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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.
| Main Program | ||||||
| Wednesday, April 4 | ||||||
| Wednesday Morning, April 4 | ||||||
| Session I — 9:00-Noon | ||||||
| I-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Andrew Melnyk, A Physicalist Manifesto: Thoroughly Modern Materialism | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Terry Horgan (University of Arizona) | |||||
| Critics: | Joseph Levine (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) | |||||
| Daniel Stoljar (Australian National University) | ||||||
| Author: | Andrew Melnyk (University of Missouri–Columbia) | |||||
| I-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: James B. Freeman, Acceptable Premises: An Epistemic Approach to an Informal Logic Problem | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Maurice Finocchiaro (University of Nevada–Las Vegas) | |||||
| Critics: | Richard Feldman (University of Rochester) | |||||
| Hans V. Hansen (University of Windsor) | ||||||
| Mark Weinstein (Montclair State University) | ||||||
| Author: | James B. Freeman (City University of New York–Hunter College) | |||||
| I-C. | Author-Meets-Critics: Warren Farrell and James P. Sterba, Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? A Debate | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic University–Pomona) | |||||
| Critics: | Tom Digby (Springfield College) | |||||
| Ellen Klein (U.S. State Department) | ||||||
| Authors: | Warren Farrell (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame) | ||||||
| I-D. | Invited Symposium: Autonomy and Advance Directives | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Dana Nelkin (University of California–San Diego) | |||||
| Speakers: | Dennis McKerlie (University of Calgary) | |||||
| “Alzheimer’s Patients and Life-Extending Medical Treatment” | ||||||
| Agnieszka Jaworska (Stanford University) | ||||||
| “Vanishing Persons and the Authority of the Former Self: Dilemmas in Alzheimer’s Disease” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Sara Goering (University of Washington) | |||||
| Julie Tannenbaum (National Institutes of Health) | ||||||
| I-E. | Colloquium: Appearances | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | James Messina (University of California–San Diego) | |||||
| Speaker: | Robert Schroer (Arkansas State University) | |||||
| “How the Transparency of Visual Experience Impacts Inverted Earth” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Gurpreet Rattan (University of Toronto) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Joseph Keim Campbell (Washington State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Kranti Saran (Harvard University) | |||||
| “Illusions Without Contents?” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Bennett Barr (University of Washington) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Tony Bezsylko (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Speaker: | René Jagnow (University of Georgia) | |||||
| “Disappearing Appearances: A Critique of Alva Noë’s Approach to Spatial Perceptual Content” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Bharath Vallabha (Harvard University) | |||||
| I-F. | Colloquium: Language and Logic | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Francis Jeffry Pelletier (Simon Fraser University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Bernhard Nickel (Harvard University) | |||||
| “Generics and Plural Quantification” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Agustin Rayo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Neil Tennant (Ohio State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Glen Hoffmann (Ryerson University) | |||||
| “Truth, Superassertability, and Conceivability” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Cory Wright (University of California–San Diego) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Michael Caie (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Speaker: | Charles Hermes (Florida State University) | |||||
| “Dispositional and Counterfactual Logic” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Kenny Easwaran (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| I-G. | Colloquium: Mental Content | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Matthew Lockard (University of California–Los Angeles) | |||||
| Speaker: | Daniel Weiskopf (University of South Florida) | |||||
| “Empiricism and the Vehicles of Thought” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Steven Reynolds (Arizona State University) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jussi Haukioja (University of Turku) | |||||
| “Externalism and Conceptual Analysis” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Paul Audi (Colgate University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jason Ford (University of Minnesota–Duluth) | |||||
| “Tye-Dyed Teleology and the Inverted Spectrum” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Michael Tye (University of Texas–Austin) | |||||
| I-H. | Colloquium: Political Philosophy | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Andrew Jason Cohen (Georgia State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Kevin Vallier (University of Arizona) | |||||
| “Liberalism and Economic Growth” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Bruce Landesman (University of Utah) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Alistair M. Macleod (Queen’s University) | |||||
| “Is Consistency in the Application of Unjust Laws a Form of Justice?” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Rachel Fern (California Polytechnic State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jeff Gauthier (University of Portland) | |||||
| “Sexual Coercion and the Problem of Preemptive Consent” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Alan Wertheimer (National Institutes of Health) | |||||
| I-I. | Colloquium: Preferences and Values | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Matthew Baxter-Parrott (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Speaker: | Mariam Thalos (University of Utah) | |||||
| “Allais-like Preference Reversals Are Everywhere” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Gregory Pence (University of Alabama–Birmingham) | |||||
| Speaker: | Chris Heathwood (University of Colorado–Boulder) | |||||
| “Fitting Attitudes and Welfare” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Bana Bashour (City University of New York–Graduate School) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Charles Young (Claremont Graduate University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Nicolas Espinoza (Royal Institute of Technology) | |||||
| “Margins of Error in Value Comparisons” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Don Fallis (University of Arizona) | |||||
| I-J. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Blacks in Philosophy | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Angela Davis, Abolition Democracy | |||||
| Commentators: | Angela Davis (University of California–Santa Cruz) | |||||
| Lewis R. Gordon (Temple University) | ||||||
| Douglas Kellner (University of California–Los Angeles) | ||||||
| Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York–Stony Brook) | ||||||
| Wednesday Afternoon, April 4 | ||||||
| Session II — 1:00-4:00 p.m. | ||||||
| II-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Moral Skepticisms | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Margaret Walker (Arizona State University) | |||||
| Critics: | Garrett Cullity (University of Adelaide) | |||||
| James Dreier (Brown University) | ||||||
| David McNaughton (Florida State University) | ||||||
| Author: | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College) | |||||
| II-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Harvey Brown, Physical Relativity: Space-time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| Critics: | Richard Healey (University of Arizona) | |||||
| Lawrence Sklar (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor) | ||||||
| Christopher Smeenk (University of California–Los Angeles) | ||||||
| Author: | Harvey Brown (Oxford University) | |||||
| II-C. | Author-Meets-Critics: Hud Hudson, The Metaphysics of Hyperspace | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Kris McDaniel (Syracuse University) | |||||
| Critics: | Mark Heller (Syracuse University) | |||||
| Josh Parsons (University of Otago) | ||||||
| Michael Rea (University of Notre Dame) | ||||||
| Author: | Hud Hudson (Western Washington University) | |||||
| II-D. | Invited Symposium: Correspondence Theory of Truth | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Bruce Hunter ( University of Alberta) | |||||
| Speakers: | Richard Fumerton (University of Iowa) | |||||
| Andrew Newman (University of Nebraska–Omaha) | ||||||
| Gerald Vision (Temple University) | ||||||
| II-E. | Invited Symposium: Demystifying Social Construction | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Steve Downes (University of Utah) | |||||
| Speakers: | Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |||||
| “Constructing the Social: Practices, Categories, Kinds” | ||||||
| Ron Mallon (University of Utah) | ||||||
| “Making Up Your Mind and Explaining Yourself: Social Construction and Human Kinds” | ||||||
| Alison Wylie (University of Washington) | ||||||
| “What Knowers Know Well: Identity Constructs, Social Location, and Standpoint Epistemology” | ||||||
| II-F. | Invited Symposium: Descartes’s Metaphysics of Substance | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Alice Sowaal (San Francisco State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) | |||||
| “Attributes and the Perception of Substance” | ||||||
| Dan Kaufman (University of Colorado–Boulder) | ||||||
| “Descartes’s Corporeal Substances: Annihilation, Separability, and Real Distinctions” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jorge Secada (University of Virginia) | |||||
| II-G. | Invited Symposium: Expanding Epistemology | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Jason Kawall (Colgate University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Guy Axtell (University of Nevada–Reno) | |||||
| “Expanding Epistemology: A Responsibilist Approach” | ||||||
| Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University) | ||||||
| “Epistemology after Skepticism” | ||||||
| Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh) | ||||||
| “On Knowing How and Knowing That” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck College London) | |||||
| II-H. | Colloquium: Ethics | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 1:00-2:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Christian Coseru (College of Charleston) | |||||
| Speaker: | Anthony Rudd (St. Olaf College) | |||||
| “Narrative Unity: A Defence” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | John Davenport (Fordham University) | |||||
| 2:00-3:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Pamela Hood (San Francisco State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College) | |||||
| “The Role of Emotion in Decision and Moral Evaluation” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Svetlana Beggs (University of California–Riverside) | |||||
| 3:00-4:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Nadeem J. Z. Hussain (Stanford University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Eric Moore (Longwood University) | |||||
| “Getting a Clue about Consequences: Counterfactual Semantics, Agent Ability, and the Epistemic Objection” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California) | |||||
| II-I. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Philosophy in India: Metaethics | |||||
| Chair: | Arthur Falk (Western Michigan University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Ramesh C. Pradhan (University of Hyderabad) | |||||
| “How to Be a Moral Objectivist” | ||||||
| Sharad Deshpande (University of Pune) | ||||||
| “Is Indian Ethics Autonomous?” | ||||||
| Bijoy Boruah (Indian Institute of Technology–Kanpur) | ||||||
| “Moral Agency and Nominal Individuality” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University) | |||||
| Karin Brown (San Jose State University) | ||||||
| William McBride (Purdue University) | ||||||
| Wednesday Early Evening, April 4 | ||||||
| Session III — 4:00-6:00 p.m. | ||||||
| III-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: David Levy and Sandra Peart, The ‘Vanity of the Philosopher’ | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Brian Berkey (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Critics: | Nicholas Capaldi (Loyola University–New Orleans) | |||||
| Andrew Terjesen (Washington and Lee University) | ||||||
| Authors: | David Levy (George Mason University) | |||||
| Sandra Peart (Baldwin-Wallace College) | ||||||
| III-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Eric Olson, The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Raymond Martin (Union College) | |||||
| Critics: | Lynne Rudder Baker (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) | |||||
| Ned Markosian (Western Washington University) | ||||||
| Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University) | ||||||
| Author: | Eric Olson (University of Sheffield) | |||||
| III-C. | Invited Symposium: Situationism, Freedom, and Responsibility | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Sharon Skare (University of California–San Diego) | |||||
| Speakers: | Dominic Murphy (California Institute of Technology) | |||||
| “From My Lai to Abu Ghraib: Atrocity, Normative Competence, and Excusing Conditions” | ||||||
| Manuel Vargas (University of San Francisco) | ||||||
| “Situationism and Blame” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Christian Miller (Wake Forest University) | |||||
| Matt Talbert (University of California–San Diego) | ||||||
| III-D. | Colloquium: Personhood | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 4:00-5:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Carol Bayley (Catholic Healthcare West) | |||||
| Speaker: | Timothy Mosteller (California Baptist University) | |||||
| “Teleology and Embryonic Personhood” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Kenneth Kipnis (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | |||||
| 5:00-6:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Leslie Francis (University of Utah) | |||||
| Speaker: | Melissa Yates (Northwestern University) | |||||
| “The Underdetermination of Political Conceptions of Personhood” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Gerald D. Doppelt (University of California–San Diego) | |||||
| III-E. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Art | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 4:00-5:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley (California State University–Bakersfield) | |||||
| Speaker: | Anna Bergqvist (University of Reading) | |||||
| “Sibley and Defeasible Reasons: Holism about Reasons in Aesthetic Evaluations” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | J. M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College) | |||||
| 5:00-6:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| Speaker: | Alessandro Pignocchi (Institut Jean Nicod) | |||||
| “Motor Perception: A Third Way to Perceive Pictures?” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Tiger Roholt (Columbia University) | |||||
| III-F. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Religion | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 4:00-5:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Daniel Murphy (St. Anselm College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Glen Pettigrove (Massey University) | |||||
| “The Paradox of Divine Forgiveness” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Chris Callaway (Westmont College) | |||||
| 5:00-6:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Benjamin Crowe (University of Utah) | |||||
| Speaker: | Klaas Kraay (Ryerson University) | |||||
| “Why Theism Requires a Multiverse (And Why It Is the Best of All Possible Worlds)” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Adam Atchison (Claremont Graduate University) | |||||
| III-G. | Colloquium: Political Philosophy | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 4:00-5:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Vijay Mascarenhas (Metropolitan State College of Denver) | |||||
| Speaker: | Waheed Hussain (University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| “A Challenge to Pettit’s Republican Theory of Freedom” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Mark Redhead (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| 5:00-6:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Michael Strawser (University of Central Florida) | |||||
| Speaker: | Brian Thomas (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) | |||||
| “Clearing a Path Towards a Critical Theory of Social Identity” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Kenneth Faber (Vanderbilt University) | |||||
| III-H. | Symposium: Agency and Causation | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Rebekah Rice (Whitworth College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Carolina Sartorio (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | |||||
| “Omissions: An Exclusion Problem for Causalism” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentators: | Randolph Clarke (Florida State University) | |||||
| Christopher Hitchcock (California Institute of Technology) | ||||||
| III-I. | Symposium: Hegel and Punishment | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Andy Wallace (Sonoma State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Christopher Yeomans (Kenyon College) | |||||
| “Hegel on Retribution and Punishment” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentators: | Michael Hardimon (University of California–San Diego) | |||||
| Allen Wood (Stanford University) | ||||||
| III-J. | Symposium: Know-how and Concept Possession | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Phyllis Rooney (Oakland University) | |||||
| Speakers: | John T. Bengson (University of Texas–Austin) | |||||
| Marc Moffett (University of Wyoming) | ||||||
| “Know-how and Concept Possession” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentators: | Kevin Falvey (University of California–Santa Barbara) | |||||
| Aaron Zimmerman (University of California–Santa Barbara) | ||||||
| III-K. | Symposium: Stem Cell Research and Abortion | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Cathy Gere (University of Chicago) | |||||
| Speaker: | Marin Gillis (University of Nevada–Reno) | |||||
| “Parallels Between the Ethics of Embyonic Stem Cell Research and Abortion” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentators: | Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine and City University of New York–Graduate Center) | |||||
| Mary Anne Warren (Independent Scholar) | ||||||
| III-L. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Teaching Ethics | |||||
| Chair: | Daniel Palmer (Kent State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Nina Rosenstand (San Diego Mesa College) | |||||
| “Courage and Cowardice in Fact and Fiction: Talking about Values with College Students” | ||||||
| Harold Weiss (Northampton Community College) | ||||||
| “Teaching and Learning About Suicide in Undergraduate Philosophy Courses” | ||||||
| Thursday, April 5 | ||||||
| Thursday Morning, April 5 | ||||||
| Session IV — 9:00-Noon | ||||||
| IV-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Alvin Goldman, Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Jonathan Ellis (University of California–Santa Cruz) | |||||
| Critics: | Alison Gopnik (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Christopher Hill (Brown University) | ||||||
| Susan L. Hurley (University of Bristol and All Souls College) | ||||||
| Author: | Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University) | |||||
| IV-B. | Special Memorial Session: Ellery Eells: Gentleman and Scholar | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Malcolm Forster (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | |||||
| Speakers: | Charles Chihara (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| “Eells and Inductive Support” | ||||||
| Brian Skyrms (University of California–Irvine) | ||||||
| “Eells on Rational Decision and Deliberation” | ||||||
| Christopher Hitchcock (California Institute of Technology) | ||||||
| “Eells’s Views on Probabilistic Causation” | ||||||
| IV-C. | Invited Symposium: Knowledge and Science in Later Medieval Philosophy | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Michael Rota (University of St. Thomas–Minnesota) | |||||
| Speakers: | Scott MacDonald (Cornell University) | |||||
| “Grosseteste and Aristotelian Science” | ||||||
| Martin Pickave (University of Toronto) | ||||||
| “Late Medieval Debates about the Scientific Status of Metaphysics” | ||||||
| Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado–Boulder) | ||||||
| “Medieval Scientia and Early Modern Science” | ||||||
| IV-D. | Invited Symposium: The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Patrick Suppes (Stanford University) | |||||
| Speakers: | John Perry (Stanford University) | |||||
| “Hintikka on Demonstratives” | ||||||
| Vincent F. Hendricks (Roskilde Universitetscenter) | ||||||
| Ernest LePore (Rutgers University) | ||||||
| “Information and Epistemology” | ||||||
| Judson Webb (Boston University) | ||||||
| “The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University) | |||||
| IV-E. | Colloquium: Early Modern Philosophy | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Talia Bettcher (California State University–Los Angeles) | |||||
| Speaker: | Matthew J. Kisner (University of South Carolina) | |||||
| “Spinoza on the Intelligence of the Passions” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Michael LeBuffe (Texas A&M University) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Jennifer Smalligan (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Speaker: | Donald L.M. Baxter (University of Connecticut) | |||||
| “Hume, Distinctions of Reason, and Differential Resemblance” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Ginger Clausen (University of Texas–Austin) | |||||
| Speaker: | Georges Dicker (State University of New York–Brockport) | |||||
| “Anti-Berkeley” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Patrick Kenny (University of Rochester) | |||||
| IV-F. | Colloquium: Freedom and Responsibility | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Kenneth Lucey (University of Nevada–Reno) | |||||
| Speaker: | E. J. Coffman (University of Notre Dame) | |||||
| “Luck and Standard Libertarianism” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Neil Levy (University of Melbourne) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | David DeMoss (Pacific University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Felipe Leon (University of California–Riverside) | |||||
| Neal A. Tognazzini (University of California–Riverside) | ||||||
| “Why Frankfurt-Examples Don’t Need to Succeed to Succeed” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Kevin Timpe (University of San Diego) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Mark Brasher (TransPacific Hawaii College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Frank Hindriks (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) | |||||
| “The Freedom of Collective Agents” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point) | |||||
| IV-G. | Colloquium: Philosophy and Biology | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Nathan Westbrook (University of California–Riverside) | |||||
| Speaker: | Sean Hermanson (Florida International University) | |||||
| “Blindsight in Monkeys, Lost and Perhaps Found” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Teed Rockwell (Sonoma State University) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Bonnie Paller (California State University–Northridge) | |||||
| Speakers: | Andre Ariew (University of Missouri–Columbia) | |||||
| Zachary J. Ernst (University of Missouri–Columbia) | ||||||
| “Why Fitness Is Not a Propensity” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Christopher Stephens (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Martin Thomson-Jones (Oberlin College) | |||||
| Speaker: | William A. Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College) | |||||
| “Are There Any Biological Explanations in Experimental Biology? Marcel Weber’s Account of Heteronomous Explanation in Experimental Biology” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Matt Haber (University of Utah) | |||||
| IV-H. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Science | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Tarun Menon (University of California–San Diego) | |||||
| Speaker: | Bradford Skow (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) | |||||
| “Two Arguments Against the Mill-Ramsey-Lewis Theory” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | John Halpin (Oakland University) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Ioan Muntean (University of California–San Diego) | |||||
| Speaker: | Andrew Wayne (University of Guelph) | |||||
| “Singular Limits, Explanation, and Emergence in Physics” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Patrick McGivern (University of Alberta) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Shannon Vallor (Santa Clara University) | |||||
| Speaker: | K. Brad Wray (State University of New York–Oswego) | |||||
| “The Real Value of Prediction” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | David Harker (East Tennessee State University) | |||||
| IV-I. | Colloquium: Practical Reason | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | David Hunter (Ryerson University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Patricia Marino (University of Waterloo) | |||||
| “On Essentially Conflicting Desires” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Timothy Schroeder (Ohio State University) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Alan Goldman (College of William and Mary) | |||||
| Speaker: | Joshua Gert (Florida State University) | |||||
| “Generalism about Practical Reasons: A Defense from the Analogy with the Epistemic” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jacob Ross (University of Southern California) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Benjamin Vilhauer (William Paterson University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jennifer Morton (Stanford University) | |||||
| “Practical Reasoning and the Varieties of Agency” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Andrei Buckareff (Franklin and Marshall College) | |||||
| IV-J. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Political Reconciliation and Transitional Justice | |||||
| Speakers: | Larry May (Washington University in St. Louis) | |||||
| “Genocide and Reconciliation with the Past” | ||||||
| Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego State University) | ||||||
| “Reconciliation as a Political Value” | ||||||
| Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor) | ||||||
| “Speaking of Reconciliation” | ||||||
| IV-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: | Chinese Philosophy of Religion | |||||
| Chair: | Xiaomei Yang (Temple University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Philip J. Ivanhoe (City University of Hong Kong) | |||||
| “Heaven as a Source for Ethical Warrant in Early Confucianism” | ||||||
| Yang Xiao (Kenyon College) | ||||||
| “The Justifications and Sources of Ritual Action in the Mozi and the Mencius” | ||||||
| Erin Cline (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| “The Way, the Right, and the Good” | ||||||
| Thursday Afternoon, April 5 | ||||||
| Session V — 1:00-4:00 p.m. | ||||||
| V-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Andrews Reath, Agency and Autonomy in Kant’s Moral Theory: Selected Essays | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Mark Timmons (University of Arizona) | |||||
| Critics: | Thomas Hill (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) | |||||
| Samuel Kerstein (University of Maryland–College Park) | ||||||
| Jens Timmermann (University of St. Andrews) | ||||||
| Author: | Andrews Reath (University of California–Riverside) | |||||
| V-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Graham Priest, Doubt Truth to Be a Liar; In Contradiction: A Study of the Transconsistent | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Jeffrey Roland (Louisiana State University) | |||||
| Critics: | Jc Beall (University of Connecticut) | |||||
| Otávio Bueno (University of Miami) | ||||||
| Hartry Field (New York University) | ||||||
| Author: | Graham Priest (University of Melbourne and University of St. Andrews) | |||||
| V-C. | Author-Meets-Critics: Frederick Beiser, Schiller as Philosopher | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Ryan Hickerson (Western Oregon University) | |||||
| Critics: | Anne Margaret Baxley (Washington University in St. Louis) | |||||
| Stephen Houlgate (Warwick University) | ||||||
| Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa) | ||||||
| Author: | Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University) | |||||
| V-D. | Author-Meets-Critics: Peter Carruthers, The Architecture of the Mind: Massive Modularity and the Fexibility of Thought | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | William P. Seeley (Franklin and Marshall College) | |||||
| Critics: | Fiona Cowie (California Institute of Technology) | |||||
| Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh) | ||||||
| Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta) | ||||||
| Author: | Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland–College Park) | |||||
| V-E. | Invited Symposium: Kripke and After: Modal Arguments Against Materialism | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Peter Kung (Pomona College) | |||||
| Speakers: | David Papineau (King’s College London) | |||||
| “Kripke’s Argument is Ad Hominem, not Two-Dimensional” | ||||||
| Alex Byrne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | ||||||
| “Possibility and Imagination” | ||||||
| Stephen Yablo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | ||||||
| “Unexplained Modal Illusions” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Tyler Doggett (University of Vermont) | |||||
| V-F. | Colloquium: Ancient Philosophy | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 1:00-2:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | James Butler (Berea College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Beverly Hinton (West Virginia University) | |||||
| “On Matter and Two Models of Change in Aristotle’s Physics A” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Casey Perin (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) | |||||
| 2:00-3:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Mark McPherran (Simon Fraser University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Richard Mohr (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign) | |||||
| “Some Identity Statements in Plato: An Old Puzzle in the Sophist and a New Sense of ‘To Be’” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Dorothea Frede (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| 3:00-4:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Antonio Chu (Metropolitan State College of Denver) | |||||
| Speaker: | Philip Corkum ( University of Alberta) | |||||
| “Aristotle on Mathematical Existence” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | John Mouracade (University of Alaska–Anchorage) | |||||
| V-G. | Colloquium: Bioethics | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 1:00-2:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Michelle Sandell (California State University–Sacramento) | |||||
| Speaker: | Ben Eggleston (University of Kansas) | |||||
| “Genetic Discrimination in Health Insurance: An Ethical and Economic Analysis” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Paul Menzel (Pacific Lutheran University) | |||||
| 2:00-3:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Dawson Schultz (Gonzaga University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Richard Dees (University of Rochester) | |||||
| “Better Brains, Better Selves? The Ethics of Neuroenhancements” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | James L. Nelson (Michigan State University) | |||||
| 3:00-4:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado–Boulder) | |||||
| Speaker: | Suze Berkhout (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| “Relational Autonomy and Human Capabilities” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo) | |||||
| V-H. | Colloquium: Epistemology | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 1:00-2:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Hollibert Phillips (Whitman College) | |||||
| Speaker: | William S. Larkin (Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville) | |||||
| “Knowledge, Assertion, and Risk” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Joseph Shieber (Lafayette College) | |||||
| 2:00-3:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | David Boersema (Pacific University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jamie Phillips (Clarion University) | |||||
| “What Can a Drunk Really Know? Solving a Puzzle for Pragmatism” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Simon Evnine (University of Miami) | |||||
| 3:00-4:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod) | |||||
| Speaker: | Heimir Geirsson (Iowa State University) | |||||
| “Acquaintance and De Re Belief” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Bernard Linsky (University of Alberta) | |||||
| V-I. | Colloquium: Kant | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 1:00-2:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Daniel Considine (University of Southern California) | |||||
| Speaker: | Steven M. Bayne (Fairfield University) | |||||
| “Kant’s Critique of Leibniz on the Distincition Between Sensible and Intellectual Representations” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Lucy Allais (University of Sussex) | |||||
| 2:00-3:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Marc Bobro (Santa Barbara City College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Corey Dyck (Boston College) | |||||
| “Connubium Rationis et Experientiae: Christian Wolff on the Relation Between Empirical and Rational Psychology” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Brian Chance (University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| 3:00-4:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Samuel Henry (University of Chicago) | |||||
| Speaker: | Aaron Bunch (Washington State University) | |||||
| “What Kant Means by ‘Objective Reality’ and Its Bearing on the Transcendental Deductions” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Katherine Dunlop (Stanford University) | |||||
| V-J. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Language | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 1:00-2:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Asta Sveinsdottir (San Francisco State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Allan J. Hazlett (Brown University) | |||||
| “The Myth of Factive Verbs” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | John Woods (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) | |||||
| 2:00-3:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Chris Tillman (University of Manitoba) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jonathan M. Schaffer (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) | |||||
| “The Least Discerning and Most Promiscuous Truthmaker” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Ross Cameron (University of Leeds) | |||||
| 3:00-4:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Charles Siewert (University of California–Riverside) | |||||
| Speaker: | Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University) | |||||
| “Modal Property Comprehension” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Chris Swoyer (University of Oklahoma) | |||||
| V-K. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Science | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 1:00-2:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Alexandre V. Korolev (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| Speaker: | Angela Potochnik (Stanford University) | |||||
| “Generality, Complexity, and Approaches to Explanation” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Andrew Hamilton (Arizona State University) | |||||
| 2:00-3:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Craig Callender (University of California–San Diego) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jill North (Yale University) | |||||
| “The ‘Structure’ of Physics: A Case Study” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Oliver Davis Johns (San Francisco State University) | |||||
| 3:00-4:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Barry M. Ward (University of Arkansas–Fayetteville) | |||||
| “Taking the Raven Paradox with a Grain of Salt” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Greg Frost-Arnold (University of Nevada–Las Vegas) | |||||
| Thursday Early Evening, April 5 | ||||||
| Session VI — 4:00-6:00 p.m. | ||||||
| VI-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: James A. Harris, Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College) | |||||
| Critics: | Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California) | ||||||
| Author: | James A. Harris (University of St. Andrews) | |||||
| VI-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Gary Iseminger, The Aesthetic Function of Art | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Dabney Townsend (Armstrong Atlantic State University) | |||||
| Critics: | Noël Carroll (Temple University) | |||||
| Andrew Kania (Trinity University) | ||||||
| Author: | Gary Iseminger (Carleton College) | |||||
| VI-C. | Invited Paper: Terminological Disputes and Philosophical Progress | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | L. A. Paul (University of Arizona) | |||||
| Speaker: | David Chalmers (Australian National University) | |||||
| “Terminological Disputes and Philosophical Progress” | ||||||
| Commentators: | James Pryor (New York University) | |||||
| VI-D. | Invited Symposium: Action and Evaluation | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Fred Stoutland (St. Olaf College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Matthew Hanser (University of California–Santa Barbara) | |||||
| “Action, Acting, and Acting Well” | ||||||
| Ulrike Heuer (University of Leeds) | ||||||
| “When Values Are Reasons” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Andrew Eshleman (University of Arkansas–Little Rock) | |||||
| VI-E. | Invited Symposium: Ancient Greek Metaphysics | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Jeremy Kirby (Albion College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Frank Lewis (University of Southern California) | |||||
| “What’s the Matter with Prime Matter?” | ||||||
| Stephen Menn (McGill University) | ||||||
| “On Socrates’s First Criticisms of the Physicists?” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Thomas Blackson (Arizona State University) | |||||
| Joel Martinez (Lewis and Clark College) | ||||||
| VI-F. | Invited Symposium: Charity and Justice | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Joshua Cohen (Stanford University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Mathias Risse (Harvard University) | |||||
| “Justice, Charity, and the Un-Foundational Character of Human Rights” | ||||||
| Judith Lichtenberg (University of Maryland–College Park) | ||||||
| “The Realm of Charity and the Realm of Justice” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Matthew Noah Smith (Yale University) | |||||
| VI-G. | Invited Symposium: The Ethics of Neuroenhancement and Personhood | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Mary V. Rorty (Stanford University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Thomas Buller (University of Alaska–Anchorage) | |||||
| “Minds, Brains, and Agents” | ||||||
| Walter Glannon (University of Calgary) | ||||||
| “Psychopharmacological Enhancement” | ||||||
| Eric Racine (Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal) | ||||||
| “Two Moral Tests for Cognitive Enhancement” | ||||||
| VI-H. | Invited Symposium: The Philosophy of Philippa Foot | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Stephen Brown (Briar Cliff College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Candace Vogler (University of Chicago) | |||||
| “Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism” | ||||||
| Michael Thompson (University of Pittsburgh) | ||||||
| “The Philosophy of Philippa Foot” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Troy Jollimore (California State University–Chico) | |||||
| VI-I. | Colloquium: Descartes | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 4:00-5:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Patricia Easton (Claremont Graduate University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Rico Vitz (University of North Florida) | |||||
| “Descartes and the Question of Direct Doxastic Voluntarism” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Andrew Youpa (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | |||||
| 5:00-6:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | John Carriero (University of California–Los Angeles) | |||||
| Speaker: | David L. Clemenson (University of St. Thomas–Minnesota) | |||||
| “Descartes on Consciousness and Forms of Thought” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Roger Florka (Ursinus College) | |||||
| VI-J. | Symposium: Causes | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Roberta L. Millstein (University of California–Davis) | |||||
| Speaker: | Kenneth Waters (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) | |||||
| “Causes That Make a Difference” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentators: | Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis and Clark College) | |||||
| Michael Strevens (New York University) | ||||||
| VI-K. | Symposium: The ‘Practical Contradiction’ Interpretation of the Categorical Imperative | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Fred Schueler (University of New Mexico) | |||||
| Speaker: | Richard Galvin (Texas Christian University) | |||||
| “The Practical Contradiction Interpretation Reconsidered” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentators: | Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University) | |||||
| Ernesto Garcia (Syracuse University) | ||||||
| VI-L. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Romanell Lecture | |||||
| Chair: | Don Garrett (New York University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Louis Loeb (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor) | |||||
| “The Naturalisms of Hume and Reid” | ||||||
| Friday, April 6 | ||||||
| Friday Morning, April 6 | ||||||
| Session VII — 9:00-Noon | ||||||
| VII-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: David DeGrazia, Human Identity and Bioethics | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Jennifer Hawkins (University of Toronto) | |||||
| Critics: | Margaret Battin (University of Utah) | |||||
| Daniel Brock (Harvard University) | ||||||
| Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois–Chicago) | ||||||
| Author: | David DeGrazia (George Washington University and National Institutes of Health) | |||||
| VII-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: George Sher, In Praise of Blame | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Ken Rogerson (Florida International University) | |||||
| Critics: | Pamela Hieronymi (University of California–Los Angeles) | |||||
| Robert Kane (University of Texas–Austin) | ||||||
| Angela Smith (University of Washington) | ||||||
| Author: | George Sher (Rice University) | |||||
| VII-C. | Author-Meets-Critics: Stephen Mulhall, Philosophical Myths of the Fall | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Randall Havas (Willamette University) | |||||
| Critics: | Taylor Carman (Barnard College) | |||||
| Ed Minar (University of Arkansas–Fayetteville) | ||||||
| John Richardson (New York University) | ||||||
| Author: | Stephen Mulhall (Oxford University) | |||||
| VII-D. | Author-Meets-Critics: Francesco Guala, The Methodology of Experimental Economics | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Paul Teller (University of California–Davis) | |||||
| Critics: | Anna Alexandrova (University of Missouri–Saint Louis) | |||||
| Daniel Hausman (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | ||||||
| James Woodward (California Institute of Technology) | ||||||
| Author: | Francesco Guala (University of Exeter) | |||||
| VII-E. | Invited Symposium: Adam Smith on Liberty and Sympathy | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Don Sievert (University of Missouri–Columbia) | |||||
| Speakers: | James Otteson (University of Alabama–Tuscaloosa) | |||||
| “Adam Smith and Liberty” | ||||||
| Kate Abramson (Indiana University–Bloomington) | ||||||
| “Smith and/vs Hume on Sympathy” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Fonna Forman-Barzilai (University of California–San Diego) | |||||
| Eric Schliesser (Syracuse University and Universiteit Leiden) | ||||||
| VII-F. | Invited Symposium: Singular Thought | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Peter Alward ( University of Lethbridge) | |||||
| Speakers: | John Hawthorne (Oxford University) | |||||
| David Manley (University of Southern California) | ||||||
| “Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?” | ||||||
| Robin Jeshion (University of California–Riverside) | ||||||
| “Singular Thought: Semantic Instrumentalism and Cognitive Elasticity” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University) | |||||
| VII-G. | Invited Symposium: The Psychology of the Self | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Alexandra Plakias (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor) | |||||
| Speakers: | David Velleman (New York University) | |||||
| “Artificial Agency” | ||||||
| John Doris (Washington University in St. Louis) | ||||||
| “Talking to Our Selves” | ||||||
| Philip Robbins (Washington University in St. Louis) | ||||||
| “The Self and Its Social Body” | ||||||
| VII-H. | Colloquium: Kantian Aesthetics | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Richard Holmes (University of Waterloo) | |||||
| Speaker: | Joseph Cannon (Northwestern University) | |||||
| “Is Ugliness a Pure Aesthetic Category in Kant’s Theory of Taste?” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Lara Ostaric (St. Michael’s College) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Oliver Sensen (Tulane University of New Orleans) | |||||
| Speaker: | James Reid (Metropolitan State College of Denver) | |||||
| “Freedom in Nature: The Moral of Kant’s Critique of Judgment” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Michael Rohlf (Brown University) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Brian Laetz (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| Speaker: | Alex Rueger (University of Alberta) | |||||
| “Beautiful Surfaces: Kant on Beauty and Perfection” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds and Cornell University) | |||||
| VII-I. | Colloquium: Kantian Ethics | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Chris Brown (University of Arizona) | |||||
| Speaker: | Zachary Hoskins (Washington University in St. Louis) | |||||
| “Kantian Respect: Why Should Humanity, Not the Good Will, Be Treated as an End in Itself?” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jennifer K. Uleman (State University of New York–Purchase) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Stephen Palmquist (Stanford University and Hong Kong Baptist University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jason Wyckoff (University of Colorado–Boulder) | |||||
| “Solving the Problem of Timing Maxims in Kantian Ethics” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Robert Johnson (University of Missouri–Columbia) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Falguni A. Sheth (Hampshire College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Helga Varden (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign) | |||||
| “International Political Obligations” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | John Harris (University of Colorado–Boulder) | |||||
| VII-J. | Colloquium: Metaphysics and Language | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Bernard W. Kobes (Arizona State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Berit Brogaard (University of Missouri–Saint Louis) | |||||
| “Sea Battle Semantics” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Peter Ludlow (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Angie Harris (University of Utah) | |||||
| Speaker: | John Justice (Randolph Community College) | |||||
| “Singular-Term Semantics Simplified” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | David Shier (Washington State University) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Joe R. Salerno (St. Louis University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Julien Murzi (University of Sheffield) | |||||
| “All Truths Are Known? The Church-Fitch Paradox and the Problem of Transworld Knowability” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Roy Cook (Villanova University) | |||||
| VII-K. | Colloquium: Political Philosophy | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| 9:00-10:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Martin Benjamin (Michigan State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Benjamin A. Sachs (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | |||||
| “Teleology and Deontology in Distributive Justice” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Nalin Ranasinghe (Assumption College) | |||||
| 10:00-11:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | David Lefkowitz (University of North Carolina–Greensboro) | |||||
| Speaker: | Brian Prince (Rice University) | |||||
| “Possible Bridges and Hypothetical Consent” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Yolonda Wilson (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Sandra Woien (Arizona State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Louis-Philippe Hodgson (York University) | |||||
| “Later Selves and Legal Paternalism” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Fritz McDonald (State University of New York–New Paltz) | |||||
| VII-L. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics | |||||
| 9:00-Noon, Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Latin American Philosophical Themes in the Humanities | |||||
| Chair: | Susana Nuccetelli (University of Texas–Pan America) | |||||
| Speakers: | Monica Diaz (University of Texas–Pan American) | |||||
| “Indigenous Presence on Latin American Colonial Thought” | ||||||
| Jesús Aguilar (Rochester Institute of Technology) | ||||||
| “On the Possibility of a Distinctive Latin-American Thought” | ||||||
| Greg Gilson (University of Texas–Pan American) | ||||||
| “Rationality, Practical Reason, and the Mayans” | ||||||
| Arleen Salles (St. John’s University) | ||||||
| “Rodo’s Ariel and the Search for the Good (Latin American) Life” | ||||||
| William Carter (South Texas College) | ||||||
| “Scotus, Ockham, and the Conquest of the Americas” | ||||||
| Suzanne Lalonde (University of Texas–Brownsville) | ||||||
| “Simone de Beauvoir in Latin American Feminism” | ||||||
| Luis Rodriguez-Abad (University of Texas–Brownsville) | ||||||
| “The Contribution of ‘Latin’ American Thought to Western Philosophy” | ||||||
| Friday Afternoon, April 6 | ||||||
| Session VIII — 1:00-4:00 p.m. | ||||||
| VIII-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Stephen Darwall, The Second Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Alex Rajczi (Claremont McKenna College) | |||||
| Critics: | Christine M. Korsgaard (Harvard University) | |||||
| R. Jay Wallace (University of California–Berkeley) | ||||||
| Gary Watson (University of California–Riverside) | ||||||
| Author: | Stephen Darwall (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor) | |||||
| VIII-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Wayne Martin, Theories of Judgment: Psychology, Logic, Phenomenology | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Joseph Schear (California Polytechnic State University) | |||||
| Critics: | Lanier Anderson (Stanford University) | |||||
| Hans Sluga (University of California–Berkeley) | ||||||
| Guenter Zoeller (University of Munich) | ||||||
| Author: | Wayne Martin (University of Essex) | |||||
| VIII-C. | Invited Symposium: Contemplation and Virtue in Greek Thought | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Corinne Gartner (Princeton University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Eric Brown (Washington University in St. Louis) | |||||
| “Contemplative Withdrawal in the Hellenistic Age” | ||||||
| Gabriel Richardson Lear (University of Chicago) | ||||||
| “Aristotle on Theory and Practice” | ||||||
| Christian Wildberg (Princeton University) | ||||||
| “Fatal Distraction: Plotinus on Evil and Vice” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Daniel Devereux (University of Virginia) | |||||
| VIII-D. | Invited Symposium: Epistemic Value | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Kelly Becker (University of New Mexico) | |||||
| Speakers: | Neal Judisch (University of Oklahoma) | |||||
| Wayne Riggs (University of Oklahoma) | ||||||
| “Knowledge and the Problem of ‘Easy Credit’” | ||||||
| Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling) | ||||||
| “Scepticism, Luck, and Epistemic Value” | ||||||
| Jonathan Kvanvig (Baylor University) | ||||||
| “The Nature and Value of Understanding” | ||||||
| Commentator: | John Greco (St. Louis University) | |||||
| VIII-E. | Invited Symposium: Ethics and Cultural Appropriation | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | James O. Young (University of Victoria) | |||||
| Speakers: | Elizabeth Coleman (La Trobe University) | |||||
| Rosemary Coombe (York University) | ||||||
| “Broken Records: Music and Cultural Rights” | ||||||
| Anne Wescott Eaton (University of Illinois–Chicago) | ||||||
| Ivan Gaskell (Harvard University) | ||||||
| “Do Subaltern Artifacts Belong in Art Museums?” | ||||||
| Laura Arbour (University of British Columbia) | ||||||
| Daryl Pullman (Memorial University of Newfoundland) | ||||||
| “Cultural Appropriation of Human Genetic Materials” | ||||||
| VIII-F. | Invited Symposium: The Nature of Film | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Angela Curran (Carleton College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Thomas Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College) | |||||
| “Film as Philosophy: The Case of The Flicker” | ||||||
| Katherine Thomson-Jones (Oberlin College) | ||||||
| “The Literary Origins of the Cinematic Narrator” | ||||||
| Amy Coplan (California State University–Fullerton) | ||||||
| “The Low-Road to Affect: How Film Elicits Non-Cognitive Affective Responses” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Carl Plantinga (Calvin College) | |||||
| VIII-G. | Colloquium: Agency | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 1:00-2:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Elizabeth Hamilton (University of California–Riverside) | |||||
| Speaker: | Facundo Martin Alonso (Stanford University) | |||||
| “Reliance in Shared Intention” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Meghan Griffith (Davidson College) | |||||
| 2:00-3:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Susanne Sreedhar (Tulane University of New Orleans) | |||||
| Speaker: | Sara Rachel Chant (University of Missouri–Columbia) | |||||
| “The Simple View of Collective Agency” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Abraham Roth (Ohio State University) | |||||
| 3:00-4:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Jeffrey Green (University of Notre Dame) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jesús Aguilar (Rochester Institute of Technology) | |||||
| “Agential Systems and Causal Deviance” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Mary Clayton Coleman (Bard College) | |||||
| VIII-H. | Colloquium: Metaphysics | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 1:00-2:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Iris Einheuser (Duke University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Dana Lynne Goswick (University of California–Davis) | |||||
| “Ontological Conventionalism: The New Essentialism” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | David Barnett (University of Colorado–Boulder) | |||||
| 2:00-3:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Helen Longino (Stanford University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Alyssa Ney (University of Rochester) | |||||
| “Physical Causation and Difference-making” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Douglas N. Kutach (Brown University) | |||||
| 3:00-4:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Dale Dorsey (University of California–San Diego) | |||||
| Speaker: | Joshua Spencer (University of Rochester) | |||||
| “A Tale of Two Simples” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Ted Sider (Rutgers University) | |||||
| VIII-I. | Colloquium: Names and Indexicals | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 1:00-2:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Seth Holtzman (Catawba College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Michael P. Wolf (California State University–Fresno) | |||||
| “Why Are There Indexicals?” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Anastasia Panagopoulos (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) | |||||
| 2:00-3:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Stephanie Patridge (Otterbein College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Stavroula Glezakos (Wake Forest University) | |||||
| “Names and Public Language” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Dylan Dodd (Syracuse University) | |||||
| 3:00-4:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Herminia Reyes (San Diego State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Heidi Tiedke (University of Maryland–College Park) | |||||
| “A Semantics for Names with Full Benefits” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Matthew Mosdell (University of Utah) | |||||
| VIII-J. | Colloquium: Political Philosophy | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 1:00-2:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Bertha Alvarez Manninen (Arizona State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jason Hanna (University of Colorado–Boulder) | |||||
| “Democracy and Children’s Suffrage” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Agnes Curry (St. Joseph College) | |||||
| 2:00-3:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Judith Wagner DeCew (Clark University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Anne Baril (University of Arizona) | |||||
| “Employment Freedom” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Kory Schaff (Occidental College) | |||||
| 3:00-4:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Stephan Johnson (City College of San Francisco) | |||||
| Speaker: | Eric Roark (University of Missouri–Columbia) | |||||
| “Is Michael Otsuka’s Conception of Robust Self-Ownership Too Robust for a Left-Libertarian?” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | H. Benjamin Shaeffer (Humboldt State University) | |||||
| VIII-K. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Should Children Be Tested for Adult-onset Genetic Disorders? | |||||
| Chair: | Gary Seay (University of Texas–Pan American) | |||||
| Speakers: | Karen Kovach (Mercer University) | |||||
| “If I Knew Now What I’ll Know Then… Genetic Testing and the Crystal Ball Problem” | ||||||
| R. G. Frey (Bowling Green State University) | ||||||
| “Luck of the Draw from Child to Adult: Is There Utility in Choosing Not to Know?” | ||||||
| Bonnie Steinbock (State University of New York–Albany) | ||||||
| “Prenatal Testing for Adult-onset Genetic Disorders: Cui Bono?” | ||||||
| Loretta Kopelman (East Carolina University) | ||||||
| “Using the Best Interest Standard to Decide Whether to Test Children for Adult-onset Genetic Disorders” | ||||||
| VIII-L. | Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies | |||||
| 1:00-4:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Diasporic Asians, Politics, Citizenship, and Race | |||||
| Chair: | Falguni A. Sheth (Hampshire College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Monique Roelofs (Hampshire College) | |||||
| “Aesthetics, Racial Address, and the Politics of Cultural Productions” | ||||||
| Falguni A. Sheth (Hampshire College) | ||||||
| “Liberalism and the Rule of Law: Outcasting South Asians in North America at the Turn of the 20th Century” | ||||||
| Mickaella Perina (University of Massachusetts–Boston) | ||||||
| “Reshaping Politics and Community: Race and the Construction of Diasporic Citizenship and Identities” | ||||||
| Darrell Moore (DePaul University) | ||||||
| “States of Exception, Japanese Internment, and Post September 11th Detainment” | ||||||
| Friday Early Evening, April 6 | ||||||
| Session IX — 4:00-6:00 p.m. | ||||||
| IX-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Paul Franks, All or Nothing | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Peter Thielke (Pomona College) | |||||
| Critics: | Daniel Breazeale (University of Kentucky) | |||||
| Paul Redding (University of Sydney) | ||||||
| Author: | Paul Franks (University of Toronto) | |||||
| IX-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Lisa Tessman, Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Lijun Yuan (Texas State University–San Marcos) | |||||
| Critics: | Cheshire Calhoun (Colby College) | |||||
| Marilyn Friedman (Washington University in St. Louis) | ||||||
| Christine Koggel (Bryn Mawr College) | ||||||
| Author: | Lisa Tessman (State University of New York–Binghamton) | |||||
| IX-C. | Author-Meets-Critics: Tim O’Keefe, Epicurus on Freedom | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Anthony A. Long (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Critics: | Todd Ganson (Oberlin College) | |||||
| Monte Johnson (University of California–San Diego) | ||||||
| Author: | Tim O’Keefe (Georgia State University) | |||||
| IX-D. | Author-Meets-Critics: Robert Audi, Practical Reasoning and Ethical Decision | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Peter A. Graham (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) | |||||
| Critics: | Stephen Finlay (University of Southern California) | |||||
| David Owens (University of Sheffield) | ||||||
| Bruce Russell (Wayne State University) | ||||||
| Author: | Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame) | |||||
| IX-E. | Invited Paper: Probability | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Byeong-Uk Yi (University of Toronto) | |||||
| Speaker: | John Pollock (University of Arizona) | |||||
| “Probable Probabilities” | ||||||
| Commentators: | James Hawthorne (University of Oklahoma) | |||||
| Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University) | ||||||
| IX-F. | Colloquium: Aristotle | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 4:00-5:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Rod Jenks (University of Portland) | |||||
| Speaker: | David Forman (University of Nevada–Las Vegas) | |||||
| “Aristotle and McDowell on ‘Second Nature’” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | D.S. Neil Van Leeuwen (Stanford University) | |||||
| 5:00-6:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Nathanael Stein (Oxford University) | |||||
| “Aristotle and the Homonymy of Cause” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Blake Hestir (Texas Christian University) | |||||
| IX-G. | Colloquium: Justice and Public Deliberation | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 4:00-5:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Alexei Angelides (Stanford University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Scott Aikin (Vanderbilt University) | |||||
| “Democratic Deliberation, Public Reason, and Environmental Politics” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Robert Guay (State University of New York–Binghamton) | |||||
| 5:00-6:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Tony Smith (University of Colorado–Boulder) | |||||
| Speaker: | Stephen L Nathanson (Northeastern University) | |||||
| “John Stuart Mill on Economic Justice and the Alleviation of Poverty” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Brian Hutchinson (Metropolitan State College of Denver) | |||||
| IX-H. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Art | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 4:00-5:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | David Kaspar (University of Nevada–Reno) | |||||
| Speaker: | Nicholas Diehl (University of California–Davis) | |||||
| “Think Like a Character: Analyzing Arguments in Fictional Contexts” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Douglas Cannon (University of Puget Sound) | |||||
| 5:00-6:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Renee Conroy (University of Washington) | |||||
| Speakers: | Ben Caplan (Ohio State University) | |||||
| Carl Matheson (University of Manitoba) | ||||||
| “Modality, Individuation, and the Ontology of Art” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Julie C. Van Camp (California State University–Long Beach) | |||||
| IX-I. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 4:00-5:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Jeff Johnson (College of St. Catherine) | |||||
| Speaker: | L. Bryce G. Huebner (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) | |||||
| “If You Like Pina Coladas…” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Rocco J. Gennaro (Indiana State University) | |||||
| 5:00-6:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Brian Epstein (Virginia Tech) | |||||
| Speaker: | Malte Willer (University of Texas–Austin) | |||||
| “In Defense of the Phenomenal Concept Strategy” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | York Gunther (California State University–Northridge) | |||||
| IX-J. | Colloquium: Wellbeing | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| 4:00-5:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Carol C. Gould (Temple University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Martin Peterson (University of Cambridge) | |||||
| “Are Persons Mere Containers for Well Being?” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Holly M. Smith (Rutgers University) | |||||
| 5:00-6:00 | ||||||
| Chair: | Ranjoo Herr (Bentley College) | |||||
| Speaker: | H. E. Baber (University of San Diego) | |||||
| “The Zero-One Rule” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentator: | Bruce Chapman (University of Toronto) | |||||
| IX-K. | Symposium: Evolution and Moral Realism | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Doran Smolkin (Kwantlen University College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Kevin Brosnan (University of California–Santa Cruz) | |||||
| “The Dissolution of a Dilemma: Why Darwinian Considerations Don’t Confront Moral Realism with Hard Choices” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentators: | Mark van Roojen (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) | |||||
| Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford University) | ||||||
| IX-L. | Symposium: Fallibilism and Purism in Epistemology | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Allen Carlson (University of Alberta) | |||||
| Speakers: | Jeremy Fantl ( University of Calgary) | |||||
| Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri–Columbia) | ||||||
| “A Case for Pragmatic Encroachment (or for Semi-skepticism)” [abstract | preprint] | ||||||
| Commentators: | Adam Leite (Indiana University–Bloomington) | |||||
| Adam Morton (University of Alberta) | ||||||
| IX-M. | Symposium: The Contingency of Existence | |||||
| 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Michael Nelson (University of California–River | |||||