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

Group Session II
Thursday, May 3, 2001
5:15 pm - 7:15 pm


Group Session I | Group Session II | Group Session III | Group Session IV | Group Session V


1. Society of Christian Philosophers

Chair: Kenneth W. Kemp (University of St. Thomas)
Title: The Kenneth Konyndyk Memorial Lecture "God and Moral Transformation"
Speaker: Paul Moser (Loyola University of Chicago)
Commentator: Caroline J. Simon (Hope College)

2. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session II

Topic: Techniques of Truth and Technologies of the Body in the Visual Arts
Chair: Dan Flory (Montana State University)
Title: "Techniques of Truth and Subjectivity"
Speaker: Frenchy Lunning (Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
Title: "Being Beautiful Abs: Kiana, Christ, and the Gang at ESPN2"
Speaker: H. Peter Steeves (DePaul University)

3. North American Nietzsche Society

Chair: Richard Schacht (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Title: "Nietzsche’s Kantian Ethics"
Speaker: Tom Bailey (University of Warwick)
Title: "Amor Fati and Züchtung: The Paradox of Nietzsche’s Nomothetic Naturalism"
Speaker: Peter Groff (Bucknell University)

4. Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs

Topic: Subversive Contractarianism
Chair: Ann Cudd (University of Kansas)
Speaker: Charles Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Commentator: Jorge Garcia (Boston College)

5. Society for the Philosophy of History, Session II

Chair: Aviezer Tucker (Trinity College)
Title: "Mesocosmological Descriptions: Towards an Extensionalist Ontology of History"
Speaker: Milkov Nikolay (University of Beilefeld)
Title: "The Contribution of Descartes’s Concept of Continuity to Philosophic History"
Speaker: Richard Carter

6. Society for Business Ethics

Title: "Ethics of Dispute Resolution"
Speaker: Diana C. Dale (President, WorkLife Institute)
Title: "Some Thoughts on Dialogical Ethics"
Speaker: Gillian Brock (University of Auckland)

7. Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals

Chair: Lilly-Marlene Russow (Purdue University)
Title: "Vegetarianism and the Limits of Philosophy"
Speaker: Bill Martin (DePaul University)
Commentator: David Detmer (Purdue University)
Title: "Thought without Talk?"
Speaker: Seetha Burtner (Purdue University)
Commentator: H. Peter Steeves (DePaul University)

8. American Indian Philosophy Association

Topic: Phenomenology
Chair: Thomas Michael Norton-Smith (Kent State University, Stark Campus)
Title: "The Phenomenology of a Mugwump Life: An Autobiographical Snippet"
Speaker: Leslie Nawagesic (Lakehead University)
Commentator: Marilyn Notah Verney (Independent Scholar)
Commentator: Katy Gray Brown (University of Minnesota)

9. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Shannon Sullivan, Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism
Chair: Lisa M. Heldke (Gustavus Adolphus College)
Speaker: Gail Weiss (George Washington University)
Speaker: Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue University)
Responding: Shannon Sullivan (Pennsylvania State University)

10. North American Spinoza Society

Chair: Paul J. Bagley (Loyola College in Maryland)
Title: "Tolerance as a Virtue in Spinoza’s Ethics"
Speaker: Michael Rosenthal (Grinnell College)
Title: "The Ethics of Spinoza’s Physics"
Speaker: Jeffrey Bernstein (Clark University)
Commentator: Lee C. Rice (Marquette University)

11. Philosophy of Time Society

Chair: L. Nathan Oaklander (University of Michigan, Flint)
Title: "Tenseless Date-Sentences and the Truth Conditions of Tensed Propositions"
Speaker: Michelle C. M. Beer (Florida International University)
Commentator: Quentin Smith (Western Michigan University)
Title: "Four Dimensional Objects"
Speaker: Harriet Baber (University of San Diego)

12. Society for Philosophy and Geography

Topic: Places, Real and Virtual
Chair: Jonathan Maskit (Denison University)
Title: "Virtual Communities and Physical Geography"
Speaker: Andrew Ward (School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech)
Title: "Basically Proper Places or, How to Offer a Philosophically Defensible Theory of Place"
Speaker: Kevin Zanelotti (University of Kentucky)