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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.

Wednesday, March 27, 2002

Registration

5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Executive Committee Meeting

6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Group Meetings

7:00 p.m.

Philosophy of Religion Group

Thursday, March 28, 2002

Registration

The American Philosophical Association

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Registration

The Association for Symbolic Logic

8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m

Book Displays

11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Placement Center

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Interview Room

8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Association For Symbolic Logic Reception

4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

APA Awards Reception

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Annual APA Reception

9:30 P.m. - Midnight

Group Meetings

6:00 p.m.

Society for Skeptical Studies, Session I

Society for Systematic Philosophy, Session I

North American Spinoza Society, Session I

Society for the Philosophy of Creativity

Council of Philosophic Societies

Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session I

American Association of Philosophy Teachers, co-sponsored by the APA Committee on Pre-College Philosophy

International Economics and Philosophy Society

Society of Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy

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

Society for Philosophy and Technology, Session I

North American Society for Social Philosophy, Session I

8:00 p.m.

Society for Analytic Feminism

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

International Institute for Field-Being, Session I

Society for Student Philosophers, Session I

The Society for the Study of Husserl’s Philosophy

Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session I

International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session I

Society of Christian Philosophers

North American Wittgenstein Society

Session I - Thursday Morning, March 28, 2002

A. Author Meets Critics: Ruth Millikan, On Clear and Confused Ideas: An Essay About Substance Concepts

9:00 a.m. - noon

Chair: Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University)

Critics: Louise Antony (Ohio State University)
Krista Lawlor (Stanford University)
Georges Rey (University of Maryland, College Park)

Author: Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut)

B. Author Meets Critics: George Rudebusch, Socrates, Pleasure and Value

9:00 a.m. - noon

Chair: Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College)

Critics: Donald J. Zeyl (University of Rhode Island)
Francisco Gonzales (Skidmore College)

Author: George Rudebusch (Northern Arizona University)

C. Invited Symposium: Postcolonial Theory and Philosophy

9:00 a.m. - noon

Chair: Laurie Shrage (California State University, Pomona)

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

"Philosophy in an Age of Postcolonialism"

Speaker: Eduardo Mendieta (SUNY Stony Brook)

"Between Global and Postcolonial Philosophy: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge"

Speaker: B. Anthony Bogues (Africana Studies, Brown University)

"The ‘Post’ in Colonialism: Reason, Revolution and Political Criticism"

Commentator: Johnnella Butler (The Graduate School, University of Washington)

D. Invited Symposium: Skepticism

9:00 a.m. - noon

Chair: George Wilson (University of California, Davis)

Speaker: Edward Minar (University of Arkansas)

"Wittgenstein’s Response to Skepticism in On Certainty"

Speaker: Jonathan Vogel (Amherst College)

"Skeptical Arguments"

E. Invited Symposium: Moral Realism

9:00 a.m. - noon

Chair: Mark Balaguer (California State University, Los Angeles)

Speaker: Peter Railton (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

"Moral Realisms"

Commentator: Gilbert Harman (Princeton University)

Speaker: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

"The Evolution of Morality"

Commentator: Jamie Dreier (Brown University)

F. Colloquium: Time: Past and Present

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Anderson Brown (University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez)

Speaker: Thomas M. Crisp (University of Notre Dame)

"Presentism and Taking Tense Seriously’"

Commentator: Peter Ludlow (SUNY, Stony Brook)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Margaret Battin (University of Utah)

Speaker: H. Scott Hestevold (University of Alabama)

"What is Presentism, and Does It Preclude Persistence?"

Commentator: Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Paul Jeffries (Rice University)

Speaker: Eleanor F. Katz (Orange Coast College)

"Hume and the Problem of Time"

Commentator: Margaret Schabas (The University of British Columbia)

G. Colloquium: Emotion

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Michael Rosenthal (Grinnell College)

Speaker: Angela Bolte (University of Nevada-Reno)

"Exploring Anger: Making Connections Between Anger and Autonomy"

Commentator: Alice Crary (New School for Social Research)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Sharon Bishop (California State University, Los Angeles)

Speaker: Danie M. Haybron (University of Arizona)

"Happiness, Identity, and Well-Being"

Commentator: Talia Bettcher (California State University Los Angeles)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: John-Christian Smith (Youngstown State University)

Speaker: York H. Gunther (California State University, Northridge)

"The Irreducibility and Nonconceptuality of Emotion"

Commentator: Robert C. Solomon (University of Texas, Austin)

H. Colloquium: Rigidity Redux

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Laurie Paul (University of Arizona)

Speaker: Laura Schroeter (Australian National University)

"Gruesome Diagonals"

Commentator: Takashi Yagisawa (California State University, Northridge)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Carla Bagnoli (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Speaker: Brad Thompson (University of Arizona)

"Railton on Rigidified Response - Dependence"

Commentator: Gregory Fitch (Arizona State University)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Dugald Owen (Fort Lewis College)

Speaker: Benjamin Cordry (University of Kentucky)

"Rigidly Designating Kind Terms and Individual Essences"

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

Commentator: Adele Mercier (Queen’s University)

I. Colloquium: Perception, Utility, Chance: The Roots of Right Action

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Robert Louden (University of Southern Maine)

Speaker: Andrew G. Sneddon (University of Calgary)

"Feeling Utilitarian"

Commentator: Sean McKeever (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Paul Weirich (University of Missouri)

Speaker: Daniel B. Dennis (Birkbeck College, University of London)

"The Weighted Lottery and the Claims of the One Versus the Many"

Commentator: Aaron James (University of California, Irvine)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Nancy Snow (Marquette University )

Speaker: Charles Starkey (Washington University, Saint Louis)

"On the Scope of Moral Perception"

Commentator: Todd B. Weber (Monterey Peninsula College )

J. Colloquium: Topics in Symbolic Logic
(Joint Meeting of the American Philosophical Association and the Association for Symbolic Logic)

10:00 a.m. - noon

Chair: Aldo Antonelli (University of California, Irvine)

Speaker: Richard Zach (University of Calgary)

"Hilbert’s ‘Verunglückter Beweis’ and the Epsilon-theorem"

Speaker: Aladdin Yakub (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque)

"Structuralism and Mathematical Practice"

Speaker: Elaine Landry (University of Calgary)

"Sorts, Systems and Structure: A Category-theoretic Analysis of Mathematical and Logical Structure"

K. Colloquium: Early Modern Philosophy

9:00 a.m.

Chair: G.J. Mattey (University of California-Davis)

Speaker: Stephen H. Daniel (Texas A&M University)

"Berkeley on the Meaning of Idea"

Commentator: M. Gregory Oakes (University of Puget Sound)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Stefanie Rocknak (Hartwick College)

Speaker: Rebecca E. Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College)

"Thomas Reid’s Non-naïve Direct Realism"

Commentator: Lex Newman (University of Utah)

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Chair: Michael Griffin (Wake Forest University )

Speaker: Gregory Reihman (Stanford University)

"Malebranche and Chinese Philosophy: A Reconsideration"

Commentators: Nicholas Jolley (University of California, Irvine)
Andrew Pession (Kenyon College)

Annual Business Meeting

Noon - 1:00 p.m.

Session II - Thursday Early Afternoon, March 28, 2002

A. Invited Symposium: Consciousness at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science

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

Chair: Yoko Arisaka (University of San Francisco)

Speaker: Dan Zahavi (Danish University of Education)

"Phenomenology and Cognitive Science: A necessary dialogue?"

Speaker: Shaun Gallagher (Canisius University)

"Redrawing the map: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences"

Speaker: Guven Guzeldere (Duke University)

B. Invited Symposium: Philosophy and Madness

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

Chair: Ellen Landers (Washington University, St. Louis)

Speaker: Dominic Murphy (California Institute of Technology)

"What, if Anything, is Psychiatry?"

Speaker: Brian Keeley (Pitzer College)

"Is There a Special Problem About Mental Disorder (As Opposed to Disorder in General)?"

Speaker: Joel Anderson and Warren Lux (Washington University, St. Louis)

"Reasonable Self-Assessment and Personal Autonomy: Insights Derived from Studies of Persons with Frontal Brain Injury"

C. Invited Symposium: The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams

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

Chair: Scott L. Pratt (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Marilyn Fischer (University of Dayton)

"Addams on Peace and Internationalism"

Speaker: Shannon Sullivan (Pennsylvania State University)

"Jane Addams and Critical Race Theory"

Respondent: Erin McKenna (Pacific Lutheran University)

D. Invited Symposium: Philosophy of Language

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

Chair: C. Anthony Anderson (UC Santa Barbara)

Speaker: Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University)

"How to Derive Fundamental Kripkean Claims (and Validate Certain Others)"

Speaker: Jonathan Sutton (Southern Methodist University)

"How to Solve Problems with Senses: More Senses"

Speaker: Robert May (University of California, Irvine)

"Paderewski"

E. Invited Symposium: Rights: Philosophical Foundations and Practical Possibilities

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

Chair: John Lysaker (University of Oregon, Eugene)

Speaker: Michael Sullivan (Emory University)

"Reconstructing Rights: Taking Pragmatism Seriously"

Speaker: Daniel Solove (Law School, Seton Hall University)

"New Rights for a New World: Cyberspace and the Problem of Privacy"

Speaker: Brian Butler (University of North Carolina, Asheville )

"Rights, Costs and Social Goods"

F. Invited Symposium: Color and Consciousness: Michael Tye’s Philosophy of Mind

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

Chair: Janet Levin (University of Southern California)

Speaker: C.L. Hardin (Syracuse University)

"Reflectance Doth Not a Color Make"

Speaker: Joe Levine (Ohio State University)

"No it Isn’t! Tye on the Explanatory Gap"

Speaker: Alex Byrne (M.I.T.)

"Tye on Color and Consciousness"

G. Invited Symposium: American/Indigenous Philosophies in the New Millenium
(Special session sponsored by the APA Committee on American Indians in Philosophy)

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

Chair: Marilyn Notah Verney (Independent Scholar)

Speakers: Viola Cordova (Independent Scholar)

"TBA"

Anne Waters (Independent Scholar)

"Indigenous Philosophies as American Philosophies"

Inez Talamante (University of California, Santa Barbara)

"Recentering Indigenous Thought in the Americas"

H. Invited Symposium: The Global Role of U.S. Philosophy
(Special session sponsored by the APA Committee on International Cooperation)

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

Chair: Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University)

Speakers: Luca Scarantino (International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies, UNESCO)

Bertrand Saint-Sernin (Universitat Paris-Sorbonne)

Commentator: Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)

Respondents: William McBride (Purdue University)
Hans Sluga (University of California, Berkeley)

I. Colloquium: Plato

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Ruby Blondell (Classics, University of Washington)

Speaker: Errol Katayama (Ohio Northern University)

"The Psychic Power of Piety in the Republic"

Commentator: Mark McPherran (University of Maine, Farmington)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Pamela J. Knoll (University of Wisconsin)

Speaker: James P. Butler (Berea College)

"A Case for Hedonism in Plato’s Philebus"

Commentator: Joel Martinez (University of Arizona)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: May Sim (Oklahoma State University)

Speaker: G. Scott Gravlee (Mount Union College)

"Hope, Memory, and the Immortality of the Soul in Plato"

Commentator: Hugh Benson (University of Oklahoma)

J. Colloquium: Meta-Ethics

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Shelby Weitzel (University of Utah)

Speaker: Scott D. Gelfand (Oklahoma State University)

"Justice, Punishment, and the Ethics of Care"

Commentator: Judith Little (SUNY Potsdam)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Sarah Conly (Colby College)

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

"Social Psychology and Descriptive Virtue Ethics"

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

Commentator: Charles Young (Claremont Graduate University)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Sara Buss (University of Iowa)

Speaker: Michael Sean Brady (University of Stirling)

"Against Agent-Basing"

Commentator: Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma)

K. Invited Symposium: Predicativity: Problems and Prospects
(Joint Meeting of the American Philosophical Association and the Association for Symbolic Logic)

1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Chair: Paolo Mancosu (University of California, Berkeley)

Speakers: Solomon Feferman (Stanford University)

"What Is Predicativity?"

Geoffrey Hellman (University of Minnesota)

"Predicativism as a Philosophical Position"

Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University)

"Methodological Predicativity

Reception given by the Association
for Symbolic Logic

4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Session III - Thursday Late Afternoon, March 28, 2002

L. Author Meets Critics: Philip Stratton-Lake, Kant, Duty and Moral Worth

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

Chair: Lara Denis (University of California, Irvine)

Critics: Thomas E. Hill, Jr. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Jonathan Dancy (University of Reading, UK)

Author: Philip Stratton-Lake (Reading University)

M. Invited Paper: Philosophy of Language

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

Chair: Danielle Macbeth (Haverford College)

Speaker: Nathan Salmon (University of California, Santa Barbara)

"Demonstrating Necessity"

Commentator: Ben Caplan (University of California, Los Angeles )

N. Invited Paper: Plato

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

Chair: Debra Nails (Michigan State University)

Speaker: David Keyt (University of Washington)

"Plato’s Ship of State"

Commentators: C.D.C. Reeve (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Rachana Kamtekar (University of Michigan)

O. Colloquium: Public Reasons

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

Chair: H. Eugene Cline (Albion College)

Speaker: Steven P. Wall (Kansas State University)

"Is Public Justification Self-Defeating?"

Commentator: Harry van der Linden (Butler University)

Chair: Dale Turner (California State University and Polytechnic, Pomona)

Speaker: John Arthur (Binghamton University)

"Impartiality, Public Reason and Group Rights"

Commentator: John Christman (Penn State University)

P. Colloquium: Laws and Origins — Metaphysical Reflections

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Brad Armendt (Arizona State Unviversity)

Speaker: Richard D. Schoonhoven (United States Military Academy)

"Indeterminate BS: Lewis, Kitcher, and the Best System Approach"

Commentator: Jessica Pfeifer (University of Maryland)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: Bonnie Paller (California State University, Northridge)

Speaker: Guy Rohrbaugh (University of Utah)

"A New Route to the Necessity of Origin"

Commentator: Don Merrell (Arkansas State University)

Q. Symposium: Savoring Time

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

Chair: Allen Thompson (Fort Lewis College)

Speaker: Talbot M. Brewer (University of Virginia)

"Savoring Time: Desire, Pleasure and Wholehearted Activity"

Commentator: Troy Jollimore (California State University, Chico)

R. Symposium: Levinas

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

Chair: Larry Fike (Yakima Valley College)

Speaker: Bettina Bergo (Loyola College, Maryland)

"What is Levinas Doing? The Challenge of Ethical ‘Subjectivity’ to Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis"

Commentators: Oona Ajenstat (University of Toronto)
Dallas Willard (University of Southern California)

S. Special Session: Selections from the Philosophy International Archives: Davidson, with Quine

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

Chair and

Commentator: Carol Rovane (Columbia University)

Presenter and

Discussion

Facilitator: Rudolf V. Fara (Director, Philosophy International, London School of Economics)

APA Awards Reception

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

All registered participants are invited to attend this reception. The reception honors our host, the Philosophy Department at the University of Washington, one of the three founding departments of the Pacific Division of the APA.

The following APA Prizes will be awarded at this reception:

2001 APA Book Prize to Charles Siewert for
The Significance of Consciousness

2001 Article Prize to Samuel S. Levey for
"Leibniz on Mathematics and the Actually Infinite Division
of Matter" in The Philosophical Review (107:1)

2001 APA/Philosophy Documentation Center Award for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs to Montclair State University’s Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children, directed by Matthew Lipman

Annual Reception

9:30 p.m.

(This reception is for persons registered at the APA convention; guest tickets are available.)

 


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March 11, 2002