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2008 Pacific Division Meeting Program
Draft of January 3, 2008. This is a draft. The official program will be published in the APA Proceedings in January.
| Group Program | ||||||
| Wednesday Evening, March 19 | ||||||
| Group Session GI — 6:30-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GI-A. | American Association of Philosophy Teachers | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Non-traditional Assessment in Philosophy Courses | |||||
| Chair: | Betsy Decyk (California State University–Long Beach) | |||||
| Speakers: | Stephen Finn (Seattle University) | |||||
| “Embedding a University Writing Assessment in a Philosophy Course” | ||||||
| Mason Cole (Texas A&M University) | ||||||
| Debby Hutchins (Gonzaga University) | ||||||
| “Learning by Contructing: Logic Art as Pedagogy” | ||||||
| Paul Green (Mount St. Mary’s College) | ||||||
| “The GRASPS Task: A Temple for Performance Tasks” | ||||||
| GI-B. | Concerned Philosophers for Peace | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Remembrance and Reconciliation | |||||
| Speakers: | Jean-Marie Makang (Frostburg State University) | |||||
| “Justice, Community, and Hope in Martin Luther King’s Nonviolent Struggle” | ||||||
| Ron Hirschbein (Walden University) | ||||||
| “Those Who Can’t Forget the Past Are Condemned to Repeat It” | ||||||
| Lee Walker (California State University–Chico) | ||||||
| “To Forget Is to Make Peace” | ||||||
| GI-C. | Josiah Royce Society | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Josiah Royce and the Origins of Modern Logic | |||||
| Chair: | Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley (California State University–Bakersfield) | |||||
| Speakers: | Scott L. Pratt (University of Oregon) | |||||
| “On the Politics of Disjunction” | ||||||
| J. Brent Crouch (San Diego City College) | ||||||
| “Royce and the Origins of Logicism” | ||||||
| Respondent: | Robert Burch (Texas A&M University) | |||||
| GI-D. | Society for Analytical Feminism | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | The End of Feminist Aesthetics | |||||
| Panelists: | Karen Hanson (Indiana University–Bloomington) | |||||
| Jennifer Ingle (Frostburg State University) | ||||||
| Joanne Waugh (University of South Florida) | ||||||
| GI-E. | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Ann Pang-White (University of Scranton) | |||||
| Speakers: | Ann Pang-White (University of Scranton) | |||||
| “How to Be Like the Woodcarver Ching: A Daoist Solution a Kantian Environmental Dilemma” | ||||||
| Myeong-seok Kim (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor) | ||||||
| “Is There No Distinction Between Reason and Emotion in Mengzi?” | ||||||
| Lara Mitias (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | ||||||
| “Lao-tzu’s Logic: Marking the Patterns of Dao” | ||||||
| GI-F. | Society for the Study of Process Philosophy | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Process Thought and the New Atheism (Harris, Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens) | |||||
| Panelists: | John Quiring (Victor Valley College) | |||||
| Randy Ramal (Claremont Graduate University) | ||||||
| Adam Scarfe (California State University–Bakersfield) | ||||||
| Donald Viney (Pittsburg State University) | ||||||
| Group Session GII — 6:30-9:30 p.m. | ||||||
| GII-A. | American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Models of Philosophical Practice | |||||
| Chair: | Jim Tuedio (California State University–Stanislaus) | |||||
| Speakers: | Greg Tropea (California State University–Chico) | |||||
| “Justifiable Faith” | ||||||
| Finn Thorbjørn Hansen (University of Aarhus) | ||||||
| “Philosophical Counselling as a Spiritual Exercise in Being Present: A Kierkegaardian View on the Difference Between the Therapeutic Relation and the Wonder Relation” | ||||||
| Ora Gruengard (Shenkar College of Engineering and Design) | ||||||
| “The Contribution of the Philosopher’s Ignorance to Philosophical Counselling” | ||||||
| George T. Hole (Buffalo State College) | ||||||
| “The Logic of Logical Disputation in REBT” | ||||||
| GII-B. | Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Language and Logic in Chinese Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Weimin Sun (California State University–Northridge) | |||||
| Speaker: | Manyul Im (Fairfield University) | |||||
| “Term-Guidance, Disputation (bian), and Normative Categorization in Early China” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Xiaomei Yang (Southern Connecticut State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jung-Yeup Kim (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | |||||
| “An Investigation of Difference and Continuity in Zhang Zai’s Understanding of Qi” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Weimin Sun (California State University–Northridge) | |||||
| “Deductive Logic, Theoretical Sciences, and Chinese Sciences” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Zijiang Ding (California State Polytechnic University–Pomona) | |||||
| GII-C. | North American Wittgenstein Society | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Jeff Johnson (College of St. Catherine) | |||||
| Speaker: | Janette Dinishak (University of Toronto) | |||||
| “The Place of the Concept ‘Noticing and Aspect’” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Joshua Kortbein (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) | |||||
| Speaker: | Kevin Cahill (Universitetet i Bergen) | |||||
| “Wittgenstein and the Fate of Metaphysics” | ||||||
| Commentator: | John Woods (Princeton University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Newton Garver (University at Buffalo) | |||||
| “Grammar and Silence” | ||||||
| Commentator: | John W. Powell (Humboldt State University) | |||||
| GII-D. | Society for German Idealism, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | J. M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College) | |||||
| Speaker: | G. Anthony Bruno (University of Toronto) | |||||
| “Post-Kantian Responses to the Transcendental Story” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Aaron Bunch (Washington State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Timothy Brownlee (Xavier University) | |||||
| “Conscience and Religion in Hegel’s Mature Political Thought” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves (Morgan State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Waheed Hussain (University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| “Hegel’s Theory of Political Representation” | ||||||
| Commentator: | David Duquette (St. Norbert College) | |||||
| GII-E. | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Robert Talisse, A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy | |||||
| Chair: | Brendan Hogan (Pacific Lutheran University) | |||||
| Author: | Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University) | |||||
| Critics: | Rosa Mayorga (Virginia Tech) | |||||
| Melvin Rogers (University of Virginia) | ||||||
| Mark Van Hollebeke (Seattle University) | ||||||
| GII-F. | Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Contextualism and Intellectual History | |||||
| Chair: | Kirstie McClure (University of California–Los Angeles) | |||||
| Speakers: | Robert Lamb (University of Exeter) | |||||
| “Recent Developments in the Thought of Quentin Skinner” | ||||||
| Al Martinich (University of Texas–Austin) | ||||||
| “Skinner on Meaning and Understanding” | ||||||
| Mark Bevir (University of California–Berkeley) | ||||||
| “The Contextualist Approach: Past, Present, and Future” | ||||||
| Discussant: | Kinch Hoekstra (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| GII-G. | Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Induction and Hypothesis: East and West | |||||
| Chair: | Chandana Chakrabarti (Bethany College West Virginia) | |||||
| Speakers: | Gordon Haist (University of South Carolina–Beaufort) | |||||
| “Induction and the Presumption of Ignorance” | ||||||
| Kisor K. Chakrabarti (Bethany College West Virginia) | ||||||
| “Revisiting the Grue” | ||||||
| Craig Matarrese (Minnesota State University–Mankato) | ||||||
| “Explanation and Hypothesis in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature” | ||||||
| Horace B. Fairlamb (University of Houston) | ||||||
| “Evolutionary Hypotheses: An East-West Convergence” | ||||||
| Chandana Chakrabarti (Bethany College West Virginia) | ||||||
| “Abduction, Hypothesis, and Arthapatti” | ||||||
| Thursday Evening, March 20 | ||||||
| Group Session GIII — 6:30-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GIII-A. | American Society for Aesthetics | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Christopher Williams (University of Nevada–Reno) | |||||
| Speakers: | James Shelley (Auburn University) | |||||
| “Hume and the Value of the Beautiful” | ||||||
| Emily Brady (University of Edinburgh) | ||||||
| “Ugliness and Nature” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Joshua Johnston (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| GIII-B. | International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | The Interface Between Environmental Ethics and Bioethics | |||||
| Chair: | Geoffrey Frasz (College of Southern Nevada) | |||||
| Speakers: | Dale Jamieson (New York University) | |||||
| “Broadening Bioethics” | ||||||
| William Ruddick (New York University) | ||||||
| “Can Anything Be Red and Green All Over? Can Medical and Environmental Ethicists Find Happiness Together?” | ||||||
| Ramona Ilea (Pacific University) | ||||||
| “The Relationship Between Poverty, Health, and Envirnomental Problems and the Spread of Factory Farms to Developing Countries” | ||||||
| GIII-C. | Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy and the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in the Profession | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | James Stramel (Santa Monica College) | |||||
| Speakers: | James A. Martell (Colorado State University) | |||||
| “Kant, Dignity, and Homosexuality” | ||||||
| Carol Quinn (Metropolitan State College of Denver) | ||||||
| “Mill, Dignity, and Homosexuality” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Sean McAleer (University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire) | |||||
| GIII-D. | Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Language and Constitution | |||||
| Chair: | David Woodruff Smith (University of California–Irvine) | |||||
| Speakers: | Dagfinn Føllesdal (Stanford University) | |||||
| Martin Schwab (University of California–Irvine) | ||||||
| GIII-E. | Society for Student Philosophers, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Topics in Mind and Language | |||||
| Chair: | Beata Bujalska (Tufts University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Ryan Pflum (Western Michigan University) | |||||
| “Butler’s Account of Self-Deception and Some Problems it Poses for Motivationism” | ||||||
| Erik Sorem (University College, Dublin) | ||||||
| “Conceiving the Irreducibility of Consciousness from Longergan’s Metaphysical Perspective” | ||||||
| Beata Bujalska (Tufts University) | ||||||
| “Mindreading and Autism: An Argument for the Scientific Theory Theory” | ||||||
| Michael Martin (Ohio State University) | ||||||
| “The Method to Wittgenstein’s Madness in the Tractatus” | ||||||
| Group Session GIV — 6:30-9:30 p.m. | ||||||
| GIV-A. | American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Philosophical Applications (Case Studies) | |||||
| Chair: | Jim Tuedio (California State University–Stanislaus) | |||||
| Speakers: | Regina L. Uliana (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| “Philosophical Midwifery as a Way to Understand Fantasies in Adolescent Sex Offenders” | ||||||
| Megan Laverty (Columbia University) | ||||||
| “Reciprocal Recognition as a Basis for Promoting Tolerance in Children” | ||||||
| Drew Leder (Loyola College in Maryland) | ||||||
| Maria DaVenza Tillmanns (University of California–San Diego) | ||||||
| “Socratic Dialogue with Inmates” | ||||||
| J. Michael Russell (California State University–Fullerton) | ||||||
| “Techniques for Improving the Philosophical Yield of Philosophical Practice” | ||||||
| GIV-B. | International Hobbes Association, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Moderator: | Martin A. Bertman (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| Speaker: | Bernard Gert (Dartmouth College) | |||||
| “Hobbes’ Moral Theory” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Don Habibi (University of North Carolina–Wilmington) | |||||
| Speakers: | Timo Airaksinen (University of Helsinki) | |||||
| “Kant on Hobbes’s Politics” | ||||||
| Daniel Eggers (RWTH Aachen University) | ||||||
| “Liberty and Contractual Obligation in Hobbes” | ||||||
| Matt James (Washington University in St. Louis) | ||||||
| “The Obligations of a Leviathan” | ||||||
| GIV-C. | International Society for Chinese Philosophy and Association of Chinese Philosophers in America | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | New Work by Philosophers from Hong Kong on Confucian Ethics | |||||
| Chair: | JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| Speaker: | Yiu-Ming Fung (University of Hong Kong) | |||||
| “Disposition or Imposition? Some Remarks on Fingarette’s Interpretation of the Analects” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Chan Lee (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | |||||
| Speaker: | Siu-Fu Tang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) | |||||
| “The Heart-Mind’s Apporval (ke) and Second-Order Desires” | ||||||
| Commentator: | JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| Speaker: | Wai-ying Wong (Lingnan University) | |||||
| “The Unity of Heaven and Man: A New Interpretation” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Stephen Angle (Wesleyan University) | |||||
| GIV-D. | North American Spinoza Society | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Debra Nails (Michigan State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Michael Strawser (University of Central Florida) | |||||
| “On the Specter of Speciesism in Spinoza” | ||||||
| Jacob Adler (University of Arkansas–Medical Sciences) | ||||||
| “Spinoza and Medical Epistemology” | ||||||
| Rachel Heller (Independent Scholar) | ||||||
| “Spinoza’s Ethics and a Possible View of Homosexuality and Outing” | ||||||
| GIV-E. | Philosophy of Religion Group | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Matthew Roberts (Whitworth College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Kevin Wong (Biola University) | |||||
| “Christian Materialism, Dualism, and the Problem of the Incarnation” | ||||||
| W. B. Wethington (Biola University) | ||||||
| “The Privative View and Evil as the Willful Misplacement of One’s Ontological Predicates” | ||||||
| Tim Mosteller (California Baptist University) | ||||||
| “The Transcendentals and Analytic Philosophy of Religion” | ||||||
| GIV-F. | Philosophy of Time Society | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | James Harrington (Loyola University of Chicago) | |||||
| Speakers: | Noa Latham (University of Calgary) | |||||
| “Fundamental Laws, Initial Conditions, and the Direction of Time” | ||||||
| Kenneth Faber (Vanderbilt University) | ||||||
| “The Basis for the Directionality of Time” | ||||||
| Chair: | Noa Latham (University of Calgary) | |||||
| Speaker: | James Harrington (Loyola University of Chicago) | |||||
| “Presentism and Eternalism in Historical Perspective” | ||||||
| GIV-G. | Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Aristotelian Puzzles | |||||
| Chair: | Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester) | |||||
| Speakers: | Alan Bäck (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| “Aristotle’s Abstract Ontology” | ||||||
| Martha Woodruff (Middlebury College) | ||||||
| “Katharsis Revisited: Aristotle on the Significance of the Tragic Emotions” | ||||||
| John F. Bowin (University of California–Santa Cruz) | ||||||
| “Plato and Aristotle on the Instant of Change — A Dilemma” | ||||||
| GIV-H. | Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Terrorism, Torture, and the Uses of Violence 1 | |||||
| Chair: | J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College) | |||||
| Speakers: | J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College) | |||||
| “It’s About Time: Defusing the Ticking Bomb” | ||||||
| Aaron Lercher (Louisiana State University) | ||||||
| “Torture and Moral Knowledge” | ||||||
| Dillon Emerick (Palomar College) | ||||||
| “Torture and Talk: The Communicative Ethics of Interrogation” | ||||||
| GIV-I. | Society for Skeptical Studies | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Rachel Robison (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) | |||||
| Speakers: | James R. Beebe (University at Buffalo) | |||||
| “Skeptical Challenges” | ||||||
| Joe Ulatowski (Weber State University) | ||||||
| “Skeptical Vertigo” | ||||||
| Otávio Bueno (University of Miami) | ||||||
| “Skepticism, Externalism, and Dreams” | ||||||
| Richard Greene (Weber State University) | ||||||
| “Variantism and Skepticism” | ||||||
| Group Session GV — 8:30-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GV-A. | North American Kant Society, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:30-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Peter Thielke (Pomona College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Melissa Zinkin (State University of New York–Binghamton) | |||||
| “Kant on Secrets and Lies” | ||||||
| Corey Dyck (University of Western Ontario) | ||||||
| “The Original Sources of Cognition: The A Edition Subjective Deduction” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Pierre Keller (University of California–Riverside) | |||||
| Lori Watson (University of San Diego) | ||||||
| GV-B. | Society for German Idealism, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:30-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Aaron Bunch (Washington State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Lara Ostaric (St. Michael’s College) | |||||
| “Schelling’s Account of Creative Production in His Commentary on the Timaeus (1794)” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Gerard Kuperus (University of San Francisco) | |||||
| Speaker: | Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins University) | |||||
| “Hegel and Agent-Relative Reasons” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jeffery Kinlaw (McMurry University) | |||||
| GV-C. | Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:30-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Historical Interpretation | |||||
| Chair: | Mark Bevir (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Speakers: | Karsten Stueber (College of the Holy Cross) | |||||
| “Empathy and the Problem of Intentional Realism” | ||||||
| Toby Reiner (University of California–Berkeley) | ||||||
| “Sincerity and Performativity in Historical Interpretation” | ||||||
| Discussant: | Robert Lamb (University of Exeter) | |||||
| Friday Evening, March 21 | ||||||
| Group Session GVI — 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GVI-A. | Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Critical Thinking: Testing and Evaluation | |||||
| Chair: | Wanda Teays (Mount St. Mary’s College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Robert H. Ennis (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign) | |||||
| “A Summary and Discussion of ‘Nationwide Testing of Critical Thinking for Higher Education: Vigilance Required’” | ||||||
| Michael Scriven (Claremont Graduate University) | ||||||
| “The Logic of Evaluation” | ||||||
| GVI-B. | Radical Philosophy Association, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Marx on the Labor of Fire | |||||
| Chair: | Peter Amato (Drexel University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Bruno Gulli (Long Island University) | |||||
| “Marx and the Labor of Fire” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Tom Jeannot (Gonzaga University) | |||||
| Anne Pomeroy (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey) | ||||||
| GVI-C. | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | John Spackman (Middlebury College) | |||||
| Speakers: | John Spackman (Middlebury College) | |||||
| “Between Nihilism and Anti-Essentialism: A Conceptualist Interpretation of Nagarjuna” | ||||||
| Amjol Shrestha (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | ||||||
| “Comparison Versus Sense Perception: On Knowing Instantiated Universals” | ||||||
| Ethan Mills (University of New Mexico) | ||||||
| “Is Epistemology Possible? Jayarāśi and the Buddhist Logicians on the Very Idea of Pramāna” | ||||||
| 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: | Confucianism, Women, and Care Ethics | |||||
| Chair: | JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| Speaker: | Xinyan Jiang (University of Redlands) | |||||
| “Confucianism, Women, and Context” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Xianduan Shi (University of Utah) | |||||
| Speaker: | Lijun Yuan (Texas State University–San Marcos) | |||||
| “Confucian and Feminist Notions of Relational Self and Reciprocity: A Comparative Study” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Ann Pang-White (University of Scranton) | |||||
| Speaker: | Ann Pang-White (University of Scranton) | |||||
| “Confucian Care Ethics and Some Practical Applications” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Deborah Sommer (Gettysburg College) | |||||
| GVII-B. | Hume Society | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Saul Traiger (Occidental College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Graciela De Pierris (Stanford University) | |||||
| “Hume, Locke, and Newton” | ||||||
| Donald Ainslie (University of Toronto) | ||||||
| “Reflection in Locke and Hume” | ||||||
| GVII-C. | Karl Jaspers Society, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychopathology | |||||
| Chair: | Craig Nichols (University of Rhode Island) | |||||
| Speakers: | Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University) | |||||
| Malek Khazaee (California State University–Long Beach) | ||||||
| “Jaspers’s Psychobiography of Nietzsche’s Madness” | ||||||
| Elena Bezzubova (University of California–Irvine) | ||||||
| “Psychoanalytic Comments on Karl Jaspers’s Philosophical Autobiography” | ||||||
| Brigitte Essl (Private Practice) | ||||||
| “The Healing Dimension of Grenzerfahrung in Trauma Recovery” | ||||||
| GVII-D. | North American Kant Society, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Jane Kneller, Kant and the Power of Imagination | |||||
| Chair: | Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University) | |||||
| Author: | Jane Kneller (Colorado State University) | |||||
| Critics: | Michelle Grier (University of San Diego) | |||||
| Rudolf Makkreel (Emory University) | ||||||
| GVII-E. | North American Nietzsche Society | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Living with Robert Solomon | |||||
| Chair: | R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University) | |||||
| Panelists: | Jessica N. Berry (Georgia State University) | |||||
| Daniel Conway (Texas A&M University) | ||||||
| Paul S. Loeb (University of Puget Sound) | ||||||
| Bernd Magnus (University of California–Riverside) | ||||||
| Shari Starrett (California State University–Fullerton) | ||||||
| Tracy Strong (University of California–San Diego) | ||||||
| Respondent: | Kathleen Higgins (University of Texas–Austin) | |||||
| GVII-F. | North American Society for Social Philosophy and the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Tommie Shelby, We Who Are Dark | |||||
| Chair: | Carol C. Gould (Temple University) | |||||
| Author: | Tommie Shelby (Harvard University) | |||||
| Critics: | Linda Martín Alcoff (Syracuse University) | |||||
| Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. (Vanderbilt University) | ||||||
| Ronald Robles Sundstrom (University of San Francisco) | ||||||
| GVII-G. | Society for Empirical Ethics | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chairs: | William A. Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College) | |||||
| Jennifer Wright (University of Wyoming) | ||||||
| Speakers: | Jennifer Wright (University of Wyoming) | |||||
| “A Model of Moral Development” | ||||||
| Kevin Brosnan (University of Cambridge) | ||||||
| “Evaluating the Reliability of Moral Intuitions” | ||||||
| Marion Hourdequin (Colorado College) | ||||||
| “Moral Learning and Moral Motivation” | ||||||
| Joel Martinez (Lewis and Clark College) | ||||||
| “Virtue and Moral Learning” | ||||||
| GVII-H. | Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Terrorism, Torture, and the Uses of Violence 2 | |||||
| Chair: | J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Robert L. Muhlnickel (University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire) | |||||
| “Just War Theory and Selective Conscientious Objection” | ||||||
| Anita Ho (University of British Columbia) | ||||||
| “Military Violence as a Response to Calamities: The Case of Humanitarian Intervention” | ||||||
| Mohammed Abed (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | ||||||
| “Suicide Bombing and Collective Terrorism” | ||||||
| GVII-I. | Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Jason Raibley (California State University–Long Beach) | |||||
| Speakers: | Paul C. Santilli (Siena College) | |||||
| “Art and Death in Frankenheimer’s The Train” | ||||||
| Christopher Grau (Clemson University) | ||||||
| “Identity, Attachment, and Solaris” | ||||||
| Sherri Irvin (University of Oklahoma) | ||||||
| “Interpretation and Ignorance” | ||||||
| Richard N. Fox (California State University–Long Beach) | ||||||
| “Krausz, Multiplism, and Identity: A Practice-Centered View of Interpretation” | ||||||
| Elisa Segnini (University of Toronto) | ||||||
| “Pain and the Problem of Representation: An Analysis of Kahlo’s Works” | ||||||
| GVII-J. | Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts | |||||
| 8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Joseph Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Tonya Warren (San Diego State University) | |||||
| “From Mimicry to Mastery: Applying Daoist Principles in the Martial Arts” | ||||||
| Paul A. Swift (Bryant University) | ||||||
| “Schopenhauer and Teaching from the Inside Out: Is Mushin Knowledge?” | ||||||
| Alan Bäck (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania) | ||||||
| “The Moral Status of Modern Martial Arts” | ||||||
| Sonia Turanski (Eastern Maine Community College) | ||||||
| “What Ghandi Could Learn from Aikido: Dynamic Love and the Future of Non-Violent Conflict Resolution” | ||||||
| Saturday Evening, March 22 | ||||||
| Group Session GVIII — 6:30-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GVIII-A. | Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Critical Thinking and Contemporary Critiques of Religion | |||||
| Chair: | Darin Dockstader (College of Southern Nevada) | |||||
| Speakers: | Jerry Cederblom (University of Nebraska–Omaha) | |||||
| “Critical Reasoning, Belief, and Religious Faith” | ||||||
| Donald L. Hatcher (Baker University) | ||||||
| “Critical Thinking and Religion: The Ethics of Belief Revisited” | ||||||
| GVIII-B. | Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Carol C. Gould (Temple University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego State University) | |||||
| “An Equal Atmospheric Rights Approach to Climate Change” | ||||||
| Nicole Hassoun (Carnegie Mellon University) | ||||||
| “Free Trade, Poverty, and the Environment” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Luc Bovens (London School of Economics) | |||||
| GVIII-C. | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Graduate Student Section | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Expanding the Scope of “American” Philosophy: The Intersection of American and Latin American Traditions | |||||
| Chair: | Jose Jorge Mendoza (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Speakers: | Alejandro Strong (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | |||||
| “A Cuban Transcendentalism: José Martí and the Influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson” | ||||||
| Kim Diaz (Texas A&M University) | ||||||
| “Dewey and Freire’s Pedagogy of Recognition: A Critique of Subtractive Schooling” | ||||||
| Grant Silva (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| “Patterns of Racial Thought in America: Alain Locke and José Vasconcelos on Race, Social Progress, and Creativity” | ||||||
| GVIII-D. | Society for Women in Philosophy | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Feminist Aesthetics | |||||
| Chair: | Amy Coplan (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| Speakers: | Joshua Shaw (Pennsylvania State University) | |||||
| “Pre-Feminist Lessons for Post-Feminist Art” | ||||||
| Anne Eaton (University of Illinois–Chicago) | ||||||
| “Standpoint Aesthetics” | ||||||
| Tobyn De Marco (Bergen Community College) | ||||||
| “What Feminism Can Contribute to the Philosophy of Music” | ||||||
| GVIII-E. | Society of Christian Philosophers | |||||
| 6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Daniel Speak (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Steven L. Porter (Biola University) | |||||
| “Contentment as a Christian Virtue” | ||||||
| Robert Roberts (Baylor University) | ||||||
| “Gratitude and Generosity” | ||||||
| Group Session GIX — 6:30-9:30 p.m. | ||||||
| GIX-A. | Ayn Rand Society | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Egoistic Virtue in Nietzsche and Ayn Rand | |||||
| Chair: | Allan Gotthelf (University of Pittsburgh) | |||||
| Speakers: | Darryl Wright (Harvey Mudd College) | |||||
| “Virtue and Egoism: Swanton, Nietzsche, and Rand” | ||||||
| Christine Swanton (University of Auckland) | ||||||
| “Virtuous Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” | ||||||
| GIX-B. | International Hobbes Association, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Moderator: | Martin A. Bertman (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| Speaker: | Gary Herbert (Loyola University–New Orleans) | |||||
| “The Non-Normative Nature of Hobbesian Natural Law” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Kinch Hoekstra (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Speakers: | Juahana Lemetti (University of Helsinki) | |||||
| “Hobbes’s Epistemic Turn” | ||||||
| Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine and City University of New York–Graduate Center) | ||||||
| “Hobbes’s Fifth Law of Nature” | ||||||
| GIX-C. | International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Motivation in Xunzi: Desire, Assent, and Commitment | |||||
| Chair: | Stephen Angle (Wesleyan University) | |||||
| Panelists: | Kurtis Hagen (State University of New York–Plattsburgh) | |||||
| Eric Hutton (University of Utah) | ||||||
| Dan Robins (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey) | ||||||
| Aaron Stalnaker (Indiana University–Bloomington) | ||||||
| GIX-D. | International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Mark Woods (University of San Diego) | |||||
| Speaker: | Kenneth Shockley (University at Buffalo) | |||||
| “The Pragmatic Value of Intrinsic Value” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Paul Moriarty (Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville) | |||||
| Speaker: | Mark Mysak (University of North Texas) | |||||
| “Evolving Ecological Ethics” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Geoffrey Frasz (College of Southern Nevada) | |||||
| Speaker: | Phil Cafaro (Colorado State University) | |||||
| “There Is No Right to Immigrate Into the United States” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Peter Gratton (University of San Diego) | |||||
| GIX-E. | Karl Jaspers Society, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychopathology | |||||
| Chair: | Joseph Prabhu (California State University–Los Angeles) | |||||
| Speakers: | Raymond Langley (Manhattanville College) | |||||
| “Jaspers on Marx and Freud” | ||||||
| Alan M. Olson (Boston University) | ||||||
| “Jaspers’s Concept of Metaphysical Guilt” | ||||||
| Tomoko Iwasawa (Kogakuin University) | ||||||
| “Jaspers’s Schuldfrage and Hiroshima” | ||||||
| GIX-F. | Radical Philosophy Association, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | The Concept of Torture | |||||
| Chair: | Anatole Anton (San Francisco State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Kurt Nutting (San Francisco State University) | |||||
| “Torture as Mental Pain: The Torture Convention, the U.S. Reservations, and the Problem of Other Minds” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Douglas Kellner (University of California–Los Angeles) | |||||
| Richard Peterson (Michigan State University) | ||||||
| Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic University–Pomona) | ||||||
| Naomi Zack (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| GIX-G. | Society for Arab, Persian, and Islamic Philosophy | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Perspectives on Arab and Islamic Aesthetics | |||||
| Chair: | Mohammed Abed (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | |||||
| Speakers: | Bassam Romaya (Temple University) | |||||
| Mavis Biss (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | ||||||
| Shams Inati (Villanova University) | ||||||
| Nada Shabout (University of North Texas) | ||||||
| GIX-H. | Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 3 | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Genealogy | |||||
| Chair: | Stephen Watson (University of Notre Dame) | |||||
| Speakers: | Colin Koopman (University of California–Santa Cruz) | |||||
| “Adding Geneology to Archaeology” | ||||||
| Thomas Biebricher (University of Florida) | ||||||
| “Genealogy and Governmentality” | ||||||
| Tyler Krupp (University of California–Berkeley) | ||||||
| “Genealogy as Critique?” | ||||||
| Martin Saar (Universität Frankfurt) | ||||||
| “Understanding Geneaology: History, Power, and the Self” | ||||||
| GIX-I. | Western Phenomenology Conference | |||||
| 6:30-9:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Dangerous Emotion: Affect in Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Jason Winfree (California State University–Stanislaus) | |||||
| Speakers: | Darren Hutchinson (California State University–Stanislaus) | |||||
| “Legion: Affect Beyond Heidegger” | ||||||
| Alphonso Lingis (Pennsylvania State University) | ||||||
| “Violence and Splendor” | ||||||
| Group Session GX — 8:30-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GX-A. | Society for Student Philosophers, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:30-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Freedom, Reason, and Normativity | |||||
| Chair: | Jackie Rohel (University of Alberta) | |||||
| Speakers: | Matt Congdon (New School University) | |||||
| “‘If They Lived According to the Guidance of Reason…’: Spinoza on Imagination, Reason, and the Mob” | ||||||
| Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (University of California–Riverside) | ||||||
| “Disambiguating All-Things-Considered-'Ought'-Statements” | ||||||
| Jackie Rohel (University of Alberta) | ||||||
| “Is Cartesian Generosity an Intellectual Virtue?” | ||||||
| Chad Vance (University of Colorado–Boulder) | ||||||
| “The Eternal Moment’s View: A Solution to the Problem of Human Freedom and Divine Foreknowledge” | ||||||
| GX-B. | Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism | |||||
| 8:30-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Tom Jeannot (Gonzaga University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Patrick Murray (Creighton University) | |||||
| “Foundations for a Marxian Theory of Capitalist Modernity” | ||||||
| Patrick Murray (Creighton University) | ||||||
| Jeanne A. Schuler (Creighton University) | ||||||
| “Why Wealth Is a Poor Concept” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Tom Jeannot (Gonzaga University) | |||||
