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2013 Pacific Division Meeting Program
Draft of December 13, 2012.
| Group Program | ||||||
| Wednesday Evening, March 27 | ||||||
| Group Session G1 — 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G1A | Radical Philosophy Association, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Ethics and Politics of Permanent War | |||||
| Chair: | José Jorge Mendoza (Worcester State College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Bassam Romaya (University of Massachusetts Lowell) | |||||
| “Permanent War and the Problem of Cyberwarfare” | ||||||
| Harry van der Linden (Butler University) | ||||||
| “The Condition of Permanent War: Is There a Way Out?” | ||||||
| John Kaag (University of Massachusetts Lowell) | ||||||
| “Weapons of Choice: An Argument Against Drone Warfare on the Basis of Prudence?” | ||||||
| G1B | Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Alexander P. D. Mourelatos (University of Texas at Austin) | |||||
| Speakers: | Franco V. Trivigno (Marquette University) | |||||
| “Ideal and Ordinary Language in Plato’s Cratylus” | ||||||
| Philip Corkum (University of Alberta) | ||||||
| “Snub” | ||||||
| Christopher Buckels (University of California, Davis) | ||||||
| “We Should Always Call the Receptacle the Same Thing: Timaeus 50b6-51b6” | ||||||
| G1C | Society for Applied Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Ruth Abbey, The Return of Feminist Liberalism | |||||
| Chair: | Hugh LaFollette (University of South Florida St. Petersburg) | |||||
| Author: | Ruth Abbey (University of Notre Dame) | |||||
| Critics: | Christie Hartley (Georgia State University) | |||||
| Charles Mills (Northwestern University) | ||||||
| Lori Watson (University of San Diego) | ||||||
| Group Session G2 — 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G2A | Concerned Philosophers for Peace | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Nuclear Weapons and the Iran Problem | |||||
| Chair: | David Boersema (Pacific University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Ovadia Ezra (Tel Aviv University) | |||||
| “A Nuclear Iran: A Critical Israeli Perspective” | ||||||
| Ron Hirschbein (Walden University) | ||||||
| “Prolegomenon to any Future Nuclear Metaphysics” | ||||||
| David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) | ||||||
| “War and the Problem of Nuclear Proliferation” | ||||||
| Andrew Fiala (California State University, Fresno) | ||||||
| “Whatever Happened to Containment and Deterrence?” | ||||||
| G2B | Experimental Philosophy Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | New Work in Experimental Philosophy | |||||
| Speakers: | Wesley Buckwalter (The Graduate Center, CUNY) | |||||
| Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers University) | ||||||
| “Knowledge, Stakes, and Mistakes” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Jeremy Fantl (University of Calgary) | |||||
| Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri) | ||||||
| Speakers: | Matthew Bedke (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| Oisín Deery (University of British Columbia) | ||||||
| Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona) | ||||||
| “Phenomenal Abilities: Incompatibilism and the Experience of Agency” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jonathan Phillips (Yale University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Tania Lombrozo (University of California, Berkeley) | |||||
| Dylan Murray (University of California, Berkeley) | ||||||
| “He Made Me Do It: The Effect of Manipulation on Attributions of Causation, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Derk Pereboom (Cornell University) | |||||
| G2C | International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Action in Chinese Philosophy | |||||
| Chairs: | Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii at Manoa) | |||||
| Tim Connolly (East Stroudsburg University) | ||||||
| Speakers: | Tim Connolly (East Stroudsburg University) | |||||
| “Commitment and Desire in the Analects” | ||||||
| Manyul Im (Fairfield University) | ||||||
| “Confucian Spontaneity” | ||||||
| Susan Blake (Indiana University Bloomington) | ||||||
| “Knowledge and Non-action in the Laozi” | ||||||
| Samuel Cocks (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) | ||||||
| “Wang Yangming, Spontaneity, and Moral Imagination” | ||||||
| G2D | International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Environmental Ethics | |||||
| Speakers: | Nathan Draluck (University of South Florida) | |||||
| “An Ecophenomenological Approach to Climate Change” | ||||||
| Lorraine Code (York University) | ||||||
| “Ecological Responsibility, Advocacy, and Care” | ||||||
| Kathryn Ross Wayne (Western Washington University) | ||||||
| “Freire, Bateson, Basso, and the Nature of Place” | ||||||
| Jack Isherwood (University of Western Sydney) | ||||||
| “Public Reason and Environmental Claim-making” | ||||||
| William Edelglass (Marlboro College) | ||||||
| “Seasonal Change: Understanding the Importance of Time in Places” | ||||||
| G2E | Molinari Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Gary Chartier, Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society | |||||
| Chair: | Roderick Long (Auburn University) | |||||
| Author: | Gary Chartier (La Sierra University) | |||||
| Critics: | Eric Roark (Millikin University) | |||||
| Kevin Vallier (Bowling Green State University) | ||||||
| G2F | North American Nietzsche Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Robert Solomon’s Living with Nietzsche: A Ten Year Retrospective | |||||
| Chair: | R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Ivan Soll (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | |||||
| Ariela Tubert (University of Puget Sound) | ||||||
| G2G | Society for German Idealism, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Katrin Pahl, Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion | |||||
| Chair: | Daniel Kirchner (Centre College) | |||||
| Author: | Katrin Pahl (Johns Hopkins University) | |||||
| Critics: | Jason J. Howard (Viterbo University) | |||||
| John McCumber (University of California, Los Angeles) | ||||||
| Donald J. Morse (Webster University) | ||||||
| G2H | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Lost Book: John Dewey’s Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Colin Koopman (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Speakers: | Albert Spencer III (Portland State University) | |||||
| “Assessing Dewey’s Ethnocentrism in Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy” | ||||||
| Jady Hsin (Johns Hopkins University) | ||||||
| “Qualifying Actions: Dewey on the Origins of Meaning” | ||||||
| Larry Hickman (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) | ||||||
| “Unpacking Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy” | ||||||
| G2I | Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Silent Films and the Nature of Cinematic Narrative | |||||
| Chair: | Richard Nunan (College of Charleston) | |||||
| Speakers: | Alessandra Stradella (State University of New York Oneonta) | |||||
| “Let’s Go Silent: The Puzzling Case of Hazanavicious’ The Artist” | ||||||
| Shai Biderman (Tel Aviv University) | ||||||
| “Philosophical Blindness, Cinematic Vision (Or: Why Chaplin Matters)” | ||||||
| Topic: | Object to Photograph to Film: Worlds Viewed and Cinematic Perception | |||||
| Chair: | Richard Nunan (College of Charleston) | |||||
| Speakers: | David Caldwell (University of Northern Colorado) | |||||
| “Bachelard and the Cinematic Space of Berlin” | ||||||
| John Carvalho (Villanova University) | ||||||
| “The World Achieved: Enacting the World and Ourselves Through Film” | ||||||
| G2J | Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Joseph J. Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Joshua D. Stein (New York University) | |||||
| “Legacy and Legitimacy: A Critical Account of Change in Identity of Martial Arts, Styles, and Systems” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Richard Schubert (Cosumnes River College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Niels Hermannsson (University of Edinburgh) | |||||
| “The Nature of Uke-tori Relationship and the Aporetic—Dialogue” | ||||||
| Speaker: | Johnathan Flowers (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) | |||||
| “Mixed Martial Arts: Combat Sport or Martial Arts and/or Martial Self-cultivation as Character Development in American film and/or Martial Arts as the Expression of Character in Film” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Niels Hermannsson (University of Edinburgh) | |||||
| Speaker: | Judy Salzman (California Polytechnic State University) | |||||
| “The Spiritual Warrior: The Martial Arts and Courage” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Paul A. Swift (Bryant University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Charles Klayman (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) | |||||
| “Mixed Martial Arts: Submitting the Art” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Joshua D. Stein (New York University) | |||||
| G2K | Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Paul Grice’s Philosophy of Language | |||||
| Chair: | Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Kent Bach (San Francisco State University) | |||||
| “Getting Grice Straight and Straightening Out Grice” | ||||||
| Daniel Harris (The Graduate Center, CUNY) | ||||||
| “Grice on the Composition of Timeless Meaning” | ||||||
| Stephen Neale (The Graduate Center, CUNY) | ||||||
| “What Is Said” | ||||||
| G2L | Society for Women in Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Michael Slote, The Impossibility of Perfection: Aristotle, Feminism, and the Complexities of Ethics | |||||
| Chair: | Lorraine Besser-Jones (Middlebury College) | |||||
| Author: | Michael Slote (University of Miami) | |||||
| Critics: | Sarah Conly (Bowdoin College) | |||||
| Erin Frykholm (University of Kansas) | ||||||
| Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University) | ||||||
| Group Session G3 — 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G3A | Society for Natural Religion | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Owen Anderson, The Natural Moral Law: The Good after Modernity | |||||
| Critics: | David Burris (Arizona Western College) | |||||
| Horace Fairlamb (University of Houston-Victoria) | ||||||
| Scott Rae (Biola University) | ||||||
| Respondent: | Owen Anderson (Arizona State University) | |||||
| G3B | Society of Christian Philosophers | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Nathan King (Whitworth University) | |||||
| “Religious Skepticism: A Cumulative Argument from Higher-order Evidence” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Joshue Orozco (Whitworth University) | |||||
| Thursday Evening, March 28 | ||||||
| Group Session G4 — 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G4A | Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Teaching Critical Thinking to Diverse Populations | |||||
| Chair: | Wanda Teays (Mount St. Mary’s College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Jana Mohr Lone (University of Washington) | |||||
| “Critical Thinking and Reasoning—It’s Never Too Early” | ||||||
| Peter Tan (Mount St. Mary’s College) | ||||||
| “Don’t Categorize—Measure: Diversity and the Process of Critical Thinking” | ||||||
| James Davis (Boston University) | ||||||
| “Teaching Critical Thinking to Diverse Populations: Advanced High School Students” | ||||||
| Musho Kwon (Long Beach City College) | ||||||
| “Teaching Critical Thinking to Diverse Populations: Community College Students” | ||||||
| G4B | Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Julie Klein (Villanova University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Bassam Romaya (University of Massachusetts Lowell) | |||||
| “Queer Pacifism” | ||||||
| Andy Wible (Muskegon Community College) | ||||||
| “The Love of Bacha Bazi Boys and Gay Identity” | ||||||
| John Corvino (Wayne State University) | ||||||
| “What Bigotry Is” | ||||||
| G4C | Society for the Study of Process Philosophies, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Philosophy of Religion | |||||
| Chair: | Randy Ramal (Claremont Graduate University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Kyra Kaufman (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| “A Defense of Freedom in A. N. Whitehead’s Metaphysics” | ||||||
| Lenny Gibson (Burlington College) | ||||||
| “From Religion to Philosophy and Back” | ||||||
| Olav Smith (Empirical Magazine) | ||||||
| “On the Phenomenon of Being ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’” | ||||||
| John Quiring (Victor Valley College) | ||||||
| “Overlap-autonomy-dialogue-fusion: Science, Philosophy, Religion, Education” | ||||||
| Group Session G5 — 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G5A | International Hobbes Association, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Philip Petit, Made with Words: Hobbes on Mind, Society, and Politics | |||||
| Moderator: | Juhana Lemetti (University of Helsinki) | |||||
| Critics: | Jeremy Anderson (DePauw University) | |||||
| Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine and The Graduate Center, CUNY) | ||||||
| Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University) | ||||||
| Respondent: | Philip Pettit (Princeton University and Australian National University) | |||||
| Topic: | Submitted Paper | |||||
| Speaker: | Sarah Meier (Emory University) | |||||
| “Of Sovereigns, Fools, Criminals, and Sinners: Hobbes on the Relation of Natural and Civil Law” | ||||||
| G5B | International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Idea of Justice: Dialogues Across Traditions | |||||
| Chair: | Yang Xiao (Kenyon College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob (University of Calabar) | |||||
| “Communalism as a Theory of Justice and the Human Person in African Culture” | ||||||
| Henrique Schneider (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) | ||||||
| “Justice in Hanfeizi and Western Legal Philosophy: A Non-comparative Approach” | ||||||
| May Sim (College of the Holy Cross) | ||||||
| “The Relevance of Aristotle’s ‘Justice’ for Confucian Politics” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Hui-chieh Loy (National University of Singapore) | |||||
| Anh Tuan Nuyen (National University of Singapore) | ||||||
| Jennifer White (San Francisco State University) | ||||||
| G5C | Josiah Royce Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Royce in Relation: Loyalty and History | |||||
| Chair: | Scott L. Pratt (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Speakers: | Robert McDermott (California Institute of Integral Studies) | |||||
| “Royce’s Philosophy of Loyalty, Sorrow, and Atonement in Response to Ecological Devastation” | ||||||
| Francesco Poggiani (Pennsylvania State University) | ||||||
| “Royce’s Analysis of Nietzsche and J. M. Guyau’s Approach to the Ethical Problem” | ||||||
| Kipton Jensen (Morehouse College) | ||||||
| “The Growing Edges of the Beloved Community: From Royce (and James) to Thurman (and King)” | ||||||
| David Vessey (Grand Valley State University) | ||||||
| “What We Can Learn from Reading Royce’s Interpretations of Fichte” | ||||||
| G5D | Kierkegaard Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Celebrating Søren at 200! | |||||
| Chair: | Shannon Nason (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Manuel ‘Mandel’ Cabrera Jr. (University of California, Los Angeles) | |||||
| “Aesthetic Authenticity: Kierkegaard and Social Media” | ||||||
| Mark McCreary (Kirkwood Community College) | ||||||
| “Hidden Love: Kierkegaard on Love and Love’s Suffering” | ||||||
| Melissa Fitzpatrick (Loyola Marymount University) | ||||||
| “The Recollection of Anxiety: Kierkegaard as Our Socratic Occasion to Transcend Unfreedom” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Shannon Nason (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| G5E | North American Kant Society, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Public Use of Reason | |||||
| Chair: | Eric Watkins (University of California, San Diego) | |||||
| Speakers: | Philip J. Rossi (Marquette University) | |||||
| “Cosmopolitan Religion and the Moral Imperative for Perpetual Peace” | ||||||
| Lawrence Pasternack (Oklahoma State University) | ||||||
| “Kant’s Touchstone of Communicability and the Public Use of Reason” | ||||||
| Rudolf Makkreel (Emory University) | ||||||
| “Two Senses of ‘Public’ in Kant and the Idea of a Universal Voice” | ||||||
| G5F | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Kim Skoog (University of Guam) | |||||
| Speakers: | Kim Skoog (University of Guam) | |||||
| “Assessing Martyrdom: A Comparative and Critical Study of Self-inflicted Death” | ||||||
| Rafal Banka (Uniwersytet Jagielloński) | ||||||
| “Contemporary Interpretations of Aesthetics According to Li Zehou and Wolfgang Welsch” | ||||||
| Johnathan Flowers (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) | ||||||
| “Japanese Self-cultivation Praxis and Women’s Bodies: A Solution to Iris Marion Young’s Problem” | ||||||
| Jinli He (Trinity University) | ||||||
| “Wang Guowei and Nietzsche: The Idea of Tragedy” | ||||||
| G5G | Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Proofs in Mathematics | |||||
| Speakers: | Jody Azzouni (Tufts University) | |||||
| “Regimentation, Logic, and Mathematical Proof” | ||||||
| Kenny Easwaran (University of Southern California) | ||||||
| “Testimony and the Knowledge of the Mathematical Community” | ||||||
| Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) | ||||||
| “The Roots of Deduction: Every Proof Is and Is Not a Dialogue” | ||||||
| Otávio Bueno (University of Miami) | ||||||
| “What Does a Mathematical Proof Really Prove?” | ||||||
| G5H | Society for the History of Political Philosophy | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Philosophy, Theology, and the Law | |||||
| Chair: | Matthew Davis (St. John’s College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Matthew Oberrieder (Rogers State University) | |||||
| “Machiavelli’s Three Brains: The Paradox of Reading The Prince” | ||||||
| Steven Berg (Bellarmine University) | ||||||
| “Matelda, Dante, and Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise: Poetry and Philosophy on Trial in the Court of Biblical Theology” | ||||||
| Seth Appelbaum (Tulane University of New Orleans) | ||||||
| “Rule of Law as a Rule of Thumb in Aristotle’s Ethics V.7, Plato’s Crito, and Xenophon’s Memorabilia IV.4” | ||||||
| Alex Limanowski (Tulane University of New Orleans) | ||||||
| “The Education of God in Lessing’s Education of the Human Race” | ||||||
| G5I | Society for the Philosophy of Agency | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Davidsonian Causalism: Themes from Davidson’s “Actions, Reasons, and Causes” | |||||
| Chair: | Michael Brent (Carthage College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Sarah Paul (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | |||||
| “The Force of the ‘Because’” | ||||||
| Commentator: | George Wilson (University of Southern California) | |||||
| Speakers: | Guido Löhrer (Universität Erfurt) | |||||
| Scott Sehon (Bowdoin College) | ||||||
| “Davidson’s Challenge to the Non-causalist” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Alfred Mele (Florida State University) | |||||
| G5J | Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Anglophone Historicisms 1 | |||||
| Chair: | Paul A. Roth (University of California, Santa Cruz) | |||||
| Speakers: | Hans Sluga (University of California, Berkeley) | |||||
| “‘What Has History to Do with Me?’ Wittgenstein’s Discovery of the Historical World” | ||||||
| Karsten Stueber (College of the Holy Cross) | ||||||
| “Historicism and the Explanatory Power of Narratives” | ||||||
| Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes University) | ||||||
| “Historicism in the ‘Small Red Books’ of the ’50s and ’60s” | ||||||
| G5K | Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Thinking about Pornography | |||||
| Speakers: | Talia Bettcher (California State University, Los Angeles) | |||||
| “‘Chicks With Dicks’: A Plea for Persons” | ||||||
| Mireille Miller-Young (University of California, Santa Barbara) | ||||||
| “Make Your Booty Clap: Ho Theory and Corporeal Craftwork in Black Pornographies” | ||||||
| Kory Schaff (Occidental College) | ||||||
| “Pornography and Paternalism” | ||||||
| Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) | ||||||
| “Pornography and Polysemicity” | ||||||
| G5L | Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Book Session: Jeremy Garrett, ed., The Ethics of Animal Research | |||||
| Chair: | Jeremy Garrett (Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center & University of Missouri-Kansas City) | |||||
| Speakers: | Alastair Norcross (University of Colorado Boulder) | |||||
| “Animal Experimentation, Marginal Cases, and the Significance of Suffering” | ||||||
| Christina M. Bellon (California State University, Sacramento) | ||||||
| “Created Dependencies: A Feminist Approach to Our Obligations to Non-human Animal Research Subjects” | ||||||
| Mylan Engel Jr. (Northern Illinois University) | ||||||
| “The Commonsense Case Against Animal Experimentation” | ||||||
| Jeremy Garrett (Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center & University of Missouri-Kansas City) | ||||||
| “The Ethics of Animal Research: An Overview” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Kathie Jenni (University of Redlands) | |||||
| Group Session G6 — 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G6A | Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Mencius, Xunzi, Empirical Psychology, and Virtue Ethics | |||||
| Chair: | Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii at Manoa) | |||||
| Speaker: | Ellie Hua Wang (National Chengchi University) | |||||
| “The New Situationist Challenge and a Potential Xunzian Reply” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Bongrae Seok (Alvernia University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Kai Wang (Beijing Normal University) | |||||
| “Confucian Ethics as Virtue Ethics—A Case Study Based on Xunzi” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Winnie Sung (University College London) | |||||
| Speaker: | Wenqing Zhao (City University of Hong Kong) | |||||
| “Is Contemporary Chinese Society Inhumane? What Mencius and Empirical Psychology Have to Say” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Tze-ki Hon (State University of New York at Geneseo) | |||||
| G6B | Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Religion and Oppression | |||||
| Speakers: | Robert Metcalf (University of Colorado Denver) | |||||
| “Religion as Ligature: A Theory of What Makes for Oppression” | ||||||
| Tim Christie (Fraser International College) | ||||||
| “Religious Education, Children, and Oppression” | ||||||
| Andrew Fiala (California State University, Fresno) | ||||||
| “Religious Illiteracy and the Oppression of Ignorance” | ||||||
| G6C | Wilfrid Sellars Society | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Sellars and Kant | |||||
| Speakers: | Aaron Schiller (Santa Clara University) | |||||
| “Situating the Conceptual Order in the Real Order” | ||||||
| Willem deVries (University of New Hampshire) | ||||||
| “Some Remarks on Sellars’s Theory of Experience” | ||||||
| David Landy (San Francisco State University) | ||||||
| “The Transcendental Unity of Apperception Is Constituted by the Paralogisms’ Three Analytic Propositions” | ||||||
| Friday Evening, March 29 | ||||||
| Group Session G7 — 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G7A | Hume Society | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Hume’s Theory of Mental Representation | |||||
| Chair: | David Landy (San Francisco State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Karl Schafer (University of Pittsburgh) | |||||
| “Cognition in Hume and Kant” | ||||||
| Lewis Powell (University at Buffalo) | ||||||
| “Hume’s Rejection of the Mirror Thesis” | ||||||
| Jonathan Cottrell (New York University) | ||||||
| “Perceptions of Unity and Number” | ||||||
| G7B | International Association for the Philosophy of Sport | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Douglas McLaughlin (California State University, Northridge) | |||||
| Speakers: | Joan Grassbaugh Forry (Linfield College) | |||||
| “Against Animals as Sports Team Mascots” | ||||||
| Sarah Teetzel (University of Manitoba) | ||||||
| “Drug Testing Child Athletes” | ||||||
| Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza (Linfield College) | ||||||
| “Effortless Proficiency: Pragmatic Features in Eastern and American Philosophies of Sport” | ||||||
| Tim Elcombe (Wilfrid Laurier University) | ||||||
| “The Ethics of Sporting Technologies: Thickening the Theory” | ||||||
| G7C | International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Virtue, Social Propriety, and the Family: East and West | |||||
| Chair: | May Sim (College of the Holy Cross) | |||||
| Speakers: | Sean McAleer (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) | |||||
| “Confucian and Aristotelian Social Propriety” | ||||||
| Gordan B. Mower (Brigham Young University) | ||||||
| “Mengzi and Hume on Extending Virtue” | ||||||
| Anh Tuan Nuyen (National University of Singapore) | ||||||
| “The Role of the Family in Ames’s Role Ethics” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Tim Connolly (East Stroudsburg University) | |||||
| Hui-chieh Loy (National University of Singapore) | ||||||
| Lijun Yuan (Texas State University-San Marcos) | ||||||
| G7D | Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Book Session: Philosophical Faith and the Future of Humanity | |||||
| Chair: | Stephen Erickson (Pomona College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Purushottama Bilimoria (University of California, Berkeley) | |||||
| “Philosophical Humanity and the Future of Faith” | ||||||
| Respondents: | Ties Nijssen (Springer Verlag) | |||||
| Alan M. Olson (Boston University) | ||||||
| Reinhard Schulz (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) | ||||||
| Gregory J. Walters (Saint Paul University) | ||||||
| Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University) | ||||||
| G7E | North American Kant Society, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Purposiveness in Kant’s Critiques | |||||
| Chair: | Pablo Muchnik (Emerson College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Jane Kneller (Colorado State University) | |||||
| “A Sense of Purpose: The Relation of the Faculties in the ‘Critique of Aesthetic Judgment’” | ||||||
| Pierre Keller (University of California, Riverside) | ||||||
| “Cognitive Significance and Ends in the First Critique” | ||||||
| Allen Wood (Indiana University Bloomington) | ||||||
| “Purposiveness in Kant’s Practical Philosophy” | ||||||
| G7F | North American Wittgenstein Society | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | John W. Powell (Humboldt State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | James Connelly (Trent University) | |||||
| “On Private Diarists and Modal Solitaires: A Response to Wrisley” | ||||||
| Timothy Jussaume (Villanova University) | ||||||
| “The Paradox of a Transcendental Tractarian Ethics” | ||||||
| Ronald Hustwit (College of Wooster) | ||||||
| “Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language Philosophy” | ||||||
| Hao Tang (Wuhan University) | ||||||
| “Wittgenstein and the Dualism of the Inner and the Outer” | ||||||
| G7G | Philosophy of Time Society | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Noa Latham (University of Calgary) | |||||
| Speaker: | Yuri Balashov (University of Georgia) | |||||
| “The Puzzle of the Present” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Bradford Skow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |||||
| Speaker: | Oliver Pooley (Oxford University) | |||||
| “Three Types of Gauge Redundancy and the Problem of Time” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Christian Wüthrich (University of California, San Diego) | |||||
| Speaker: | Noa Latham (University of Calgary) | |||||
| “The Passage of Time” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Ben Caplan (Ohio State University) | |||||
| G7H | Society for Applied Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Ethics in a Climate Emergency | |||||
| Chair: | Hugh LaFollette (University of South Florida St. Petersburg) | |||||
| Speakers: | Dale Jamieson (New York University) | |||||
| “Ethics in a Climate Emergency” | ||||||
| Stephen M. Gardiner (University of Washington) | ||||||
| “Geoengineering and Moral Schizophrenia: What’s the Question?” | ||||||
| Clare Heyward (Oxford University) | ||||||
| “What Is a Climate Emergency—And Is Geoengineering a Solution?” | ||||||
| G7I | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | William Edelglass (Marlboro College) | |||||
| Speakers: | William Edelglass (Marlboro College) | |||||
| “Buddhist Ethics and Western Moral Philosophy” | ||||||
| Gail M. Presbey (University of Detroit Mercy) | ||||||
| “Gandhi on Vows, Pledges, and Promises to Self and Community” | ||||||
| Lin Qian (University of Washington) | ||||||
| “Making Sense of Mind in Early Buddhist Abhidharma” | ||||||
| Sam Mickey (University of San Francisco) | ||||||
| “On Plants: Contributions to a Philosophical Botany” | ||||||
| G7J | Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Moral and Political Content in Art / As Art | |||||
| Chair: | Richard Nunan (College of Charleston) | |||||
| Speakers: | James Mollison (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| “Bacon and Bataille: Toward an Ethic of Self Sacrifice” | ||||||
| Laura Specker Sullivan (University of Hawaii at Manoa) | ||||||
| “Photography and Moral Interest: Bridging the Gap Between Nature and Art” | ||||||
| Vid Simoniti (Oxford University) | ||||||
| “Political and Site-specific Art: What’s the Point of It Being Art?” | ||||||
| Topic: | Bollywood—Defining a Genre | |||||
| Chair: | Richard Nunan (College of Charleston) | |||||
| Speaker: | Shad Bauer (Ohio University) | |||||
| “Throwing Down the Gauntlet: The Bollywood Aesthetic and Western Cinematic Dominance” | ||||||
| G7K | Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Speakers: | Mark Migotti (University of Calgary) | |||||
| Nicole Wyatt (University of Calgary) | ||||||
| “On the Very Idea of Having Sex” | ||||||
| Tracy de Boer (University of Victoria) | ||||||
| “Sex, Rights, and Patriarchy: A Case for the Right to Sex and a Feminist Assessment” | ||||||
| Rachel McKinnon (University of Waterloo) | ||||||
| “Stereotype Threat for Trans Women” | ||||||
| G7L | Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Joseph J. Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Mark Rowlands (University of Miami) | |||||
| “The Value of the Martial Arts” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Craig K. Ihara (California State University, Fullerton) | |||||
| Speaker: | Allan Bäck (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| “The Art of Forms” | ||||||
| Commentator: | LeRon Harrison (Stanford University) | |||||
| Speaker: | R. Shannon Duval (Mount Mary College) | |||||
| “When Tengu Speak: Lessons on Ontology and Consciousness in Issai Chozanshi’s The Demon’s Sermon on Martial Arts” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Ervin Castle (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| Speaker: | Richard Schubert (Cosumnes River College) | |||||
| “Violence, Nonviolence, and the Martial Arts” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Steve Bein (State University of New York at Geneseo) | |||||
| Speaker: | Steve Bein (State University of New York at Geneseo) | |||||
| “Can There Be High-quality Suffering? Rational Agents, Martial Artists, and Utilitarianism” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Joseph J. Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Paul A. Swift (Bryant University) | |||||
| “Habits, Virtue, and Fear in Karatate Training for War and Peace” | ||||||
| Commentator: | R. Shannon Duval (Mount Mary College) | |||||
| G7M | Society for the Study of Process Philosophies, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Philosophy of Religion | |||||
| Chair: | John Quiring (Victor Valley College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Derek Malone-France (George Washington University) | |||||
| “A Process Perspective on Religion and the Public Sphere” | ||||||
| Spyridon Koutroufinis (University of California, Berkeley) | ||||||
| “Bergson’s Idea of ‘Living Eternity’ and Whitehead’s Concept of the ‘Consequent Nature of God’” | ||||||
| Daniel R. Siakel (University of California, Irvine) | ||||||
| “God, Becoming, and Dependence: Whitehead Ramified” | ||||||
| Jea Sophia Oh (Brooklyn College) | ||||||
| “Hanul, an Eco-God: The Triune Reverence of Life” | ||||||
| Dong-Sik Park (Claremont Graduate University) | ||||||
| “Self-limiting God (Kenosis of Christ) and the Hope for the Eschaton” | ||||||
| Randy Ramal (Claremont Graduate University) | ||||||
| “Why Metaphysical Realism Is an Obstacle to True Faith” | ||||||
| G7N | Society for Women in Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Ann V. Murphy, Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary | |||||
| Author: | Ann V. Murphy (University of New Mexico) | |||||
| Critics: | Samir Haddad (Fordham University) | |||||
| Gayle Salamon (Princeton University) | ||||||
| Shannon Winnubst (Ohio State University) | ||||||
| G7O | Western Phenomenology Conference | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Jean-Luc Nancy and Phenomenology | |||||
| Moderator: | Jason Winfree (California State University Stanislaus) | |||||
| Speakers: | Francois Raffoul (Louisiana State University) | |||||
| “Deconstruction as Self-Deconstruction: Nancy with Heidegger and Derrida” | ||||||
| Marie-Eve Morin (University of Alberta) | ||||||
| “Jean-Luc Nancy’s Thinking of the Body: A Phenomenology?” | ||||||
| Hakhamanesh Zangeneh (California State University Stanislaus) | ||||||
| “Struction and Distension” | ||||||
| Saturday Evening, March 30 | ||||||
| Group Session G8 — 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G8A | American Association of Philosophy Teachers | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Philosophy Discussions Online: How to Make them Productive, Effective, and Efficient | |||||
| Chair: | Andrew Carpenter (Ellis University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Jessica Katz (Bowling Green State University) | |||||
| “Class Discussions 2.0: Using Online Lectures and Video Chats to Optimize Class Discussions” | ||||||
| Dennis Earl (Coastal Carolina University) | ||||||
| “Effective Use of Blogs in Philosophy Courses” | ||||||
| Justin Kalef (Rutgers University) | ||||||
| “Imparting Philosophical Values through Online Discussions” | ||||||
| Scott Clifton (University of Washington) | ||||||
| “Restoring the Natural Order: Online Discussions and Learning Philosophy” | ||||||
| G8B | American Society for Aesthetics | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Words and Music | |||||
| Chair: | Ronald Moore (University of Washington) | |||||
| Speaker: | Peter Kivy (Rutgers University) | |||||
| “Speaking in Song and Singing in Speech: Another Paradox for the Paradoxical Art” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jeanette Bicknell (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati) | |||||
| “Is There a Grand Canyon or a Gentle Valley Between ‘Absolute’ and ‘Program’ Music?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jennifer Judkins (University of California, Los Angeles) | |||||
| Group Session G9 — 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G9A | Ayn Rand Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Capitalism, Limited Government, and Morality | |||||
| Chair: | Allan Gotthelf (Rutgers University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Michael Huemer (University of Colorado Boulder) | |||||
| Commentator: | Harry Binswanger (Ayn Rand Institute) | |||||
| G9B | International Hobbes Association, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Moderator: | Chris Naticchia (California State University, San Bernardino) | |||||
| Speakers: | Anne Davenport (Boston College) | |||||
| “Hobbes Modestly Accosted” | ||||||
| Helen Hattab (University of Houston) | ||||||
| “Hobbes’s Analyses and Syntheses in Relation to Civil Science” | ||||||
| Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College) | ||||||
| “Hobbes’s Stoic Metaphysics: Space, Time, and God” | ||||||
| Miguel Saralegui (Universidad de La Sabana) | ||||||
| “Hobbes’s Theory of Punishment in the Apendix to Leviathan” | ||||||
| Andrew Forcehimes (Vanderbilt University) | ||||||
| “The War Amongst Artificial Persons” | ||||||
| G9C | International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Korean Confucianism in a Comparative Perspective | |||||
| Chair: | Philip J. Ivanhoe (City University of Hong Kong) | |||||
| Speakers: | Sungmoon Kim (City University of Hong Kong) | |||||
| “Cultivating Sage-hood for Social Justice: A Lesson from Two Korean Female Neo-Confucian Philosophers” | ||||||
| Philip J. Ivanhoe (City University of Hong Kong) | ||||||
| “Dai Zhen (戴震) (1722-1776), Jeong Yak-yong (丁若鏞 ) (1762-1836), and Itō Jinsai 伊藤 仁 斎 (1627-1705): The Naturalization of East Asian Ethical Philosophy” | ||||||
| Youngmin Kim (Seoul National University) | ||||||
| “Sallim as Political Actor” | ||||||
| Hyoungchan Kim (Korea University) | ||||||
| “Yi Hwang (李滉) (1501-1570) and Yi I (李珥) (1536-1584)’s Building ‘Korean Confucianism’ and the Reinterpretation of Confucianism as a State Ideology” | ||||||
| G9D | International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Environmental Ethics | |||||
| Speakers: | Jeffrey Lockwood (University of Wyoming) | |||||
| Don Maeir (Independent Scholar) | ||||||
| “Conservation as Picking up Trash in Nature: A Debate” | ||||||
| Kenneth Shockley (University at Buffalo) | ||||||
| “The Environmental Moral Problem and What to Do about It” | ||||||
| Anthony Chackal (University of Georgia) | ||||||
| “Toward a Critical Aesthetics of Nature” | ||||||
| Benjamin Hale (University of Colorado Boulder) | ||||||
| Adam Pérou Hermans (University of Colorado Boulder) | ||||||
| Alex Lee (University of Colorado Boulder) | ||||||
| “Wildness Without Naturalness: Expanding Environmental Focus in the Anthropocene” | ||||||
| G9E | Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Humanity and Post-humanity | |||||
| Chair: | Gregory J. Walters (Saint Paul University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Natasha Vita-More (University of Plymouth) | |||||
| “Contested Culture: The Plausibility of Transhumanism” | ||||||
| Dale Carrico (University of California, Berkeley) | ||||||
| “Futurological Discourse and Posthuman Terrains” | ||||||
| Stephen Erickson (Pomona College) | ||||||
| “Post-Humanism, Technology, and Education” | ||||||
| Francesca Ferrando (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre) | ||||||
| “Post/Trans/Meta/Anti-Humanism: Relations and Differences” | ||||||
| James Carroll (Los Alamos National Laboratory) | ||||||
| “The Pace of Technological Progress, Linear or Exponential, and Its Implications for the Future of Humanity” | ||||||
| John P. Sullins (Sonoma State University) | ||||||
| “Transhuman Express: Are We Ethically Required to Be Transhumanists?” | ||||||
| G9F | Radical Philosophy Association, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Immigrants, Refugees, and Liberation: Latino/a Philosophy at and from the Border | |||||
| Chair: | José Jorge Mendoza (Worcester State College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Grant J. Silva (Marquette University) | |||||
| “An Argument for Economic Refugees: War, Drugs, and Gray Moral Areas” | ||||||
| Natalie Cisneros (Allegheny College) | ||||||
| “Death and the ‘Illegal Alien’: Normalizing Racism and Immigrant Detainment” | ||||||
| José-Antonio Orosco (Oregon State University) | ||||||
| “Overcoming a Certain Blindness: Latin Thought as American Liberation Philosophy” | ||||||
| Carlos Alberto Sánchez (San Jose State University) | ||||||
| “Philosophical Interventions: Centeotl and Post-NAFTA Mexican Immigration” | ||||||
| G9G | Society for Analytical Feminism | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Metaphysics of Sex (Differences) and Sexual Orientation: In or out of the Social Change Recipe? | |||||
| Chair: | Saray Ayala (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) | |||||
| Speakers: | Nadya Vasilyeva (Brandeis University) | |||||
| “Explanations and Beliefs” | ||||||
| Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | ||||||
| “Gender Justice: Social Not Metaphysical (or Physical)” | ||||||
| Esa Diaz-Leon (University of Manitoba) | ||||||
| “The Semantics and Metaphysics of Sexual Orientations and Their Significance for LGBT Rights” | ||||||
| Talia Bettcher (California State University, Los Angeles) | ||||||
| “Transsexualism and the Concept of Brain Sex” | ||||||
| G9H | Society for German Idealism, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Karen Ng (Siena College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Gabriel Gottlieb (Xavier University) | |||||
| “Fichte’s Deduction of the External World” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Nicholas Mowad (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| Speaker: | Rafeeq Hasan (University of Chicago) | |||||
| “Politics, Property, Personhood: Kant’s Rousseauian Return” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Andreja Novakovic (College of William and Mary) | |||||
| Speaker: | Lydia Moland (Colby College) | |||||
| “Taking Hegel’s Humor Seriously” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves (Morgan State University) | |||||
| G9I | Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Genetic Phenomenology | |||||
| Chair: | David Woodruff Smith (University of California, Irvine) | |||||
| Speakers: | Roma Hernández (Rice University) | |||||
| Christopher Lay (University of California, Irvine) | ||||||
| Michael Shim (California State University, Los Angeles) | ||||||
| Jeffrey Yoshimi (University of California, Merced) | ||||||
| G9J | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Colin Koopman, Pragmatism as Transition and Genealogy As Critique | |||||
| Chair: | Albert Spencer III (Portland State University) | |||||
| Critics: | Noëlle McAfee (Emory University) | |||||
| Paul Rabinow (University of California, Berkeley) | ||||||
| Brad Elliott Stone (Loyola Marymount University) | ||||||
| Respondent: | Colin Koopman (University of Oregon) | |||||
| G9K | Society for the Metaphysics of Science | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Causation and Causal Accounts of Explanation | |||||
| Speakers: | Sara Bernstein (Duke University) | |||||
| “Actual and Counterfactual Redundancy” | ||||||
| Marco J. Nathan (University of Denver) | ||||||
| “Causation and Causal Explanation: Which Is More Fundamental?” | ||||||
| Cory Wright (California State University, Long Beach) | ||||||
| “Causes in Causal Explanations: The Problem of Abstract Relata” | ||||||
| Holly Andersen (Simon Fraser University) | ||||||
| “Patterns, Information, and Causation” | ||||||
| G9L | Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Anglophone Historicisms 2 | |||||
| Chair: | Admir Skodo (University of California, Berkeley) | |||||
| Speakers: | Petri Koikkalainen (University of Lapland) | |||||
| “Contextualism Politicised: The ‘Normative Turn’ of the Revisionist History of Political Thought” | ||||||
| Giuseppina D’Oro (Keele University) | ||||||
| “Is Collingwood a Historicist?” | ||||||
| Loren Goldman (University of California, Berkeley) | ||||||
| “Rorty’s ‘Post-Kantian’ Philosophy of History” | ||||||
| G9M | William James Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | James Versus Peirce on Affective Belief and Rationality | |||||
| Presenters: | Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto) | |||||
| Kyle Bromhall (University of Guelph) | ||||||
| Aaron Massecar (University of Western Ontario) | ||||||
| Group Session G10 — 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G10A | Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Chinese Philosophy and the European Tradition | |||||
| Chair: | Weimin Sun (California State University, Northridge) | |||||
| Speaker: | May Sim (College of the Holy Cross) | |||||
| “Traveling with Laozi and Plato” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii at Manoa) | |||||
| Speaker: | Weigang Chen (University of Macau) | |||||
| “Confucian Marxism—A Reflection on Religion and Global Justice” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Elizabeth Woo Li (Peking University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Yitian Zhai (University at Buffalo) | |||||
| “Forgottenness of Being vis-à-vis Forgetting of Text—An Exploration of Derrida’s Critique of Heidegger Through a Chinese Philosophical Perspective” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Ellen Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University) | |||||