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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Saturday, March 29, 2003

Registration

8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

MEZZANINE

Book Displays

8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

CALIFORNIA BALLROOM

Placement Center

8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

MEZZANINE

Interview Rooms

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

GEORGIAN ROOM

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

OLYMPIC

Barwise Prize Reception

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

GEORGIAN ROOM

Group Meetings

noon - 2:00 p.m.

Meeting of Department Chairs, California State University

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

Association for Chinese Philosophers in America

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

Sartre Society

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

Hume Society

Society for the Study of Process Philosophy

American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Session II

Society for Business Ethics

North American Spinoza Society, Session II

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

Society for the Study of Ethics & Animals, Session II

Society for Student Philosophers, Session II

Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism

Society for Realist/Antirealist, Session II

International Society for Chinese Philosophy

Society for Skeptical Studies

Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

North American Kant Society, Session II

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

The Bertrand Russell Society

Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts

American Indian Philosophy Association, Session II

Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts

Society of Christian Philosophers

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BREAKFAST MEETING
FOR 2003 and 2004 PROGRAM COMMITTEES

7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

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SESSION VII - Saturday morning, March 29, 2003

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

VII-A. Author Meets Critics: Theodore Sider,
Four-Dimensionalism

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Paul Boghossian (New York University)

Critics: Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)

Lynne R. Baker (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Eric Olson (Cambridge University)

Author: Theodore Sider (Rutgers University)

VII-B. Author Meets Critics: Gerasimos X. Santas, Goodness and Justice: Plato, Aristotle, and the Moderns

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Richard Geenen (Westminster College)

Critics: Charles M. Young (Claremont Graduate University)

Rachel Singpurwalla (University of Southern Illinois)

Author: Gerasimos X. Santas (University of California, Irvine)

VII-C. Author Meets Critics: Janet Broughton, Descartes's
Method of Doubt

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Margaret Atherton (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Critics: John Carriero (University of California,
Los Angeles)

Robert J. Fogelin (Dartmouth College)

Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto, Mississauga)

Author: Janet Broughton (University of California, Berkeley)

VII-D. Invited Symposium: Imitation, Media Violence, and Freedom of Speech

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Carol Gould (Stevens Institute of Technology/Columbia University)

Speaker: Susan Hurley (Warwick University)

"Imitation, Media Violence, and Freedom of Speech"

Respondents: Philip Pettit (Princeton University/Australian National University)

Rae Langton (University of Edinburgh)

VII-E. Symposium: Stem Cell Research: What Is the Problem?
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine)

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Ken Kipnis (University of Hawaii, Manoa)

Speakers: Lainie Friedman Ross (University of Chicago)

"On Stem Cells: The Science behind the Controversy"

Glenn McGee (University of Pennsylvania)

"The Is, the Ought and the Embryo: Normative and Epistemological Dimensions of the Changing Concept of the Stem Cell"

John Harris (University of Manchester)

"Stem Cells, Sex and Procreation"

VII-F. Philosophical Conversations in Memory of
James E. Tomberlin (1942-2002)
(Special Session Co-Sponsored by the APA Pacific Division Executive Committee and Program Committee)

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Michael Jubien (University of California, Davis)

Speakers: Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University)

Gregory W. Fitch (Arizona State University)

William Lycan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Takashi Yagisawa (California State University, Northridge)

Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame University)

VII-G. Symposium: The Role of Phenomenology in Philosophy of Mind
(Special Session Co-Sponsored by the APA Pacific Division Program Committee and The Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy)

9:00 a.m.

Chair: David Woodruff Smith (University of California, Irvine)

Speakers: John Searle (University of California, Berkeley)

Hubert Dreyfus (University of California, Berkeley)

Ronald McIntyre (California State University, Northridge)

Amie Thomasson (University of Miami)

VII-H. Colloquium: Free Will in the Philosophy of Religion

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Andrew Eschleman (University of Arkansas,
Little Rock)

Speakers: Heimir Geirsson (Iowa State University) and Michael Losonsky (Colorado State University)

"God's Creation Limits and the Problem of Evil"

Commentator: Nathan Nobis (University of Rochester)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Kirstie Laird (Simon Frasier University)

Speaker: James Cain (Oklahoma State University)

"The Problem of Compatibilism in the Philosophy of Religion"

Commentator: Theodore Gulesarian (Arizona State University)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: James Slinger (California State University, Fresno)

Speaker: Michael J. Almeida (University of Texas, San Antonio)

"Ideal Worlds and the Transworld Untrustworthy"

Commentator: Richard Otte (University of California, Santa Cruz)

VII-I. Colloquium: Topics in the Philosophy of John Rawls

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Prakash Chenjeri (Southern Oregon University)

Speaker: Cynthia A. Stark (University of Utah)

"Is Justice as Fairness Fair to Dependents?"

Commentator: Catherine M. Galko (University of Florida)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Greg Johnson (Pacific Lutheran University)

Speaker: Andrew F. Smith (State University of New York, Stony Brook)

"Closer but Still No Cigar: On the Inadequacy of Rawls's Reply to Okin's `Political Liberalism, Justice, and Gender'"

Commentator: Angela M. Smith (University of Washington)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Emily Asplund (University of Utah)

Speaker: Jonathan F. Garthoff (University of California, Los Angeles)

"Zarathustra's Dilemma and the Embodiment of Moral Ideals"

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

Commentator: Kenneth Einar Himma (University of Washington)

VII-J. Colloquium: Topics in Philosophical Psychology

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Paula Droege (Bard College)

Speaker: Liam P. Dempsey (University of Western Ontario)

"Many Explanatory Gaps, One Solution"

Commentator: Jon Ellis (University of California, Santa Cruz)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Fiona Cowie (California Institute of Technology)

Speakers: Donovan Hulse (University of Manitoba), Cynthia N. Read (University of Manitoba) and Timothy Schroeder (University of Manitoba)

"The Impossibility of Conscious Desire"

Commentator: Yonatan Shemmer (Stanford University)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: C. Anthony Anderson (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Speaker: James Blackmon, David Byrd, Robert Cummins, Pierre Poirier, Martin Roth (all University of California, Davis)

"Atomistic Learning in Fully Distributed Systems"

Commentator: James Garson (University of Houston)

VII-K. Colloquium: Progress and Realism in Science

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Roberta Milstein (California State University, Hayward)

Speaker: K. Brad Wray (State University of New York, Oswego)

"Scientific Specialization and Progress"

Commentator: Lisa Gannett (California State University, Chico)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Brian Woodcock (University of California, Irvine)

Speaker: Alexander Rueger (University of Alberta)

"Incompatible Models for Scientific Realists"

Commentator: Stephan Hartmann (University of Konstanz)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Daniel Vest (University of California, Irvine)

Speaker: Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)

"Reichenbach's Relation to Naturalism"

Commentator: Tom Ryckman (University of California, Berkeley)

VII-L. Colloquium: Kant

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Matthew McCormick (California State University, Sacramento)

Speaker: Patrick R. Frierson (Whitman College)

"Character and Evil in Kant's Moral Anthropology"

Commentator: Aaron James (University of California, Irvine)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)

Speaker: Jennifer Uleman (University of Miami)

"Spacio-Temporality and Kant's Conception of External Freedom"

Commentator: Pamela Hieronymi (University of California, Los Angeles)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Peter McLaughlin (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftesgeschichte, Berlin)

Speaker: Andrew Janiak (Duke University)

"Rethinking Kant's Conception of Space"

Commentator: Eric Watkins (University of California, San Diego)

VII-M. Colloquium: Virtue Theory

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Sophia Isako Wong (Columbia University)

Speaker: Lorraine L. Besser-Jones (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

"Paving the Ground for a Competitive Virtue Theory: The Nature of Our Moral Reasons"

Commentator: Lori Alward (Pace University)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Mariana Anagnostopoulos (California State University, Fresno)

Speaker: Susan A. Stark (Bates College)

"A Change of Heart: Moral Emotions, Transformation, and Moral Virtue"

Commentator: Sharon Bishop (California State University, Los Angeles)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Richard Schubert (Cosumnes River College)

Speaker: Andrew J. Moore (University of Otago)

"Does Virtue Ethics Imply a Contradiction?"

Commentator: Sean McAleer (Central Michigan University)

VII-N. Colloquium: Gender, Disability, and Oppression

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Jennifer McWeeny (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Frank Chessa (Bates College)

"Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemologically Significant?"

Commentator: Edrie Sobstyl (University of Texas, Dallas)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Mary Anne Warren (San Francisco State University)

Speaker: Audre Jean Brokes (St. Joseph's University)

"Oppression and Epistemic Advantage: Why the View Is Better from the Margins"

Commentator: John Sanbonmatsu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Debbie Whittaker (California State University, Long Beach)

Speaker: Anna Stubblefield (Rutgers University, Newark)

"Luck Egalitarianism, Democratic Equality, and the Challenge of Disability"

Commentator: Bonnie Kent (University of California, Irvine)

SESSION VIII - Saturday, Early Afternoon, March 29, 2003

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

VIII-A. Author Meets Critics: Jonathan Adler, Belief's Own Ethics

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Georges Rey (University of Maryland)

Critics: Richard Feldman (University of Rochester)

Gilbert Harman (Princeton University)

Author: Jonathan Adler (Brooklyn College and City University of New York Graduate School)

VIII-B. Invited Symposium: Socrates' Interlocutors

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Ruby Blondell (University of Washington)

Speakers: Rachel Barney (University of Toronto)

"The Character of Gorgias and Plato's Critique of Rhetoric"

Dominic Scott (University of Cambridge)

"Learning through Plato's Interlocutors: the Meno as a Case Study"

Respondent: Mark L. McPherran (University of Maine, Farmington)

VIII-C. Author Meets Critics: Sunny Auyang, Foundations of Complex-System Theories in Economics, Evolutionary Biology, and Statistical Physics

1:00 p.m.

Chair: James Griesemer (University of California, Davis)

Critics: Laura Reusche (University of Pittsburgh)

Robert Richardson (University of Cincinnati)

Kevin Hoover (University of California, Davis)

Author: Responding on behalf of the author:
Paul Teller (University of California, Davis)

VIII-D. Author Meets Critics: David Papineau, Thinking about Consciousness

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Michael Tye (University of Texas-Austin)

Critics: Ned Block (New York University)

David K. Chalmers (University of Arizona)

Author: David Papineau (Kings College, London University)

VIII-E. Author Meets Critics: Claudia Card, The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Hilde Nelson (Michigan State University)

Critics: Bat-Ami Bar On (Binghamton University)

María Pía Lara (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)

Adam Morton (University of Oklahoma)

Robin May Schott (University of Copenhagen)

Author: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

VIII-F. Symposium: American Indian Philosophy: Pedagogy, Voice, and Audience
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on American Indians in Philosophy)

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Anne Waters (State University of New York, Binghamton)

Speakers: Robert Perea (Central Arizona College)

"American Indians in Philosophy: Is Anyone Listening?"

Katy Gray Brown (University of Minnesota)

Michael Patterson Brown

"Native Americans in Philosophy: Claiming a Space"

Annette Jaimes Guerrero (San Francisco State University)

"Teaching Academic Margins"

Ines Talamantez (University of California, Santa Barbara)

"Pedagogies of Teaching American Indian Studies"

Maria Catalina (University of California, Santa Cruz)

"Teaching Challenges among the Disenfranchised"

VIII-G. Author Meets Critics: Patrick Suppes, Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers)

1:00 p.m.

Chair: David Malament (University of California, Irvine)

Critics: Jeff Barrett (University of California, Irvine)

Arthur Fine (University of Washington)

Brian Skyrms (University of California, Irvine)

Author: Patrick Suppes (Stanford University)

A reception to mark the award of the first Barwise Prize to Patrick Suppes follows this session. The Barwise Prize is awarded by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers to recognize significant and sustained contributions in philosophy and computing, and to encourage work relevant to the "computational turn" in philosophy. (This reception is for persons registered at the APA convention and guests of the reception's sponsors.)

VIII-H. Colloquium: Spacio-Temporal Parts

1:00 p.m.

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

Speaker: Yuri V. Balashov (University of Georgia)

"Temporal Parts and Superluminal Motion"

Commentator: Hud Hudson (Western Washington University)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Galen Strawson (University of Reading)

Speaker: Ryan J. Wasserman (Rutgers University)

"Temporal Extension and Decomposition"

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

Commentator: Gabriel Uzquiano (University of Rochester)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Cindy Stern (California State University, Northridge)

Speaker: Mark T. Phelan (University of Utah)

"On Numerous Coincident Objects of the Same Kind"

Commentator: Lawrence Lombard (Wayne State University)

VIII-I. Colloquium: Naturalized Epistemology

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Gregory Velazco y Trianosky (California State University, Northridge)

Speaker: Tom C. Vinci (Dalhousie University)

"The Argument Structure of Quine's `Epistemology Naturalized'"

Commentator: Joseph C. Pitt (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Mylan Engel Jr. (Northern Illinois University)

Speaker: James A. Sage (University of Utah)

"Truth-Reliability and the Evolution of Human Cognitive Faculties"

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

Commentator: Bruce Russell (Wayne State University)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Glenn Ross (Franklin and Marshall College)

Speaker: Warren E. Shrader (Notre Dame University)

"Virtue Reliabilism, Proper Function, and Knowledge"

Commentator: Andrew Cling (University of Alabama, Huntsville)

VIII-J. Colloquium: Descartes's Method

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Paul Loeb (University of Puget Sound)

Speaker: David A. Truncellito (Arkansas State University)

"The Use of Logic in Descartes's Philosophy"

Commentator: Peg O'Connor (Gustavus Adolphus College)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Kurt Smith (Bloomsburg University)

Speaker: Roger Florka (Ursinus College)

"Problems with the Garber-Dear Theory of the Disappearance of Descartes's Method"

Commentator: Alan Nelson (University of California, Irvine)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: G. J. Mattey (University of California, Davis)

Speaker: Matthew J. Kisner (University of California, San Diego)

"Skepticism in the Early Descartes"

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

Commentator: Gary Steiner (Bucknell University)

VIII-K. Colloquium: Hume

1:00 p.m.

Chair: David Corner (California State University, Sacramento)

Speaker: Lon S. Becker (Colgate University)

"Hume's `On Miracles' without the Muddles: Against Earman's Reading"

Commentator: Glenn Branch (National Center for Science Education)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Karann Durland (Austin College)

Speaker: Timothy A. Black (University of Utah)

"Hume's Epistemological Compatibilism"

Commentator: Graciela De Pierris (Stanford University)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Aaron Holland (University of Utah)

Speaker: Mark D. Collier (Stanford University)

"Hume's Consequent Skepticism"

Commentator: David Owen (University of Arizona)

VIII-L. Colloquium: Teaching Philosophy and the Philosophy of Teaching

1:00 p.m.

Chair: G. F. Schueler (University of New Mexico)

Speaker: Nancy Daukas (Guilford College)

"Classroom Relativism: Insights and Opportunities"

Commentator: Emrys Westacott (Alfred University)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Sin Yee Chan (University of Vermont)

Speaker: May Sim (Oklahoma State University)

"Dewey and Confucius: On Moral Education"

Commentator: James Behuniak (Kalamazoo College)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Sara Austin (Whittier College)

Speaker: Sheryl Tuttle Ross (Edgewood College)

"Boundaries and Open Spaces — Paradoxes in Feminist Pedagogy"

Commentator: Michelle Switzer (Whittier College)

VIII-M. Colloquium: Consequentialism

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Margaret Bowman (University of Utah)

Speakers: Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell
(Harvard Law School)

"All Individuals May Be Made Worse Off under Any Nonwelfarist Principle"

Commentator: Dan Campana (University of LaVerne)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Warren Kessler (California State University, Fresno)

Speaker: Michael J. Gorr (Illinois State University)

"The Doctrine of Excuses"

Commentator: Daniel Guevara (University of California, Santa Cruz)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Gary Seay (Medgar Evers College-City University of New York)

Speaker: Eric Wiland (University of Missouri, St. Louis)

"A Refutation of Indirect Utilitarianism"

Commentator: Alan Fuchs (College of William and Mary)

SESSION IX - Saturday Late Afternoon, March 29, 2003

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

IX-N. Invited Symposium: What Happened to Philosophy after Hegel? An Italian Answer

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Hans Lottenbach (University of California,
Los Angeles)

Speaker: Brian Copenhaver (University of California,
Los Angeles)

"What Happened to Philosophy after Hegel?
An Italian Answer"

Respondent: Pierre Keller (University of California, Riverside)

IX-O. Invited Symposium: The Good Leader

4:00 p.m.

Chair: John Lysaker (University of Oregon)

Speakers: Crispin Sartwell (Maryland Institute College of Art)

"Leadership and Truth:Malcolm X and Barry Goldwater, Brothers under the Skin"

Joanne B. Ciulla (University of Richmond)

"Leadership and the Warped Wood of Humanity"

Jeffrey J. Stolle (GPA Consulting Group)

"Tales of Confidence and Skepticism:
Leadership in Business and Philosophy"

IX-P. Invited Symposium: Self-Knowledge and Autism

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside)

Speaker: Victoria McGeer (McDonnell Project in Neuroscience and Philosophy)

"Self-Knowledge and Autism"

Respondent: Diana Raffman (Ohio State University)

IX-Q. Symposium: Philosophy in High School
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on
Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy)

4:00 p.m.

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

Speakers: Susan Verducci (Stanford University)

"Philosophy Supplementing the High School Curriculum _ The Stanford Discovery Institute in Philosophy"

Former Students from the Stanford Discovery Institute

Thomas Doyle (University of California, Irvine)

"Philosophy at the Core of High School Curriculum"

Former Students from Granada Hills High School Philosophy _ Los Angeles, CA

IX-R. Invited Symposium: Reading Irigaray

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Jay Julian (University of Memphis)

Speakers: Jennifer Hansen (Gettysburg College)

"Disinvesting in Whiteness: Irigarayan Observations on Racial Privilege"

Stacy Keltner (University of Oregon)

"The Failure and Regeneration of the Political: Irigaray's Sexual Politics"

IX-S. Symposium: Winner of the Berger Prize _ Seana Shiffrin, "Paternalism, Unconscionability Doctrine, and Accommodation," (Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy of Law)

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Joan McGregor (Arizona State University)

Speakers: Larry Alexander (University of San Diego)

R. Jay Wallace (University of California, Berkeley)

Respondent: Seana Shiffrin (University of California, Los Angeles)

IX-T. Symposium: Casuistry and Reflective Equilibrium

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Joseph Grcic (Indiana State University)

Speaker: Martin Calkins (Santa Clara University)

"Casuistry and Reflective Equilibrium"

Respondent: James Sterba (University of Notre Dame)

IX-U. Symposium: Relational Autonomy _ Some Worries:
A Qualified Case for Individualism

4:00 p.m.

Chair: James S. Taylor (Louisiana State University)

Speaker: John P. Christman (Penn State University)

"Relational Autonomy _ Some Worries: A Qualified Case for Individualism"

Respondents: Marina Oshana (Bowling Green State University)

Catriona Mackenzie (Macquarie University)

IX-V. Symposium: How to Russell the Incompleteness Argument

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Calvin Normore (University of California, Los Angeles)

Speaker: Richard Hanley (University of Delaware)

"How to Russell the Incompleteness Argument"

Respondent: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)

IX-W. Symposium: The Metaphysics of Emergence

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Peter Graham (University of California, Riverside)

Speaker: Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University)

"The Metaphysics of Emergence"

Respondent: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University)

IX-X. Colloquium: Plato's Phaedo

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Mark Faller (Alaska Pacific University)

Speaker: Ellen Wagner (University of North Florida)

"The Function of the Affinity Argument in the Phaedo"

Commentator: Patricia Curd (Purdue University)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: Scott LaBarge (Santa Clara University)

Speaker: John A. Palmer (University of Florida)

"The Hypothetical Method and the Arguments of Plato's Phaedo"

Commentator: Evanthia Speliotis (Bellarmine University)

IX-Y. Colloquium: Exclusion and Inequality

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Alison Jagger (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Speaker: Anita T. Ho (College of St. Catherine)

"Is `Inclusion' Really Inclusive?"

Commentator: Jennifer Purvis (University of Alabama)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: Jennifer Vest (Seattle University)

Speaker: Michael J. Cholbi (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)

"Race, Capital Punishment, and Two Kinds of Arbitrariness"

Commentator: Ann Hubbard (College of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

IX-Z. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Robin Jeshion (Yale University)

Speaker: Thomas D. Bontly (University of Connecticut)

"Modified Occam's Razor: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Parsimony"

Commentator: Marga Reimer (University of Arizona)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: Douglas Cannon (University of Puget Sound)

Speaker: Elisabeth M. Camp (University of California, Berkeley)

"`Lodging in the Words': Semantics and Metaphorical Content"

Commentator: Cathy Wearing (Carleton University)