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Proceedings And Addresses
January, 2002 (Volume 75, Issue 3)

Pacific Division Seventy-sixth Annual Meeting Program


Seattle, Washington
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.

 

Saturday, March 30, 2002

Registration

8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Book Displays

8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Placement Center

8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Interview Room

8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Group Meetings

1:00 p.m.

Radical Philosophy Association, Session II

4:00 p.m.

Society for Skeptical Studies. Session II

Society for the Advancement of

American Philosophy

Society for Women in Philosophy, Session II

Society for Philosophy and Technology, Session II

Karl Jaspers Society of North America

Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts

6:00 p.m.

Society for the Study of Ethics & Animals

Society for Student Philosophers, Session II

Society for the Philosophy of History

Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking

The Bertrand Russell Society

Sartre Society

Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

Western Phenomenology Conference

International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session II

American Indian Philosophy Association

Society for Philosophy and Geography

Society for Systematic Philosophy, Session II

8:00 p.m.

Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session II

Society for the Philosophic Study of Contemporary Visual Arts, Session II

Session VII - Saturday Morning, March 30, 2002

A. Author Meets Critics: James Sterba, Three Challenges to Ethics

9:00 a.m. - noon

Chair: Mary Anne Warren (San Francisco State University)

Critics: Marilyn Friedman (Washington University, St. Louis)
Gerald Doppelt (University of California, San Diego)
Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)

Author: James Sterba (Notre Dame University)

B. Author Meets Critics: 2001 APA Book Prize Winner — Charles Siewert, The Significance of Consciousness
(Special session sponsored by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research)

9:00 a.m. - noon

Chair: Richard Wollheim (University of California, Berkeley)

Critics: Joseph Levine (The Ohio State University)
Glen Braddock (SUNY, Albany)

Author: Charles P. Siewert (University of Miami)

C. Invited Session: Gender and Terrorism (Co-sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Women and the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs)

9:00 a.m. - noon

Chair: Susan Brison (Dartmouth College)

Panelists: Robin Morgan (Independent Scholar and Author)
Virginia Held (CUNY Graduate Center)
Carol Gould (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Angelia Means (Dartmouth College)

D. Invited Symposium: Comparative Philosophy
(Special session sponsored by the APA Committee on Asians/Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies)

9:00 a.m. - noon

Chair: Chenyang Li (Central Washington University)

Speakers: Joel Kupperman (University of Connecticut)

"The Purposes and Functions of Comparative Philosophy"

Walter Benesch (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

"Comparative Philosophy as the Tractals and Feedback Loops of Philosophical Space"

Samuel Wheeler III (University of Connecticut)

"‘Continental’ and ‘Analytic’"

Commentator: Peimin Ni (Grand Valley State University)

E. Colloquium: Contemporary Metaphysics

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Paul Teller (U.C. Davis)

Speaker: Peter B.M. Vranas (Iowa State Unviersity)

"Time Travel: Two Kinds of Ability Paradoxes"

Commentator: Theodore Sider (Syracuse University)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Amie Thomasson (University of Miami)

Speaker: Carl Gillett (Illinois Wesleyan University)

"Defending Fundamentality: A Modern Argument for Simples"

Commentator: Jay Atlas (Pomona College)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: John Sanders (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Speaker: John O’Neal (Rice Univerity)

"Parts of Levels"

Commentator: Linda Wetzel (Georgetown University)

F. Colloquium: Sexuality, Speech and Society

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Michele Dumont (Mount Saint Mary’s College)

"Premarital Sex and Exploitation in a Liberal Society"

Speaker: David Gilboa (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh)

Commentator: H.E. Baber (University of San Diego)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Betsy Decyk (California State University, Long Beach)

Speaker: Jami Anderson (University of Michigan, Flint)

"A Unique Propensity to Engage in Homosexual Acts"

Commentator: Jim Stramel (Santa Monica College)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Jennifer Eagan (California State University, Hayward)

Speaker: Nancy Bauer (Tufts University)

"How to Do Things With Pornography"

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

G. Colloquium: Contemporary Continental Philosophy

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Noam Cook (San Jose State University)

Speaker: P. Sven Arvidson (Seattle University)

"Moral Attention and Compassion in Encountering You: Gurwitsch and Buber"

Commentator: Gary Backhaus (Morgan State University)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Tim Adamson (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Christine R. Metzo (University of Kentucky)

"Living in the Material World"

***winner of a graduate student ‘outstanding paper’ award***

Commentator: Greg Johnson (Pacific Lutheran University)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Christina Hendricks (University of Wisconsin, Rock County)

Speaker: Dianna E. Taylor (John Carroll University)

"The Emancipatory Potential of Michel Foucault’s ‘Normative Sensibility’"

Commentator: Joseph Cronin (Thomas More College)

H. Colloquium: Race, Rights and Hate: Issues in Political Philosophy

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Andrew Koppelman (School of Law, Northwestern University)

Speaker: David Reidy (The University of Tennessee)

"Hate Crimes, Oppression and Legal Theory"

Commentator: Fernando Teson (College of Law, Arizona State University)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Terrance MacMullan (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Ronald J. Mallon (The University of Hong Kong)

"Does Race Travel?"

Commentator: Paul C. Taylor (University of Washington)

11:00 a.m.

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

Speaker: Ted W. Stolze (California State University, Hayward)

"Human Rights, Universalism, and Self-Emancipation"

Commentator: Paul M. Hughes (University of Michigan, Dearborn)

I. Colloquium: Kantian Themes

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Mihaela Cabulea (Stanford University/ Babes-Bulyai University, Romania)

Speaker: Houston Smit (University of Arizona)

"Kant’s Conception of Absolute Spontaneity"

Commentator: Julian Wuerth (University of Cinncinati)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Marcus Verhaegh (California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo)

Speaker: Martin Schönfeld (University of South Florida)

"On Kant’s Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God (1763): How Many Possible Arguments are There - One or Two?"

Commentator: Andrew Chignell (Yale University)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: David Shoemaker (CSU, Northridge)

Speaker: David R. Cummiskey (Bates College)

"Sex, Suicide, and Two Conceptions of Dignity"

Commentator: Lori Alward (Pace University)

noon

Chair: Tamar Schapiro (Stanford University)

Speaker: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)

"Kant on Arrogance and Self-Respect"

Commentator: Bernard Reginster (Brown University)

J. Colloquium: Sensation and Perception

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Melinda Hogan (University of British Columbia)

Speaker: Richard J. Hall (Michigan State University)

"If It Itches, Scratch"

Commentator: David H. Sanford (Duke University)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Jonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego)

Speaker: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)

"A Light Theory of Color"

Commentator: Paul Skokowski (Stanford University)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Dan Kaufman (University of Florida)

Speaker: Deborah Brown (The University of Queensland)

"Representation and Material Falsity in Cartesian Sensations"

Commentator: Amy Schmitter (University of New Mexico)

Noon

Chair: Marcia Cavell, (University of California, Berkeley )

Speaker: Barbara G. Montero (Georgia State University)

"Proprioception as an Aesthetic Sense"

Commentator: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia )

Luncheon Meeting
For 2002 and 2003 Program Committee Members

noon - 1:30 p.m.

Session VIII - Saturday, Early Afternoon, March 30, 2002

A. Author Meets Critics: Alfred R. Mele, Self-Deception Unmasked

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Chair: Dion Scott-Kakures (Scripps College and Claremont Graduate University)

Critics: William J. Talbott (University of Washington)
James Friedrich (Psychology, Williamette University)

Author: Alfred R. Mele (Florida State University, Tallahassee)

B. Invited Symposium: Hedonism and the Good Life

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Chair: Angela Smith (University of Washington, Seattle)

Speaker: Fred Feldman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

"Attitudinal Hedonism and the Shape of Life"

Commentators: Connie Rosati (University of California, Davis)
Elinor Mason (University of Colorado, Boulder)

C. Invited Symposium: Medieval Theories of Efficient and Final Causality

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Chair: Linda Peterson (University of San Diego)

Speakers: Calvin Normore (University of California, Los Angeles)
Marilyn McCord Adams (Yale University)
Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder)

D. Invited Paper: Philosophy of Language

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Chair: Alva Noë (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Speaker: David Chalmers (University of Arizona)

"The Foundations of Two Dimensional Semantics"

Commentators: Stephen Schiffer (New York University)
John Perry (Stanford University)

E. Invited Panel: Teaching Feminism
(Special session sponsored by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy)

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Chair: Erin McKenna (Pacific Lutheran University)

Panelists: Yoko Arisaka (University of San Francisco)
Kaarina Beam (Linfield College)
Norah Martin (University of Portland)
Jeff Gauthier (University of Portland)

Organizer: Jackie Kegley

F. Colloquium: Theism and the Problem of Evil

Chair: Andrew Eshleman (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)

1:00 p.m.

Speaker: Klaas Johannes Kraay (University of Toronto)

"William Rowe’s A Priori Argument From Evil"

***winner of a graduate student ‘outstanding paper’ award***

Commentator: Wesley Morriston (University of Colorado, Boulder)

2:00 p.m.

Speaker: Mylan Engel Jr. (Northern Illinois University)

"The Real Logical Problem Evil Poses For The Theist"

Commentator: Dean Zimmerman (Syracuse University)

3:00 p.m.

Speaker: Michael Tooley (University of Colorado, Boulder)

"The Argument from Evil: The Inductive Step"

Commentator: Steven Wykstra (Calvin College)

G. Colloquium: Perspectives on Western and Non-western Thought

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Sarah Berry (Seattle University)

Speaker: Wendy C. Hamblet (California State University, Stanislaus)

"Paradise Lost and the Question of Legitimacy"

Commentator: Jeffrey Paris (University of San Francisco)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Bruce Milem (SUNY, New Paltz)

Speaker: Christopher W. Gowans (Fordham University)

"Buddhist Perspectives on Rawl’s Overlapping Consensus"

Commentator: Lisa Blasch (University of Oregon)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Steven Brence (Oregon State University)

Speaker: Peter Gratton (DePaul University)

"What, Then, is African Philosophy? A Critical Project in Double Gesture"

Commentator: Anika Simpson (University of Memphis)

H. Colloquium: Political Philosophy

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Paul Weirich (University of Missouri, Columbia)

Speaker: Luc Bovens (University of Colorado, Boulder)

"Welfare, Voting and the Constitution of a Federal Assembly: A Monte Carlo Simulation"

Commentator: Don Fallis (University of Arizona)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Eric Brandon (Wake Forest University)

Speaker: Wayne M. Martin (University of California, San Diego)

"Is Fichte a Social Contract Theorist?"

Commentator: Susan Meld Shell (Boston College)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Mika LaVaque-Manty (University of Michigan)

Speaker: Rieber Steven (Georgia State University)

"Democracy and Equal Consideration"

Commentator: A. Payrow Shabani (University of Ottawa)

I. Invited Panel: Mentoring for Diversity: A Workshop for those Interested in Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Faculty and Student Population in Philosophy
(Special session co-sponsored by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness and APA Committee on the Status of Women)

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Session IX - Saturday Late Afternoon, March 30, 2002

J. Invited Paper: Internal Reasons

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Chair: Debra Satz (Stanford University)

Speaker: Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University)

"Internal Reasons and Political Liberalism"

Commentators: Arthur Kuflik (University of Vermont)

Philip Pettit (Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University)

K. Colloquium: Testimony and Belief

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Richard Greene (Weber State University)

Speaker: Jennifer Lackey (Pomona College)

"Testimonial Knowledge and the Infant/Child Objection"

Commentator: Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: Roger Florka (Ursinus College)

Speaker: Thomas P. Kelly (Harvard Society of Fellows)

"The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement"

Commentator: Ralph Wedgwood (Massachusetts Institute Technology)

L. Colloquium: Semantic Anti-Realism

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Sara Waller (California State University, Dominguez Hills)

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

"Anti-Realism and Possibility"

Commentator: Michael Wolf (Kalamazoo College)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: David Hills (Stanford Univesity)

Speaker: Alexa Lee (University of California, Davis)

"Anti-Realism and Normativity"

Commentator: Matt Mcadam (Georgetown University)

M. Symposium: Desgabets

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Chair: Edwin Curley (University of Michigan)

Speaker: Monte L. Cook (The University of Oklahoma)

"Desgabets on the Creation of Eternal Truths"

Commentators: Patricia Easton (Claremont Graduate University)
Tad Schmaltz (Duke University)

N. Symposium: Contrastive Knowledge

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Chair: Rod Bertolet (Purdue University)

Speaker: Jonathan M. Schaffer (Unversity of Massachusetts, Amherst)

"Contrastive Knowledge"

Commentators: Mark Heller (Southern Methodist University)
Ram Neta (University of Utah)

O. Colloquium: Non-Cognitivism

4:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Adrienne Martin (University of North Carolina)

Speaker: Michael R. Ridge (University of Edinburgh)

"Non-Cognitivism and Agent-Centered Value"

Commentator: Mark van Roojen (University of Nebraska )

5:00 p.m.

Chair: John Tresan (University of Florida)

Speaker: Leonard A. Kahn (University of California, Irvine)

"Moral Disagreement and Non-Cognitivism About Moral Judgments"

***winner of a graduate student ‘outstanding paper’ award***

Commentator: Robert Johnson (University of Missouri)

 

P. ADDED SESSION: Asian American Politics and Community

(Sponsored by the APA committee on Asians/Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies)

4:00 p.m. in VASHON II

Chair: David H. Kim (University of San Francisco)

Speakers:Emily Lee (SUNY, Stonybrook)

"The Meaning of Visible Differences of the Body"

Gary Mar (SUNY, Stonybrook )

'"'...Divided We Fall': Lessons from Pearl Harbor about Preserving Civil Liberties in the Aftermath of Terror"

Robert S. Shimabukuro (Seattle-based Writer and Historian)

"The Philosopher in the Community"


Copyright 2001, The American Philosophical Association.
Last revised:
March 12, 2002