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

Group Session IV
Friday, May 4, 2001
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM


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


1. North American Kant Society

Topic: Kant’s Ethics
Chair: Patrick Croskery (Ohio Northern University)
Title: "When Mercy Seasons Justice: Some Kantian Reflections"
Speaker: Sarah Holtman (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Title: "‘The Second Part of Morals’"
Speaker: Robert B. Louden (University of Southern Maine)

A Business Meeting will follow after the papers

2. Society for Women in Philosophy

Topic: Panel: Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly, edited by Sarah Hoagland and Marilyn Frye
Speakers: Alison Bailey (Illinois State University)
Jennifer Benson (Michigan State University)
Amber Katherine (Santa Monica Community College)
Crista Lebens (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
Wendy Lynne Lee (Bloomsburg University)
Jo Triglio (Bentley College)
Responding: Marilyn Frye (Michigan State University)
Sarah Hoaglund (Northeastern Illinois University)

3. Society for Analytical Feminism

Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)
Title: "Models and Reality: Towards an Answer to the Feminist Question in Science"
Speaker: Sharon Crasnow (Dept. of Communications, Norco Campus)
Commentator: Heidi Grasswick (Middlebury College)
Title: "Toward a Feminist Account of Testimony"
Speaker: Lisa Bergin (Michigan State University)
Commentator: Mark O. Webb (Texas Tech University)

4. Society for Philosophy and Technology

Topic: Don Ihde’s Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualizing Science
Speaker: Michiel Korthals (Wageningen University (The Netherlands))
Responding: Don Ihde (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

5. International Institute for Field-Being

Topic: Field-Being, Metaparadigm, and Being-in-the-World
Chair: Albert Shansky (Fairfield University)
Title: "Metaparadigm as Field-Being"
Speaker: David Miller (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse)
Title: "Some Reflections on Being-in-the-World"
Speaker: Kwang-Sae Lee (Kent State University)

6. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World

Topic: The Ethics of Reconciliation
Chair: Stiv Fleishman (George Washington University)
Title: "Reconciliation and Tolerance"
Speaker: Robert Paul Churchill (George Washington University)
Title: "Retribution and Reconciliation"
Speaker: David Crocker (University of Maryland at College Park)
Title: "Municipal Forgiveness"
Speaker: Stiv Fleishman (George Washington University)

8. North American Division of the Schopenhauer Society

Chair: Dale Snow (Loyola College in Maryland)
Title: "Schopenhauer: Music and the Emotions"
Speaker: Robert W. Hall (The University of Vermont)
Title: "Schopenhauer and Ascetic Will-lessness: Concluding the ‘Single Thought’"
Speaker: G. Steven Neeley, Esq. (Saint Francis College)
Title: "Parody, Polemics and Passion: An Essay on Philosophical Style"
Speaker: James Snow (Loyola College in Maryland)

9. Association for Symbolic Logic, Session II

10. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy

Chair: Anthony Preus (Binghamton University)
Title: "Oh Brother! The Fraternity of Rhetoric and Philosophy in Plato’s Gorgias"
Speaker: Roslyn E. Weiss (Lehigh University)
Title: "Philosophy as Liturgical Action: An Essay on Plato’s Politics"
Speaker: Gene Fendt (University of Nebraska, Kearney)

11. International Society for Environmental Ethics

Topic: The Environment and World Hunger
Title: "Combating Hunger in Developing Countries"
Speaker: Dank Banik (University of Oslo)
Title: "Poverty and the Environment"
Speaker: Nigel Dower (University of Aberdeen)
Title: "Virtue Ethics and the Environment"
Speaker: Rosalind Hursthouse (Open University(UK))
Commentator: John Zavodny (Unity College)

12. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

Topic: Comparative Approaches: Intention, Intuition, and Imagination in Asian Philosophies
Chair: David Jones (Kennesaw State University)
Title: "What Is It That Buddhists Think About? Intentionality and Conceptual Content in Late Buddhist Epistemology"
Speaker: Parimal Ganapati Patil (Emory University)
Title: "Confucian Thought and Language: A Pragmatic Picture"
Speaker: Marthe Chandler (DePauw University)
Title: "Stillness and Motion: Intention and Attunement in the Work of Shigenori Nagatomo"
Speaker: Harriette Grissom (Atlanta College of Art)