Sunday Morning, December 29

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

1. Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism

Topic: Marxism, Liberation Philosophy, and Liberation Theology

Chair: David Gandolfo

Speakers: Phillip Berryman, "Ignacio Ellacuria: Philosophical Grounding of a Public Intellectual"

David Gandolfo, "Ignacio Ellacuria and Karl Marx: The Renewal of Liberation Philosophy"

Richard Curtis, "The Liberation Theology of Juan Luis Segundo: A Critique from a Marxian Perspective"

2. Society for the Philosophy of Creativity

Topic: Imagination, the Body, and the Human Eros

Chair: Steven Fesmire

Speakers: Steven Fesmire, "Introduction: Contemporary Theories of the Imagination"

Mark Johnson, "The Imaginative Body"

Thomas Alexander, "Tricksters and Shamans: Eros, Mythos, and the Eco-ontological Imagination" & Sunday

3. American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society

Topic: James Otteson's Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life

Chair: Glenn A. Magee

Speakers: Nicholas Capaldi, Jack Russell Weinstein

Response: James Otteson

Group Session VIII - 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

1. American Society for Value Inquiry

Topic: Presidential Address

Chair: Thomas Magnell

Business Meeting to follow

2. Association for the Philosophy of the Unconscious

Topic: Pleasure versus Jouissance; Drives versus Freedom

Chair: Wilfried Ver Eecke

Speakers: David Pettigrew, "Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Jouissance in the Work of Jacques Lacan and Juan-David Nasio"

Adrian Johnston, "Freedom from Nature: Drive Between Heteronomy and Autonomy"

Comments: Stephanie Schull, Nathaniel Goldberg

Sunday Afternoon, December 29

Group Session IX — 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

1. Society for the Philosophical Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts and APA Committee on International Cooperation

Topic: Philosophy of Film: Its Nature, Scope, and Future

Chair: Daniel Shaw

Speakers: Richard Allen, Gregory Currie, Cynthia Freeland, Ian Jarvie, Deborah Knight, Tom Wartenberg

2. Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs

Topic: Democracy and Markets

Chair: William McBride

Speakers: Frank Cunningham, "Does a Market Economy Necessitate a Market Society?"

David Schweickart, "Markets and Democracy: A Dialectical View"

Bernard Hodgson, "Free Agents and Free Markets"

Comments: Ross Zucker

3. William James Society

Part 1: Presidential Address

John J. McDermott

Part 2: Panel Session Topic: James's Meliorism: Escape
from Tragedy

Speakers: Dwight Goodyear, Henry Jackman, Wesley Cooper

Response: Richard Gale

Part 3: Business Meeting

Chair: D. Micah Hester

4. Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Chair: Alfred Ivry

Speakers: Jeffery Macy, "Philosophy and Religion in the Political Thought of al-Farabi and Maimonides"

Jean Porter, "The Place of Law in Aquinas' Moral Thought"

5. North American Nietzsche Society

Topic: Nietzsche and Foucault

Chair: Alan D. Schrift

Speakers: Todd May, "Michel Foucault: Nietzschean Pragmatist"

Linda Alcoff, "The Political Epistemologies of Nietzsche and Foucault"

Henry Staten, "The Discipline of Will to Power"

Paul Patton, "Power and Right in Nietzsche and Foucault"

6. Society for Philosophy and Geography

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Scott L. Pratt's Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy

Chair: Andrew Light

Speakers: Thomas Alexander, Woody Holton

Response: Scott L. Pratt

Group Session X — 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

1. Academy for Jewish Philosophy

Topic: Zionism and the Land

Chair: Lenn E. Goodman

Speakers: Allan Arkush, Jay Harris

Comments: Lenn E. Goodman

2. Karl Jaspers Society of North America

Topic: The Prospects of Biotechnology from the Jaspers Perspective

Speakers: Stephen A. Erickson, "Jaspers's Concern with Biotechnology and the future of the Human Spirit: A 21^st Century Perspective"

Gregory J. Walters, "Freedom in an Age of Genetic Determinism"

3. American Catholic Philosophical Association

Topic: Crossing the Analytic-Continental Divide

Chair: Dominic Balestra

Speakers: Richard Cobb-Stevens, "Towards a Genuine Reciprocal Dialogue"

Vincent Colapietro, "Ideology, Tradition, and Dialectic: Contemporaary Conflicts in Historical Perspective"

John McCumber, "Let's Forget the Split, and Overcome Analytic and Continental Philosophy"

4. International Institute for Field-Being

Chair: Albert Shansky

Speakers: Brian Henning, "Getting Substance to Go All the Way: A Process Turn for Clarkian Neo-Thomism"

Jamuna Vittal, "The Concept of the Upanishads and Its Interpretation in Hinduism and Buddhism: An Analysis from the Sociological Perspective"

Xiaohong Li, "Equal Temperament Color System and Its Field-Being" "Implications: The Quantum Man Viewing the Universe"

Comments: Lik Kuen Tong

5. Association of Chinese Philosophers in America

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Chenyang Li's
The Tao Encounters the West

Chair: Xunwu Chen

Speakers: Xinyan Jiang, Peimin Ni, Paul Rakita Goldin

Response: Chenyang Li

6. North American Kant Society

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Paul Abela's
Kant's Empirical Realism

Chair: Jonathan Vogel

Speakers: Richard Aquila, Graham Bird

Response: Paul Abela

7. North American Spinoza Society

Chair: Firmin Debrabander

Speaker: Julie Klein, "Aspects, Respects, and Nature of Knowing: Spinoza's Debt to Gersonides"

Comments: Paul J. Bagley

8. Radical Philosophy Association

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Tom Rockmore's
Marx after Marxism

Chair: Joseph L. Walsh

Speakers: William L. McBride, Angelica Nuzzo, Patrick Murray

Response: Tom Rockmore

9. Santayana Society

Topic: Santayana and Dewey

Chair: Angus Kerr-Lawson

Speakers: John Shook, "The Metaphysical Inquiries of Dewey and Santayana"

Richard Rubin, "The Absence of Religion in Shakespeare"

David Dilworth, "The Principled Differences between Dewey and Santayana"

Herman Saatkamp, Jr., "The Santayana Edition"

10. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World

Topic: The Problem of Evil

Chair: Jeff Jordan

Speakers: Paul Draper, "Cosmic Fine Tuning and Terrestrial Suffering: Parallel Problems for Naturalism and Theism"

Michael Almeida, "Unraveling Rowe's New Evidential Argument"

Comments: Richard Gale, Michael Rea

11. Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion

Topic: Music and Poetry

Chair: John M. Rose

Speakers: Geraldine Finn, "Coming to Music-In(to from) the Space Between-Silence and Speech"

John Murungi, "Music and the Poetic Word"

John M. Rose, "Music and the Transformations of `Poesis'"

12. Society for the Philosophical Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts

Topic: Philosophies of Objects and Images in the Visual Arts

Chair: Alan Olson

Speakers: Craig DeLancey, "Film and Emotion"

Melissa Zinkin, "Film and the Transcendental Imagination: Kant and Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes"

John Matturri, "Homeless Objects: (What Was It Like to Be Jack Smith?)"

Julie Van Camp, "Jeff Koons' Puppies: A Case Study in the Pragmatic Approach to Identity"

Karen Magness-Eubank, "The Construction of the objet Petit a in John Cromwell's Of Human Bondage"

Comments: Kevin L. Stoehr

13. Association for Symbolic Logic

Topic: Symposium on Perspectives on Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics

Chair: William Ewald

Speakers: D. A. Martin

Yiannis Moschovakis, "Intensionality"

Dana Scott

14. Society for the Philosophy of History

Topic: Memorial Session: Leon Goldstein

Chair: Aviezer Tucker

Speakers: Alison Wylie, Murray Murphey, Paul Roth

15. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Career Opportunities

Topic: Placement Officers' Workshop