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2007 Pacific Division Meeting Program
Draft of December 15, 2006. This is a draft. The official program will be published in the APA Proceedings in January.
| Group Program | ||||||
| Wednesday Evening, April 4 | ||||||
| Group Session GI — 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GI-A. | International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | How Predication Is Possible: From a Comparative Point of View | |||||
| Chair: | Lin Ma (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) | |||||
| Speakers: | Bo Mou (San Jose State University) | |||||
| “A Subject-Comment Account of How Predication is Possible” | ||||||
| Marshall Willman (University of Iowa) | ||||||
| “Logical Form and Predication from a Comparative Point of View” | ||||||
| Commentator: | A. P. Martinich (University of Texas–Austin) | |||||
| GI-B. | Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Consciousness and Self-Consciousness | |||||
| Chair: | David Smith (University of California–Irvine) | |||||
| Speakers: | Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen) | |||||
| Charles Siewert (University of California–Riverside) | ||||||
| Group Session GII — 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GII-A. | Radical Philosophy Association, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | On the 200th Anniversary of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Can His Power of Negativity Speak to Today’s Reality? | |||||
| Chair: | Ron Kelch (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| Speakers: | Eugene Gogol (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| “Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy” | ||||||
| Ron Kelch (Independent Scholar) | ||||||
| “Harris’s Paradox and Dunayevskaya’s New Beginning: Can Hegel’s Method Shape a New Unity of Theory and Practice” | ||||||
| Urszula Wislanka (Independent Scholar) | ||||||
| “Hegel’s Dialectic and Feminism” | ||||||
| GII-B. | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Knowledge, Self, and the Meaning of Life | |||||
| Chair: | Jinmei Yuan (Creighton University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Andrew Komasinski (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| “Is There Anything More Important Than Life?” | ||||||
| Christian Coseru (College of Charleston) | ||||||
| “Perception, Particulars, and the Question of Foundationalism in Buddhist Epistemology” | ||||||
| Russell Pryba (State University of New York–Buffalo) | ||||||
| “The Confucian Self and William James’s Metaphysics of Personhood” | ||||||
| GII-C. | Society for German Idealism, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | John McCumber (University of California–Los Angeles) | |||||
| Speaker: | Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University) | |||||
| “Spirit and Concrete Subjectivity in Hegel’s Phenomenology” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Katrin Pahl (Johns Hopkins University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Charles E. DeBord (University of Kentucky) | |||||
| “The Logic of Science in Hegel’s Phenomenology” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves (Morgan State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Dietmar Heidemann (Hofstra University) | |||||
| “Epistemic Justification and the History of Self-Consciousness in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Scott Jenkins (Reed College) | |||||
| GII-D. | Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Roots | |||||
| Chair: | David W. Concepción (Ball State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Alejandro Santana (University of Portland) | |||||
| “Did the Aztecs Do Philosophy?” | ||||||
| James Maffie (Colorado State University) | ||||||
| “Huehue Tlamanitiliztli and la Verdad: Philosophical Borderlands in Friar Bernardino de Sahagun’s 1524 Colloquios y doctrina chistiana” | ||||||
| Topic: | Citizenship and Identity | |||||
| Speakers: | Grant Silva (University of Oregon) | |||||
| “Questions of Identity in Latin American Philosophy: The Philosophical and Cultural Identity Crisis” | ||||||
| José-Antonio Orosco (Oregon State University) | ||||||
| “Toward a Mestizo Concept of Citizenship” | ||||||
| Topic: | Expression | |||||
| Speakers: | Norman K. Swazo (University of Alaska–Fairbanks) | |||||
| “Hegel’s Haunt of Latin American Philosophy: The Case of Augusto Salazar Bondy” | ||||||
| Michael Koch (State University of New York–Oneonta) | ||||||
| “Latin American Philosophy as Post-Philosophical Thinking” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Oscar R. Martí (California State University–Northridge) | |||||
| GII-E. | Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Realism, Value, and Translation: New Perspectives | |||||
| Speakers: | J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College) | |||||
| “Phenomenology and Moral Realism” | ||||||
| Lawrence Pasternack (Oklahoma State University) | ||||||
| “Reconciling Intrinsic Value and Anti-Realism” | ||||||
| Shyam Ranganathan (York University) | ||||||
| “Translation and Anti-Realism” | ||||||
| GII-F. | Society for Student Philosophers, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Moderator: | Shelly Denkinger (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | |||||
| Speakers: | Gabriel R. Stern (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| “Action Guidance and Virtue Ethics” | ||||||
| Mathieu Doucet (Queen’s University) | ||||||
| “Disabling Particularism: Jonathan Dancy and Moral Principles” | ||||||
| Yali Corea-Levy (University of Arizona) | ||||||
| “Double Effect Amended: Preserving the Civilian Combatant Distinction” | ||||||
| Michael Hannon (York University) | ||||||
| “Representations of ‘Truth’ and the Legitimation of Testimony in the Criminal Justice System: An Analysis of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault” | ||||||
| GII-G. | Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Culture as Explanation I | |||||
| Chair: | Mark Bevir (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Speakers: | Paul Roth (University of California–Santa Cruz) | |||||
| “The Disappearance of the Empirical” | ||||||
| Asaf Kedar (University of California–Berkeley) | ||||||
| “The Ideal Types as a Hermeneutic Strategy: Concept Formation for Cultural Analysis” | ||||||
| Toby Miller (University of California–Riverside) | ||||||
| “Where Cultural Studies Fears to Tread” | ||||||
| GII-H. | Society of Christian Philosophers | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Speaker: | Dallas Willard (University of Southern California) | |||||
| “Intentionality and the Substance of the Self” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Paul Moser (Loyola University of Chicago) | |||||
| “From Forgiveness to God” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Pamela Hieronymi (University of California–Los Angeles) | |||||
| GII-I. | Western Phenomenology Conference | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Thinking Towards Community | |||||
| Chair: | Daniela Vallega-Neu (California State University–Stanislaus) | |||||
| Speakers: | Ben Pryor (University of Toledo) | |||||
| “‘Nobody Ever Recognizes Us:’ Community and Aesthetic Experience” | ||||||
| Jason Winfree (California State University–Stanislaus) | ||||||
| “Contestation and Community” | ||||||
| Walter Brogan (Villanova University) | ||||||
| “Passion and the Secret Gift of the Derridean Community” | ||||||
| Group Session GIII — 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GIII-A. | North American Wittgenstein Society, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Elizabeth Wolgast (California State University–East Bay) | |||||
| Speaker: | Monica Vilhauer (Roanoke College) | |||||
| “Wittgensteinian Ethics?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Mike Rohde (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) | |||||
| Speaker: | Richard Raatzsch (University of Cambridge) | |||||
| “Teleological Metaphilosophy” | ||||||
| Commentator: | John W. Powell (Humboldt State University) | |||||
| Thursday Evening, April 5 | ||||||
| Group Session GIV — 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GIV-A. | American Association of Philosophy Teachers | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Using and Creating Texts, Textbooks, Anthologies, and Other Materials in Teaching Philosophy Courses | |||||
| Chair: | David W. Concepción (Ball State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Joan Whitman Hoff (Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| “Engagement: Exploring the Self and Other via the Writing and Teaching of a Text” | ||||||
| Nils Ch. Rauhut (Coastal Carolina University) | ||||||
| “Selecting Course Materials in Philosophy Classes: What Works, What Doesn’t?” | ||||||
| Andrew N. Carpenter (Kaplan University) | ||||||
| “Teaching Without Texts” | ||||||
| Robert Timko (Mansfield University of Pennsylvania) | ||||||
| “The Risks (and Benefits) of Engaging Yourself as Author (or Editor) of a Philosophical Text” | ||||||
| GIV-B. | Hume Society | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Hume: Reasons and Reasoning | |||||
| Chair: | Aaron Zimmerman (University of California–Santa Barbara) | |||||
| Speakers: | Abraham Roth (Ohio State University) | |||||
| “Hume on Reasoning: Simple Versus Sophisticated” | ||||||
| Elizabeth Radcliffe (Santa Clara University) | ||||||
| “Humeanism and Value-Based Reasons” | ||||||
| GIV-C. | Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Human Rights in Global Governance: Alternative Perspectives | |||||
| Chair: | Carol C. Gould (Temple University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Helen Stacy (Stanford University) | |||||
| “Human Rights and Regional Institutions” | ||||||
| David Reidy (University of Tennessee) | ||||||
| “Human Rights: Agendas and Institutions” | ||||||
| GIV-D. | Society for the Metaphysics of Science | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta) | |||||
| Speakers: | Carl Craver (Washington University in St. Louis) | |||||
| “Mechanisms, Modularity, and Natural Kinds” | ||||||
| Karen Neander (Duke University) | ||||||
| “The New Functionalism” | ||||||
| Group Session GV — 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GV-A. | Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | New Work on Chinese Philosophy from Taiwan | |||||
| Chair: | JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| Speaker: | Wan-Chuan Fang (Academia Sinica) | |||||
| “Zhuangzi’s Sage as a Moral Agent” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Yang Xiao (Kenyon College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Terence Tai (National Zhengzhi University) | |||||
| “Xunzi on the Nature and Mind of Human Beings” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Weimin Sun (California State University–Northridge) | |||||
| Speaker: | Rong-Po Chen (Tunghai University) | |||||
| “I-Ching’s Philosophy of Management” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Craig K. Ihara (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| GV-B. | Concerned Philosophers for Peace | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Ethics in a Dark Time | |||||
| Speakers: | Eddy Souffrant (University of North Carolina–Charlotte) | |||||
| “Challenges to Collective Global Action” | ||||||
| Daniel Farrell (Ohio State University) | ||||||
| “Self-Defense and Preventive War” | ||||||
| Ron Hirschbein (California State University–Chico) | ||||||
| “The Rite of Self-Defense” | ||||||
| Stephen L Nathanson (Northeastern University) | ||||||
| “Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War” | ||||||
| GV-C. | Kierkegaard Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Furtak and Others on Kierkegaard, Wisdom, and Love | |||||
| Chair: | Noel Adams (Marquette University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Robert Roberts (Baylor University) | |||||
| “Emotions as Epistemic Ground: Comments on Furtak’s Wisdom in Love” | ||||||
| Mark McCreary (Loyola University of Chicago) | ||||||
| “Kierkegaard on the Obstacles to Faith and Love: The Terrifying Truth and the Possibility of Offense” | ||||||
| Michael Strawser (University of Central Florida) | ||||||
| “Striving for Love in Spinoza and Kierkegaard” | ||||||
| Respondent: | Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College) | |||||
| GV-D. | North American Nietzsche Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Bernard Reginster, The Affirmation of Life | |||||
| Chair: | Lanier Anderson (Stanford University) | |||||
| Author: | Bernard Reginster (Brown University) | |||||
| Critics: | Maudemarie Clark (Colgate University) | |||||
| Nadeem J. Z. Hussain (Stanford University) | ||||||
| Ivan Soll (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | ||||||
| GV-E. | North American Spinoza Society, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Fred Ablondi (Hendrix College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Frank Lucash (University of Nevada–Reno) | |||||
| “Spinoza and Searle on the Nature of the Human Mind” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Diane Steinberg (Cleveland State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Eugene Garver (College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University) | |||||
| “Religion and Politics as Loci of Rational Agreement” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Steve Barbone (San Diego State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Gideon Segal (Holon Institute of Technology and Hebrew University) | |||||
| “Spinoza’s Therapeutic Model and the Role of Intuitive Knowledge” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Firmin DeBrabander (Maryland Institute College of Art) | |||||
| GV-F. | Society for Analytical Feminism | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Feminist Moral Epistemology | |||||
| Chair: | Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado–Boulder) | |||||
| Speakers: | Phyllis Rooney (Oakland University) | |||||
| “Remapping the Terrain of Moral Epistemology” | ||||||
| Heidi Grasswick (Middlebury College) | ||||||
| “Knowing Moral Agents: Epistemic Dependency and the Moral Realm” | ||||||
| Peg O’Connor (Gustavus Adolphus College) | ||||||
| “Knowing Our Obligations of Justice: A Wittgensteinian Metaphysics and Epistemology” | ||||||
| GV-G. | Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy and the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in the Profession | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Transgender/Feminist | |||||
| Moderator: | D. Rita Alfonso (Grinnell College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Julia Serano (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| “Feminine Wiles: Re-thinking Sexism and Anti-Trans Woman Sentiment” | ||||||
| Susan Stryker (University of California–Berkeley) | ||||||
| “Feminist Theory and the History of Transgender Activism” | ||||||
| Dylan Vade (Independent Scholar) | ||||||
| “No Apology: The Intersection of Fat and Transgender Law” | ||||||
| Sondra Solovay (New College of California) | ||||||
| “No Apology: The Intersection of Fat and Transgender Law” | ||||||
| Shawna Virago (Independent Scholar) | ||||||
| “Violence Against Women, A Transgender Perspective” | ||||||
| GV-H. | Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Religion, Love, and the Abyss | |||||
| Chair: | J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Andrew Fiala (California State University–Fresno) | |||||
| “Ethics, Reason, and God” | ||||||
| Charles W. Harvey (University of Central Arkansas) | ||||||
| “Narcissism, Fundamentalism and the Dirty Trick of Infinitude” | ||||||
| Ralph Ellis (Clark Atlanta University) | ||||||
| “Rethinking Love and the Abyss” | ||||||
| David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point) | ||||||
| “The Possibility of Philosophy as Religion” | ||||||
| GV-I. | Society for Student Philosophers, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Moderator: | Gabriel R. Stern (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Parker Crutchfield (Arizona State University) | |||||
| “Mood About You” | ||||||
| James Ambury (State University of New York–Stony Brook) | ||||||
| “Nietzsche’s Pedagogical Dialectic: On the Remembering and Forgetting of the Youthful for Life” | ||||||
| Huaping Lu-Adler (University of California–Davis) | ||||||
| “Realism, Conceptual Relativity, and Analytic Entailment” | ||||||
| Marina Folescu (University of Western Ontario) | ||||||
| “The Fictional Worlds of Impossible Fictions” | ||||||
| GV-J. | William James Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Pragmatism and Its Others | |||||
| Chair: | Brendan Hogan (Pacific Lutheran University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Kevin S. Decker (Eastern Washington University) | |||||
| “Between Bare Brute Events and Transparent Meaning: Dewey and James on Recognition” | ||||||
| Heidi White (New York University) | ||||||
| “Pragmatism and Our Relations with Others” | ||||||
| Lee McBride (College of Wooster) | ||||||
| “The Dynamic Belt of Quivering Uncertainty: Individual Differences” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Terrance MacMullan (Eastern Washington University) | |||||
| Group Session GVI — 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GVI-A. | Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Maurice Finocchiaro (University of Nevada–Las Vegas) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jerry Cederblom (University of Nebraska–Omaha) | |||||
| “Is It Sometimes Rational to Accept That an Argument Is Sound, but Not Believe the Conclusion?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Don Marquis (University of Kansas) | |||||
| Speaker: | Mark Weinstein (Montclair State University) | |||||
| “Towards an Objectivist Account of Truth in Argument” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Donald Hatcher (Baker University) | |||||
| GVI-B. | North American Wittgenstein Society, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Elizabeth Wolgast (California State University–East Bay) | |||||
| Speaker: | Robert Fogelin (Dartmouth College) | |||||
| “Grice’s Objections Are More Effective Against Austin Than Against Wittgenstein” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jeff Johnson (College of St. Catherine) | |||||
| Topic: | Business Meeting | |||||
| GVI-C. | Society for Systematic Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Hegel and Putnam | |||||
| Chair: | Richard Dien Winfield (University of Georgia) | |||||
| Speaker: | Katharina Dulckeit (Butler University) | |||||
| “Unlikely Bedfellows? Putnam and Hegel on Natural Kind Terms” | ||||||
| Commentator: | J. M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College) | |||||
| GVI-D. | Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Joseph Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Alan Bäck (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| “Art, Kata, and Violence” | ||||||
| Richard Schubert (Cosumnes River College) | ||||||
| “Goals and Goallessness in the Martial Arts” | ||||||
| Joseph Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) | ||||||
| “Martial Arts as Philosophy” | ||||||
| Gillian Russell (Washington University in St. Louis) | ||||||
| “Practicing Evil” | ||||||
| Blanche Nonken (University of California–Davis) | ||||||
| “Warrior Isolate” | ||||||
| Friday Evening, April 6 | ||||||
| Group Session GVII — 8:00-11:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GVII-A. | Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Topics in Confucian Ethics | |||||
| Chair: | Weimin Sun (California State University–Northridge) | |||||
| Speaker: | Sin Yee Chan (University of Vermont) | |||||
| “The Cultivation of Moral Emotions in Early Confucianism” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Manyul Im (California State University–Los Angeles) | |||||
| Speaker: | JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| “The Path from Natural Emotions to Moral Sentiments: An Examination of Wang Fuzhi’s Ethical Naturalism” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Andrew Terjesen (Washington and Lee University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Derong Chen (Wuhan University) | |||||
| “Beyond Relativism: Examining Tan Sitong’s Criticism of Confucian Ethics” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jinmei Yuan (Creighton University) | |||||
| GVII-B. | International Hobbes Association, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Moderators: | Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine and City University of New York–Graduate Center) | |||||
| Wendell Stephenson (Fresno City College) | ||||||
| Speaker: | Jeremy Anderson (DePauw University) | |||||
| “A Suggestive Silence in the Evolution of Hobbes’s Account of Disorder” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Wendell Stephenson (Fresno City College) | |||||
| Speaker: | John Whipple (University of California–Irvine) | |||||
| “Hobbes on Miracles” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Martin Bertman (University of Helsinki) | |||||
| Speaker: | Michael P. Krom (Emory University) | |||||
| “Vain Philosophy, the Schools, and Civil Philosophy” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Susanne Sreedhar (Tulane University of New Orleans) | |||||
| GVII-C. | Karl Jaspers Society and the Victor von Weizsäcker Society | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Hartwig Wiedebach (Universität Zürich) | |||||
| “Pathic Existence and Causality in Victor von Weizsäcker” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Sophia Stone (University of San Francisco) | |||||
| Speaker: | Gregory Walters (University of Ottawa) | |||||
| “Evolutionary Epistemology, Ethics, and the Encompassing” | ||||||
| Commentator: | David Rau (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| GVII-D. | North American Kant Society, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Kant’s Ethics | |||||
| Chair: | Daniel Guevara (University of California–Santa Cruz) | |||||
| Speakers: | Oliver Sensen (Tulane University of New Orleans) | |||||
| “Kant’s Conception of Human Dignity” | ||||||
| Ido Geiger (Ben Gurion University) | ||||||
| “What Is the Use of the Universal Law Formulation?” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Susan Castro (University of California–Los Angeles) | |||||
| Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto) | ||||||
| GVII-E. | Radical Philosophy Association, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt, eds., Toward a New Socialism | |||||
| Chair: | Phil Gasper (Notre Dame de Namur University) | |||||
| Critics: | Tommy Lott (San Jose State University) | |||||
| Rita Manning (San Jose State University) | ||||||
| Jose Mendoza (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| Respondents: | Anatole Anton (San Francisco State University) | |||||
| Richard Schmitt (Worcester State College) | ||||||
| GVII-F. | Society for Empirical Ethics | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Moral Emotions | |||||
| Chair: | Joel Martinez (Lewis and Clark College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Justin D’Arms (Ohio State University) | |||||
| Daniel Jacobson (Bowling Green State University) | ||||||
| “Guilt and Wrongness Reconsidered” | ||||||
| Joshua Knobe (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) | ||||||
| “Moral Cognition: Monolithic Theories Versus Hodgepodge Theories” | ||||||
| Jesse Prinz (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) | ||||||
| “Against Empathy” | ||||||
| Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona) | ||||||
| “Do Reactive Attitudes Enshrine Incompatibilism?” | ||||||
| William A. Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College) | ||||||
| “Moral Emotions: Detectors or Projectors?” | ||||||
| GVII-G. | Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Steven D. Hales, Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy | |||||
| Author: | Steven D. Hales (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| Critics: | Paul Boghossian (New York University) | |||||
| Otávio Bueno (University of Miami) | ||||||
| Henry Jackman (York University) | ||||||
| Jonathan M. Weinberg (Indiana University–Bloomington) | ||||||
| GVII-H. | Society for Social and Political Philosophy: Historical, Continental, and Feminist Perspectives, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Wendy Brown’s Challenges to Feminist and Leftist Political Theory | |||||
| Speakers: | Anna Carastathis (McGill University) | |||||
| Hasana Sharp (McGill University) | ||||||
| Respondent: | Wendy Brown (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| GVII-I. | Society for Student Philosophers, Session 3 | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us: Philosophy and the Overcoming of Ignorance | |||||
| Moderator: | Jeremy Henkel (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | |||||
| Speakers: | Geoff Ashton (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | |||||
| “A Case Study of Art as Naturalistic Map: Cognitive Immoralism and the Mahabharata” | ||||||
| Shelly Denkinger (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | ||||||
| “Border Ethics, the Limitations of Knowledge of Others, and Implications for Education” | ||||||
| David Burns (University of New Mexico) | ||||||
| “Forgetting Nietzsche” | ||||||
| Laura P. Guerrero (University of New Mexico) | ||||||
| “Land of the Free? The Delusion of Autonomy and its Role in the Enslavement of America” | ||||||
| Allison Hagerman (University of New Mexico) | ||||||
| “Off the Deep End: The Sublime Folly of Niagara Falls” | ||||||
| Lara Mitias (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | ||||||
| “Transformation of Memory from a Source of Bondage to a Source of Liberation” | ||||||
| GVII-J. | Society for Systematic Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Hegel’s Logic of Essence | |||||
| Chair: | J. M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Richard Dien Winfield (University of Georgia) | |||||
| “How Should Essence Be Determined: Reflections on Hegel’s Two Divergent Accounts” | ||||||
| David Kolb (Bates College) | ||||||
| “The Paths of Essence” | ||||||
| GVII-K. | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Patrick Baert, Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism | |||||
| Chair: | Heidi White (New York University) | |||||
| Author: | Patrick Baert (University of Cambridge) | |||||
| Critics: | James Bohman (St. Louis University) | |||||
| Brendan Hogan (Pacific Lutheran University) | ||||||
| Paul Roth (University of California–Santa Cruz) | ||||||
| Stephen Turner (University of South Florida) | ||||||
| GVII-L. | Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Julie C. Van Camp (California State University–Long Beach) | |||||
| Speakers: | Amy Coplan (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| “Feminist Final Girls” | ||||||
| Aaron Golec (University of Wisconsin–La Crosse) | ||||||
| Sheryl Tuttle Ross (University of Wisconsin–La Crosse) | ||||||
| “Reconciled and Terrible Humor in the Culture Industry” | ||||||
| Jea Suk Oh (Drew University and Kean University) | ||||||
| “Viewing Memoirs of a Geisha Through a Postcolonial Feminist Perspective” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Julie C. Van Camp (California State University–Long Beach) | |||||
| GVII-M. | Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Culture as Explanation II | |||||
| Chair: | Paul Rabinow (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Speakers: | Mark Bevir (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| “Philosophical Historiography after the Linguistic Turns” | ||||||
| Naomi Zack (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| “Political and Cultural Explanation of Disasters” | ||||||
| Dan Segal (Pitzer College) | ||||||
| “Translation Effects in Historical Writing” | ||||||
| GVII-N. | Society for Women in Philosophy | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Lorraine Code, Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location | |||||
| Chair: | Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina–Charlotte) | |||||
| Author: | Lorraine Code (York University) | |||||
| Critics: | Peta Bowden (Murdoch University) | |||||
| Carla Fehr (Iowa State University) | ||||||
| Charles Mills (University of Illinois–Chicago) | ||||||
| Saturday Evening, April 7 | ||||||
| Group Session GVIII — 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GVIII-A. | North American Kant Society, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Kant on Apperception | |||||
| Chair: | Peter Thielke (Pomona College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Stephen Engstrom (University of Pittsburgh) | |||||
| “Unity of Apperception” | ||||||
| Houston Smit (University of Arizona) | ||||||
| “What Is the Unity of Apperception?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Pierre Keller (University of California–Riverside) | |||||
| GVIII-B. | Philosophy of Time Society | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Alyssa Ney (University of Rochester) | |||||
| Speakers: | Cody Gilmore (University of California–Davis) | |||||
| “Temporally Thick Enduring Objects” | ||||||
| Lawrence Lombard (Wayne State University) | ||||||
| “Time for a Change: A Polemic Against the Presentism/Eternalism Debate” | ||||||
| GVIII-C. | Society for German Idealism, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Aaron Bunch (Washington State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | John Russon (University of Guelph) | |||||
| “Spirit and Method in Hegel’s Phenomenology” | ||||||
| Brent Adkins (Roanoke College) | ||||||
| “The Politics of Fear: Hegel’s Response to Hobbes in the Phenomenology” | ||||||
| GVIII-D. | Society for Skeptical Studies, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Rachel Robison (Weber State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Richard Greene (Weber State University) | |||||
| “A Worry about Safety” | ||||||
| William S. Larkin (Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville) | ||||||
| “The Incorrigible Foundations of Knowledge” | ||||||
| GVIII-E. | Society for Social and Political Philosophy: Historical, Continental, and Feminist Perspectives, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Rethinking Democracy | |||||
| Moderator: | Hasana Sharp (McGill University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Michael Marder (New School University) | |||||
| “Risky Recognitions: The Concept of Political Risk in Carl Schmitt” | ||||||
| Cory Wimberly (University of Texas–Pan American) | ||||||
| “Foucault as Democrat: A Rethinking of Democracy!” | ||||||
| Commentator: | William Roberts (Washington and Jefferson College) | |||||
| Group Session GIX — 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GIX-A. | American Society for Aesthetics | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Relativism and the Philosophy of Art | |||||
| Speakers: | Andrew Egan (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and Australian National University) | |||||
| “Looks Good from Here: Self-Locating Aesthetic Relativism” | ||||||
| James O. Young (University of Victoria) | ||||||
| “Relativism, Aesthetic, and Non-Aesthetic” | ||||||
| Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds and Cornell University) | ||||||
| “Truth in Serial Fiction” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Alan Goldman (College of William and Mary) | |||||
| GIX-B. | International Hobbes Association, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Moderator: | Martin Bertman (University of Helsinki) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jeffrey Barnouw (University of Texas–Austin) | |||||
| “Reason as Reckoning: Hobbes’s Natural Law as Right Reason” | ||||||
| Commentator: | John Deigh (University of Texas–Austin) | |||||
| Speaker: | Tommy Lott (San Jose State University) | |||||
| “Sovereignty by Acquisition and Hobbes’s Political Realism” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine and City University of New York–Graduate Center) | |||||
| Speaker: | Steve Viner (Washington University in St. Louis) | |||||
| “Was Hobbes a Realist?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Gary Herbert (Loyola University–New Orleans) | |||||
| GIX-C. | International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Chinese Aesthetics and Metaphysics in Comparative Perspective | |||||
| Chair: | Yang Xiao (Kenyon College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Derong Chen (Wuhan University) | |||||
| “Metaphor and Abstractness: Metaphysical Terms in Chinese and Western Philosophy” | ||||||
| Chong Ming Lin (LCM Research) | ||||||
| “The Influence of the Chinese Character on the Movie Montage” | ||||||
| Chan Lee (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | ||||||
| “Zhu Xi on Ontological Reflection of Self-Cultivation” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Mark Brasher (TransPacific Hawaii College) | |||||
| GIX-D. | Philosophy of Religion Group | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Anya Farennikova (Biola University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Daniel Howard-Snyder (Western Washington University) | |||||
| “Some Puzzles about Prayer” | ||||||
| Robert Bolger (Claremont Graduate University) | ||||||
| “Bringing Heaven Down to Earth: D. Z. Phillips on Immortality” | ||||||
| Jeffrey Green (University of Notre Dame) | ||||||
| “The Sovereignty-Aseity Conviction” | ||||||
| GIX-E. | Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Plato | |||||
| Chair: | Julius Moravcsik (Stanford University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Jan Szaif (University of California–Davis) | |||||
| “Remarks on the Socratic Conception of Rationality” | ||||||
| Matthew King (York University) | ||||||
| “Socrates’s Great Escape: Philosophy and Politics in the Crito” | ||||||
| John Mouracade (University of Alaska–Anchorage) | ||||||
| “Republic II-IX: An Argument That Ignores Consequences” | ||||||
| GIX-F. | Society for Business Ethics | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Kenneth Goodpaster, Conscience and Corporate Culture | |||||
| Chair: | Marvin Brown (University of San Francisco) | |||||
| Author: | Kenneth Goodpaster (University of St. Thomas–Minnesota) | |||||
| Critics: | Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame) | |||||
| Thomas White (Loyola Marymount University) | ||||||
| GIX-G. | Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Moral Perception | |||||
| Speakers: | J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College) | |||||
| “Ethics and Aesthetics as One: Remarks on the Primacy of Moral Perception” | ||||||
| Jennifer Wright (University of Wyoming) | ||||||
| “The Role of Moral Perception in Mature Moral Agency” | ||||||
| Henry Jacoby (East Carolina University) | ||||||
| “What Is a Theory of Moral Perception?” | ||||||
| GIX-H. | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Graduate Student Section | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Intersections in American and Continental Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Mathew A. Foust (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Speakers: | Nicholas Reynolds (University of Oregon) | |||||
| “Royce’s Theory of Interpretation and Marcel’s Existential Fulcrum” | ||||||
| Seth Vannatta (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | ||||||
| “Brightman’s Personalism and Husserl’s Phenomenology” | ||||||
| Erick Burke (Colorado State University) | ||||||
| “One-Dimensionality and the Cosmopolitan Self: Mead and Marcuse” | ||||||
| Christy Reynolds (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| “Absolute You: A Buberian Reading of Purpose and Community in Royce” | ||||||
| GIX-I. | Society for the Study of Process Philosophy, Josiah Royce Society, and the Society for the Philosophy of Creativity | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | John Quiring (Victor Valley College) | |||||
| Remarks: | Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley (California State University–Bakersfield) | |||||
| “On the Josiah Royce Society” | ||||||
| Randall Auxier (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | ||||||
| “On the Society for the Philosophy of Creativity” | ||||||
| Speaker: | Christina Hutchins (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| “The Creativity of the Lost Cause: Grief and Imagination as Environmental Praxis” | ||||||
| Respondent: | Adam Scarfe (California State University–Bakersfield) | |||||
| Group Session GX — 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GX-A. | International Society for Chinese Philosophy | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Ethical Issues | |||||
| Chair: | Kim Skoog (University of Guam) | |||||
| Speakers: | Kim Skoog (University of Guam) | |||||
| “How to Avoid Paying for One’s Sins Without Bankrupting the Amasser of Justice” | ||||||
| Jeremy Henkel (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | ||||||
| “How to Avoid Solipsism While Remaining an Idealist: Lessons from Berkeley and Dharmakirti” | ||||||
| Ann Pang-White (University of Scranton) | ||||||
| “The Metamorphosis of Ethics: Confucianism and the Reconstruction of Modern Ethics” | ||||||
| GX-B. | North American Spinoza Society, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Firmin DeBrabander (Maryland Institute College of Art) | |||||
| Speaker: | Matt Wion (Marquette University) | |||||
| “Can Spinoza’s God Love?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Vance Maxwell (Memorial University of Newfoundland) | |||||
| Speaker: | Tom Cook (Rollins College) | |||||
| “Leibniz and Spinoza on Chimaeras and Other Unthinkable Things” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Steve Barbone (San Diego State University) | |||||
| GX-C. | Society for Skeptical Studies, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Richard Greene (Weber State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Ilhan Inan (Bogaziçi University) | |||||
| “How to Be Open-minded Without Being a Skeptic” | ||||||
| Rachel Robison (Weber State University) | ||||||
| “On Subject Sensitive Invariantism” | ||||||
| Maria Adamos (Georgia Southern University) | ||||||
| “The Ancients, the Vulgar, and Hume’s Skepticism” | ||||||
