APA CENTRAL DIVISION
99th ANNUAL MEETING
May 3 - 5, 2001

Group Session I
Thursday, May 3, 2001
9:00 am - Noon


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1. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session I

Topic: Ethics and Film
Chair: Dan Flory (Montana State University)
Title: "Self-Knowledge and Humility in Chariots of Fire"
Speaker: Joseph Kupfer (Iowa State University)
Title: "The Philosophical Question in Godard’s Video Essays"
Speaker: Jonathan L. Dronsfield (Middlesex University, London)
Title: "Popular Movies and Death"
Speaker: Richard Gilmore (Concordia College)

2. Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love

Chair: Carol Caraway (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Title: "Examining the Moral Bonds and Bounds of Friendship"
Speaker: Andrew I. Cohen (University of Oklahoma)
Commentator: Diane Jeske (University of Iowa)
Title: "Insights from the Straight-Jacket: Epistemological Concerns Expressed by Religiously Motivated Anti-Queer Sentiments"
Speaker: Ludger Viefhues (Harvard University)

3. Concerned Philosophers for Peace

Topic: Trust, Loyalty, Collective Identity and Responsibility
Title: "On Loyalty"
Speaker: Robert Paul Churchill (George Washington University)
Title: "On Trust and Care"
Speaker: Celeste Friend (Case Western Reserve University)
Title: "Collective Identity and Responsibility"
Speaker: Eddy Souffrant (Marquette University)
Commentator: Greg Moses (Marist College)

4. Society for Philosophy and Technology

Topic: The Precautionary Principle
Speaker: Richard Sherlock (Utah State University)
Speaker: Carolyn Raffensperger (Science and Environmental Health Network)
Commentator: Robert Hood (Middle Tennessee State University)

5. International Society for Environmental Ethics

Topic: Authors Meet Critics: Environmental Ethics, Emergent Risks, and the Principle of Integrity
Chair: James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame)
Title: "Democracy, Risk and Community"
Speaker: Richard Hiskes (University of Connecticut)
Title: "Living in Integrity"
Speaker: Laura Westra (Osgoode Hall Law School/York University)
Commentator: William Vitek (Clarkson University)

6. Society for the Philosophy of History, Session I

Chair: Aviezer Tucker (Trinity College)
Title: "Eclipse of the Watershed and the Outrage: Satrean Reflections on History in Postmodernity"
Speaker: Bill Martin (DePaul University)
Title: "Examining the Historiographical Ideas of Husserl and Scheler with a Phenomenological Historical Methodology"
Speaker: Mark E. Blum (University of Louisville)
Title: "Knowledge of History"
Speaker: Aviezer Tucker (Trinity College)

7. American Society for Value Inquiry

Topic: Author Meets Critic: George Schedler, Racist Symbols and Reparations
Chair: Jim Sauer (St Mary’s University, San Antonio)
Speaker: Torin Alter (University of Alabama)
Speaker: Stephen Kershnar (SUNY College at Fredonia)
Responding: George Schedler (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

8. Society for Systematic Philosophy

Topic: Hegel and Cosmopolitanism
Title: "Hegel’s Political Anti-Cosmopolitanism"
Speaker: James Bohman (St. Louis University)
Title: "Constitutionalism and Universal Human Rights in Hegel"
Speaker: Thomas Schmidt (University of Frankfurt)
Title: "Hegel Globalization, and the Cosmopolitan Ideal"
Speaker: Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida)

9. Association for Symbolic Logic

Topic: Reverse Mathematics and Computability Theory
Title: "Why the Recursion Theorists Should Thank Me"
Speaker: Stephen Simpson (Pennsylvania State University)
Title: "Partial Orders, Ordered Structures, and Reverse Mathematics"
Speaker: Reed Solomon (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Title: "Graphs, Free Sets, and Reverse Mathematics"
Speaker: Jeffrey Hirst (Appalachian State University)

10. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

Topic: Asian Conceptions of Philosophy
Chair: Gereon Kopf (Luther College)
Title: "The Myth in the Tao: On Chuang Tzu’s Mythical Anecdotes from a Philosophical Point of View"
Speaker: Masami Tateno (Nihon University)
Title: "Some Indian Conceptions of Philosophy: Classical and Modern"
Speaker: Arindam Chakrabarti (University of Hawaii)
Title: "Watsuji’s Rinrigaku: Ethics as Ningengaku"
Speaker: Erin McCarthy (St. Lawrence University)
Title: "Alterior Reflections from Asian Philosophies"
Speaker: David Jones (Kennesaw State University)
Commentator: Marthe Chandler (DePauw University)

11. Committee on Institutional Cooperation