Saturday Morning, December 28

Registration

9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Book Exhibits

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

Placement Information

Interviewers: 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Candidates: 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Group Meetings, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for details)

American Association of Philosophy Teachers

American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy

Bertrand Russell Society

Hume Society

International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy

International St. Thomas Society

Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion

Society for Skeptical Studies

Society for Systematic Philosophy

Society for Analytical Feminism

Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism

Society for the Philosophy of Human Life Issues

Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Group Meetings, 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for details)

Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking

Association of Chinese Philosophers in America

Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry

Gandhi-King Society

North American Society for Social Philosophy

Simone de Beauvoir Circle

Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française

Society for Philosophy and Technology

Association for Symbolic Logic

Society for Analytical Feminism

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy,

Saturday Afternoon, December 28

Session I — 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

A. Book Discussion: Michael Thau's Consciousness and Cognition

Chair: Scott Soames

Speaker: Brian Loar

Speaker: Robert Stalnaker

Response: Michael Thau

B. Symposium: Feminism and Genetics

Chair: Amy Baehr

Speaker: Helen Bequaert Holmes

Speaker: Anne Donchin

Speaker: Mary Mahowald

C. Symposium: The Philosophy of Judith Jarvis Thomson

Chair: Susan Wolf

Speaker: David McCarthy

Speaker: Jefferson McMahon

Response: Judith Jarvis Thomson

D. Symposium: The Religious Turn in Recent Continental Philosophy

Chair: James Bernauer

Speaker: John D. Caputo

Speaker: Thomas R. Flynn

Comments: Thomas A. Carlson

E. Colloquium: Liberalism and Political Theory

Chair: Lukas H. Meyer

2:00-3:00: "Liberal Neutrality and Liberty of Conscience"

Speaker: Walter E. Schaller

Comments: William A. Galston

3:00-4:00: "What's the Matter with Political Liberalism?"

Speaker: Robert B. Talisse

Comments: Hans Oberdiek

4:00-5:00: "Problems of Application in Habermas's Political Theory"

Speaker: John Farnum

Comments: Ciaran Cronin

F. Colloquium: Internalism and Cognitivism

Chair: Connie Rosati

2:00-3:00: "Metaethical Internalism as Cognitivism-Friendly"

Speaker: Jon A. Tresan

Comments: Robert Mabrito

3:00-4:00: "Discourse Ethics and Moral Vision"

Speaker: John R. Wright

Comments: Alice Crary

4:00-5:00: "A Precarious Pair: Cognitivism about Practical Reason and Non-Cognitivism about Morality"

Speaker: Chrisoula Andreou

Comments: Earl Conee

G. Colloquium: Phenomenology

Chair: Brice Wachterhauser

2:00-3:00: "Heidegger's Transformation of Kant's Ground of Transcendental Unity: A Crucial Transition Between Being and Time and the Kehre"

Speaker: Craig M. Nichols

Comments: Michael Baur

3:00-4:00: "Does Philosophical Hermeneutics Surreptitiously Appeal to Immediate Presence?"

Speaker: W. S. K. Cameron

Comments: James Risser

4:00-5:00: "Phenomenology, Apodicticity, and Fallibilism"

Speaker: Martin J. De Nys

Comments: John B. Brough

H. Colloquium: Free Will

Chair: Laura Ekstrom

2:00-3-00: "Buridan's Ass and Peter John Olivi"

Speaker: Sharon Kaye

Comments: Eleonore Stump

3:00-4:00: "Frankfurt Style Examples"

Speaker: James Cain

Comments: Michael McKenna
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4:00-5:00: "Free Will and Indeterminism: Robert Kane's Libertarianism"

Speaker: Robert Allen

Comments: Al Mele

I. Colloquium: Responding to Evil

Chair: David Luban

2:00-3:00: "Condemning Forgiveness"

Speaker: Glen Pettigrove
(Winner of a Graduate Student Travel Stipend)

Comments: Judith Lichtenberg

3:00-4:00: "Fitting Punishments to Crimes: A Response to Nihilism about Moral Desert"

Speaker: Christopher S. Ciocchetti

Comments: Lawrence Crocker

4:00-5:00: "The Terror of `Terrorism'"

Speaker: Tomis Kapitan

Comments: Lloyd Dumas

J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers
Topic: Ethics and Information Technology

Chair: Helen Nissenbaum

Part I: Machines and Ethics

Moderator: James H. Moor

Speaker: Deborah G. Johnson, "Ethics and Machine Intelligence"

Speaker: Lucas D. Introna, "Ethics, Levinas, and the Face-less Robot"

Part II: Moral Philosophy and Computer Ethics

Moderator: Robert Cavalier

Speaker: Jeroen van den Hoven, "New Directions in Computer Ethics"

Speaker: Herman Tavani, "Do We Need a New Ethical Framework for the Internet Age?"

Speaker: Helen Nissenbaum, "Commons-based Peer Productions and the Virtues"

K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine

Topic: A Right to Health Care?

Chair: Rosamond Rhodes

Speakers: Arthur Caplan, Peter Williams, Paul Menzel

L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies

Topic: Roger Ames' Focusing the Familiar: A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong

Chair: Yong Huang

Speakers: Nathan Sivin, Richard Stichler, Chenyang Li, Peimin Ni

Response: Roger Ames

M. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics

Topic: Philosophies? or Philosophy?

Chair: Susana Nuccetelli

Speakers: Sandra Harding, Joel Kupperman, Charles Mills, Naomi Zack

Topic: Globalization and Democracy

Chair: Michael Krausz

Speaker: David A. Crocker, "Globalization and Human Development: Ethical Approaches"

Speaker: Martha Nussbaum, "Transnational Transfer and the Capabilities Approach"

Speaker: Henry Shue, "Fairness among Equals"

Speaker: Kok-Chor Tan, "Nationality and Global Democracy"

Speaker: Shiv Vishvanatan, "Globalization, Aid, Philanthropy and Suffering"

(This session will continue past 5:00 p.m.)

Group Meetings, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for details)

Society for Systematic Philosophy

Sartre Circle

Ayn Rand Society

Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love

Society for the Study of Women Philosophers

Social Philosophy Research Institute

International Institute for Field-Being

Saturday Evening, December 28

Committee and Group Meetings, 5:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for details)

Charles S. Peirce Society

American Society for Value Inquiry

Society for Machines and Mentality

American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy

Association for Philosophy of Liberation

International Adam Smith Society

International Society for Neoplatonic Studies

North American Spinoza Society

Personalist Discussion Group

Philosophers in Jesuit Education

Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy

International Berkeley Society

Society for Philosophy and Technology

Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals

Søren Kierkegaard Society

International Economics and Philosophy Society

APA Committee on International Cooperation (Continuation of session I-N; see program above)

Group Meetings, 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for details)

Karl Jaspers Society of North America

Society of Humanist Philosophers

International Society for Chinese Philosophy

International Society for Environmental Ethics

Leibniz Society of North America

Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Radical Philosophy Association

Reid Society

Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy

Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought

Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion

Society for the Philosophy of History

Society for Women in Philosophy

Reception

8:00 p.m. - Midnight