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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.
Sunday, March 31, 2002
Session X - Sunday morning, March 31, 2002
9:00 a.m.
Chair: Michael Ferejohn (Duke University)
Speaker: Travis L. Butler (Iowa State University)
"Empeiria in Aristotle"
Commentator: Richard Geenen (Westminster College)
10:00 a.m.
Chair: Christine Thomas (Dartmouth College)
Speaker: Blake Hestir (Texas Christian University)
"An Ancient ‘Conception’ of Truth: Aristotle’s Metaphysics"
Commentator: Richard Cameron (University of Alaska)
B. Colloquium: Philosophy and the Law
9:00 a.m.
Chair: Anya Plutynski (University of Utah)
Speaker: Joseph S. Ellin (Western Michigan University)
"False Positives And Bad Samaritans"
Commentator: Thomas Bittner (Wellesley College)
10:00 a.m.
Chair: David Boersema (Pacific University)
Speaker: Joan L. McGregor (Arizona State University)
"Is Rule of Law Consistent With Judges Exercising Discretion in Sentencing?"
Commentator: David Adams (California State University, Pomona)
11:00 a.m.
Chair: Bernard Jackson (SUNY College at Cortland)
Speaker: Troy Booher (University of Utah)
"Putting Meaning in Its Place: Philosophy of Language and Constitutional Interpretation"
Commentator: John Devlin (Arizona State University)
C. Colloquium: Heidegger, Gadamer and Philosophical Dialogue
9:00 a.m.
Chair: William Cooney (Briar Cliff University )
Speaker: Tracy L. Colony (Leuven, Belgium)
"Time and the Work of Art: Reconsiderations of Heidegger’s Reading of the Will to Power"
Commentator: J.M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College)
10:00 a.m.
Chair: Marylou Sena (Seattle University )
Speaker: Martha K. Woodruff (Middlebury College)
"The Use and Abuse of Style: Heidegger Confronts Aristotle on Poetry and Philosophy"
Commentator: Kirk Wolf (Delta College)
11:00 a.m.
Chair: David Vessey (Beloit College)
Speaker: Bradley D. Park (University of Hawaii)
"Gadamer and Thoughtfulness"
Commentator: Jerry Burke (University of California, Riverside)
D. Colloquium: Freedom and Moral Responsibility
9:00 a.m.
Chair: Paul Russell (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: John J. Davenport (Fordham University)
"Global Frankfurt-Style Cases: A Libertarian Reply"
Commentator: Robert Epperson (Washington State University)
10:00 a.m.
Chair: Karin Boxer (University of Pittsburgh)
Speaker: Ana Carolina Sartorio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"A New Asymmetry Between Actions and Omissions"
***winner of a graduate student ‘outstanding paper’ award***
Commentator: James Cain (Oklahoma State University)
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Chair: Alex Rajczi (UCLA)
Speaker: Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)
"Agent Causation as the Solution to All the Compatibilist’s Problems"
Commentators: Joseph
Campbell (Washington State University)
Robert Allen
(Central Michigan University)
E. Colloquium: Moral Psychology
9:00 a.m.
Chair: Eleanor Wittrup (University of the Pacific)
Speaker: Mark P. Jenkins (Franklin and Marshall College)
"Williams, Internalization and the Grip of Ethical Practice"
Commentator: Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma)
10:00 a.m.
Chair: Ryan Spellecy (University of Utah)
Speaker: Betsy C. Postow (University of Tennessee)
"The Unity of Reason"
Commentator: Melissa Barry (Harvard University)
11:00 a.m.
Chair: Kathie Jenny (University of Redlands)
Speaker: Terry L. Price (University of Richmond)
"Making Exceptions of Ourselves: Jean Hampton’s Account of Immorality"
Commentator: Julie Tannenbaum (University of California, Santa Cruz)
F. Colloquium: Psychological Explanation
9:00 a.m.
Chair: Stephen Glaister (University of Washington)
Speaker: Jillian Scott McIntosh (The University of Western Ontario)
"Function, Malfunction, and Intentional Explanation"
Commentator: Mohan Matthen (University of British Columbia)
10:00 a.m.
Chair: Thomas D. Bontly (University of Connecticut)
Speaker: Philip A. Robbins (Washington University)
"Can WE Afford to Be Broad-Minded?"
Commentator: Gregory Jarrett (Loyola Marymount University)
11:00 a.m.
Chair: Leonard Clapp (University of California, Davis)
Speaker: Susan Schneider (Rutgers University)
"Direct Reference, Psychological Explanation, and Frege Cases"
Commentator: Peter Hanks (University of California, Berkeley)
G. Colloquium: Discovery, Revision, Skepticism: Issues in Epistemology
9:00 a.m.
Chair: John Perry (Stanford University)
Speaker: Timothy W. Schoettle (Independent Scholar, Santa Monica, CA)
"A Problem for Perry (and Lycan)"
Commentator: Luca Ferrero (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
10:00 a.m.
Chair: J. Ayotunde I. Bewaji (University of the West Indies)
Speaker: James Shelley (Auburn University)
"Explaining the Skeptical Problem"
Commentator: Steven Reynolds (Arizona State University)
11:00 a.m.
Chair: Laurence BonJour (University of Washington)
Speaker: Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)
"Revising One’s Notion of Revision: Foley and Quine on the Norms of Inquiry"
Commentator: Juli Eflin (Ball State University)
H. Invited Panel: The Impact of Computing on Research (Special session sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers)
9:00
a.m. - noon
Panelists:
Ed Zalta (Stanford University)
"Some Goals of the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
with Respect to Research"
Jon
Dorbolo (Oregon State University)
"The Philosopher's Web: Researching Philosophy
of the Internet"