Friday Evening, December 27

Group Session I — 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

1. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

Topic: Reflexive Awareness, Spontaneity, and Hermeneutics

Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University

"Does Self-Awareness Require a Self?"
Speaker: Matt MacKenzie, University of Hawaii

"The Rehabilitation of Spontaneity and Daoist Notions of Natural Action"
Speaker: Brian Bruya, University of Hawaii
Commentator: Joseph Walser, Tufts University

"Madhva and the Veda: Scripture as Source of Knowledge"
Speaker: Valerie Stoker, University of Pennsylvania
Commentator: Jonathan Gold, University of Chicago

2. Conference on Philosophical Societies

Topic: Business Meeting

Chair: John M. Abbarno

Discussion: New Agenda for CoPS

Speakers: Nancy Simco, Kevin Stoehr, Ruth Lucier, Thomas Magnell

3. Gandhi-King Society

Topic: Teaching with Gandhi

Chair: Mark S. Worrell

Speakers: Katherine M. Pickar, "How to Revolt (Non-Violently): Training the Peacemakers"

Doug Allen, "What the Philosophy and Religion of Mahatma Gandhi Can Teach Us About the Origins, Nature, and Solutions to
the Tragedy of 9/11"

Tom H. Hastings, "WWGD? How Gandhi Might Teach After 9/11"

4. International Society for Environmental Ethics

Topic: Literature and Environmental Ethics

Chair: Will Aiken

Speakers: Dylan Barth, "On (Not) Crossing the Determinable Line: Death in Contemporary Environmental Protest Literature"

Kim Smith, "Possessing the Land: Slave Narratives and the Agrarian Problematic"

Piers H. G. Stephens, "The Golden Country: Nature and Liberty in the Systopias of George Orwell and Ray Bradbury"

Comments: Marcia Eaton

5. North American Society for Social Philosophy

Topic: Affirmative Action and Racial Preferences,
Pro and Con

Chair: Bernard Boxill

Speakers: James P. Sterba, "Defending Racial Preferences"

Terry Pell, "Scrutinizing Racial Preferences (Strictly)"

6. Society for Women in Philosophy

Topic: Distinguished Woman Philosopher, Sara Ruddick

Chair: Hilde Lindemann Nelson

Panelists: Linda Martin Alcoff, Patrice DiQuinzio, Elizabeth Minnich

7. Association for Symbolic Logic

Topic: Symposium on Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics

Chair: John Burgess

Speakers: Emily Carson, "Arithmetic and Possible Experience"

Anja Jauernig, "The Many Functions of Intuition in Kant and What To Do with Them"

Lisa Shabel, "Ostensive Construction and Diagrammatic Reasoning in Kant's Theory of Geometry"

8. Society of Christian Philosophers

Topic: The Epistemology of Religious Experience

Chair: Eleonore Stump

Speaker: James Ross, "Cognitive Voluntarism in Augusstine and Aquinas"

Commentor: Todd Bates

Speaker: Stephen Davis, "Pre-destination and Free Will"

Commentor: Susan Peppers

Speaker: Gregg Ten Elshof, "Conceptual Contribution and the Evidential Value of Religious Experience"

Commentor: John Zeis

9. International Development Ethics Association

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Hans Oberdiek's
Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance

Chair: David A. Crocker

Speakers: William A. Galston, Lukas Meyer, John Murungi

Response: Hans Oberdiek