of Connecticut) |
| | John Lachs (Vanderbilt University) |
| | Gregory Pence (University of Alabama - Birmingham) |
| | Carlin Romano (Independent Scholar) |
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| Thursday Afternoon, March 23 |
| Session IV - 1:00-4:00 PM |
| IV-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: David Christensen, Putting Logic in its Place |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Joseph Barnes (University of California - Berkeley) |
| Critics: | James Hawthorne (University of Oklahoma) |
| | Mark Kaplan (Indiana University - Bloomington) |
| | Brian Weatherson (Cornell University) |
| Author: | David Christensen (University of Vermont) |
| IV-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Russ Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism: A Defense |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Terence Cuneo (Calvin College) |
| Critics: | David Copp (University of Florida) |
| | Sarah Stroud (McGill University) |
| Author: | Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
| IV-C. | Author-Meets-Critics: Sherri Roush, Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence, and Science |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Brad Armendt (Arizona State University) |
| Critics: | Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University) |
| | Eric Barnes (Southern Methodist University) |
| | P. Kyle Stanford (University of California - Irvine) |
| Author: | Sherri Roush (Rice University) |
| IV-D. | Author-Meets-Critics: Michael J. White, Political Philosophy: An Historical Introduction |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Simon Cushing (University of Michigan - Flint) |
| Critics: | Marcia Homiak (Occidental College) |
| | Rachana Kamtekar (University of Arizona) |
| | David O'Connor (University of Notre Dame) |
| Author: | Michael J. White (Arizona State University) |
| IV-E. | Invited Symposium: Feminism's Impact on Men |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Julie C. Van Camp (California State University - Long Beach) |
| Speakers: | Kenneth Clatterbaugh (University of Washington) |
| | James L. Nelson (Michigan State University) |
| | James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame) |
| Commentator: | Anita Superson (University of Kentucky) |
| IV-F. | Invited Symposium: Intellectual Virtue |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Abrol Fairweather (University of San Francisco) |
| Speakers: | Michael Stocker (Syracuse University) |
| "Intellectual Emotions (Some Remarks)" |
| | Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling) |
| "Virtue and Luck" |
| | Robert Roberts (Baylor University) |
| | Jay Wood (Wheaton College) |
| "Virtues and Intellectual Practices" |
| Commentator: | James Montmarquet (Tennessee State University) |
| IV-G. | Invited Symposium: The Intrinsic Qualities of Experience |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Jonathan Cohen (University of California - San Diego) |
| Speakers: | Ned Block (New York University) |
| "Consciousness and Awareness" |
| | Michael Tye (University of Texas - Austin) |
| "New Troubles for the Qualia Freak" |
| Commentator: | Eric Lormand (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor) |
| IV-H. | Colloquium: Contemporary Political Philosophy |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Gautam Satapathy (University of Delhi) |
| Speaker: | Shelley Wilcox (Temple University) |
| "Immigrant Admissions and Globalized Relations of Harm" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Victoria Costa (Florida State University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | John Farnum (Portland Community College) |
| Speaker: | Stephen Farrelly (Emory University) |
| "Explicitating Habermas: Expressive Rationality as Corrective to Communicative Action" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Babette Babich (Fordham University) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Jason Matteson (University of Arizona) |
| Speaker: | Edward A. Langerak (St. Olaf College) |
| "Convergences in the Public Square" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Lori Watson (Eastern Michigan University) |
| IV-I. | Colloquium: Epistemology and Science |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Michael Caie (University of California - Berkeley) |
| Speaker: | Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina) |
| "How Structuralism Can Solve the 'Access' Problem" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Kenny Easwaran (University of California - Berkeley) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Ali Hasan (University of Washington) |
| Speaker: | Gerald D. Doppelt (University of California - San Diego) |
| "How to Be a Scientific Realist" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Ori Belkind (University of Richmond) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Anthony Rudd (St. Olaf College) |
| Speaker: | Jill E. North (New York University) |
| "Two Views on Time Reversal" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Stephen Leeds (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee) |
| IV-J. | Colloquium: Ethics |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Peggy DesAutels (University of Dayton) |
| Speaker: | Rebecca Lynn Stangl (University of Virginia) |
| "Particularism and Thick Ethical Properties" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Nathan Nobis (University of Alabama - Birmingham) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Bertha Alvarez Manninen (Purdue University) |
| Speaker: | Michael Beaty (Baylor University) |
| "Thomson, First- and Second-order Ways of Being Good, and the Mysterious Relation Puzzle" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Caroline Simon (Hope College) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Monica Aufrecht (University of Washington) |
| Speaker: | Jason Kawall (Colgate University) |
| "On Complacency" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Lijun Yuan (Southwest Texas State University) |
| IV-K. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Neutrality, Objectivity and Viewpoint Diversity in the Teaching of Political Philosophy |
| Chair: | Randall Curren (University of Rochester) |
| Speakers: | Ann Cudd (University of Kansas) |
| "Diversity and the Values of Truth and Equality" |
| | Daniel Bell (Tsinghua University) |
| "Liberal Education Versus Confucian Education: A (Fictitious) Debate on Teaching Political Philosophy in East Asia" |
| | Avner De-Shalit (Hebrew University) |
| "Teaching Political Philosophy and Academic Neutrality" |
| | William J. Talbott (University of Washington) |
| "What’s Wrong with Wishy-Washy Teaching in Political Philosophy Courses?" |
| |
| Thursday Early Evening, March 23 |
| Session V - 4:00-6:00 PM |
| V-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Iain Thomson, Heidegger on Ontotheology : Technology and the Politics of Education |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Mark Wrathall (Brigham Young University) |
| Critics: | William Blattner (Georgetown University) |
| | Hans Sluga (University of California - Berkeley) |
| Author: | Iain Thomson (University of New Mexico) |
| V-B. | Invited Paper: Language and Literature |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Ronald Moore (University of Washington) |
| Speaker: | Bernard Harrison (University of Utah) |
| "Language, Literature and Reality" |
| Commentators: | John Gibson (Temple University) |
| | Michael Krausz (Bryn Mawr College) |
| V-C. | Invited Paper: Perception and Empirical Realism |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Charles Wallis (California State University - Long Beach) |
| Speaker: | Bill Brewer (Warwick University) |
| "Perception and Its Objects" |
| Commentators: | Anil Gupta (University of Pittsburgh) |
| | Nicolas Bullot (University of British Columbia) |
| V-D. | Invited Paper: The 'Rediscovery' of Aristotle's Protrepticus |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Steven Patterson (Marygrove College) |
| Speakers: | Doug Hutchinson (University of Toronto) |
| | Monte Johnson (St. Louis University) |
| "Aristotle's Protrepticus and the Fourth Century Debate About Philosophy, Education, and Politics" |
| Commentators: | David Gallop (Trent University) |
| | Christopher Rowe (University of Durham) |
| V-E. | Colloquium: Contemporary Political Philosophy |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Susanne Sreedhar (Tulane University of New Orleans) |
| Speaker: | Brian Thomas (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| "Getting Clear on Group Autonomy" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Devonya Havis (Boston College) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Kay Mathiesen (University of Arizona) |
| Speaker: | H. Benjamin Shaeffer (Humboldt State University) |
| "Are Civil Rights Protests Self-Respecting?" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University) |
| V-F. | Colloquium: Personal Identity |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Theodore Guleserian (Arizona State University) |
| Speaker: | Neal A. Tognazzini (University of California - Riverside) |
| "On Being a Morally Responsible Stage" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Jason Turner (Rutgers University) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Peter Kung (Pomona College) |
| Speaker: | Donald L.M. Baxter (University of Connecticut) |
| "Representing Personal Identity" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | William Edward Morris (Augustana College) |
| V-G. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Law |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University) |
| Speaker: | Richard Nunan (College of Charleston) |
| "Richard Posner on Democracy and Judicial Intervention" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | John Harris (University of Colorado - Boulder) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Adam Moore (University of Washington) |
| Speaker: | David Lefkowitz (University of North Carolina - Greensboro) |
| "(Dis)solving the Chronological Paradox in Customary International Law" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Augustine Frimpong-Mansoh (California State University - Bakersfield) |
| V-H. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Science |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Andrew Melnyk (University of Missouri - Columbia) |
| Speaker: | Robert Howell (Southern Methodist University) |
| "Emergentism and Supervenience Physicalism" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | David Kaspar (University of Nevada - Reno) |
| Speaker: | William Russell Payne (Bellevue Community College) |
| "What a Law of Nature Is" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Kenneth Lucey (University of Nevada - Reno) |
| V-I. | Symposium: Imperative Logic |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia) |
| Speaker: | Peter B.M. Vranas (Iowa State University) |
| "New Foundations for Imperative Logic I: Logical Connectives" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Mitchell Green (University of Virginia) |
| | Risto Hilpinen (University of Miami) |
| V-J. | Symposium: Metaethics |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Kirk Wolf (Delta College) |
| Speaker: | Sharon Street (New York University) |
| "Evolution and the Schizophrenia of Quasi-realism About Normativity" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Max Kölbel (University of Birmingham and LOGOS Barcelona) |
| | Mark van Roojen (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) |
| V-K. | Symposium: Metaphysics |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University) |
| Speaker: | Jonathan M. Schaffer (University of Massachusetts - Amherst) |
| "From Nihilism to Monism" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Ned Markosian (Western Washington University) |
| | Ted Sider (Rutgers University) |
| V-L. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | The Role of Philosophers in Interdisciplinary Programs |
| |
| Friday Morning, March 24 |
| Session VI - 9:00-Noon |
| VI-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Timothy Schroeder, The Three Faces of Desire |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Darren Abramson (Dalhousie University) |
| Critics: | John Doris (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| | Steve Downes (University of Utah) |
| | Christopher Hill (Brown University) |
| Author: | Timothy Schroeder (University of Manitoba) |
| VI-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Robert A. Wilson, Boundaries of the Mind/Genes and the Agents of Life: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Bruce Hunter ( University of Alberta) |
| Critics: | Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University) |
| | Karen Neander (University of California - Davis) |
| | Mark Rowlands (University of Hertfordshire) |
| Author: | Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta) |
| VI-C. | Author-Meets-Critics: Larry May, Crimes Against Humanity |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Thomas Christiano (University of Arizona) |
| Critics: | Andrew Altman (Georgia State University) |
| | Elizabeth Kiss (Duke University) |
| | David Luban (Georgetown University) |
| Author: | Larry May (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| VI-D. | Invited Symposium: Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Matt Weiner (Texas Tech University) |
| Speakers: | Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky) |
| "The Epistemology of Understanding" |
| | Earl Conee (University of Rochester) |
| "External Content, Internal Justification" |
| | Peter Graham (University of California - Riverside) |
| "Epistemic Norms, Semantic Externalism, and Two Kinds of Epistemic Internalism" |
| Commentator: | Ram Neta (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| VI-E. | Invited Symposium: Kant and Post-Kantian Idealism |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Ryan Hickerson (Western Oregon University) |
| Speakers: | Michael Friedman (Stanford University) |
| "Kant, Skepticism, and Idealism: Kantian and post-Kantian Conceptions of Nature" |
| | Sally Sedgwick (University of Illinois - Chicago) |
| "Thought as a 'Means': Hegel’s Critique of Kant in the Introduction to the Phenomenology" |
| Commentator: | William Bristow (University of California - Irvine) |
| VI-F. | Invited Symposium: Valuing and the Emotions |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Timothy Bloser (Cornell University) |
| Speakers: | Julie Tannenbaum (University of California - Santa Cruz) |
| "Emotional Expressions of Moral Values" |
| | Justin D'Arms (Ohio State University) |
| | Daniel Jacobson (Bowling Green State University) |
| "Rational Sentimentalism" |
| | Agnieszka Jaworska (Stanford University) |
| "Valuing and Caring" |
| Commentator: | Jodi Halpern (University of California - Berkeley) |
| VI-G. | Colloquium: Ethics |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Susan Stark (Bates College) |
| Speaker: | Douglas Portmore (Arizona State University) |
| "Are Moral Reasons Morally Overriding?" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Noell Birondo (Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Dan Boisvert (California State University - Bakersfield) |
| Speaker: | Elise Springer (Wesleyan University) |
| "On Avoiding Performative Contradiction in Moral Criticism" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Daniel Farnham (University of St. Thomas - St. Paul) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | John Draeger (Buffalo State College) |
| Speaker: | Jason Brennan (University of Arizona) |
| "On Behalf of Moral Principles" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Alastair Norcross (Rice University) |
| VI-H. | Colloquium: History of Modern Philosophy |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Marc Bobro (Santa Barbara City College) |
| Speaker: | Colin R. Marshall (New York University) |
| "Two Arguments Against the Particular Content Reading of Nicolas Malebranche's 'General Volitions'" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Andrew Pessin (Connecticut College) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Roger Florka (Ursinus College) |
| Speaker: | Raffaella De Rosa (Rutgers University - Newark) |
| "A Teleological Account of Cartesian Sensations?" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Alison Simmons (Harvard University) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Todd Ganson (Oberlin College) |
| Speaker: | Giovanni B. Grandi (Auburn University) |
| "Reid's Direct Realism About Vision" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | James Van Cleve (University of Southern California) |
| VI-I. | Colloquium: Mind and Language |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Aaron Zimmerman (University of California - Santa Barbara) |
| Speaker: | Par Sundstrom (Umeå Universitet) |
| "Sensory Qualities and Concept Empiricism" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Bernard W. Kobes (Arizona State University) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Paul Pistone (University of California - San Diego) |
| Speaker: | Robert W. Lurz (City University of New York - Brooklyn College) |
| "Wordless Thoughts and Their Supposed Limits" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Wayne Wright (California State University - Long Beach) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Ray Rennard (University of the Pacific) |
| Speaker: | Benjamin J. Stenberg (University of Washington) |
| "On the Ontological Priority of Thought Over Language: The Sellars-Chisholm Correspondence" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Anastasia Panagopoulos (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) |
| VI-J. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | William P. Seeley (Franklin and Marshall College) |
| Speaker: | Sean Hermanson (Florida International University) |
| "Extended Memories and the Functional Roles Objection" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Robert Rupert (University of Colorado - Boulder) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Andrea Sullivan-Clarke (University of Washington) |
| Speaker: | Michelle I. Montague (University of California - Irvine) |
| "Pro-attitudes, Propositionalism, and Psychological Disharmony" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Sarah McGrath (Brandeis University) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Dan Yim (Biola University) |
| Speaker: | Shelley Weinberg (University of Toronto) |
| "Consciousness and Reflection in Locke's Essay: Solving the Problem of Incoherence" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Mary Domski (University of New Mexico) |
| VI-K. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Topic: | The Trouble with Justice |
| Chair: | Xunwu Chen (University of Texas - San Antonio) |
| Speakers: | Chenyang Li (Central Washington University) |
| "Justice and Care Ethics" |
| | Xunwu Chen (University of Texas - San Antonio) |
| "Justice and Humanity" |
| | Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii - Manoa) |
| "Justice: Confucius and Kant" |
| Commentator: | Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii - Manoa) |
| VI-L. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committees on the Status of Women and Inclusiveness |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Women's Choices: Family Matters in the Profession |
| Chair: | Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina - Charlotte) |
| Speakers: | Joanne Waugh (University of South Florida) |
| "'We Are Now Beginning Our Descent into Miami' - Twenty Years of Philosophy on the Fly" |
| | Rebecca Kukla (Carleton University) |
| "Familiar Thinking: Reflections of a Mother, Philosopher, Philosopher's Wife, and Philosopher's Daughter" |
| | Janet Kourany (University of Notre Dame) |
| "Making a Place for the Other" |
| | Sharyn Clough (Oregon State University) |
| "The Two-Body Problem" |
| | Jean Keller (College of St. Benedict and St. John's University) |
| "Unforeseen Transformations: One Woman's Reflections on Combining Philosophy and Motherhood" |
| |
| Friday Afternoon, March 24 |
| Session VII - 1:00-4:00 PM |
| VII-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: D. Z. Phillips, Religion and Friendly Fire and On the Problem of Evil and the Problem of God |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Doug Geivett (Biola University) |
| Critics: | David Basinger (Roberts Wesleyan College) |
| | Brendan Sweetman (Rockhurst University) |
| | Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College) |
| Author: | D. Z. Phillips (Claremont Graduate University) |
| VII-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Jason Stanley, Knowledge and Interests |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Delia Graff (Princeton University) |
| Critics: | Gilbert Harman (Princeton University) |
| | Stephen Schiffer (New York University) |
| Author: | Jason Stanley (Rutgers University) |
| VII-C. | Author-Meets-Critics: Richard Mohr, The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality and Rights |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Jami Anderson (University of Michigan - Flint) |
| Critics: | Chris Cuomo (University of Cincinnati) |
| | Timothy Murphy (University of Illinois - Chicago) |
| Author: | Richard Mohr (University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign) |
| VII-D. | Author-Meets-Critics: J. Angelo Corlett, Interpreting Plato's Dialogues |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College) |
| Critics: | Lloyd P. Gerson (University of Toronto) |
| | Gerald A. Press (City University of New York - Hunter College) |
| | Charles Young (Claremont Graduate University) |
| Author: | J. Angelo Corlett (San Diego State University) |
| VII-E. | Invited Symposium: Authenticity |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Raymond Martin (Union College) |
| Speakers: | Benjamin Crowe (University of Utah) |
| "At the Origins of Authenticity" |
| | Taylor Carman (Barnard College) |
| "Authenticity and the First Person" |
| | Charles Guignon (University of South Florida) |
| "Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity in 'Being and Time'" |
| Commentator: | Randall Havas (Willamette University) |
| VII-F. | Invited Symposium: Eastern and Western Virtue Ethics |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Christopher G. Framarin ( University of Calgary) |
| Speakers: | Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University) |
| "Equanimity - Stoic Style" |
| | Bryan W. Van Norden (Vassar College) |
| "Virtue Ethics and Confucianism" |
| VII-G. | Invited Symposium: Introspection and Consciousness |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California - Riverside) |
| Speakers: | William G. Lycan (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| "Higher-Order Perception, 2006" |
| | Dorit Bar-On (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| "Introspection and Avowable Self-Knowledge" |
| | Terry Horgan (University of Arizona) |
| "The Hidden in Phenomenal Consciousness" |
| VII-H. | Invited Symposium: Sex, Violence, and the Criminal Law |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Lawrence Solum (University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign) |
| Speakers: | Joshua Dressler (Ohio State University) |
| "Battered Women Who Kill Their Sleeping Abusers: Reflections on Criminal Responsibility" |
| | Victoria Nourse (University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
| "The 'Unwritten' Law of Homicide: How Gender Has Shaped the Law of Homicide" |
| | Mary Sigler (Arizona State University) |
| "What's Wrong With Rape" |
| VII-I. | Colloquium: Epistemology |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Steven Reynolds (Arizona State University) |
| Speaker: | Andrew Cullison (West Virginia University) |
| "A Defense of Phenomenal Conservatism" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Michael Huemer (University of Colorado - Boulder) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Bennett Barr (University of Washington) |
| Speaker: | Ian Evans (Lewis and Clark College) |
| "Knowing that One Knows Revisited" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Chris Lepock (University of Alberta) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University) |
| Speaker: | Joe R. Salerno (St. Louis University) |
| "Who Discovered Fitch's Paradox, and Why Won't It Go Away?" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Ali Kazmi ( University of Calgary) |
| VII-J. | Colloquium: History of Modern Philosophy |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | John Whipple (University of California - Irvine) |
| Speaker: | Fred Ablondi (Hendrix College) |
| "Francios Lamy, Occasionalism, and the Mind-Body Problem" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Patricia Easton (Claremont Graduate University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Shoshana Smith (Colgate University) |
| Speaker: | Monte Cook (University of Oklahoma) |
| "Malebranche's Soft Dualism" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Larry Nolan (California State University - Long Beach) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Stewart Duncan (University of Florida) |
| Speaker: | Genevieve Migely (Claremont Graduate University) |
| "The Berkeley Triangle and the Occasionalism That Lurks Beneath" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Nicholas Jolley (University of California - Irvine) |
| VII-K. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Language |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Jeremy Anderson (United States Air Force Academy) |
| Speaker: | Joongol Kim (Western Illinois University) |
| "Definition by Abstraction" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Ishani Maitra (Syracuse University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Douglas Cannon (University of Puget Sound) |
| Speaker: | Heimir Geirsson (Iowa State University) |
| "Substitutivity, Simple Sentences, and Belief Reports" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Avram Hiller (Wake Forest University) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Thomas Hofweber (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| Speaker: | Allan J. Hazlett (Brown University) |
| "Grice's Razor" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Baron Reed (Northern Illinois University) |
| VII-L. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Disability and Disadvantage |
| Chair: | Kimberley Brownlee (University of Manchester) |
| | Adam Cureton (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| Speakers: | Christie Hartley (Georgia State University) |
| "An Inclusive Contractualism: Obligations to the Mentally Disabled" |
| | John Harris (University of Manchester) |
| "Disability and Enhancement" |
| | Julian Savulescu (Oxford University) |
| "Procreative Beneficence and the New Eugenics" |
| | Lorella Terzi (Roehampton University of Surrey) |
| "Vagaries of the Natural Lttery? Human Diversity, Disability, Nomality and the Demands of Justice" |
| Commentator: | Mary B. Mahowald (University of Chicago) |
| VII-M. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | The Role of the APA in the International Philosophical Community |
| Chair: | William McBride (Purdue University) |
| Speakers: | Moufida Goucha (Independent Scholar) |
| | Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University) |
| | William McBride (Purdue University) |
| | Ernest Sosa (Brown University and Rutgers University) |
| |
| Friday Early Evening, March 24 |
| Session VIII - 4:00-6:00 PM |
| VIII-A. | : |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| VIII-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Mohan Matthen, Seeing, Doing and Knowing: A Philosophical Theory of Sense Perception |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Janet Levin (University of Southern California) |
| Critics: | Austen Clark (University of Connecticut) |
| | Frances Egan (Rutgers University) |
| Author: | Mohan Matthen (University of British Columbia) |
| VIII-C. | Invited Paper: Kantian Equality |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | John Uglietta (Grand Valley State University) |
| Speaker: | Laurence Thomas (Syracuse University) |
| "Kantian Equality and the Moorings of Experience" |
| Commentators: | Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania) |
| | Angela Smith (University of Washington) |
| VIII-D. | Invited Symposium: Democracy and Nature |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Thomas Osborne (University of St. Thomas - Houston) |
| Speaker: | Josiah Ober (Princeton University) |
| "Democracy and Natural Capacity" |
| Commentators: | Richard Kraut (Northwestern University) |
| | Philip Pettit (Princeton University) |
| VIII-E. | Invited Symposium: Philosophy and Linguistics |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Anne Bezuidenhout (University of South Carolina) |
| Speaker: | Barbara Abbott (Michigan State University) |
| "On Linguistic Solutions to Philosophical Problems" |
| Commentators: | Dean Pettit (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| | Craige Roberts (Ohio State University) |
| VIII-F. | Colloquium: Contemporary Political Philosophy |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Brandy Burfield (University of Houston) |
| Speaker: | Derrick R. Calandrella (Independent Scholar) |
| "Safety and the End of Liberalism" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Cindy Holder (University of Victoria) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Peter Hanowell (Florida State University) |
| Speaker: | Thomas W. Peard (Baker University) |
| "Can National-Defense Be Morally Grounded in Personal Self-Defense?" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Stefan Sciaraffa (University of California - Davis) |
| VIII-G. | Colloquium: Forgiveness |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Thompson Faller (University of Portland) |
| Speaker: | Lucy Allais (University of Sussex) |
| "Aspirational Forgiveness" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Daniel Considine (University of Southern California) |
| Speaker: | Rodney C. Roberts (East Carolina University) |
| "The Gift of Forgiveness" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Charlotte Brown (Illinois Wesleyan University) |
| VIII-H. | Colloquium: Ontology |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Eric Marcus (Auburn University) |
| Speaker: | Daniel Z. Korman (University of Texas - Austin) |
| "Incars, Outcars, Klables, and Trables: What the Commonsense Ontologist Should Say About Strange Kinds" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Adam Elga (Princeton University) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri - Columbia) |
| Speaker: | Casey Karbowski (Western Washington University) |
| "Vagueness Does Not Entail Unrestricted Composition" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Michael Fara (Princeton University) |
| VIII-I. | Symposium: Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Chris Pearson (University of Washington) |
| Speaker: | Kevin Brosnan (Independent Scholar) |
| "Quasi-Independence, Fitness, and Advantageousness" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Andrew Hamilton (University of California - Davis) |
| | Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis and Clark College) |
| VIII-J. | Symposium: Public Reason and Religious Belief |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Dean Kowalski (University of Wisconsin - Waukesha) |
| Speaker: | Chris Eberle (Independent Scholar) |
| "Respect for Persons and the Doctrine of Religious Restraint" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Alyssa Bernstein (Ohio University) |
| | Paul Weithman (University of Notre Dame) |
| VIII-K. | Symposium: Source Incompatibilism |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Gustavo Llarul (University of California - Riverside) |
| Speaker: | Kevin L. Timpe (University of California - San Diego) |
| "Source Incompatibilism and Its Alternatives" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Michael McKenna (Ithaca College) |
| | Seth Shabo (University of Vermont) |
| VIII-L. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | The New APA Placement Brochure and Advice to Job Candidates |
| Speakers: | Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College) |
| | Andrew Light (University of Washington) |
| VIII-M. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Roundtable: Philosophers and Students with Disabilities: How Welcoming Is the Profession? |
| Chair: | Mark Chekola (Minnesota State University - Moorhead) |
| Presidential Address |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Introduction: | Calvin Normore (University of California - Los Angeles) |
| Speaker: | Jeffrie G. Murphy (College of Law, Arizona State University) |
| "Legal Moralism and Retribution Reconsidered" |
| |
| Saturday Morning, March 25 |
| Session IX - 9:00-Noon |
| IX-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Linda Martín Alcoff, Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Falguni A. Sheth (Hampshire College) |
| Critics: | Ofelia Schutte (University of South Florida) |
| | Ronald Robles Sundstrom (University of San Francisco) |
| Author: | Linda Martín Alcoff (Syracuse University) |
| IX-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Jeanine Grenberg, Kant and the Ethics of Humility |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Jeffrey Wilson (Loyola Marymount University) |
| Critics: | Patrick R. Frierson (Whitman College) |
| | Robert B. Louden (University of Southern Maine) |
| Author: | Jeanine Grenberg (St. Olaf College) |
| IX-C. | Author-Meets-Critics: William J. Talbott, Which Rights Should Be Universal |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Stephan Johnson (City College of San Francisco) |
| Critics: | Carol C. Gould (George Mason University) |
| | James Nickel (Arizona State University) |
| | David Reidy (University of Tennessee) |
| Author: | William J. Talbott (University of Washington) |
| IX-D. | Author-Meets-Critics: David Sedley, The Midwife of Platonism |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Rod Jenks (University of Portland) |
| Critics: | Mary Louise Gill (Brown University) |
| | Charles Griswold (Boston University) |
| Author: | David Sedley (University of Cambridge) |
| IX-E. | Author-Meets-Critics: Scott Soames, Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University) |
| Critics: | Paul Horwich (New York University) |
| | Thomas Hurka (University of Toronto) |
| | Michael Kremer (University of Chicago) |
| | Christopher Pincock (Purdue University) |
| Author: | Scott Soames (University of Southern California) |
| IX-F. | Invited Symposium: Practical and Theoretical Reason |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Dion Scott-Kakures (Scripps College) |
| Speakers: | David Owens (University of Sheffield) |
| "Deliberation: Theoretical and Practical" |
| | David Macarthur (University of Sydney) |
| "Skepticism and Reason" |
| Commentator: | Nishi Shah (Amherst College) |
| IX-G. | Invited Symposium: Recent Philosophical Work on Causation |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Alan Hájek (Australian National University) |
| Speakers: | Christopher Hitchcock (California Institute of Technology) |
| "Causal Responsibility" |
| | John Campbell (University of California - Berkeley) |
| "Causation in Psychology" |
| | Ned Hall (Harvard University) |
| IX-H. | Invited Symposium: TBA |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Tim Black (California State University - Northridge) |
| Speakers: | Michael Glanzberg (University of California - Davis) |
| "Context, Content, and Relativism" |
| | Andrew Egan (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor) |
| "Relativism Without Tears" |
| | Anthony Gillies (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor) |
| IX-I. | Colloquium: Epistemology |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Henry Kreuzman (College of Wooster) |
| Speaker: | James R. Beebe (State University of New York - Buffalo) |
| "Has BonJour Solved the Problem of Induction?" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Roger White (New York University) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College) |
| Speaker: | William A. Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College) |
| "The Many Places of Knowledge in Nature: Reflections on Hilary Kornblith's Knowledge and Its Place in Nature" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | D. Gene Witmer (University of Florida) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | John Marmysz (College of Marin) |
| Speaker: | Aaron Allen Schiller (University of California - San Diego) |
| "Sense-Impressions, Things-in-Themselves, and the Totality of Facts" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Kevin Falvey (University of California - Santa Barbara) |
| IX-J. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Globalization, Trade, and the Poor |
| Chair: | Don Ross (University of Alabama - Birmingham and University of Cape Town) |
| Speakers: | David Crocker (University of Maryland - College Park) |
| "Development Ethics, Globalization, and Trade" |
| | Aaron James (University of California - Irvine) |
| "Fairness in Trade" |
| | Jay Mandle (Colgate University) |
| "Saving Globalization" |
| Commentators: | Nicole Hassoun (University of Arizona) |
| | Don Ross (University of Alabama - Birmingham and University of Cape Town) |
| IX-K. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Award of the 2005 Barwise Prize to Hubert Dreyfus |
| Chair: | Christopher Grau (Florida International University) |
| Speaker: | Hubert Dreyfus (University of California - Berkeley) |
| "Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making It More Heideggerian (with the Help of Merleau-Ponty)" |
| IX-L. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Medicalization: Rhetoric and Value |
| Chair: | Mary V. Rorty (Stanford University) |
| Speakers: | Felicia Nimue Ackerman (Brown University) |
| | John Hardwig (University of Tennessee) |
| | James L. Nelson (Michigan State University) |
| |
| Saturday Afternoon, March 25 |
| Session X - 1:00-4:00 PM |
| X-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Virginia Held, The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Leslie Francis (University of Utah) |
| Critics: | Eva Feder Kittay (State University of New York - Stony Brook) |
| | Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina - Charlotte) |
| Author: | Virginia Held (City University of New York - Graduate School) |
| X-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Jonathan Kvanvig, The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Heather Battaly (California State University - Fullerton) |
| Critics: | Catherine Elgin (Harvard University) |
| | John Greco (Fordham University) |
| | Wayne Riggs (University of Oklahoma) |
| Author: | Jonathan Kvanvig (University of Missouri - Columbia) |
| X-C. | Author-Meets-Critics: Randolph Clarke, Libertarian Accounts of Free Will |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Daniel Speak (Azusa Pacific University) |
| Critics: | Alfred Mele (Florida State University) |
| | Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University - Bloomington) |
| | Derk Pereboom (University of Vermont) |
| Author: | Randolph Clarke (University of Georgia) |
| X-D. | Author-Meets-Critics: Mathias Frisch, Inconsistency, Asymmetry, and Non-Locality: A Philosophical Investigation of Classical Electrodynamics |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Paul Teller (University of California - Davis) |
| Critics: | Robert Batterman (University of Western Ontario) |
| | Sheldon Smith (University of California - Los Angeles) |
| | Mark Wilson (University of Pittsburgh) |
| Author: | Mathias Frisch (University of Maryland - College Park) |
| X-E. | Invited Symposium: Derrida Memorial Session |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Leonard Lawlor (University of Memphis) |
| Speakers: | Rodolphe Gasche (State University of New York - Buffalo) |
| "Derrida, A Thinker of 'Europe'" |
| | Marc Crépon (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| "Europe, Perhaps: A Note On the Geo-politics of Powerlessness" |
| | Kas Saghafi (Villanova University) |
| "The Master and the Rogue" |
| X-F. | Invited Symposium: Experimental Philosophy |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Shaun Nichols (University of Utah) |
| Speakers: | Joshua Knobe (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| "Folk Psychology and Moral Judgment" |
| | Ernest Sosa (Brown University and Rutgers University) |
| "How Are Experiments Relevant to Intuitions?" |
| | Jonathan M. Weinberg (Indiana University - Bloomington) |
| "What Experimental Philosophy Is (But Mostly Isn't) Good For" |
| X-G. | Invited Symposium: Hume |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Peter Thielke (Pomona College) |
| Speakers: | David Owen (University of Arizona) |
| "Hume's 'Scepticism WIth Regard to Reason': Treatise 1.4.1" |
| | Henry Allison (University of California - Davis) |
| "Whatever begins to exist, must have a cause of existence" |
| Commentator: | Angela Coventry (Portland State University) |
| X-H. | Invited Symposium: Relative Truth in Semantics |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Kent Bach (San Francisco State University) |
| Speakers: | Robert Stalnaker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| "Contextualism and Relativism" |
| | John MacFarlane (University of California - Berkeley) |
| "Relative Truth and Disagreement" |
| | John Hawthorne (Rutgers University) |
| X-I. | Invited Symposium: Works, Types, Universals |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Lisa Warenski (Union College) |
| Speakers: | Julian Dodd (University of Manchester) |
| "Platonism, Creativity and Originality" |
| | Carl Matheson (University of Manitoba) |
| | Ben Caplan (University of Manitoba) |
| "On Fine Individuation" |
| | Guy Rohrbaugh (Auburn University) |
| "The Timeless and the Timely" |
| Commentator: | Robert Howell (State University of New York - Albany) |
| X-J. | Colloquium: Epistemology |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Hollibert Phillips (Whitman College) |
| Speaker: | Kenneth E. Hobson (University of Iowa) |
| "Foundational Belief and the Structure of Justification" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Stephan Blatti (Oxford University and University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Jennifer Fisher (University of North Florida) |
| Speaker: | Mark E. Wunderlich (Iowa State University) |
| "The Tracking Theory of Epistemic Justification" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Andrei Buckareff (Franklin and Marshall College) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Ben Almassi (University of Washington) |
| Speaker: | Tomoji Shogenji (Rhode Island College) |
| "A Defense Reductionism About Testimonial Justification of Beliefs" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Joseph Shieber (Lafayette College) |
| X-K. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | What Can Philosophy Say About Public Policy? |
| Chair: | Carol C. Gould (George Mason University) |
| Speakers: | David Archard (University of Lancaster) |
| "Consent and the Law of Rape" |
| | Cheyney Ryan (University of Oregon) |
| "The Laws of War and the Future of State Sovereignty" |
| | Suzanne Uniacke (University of Hull) |
| "What Can Philosophy Say About Public Policy?: Commentary on Archard and Ryan" |
| X-L. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Dilemmas and Opportunities in Teaching 'Intro' in the Two-Year Context: A Roundtable Approach |
| Chair: | Malcolm Munson (Greenville Technical College) |
| Speakers: | Daniel Palmer (Kent State University) |
| "Introducing Philosophy at the Regional Campus: Lessons, Opportunities and Challenges" |
| | Malcolm Munson (Greenville Technical College) |
| "Teaching 'Intro': Dilemmas for Standards at 'Outposts for Progress'" |
| | Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada) |
| "The Most Important Course in Philosophy: The Value of the Introduction to Philosophy Course at a Community College" |
| X-M. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | On Traditional Approaches to the “Self”: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry |
| Chair: | P. M. John (Westfield State College) |
| Speakers: | Ifeanyi Menkiti (Wellesley College) |
| "Approaching a Person’s Self in African Philosophy" |
| | P. M. John (Westfield State College) |
| "Dynamics of “Self” in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata" |
| | Jack Chen (Wellesley College) |
| "Self, Subject and Person in Early Chinese Thought" |
| | Natasha Heller (Harvard University) |
| "The Interconnected “Self” in Indian and Chinese Buddhism" |
| X-N. | Mini-Conference on Scientific Images |
| 1:00-4:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | The Epistemology of Images |
| Chair: | Steve Downes (University of Utah) |
| Speakers: | Jordi Cat (Indiana University - Bloomington) |
| "From Seeing-as to Seeing-in, from Aesthetics to Philosophy of Science" |
| | John V. Kulvicki (Dartmouth College) |
| "Knowing with Images: Medium and Message" |
| | Aaron Meskin (University of Leeds) |
| "Photography and the Study of Aesthetic Preference" |
| | Catharine Abell (University of Manchester) |
| "Pictures as Epistemic Tools" |
| |
| Saturday Early Evening, March 25 |
| Session XI - 4:00-6:00 PM |
| XI-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Melvyn Goodale, Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Gabriel Love (Princeton University) |
| Critics: | Sean Kelly (Princeton University) |
| | Alva Noë (University of California - Berkeley) |
| Author: | Melvyn Goodale (University of Western Ontario) |
| XI-B. | Invited Symposium: Death |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Holger Zaborowski (Catholic University of America) |
| Speakers: | Hubert Dreyfus (University of California - Berkeley) |
| "Death as a Way of Life" |
| | Julian Young (University of Auckland) |
| "Nietzsche on Death" |
| Commentator: | John Richardson (New York University) |
| XI-C. | Invited Symposium: TBA |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame) |
| Speakers: | Eric Watkins (University of California - San Diego) |
| "Kant and the Experience of Freedom" |
| | Tamar Schapiro (Stanford University) |
| Commentators: | Robert Hanna (University of Colorado - Boulder) |
| | Angela Marie Smith (University of Notre Dame) |
| XI-D. | Colloquium: Decision Theory |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Franz Huber (California Institute of Technology) |
| Speakers: | Hilary Greaves (Rutgers University) |
| | David Wallace (Oxford University) |
| "Justifying Conditionalization: Conditionalization Maximizes Expected Epistemic Utility" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Michael Titelbaum (University of California - Berkeley) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Keith Simmons (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| Speaker: | Lee Shepski (University of Arizona) |
| "Prisoner's Dilemma: The Hard Problem" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Don Fallis (University of Arizona) |
| XI-E. | Colloquium: Modality |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Xianduan Shi (University of Utah) |
| Speaker: | Amie L. Thomasson (University of Miami) |
| "Modal Conceptualism: A Clarification and Defense" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Roberta Ballarin (Southern Methodist University) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Andrew Hsu (University of California - Los Angeles) |
| Speaker: | Takashi Yagisawa (California State University - Northridge) |
| "Modal Realism and Modal Tense" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Uriah Kriegel (University of Arizona) |
| XI-F. | Colloquium: Political Philosophy: Marriage |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Bruce Landesman (University of Utah) |
| Speaker: | David Gilboa (University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh) |
| "Same-Sex Marriage in a Free Society: Between Toleration and Recognition" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Kenneth Himma (Seattle Pacific University) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Renee Conroy (University of Washington) |
| Speaker: | Barbara S. Andrew (William Paterson University) |
| "Fools for Moderation" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Charles Starkey (Clemson University) |
| XI-G. | Colloquium: Responsibility and Punishment |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Agnes Curry (St. Joseph College) |
| Speaker: | Benjamin S. Yost (University of California - Berkeley) |
| "Should I Not Kill? Could I Not Kill?: Murder, Shame, and the Death Penalty" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Francois Raffoul (Louisiana State University) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Sandra Woien (Arizona State University) |
| Speaker: | Erin I. Kelly (Tufts University) |
| "Compatibilism and Retributivism" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Troy Jollimore (California State University - Chico) |
| XI-H. | Symposium: Consequentialism |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Andrew Jordan (University of Washington) |
| Speaker: | Jean-Paul Vessel (New Mexico State University) |
| "Defending a Possibilist Insight in Consequentialist Thought" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Mark Decker (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) |
| | Lou Goble (Willamette University) |
| XI-I. | Symposium: Descartes' Moral Epistemology |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Diana Palmieri (University of Western Ontario) |
| Speaker: | Gary Steiner (Bucknell University) |
| "The Fundamental Limits of Reason in Descartes's Moral Thought" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | John Marshall (University of Virginia) |
| | Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta) |
| XI-J. | Symposium: Duties of Military Service |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Marcus Arvan (University of Arizona) |
| Speaker: | Cheyney Ryan (University of Oregon) |
| "The Chickenhawk Argument" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | George Klosko (University of Virginia) |
| | Rahul Kumar (Queen's University) |
| XI-K. | Symposium: Metaphysics and the Mind |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | David DeMoss (Pacific University) |
| Speaker: | Brannon McDaniel (University of Virginia) |
| "Emergence: A Response to Kim" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Alex Rueger (University of Alberta) |
| | Nick Treanor (Brown University) |
| XI-L. | Symposium: The Ethics of Abortion |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Alice Sowaal (San Francisco State University) |
| Speaker: | Elizabeth Harman (New York University) |
| "Sacred Mountains and Beloved Fetuses: Can Loving or Worshipping Something Give It Moral Status?" [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic University - Pomona) |
| | Mary Anne Warren (Independent Scholar) |
| XI-M. | Mini-Conference on Scientific Images |
| 4:00-6:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Case Studies |
| Chair: | Alfred Nordmann (Technische Universität Darmstadt) |
| Speakers: | Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia) |
| "Drawing in the Social Sciences: Lithic Illustration" |
| | Marta Spranzi (Université de Versailles) |
| "From Vegetal to Animal Cells: Analogical Reasoning, Models and Images" |
| | Ellen C. Landers (Independent Scholar) |
| "Imaging the Brain, Imagining the Brain" |
| | Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University) |
| "The End of the Adaptive Landscape Metaphor" |
| |
| Sunday Morning, March 26 |
| Session XII - 9:00-Noon |
| XII-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Russell Hardin, Indeterminacy and Society |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Will Braynen (University of Arizona) |
| Critics: | Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania) |
| | Gerald Gaus (Tulane University of New Orleans) |
| Author: | Russell Hardin (New York University) |
| XII-B. | Invited Symposium: Belief and Indexicals |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Robin Jeshion (University of California - Riverside) |
| Speakers: | Ruth Garrett Millikan (University of Connecticut) |
| "Another Way to Think about Indexicals, Both Linguistic and Mental" |
| | David Hunter (Buffalo State College) |
| "Belief and Subjectivity" |
| | Jose Luis Bermudez (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| "The Sense of 'I'" |
| XII-C. | Invited Symposium: Classical Theories of Action |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Pamela Hood (San Francisco State University) |
| Speakers: | John Armstrong (Southern Virginia University) |
| "Agency in Later Plato" |
| | Kirk Fitzpatrick (Southern Utah University) |
| "Imagination, Thought, and Perception in Aristotle's Account of Akrasia" |
| | Eric Brown (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| "Stoic Psychopathology" |
| Commentator: | Hendrik Lorenz (Princeton University) |
| XII-D. | Invited Symposium: Humean Naturalism |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Michael Gill (University of Arizona) |
| Speakers: | Paul Russell (University of British Columbia) |
| "Naturalism and Religion in Hume's Philosphy" |
| | Don Garrett (New York University) |
| "Naturalism, Skepticism, and 'Rational' Justification in Hume's Epistemological Project" |
| | Peter S. Fosl (Transylvania University) |
| "The 'Nature' of Hume's Skepticism" |
| XII-E. | Invited Symposium: Locke and Slavery |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Vicki Hseuh (Western Washington University) |
| Speakers: | Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis) |
| | Anika Mann (Morgan State University) |
| "Absolute Power and Authority over His Negro Slaves: Locke as an Architect of Chattel Slavery" |
| | James Farr (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) |
| "Locke, Natural Law, and New World Slavery" |
| | William Uzgalis (Oregon State University) |
| "The Same Tyrannical Principle: Locke's Condemnation of Absolute Power as Slavery" |
| XII-F. | Invited Symposium: Philosophical Implications of Climate Change |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Chair: | Andrew Askland (Arizona State University) |
| Speakers: | Stephen M. Gardiner (University of Washington) |
| "A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics, and the Problem of Moral Corruption" |
| | Dale Jamieson (New York University) |
| "Climate Change and Hurricane Katrina" |
| | Clark Wolf (Iowa State University) |
| "Justice and the Intergenerational Imposition of Risk" |
| Commentators: | Kristen Hessler (Iowa State University) |
| | Steven Kramer (Southwest State University) |
| | Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego State University) |
| XII-G. | Colloquium: Epistemology |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Dylan Mayer (University of Washington) |
| Speaker: | Jeremy Fantl (Haverford College) |
| "Observer-Dependence in Ethics and Epistemology" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Matthew Chrisman (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University) |
| Speaker: | Deborah Sue Mower (University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
| "Something's Rotten in Denmark: Inference to the Best Explanation" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Fritz McDonald (City University of New York - Graduate School) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Albert Flores (California State University - Fullerton) |
| Speaker: | Michael Cholbi (California State Polytechnic University - Pomona) |
| "Belief Attribution and the Falsification of Motive Internalism" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Todd Weber (Monterey Peninsula College) |
| XII-H. | Colloquium: Kantian Ethics |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Melinda Rosenberg (University of South Florida) |
| Speaker: | Steven Sverdlik (Southern Methodist University) |
| "Motives, Maxims, and Deontic Relevance" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Robert Johnson (University of Missouri - Columbia) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Joseph Grcic (Indiana State University) |
| Speaker: | Timothy Rosenkoetter (Dartmouth College) |
| "Kantian Moral Feeling as a Singular Referring Representation" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Richard Galvin (Texas Christian University) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Ken Rogerson (Florida International University) |
| Speaker: | Mary C. MacLeod (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) |
| "Kant on Morality and Temporality" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Corey Dyck (Boston College) |
| XII-I. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Language |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Pepe Chang (University of Utah) |
| Speaker: | Jennifer Lackey (Northern Illinois University) |
| "Norms of Assertion" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Nathaniel Goldberg (Ohio University) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Panayot Butchvarov (University of Iowa) |
| Speaker: | Mylan Engel (Northern Illinois University) |
| "Contextualism and the Problem of Knowing What One Says" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Claire Horisk (University of Missouri - Columbia) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University) |
| Speaker: | Ronald W. Loeffler (Grand Valley State University) |
| "Assertional Practice and the False Belief Task" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | G. W. Fitch (Arizona State University) |
| XII-J. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Science |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Catherine Womack (Bridgewater State College) |
| Speaker: | Alexandre V. Korolev (University of British Columbia) |
| "The Limits of Predictability: Two Case Studies in (Physical) Demonology" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | David MacCallum (Carleton College) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Ryan Wasserman (Western Washington University) |
| Speaker: | Dana Lynne Goswick (University of California - Davis) |
| "Is There an Overdetermination Problem for Lewisian-Style Counterfactual Analysis of Causation?" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | David Sanson (Ohio State University) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University) |
| Speaker: | K. Brad Wray (State University of New York - Oswego) |
| "Explaining the Success and Failures of Science" [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Anjan Chakravartty (University of Toronto) |
| XII-K. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of American Indians in Philosophy |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Native American Traditions, Philosophy and Cultural Diversity |
| Chair: | Brian Yazzie Burkhart (Pitzer College) |
| Speakers: | Andrea Sullivan-Clarke (University of Washington) |
| "Cultural Diversity: It's in Everyone's Best Interest" |
| | Adam Arola (University of Oregon) |
| "Taking on the Tradition" |
| XII-L. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Publishing as a Feminist |
| Chair: | Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College) |
| Speakers: | Sally J. Scholz (Villanova University) |
| "10 Tips for Publishing Essays and Reviews under 3000 Words" |
| | Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic University - Pomona) |
| "Peer Review and Why It Often Works" |
| | Sandra Harding (University of California - Los Angeles) |
| "Publishing in International Contexts: Challenges and Opportunities" |
| | Christine Overall (Queen's University) |
| "Strategies for Publishing Feminist Books" |
| | Hilde Lindemann (University of Pennsylvania) |
| "Swimming under Water: Roles and Responsibilities in Publishing Philosophy" |
| XII-M. | Mini-Conference on Scientific Images |
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Images and Models |
| Chair: | Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia) |
| Speakers: | Laura Perini (Virginia Tech) |
| "Image Assessment: Truth, Accuracy, and Precision" |
| | Anouk Barberousse (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| "Images of Theoretical Models" |
| | Steve Downes (University of Utah) |
| "Models, Pictures and Unified Accounts of Representation" |
| | Mauricio Suarez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) |
| "Representation and Inference in Science and Art" |
| |
| Sunday Afternoon, March 26 |
| Session MII - 1:00-2:00 PM |
| MII-A. | Mini-Conference on Scientific Images |
| 1:00-2:00 PM, Location TBA |
| Topic: | Roundtable Discussion |
| Chair: | Laura Perini (Virginia Tech) |
| Commentators: | Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina) |
| | Nicolas Bullot (University of British Columbia) |
| | Patrick E. Forber (Stanford University) |
| | David Landy (Indiana University - Bloomington) |
| | Christoph Luethy (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) |
| | Patrick Rysiew (University of British Columbia) |
| | Eric Saidel (George Washington University) |
| | Roger Stanev (University of British Columbia) |
| | Paul Teller (University of California - Davis) |
| | Adam Toon (University of Cambridge) |
| | S. H. Vollmer (University of Alabama - Birmingham) |
| | Jonathan M. Weinberg (Indiana University - Bloomington) |