Group Session II — 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

1. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Chair: Yvonne Raley

Speakers: Donna Engelman, "Teaching Philosophy with Passion: The Place of the Erotic in the Teaching of Philosophy"

Sophi Isako Wong, "Ethical Dimensions of Teaching and Research"

2. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy

Topic: Philosophical Practice

Chair: Susan Robbins

Speakers: Richard Allen, "Client-Centered Philosophical Inquiry"

Elliot D. Cohen, "Critical Thinking and Philosophical Practice"

3. Bertrand Russell Society

Chair: Timothy Madigan

Speaker: Sven Bernecker, "Russell on Mnemic Causation"

Comments: David White

Speaker: Rosalind Carey, "Russell on Negative Facts"

Comments: Peter Stone

4. Hume Society

Chair: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord

Speakers: Rachel Cohon, "Hume on Pleasure"

Michelle Mason, "Humean Reasons"

5. International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Dale Wright's
Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism

Chair: Ellen Zhang

Comments: Youru Wang, Tao Jiang, John Krummel, Jacques Fasan

Response: Dale Wright

6. International St. Thomas Society

Topic: Local Motion, Inertia, Change: Aquinas, Newtonian Physics, and Relativity

Chair: Norris Clarke

Speaker: Thomas McLaughlin

7. Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion

Topic: Mind, Body and Personal Identity

Speakers: Kisor Chakrabarti, "How to Argue for Psycho-Physical Dualism"

Tony Birch, "Physical Theories and the Mind"

Purushottama Bilimoria, "Why Kisor Chakrabarti is wrong on the `Dualism of Nyaya Psychoarthology'"

Monima Chadha, "Sensing or Thinking: A Nyaya Approach to Taxonomy of Mental States"

Chandana Chakrabarti, "Mental States and Identity Theory"

8. Society for Skeptical Studies

Chair: Audre Brokes

Speakers: Otávio Bueno, "Skepticism About Logic: Is Logic A Priori?"

Brian Ribeiro, "Putting Overly Ambitious Contextualism in its Place"

William S. Larkin, "Twin Earth, Dry Earth, and Brains in Vats"

9. Society for Systematic Philosophy

Topic: Colloquium on Hegel and Aristotle

Chair: Rona Burger

Speaker: Alfredo Ferrarin

10. Society for Analytical Feminis

Topic: Feminism and Evil

Chair: Mariam Thalos

Speakers: Claudia Card, "Responding to Atrocities"

Laurence Thomas, "Evil and Self-Hatred"

Anita Superson, "Privilege, Immorality, and Responsibility for Attending to the `Facts about Humanity'"

Comments: Mariam Thalos

11. Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism

Topic: Symposium on the Significance and Relevance of Sidney Hook's Towards An Understanding of Karl Marx

Chair: Edward D'Angelo

Speakers: Christopher Phelps, Paul Kurtz, Justin Schwartz

12. Society for the Philosophy of Human Life Issues

Topic: Human Rights: Sense or Nonsense? A Disputed Question for Audience Debate

Chair: Yvonne Raley

Proponent: Edward Grippe

Response: Andrew Fiala

13. Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals

Chair: Scott McElreath

Speaker: Matt Zwolinski, "Animals as Property"

Comments: Benjamin S. Hale

Speaker: Nathan Nobis, "Carl Cohen's `Kind' Argument FOR Animal Rights and AGAINST Human Rights"

Comments: Melissa Clarke

14. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Moderator: Merold Westphal

Speaker: Edith Wyschogrod, "Levinas's Other in an Age of the Replica"

Comments: John D. Caputo

Group Session III — 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

1. Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking

Topic: Issues in the Psychology of Reasoning

Chair: Daniel N. Boone

Speaker: James Fetzer, "Mental Models: Descriptive vs. Normative"

Comments: David Over, James Moor

2. Association of Chinese Philosophers in America

Topic: Eastern and Western Ethics

Chair: Linyu Gu

Speaker: Yong Huang, "Moral Copper Rule: A Confucian-Daoist Proposal for Global Ethics"

Comments: Jinmei Yuan

Speaker: Xiaomei Yang, "A Serious Problem with the Hypothesis of an Amoralist"

Comments: Jeffery Smith

Speaker: Yanming An, "The Idea of Cheng (Sincerity/Reality) in Chinese Philosophy"

Comments: Geling Shang

3. Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry

Topic: Psychiatry and Personal Agency

Chair: Jennifer Radden

Speaker: Jeanette Kennett, "Mental Illness, Reciprocal Relations and the Self"

Comments: Richard Kluft

4. Gandhi-King Society

Topic: Liberating Religion?

Chair: Elizabeth Linehan

Speakers: Arnold Farr, "From Opiate to Liberation: The Prophetic Practice of Marx and Martin Luther King, Jr."

Richard Curtis, "The Liberation of Religion"

David I. Gandolfo, "Non-Volence and Liberation Philosophy: The Case of Ignacio Ellacuria"

Comments: Mecke Nagel

5. North American Society for Social Philosophy

Topic: Terrorism, Vulnerability, and Virtue

Chair: Sally Scholz

Speakers: Peter Wenz, "Vulnerability and Virtue"

Ron Hirschbein, "Death Anxiety: It Ain't Just for Existentialists Any More"

6. Simone de Beauvoir Circle

Topic: Community, Generosity, and Violence in
Beauvoir's Ethics

Chair: Jane Duran

Speakers: Ann Murphy, Stacy Keltner, Shannon Mussett

7. Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française

Chair: Patrick L. Bourgeois

Speakers: John D. Caputo, "Derrida and the Very Idea of the à venir"

Jean Devos, "Bergson et le vivant"

8. Society for Philosophy and Technology

Topic: Ethics and Plant Biotechnology

Chair: Andrew Light

Speakers: Hugh Lacey, "Transgenic Crops: The Structure of the Ethical Controversy"

David Magnus, "A Bioethical Framework for Genetically Engineered Plants"

Rachelle Hollander, "Exploring Social Genomics: The Role of the US National Science Foundation"

9. Association for Symbolic Logic

Topic: Contributed Papers, Session II

10. Society for Analytical Feminism

Topic: Continuation of "Feminism and Evil" (See Session II-10)

11. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

Topic: Positive Psychology: The Promise and Pitfalls of a Science of Human Happiness

Chair: James O. Pawelski

Speaker: Martin E. P. Seligman, "Positive Psychology: Underpinnings"

Comments: Judith M. Green, Charles E. Scott, Harvey Siegel

Saturday Afternoon, December 28

Group Session IV — 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

1. Society for Systematic Philosophy

Topic: Religion, Secular Freedom, and Modernity

Chair: Richard D. Winfield

Speakers: Carl Rapp, George Wright

Comments: Robert Berman

2. Sartre Circle

Topic: Sartre and Heidegger

Chair: Ronald E. Santoni

Speakers: Joan Stambaugh, Joseph S. Catalano,
Joseph P. Fell

3. Ayn Rand Society

Topic: Ayn Rand on Concepts, Essences, and Scientific Progress

Chair: Harry Binswanger

Speakers: Allan Gotthelf, James G. Lennox

Comments: Paul E. Griffiths

4. Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love

Topic: Author meets Critics: Alan Soble's
Pornography, Sex, and Feminism

Chair: Carol Caraway

Speaker: Alan Soble

Critics: Mane Hajdin, Linda Williams, Kathleen Wininger

5. Society for the Study of Women Philosophers

Topic: French Women Philosophers: Then and Now

Chair: Thérèse Dykeman

Speakers: John J. Conley, "Suppressing Women Philosophers: The Case of the Early Modern Canon"

Laura M. Bernhardt, "Affliction, Attention, and the Possibility of a Corrective Forgiveness in the Work of Simone Weil"

Business Meeting

6. Social Philosophy Research Institute

Topic: Governance in Higher Education: Collegial Authority, Part III

Co-chairs: John A. Loughney, Ken Knisely

7. International Institute for Field-Being

Chair: Laura Weed

Speakers: Kyoo Eun Lee, "Foucault and Derrida on Cartesian Madness: A Field-Being Issue"

Laura Weed, "William James, Religious Experience and Consciousness"

David White, "William James on the Sick Soul"

Comments: Lik Kuen Tong

Group Session V — 5:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.

1. Charles S. Peirce Society

Speaker: Gérard Deledalle

2. American Society for Value Inquiry

Topic: Philosophy of the Emotions

Chair: John M. Abbarno

Speakers: Anthony Hatzimoysis, Rebecca Bensen

3. Society for Machines and Mentality

Topic: The Power of Neural Networks

Chair: James Moor

Speakers: Hava Siegelmann, "Beyond Classical Computation: Neural Networks"

Pete Mandik, "Evolving Microminds"

4. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy

Topic: Panel Discussion: Philosophical Practice in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges to an Emerging Profession

Chair: Elliot D. Cohen

Board of Directors' Business Meeting

5. Association for Philosophy of Liberation

Topic: Author Meets Critics: James L. Marsh's Unjust Legality: A Critique of Habermas's Philosophy of Law

Chair: Jeffrey Paris

Speakers: Jean Cohen, Thomas McCarthy

Response: James L. Marsh

6. International Adam Smith Society

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Emma Rothschild's Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment

Chair: Ryan Hanley

Response: Emma Rothschild

7. International Society for Neoplatonic Studies

Topic: Recent Work on the Philosophy of Plotinus

Chair: Sara L. Rappe

Speakers: David Johnson, "Plotinus on Praxis"

Kenneth Wolfe, "Plotinus: Non-Propositional Thought?"

Steven K. Strange, "Comments on Wolfe and Johnson"

8. North American Spinoza Society

Chair: Douglas Den Uyl

Speaker: Yitzak Melamed, "Parallelism and Idealism in Spinoza"

Comments: Daniel Selcer

Speaker: Gordon Hull, "Hobbes and Spinoza Redux"

Comments: Jason Read

9. Personalist Discussion Group

Chair: Douglas Anderson

Speaker: Randall Auxier, "Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X: Personalists on and in Community"

10. Philosophers in Jesuit Education

Topic: The Philosophy of Ignacio Ellacuria

Chair: Thomas M. Jeannot

Speaker: David I. Gandolfo, "Ignacio Ellacuria and Historical Reality: A Discussion"

11. Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy

Topic: What Is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Philosophy?

Chair: Rita Alfonso

Speakers: Claudia Card, "Thinking About Harrassment"

Mark Chekola, "LGBT Philosophy and Undergraduate Teaching"

Chris Cuomo, "Love and War"

Jacob Hale, "Trans Studies and Philosophy"

12. International Berkeley Society

Topic: Author Meets Critics: George S. Pappas' Berkeley's Thought

Chair: Karen Detlefsen

Speakers: Margaret Atherton, Martha Bolton

Response: George S. Pappas

13. Society for Philosophy and Technology

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Don Ihde's
Bodies in Technology

Chair: Paul B. Thompson

Speakers: Andrew Feenberg, Melissa Clarke

Response: Don Ihde

14. Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals

Chair: Lilly-Marlene Russow

Speaker: Timothy M. Costelloe, "The Invisibility of Evil: Moral Progress and the `Animal Holocaust'"

Comments: Grace Clement

Speakers: David K. Johnson and Matthew R. Silliman, "Value Incrementalism, Perfectionism and Sentient Nonhumans"

Comments: Mylan Engel, Jr.

15. Søren Kierkegaard Society

Topic: Kierkegaard, Reading, and Interpretation

Chair: C. Stephen Evans

Speakers: Merold Westphal, "The Many Faces of Levinas as a Reader of Kierkegaard"

Norman Lillegard, "Kierkegaard on Interpretation, Application, and Authority"

Comments: John Davenport

16. International Economics and Philosophy Society

Chair: Gerald Gaus

Speaker: Michael Ridge, "Proportionality in Criminal Justice: If the Price is Right"

Comments: Michael Davis

Group Session VI — 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m

1. Karl Jaspers Society of North America

Topic: Jasper's Works: Content, Meaning, Reception—Session One: Philosophy, Vol. 2: Illumination of Existenz (Existenzerhellung)

Speakers: Leonard H. Ehrlich, "The Significance of Philosophy, Vol. 2 for the reorientation of the question of Being"

Joseph M. Koterski, "Jasper's Models for Freedom in Philosophie, Vol. 2"

2. Society of Humanist Philosophers

Topic: Richard Gale's Philosophy of Religion

Chair: Charles Echelbarger

Speakers: Philip Quinn, William Wainwright, Dean Zimmerman, Wes Morriston

Response: Richard Gale

3. International Society for Chinese Philosophy

Topic: Confucianism and Chinese Culture

Chair: Chung-ying Cheng

Speakers: Vincent Shen, "Zhu Xi and the Other"

Xinyan Jiang, "Confucius on Courage"

Yang Xiao, "Confucius, Mencius and Epictetus on Happiness and Luck"

Laura Weed, "Democracy and Development in China"

Comments: Chung-ying Cheng

4. International Society for Environmental Ethics

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Allen Carlson's
Aesthetics and the Environment

Chair: Benjamin Hale

Speakers: Emily Brady, "Aesthetic Appreciation Between Nature and Art: Valuing Cultural Landscapes"

Cheryl Foster

Ned Hettinger

Response: Allen Carlson

5. Leibniz Society of North America

Chair: Mark Kulstad

Speaker: Gregory Brown, "On Measuring the Perfection of Possible Worlds"

6. Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Chair: James Long

Speakers: Steven McGrade, "Fair Play and Due Process in the Extermination of Heresy"

Cary Nederman, "The Politics of Self-Interest in Marsiglio of Padua?"

7. Radical Philosophy Association

Topic: Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism Revisited

Chair: Stephen Ferguson

Speakers: Charles Peterson, Julie Maybee,
John McClendon

Response: Cedric Robinson

8. Reid Society

Topic: How Direct/Indirect is Reid's Realism?

Speakers: Nicholas Wolterstorff, "How Direct/Indirect is Reid's Realism?"

James Van Cleve, "Is Reid a Direct Realist?"

John Greco, "Reid and Direct Realism"

Rebecca Copenhaver, "The Role of Awareness in Reid's Direct Realism"

9. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy

Chair: Anthony Preus

Speakers: Suzanne Obdrzalek, "Carneades' Pithanon and its Relataion to Epoche and Apraxia"

Scott Rubarth, "Targeting Emotion in Early Stoicism"

Phil Corkum, "Parts and Properties in Aristotle's Categories"

10. Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought

Topic: Invited Panel: Medical Ethics in Latin America

Chair: Constance Perry

Speakers: Paulette Dieterlen, "Some Philosophical Issues about Health Policies in Mexico"

Debora Diniz, "Bioethics in Brazil: Repugnance and Spell"

Florencia Luna, "Standards in Research: The Latin American Case"

Arleen L. F. Salles, "Bioethics and Cultural Differences: The Case of Hispanic/Latino Patients"

Comments: Maria Victoria Costa

11. Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion

Topic: Rorty, Wittgenstein, and Realism

Chair: Melissa Clarke

Speakers: James A. Stieb, "Rorty on the `Pointlessness' of Realist and anti-Realist Discussion: Navigating the Critique of Analytic Philosophy"

Bill Martin, "Wittgenstein and Chess"

J. Jeremy Wisnewski, "When Our Heroes are Our Villians: Kripke, Foucault, and Essence via Wittgenstein"

12. Society for the Philosophy of History

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Thomas Flynn's Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason

Chair: Kevin Dodson

Speakers: Debra Bergoffen, Joseph Margolis, Robert Bernasconi

Response: Thomas Flynn

13. Society for Women in Philosophy

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Cynthia Willett's The Soul of Justice

Chair: Penelope Deutscher

Speakers: Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr., John J. Stuhr, Naomi Zack

Response: Cynthia Willett