Title: Not For Sale: In Defense of Public Goods

Chair: Cheyney Ryan (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Anatole Anton (San Francisco State University)

"War, Peace, and Public Goods"

Speaker: Milton Fisk (Indiana University)

"International Public Goods"

Speaker: Nancy Holmstrom (Rutgers University)

"Women and Public Goods"

Chair: Douglas Portmore (California State University, Northridge)

Speaker: Ram Neta (University of Utah)

"Abductive Solutions to Cartesian Skepticism"

Speaker: Brian Ribeiro (West Virginia University)

"Cartesian Skepticism and the Epistemic Priority Thesis"

Speaker: Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling)

"The Structure of Skeptical Arguments"

Title: Pragmatist Voices on Terrorism and War

Chair: Kaarina Beam (Linfield College)

Speaker: Benjamin Gregg (University of Texas, Austin)

"Philosophical Pragmatism Contra Fundamentalist Terrorism"

Speaker: Patrick Shade (Rhodes College)

"Cultivating Hope in the Face of Terrorism"

Title: Terror and Terrorism: A Conversation on the Philosophical Issues of September 11

Chair: Wanda Teays (Mount St. Mary’s College)

Panelists: Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Dianne Romain (Sonoma State University)
Harriet Baber (University of San Diego)

Title: Hypertext and Cyberspace:

Chair and

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

Speaker: Nevena Ivanova (Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

"The Creation of Meaning in Hypertext"

Speaker: Iain McKenna (Concordia University)

"Cyberspace and Homo Faber: An Examination of Hannah Arendt and Digital Technology"

Title: Jaspers and His Contemporaries III: Jaspers and Voegelin

Chair: Keith Wayne Brown (University of North Texas)

Speakers: Paul Kidder, (Seattle University)

"Existenz and Symbol for Jaspers and Voegelin"

Patrick Brown (Seattle University)

"Historical Significance for Jaspers and Voegelin"

Commentor: Glen Hughes (Saint Mary's University at San Antonio)

Chair: Joseph Lynch (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)

Speaker: Alan Back (Kutztown University)

"Mushin and Violence in the Martial Arts"

Commentator: TBA

Speaker: Linda Bomstad (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)

"Feminism and the Martial Arts"

Commentator: TBA

Chair: Joseph Lynch (California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo)

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

"The Canine, the Human, and the Mental"

Commentator: Daniel A. Dombrowski (Seattle University)

Speaker: Mylan Engel, Jr. (Northern Illinois University)

"The Mere Considerability of Animals"

Commentator: Keri Gwen Coleman (University of British Columbia)

Title: Philosophy and the War on Terrorism

Chair: Robert Berman (Xavier University)

Speakers: Richard Dien Winfield (University of Georgia)
Joseph Prabhu (California State University, Los Angeles)

Chair: Lori Witthaus (California Institute of Integral Studies)

Speaker: Michael A. Sevel (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

"Locke’s Reply to Sellars"

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

"Cartesian Ethics and the Principle of Habituation"

Speaker: David Barnett (New College of Florida)

"Hempel’s Early Account of Intertheoretic Reduction"

Title: Marx, Philosophy, and History

Chair: Mark Bevir (University of California, Berkeley)

Speakers: Kevin Dodson (Lamar University)
Paul Thomas (University of California, Berkeley)
Allen Wood (Stanford University)

Title: Issues in Informal Logic and Critical Thinking

Chair: Donald Hatcher (Baker University)

Speaker: Jerry Cederblom (University of Nebraska at Omaha)

"Reason and Emotion in Argument"

Commentator: Mark Alfino (Gonzaga University)

Speaker: Bruce Davidson (Hokusei Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan)

"What Kind of Critical Thinking Best Suits Japan?"

Commentator: Sharon Bailin (Simon Fraser University)

Speaker: Jack R. Weinstein (University of North Dakota)

"An Eighteenth Century Informal Logic: Adam Smith’s Theory of Argumentation"

Commentator: Mark Battersby (Capilano College)

Title: Book Meets Critics: Roy Perkins (ed.), Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell

Chair: Peter Stone (University of Rochester)

Speaker: David E. White (St. John Fisher College)

"Russell on World War I and its Aftermath"

Speaker: Timothy Madigan (University of Rochester Press)

"Russell and World War II"

Speaker: Peter Stone (University of Rochester)

"Russell, the Cold War and American Militarism"

Chair: Adrian Mirvish (California State University, Chico)

Speaker: Ron Santoni (Denison University)

"Terror and its Permissibility: Sartre's Limits to Revolutionary Action"

Speaker: Lissa Rechtin (Psychiatry, Kaiser Hospital, San Francisco)

"Authenticity in the Psychiatrist-Patient Relationship"

Speaker: Greg Tropea (California State University, Chico)

"Deciding to be Surprised: Looking for Existence in Philosophical Counseling"

Title: In the Light of David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames: Focusing the Familiar Through Uncommon Conceptions of the Doctrine of the Mean in Confucianism and Platonic/Aristotelian Formulations

Chair and

Commentator: Thomas Sherman (Loyola Marymount University)

Speaker: Jason Wirth (Oglethorpe University)

"Mean Spirited: Reflections on Measure in and between Confucius and Aristotle"

Speaker: May Sim (Oklahoma State University)

"The Doctrine of the Mean in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Zhongyong"

Speaker: Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University)

"The Mean as Rounded Harmony and Strainless Freedom: A Field-Being Interpretation"

Title: Phenomenology and Contemporary French Thought

Chair: Peter Warnek (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Daniela Vallega-Neu (California State University, Stanislaus)

"Exorbitant Gazes: On Foucault’s Genealogies of Bodies"

Speaker: Andrew Mitchell (California State University, Stanislaus)

"The Extent of Living: Sending and Thanking in Heidegger and Derrida"

Commentator: Ben Pryor (University of Toledo)

Speaker: Ashley Pryor (University of Toledo)

"Strange Differences: Feminism and Phenomenology"

Commentator: Alejandro Vallega (California State University, Stanislaus)

Title: Author Meets Critics: David Strohmaier, The Seasons of Fire: Reflections on Fire in the West

Chair: Gary Varner (Texas A&M University)

Introduction: David Strohmaier (United States Forest Service, Department of Agriculture)

Critics: Peter List (Oregon State University)
Peter Morrison (Pacific Biodiversity Institute)
Deborah Slicer (University of Montana)
Daniel Holbrook (Washington State University)

Respondent: David Strohmaier (United States Forest Service, Department of Agriculture)

Title: Pedagogies for Teaching American Indian Students/Philosophies

Chair: Anne Waters (Independent Scholar)

Speaker: Robert Perea (Central Arizona College)

"On Teaching American Indian Philosophies"

Speaker: Maria Catalina (University of California, Santa Cruz)

"A Difference That Makes a Difference"

Speaker: Viola Cordova (Independent Scholar)

"Teaching Comparative American Indian and EuroAmerican Philosophy"

Speaker: Marilyn Notah Verney (Independent Scholar)

"Dine’ Thought, Community, and Academic Pedagogy"

Title: Urban Planning, Globalization, and Phenomenological Spaces

Chair: Maria Fannin (University of Washington)

Speaker: Christine Metzo (University of Kentucky)

"Chiasmatic Spaces of Globalization"

Speaker: Roger Paden (George Mason University)

"Modernism, Modernization, and Modern Urban Planning"

Speaker: Eric Buck (University of Kentucky)

"Wholeness and the Possibility of a Living Metaphysics of Planning"

Speaker: Gary Backhaus (Morgan State University)

"Towards a Geopsychology: The Topology of Therapeutic Landscapes and Marginal Consciousness"

Title: Nature and Time

Chair: John M. Rose (Goucher College)

Speaker: Seetha Burta (California State University, Fresno)

"Evolution and Morality"

Speaker: Melissa Clark (College of St. Rose)

"The Space-Time Image: the Case of Bergson, Deleuze, and Memento"

Speaker: Shannon M. Mussett (Villanova University)

"Pure Externality: Nature in Hegel and de Beauvoir"

Speaker: Ronald A. Lindsay (Georgetown University)

"Sensible and Desperate Knaves in The Way of the Gun"

Speaker: Bill Parmeleau (University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg)

"Existentialism and Film"

Commentator: James Harold (Washington University)

Speaker: Sheryl Tuttle Ross (Edgewood College)

"Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death: Could This be a Feminist Film?"

Speaker: Tiffany Sutton (Independent Scholar, St. Louis, Missouri)

"The Marvelous and Melies"

Commentator: Sally Markowitz (Willamette University)

Title: Thomas Reid in Philosophical and Historical Context

Chair: Paul Tomassi (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)

Speaker: Paul Wood (University of Victoria, Canada)

"Thomas Reid: A Life Reconsidered"

Commentator: TBA

Speaker: James VanCleve (Brown University)

"Is Reid a Direct Realist?"

Commentator: Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College)

Speaker: James Harris (St. Catherine’s College, Oxford)

"Thomas Reid and the Limits of Philosophy"

Commentator: Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California)

Speaker: John Greco (Fordham University)

"Reid and Moore on Skepticism"

Commentator: Terence Cuneo (Seattle Pacific University)