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January, 2002 (Volume 75, Issue 3)
Pacific Division Seventy-sixth Annual Meeting Program
March 27-March 31, 2002
Principal papers in Colloquia and Symposia were selected after blind review of all contributions. Participants in Invited Papers, Invited Symposia, Invited Discussion and Author Meets Critics meetings were invited by the Program Committee. Participants in meetings arranged by APA Committees or Prize Committees were selected by those Committees.
The Westin consists of two separate towers, each with its own elevator. "N" and "S," inscribed after meeting rooms’ names, direct you to take North Tower Elevator or South Tower Elevator.
Friday, March 29, 2002
Registration
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Book Displays
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Placement Center
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Interview Room
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Presidential Address
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Presidential Reception
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Group Meetings
International Institute for Field-Being, Session II
Philosophy of Time Society
Leibniz Society of North America
North American Kant Society
North American Spinoza Society, Session II
North American Nietzsche Society
North American Society for Social Philosophy, Session II
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Graduate Student Session
Society for Women in Philosophy, Session I
Hume Society
Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, co-sponsored by the APA Committee on International Cooperation
Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, co-sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in the Profession
Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session IRadical Philosophy Association, Session I
Breakfast
Meeting of APA Board Chair And
APA Diversity Committee Chairs
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Session IV - Friday Morning, March 29, 2002
A. Author Meets Critics: Jeffrey Foss, Science and the Riddle of Consciousness
9:00 a.m. - noon
Chair: Patricia Churchland (University of California, San Diego)
Critics: Tony
Bell (Neuroscience, The Salk Institute)
Ilya Farber (George Washington University)
Steven R. Quartz (Division of Humanities and Social
Sciences, California Institute of Technology)
Author: Jeffrey Foss (University of Victoria)
B. Author Meets Critics: Jeffrey King, Complex Demonstratives
9:00 a.m. - noon
Chair: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)
Critics: Ernie
Lepore (Rutgers University)
James Higginbotham (University of Southern California)
Mark Richard (Tufts University)
Author: Jeffrey King (University of California, Davis)
C. Invited Symposium: New Work on Property Theory
9:00 a.m. - noon
Chair: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College)
"Conceptual Spaces: A New Approach to Properties"
Speaker: Graham Oddie (University of Colorado Boulder)
"Supervenience, Reduction, Convexity"
Commentator: Chris Swoyer (University of Oklahoma)
D. Invited Symposium: Women Philosophers in the 17th and 18th Centuries
9:00 a.m. - noon
Chair: Eileen O’Neil (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Speaker: Lilli Alanen (Uppsala University, Sweden)
"Descartes and Elisabeth: A Philosophical Dialogue?"
Commentator: Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University)
Speaker: Jacqueline Broad (Monash University)
"Adversaries or Allies? Occasional Thoughts on the Astell-Masham Exchange"
Commentators: Sarah
Hutton (Middlesex University)
Catherine Wilson (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Karen Detlefsen (University of Pennsylvania)
"Emilie du Châtelet on the Use of Hypothesis in Natural Philosophy"
Commentator: Alan Gabbey (Columbia University)
E.
Invited Panel: Race, Reparations and
Group Rights
(Special session sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy
and Law)
9:00 a.m. - noon
Chair: Joan MacGregor (Arizona State University)
Panelists: Howard
McGary (Rutgers University)
Bernard Boxill (University North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Angelo Corlett (California State University, San Diego)
Rebecca Tsosie (Law, Arizona State University)
Robert Fullinwider (Institute for Philosophy and Public
Policy, University of Maryland)
9:00 a.m.
Chair: Sherrill Begres (Indiana University, Pennsylvania)
Speaker: Maria W. Merritt (National Institutes of Health)
"Moral Conflict in Clinical Research"
Commentator: Wanda Teays (Mount St. Mary’s College)
10:00 a.m.
Chair: Leslie Francis (University of Utah)
Speaker: Sara L. Goering (California State University, Long Beach)
"Beyond the Medical Model? The Disability Rights Movement and the Exception for the ‘Profoundly Impaired’"
Commentator: Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University)
11:00 a.m.
Chair: Eduardo Wilner (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
Speaker: Elizabeth Harman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Can We Do Applied Ethics First? Why We Can And Should Do Applied Ethics Before Settling the Questions in Ethical Theory and Meta-Ethics"
Commentator: Donald Wilson (University of Southern California)
9:00 a.m.
Chair: Tony Chu (Metropolitan State College, Denver)
Speaker: Mark E. Kalderon (University College, London University)
"The Open Question Argument, Frege’s Puzzle, and Lebniz’s Law"
Commentator: Peter Alward (University of Lethbridge)
10:00 a.m.
Chair: Luca Struble (UCLA)
Speaker: Peter Baumann (Swarthmore College)
"BBP ——> BP"
Commentator: Susana Nuccetelli (St. Cloud State University)
11:00 a.m.
Chair: Panayot Butchvarov (University of Iowa)
Speaker: Timothy A. Black (California State University, Fresno)
"A Moorean Response to Skepticism"
Commentator: Kirk Ludwig (University of Florida)
H. Colloquium: Hegel and After
9:00 a.m.
Chair: Omar Dahbour (Hunter College)
Speaker: Jay A. Gupta (University of Toronto)
"Hegel on Logic and Determinacy"
Commentator: George H. Wright (University of Wisconsin, Superior)
10:00 a.m.
Chair: Emrys Westacott (Alfred University)
Speaker: Roy Brand (New School For Social Research)
"Discontinuous Continuity: Schlegel’s Fragmentary Project"
***winner of a graduate student ‘outstanding paper’ award***
Commentator: Morgan Meis (New School University)
11:00 a.m.
Chair: Carol Skrenes (University of California, Irvine)
Speaker: Kory P. Schaff (University of California, San Diego)
"McDowell’s Hegelianism Revisited"
***winner of a graduate student ‘outstanding paper’ award***
Commentator: Walter Hopp (University of Southern California)
I. Colloquium: Reasons and Motivation
9:00 a.m.
Chair: Gary Watson (University of California, Riverside)
Speaker: Eric Wiland (University of Missouri, St Louis)
"Psychologism, Practical Reason, and the Possibility of Error"
Commentator: Frederick Stoutland (St. Olaf College and Uppsala University, Sweden)
10:00 a.m.
Chair: Justin D’Arms (Ohio State University)
Speaker: Adina Roskies (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Are Ethical Judgments Intrinsically Motivational? Lessons from ‘Acquired Sociopathy’"
***winner of a graduate student ‘outstanding paper’ award***
Commentator: Don Loeb (University of Vermont)
11:00 a.m.
Chair: Paul Hurley (Pomona College)
Speaker: Donald C. Hubin (Ohio State University)
"Alien Desires, Whims and Values"
Commentator: Fred Schueler (University of New Mexico)
9:00 a.m.
Chair: Michael Fara (Cornell University)
Speaker: Teresa Britton (Eastern Illinois University)
"A Critique of an Argument for A Priori Fallibilism"
Commentator: Robin Jeshion (University of Southern California)
10:00 a.m.
Chair: David Truncellito (Arkansas State University)
Speaker: Tomoji Shogenji (Rhode Island College)
"The Problem of Independence in Justification by Coherence"
Commentator: Branden Fitelson (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
11:00 a.m.
Chair: Joseph Tougas (Evergreen State University)
Speaker: Daniel Weiskopf (Washington University, St. Louis)
"Ecological Rationality and Internalist Justification"
***winner of a graduate student ‘outstanding paper’ award***
Commentator: William Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College)
K.
Colloquium: Topics in Symbolic Logic
(Joint Session of the American Philosophical Association and
the Association for Symbolic Logic)
9:00 a.m. - noon
Chair: Richard Zach (University of Calgary)
Speaker: Katalin Bimbó (Australian National University, Canberra)
"The Church-Rosser Property in Symmetric Combinatory Logic"
Speakers: Benedikt Löwe and Michael Möllerfeld (Universität Bonn and Universität Münster)
"Where Does the Complexity of Revision Come From?"
Speaker: Cyrus Nourani (Project Metaai)
"Virtual Tree Computing, Meta-contextual Logic, and Virtual Reality"
Luncheon
Meeting for APA Board of Officers
and Committee Chairs
Noon
Session V - Friday Early Afternoon, March 29, 2002
A. Author Meets Critics: Rosalind Hursthouse, On Virtue Ethics
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Chair: Carol Voeller (University of Maryland, Baltimore)
Critics: Julia
Annas (University of Arizona)
Julia Driver (Dartmouth College)
Christine Swanton (University of Auckland)
Author: Rosalind Hursthouse (University of Auckland)
B. Author Meets Critics: Michael Krausz, Limits of Rightness
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Chair: Andreea Dicieu (English, Carnegie-Mellon University)
Critics: Patricia
Hanna (University of Utah)
Bernard Harrison (University of Utah and University
of Sussex)
Michael McKenna (Philosophy and Religion, Ithaca College)
Ronald Moore (University of Washington)
Author: Michael Krausz (Bryn Mawr College)
C. Author Meets Critics: David Owen, Hume’s Reason
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Chair: Edwin McCann (University of Southern California)
Critics: Lorne
Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario)
Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania)
Antonia LoLordo (Rutgers University)
Author: David Owen (University of Arizona)
D. Invited Symposium: Wild Hearts: Feminism, Freedom and Dependency
1:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Chair: Barbara Andrew (University of Oregon )
Speaker: Eva Feder Kittay (SUNY Stony Brook)
"The Transparent Self and Women’s Freedom"
Speaker: Cynthia Willett (Emory University)
"Masculinity and Existential Freedom"
Speaker: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)
"Mid-Level Dependency"
E. Invited Symposium: Philosophy of Mathematics
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Chair: Marc Joseph (Mills College)
Speaker: Michael Resnick (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Holism and the Revision of Logic"
Commentator: Hartry Field (New York University)
Speaker: Charles Chihara (University of California, Berkeley)
"A Puzzle About Set Theory and What it Suggests About Mathematics"
Commentator: Mark Wilson (University of Pittsburgh)
F. Invited Symposium: Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective, and the Philosophy of Donald Davidson
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Chair: Bruce Vermazen (U.C., Berkeley)
Speakers: Barry
Stroud (University of California, Berkeley)
Tyler Burge (University of California, Los Angeles)
John McDowell (University of Pittsburgh)
Respondent: Donald Davidson (University of California, Berkeley)
G.
Invited Symposium: Medical Ethics and Terrorism
(Special session sponsored by the APA Committee
of Philosophy and Medicine)
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Chair: Kelly Fryer-Edwards (University of Washington)
Panelists: Tom
May (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Kenneth Kipnis (University of Hawaii)
Rosamond Rhodes (Mt. Sinai School of Medicine/CUNY Graduate
Center)
H. Colloquium: Philosophy of Psychology
1:00 p.m.
Chair: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)
Speaker: Robert D. Rupert (Texas Tech University)
"Challenges to the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition"
Commentator: Tadeusz Zawidzki (Ohio University)
2:00 p.m.
Chair: Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto)
Speaker: Nick Zangwill (University of Glasgow)
"The Essence of the Attitudes"
Commentator: Hans Muller (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
3:00 p.m.
Chair: Robert Batterman (Ohio State University)
Speaker: Sean J. Allen-Hermanson (Univerisity of Toronto)
"Animal Consciousness and Blindsight"
Commentator: Peter W. Ross (Cal Poly Pomona)
I. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
1:00 p.m.
Chair: Jan A. Cover (Purdue University)
Speaker: J. Noel Hubler (Lebanon Valley College)
"The Liar Paradox: A Failure of Representation"
Commentator: David Shier (Washington State University)
2:00 p.m.
Chair: Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University)
Speaker: Mark McCullagh (University of Guelph)
"Inferentialism and Object-Representation"
Commentator: John Vickers (Claremont Graduate University)
3:00 p.m.
Chair: Antonio Rauti (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Speaker: Elisabeth M. Camp (University of California, Berkeley)
"The Generality Constraint, Nonsense, and Categorial Restrictions"
***winner of a graduate student ‘outstanding paper’ award***
Commentator: Axel Mueller (Northwestern University)
J. Author Meets Critics: Robert Almeder, Harmless Naturalism
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Chair: Bruce Russell (Wayne State University)
Critics: Joseph
C. Pitt (Virginia Tech)
Risto Hilpinen (University of Miami)
Author: Robert Almeder (Georgia State University)
Session VI - Friday Late Afternoon, March 29, 2002
K. Invited Paper: Epistemology
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Chair: Tove Finnestad (SUNY at New Paltz)
Speaker: James Pryor (Harvard University )
"Is Moore’s Argument an Example of Transmission-Failure?"
Commentators: Stewart
Cohen (Arizona State University)
Michael Huemer (University of Colorado, Boulder)
L. Invited Paper: Renaissance Philosophy
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Chair: Benard Ikegwuoha (Seattle University)
Speaker: Brian Copenhaver (University of California, Los Angeles)
Commentators: Calvin Normore (University of California, Los Angeles)
"How Philosophy Lost Two of Its Centuries: The Case of Giovanni Pico"
M. Colloquium: Philosophy of Religion
4:00 p.m.
Chair: William Uzgalis (Oregon State University)
Speaker: Brian Leftow (Fordham University)
"Necessary Truth and the Mind of God"
Commentator: Sherry Deveaux (Lewis and Clark College)
5:00 p.m.
Chair: Rega Wood (Stanford University)
Speaker: Anthony P. Roark (Boise State University)
"Tarski and Klima: Conceptual Closure in Anselm’s Proof"
Commentator: Gyula Klima (Fordham University)
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Chair: Cheyney Ryan (University of Oregon)
Speaker: Roger Shiner (Okanagan University College)
"Legal Positivism and the Concept of Morality"
Commentators: Tracy
Edwards (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)
O. Symposium: Racial Profiling
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Chair: Virginia Warren (Chapman University)
Speaker: Michael D. Root (University of Minnesota)
"The Use of Race as a Proxy"
Commentators:
David Kim (University of San Francisco)
Kenneth Kipnis (University of Hawaii)
P. Symposium: Liberal Nationalism vs. Cosmopolitanism
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Chair: Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Speaker: Gillian G. Brock (The University of Auckland)
"Liberal Nationalism vs. Cosmopolitanism: Locating the Disputes"
Commentators: Kok-Chor
Tan (Center for Ethics and the Professions, Harvard
University)
Simon Cushing (University of Michigan, Flint)
Q.
Invited Panel APA Career Opportunities
Workshop for Graduate Placement Officers
(Special session sponsored by the APA Committee on Career Opportunities)
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Facilitators: George
Lucas (U.S. Naval Academy and Chair of the APA Committee
on Career Opportunities)
Stephanie Lewis (Independent Scholar, Princeton, N.J.)
Graduate placement officers in Ph.D. granting programs are invited to meet with chairs of hiring departments to work on improving cooperation and coordination between those who prepare future faculty and those who hire them. Among the issues to be discussed are how doctorate-granting departments can be effective in supporting their students’ job searches, and what skills, masteries, and intellectual interests help young philosophers to succeed in their initial jobs.
R.
Invited Panel: Online Teaching in Philosophy
(Special session sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy
in Two Year Colleges)
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Chair: Nina Rosenstand (San Diego Mesa College)
Panelists: Sharon
Crasnow (Riverside Community College)
David C. Ring (Orange Coast College)
Presidential Address
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Introduction: Vice
President Richard Wollheim
University of California, Berkeley
Speaker: President
Paul Churchland
University of California, San Diego
Presidential Reception
7:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.
This reception is for persons registered at the APA convention; guest tickets are available.