1. Society for the Philosophy of Creativity

Title: "Possibility and God"
Speaker: Randall Auxier (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
Commentator: Pete A. Y. Gunter (University of North Texas)
Commentator: Jason Bell (Vanderbilt University)

2. Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking

Chair: Thomas W. Peard (Baker University)
Title: "Deductive vs Inductive Arguments: A Viable Distinction?"
Speaker: Robert H. Ennis (University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign)
Title: "Defining Critical Thinking: Problems and a Proposal"
Speaker: Don Hatcher (Baker University)
Commentator: Mark Weinstein (Montclair State University)

A Business Meeting will follow the sessions

3. Association for Symbolic Logic, Contibuted Session I

4. Convivium: The Philosophy and Food Roundtable

Topic: What Is What You Eat? - Food Production and Ontology
Chair: Ray Boisvert (Siena College)
Speaker: Paul Thompson (Purdue University)
Commentator: Jeremy Iggers (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

5. American Society for Value Inquiry

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Bernard Gert, Morality: Its Nature and Justification
Chair: Thomas Magnell (Drew University)
Speaker: John Deigh (Northwestern University)
Speaker: James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame)
Responding: Bernard Gert (Dartmouth University)

6. Karl Jaspers Society of North America

Topic: The Loving Struggle: The Philosophical Communication of Karl Jaspers, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger
Chair: Richard M. Owsley (University of North Texas)
Speaker: Richard M. Owsley (University of North Texas)
Speaker: Peg Birmingham (DePaul University)
Speaker: Theodore Kisiel (Northern Illinois University)

7. International Institute for Field-Being

Topic: Field-Being and the Middle Way
Chair: Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University)
Title: "The Obsession with Definiteness: The Middle Way of Field-Being"
Speaker: Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University)
Title: "Philosophy of Language, a Middle Way"
Speaker: Laura Weed (College of St. Rose)

8. American Indian Philosophy Association

Topic: American Indian Identity and Environment
Chair: Anne Waters (Texas Woman’s University)
Title: "The Hidden Path from Dream to Reality"
Speaker: Davie Martinez (University of Minnesota)
Commentator: Shari Collins-Chobanian (Arizona State University West)
Commentator: Michael Brown (University of Minnesota)

9. Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, Co-Sponsored by the APA Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the Profession

Topic: The Philosopher as Public Intellectual and/or Political Activist
Chair: Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Title: "Moral Expertise? Constitutional Narratives and Philosophical Arguments"
Speaker: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
Title: "The Philosopher in the Market Place"
Speaker: Jorge Gracia (University at Buffalo)
Title: "Is a Public Intellectual an "Applied" Intellectual?"
Speaker: Linda Martín Alcoff (Syracuse University)
Title: "Professional Societies and Social Activism"
Speaker: David L. Hull (Northwestern University)

10. Søren Kierkegaard Society

Topic: Reason, Paradox and Love in Kierkegaard’s Work
Chair: Gordon Marino (St. Olaf College)
Title: "Faith, Paradox, Reason and the Argumentum Spiritus Sancti in Climacus and Kierkegaard"
Speaker: Alexander Pruss (University of Pittsburgh)
Title: "The Centrality of Love in Kierkegaard’s Work"
Speaker: John D. Glenn (Tulane University)
Title: "Kierkegaard and Lonergan on Intellectual Corruption"
Speaker: George Connell (Concordia College)

11. Society for Systematic Philosophy

Topic: Book Symposium: Glenn Magee’s Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition
Chair: Gregory R. Johnson (Spelman College)
Speaker: Clark Butler (Purdue University/Indiana University, Fort Wayne)
Speaker: Cyril O’Regan (University of Notre Dame)
Responding: Glenn Magee (Georgia State University)

12. North American Kant Society and Leibniz Society of North America