Title: Detecting Design in Nature

Chair: William Lane Craig (Talbot School of Theology)

Speakers: Rob Koons (University of Texas, Austin)
Robin Collins (Messiah College)
Del Ratzsch (Calvin College)

Chair: Richard Greene (Weber State University)

Speaker: William S. Larkin (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)

"Content Skepticism and Reliable Self-Knowledge"

Speaker: John Collins (East Carolina University)

"Introspective Self-Knowledge, Externalism, Skepticism, and the Twin Concepts Principle"

Speaker: Otávio Bueno (California State University, Fresno)

"Skepticism About Mathematical Knowledge: Is Mathematical Knowledge Just Modal Knowledge?"

Title: Philosophy and The War on Terrorism

Chair: Richard Dien Winfield (University of Georgia)

Commentator: Joseph Prabhu (California State University, Los Angeles)

Speakers: Robert Berman (Xavier University)
Katharina Dulckeit (Butler University)

Chair: Sherry Deveaux (Lewis and Clerk College)

Speaker: Steven Barbone (San Diego State University)

"A Spinozistic Account of Perversion"

Title: Creativity and Religion

Chair: Frank Nelson (Linfield College)

Speaker: Dale W. Cannon (Western Oregon University)

Title: The Elusive Nature of Human Consciousness

Chair: Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University)

Speaker: Glenn Braddock (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

"Intersubjectivity and the Methodological Problem of Privacy"

Speaker: Irina Tuuli (Boston University)

"Revealing Hidden Aggression"

Speaker: Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University)

"Sacred Space and the Methods of Science"

Discussant: Jane Duran (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Title: Desire and Reason in Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus

Chair: Melissa Clarke (College of St. Rose)

Speaker: Amy Coplan (Emory University)

"Reviving Plato: A Contemporary Moral Psychology"

Speaker: Adriel Trott (Villanova University)

"The Labor of Love: Non-Teleological Dialectic in the Symposium"

Speaker: Michael Shaw (Villanova University)

"Desiring Immortality: The Symposium’s Response to Participation"

Title: How Doing Philosophy with Children Has Affected My College Level Teaching

Chair: Sara Goering (California State University, Long Beach)

Panelists: Jana Mohr-Lone (Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children)
Tom Wartenberg (Mt. Holyoke College)
Debbie Whittaker (California State University, Long Beach)
Oliver Butterick (California State University, Long Beach)

Chair: Julian Lamont (University of Queensland, Australia)

Speaker: Dale Miller (Old Dominion University)

"Mill’s Socialism"

Commentator: Jonathan Riley (Tulane University)

Speaker: Adrian Walsh (University of New England, Australia)

"Money-measurement as a Moral Problem"

Commentator: Christi Dawn Favor (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

Title: "A Comparative Examination of the Issue of Irrationality and Practical Reasoning: In View of Davidson’s Account"

Chair: Bo Mou (San Jose State University)

Speaker: JeeLoo Liu (State University of New York, Geneseo)

"The Rational, the Irrational, and the Practical"

Speaker: He Li (Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

"On Some Recent Conceptions of Rationality"

Speaker: Yi Jiang (Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

"Davidson on Practical Reasoning and the Chinese Case"

Commentator: Bo Mou (San Jose State University)

Speaker: Edward Winters (University of Westminster)

"Imagination Restored"

Speaker: Sarah Worth (Furman University)

"Ethical and Aesthetic Considerations of Other People’s Icons"

Commentator: Rebecca Kukla (Carleton University/University of Victoria)

Speaker: Derek Matravers (Open University, U.K.)

"Modernism"

Commentator: Richard N. Manning (Carleton University/University of Victoria)

Title: Three Definitions of Technology: and Where People Fit In

Chair and

Commentator: Noam Cook ( San Jose State University; and Xerox PARC)

Speaker: Richard Keshen (University College of Cape Breton)

"On the Relationship Between Science and Technology"

Speaker: Rob Loftis (Auburn University)

"Defining Technology"

Speaker: Marcel Scheele (Delft University of Technology)

"Functions of Technical Artefacts: Where Users Come Into Play"

Title: Terrorism and Retaliation: Moral Philosophers Reflect on Current Events

Chair: Rodney Peffer (University of San Diego)

Panelists: Lawrence Hinman (University of San Diego)
William McBride (Purdue University)
Carol Gould (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Title: Feminism as a Meeting Place: Analytical and Continental Traditions

Chair and

Commentator: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)

Speaker: Cynthia Willett (Emory University)

"Styles of Subjectivity: Anglo-American, Continental, and Pragmatist Feminism"

Speaker: Georgia Warnke (University of California, Riverside)

"Hermeneutics or Postmodernism? Feminism and Continental Philosophies"

Speaker: Ann Cudd (University of Kansas)

"Revising Philosophy through the Wide-angle Lens of Feminism"

Speaker: Louise Antony (University of North Carolina)

"Fantasies for Empowerment and Entitlement: Analytic Philosophy and Feminism"

Title: September 11. The Ethical Implications

Chair: Ron Hirschbein (California State University, Chico & Walden University)

Speaker: Greg Moses (Marist College)

"No Reflex for Justice: Learning Global Citizenship in an Age of Terror"

Speaker: Curtis Peldo (California State University, Chico)

"Long After Virtue: An Aristotelian Critique of U.S. Leadership"

Speaker: Gail Presbey (University of Detroit, Mercy College)

"The Role of Neocolonialism in Shaping Arab Critics of the U.S.: Mahmood Mamdami’s Insight into the Current Crisis."

Title: Aesthetics, Chaos and the Sick Soul

Chair: David White (St. John Fisher College)

Speaker: Kenneth Inada (SUNY, Buffalo)

"Buddhist Aesthetics and the Nature of Chaos"

Commentator: Tim Madigan (University of Rochester Press)

Speaker: David White (St. John Fisher College)

"Field-Being and the Sick Soul"

Commentator: Peter Stone (Political Science, University of Rochester)

Chair: TBA

Speaker: Brian Ribiero (West Virginia University)

"Is Pyrrhonism Psychologically Possible?"

Speaker: Rose Cherubin (George Mason University)

"Do Zeno’s Arguments Challenge Aristotle’s Account of Motion?"

Chair: Scott R. Stroud (San Jose State University)

Speaker: Christian B. Miller (University of Notre Dame)

"Rortian Meta-Ethics and Meta-Ethical Relativism"

Speaker: Lori Witthaus (California Institute of Integral Studies)

"The Changing Vision of Time and Eternity in Early Indian Thought"

Speaker: Adrian Viens (University of Toronto)

"Bivalence, Buried Secrets, and the Regulative Assumptions of Inquiry"

Speaker: E. J. Coffman (University of Notre Dame)

"Causal Deviance and Intentional Action: A Reply to Velleman"

Title: Consciousness in Philosophy of Mind and Phenomenology: John Perry’s Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness and Charles Siewert’s The Significance of Consciousness

Chair: Risto Hilpinen (University of Miami)

Speakers: John Perry (Stanford University)
Charles Siewert (University of Miami)
David Woodruff Smith (University of California, Irvine)

Title: Plato, Politics, and the Good

Chair: Michael Shaw (Villanova University)

Speaker: Thom Brooks (University of Sheffield)

"Against Democracy: the Spectre of Plato"

Speaker: John Mouracade (Oklahoma Baptist University)

"Political Unity in the Republic, a Reply to Mayhew (and Aristotle)"

Speaker: Daniel C. Russel (Wichita State University)

"Plato and Seneca on Virtue as ‘Likeness to God’"

Title: Author Meets Critics: Nicholas Agar’s Life’s Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature

Chair: Daniel Holbrook (Washington State University)

Critics: Gary Varner (Texas A&M University)
Kevin DeLaplante (Iowa State University)
James Sterba (University of Notre Dame)
Christopher Preston (University of South Carolina)

Respondent: Nicholas Agar (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Chair: Douglas Geivett (Biola University)

Speaker: Robert Audi (University of Nebraska)

"The Ethics of Love and the Love of Others"

Commentators: Frances Howard-Snyder (Western Washington University)
Mark Nelson (University of Leeds, England)

Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University, Fullerton)

Speaker: Larry Wright, University of California (Riverside)

"Some Issues Concerning the Relation Between Reasoning and Explaining"

Speaker: Merrill Ring (California State University, Fullerton)

"The Strawsonian Objection to Sentences Being Truth-Bearers"

Panel: "Ordinary Language Philosophy at University of Washington in the 1950’s: Reminiscence and Discussion"

Charles Chihara (University of California, Berkeley)
Peter Radcliff (San Francisco State University)
Benjamin Tilghman (University of Kansas)
Elizabeth Wolgast (California State University, Hayward)

Title: Emptiness and Articulate Action in Asian Philosophy

Chair: Lori Witthaus (California Institute of Integral Studies)

Speaker: Sandra A. Wawrytko (San Diego State University)

"Chinese Philosophy’s Resonances with Post-Modern Science: Chan Insights on Emptiness from Master Hui-Neng"

Speaker: Lori Witthaus (California Institute of Integral Studies)

"Beings and Their Lokas: An Early Buddhist Perspective of Articulate Action"

Speaker: Scott R. Stroud (San Jose State University)

"Narrative and Articulate Action: Mythic Construction of Identity and Meaning in the Bhagavad-Gita and the Phaedrus"

Chair: Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)

Speakers: Ted Sider (Syracuse University)
John Hawthorne (Rutgers University)

"Locations"

Commentator: Kadri Vihvelin (University of Southern California)

Speaker: Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia)

"Now and Forever"

Commentator: Elizabeth Harman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker: Hud Hudson (Western Washington University)

"Moving Faster Than Light"

Chair: Kenneth Clatterbaugh (University of Washington)

Speaker: Michael Futch (Augusta State University)

2001 LSNA Essay Competition Winner

"Leibniz on Plenitude, Infinity, and the Eternity of the World"

Commentator: Gregory Brown (University of Houston)

Title: Kant’s Ethics and Anthropology

Chair: Lara Denis (University of California, Irvine)

Speaker: Patrick Kain (Purdue University)

"Prudential Reason in Kant’s Anthropology"

Speaker: Sean MacAleer (Central Michigan University)

"Toward a Kantian Virtue Ethics"

Commentator: Claudia Schmidt (Marquette University)

Chair: Steven Barbone (San Diego State University)

Speaker: Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Yale University)

"Parallelism and Idealism in Spinoza"

Speaker: Sherry Deveaux (Lewis and Clark College)

"Spinoza’s Definition of God"

Title: Nietzsche and Music

Chair: Robert C. Welshon (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)

Speaker: Tracy Strong (Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego)

"‘Hearing With One’s Eyes’: Nietzsche, Music and Transformation"

Speaker: John Carvalho (Villanova University)

"Dance of Dionysus: The Body in Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Music"

Speaker: Kathleen M. Higgins (University of Texas, Austin)

"Music or the Mistaken Life"

Speaker: Richard Schacht (University of Illinois, Urbana)

"Nietzsche, Music, Truth, Value"

Title: The Antigone and Social Philosophy

Chair: Barbara S. Andrew (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Tina Chanter (DePaul University)

"Antigone and the Uncanny"

Speaker: Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves (Morgan State University)

"Reflections on Hegel’s Antigones: Family, History, and the Philosophy of Right"

Speaker: Emily Zakin (Miami University of Ohio)

"Antigone and the Tragedy of the Universal"

Title: Pragmatist Responses to Racism and Nationalism

Chair: J. Brent Crouch (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Kimberly Garchar (University of Oregon)

"Du Bois’s Experienced Reality of Race"

Commentator: Lisa Yount (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Terrance MacMullan (University of Oregon)

"Dewey and Du Bois on the Meaning of Difference"

Commentator: Rochelle Green (University of Oregon)

Title: Philosophy of Science and Race: Overview and Relevance to Feminism

Chair: Ann Garry (California State University, Los Angeles)

Speaker: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)

Commentators: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College)
Jenny Faust (California State University, Los Angeles)
Jennifer Vest (University of California, Los Angeles)

Title: Hume’s Science of the Mind

Chair: Mark Collier (Stanford University)

Speaker: Anne Jacobson (University of Houston)

"Hume and the New Neuroscience: A Novel Reading of an Old Theory"

Speaker: Saul Traiger (Occidental College)

"Imagination and Legal Reasoning in Hume’s Science of Mind"

Title: Contemporary Paths to Socialism

Chair: James Lawler (SUNY, Buffalo)

Speaker: Peter Amato (Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia)

"Marxism, Globalization and Politics in Hardt and Negri’s ‘Empire’"

Speaker: Greg King (Independant Scholar)

"Toward a Radical Democracy"

Speaker: He Ping (Wuhan University, China)

"Rethinking Marx and Engels’ Oriental Path to Socialism"

Speaker: David Schweickart (Loyola University, Chicago)

"Getting From Here to There: Can We Imagine Revolution?"

Title: Philosophy in a Changing World: Cosmopolitanism, Democracy and Justice

Chair: Charles Moore (UCLA)

Speaker: Gillian Brock (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

"Cosmopolitanism Democracy and Justice: Held Versus Kymlicka"

Speaker: Leonard Harris (Purdue University)

"On Cosmopolitanism"

Speaker: Eddy Souffrant (Marquette University)

"Ethics, Cosmopolitanism and Informal Democracies"

Speaker: Olufemi Taiwo (Seattle University)

"TBA"

Title: Privacy and the Ethics of Security Technologies

Chair: TBA

Speaker: Judith DeCew (Clark University)

"Balancing Privacy and Public Safety in an Age of Technology"

Speaker: Anton Alterman (Baruch College, CUNY)

"The Ethics of Biometric Identification"

Commentator: Michael Smith (Unigroup of New York and LXNY)

Title: Sexual Ethics

Chair: Carol Quinn (Miami University of Ohio)

Speaker: Rita Alfonso (SUNY, Stony Brook)

"Making Queer Friends: Or When Is It Okay To Eat Straight Folk?"

Speaker: Mark Chekola (Minnesota State University, Moorhead)

"The Use and Misuse of Privacy in the Outing Debate"

Speaker: Mary Bloodsworth (Washington State University)

"Sexual Difference Theories and Lesbian Relationships: How Can an Ethics of ‘Difference’ Be Applied to Same-Sex Couples?"

Speaker: Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute, Chicago)

"Promiscuity and (Sexual) Temperance: How to Have Both"

Title: Realism/Antirealism in Philosophies of Mathematics and Science

Chair: Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University)

Speakers: Berit Brogaard (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)
Joe Salerno (Texas A&M University)

"To Be Is To Be Considered"

Speaker: Otavio Bueno (California State University, Fresno)

"Dissolving the Realism Issue in the Philosophy of Mathematics"

Speaker: Asher Seidel (Miami University)

"In Plain Sight"

Speaker: Giorgio Baruchella (University of Guelph)

"David Lewis’s Materialism and Mount Olympus"

Title: After the Exhaustion of the Paradigm of Critical Theory

Chair: Jeffrey Paris (University of San Francisco)

Speakers: Robert Birt (Morgan State University)
William S. Wilkerson (University of Alabama, Huntsville)
Jacqueline Martinez (Arizona State University)