Chair: John M. Rose

Speakers: Kym Maclaren, "The Multiple Intentionality of Actions, Ensuing Metaphysics, and Ontology"

David Ciavatta, "The Will as a Practical Proof of Idealism: Hegel on the Ontological and Epistemological Ramifications of the Institution of Property"

Lambert Stepanich, "The Limitation of Existence"

Bill Martin, "Chess in Philosophy"

Chair: Lenn E. Goodman

Speakers: Randi Rashkover

Joshua Golding

Comments: Lenn E. Goodman

Chair: Stephen Macedo

Speaker: Catherine MacKinnon, "Gender Domination and Ethnic Exclusion"

Comments: Clifford Orwin, Leif Wenar

Chair: Steven K. Strange

Speakers: Edward Halper

Mitchell Miller

Chair: Charles D. Kay

Speaker: Yong Huang, "Confucian Love and Global Ethics"

Respondent: Kelly James Clark

Speaker: Kate Rogers, "Christian Conceptions of Love"

Respondent: Robin Wang

Speakers: Robert Elliot

Elinor Mason

Stephen M. Gardiner, "The Real Tragedy of the Commons: Why Hardin’s Conclusions Are More Plausible Than His Arguments"

Martino Traxler, "A Travesty of a Commons: Argumentum ad Hardin"

Chair: Eduardo Mendieta

Speakers: Max Pensky

David S. Owen

Respondent: Martin Beck Matustik

Chair: Richard Owsley

Chair: G. John M. Abbarno

Participants: Alicia Juarrero, Kevin Stoehr, Ken Cust, Nancy Simco

Chair: Frank J. Hoffman

Speakers: Thomas Radice, "Speech and Silence in Early Chinese Thought"

Julianna I-Ching Lipschutz, "Buddhist Parinibbana, Selflessness, and Sarira: Examining Chinese Monks’ Mumification From Pali Agamas"

William Cullinan, "Anti-Realism Through the Teachings of Nagajuna and Hus-neng"

Frank J. Hoffman, "Representations of Enlightenment in Early Buddhism"

Discussant: Parimal Patil

Chair: John M. Rose

Speakers: Jason Kawall, "On the Arbitrariness of Realist Norms"

Eleanor Godway, "The Role of the Negative in Macmurray’s Epistemology"

Uriah Kriegal, "Kantian Appearances"

Chair: Aeon J. Skoble

Speaker: John Hasnas, "Reflections on the Minimal State"

Comments: Rick Greenstein, Daniel Shapiro

Moderator: Tziporah Kasachkoff

Speakers: Margaret Cuonzo, "The Value of Paradox in Teaching Philosophy"

David Fielding, "Credo of a Confucian Fundamentalist"

James Campbell, "Can Good Teaching Be Taught and Can Writing Help?"

James P. Friel, "Applying the Principles of Philosophy to the Everyday Lives of Students"

Response: Yvonne Railey

Speakers: Jennifer Hansen, "Prozac Diaries or Prosaic Diaries: Melancholy Matters"

George Graham, "Some Depressing Thoughts"

Convenor: John A. Loughney

Chair: Brian Leftow

Speakers: Storrs McCall

Yuri Balashov

Response: William Lane Craig

Chair: Melissa Williams

Speaker: James Tully, "The Concept of Political Exclusion"

Comments: Michael Blake

Chair: Philip Cronce

Speaker: Vincent Samar, "Autonomy, Gay Rights and Human Self-Fulfillment: An Argument for Modified Liberalism"

Comments: David Seiple

Speaker: Dan Williamson, "Identity and Ethics"

Comments: William Wilkerson

Chair: Ed Casey

Speaker: Robert Bernasconi, "Speaking with Myself as Other: Exoticism and the Phenomenology of the Primitive"

Comments: Linda Martin Alcoff

Chair: Susan Robbins

Speakers: James Pawelski and Kenneth Cust, "Philosophical Practice and Positive Psychology: Common Roots, Common Goals, Different Approaches"

Chair: Richard Winfield

Speakers: Whitten Watson

David P. Levine

Chair: W. Norris Clarke

Speaker: Montague Brown

Chair: Judith DeCew

Speaker: Martha Nussbaum, "On Shame and Social Norms"

Comments: Dan Kahane

Chair: D. Micah Hester

Speakers: Phil Oliver, "James and the Return to Life"

Jason G. Horn, "Literature, Philosophy, and William James"

Robert B. Talisse, "The Need for a Moral Equivalent of War"

William Gavin, "Vagueness, Death and Dying in the New Millennium"

Chair: Patrick L. Bourgeois

Speakers: William L. McBride

Ronald E. Santoni

David A. Sprintzen

Chair: Sachiko Murata

Speakers: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, "Imaganatio Creatrix and Creative Experience in the Human Significance of Life"

William Chittick, "Creativity in the Metaphysics of Ibn Arabi"

Mohammad Azadpur, "Islamic Philosophical Aesthetics and Phenomenology"

Chair: Elizabeth Minnich

Speakers: Jane Duran, "Astell and Masham: Two Women Philosophers"

Linda H. Damico, "Introducing Mary Austin"

Eleanor M. Godway, "Gifts, The Neglected Economy and the Tragedy of Masculation"

Chair: Kevin L. Stoehr

Commentator: Julie Van Camp

Speakers: Bence Nenay, "Perception and Action in Film"

Zsolt Batori, "Visual Images and a Cognitive Theory of Imagination: Transparency and Imagining Seeing"

Charles E. Emmer, "Kant’s Aesthetics and Fractal Art"

Margret Grebowicz, "‘Something Took Place’: Lyotard on Painting"

Chair: Kwang-Sae Lee

Speakers: Jin Young Park, "Crossing: Translating Texts and Textual Translation in Wonhyo and His Buddhist Philosophy"

Franklin Perkins, "Following Nature in Zhuangzi and Mensi"

Kwang-Sae Lee, "Some Reflections on Being-in-the-World"

Chair: Barbara Forrest

Speakers: Ronald N. Giere

Sandra D. Mitchell

Respondent: Robert T. Pennock

Chair: Thane Naberhaus

Speakers: Thomas Flynn, "Sartre, the Gaze, and the Quiet Violence of Psychoanalysis"

Richard Boothby, "Other Enjoyment: Eccentricity of the Lacanian Subject"

Comments: Ozgur Gursoy, Wilfried Ver Eecke

Chair: Ron Barnett

Speakers: Hava Siegelmann, "Beyond Classical Computation: Neural Networks"

Eric Steinhart, "Supermachines and Superminds"

Chair: Grace Clement

Speaker: Nicholas Hunt-Bull, "Porphyry on Why Philosophers Should be Vegetarians"

Comments: David Concepcion

Speaker: David DeGrazia, "A Broad-based Moral Case Against Consuming Meat from Factory Farms"

Comments: Melissa Clarke

Chair: George Carew

Participants: Joseph Betz, Thomas Grassey, Jan Narveson, Reginald Raymer

Chair: Laura Duhan Kaplan

Speakers: Rahul Kumar and David Silver, "Wronging Future Generations"

Comments: Michael McKenna, Jeff Jordan

Chair: Ed Mahoney

Speakers: Seymour Feldman, "Neoplatonic Themes in Judah Abarvanel (Leone ‘Ebreo)"

Jorge J. E. Gracia, "Ratio Quaerens Beatitudinem: Anselm on Rationality and Happiness"

Chair: Kevin L. Stoehr

Speakers: Nathan Wolfson, "Engendering Desire: Transformation, Narrative and Agency in Wim Winders’ Wings of Desire"

Robert Clewis, "The Role of Wonder in Terence Malick’s The Thin Red Line"

Jeannette Bicknell, "Orientalism as Aesthetic Failure: Bertolucci’s The Sheltering Sky"

Sean McAleer, "Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Environmental Virtue Ethics"

Chair: Umberto Eco

Speakers: Umberto Eco

Winner, Society Essay Competition

Chair: Christa Davis Acampora

Honoree: Amélie Oksenberg Rorty

Panelists: Seyla Benhabib

Carla Bagnoli

Ronald de Sousa

Chair: Paul E. Kidder

Speaker: Daniel A. Dombrowski, "Rawls and Religion: a Discussion"

Chair: Douglas Anderson

Speaker: Thomas Buford

Chair: Michelle Mason

Speakers: Richard Dees, "Morality Above Metaphysics: Philo’s Stance in Dialogue XII"

Lorne Falkenstein, "Hume’s Purposes in the ‘Natural History of Religion’"

Speaker: David Finkelstein

Comments: Brian Martine, David Weissman

Chair: G. John M. Abbarno

Speakers: Peter Boltuc

Ruth Lucier

Thomas Magnell

David Schrader

Chair: George Lucas

Chair: David Schiller

Speakers: Neal Weiner

Robert Halliday

Chair: Jorge Garcia

Speakers: Greg Moses, "On the Question of White Identity: Abolition or Reform?"

Lucius Outlaw, "Rehabilitation of Racial Whiteness"

John H. McClendon, "Race and the Dialectic of Phenotypic Description and Social Context: Race as Social Category"

Chair: Susan Robbins

Speakers: Ross Reed, "The Phoenix of Eros Arises From the Ashes of Theocentricity"

Lydia Amir, "How Can Philosophy Benefit from Philosophical Practice?"

Dona Warren, "The Central Thesis of Philosophical Counseling and the Halting Problem"

Chair: James Tuedio

Speaker: Susan Robbins, "Spirituality, Worldview Issues, and Philosophical Counseling"

Chair: Yong Huang

Speakers: Geling Shang, "Tong-The Key to Understand Zhuangzian Philosophy"

Lijun Yuan, "Rethinking the Concept of Ren and the Ethics of Care"

Tao Jiang, "The Storehouse Consciousness: A Buddhist Notion of the Unconsciousness"

Speakers: J. Ryan

Terri Elliott

Edward Halper

Kisor Chakrabarti

R. Puligandla

C. Chakrabarti

Chair: Norman Lillegard

Speakers: M. Jamie Ferreira, "Quinn on Works of Love and Kierkegaard’s Ethics"

Stephen Evans, "Philip Quinn on Kierkegaard as Divine Command Theorist"

John Davenport, "Quinn’s Kierkegaard: Some Questions about Neighbor-Love and Divine Commands"

Ed Mooney, "Quinn’s Polyphonic Self"

Response: Philip L. Quinn

Chair: Piers Howard

Speakers: Robert Elliot , "Priorities Among Interests: An Assessment"

Elinor J. Mason, "Rights and Interests"

Respondent: Gary Varner

Chair: John Corvino

Speakers: Robert Hood, "AIDS, Crisis, Activist Science"

Patrick Hopkins, "Biotechnology and the Social Construction Debate"

Comments: Wendy Lynne Lee

Chair: Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley

Speakers: Anne O’Byrne, "Pedagogy Without Project: Teaching Revolution and Responsibility"

Greg Johnson, "The Work of Teaching Continental Thought"

Bettina Bergo, "The Impossible Solution and the Mythemes of the Other"

Chair: Charles Parsons

Speakers: Michael Friedman

Paul Guyer

Response: Eckart Förster

Chair: Jan A. Cover

Speaker: Daniel Garber, "Leibniz and Idealism"

Chair: Albert Shansky

Speakers: Lik Kuen Tong, "The Notion of Jiao: Desire and Being in the Daodejing"

Gereon Kopf, "The Search for the Invisible: The Phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Dogen"

Chair: Amy Oliver

Speakers: David Alvarez, "Identidad Cultural-Política-Ética en el Caso Dominicano"

Anne Freire Ashbaugh, "Oikeiosis: Roig’s Environmental Ethics as an Approach to Globalization"

Ofelia Schutte, "Feminist Responses to the Impact of Globalization in Latin America"

Edward Demenchonok, "Controversies of Globalization and Ethical Discourse in Latin America"

Ricardo Gómez, "The Ethical Presuppositions of Neoliberal Economics"

Comments: John A. Loughney

Chair: Sara Rappe

Speakers: Dirk Baltzly, "What Goes Up: Proclus Against Aristotle on the Fifth Element"

Helen Lang, "Reading Philoponus As A Philosopher and Christian"

John Phillips, "Plato’s ‘Disordered Motion’ in the Commentary Tradition"

Peter Lautner, "Sensus communis in Proclus and Ps.-Simplicius"

Chair: Thomas Magnell

Speaker: Joseph Margolis

Chair: William J. Gavin

Speakers: Phil Oliver, "‘Pure Experience’ and Personal Subjectivity: Compatible or Incompatible?"

James O. Pawelski, "‘On the Energies of Men [and Women]’: A New Approach From Positive Psychology"

Comments: John Lachs

Chair: David E. White

Speakers: Kevin C. Klement, "Russell on Disambiguating With the Grain"

Matthew McKeon, "Russell on Logical Truth and Modality"

Timothy Madigan, "Russell Among the Encyclopedists"

Chair: Judith Jones

Speaker: Chris van Haeften, "Extensive Temporal Atoms: Continuity and Discontinuity According to A. N. Whitehead"

Speakers: Debra Bergoffen

Margaret A. Simons

Response: Nancy Bauer

Chair: Allan Gotthelf

Speaker: Wayne A. Davis

Comments: Darryl Wright

Chair: Greg Moses

Speakers: Peggy Powell Dobbins, "Sumerian and Hebrew Insight into the Origins of Class Society"

William R. Jones, "Is God a White Racist? Revisited: Religion and Race in American Life"

Chair: Christopher Morris

Speakers: David Crocker

James Bohman

Comments: Christopher Morris

Chair: Jeanne Schuler

Speakers: Tom Jeannot, "Hegelian Marxism and the Utopian Imagination"

Andrew Kliman and Ted McGlone, "‘Value in Process’: On The Temporality and Internal Consistency of Marx’s Capital"

Patrick Murray, "Things Fall Apart: Systematic and Historical Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy"

Chair: Alan D. Schrift

Speakers: James Conant, "Emerson, Nietzsche and the Inhibitions of Democracy"

David Owen and Aaron Ridley, "Fate"

Thomas L. Dumm, "Loneliness in Emerson and Nietzsche"

Stanley Cavell, "New and Old in Nietzsche and Emerson"

Chair: Allen Speight

Speakers: Robert R. Williams, "Recognition, Right and Social Contract"

Michael Baur, "Fichte and Social Theory"

Scott Jenkins, "Fichte’s Deductions of Ethics and Right"

Chair: David A. Crocker

Speakers: Andreea Deciu

Gary Hagberg

Michael McKenna

Response: Michael Krausz

Chair: Randall Curren

Speakers: Peter Vallentyne

Julia Bartkowiak

Darrell Moellendorf

James Dwyer

Chair: H. Peter Steeves

Panelists: H. Peter Steeves and others

Chair: Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley

Speakers: Jorge J. E. Gracia, "The History and Status of Latin American Philosophy in the US"

Eduardo Mendieta, "Ways of Teaching Latin American Philosophy"

Susana Nuccetelli, "Using Latin American Philosophy in an Introductory Philosophy Course"

Anne Freire Ashbaugh, "Working with Diverse Students"

Chair: Lik Kuen Tong

Speakers: Cristal Hsiao-Hui Huang, "Tracing the Margins of Writing and the Disclosure of Field-Being"

Lori L. Witthaus, "Neither the Same Nor Different: The Problem of Personal Identity and Continuity in Theravada Buddhist Philosophy"

Albert Shansky, "Marxism, Existentialism and Buddhism: A Field-Being Journey of Ideas"

Chair: Tim Noone

Speakers: Tzvi Langerman, "Maimonides on Miracles"

Andre Goddu, "Principles of Natural Philosophy in Copernicus’ Critique of Geocentrism"

Chair: Victoria Davion

Speakers: Chris J. Cuomo

Trish Glazebrook

James P. Sterba

Response: Karen J. Warren

Chair: Charles Echelbarger

Speaker: Adolf Grunbaum with a panel of commentators

Chair: Angus Kerr-Lawson

Speakers: James Seaton, "Santayana in the Era of Postmodernism"

H. T. Kirby-Smith, "Santayana’s God"

Response: Irving Singer

Chair: Peimin Ni

Speakers: Stephen Rowe, "Cultivating Mutual Understanding—A Socratic Approach"

Robin Wang, "Daode Jing and Conflict Resolution"

Peimin Ni, "Why Say Sorry?—Philosophical Reflection on the US Spy Plane Incident"

Comments: Henry Rosemont

Chair: G. John M. Abbarno

Speaker: Laura Westra, "Obligations in International Human Rights Issues"

Comments: Betsy Postow

Chair: Carol Caraway

Speakers: David Benatar, "Two Views of Sexual Ethics: Promiscuity, Rape, and Pedophilia"

Raja Halwani, "Sexual Virtues"

Chair: Brian Schroeder

Speakers: Trish Glazebrook, "Making Nature: Aristotle and Restoration"

Michael Ruse, "Technological Images of Nature: Natural Images of Technology"

Timothy Engström, "Some Cinematic Orders of Nature: Loss, Restoration and Apocalypse"

Graham Parkes, "The Representation of Landscape in Digital Video"

Chair: Kevin Dodson

Speakers: Alun Munslow, Eric Nelson, Kevin Dodson