Thursday, March 27

1. North American Wittgenstein Society

9:00 a.m. - noon

Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University, Fullerton)

Speaker: John Powell (Humboldt State University)

"The Non-Existence of Perceptions"

Speaker: Charles Crittenden (California State University, Northridge)

"Things in General: An Ordinary Language Alternative to Scientific Realism"

Commentator: Merrill Ring (California State University, Fullerton)

Author Meets

Audience: Jose Medina (Vanderbilt University),
The Unity of Wittgenstein's Philosophy

2. North American Nietzsche Society, Session I

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

Author Meets

Critics: Michael Green, Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition

Chair: Lawrence Hatab (Old Dominion University)

Speakers: Maudemarie Clark (Colgate University)

Alan White (Williams College)

Respondent: Michael Green (George Mason University)

3. The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Title: Perspectives on Peace _ Responding to the "War on Terrorism"

Chair: Kaarina Beam (Linfield College)

Panelists: Cheyney Ryan (University of Oregon)

Deen Chatterjee (University of Utah)

4. International Institute for Field-Being, Session I

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Chair: David White (St. John Fisher College)

Speakers: Kenneth Inada (University at Buffalo, SUNY)

David White (St. John Fisher College)

John Schroeder (California State University, Northridge)

5. Radical Philosophy Association, Session I

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Topic: On the Cultural Roots of US Interventionism

Chair: Steve Martinot (San Francisco State University)

Speakers: Steve Martinot (San Francisco State University)

"White Supremacy, Manifest Destiny, and Contemporary Militarism"

Jared Sexton (University of California, Berkeley)

"Race as Schema: Spectacle and the Logic of the Pre-Emptive Strike"

Norma Alarcon (University of California, Berkeley)

"The War on Terrorism is Also a War on Women"

6. North American Spinoza Society, Session I

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Chair: Lee Rice (Marquette University)

Speakers: Jeff Bell (Southern Louisiana University)

"Living Eternally: Spinoza on Self-Cause, Teleology, and Self-Preservation"

Frank Lucash (University of Nevada, Reno)

"Can the Human Mind Have Any Adequate Ideas?"

7. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Session I

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Philosophy in Practice: Methods and Cases

Chair: James A. Tuedio (California State University, Stanislaus)

Speakers: Paul W. Sharkey (APPA certified Philosophical Consultant)

"Philosophical Counseling and Hypnotherapy"

J. Michael Russell (California State University, Fullerton & certified psychoanalyst)

"Existentialism in Group Practice"

Pierre Grimes (Opening Mind Academy)

"Transcendentalism and Pragmatism in Dialectical Philosophical Practice"

8. Joint Session co-sponsored by the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy and the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Persons in the Profession

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Special Recognition: Distinguished LGBT Philosopher

Chair: Peg O'Connor (Gustavus Adolphus College)

Honoree: Richard Mohr (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Respondents:

Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin)

John Corvino (Wayne State University)

Raja Halwani (Art Institute of Chicago)

Robert Hood (Middle Tennessee State University)

James Stramel (Santa Monica College)

9. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Side Doors: New Ways for Students to Enter Philosophy & Critical Thinking

Chair: Betsy Decyk (California State University, Long Beach)

Speakers: Paul Green (Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles)

"Popular Songs and Point of View"

Debbie Whittaker (California State University, Long Beach & Long Beach City College) and Melvin Sanchez (California State University, Long Beach & Elementary School Teacher)

"Using Children's Literature to Explain Philosophical Concepts"

Mimi Marinucci (Eastern Washington University)

"Adding a Little Mystery to Critical Thinking"

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

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Comparative Approaches to Classic Asian Texts

Chair: Son Le (Mission College)

Speaker: Christian Jochim (San Jose State University)

"The Original Analects and Its Contemporary Interpretations"

Commentator: Esther Su (Foundation for Studies of Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

Speaker: Derong Chen (University of Toronto)

"Faith and Behavior: A Comparative Analysis of Rules of Speech, Action, and Mind in the Lotus Sutra and the New Testament"

Commentator: Tao Jiang (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

Speaker: Youzheng Li (Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

"A Hermeneutico-Semiotic Approach to the Analects"

Commentator: Bo Mou (San Jose State University)

11. International Hobbes Association

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Moderators: Martin Bertman (University of Helsinki)

Rosamond Rhodes (CUNY and Mount Sinai Medical Center)

Speaker: Timo Airaksinen (University of Helsinki)

"Hobbes's Many States of Nature"

Commentator: Sharon Lloyd (University of Southern California)

Speaker: Bryan Garsten (Harvard University)

"Hobbes's Rhetoric Against Rhetoric"

Commentator: Tommy Lott (San Jose State University)

Speaker: Travis D. Smith (Harvard University)

"On the Fourth Law of Nature"

Commentator: Michael LeBuffe (Texas A&M)

Speaker: Susanne Sreedhar (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

"Hobbes's Right of Self-Defense"

Commentator: Jeremy Anderson (University of Redlands)

12. American Indian Philosophy Association, Session I and Business Meeting

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Women of Color and Philosophy

Chair: Agnes Curry

Presenters: Angela Cotton (SUNY, Stony Brook)

"Alice Walker on the Problems of Social Totality and Power in Early Marxian Thought"

Amy Amitkowski (Washington University)

"American Indian Aesthetics and Mathematics"

Marilyn Notah Verney (University of California, Santa Barbara)

"Religion, Philosophy, and Concentric Circles"

Anne Waters (SUNY, Binghamton)

"American Indian Women: Contemporary Art and Aesthetics"

13. International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session I

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Environmental Virtue Ethics

Chair: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)

Speaker: Louke van Wensveen (Loyola Marymount University)

"Virtues and the Flux of Nature"

Commentators: Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (Colorado College)

Jennifer Everett (University of Alaska)

Speaker: Ronald Sandler (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)

"The Normativity of Environmental Virtue"

Commentator: Ernest Partridge (University of California, Riverside)

14. Society for German Idealism

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Chair: Aaron Bunch (Loyola University, Chicago)

Speakers: Eric Entrican Wilson (Emory University)

"Am Anfang war die Tat: Fichte's Early Move Away From Representationalism"

James Kreines (Yale University)

"Hegel's Critique of Pure Mechanism"

Mason Richey (SUNY, Binghamton)

"Freedom, the Good, the Non-Identical: Schelling and Adorno"

15. Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Racial Identity and Aesthetics

Chair: Leslie Francis (University of Utah)

Speaker: Stephen Munzer (School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles)

Commentators: Paul Tang (California State University, Long Beach)

John Pittman (John Jay College)

16. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Graduate Student Session

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

Topic: History of American Philosophy

Chair: TBA

Speaker: Roxy Green (University of Oregon)

"Lydia Maria Child: American Social and Feminist Philosopher"

Commentator: Celia Bardwell-Jones (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Amy Story (University of Oregon)

"The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson"

Commentator: Dylan Mayer (University of Washington)

17. North American Society for Social Philosophy

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

Topic: Friends and Forgiveness: Approaches to Understanding in a World of Conflict

Chair: Jeffrey Paris (University of San Francisco)

Speakers: David Vessey (Beloit College)

"Other, Thous, and Friends: Gadamer on Intersubjectivity"

Greg Johnson (Pacific Lutheran University)

"The Utopian Function of Forgiveness"

18. Philosophy of Religion Group

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

Chair: Douglas Geivett (Talbot School of Theology)

Presenter: Bruce Gordon (Baylor University)

"Quantum Theory and Middle Knowledge: An Occasionalist Rapprochement"

Commentators: Thomas Crisp (Florida State University)

Kirk Wegter-McNelly (Center for Theology and Natural Science)

19. Leibniz Society of North America

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

Chair: Tim Crockett (University of California, Berkeley)

Speaker: Dennis Plaisted (Rochester Institute of Technology)

"On Leibniz's Argument for Primitive Concepts"

(Winning Essay, 2002 LSNA Essay Competition)

Commentator: Alan Nelson (University of California, Irvine)

Friday, March 28

1. North American Nietzsche Society, Session II

9:00 a.m. - noon

Author Meets

Critics: Robert Gooding-Williams, Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism

Chair: Alan D. Schrift (Grinnell College)

Speakers: Daniel W. Conway (Penn State University)

Gary Shapiro (University of Richmond)

Respondent: Robert Gooding-Williams (Northwestern University)

2. Society for Empirical Ethics

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Title: Naturalized Moral Philosophy

Chair: Patricia Churchland (University of California, San Diego)

Speakers: J. McKenzie Alexander (London School of Economics)

"Evolutionary Game Theory as a Tool for the Moral Philosopher"

William Casebeer (U.S. Air Force Academy)

"Nature's Norms: Functions as a Foundation for Moral Science"

David DeMoss (Pacific University)

"Brain-Controlled Free Moral Agent"

Shaun Nichols (College of Charleston)

"Judgments about Moral Objectivity: Experimental Assays"

William Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College)

"Moral Realism: The Explanatory Power of Queer Properties"

Commentators: Brian Skyrms (University of California, Irvine)

Paul Churchland (University of California, San Diego)

3. International Institute for Field-Being, Session II

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Chair: Lori Witthaus (California Institute of Integral Studies)

Speakers: Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University)

Lori Witthaus (California Institute of Integral Studies)

Albert Shansky (Fairfield University)

4. International Society for Environmental Ethics,
Session II

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Topic: Deep Ecology, Natural Values, Forestry Ethics

Chair: Philip Cafaro (Colorado State University)

Speaker: George Sessions (Sierra College)

"A Reassessment of Deep Ecology"

Commentators: Laura Westra (York University)

Petra Andersson (Goteborg University)

Speaker: Thomas Heyd (University of Victoria, British Columbia)

"Natural Landscapes and Natural Heritage"

Commentators: Christopher Preston (University of South Carolina)

Jason Kawall (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga)

Speaker: Peter List (Oregon State University)

"Leopoldian Ethics in American Professional Forestry"

Commentators: Jennifer Wells (University of California, Berkeley)

Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)

5. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Topic: The Ownership of Common Goods

Chair: Cynthia Townley (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Speakers: David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point)

"Should My Genes Be Patented?"

Mike Monahan (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

"Private Property, Free Speech, and the `Public Good': Selfhood and Political Agency in a Context of Media Monopoly"

James B. Sauer (St. Mary's University, Texas)

"Property Rights and Public Goods"

Julie Van Camp (California State University, Long Beach)

"Close Encounters of the Philosophical Kind: Copyright Extension, Free Speech, and Eldred v. Ashcroft"

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

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Speakers: James Harold (Mount Holyoke College)

"Imagining Evil (or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Sopranos)"

Kevin Stoehr (Boston University)

"Nihilism in Film Noir and The Sopranos"

Jinhee Choi (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

"Rules of Engagement: POV Shots and Imagining From Inside"

Tanya Jean Rodriguez (University of Minnesota)

"Dogme 95: Realism?"

Ann Murphy (Mount Holyoke College)

"Race and Transgender Identity in Film"

7. Society for Student Philosophers, Session I

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Topic: Contemporary Moral and Political Philosophy

Chair: Scott R. Stroud (Temple University)

Speakers: Michael Daniels (Trinity University)

"Self-Respect: Contradictions in Rawls' A Theory of Justice"

Amy E. Hawkins (Agnes Scott College)

"H. L. A. Hart and Judicial Discretion"

Paul Hansen (California State University, Los Angeles)

"Casuistry Revisited: Normativity and Relativity in Scanlon's Contractualist Account of Moral Justification"

Brett A. Smith (University of Kentucky)

"Where Habermas got it Wrong: John Finnis' Natural Law Critique of the Principle of Discourse Ethics"

8. Society for Realist/Antirealist, Session I

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Topic: Direct Realism, Sorites Paradoxes, & Strong Realism

Chair: Melissa Clarke (Texas A&M)

Speakers: William H. Krieger (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

"Realism, Antirealism, and Archaeological Entities"

Steven L. Porter (University of Southern California)

"BonJour's Representational Realism"

Avram Hiller (Duke University)

"Vagueness and Realism"

9. Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP)

7:30 - 10:30 p.m.

Topic: Relational Autonomy

Chair: Sara Goering (California State University, Long Beach)

Speakers: Diana Meyers (University of Connecticut)

"The Personal, the Political, and Psycho-Corporeal Agency"

Marilyn Friedman (Washington University)

"Autonomy and Male Dominance"

Susan Brison (Dartmouth College)

TBA

10. Radical Philosophy Association, Session II

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Topic: Critical Theory and Asia: Reflections on Empire and Emancipation

Chair: Nancy Zeigler (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Speakers: Eduardo Mendieta (SUNY, Stony Brook)

"Eurasia and Asia: American Empire and World History"

Jeffrey Paris (University of San Francisco)

"Critical Theory and the Vietnam War"

Bill Martin (De Paul University)

"Maoism and the Idea of Ethical Marxism"

David H. Kim (University of San Francisco)

"Black Power and Paper Tigers"

11. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Chair: Julius Moravcsik (Stanford University)

Speakers: Mark Faller (Alaska Pacific University)

"Plato's Geometrical Logic"

David Hunt (Whittier College)

"Form and Flux in the Theaetetus and Timaeus"

Jurgis Brakas (Marist College)

"Saying, Meaning and Signifying: Aristotle's legetai pollachos"

12. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Topic: Natural Order and Primordial Experience in Asian Thought

Chair: Eric Hutton (University of Utah)

Speakers: Eric Sean Nelson (King College)

"Deconstruction and Primordial Experience in Heidegger and Ch'an Buddhism"

Weimin Sun (University of Connecticut)

"How to Make All Things Equal"

David Elstein (University of Michigan)

"Zhuangzi's True Lord as a Critique of Mencius"

Eric Hutton (University of Utah)

"Nature and Ethics in the Xunzi"

Commentator: Kelly James Clark (Calvin College)

13. Program of the Society for Systematic Philosophy

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Topic: Hegel and Contemporary American Philosophy

Chair: John McCumber (University of California, Los Angeles)

Speakers: Katarina Dulckeit (Butler University)

"Hegel and Putnam"

William Maker (Clemson University)

"Hegel and Rorty"

Richard Dien Winfield (University of Georgia)

"Hegel and Davidson"

14. Western Phenomenology Conference

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Chair: Daniela Vallega-Neu (California State University, Stanislaus)

Speaker: Richard Lee (DePaul University)

"Excess and Sacrifice: On Becoming a thing in Bataille's Accursed Share"

Respondent: Alejandro A. Vallega (California State University, Stanislaus)

Speaker: Jason Kempt Winfree, (California State University, Stanislaus)

"The Expiation of Authority"

Respondent: Andrew Mitchell (California State University, Stanislaus)

15. North American Kant Society, Session I

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Author Meets

Critics: Michelle Grier's Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion

Chair: Houston Smit (University of Arizona)

Critics: Ralf Meerbote (University of Rochester)

Richard Velkley (The Catholic University of America)

Respondent: Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)

16. Society for the Study of Ethics & Animals, Session I

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Chair: Bruce Russell (Wayne State University)

Speaker: Melissa Clarke (Texas A & M University)

"Individuals and Wholes: Leibniz, Renaut, and Biocentric Holism"

Commentator: Nathan Nobis (University of Rochester)

Speaker: Kathie L. Jenni (University of Redlands)

"The Power of the Visual: The Role of Images in Moral Motivation"

Commentator: Mylan Engel, Jr. (Nothern Illinois University)

17. Philosophy of Time Society

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Chair: Garrett DeWeese (Talbot School of Theology)

Presenter: Michelle Beer (Florida International University)

"Smart and Mellor's Date Analysis of Tensed Sentences"

Respondent: H.E. Baber (University of San Diego)

Presenter: Maxwell Goss (University of Texas, Austin)

"On the Language-World Connection in Ludlow's `Semantics, Tense, and Time'"

Respondent: Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky)

18. Reid Society

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Topic: Activity and Agency: Reid's Essays on the Active Powers

Chair: Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College)

Speakers: Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California)

"Why Causes Must Think: Reid's Argument from the Power to Exert"

Terence Cuneo (Seattle Pacific)

"Reid on Moral Motivation"

Paul Hoffman (University of California, Riverside)

TBA

Saturday, March 29

1. Meeting of Department Chairs, California State University

noon - 2:00 p.m.

2. Association for Chinese Philosophers in America

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Topic: Confucius, Gender and Modernity: A Philosophical Analysis

Chair: Mary I. Bockover (Humboldt State University)

Speakers: Kelly James Clark (Calvin College)

"A Confucian Defense of Gender Equity"

Li Juan Yuan (California State University, Fresno)

"Globalization and Gender Equality in the Confucian Tradition"

William Driscoll (Loyola Marymount University)

"Deconstructing of Gender through the Dao"

Commentator: Mary I. Bockover (Humboldt State University)

3. Sartre Society

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

Speakers: Lissa Rechtin (Psychiatry, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco)

"A Psychiatrist's Look at Sartre on Freedom"

Greg Tropea (California State University, Chico)

"Deciding to be Surprised: Looking for Existence in Philosophical Counseling"

Stacey Keltner (University of Oregon)

"The Past as Applied in Sartre and Levinas"

4. Hume Society

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Chair: Mark Collier (Stanford University)

Speaker: Jerry Fodor (Rutgers University)

"Hume vs. Wittgenstein (Hume Wins)"

5. Society for the Study of Process Philosophy

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Topic: Clare Palmer's Environmental Ethics and Process Philosophy

Chair: Daniel A. Dombrowski (Seattle University)

Speaker: Timothy Menta (St. Francis College)

6. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Session II

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Topic: Practical Applications of the Philosophical Way of Life"

Chair: James A. Tuedio (California State University, Stanislaus)

Speakers: Kevin Aho (University of South Florida)

"Heidegger, Daseinanalysis, and the Zollikon Seminars"

Julie Grabel (Opening Mind Academy)

"Dialectical Philosophical Practice: A Way of Being"

7. Society for Business Ethics

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Topic: Property, Coercion, and Communication

Chair: John Boatright (Loyola University)

Speakers: John Boatright (Loyola University)

" Employee Governance and the Ownership of the Firm"

James S. Taylor (Louisiana State University)

" The Myth of Economic Coercion"

Jeffery D. Smith (St. Cloud State University)

"Business Relationships: Communicative or Merely Strategic"

8. North American Spinoza Society, Session II

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Chair: Steven Barbone (San Diego State University)

Speakers: Ronald Sandler and Judith Crane (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)

"Identity and Distinction in 1p4 and 1p5 of the Ethics"

Commentators: Debra Nails and Joe VanZandt (Michigan State University)

9. Society for the Study of Ethics & Animals, Session II

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Levinas, Derrida, and Animal Ethics

Chair: Mylan Engel, Jr. (Northern Illinois University)

Speaker: Matthew Calarco (Sweet Briar College)

"Deconstruction is not Vegetarianism: Humanism, Subjectivity, and Animal Ethics"

Commentator: Carrie Rohman (University of Cincinnati)

Speaker: Carrie Rohman (University of Cincinnati)

"Reading the Face: Ethics and the Species Barrier in Levinas and Derrida"

10. Society for Student Philosophers, Session II

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Chair: Lori Witthaus (California Institute of Integral Studies)

Speakers: Daniel Malloy (University of South Carolina)

"Between the Best and Perfection: Spinoza and Leibniz on Possibility, Contingence, and the World"

Anthony Kelsey Jensen (Emory University)

"Hegel's New Response to Skepticism"

Joshua P. Kimber (Boston College)

"Heidegger: Thinking Being"

Daniel Z. Korman (University of Colorado, Boulder)

"Vagueness, Universalism, and the Possibility of Borderline Cases of Composition"

11. Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Knowledge and First Principles in the Later Dialogues

Chair: John M. Rose (Goucher College)

Speakers: Mark Faller (Alaska Pacific University)

"Plato's Rhetorical Reconstruction of Knowledge"

William Franke (Vanderbilt University)

"An Apophatic Defense of Metaphysics"

Bernard Freydberg (Slippery Rock University)

"Rethinking Theaetetus' `Pregnancy'"

12. Society for Realist/Antirealist, Session II

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Realism, Pragmatism, and Philosophy of Science

Chair: Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina)

Speakers: Joseph Hanna (Michigan State University)

"Science and the World Order: Forecasting versus Representing"

Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University)

"Realism, Representation, and Modeling in Science"

Asher Seidel (Miami University)

"On the Compatibility of Pragmatism and Realism"

13. International Society for Chinese Philosophy

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Feelings, Duties, and Metaphysics in Confucian Moral Philosophy

Chair: Kristopher Hansen (Loyola Marymount University)

Speakers: Eirik Harris (University of Michigan)

"The Four Sprouts and the Seven Feelings -
What Does Mengzi Say?"

Kristopher Hansen (Loyola Marymount University)

"Responsibility in Confucian Social Philosophy"

Sin Yee Chan (University of Vermont)

"Jing (Respect) and Ren (Benevolence)"

Donald Blakeley (California State University, Fresno)

"The Lure of the Transcendent in Zhu Xi"

Commentator: May Sim (Oklahoma State University)

14. Society for Skeptical Studies

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Chair: Douglas Portmore (California State University, Northridge)

Speakers: Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling)

"Skepticism as Epistemic Angst"

Timothy A. Black (University of Utah)

"Skepticism and Warranted Assertion"

Peter Murphy (Utah State University)

"The Explanatory Power of Skeptical Scenarios"

Ebvelyn Brister and John Capps (Rochester Institute of Philosophy)

"Skepticism, Feminist Epistemology, and Contextualism"

15. Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Chair: Betsy Decyk (California State University, Long Beach)

Speaker: Dale Jacquette (Penn State University)

"Rationality and the Preface Paradox"

Commentator: Jerry Cederblom (University of Nebraska, Omaha)

Speaker: Randy Mayes (California State University, Sacramento)

"On the Function of Explanation in Informal Reasoning"

Commentator: William Johnson (California State University, Long Beach)

Speaker: Claude Gratton (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

"Student Beliefs that are Obstacles to Critical Thinking Dispositions and Motivation."

Commentator: Donald Hatcher (Baker University)

16. Concerned Philosophers for Peace

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Perspectives on Terrorism

Chair/

Commentator: Curtis Peldo (California State University, Chico)

Speakers: Wendy Hamblet (California State University, Stanislaus)

"Terror and the Just State"

Judith Presler (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

"A Perspective on Terrorism"

Ron Hirschbein (California State University, Chico)

"Just Terrorism Theory"

Bart Gruzalski (Pacific Center for Sustainable Living)

"Nonviolence is a Better Way to Fight Terrorism"

17. North American Kant Society, Session II

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Kant's Theoretical Philosophy: Teleology and Mereology

Chair: Graciela DePierris (Stanford University)

Speaker: Peter Thielke (Pomona College)

"The Fate of Overlaps: An Epistemological Puzzle for Mereological Ontology"

Commentator: L.A. Paul (University of Arizona)

Speaker: James Kreines (Yale University)

"Accounting for the Inexplicability of Kant's Naturzweck: Kant on Teleological Explanation in Biology"

Commentator: Rachel Zuckert (Rice University)

18. The Bertrand Russell Society

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

Chair: Jane Duran (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Speaker: Justin Leiber (University of Houston)

"Russell and Wittgenstein: A Study in Civility and Arrogance"

Commentator: David White (St. John Fisher College)

19. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session II

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

Barbara E. Savedoff (Baruch College, CUNY)

"Abstract Photography"

Dominic M. McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)

"The Aesthetics of Photographic Transparency"

Scott Walden (New York University)

"Objectivity in Photography"

20. American Indian Philosophy Association, Session II

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

Topic: World Hunger and American Indians

Chair: TBA

Presenters: Allen Standing Bear Jenkins (Evergreen State College)

"Elders and Hunger"

Eugene Stone and Dianna Romero (University of Central Florida)

"Bifurcated Groups and Hunger"

21. Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts

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

Chair: TBA

Speakers: Allan Bäck (Kutztown University)

"Are Martial Arts Masters Zen Zombies?"

Judy Saltzman (California Polytechnic State University, San Louis Obispo)

"Martial Arts, Grief, and the Gita"

Joe Lynch (California Polytechnic State University, San Louis Obispo)

"Martial Progress"

22. Society of Christian Philosophers

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

Topic: Religious Experience

Speaker: Douglas Geivett (Biola University)

"The Evidential Value of Religious Experience"