Pacific Division Meeting

To All Members of the Association:

The Executive Committee of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association invites you to attend the 77th annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, which will be held at the Westin St. Francis Hotel on Union Square in the heart of San Francisco, California, from Wednesday, March 26th, through Sunday, March 30, 2003.

The hotel is located on Powell Street, between Post and Geary, facing Union Square. The address is 335 Powell Street, San Francisco, California 94102-1875; telephone is 415-397-7000; and fax is 415-774-0124. One of the handful of classic and historic deluxe hotels in San Francisco, the Westin has its own cable-car stop and a view overlooking Union Square. The St. Francis Compass Rose Restaurant is a favorite stop for afternoon tea. The hotel is within walking distance of Chinatown, the theater district, the Yerba Buena Center, and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as dozens of San Francisco's finest restaurants. North Beach is a few minutes ride away on the cable car. A similarly short ride on the bus down Geary Street brings you to the Civic Center — featuring the Symphony, the Ballet, and the brand-new home of the Asian Art Museum.

For those aspiring to ascend speedily to the heights, five glass elevators zip up the 32-story tower at 1,000 feet per minute. Get in, press the 32 button and soar upwards at about one floor per second as Coit Tower, the Financial District and the Bay Bridge rush into view. The downward plummet is even more thrilling, especially for those who dare to press themselves against the glass and look down as they hurtle toward Union Square. (If this description doesn't appeal to you, ask for one of the hotel's plentiful supply of lower floor rooms.)

Plan to spend some extra days in San Francisco. A guide to restaurants, performances, museums, and other rewarding locations can be found at the back of this Proceedings. Of special note during our stay in the City is Leonardo Da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland, an exhibition of seventy-five outstanding European paintings from Poland's national collections, representing masters of the 15^th through 19^th centuries. This show is at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, at the far western end of the City (a spectacular Bay view spreads out from the museum's parking lot). Of similar special note is the impressive opening show
at the relocated Asian Art Museum in the Civic Center (take the bus down Geary Street). Richter 858, Treasures of Modern Art, and A Passion for Paul Klee are at the Museum of Modern Art (walk south from the hotel to Mission Street, then to the East side of the Yerba Buena Center).

Reservations: A hotel reservation form can be found at the back of this Proceedings and on the APA website at http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/divisions/pacific/hotelresform.html. Reservations can be made by calling 415-397-7000. We urge you to make your reservations very early to ensure that you obtain the APA convention rate of $159 for a single room and $179 for a double.

Travel Information:

Driving:

From the South: Take 101 North to Fourth St exit onto Bryant St. Continue 1 block and turn left onto Third St, which becomes Kearny St. Cross the Market St. intersection at Geary and turn left onto Geary. The St. Francis auto entrance is on Geary just past Union Square on your right.

From the North Across the Bay Bridge: Take 101 South to Fremont St. exit, turn left on Fremont, turn left on Howard, turn right on Third St., which becomes Kearny St. Then follow instructions above.

From the North Across the Golden Gate Bridge: Exit Lombard St. Turn right onto Van Ness, and left onto Bush. At Powell (just at the corner of Union Square), turn right, then turn right at Geary to find hotel's auto entrance.

Parking: Parking in the garage under Union Square costs $25 per day. Drive down Geary — nearly to Van Ness — and you can find garages with a flat $10 fee, but it's a very long walk back.

By Air: From San Francisco Airport, numerous shuttles will take you to Union Square. Check to find the most competitive price. Almost all will take you directly to Union Square. Taxis will do so as well, with a fare running $20-$25.

You can take BART from the airport to town as well. From the lower level, take SAMTRANS special bus BX to the Colma BART station, and then the subway to the Powell Street Station. SAMTRANS KK from the lower level goes directly into the City, to the TransBay Terminal on Mission and 1^st.

From Oakland Airport, you can take BART to San Francisco by taking an AirBART shuttle to the Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART station, and then the subway to the Powell Street Station in San Francisco. As at the San Francisco Airport, there are numerous shuttles to San Francisco.

In the City: The Powell Street Cable Car stops in front of the hotel. MUNI Buses 2, 3, 4 and 38 do so as well.

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Registration: The registration fee is $10.00 for student members, $50.00 for regular members, and $60.00 for non-members of the APA who wish to attend more than a single session. Special tickets for
$10.00 will be available to non-members who wish to attend a single session or one of the receptions. Only those who are registered or have purchased the limited number of extra tickets may attend the scheduled sessions or receptions. Please be sure to wear your convention badge at all times to identify yourself as a registered participant.

A registration form is included in the back of this issue of the Proceedings. People who are not now members of the APA may take advantage of the lower registration fee by becoming members. Membership forms are available from the National Office and also will be available at the Convention Registration desk.

Placement: Only APA members are eligible to use the Placement services. Appointing officers and applicants are urged to make preparations for their part in the placement operation in advance of the meeting.

Presidential Address: The Presidential Address will be delivered by Richard Wollheim at 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. on Friday, March 28, in the Grand Ballroom. President Wollheim will be introduced by Vice President Julia Annas.

Receptions: There will be receptions at 5:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 27.

The reception at 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. on Thursday is held in the Georgian Room; it is in honor of our co-hosts, the philosophy departments at the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. The Berger Prize, Hampton Prize, and Kavka Prize awards will be presented to their winners at this reception. The Berger Prize will be awarded to Seana Shiffrin for her paper titled "Paternalism, Unconscionability Doctrine, and Accommodation." The Hampton Prize will be awarded to Daniel C. Russell for his paper titled "Locke on Land and Labor." The Kavka Prize will be awarded to Loren Lomasky and Geoffrey Brennan for their paper "Is There a Duty to Vote?" Graduate students who have won the APA Pacific Division prizes for "Outstanding Graduate Student Papers" also will be recognized at this reception.

The reception at 9:30 p.m. - midnight on Thursday in the Colonial Room, is the Annual Reception.

The Presidential Reception will be held on Friday, March 28, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., in the Italian Room Foyer, following the Presidential Address.

A reception honoring Patrick Suppes, winner of the first Barwise Prize, will be held on Saturday, March 29 at 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., in the Georgian Room.

Check with the convention registration desk for information about receptions, luncheons and other events: more events may be added to the schedule as the convention date nears. Generally, receptions are for persons registered at the convention. Tickets for guests may be purchased at the door of receptions.

Of Special Note, Hindsight and Foresight: On Thursday, March 27, at 1:00 p.m., David Kaplan will present "De Re Belief." This paper's origin is Kaplan's 1981 Presidential Address. The presidential address was never published in the APA Proceedings, but recently Richard Hull, who
is editing the complete volumes of APA presidential addresses, persuaded Kaplan to reconstruct it. For the Pacific Division's 2003 meeting, Kaplan will give the 1981 Presidential Address as he would have done had he written it in the 21^st century. Kenneth Taylor and Robert Stalnaker will serve as commentators.

Of Special Note, Meetings Memorializing Pacific Division Members:

The 2003 Pacific Division Program includes four meetings that memorialize members of the Pacific Division.

On Thursday, March 27, at 10:00 a.m., the paper awarded the Hampton Prize will be presented in a colloquium. The Hampton Prize was established by the family and friends of Jean Hampton. It is awarded to the best paper in the areas of Jean's philosophical interests submitted to the Pacific Division Program Committee by a philosopher in the early stages of a career. The Hampton Prize has been awarded to Daniel C. Russell of Wichita State University for "Locke on Land and Labor." The Hampton Prize Committee was chaired by Leslie Francis. Members were Julia Annas, John Fritzman, Richard Healey, and John Lysaker.

On Thursday, March 27, at 1:00 p.m., there will be a symposium on the article that has been awarded the Kavka Prize. The Kavka Prize was established by the family and friends of Gregory Kavka. It is awarded by the APA in collaboration with the Philosophy Department at the University of California-Irvine. The Kavka Prize article is "Is There a Duty to Vote?," by Loren Lomasky of Bowling Green State University and Geoffrey Brennan of The Australian National University. The Kavka Prize Committee was chaired by Leslie Francis. Members were Stephen Darwall, Aaron James, Virginia Warren, and William Talbott.

On Saturday, March 29, at 9:00 a.m., a special session will memorialize James Tomberlin, who passed away while this program was being organized. Greg Fitch, Michael Jubien, Ernest Lepore, William Lycan, Takashi Yagisawa, and Peter van Inwagen will lead philosophical conversations on the topics that were Tomberlin's main interests.

On Saturday, March 29, at 4:00 p.m., there will be a symposium on the article that has been awarded the Berger Prize. The Berger Prize was established by the family and friends of Fred Berger. The Berger Prize has been won by Seana Shiffrin for her article entitled "Paternalism, Unconscionability Doctrine, and Accommodation." The APA Committee on Philosophy and Law, chaired by David Luban, awarded the Berger Prize.

Business Meeting and Voting Membership: The annual Business Meeting will be held at noon on Thursday, March 27. There will be reports from the Divisional and National Officers and Committees. According to the Association's By-Laws, regular membership is given by an act of the Executive Secretary on behalf of the Board of Officers. Each year the list of regular members that appears in the Proceedings is used as the list of eligible voters for the three subsequent Divisional business meetings.

Report of the Pacific Division Nominating Committee Bernard Linsky (Chair), Lawrence Hinman and Mary Rorty served as the 2002 Nominating Committee. They have nominated the following APA Pacific Division members for terms beginning in July 2003:

For Vice-President: Hubert Dreyfus

For Executive Committee (3 year term): Sara Goering

For Secretary-Treasurer: Anita Silvers

These names will be presented for election at the annual Business Meeting.

Winners of Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prizes

Ernesto V. Garcia (Columbia University)
"Value Realism and the Internalism/Externalism Debate," VI-U

Jonathan F. Garthoff (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Zarathustra's Dilemma and the Embodiment of Moral Ideals," VII-I

Matthew J. Kisner (University of California, San Diego)
"Skepticism in the Early Descartes," VIII-J

Adrienne M. Martin (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"A Case for Categorical Reasons," II-J

Fritz McDonald (City University of New York Graduate Center)
"What Is Frege's Theory of Demonstratives?," X-G

James A. Sage (University of Utah)
"Truth-Reliability and the Evolution of Human Cognitive Faculties," VIII-I

Adam Wager (Rutgers University)
"Lewisive Knowledge," X-H

Ryan J. Wasserman (Rutgers University)
"Temporal Extension and Decomposition," VIII-H

Daniel A. Weiskopf (Washington University in St. Louis)
"On Failing to Explain Compositionality," II-I

Matt Zwolinski (University of Arizona)
"The Separateness of Persons and Liberal Theory," X-K

2003 Program Committee: The Program Committee which prepared this year's program consists of Nicholas Smith (chair), R. Lanier Anderson, Yoko Arisaka, Stewart Cohen, Leslie Francis, John Fritzman, Gale Justin, John Lysaker, Alva Noe, Dion Scott-Kakures, Lisa Shapiro, Christopher Shields, Ellen Suckiel, Paul Teller, William Uzgalis, Takashi Yagisawa, and Naomi Zack.

2004 Program: The Program Committee for the 78^th Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, invites contributions for the 2004 meeting. The deadline for submission is September 1, 2003. Each author may make only one submission. Please indicate prominently that the paper is submitted for the 2004 Pacific Division Meeting. Because the Program Committee will blind-review all submissions, the names of the author and her/his institution should appear only on a separate cover page; they should not appear in the paper in any way that defeats the operation of blind-reviewing.

The 2004 Program Committee also welcomes suggestions for topics and/or speakers of invited sessions. Recommendations (including self-nominations) for commentators and session chairs are encouraged and should be sent to the Program Chair, Leslie Francis (2002-2005): Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, 260 Central Campus Dr. Rm. 341, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. Her email address is Francisl@law.utah.edu. When volunteering someone other than yourself, please be sure your nominee is willing to participate in the program. Nominations should reach the program committee by October 1, 2003, and should include a short vita or other account of the individual's areas of specialization and record of scholarship.

Nominations for 2004 Nominating and Program Committees:

Pacific Division members may make nominations by emailing to the Secretary-Treasurer, Anita Silvers, at asilvers@sfsu.edu by March 20, 2003.

Members with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: To provide a welcoming environment for members with multiple chemical sensitivities, all members are requested to refrain from wearing scented products.

Sincerely yours,

Anita Silvers, Secretary-Treasurer
for the Executive Committee,
Pacific Division,
American Philosophical Association:

Joseph Tolliver (Chair)

Julia Annas

David Brink

Paul Churchland

Michael Jubien

Calvin Normore

Nicholas Smith

Richard Wollheim