American Philosophical Association Pacific Division
Seventy-seventh Annual Meeting Program

San Francisco, California
March 26-March 30, 2003

Principal papers in Colloquia and Symposia were selected after review of all submitted papers. Participants in Invited Paper, Invited Symposia, Invited Discussion and Author Meets Critics meetings were invited by the Program Committee. Participants in meetings arranged by APA Committees or Prize Committees were selected by those Committees.

[Colonial, Georgian, and Grand Ballroom are on the mezzanine level. Other meeting rooms and the California Ballroom are on the second floor.]

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Friday, March 28, 2003

Registration

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

MEZZANINE

Book Displays

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

CALIFORNIA BALLROOM

Placement Center

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

MEZZANINE

Interview Rooms

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

ASCOT/DERBY/OLYMPIC

2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

MAYFAIR/BRISTOL

Presidential Address

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

GRAND BALLROOM

Presidential Reception

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

ITALIAN ROOM FOYER

Group Meetings

10:00 a.m. - noon

North American Nietzsche Society, Session II

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

Society for Empirical Ethics

International Institute for Field-Being, Session II

International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session II

Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World

Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts

Society for Student Philosophers, Session I

Society for Realist/Antirealist, Session I

Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP)

Radical Philosophy Association, Session II

Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy

Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

Program of the Society for Systematic Philosophy

Western Phenomenology Conference

North American Kant Society, Session I

Society for the Study of Ethics & Animals, Session I

Philosophy of Time Society

Reid Society

SESSION IV - Friday Morning, March 28, 2003

(All meetings start at 9:00 a.m. and end at noon)

IV-A. Author Meets Critics: Hugh H. Benson, Socratic Wisdom

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Iakovos Vasiliou (Brooklyn College)

Critics: Thomas C. Brickhouse (Lynchburg College)

Gareth B. Matthews (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Author: Hugh H. Benson (University of Oklahoma)

IV-B. Authors Meet Critics: Robert Hale and Crispin Wright, The Reason's Proper Study: Essays towards a
Neo-Fregean Philosophy of Mathematics

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Paolo Mancosu (University of California, Berkeley)

Critics: James Tappenden (University of Michigan)

Gideon Rosen (Princeton University)

John MacFarlane (University of California, Berkeley)

Authors: Robert Hale (University of Glasgow) and Crispin Wright (University of St. Andrews)

IV-C. Authors Meet Critics: Raymond Martin and John Barresi, The Naturalization of the Soul: Self and Personal Identity in the Eighteenth Century

9:00 a.m.

Chair: William Uzgalis (Oregon State University)

Critics: Jane McIntyre (Cleveland State University)

Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Donald C. Ainslie (University of Toronto)

Authors: Raymond Martin (Union College) and John Barresi (Dalhousie University)

IV-D. Invited Symposium: Spinoza's Ethics

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Frank Lucash (University of Nevada, Reno)

Speakers: Michael Della Roca (Yale University)

"A Rationalist Manifesto: Spinoza and the Principle of Sufficient Reason"

Susan James (University of London, Birkbeck)

"Spinoza on Social Relations and Reason"

Don Garrett (University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill)

"Spinoza on the Essence of the Human Body
and the Part of the Mind that is Eternal"

IV-E. Invited Symposium: Contextualism in Epistemology

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Stewart Cohen (Arizona State University)

Speaker: John Hawthorne (Rutgers University)

"Contextualism in Epistemology"

Respondents: James Pryor (Princeton University)

Jonathan Shaffer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

IV-F. Invited Symposium: Beyond the Social Contract

9:00 a.m.

Chair/

Respondent: Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University)

Speaker: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)

"Justice for Citizens with Disabilities: Contractualism versus the Capabilities Approach"

Respondents: Lawrence Becker (College of William and Mary)

Eva Kittay (SUNY, Stonybrook)

Andrews Reath (University of California, Riverside)

IV-G. Symposium: Feminism and Orientalism
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Asians and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies)

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Sally Markowitz (Willamette University)

Speakers: Emily S. Lee (Le Moyne College)

"The Body between Experience and Knowledge or Situated Knowledge Revisited"

Yoko Arisaka (University of San Francisco)

"The Problem of Exoticism Revisited"

Neferti X. M. Tadiar (University of California,
Santa Cruz)

"The Uses of Filipina Experience in Global Trends"

Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

"Orientalism, Jews, and Philosophy"

IV-H. Symposium: Ranking Graduate Programs in Philosophy
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession)

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Peter French (Arizona State University)

Speakers: William McBride (Purdue University)

Mariam Thalos (University of Utah)

Patricia Churchland (University of California,
San Diego)

Margaret Walker (Arizona State University)

Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)

Edwin McCann (University of Southern California)

Michael Tooley (University of Colorado)

IV-I. Colloquium: Political Philosophy

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Anatole Anton (San Francisco State University)

Speaker: Peter M. Schuller (Miami University of Ohio)

"Fascism Re-Viewed"

Commentator: Cheyney Ryan (University of Oregon)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Todd Weber (Monterey Peninsula College)

Speaker: Henry C. Theriault (Worcester State College)

"Freedom of Speech and the Intentional Denial of Genocide"

Commentator: Christopher Meyers (California State University, Bakersfield)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Deen Chatterjee (University of Utah)

Speakers: Heather Gert, Michael Hand, and Linda Radzik (Texas A&M University)

"The Expressive Power of Punishment:
A Critique of Hampton"

Commentator: David Dolinko (University of California, Los Angeles Law School)

IV-J. Colloquium: Truth, Regresses, and Paradoxes

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Keith Simmons (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Speaker: Stephanie Grace Schull (Temple University)

"Return of the Clones: Embedded Self-Reference in Infinite Regress Paradoxes"

Commentator: Terrence Parsons (University of California,
Los Angeles)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Stephen Reber (University of California, Davis)

Speaker: James E. Taylor (Westmont College)

"Conceptual Analysis without Paradox"

Commentator: Gordon Barnes (University of St. Thomas)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Gyula Klima (Fordham University)

Speaker: Greg Ray (University of Florida)

"Tarski, Soames, and the Metalinguistic Liar"

Commentator: Douglas Patterson (Kansas State University)

IV-K. Colloquium: Cognitive States

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Janet Levin (University of Southern California)

Speaker: Michael Jacovides (Purdue University)

"What is an Experience?"

Commentator: Bernard Kobes (Arizona State University)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Jonathan Westphal (Idaho State University)

Speaker: John D. Greenwood (City University of New York Graduate Center)

"Unnatural Epistemology"

Commentator: Heather Battaly (California State University, Fullerton)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Patrick Rysiew (University of British Columbia)

Speaker: Matthew H. Phillips (Rutgers University)

"De Re Mentalizing and the Simulation-Theory/Theory-Theory Debate"

Commentator: Joseph Shieber (Brown University)

IV-L. Colloquium: Hegel

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Wayne Martin (University of California,
San Diego)

Speaker: Lydia L. Moland (Boston University)

"Making Hegel Explicit: Robert Brandom's Normative Inferentialism"

Commentator: Joseph Schear (University of Chicago)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Andy Wallace (Sonoma State University)

Speakers: Matthew C. Altman and Cynthia D. Coe
(Monmouth College)

"The Entanglements of the Present: A Freudian Analysis of Hegel's Philosophy of History"

Commentator: Jeffrey Paris (University of San Francisco)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Shari Starrett (California State University, Fullerton)

Speaker: Ellen Miller (Rowan University)

"Erotic Voices from the Margins:
The Social Dimensions of Love in Hegel
and Julian of Norwich"

Commentator: Michelle Darnell (Purdue University)

IV-M. Colloquium: Emotions and Character

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Lisa Yount (University of Oregon)

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

"Trust Me: It's a Commitment"

Commentator: Scott Aikin (Vanderbilt University)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Jena Jolissaint (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Adam A. Kovach (Haverford College)

"Pride and Self-Approval"

Commentator: Jeffrey Tlumak (Vanderbilt University)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Matthew Crom (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Charles Starkey (Washington University in St. Louis)

"Character, Emotion, and Propositional Salience"

Commentator: Cynthia D. Coe (Monmouth College)

SESSION V - Friday Early Afternoon, March 28, 2003

(All meetings start at 1:00 p.m. and end at 4:00 p.m.)

V-A. Invited Symposium: The Philosophy of J.B. Schneewind

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (Santa Clara University)

Speakers: John Skorupski (University of St. Andrews)

"Morality as Self-Governance: Has It a Future?"

Robert Adams (Yale University)

"Religion in Early Modern Ethics"

John Deigh (Northwestern University)

"Sidgwick's Conception of Ethics"

Bart Schultz (University of Chicago)

"The Methods of J.B. Schneewind"

Response: J.B. Schneewind (Johns Hopkins University)

V-B. Invited Symposium: Consciousness and Representation in Art

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Rex Welshon (University of Colorado,
Colorado Springs)

Speaker: Keith Lehrer (University of Arizona)

"Consciousness and Representation in Art"

Respondents: Peg Zegelin Brand (Indiana University)

John Bender (Ohio University)

V-C. Author Meets Critics: John Doris, Lack of Character

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Sekhar Chandra Sripada (Rutgers University)

Critics: Julia Annas (University of Arizona)

Robert C. Solomon (University of Texas, Austin)

Nomy Arpaly (Stanford University)

Author: John Doris (University of California, Santa Cruz)

V-D. Author Meets Critics: Linda Wetzel, Of Types and Tokens

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Michael Jubien (University of California, Davis)

Critics: Sylvain Bromberger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Gregory W. Fitch (Arizona State University)

Bruce Aune (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Author: Linda Wetzel (Georgetown University)

V-E. Author Meets Critics: Charles Travis, Unshadowed Thought: Representation in Thought and Language

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Elizabeth Wakeman (Albertson College)

Critics: Peter M. Sullivan (University of Stirling)

Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University)

Author: Charles Travis (Northwestern University)

V-F. Symposium: Paraconsistent Logic
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics in Recognition of the Contribution of Brazilian Logicians)

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Susana Nuccetelli (St. Cloud State University)

Speakers: Graham Priest (University of Melbourne)

"Paraconsistency and Dialetheism"

Hartry Field (New York University)

"On Dialetheism; or, Will No One Rid Me of this Accursed Priest?"

Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina)

"Deflationary Dialetheism"

V-G. Symposium: The Global Threat of Infectious Disease
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation)

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Margaret P. Battin (University of Utah)

Speakers: John Harris (University of Manchester)

"The Tension between Personal and Public Responsibility for Communicable Disease"

David P. Fidler (University of Indiana School of Law)

"Global Governance and Emerging Infectious Disease"

Andrew Jameton (University of Nebraska Medical Center)

"International Justice and Biological Interconnectedness"

Respondent: Richard Miller (Cornell University)

"Comments: National Sovereignty and Transnational Disease"

V-H. Colloquium: Reciprocity and Respect

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Evan Haney (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Andrew Jason Cohen (James Madison University)

"Enriching Justice: The Ideal of Autonomy and the Ideal of Reciprocity as Coinciding"

Commentator: Mark Perlman (Western Oregon University)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Leonard Kahn (University of Oxford, Magdalen)

Speaker: Colin P. Bird (University of Virginia)

"Reciprocity and Mutual Respect"

Commentator: Robert N. Johnson (University of Missouri, Columbia)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Diana Fleming (University of California, Berkeley)

Speaker: Eric S. Gampel (California State University, Chico)

"Respect, Compassion, and Political Ideology"

Commentator: William H. Wilcox (Indiana State University)

V-I. Colloquium: Free Will, Agency, and Responsibility

1:00 p.m.

Chair: David Shoemaker (California State University, Northridge)

Speaker: Robert F. Allen (Central Michigan University)

"Robust Local Alternatives and Responsibility"

Commentator: Michael McKenna (Ithaca College)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Eleanor Katz (Orange Coast College)

Speakers: Joseph Keim-Campbell (Washington State University) and Jason Turner (Florida State University)

"More Beta Blues"

Commentator: Michael Nelson (Yale University)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Craig Walton (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Speaker: Manuel R. Vargas (University of San Francisco)

"The Luck Argument and Libertarian Agency"

Commentator: Michelle Montague (University of California, Irvine)

V-J. Colloquium: Knowledge Inside and Out

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida)

Speakers: Ram Neta (University of Utah) and Guy Rohrbaugh (University of Utah)

"Luminosity and the Safety of Knowledge"

Commentator: Baron Reed (Pomona College)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Jeffrey King (University of California, Davis)

Speaker: Mark A. Moffett (University of Colorado, Boulder)

"A Solution to the Problem of Doxastic Shift"

Commentator: Bernard Linsky (University of Alberta)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Gary Hardcastle (Bucknell University)

Speaker: Sherrilyn M. Roush (Rice University)

"Tracking with Closure"

Commentator: Robert Howell (Southern Methodist University)

V-K. Colloquium: Descartes and Malebranche

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Alison Simmons (Harvard University)

Speaker: Andrew Pessin (Kenyon College)

"Malebranche on Ideas, Indirect Perception, and Vision in God"

Commentator: Sean Greenberg (Johns Hopkins University)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Jeremy Anderson (University of Redlands)

Speaker: Sukjae Lee (Ohio State University, Newark)

"Necessary Connections and Continuous Creation: Malebranche's Two Arguments for Occasionalism"

Commentator: Dennis Des Chene (Emory University)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Alice Sowaal (Texas Tech University)

Speakers: Lawrence P. Nolan (California State University, Long Beach) and John Whipple

"Descartes and Malebranche on the Dustbin Theory of Mind"

Commentator: Russell Wahl (Idaho State University)

V-L. Colloquium: Contemporary Continental Philosophy

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Debra Jackson (California State University, Bakersfield)

Speaker: Jeffrey L. Hoover (Coe College)

"Objectifying Subjects"

Commentator: William Wilkerson (University of Alabama, Huntsville)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Chad Emerson Hickox (University of Portland)

Speaker: Matthew Calarco (Sweet Briar College)

"Agamben and the Ethics and Politics of Infancy"

Commentator: Agnieszka Patkowska (Duquesne University)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Daniel A. Dombrowski (Seattle University)

Speaker: Noah M. Horwitz (Loyola University of Chicago)

"`All Feelings Are Mutual,' or the Transference of Everyday Life: Spinoza and Lacan"

Commentator: Eric Sean Nelson (King College)

V-M. Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Psychology

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Nalini Bhushan (Smith College)

Speaker: Carl Gillett (Illinois Wesleyan University)

"The Metaphysics of Realization, Multiple Realizibility, and the Special Sciences"

Commentator: Anthony Dardis (Hofstra University)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Rod Bertolet (Purdue University)

Speaker: York H. Gunther (California State University, Northridge)

"The Phenomenology and Intentionality of Emotion"

Commentator: Amy Coplan (California State University, Fullerton)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Paul Benacerraf (Princeton University)

Speaker: A. Minh Nguyen (University of Louisville)

"Davidson on First-Person Authority"

Commentator: Arpy Khatchirian (University of California, Berkeley)

SESSION VI - Friday Late Afternoon, March 28, 2003

(All meetings start at 4:00 p.m. and end at 6:00 p.m.)

VI-N. Invited Symposium: Foundations of Aristotle's Categories

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Fred D. Miller, Jr. (Bowling Green State University)

Speakers: Paul Studtmann (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

"Whence the Categories?"

Julius Moravcsik (Stanford University)

"What—on Aristotle's View—are his Categories for?"

Respondent: Scott Carson (Ohio University)

VI-O. Invited Symposium: Asserting and Promising

4:00 p.m.

Chair: R. Jay Wallace (University of California, Berkeley)

Speaker: Gary Watson (University of California, Riverside)

"Asserting and Promising"

Respondent: Michael Bratman (Stanford University)

VI-P. Invited Symposium: Nietzsche and Human Life

4:00 p.m.

Chair: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)

Speakers: Richard Schacht (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

"Nietzsche on Human Nature"

Bernard Reginster (Brown University)

"The Affirmation of Life"

Respondent: Nadeem J. Z. Hussain (Stanford University)

VI-Q. Invited Symposium: Ethnic and American Philosophies: Asian American and Latino/a Philosophies in Dialogue

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Paula Moya (Stanford University)

Speakers: Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York, Stony Brook)

"Beyond Occidentalism and Orientalism:
Latino/a Philosophy, Latin America, and
`Nuestra America'"

David H. Kim (University of San Francisco)

"`Oriental Problems' for Deweyan Democracy"

Mariana Ortega (John Carroll University)

"New Latina and Asian Voices in the `American' Intellectual Landscape"

Ronald Sundstrom (University of Memphis)

"The Future of [and] Racial Justice"

VI-R. Invited Symposium: Disability and the Distribution of Scarce Resources

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Mary Devereaux (University of California, San Diego)

Speaker: Frances Kamm (Harvard University)

"Disability and the Distribution of Scarce Resources"

Respondents: Rosemary Quigley (Baylor Medical School)

James L. Nelson (Michigan State University)

VI-S. Symposium: Writing and Publishing in Philosophy
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges)

4:00 p.m.

Chair: James V. Granitto (Orange Coast College)

Speakers: Jon-David Hague (McGraw-Hill, Inc.)

Nina Rosenstand (San Diego Mesa College)

VI-T. Symposium: Formal Ontology and Philosophical Content on the Semantic Web
(Special Session Arranged by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the APA Pacific Division)

4:00 p.m.

Co-chairs: Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University)

Colin Allen (Texas A&M University)

Speakers: Jon Bosak (Sun Microsystems)

Christopher Menzel (Texas A&M University)

Eugene Miya (NASA Ames Research Center)

Mary Tiles (University of Hawaii)

VI-U. Symposium: Value Realism and the Internalism/Externalism Debate

4:00 p.m.

Chair: David Copp (Bowling Green State University)

Speaker: Ernesto V. Garcia (Columbia University)

"Value Realism and the Internalism/Externalism Debate"

**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize**

Respondent: Ulrike Heuer (University of Pennsylvania)

VI-V. Symposium: Reverse Compositionality

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Ori Simchen (University of British Columbia)

Speaker: Philip A. Robbins (Washington University in St. Louis)

"Reverse Compositionality"

Respondent: Kent Johnson (University of California, Irvine)

VI-W. Symposium: Temporal Externalism and Epistemic Theories of Vagueness

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Dorit Bar-On (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Speaker: Henry Jackman (York University)

"Temporal Externalism and Epistemic Theories of Vagueness"

Respondents: Gary Ebbs (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Brian Weatherson (Brown University)

VI-X. Colloquium: Plato's Republic

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Scott Berman (St. Louis University)

Speaker: Richard J. Cameron (University of Alaska, Anchorage)

"Defending Socrates' Case against Thrasymachus"

Commentator: James Butler (Berea College)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: Debra Campbell (Mesa Community College)

Speaker: Jyl Gentzler (Amherst College)

"Plato's Form of the Good and the Defense of Justice in the Republic: A Sketch of a Defense"

Commentator: David Yount (Mesa Community College)

VI-Y. Colloquium: Practical Reasoning and Decision Theory

4:00 p.m.

Chair: David Lay (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Angie Harris (University of Utah)

"Korsgaard, Particularism and the Antichrist:
A Defense of Particularist Agency"

Commentator: Allen Coates (Vanderbilt University)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: John Vickers (Claremont Graduate University)

Speaker: Kenneth A. Presting (Oxford Global Resources)

"Computability and Newcomb's Problem"

Commentator: Branden Fitelson (San Jose State University)

VI-Z. Colloquium: Philosophy and Cultural Identity

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Joseph Orosco (Oregon State University)

Speaker: Sonia Sikka (University of Ottawa)

"`Learning to Be an Indian': Historical Narratives and `Choice' of a Cultural Identity"

Commentator: Jerry Burke (Loyola Marymount University)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: Joseph Prabhu (California State University,
Los Angeles)

Speaker: Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab (Columbia University)

"Contemporary Postcolonial Philosophies of Culture: Leitmotivs and New Orientations"

Commentator: Olufemi Taiwo (University of Seattle)

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Introduction: Vice President Julia Annas (University of Arizona)

Speaker: President Richard Wollheim (University of California, Berkeley)

"On the Psychoanalytic Unconscious"

PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

( This reception is for persons registered at the APA convention;
guest tickets are available.)