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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Sunday, March 30, 2003

SESSION X - Sunday morning, March 30, 2003

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

X-A. Author Meets Critics: Frederick C. Beiser, German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism

9:00 a.m.

Chair: John M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College)

Critics: Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame)

Allen W. Wood (Stanford University)

Author: Frederick C. Beiser (Syracuse University)

X-B. Invited Symposium: Plato's Parmenides

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Russell Dancy (Florida State University)

Speakers: Mary Louise Gill (Brown University)

"Plato's First Principles"

Constance Meinwald (University of Illinois, Chicago)

"Revisiting the Parmenides"

Mitchell Miller (Vassar College)

"The Coherence of the Parmenides: Forms, Unities, and the Instant"

X-C. Invited Symposium: Epistemological Issues in Environmental Philosophy

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Christopher Preston (University of South Carolina)

Speakers: Steven Vogel (Denison University)

"The Silence of Nature"

Irene Klaver (University of North Texas)

"Language at Large: The Nature of Translation"

Respondents: Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University)

Philip Cafaro (Colorado State University)

X-D. Author Meets Critics: Darrel Moellendorf, Cosmopolitan Justice

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Gillian Brock (University of Auckland)

Critics: Richard Miller (Cornell University)

Debra Satz (Stanford University)

Author: Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego State University)

X-E. Colloquium: Moral Theory

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Stephen Gardiner (University of Utah)

Speaker: Jeffrey C. Brand-Ballard (George Washington University)

"Contractualism and Deontic Restrictions"

Commentator: Paul Hurley (Pomona College)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Phyllis Vandenberg (Grand Valley State University)

Speakers: Mark N. Lance and Margaret Little
(Georgetown University)

"Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Moral Valence, Defeasibility, and Privileged Conditions"

Commentator: Troy Booher (University of Utah)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Pepe Chang (University of Utah)

Speaker: Christian B. Miller (University of Notre Dame)

"Motivational Internalism and Reliably Connected Moral Agents"

Commentator: Pekka Väyrynen (University of California, Davis)

X-F. Colloquium: Mind and Body

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Hollibert Phillips (Whitman College)

Speaker: Kelly G. Trogdon (Santiago Canyon College)

"Dualism, Mental Causation, and Counterfactuals"

Commentator: David Sanson (University of California,
Los Angeles)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Jason Potter (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Speaker: Barbara Montero (Georgia State University)

"Physicalism and the Conservation of Energy"

Commentator: Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Vaughn McKim (Notre Dame University)

Speaker: Jennifer Susse (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

"The Multiple Realization Argument"

Commentator: Casey O'Callahan (University of California,
Santa Cruz)

X-G. Colloquium: Reference and Rigidity

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Dana Goswick (University of California, Davis)

Speaker: Fritz McDonald (City University of New York Graduate Center)

"What Is Frege's Theory of Demonstratives?"

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

Commentator: Isidora Stojanovic (Stanford University)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Michael Wolf (Kalamazoo College)

Speaker: Mark LeBar (Ohio University)

"Rigidity and Response-Dependence"

Commentator: David Beisecker (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Cara Spencer (Howard University)

Speaker: Clayton M. Littlejohn (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

"Kripke's Epistemological Argument against Descriptivism"

Commentator: Patricia Hanna (University of Utah)

X-H. Colloquium: Epistemic Contextualism

9:00 a.m.

Chair: John Devlin (Arizona State University)

Speaker: Krista Lawlor (Stanford University)

"Enough is Enough: What the Contextualist Should Really Say to the Skeptic"

Commentator: Jonathan Kvanvig (University of Missouri, Columbia)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Richard Creath (Arizona State University)

Speaker: Adam Wager (Rutgers University)

"Lewisive Knowledge"

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

Commentator: Anthony Brueckner (University of California, Santa Barbara)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)

Speaker: Duncan H. Pritchard (University of Stirling)

"Attributer Contextualism, Skepticism, and Warranted Assertability Manœuvres"

Commentator: Thomas Blackson (Arizona State University)

X-I. Colloquium: Descartes and Leibniz

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California)

Speaker: William Edward Morris (Illinois Wesleyan University)

"Dreaming, Deception, and Descartes's Painter Analogy"

Commentator: Lex Newman (University of Utah)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Shoshana Smith (University of California, Berkeley)

Speaker: Amy M. Schmitter (Stanford Humanities Center/University of New Mexico)

"The View from Where We Are: Descartes on the Eternal Truths, my Nature, and its Sources"

Commentator: Dan Kaufman (University of Florida)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: David Berger (University of California, Berkeley)

Speaker: Andreas Blank (University of Pittsburgh)

"Leibniz's De Summa Rerum and the Panlogistic Interpretation of the Theory of Simple Substances"

Commentator: Tim Crockett (University of California, Berkeley)

X-J. Colloquium: Feminist Philosophy

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Amy Story (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Elizabeth Brake (University of Calgary)

"Sexual Objectification and Kantian Ethics"

Commentator: Lara Denis (Agnes Scott College)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Ann Garry (California State University, Los Angeles)

Speaker: Jeffery Gauthier (University of Portland)

"Reproductive Rights and Sexual Rights: The Cases of Abortion and Prostitution"

Commentator: Diana Taylor (John Carroll University)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Linda Bomstad (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

Speaker: Allison L. Stone (Cambridge University)

"On the Genealogy of Women: Against Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy"

Commentator: Vrinda Dalmiya (University of Hawaii, Manoa)

X-K. Colloquium: Persons and Liberal Theory

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Brent Crouch (University of Oregon)

Speaker: David Reidy (University of Tennessee)

"Rawls on Peoples, Persons, and Human Rights"

Commentator: Steven Brence (Oregon State University)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Steven Arkonovich (Reed College)

Speaker: Matt Zwolinski (University of Arizona)

"The Separateness of Persons and Liberal Theory"

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

Commentator: Mane Hajdin (Santa Clara University)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Will Cowling (Oregon State University)

Speaker: Dale Francis Murray (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

"Autonomy Protection, Rationality, Libertarianism, and a Positive Right to Health Care"

Commentator: Ben Pryor (University of Toledo)

X-L. Colloquium: Medical Ethics

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Stavroula Glezakos (University of California, Los Angeles)

Speaker: William J. FitzPatrick (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

"Stem Cells, Non-Reproductive Cloning, and the Intend/Foresee Distinction"

Commentator: Julie Tannenbaum (University of California,
Santa Cruz)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: John Corvino (Wayne State University)

Speaker: M.A. Roberts (College of New Jersey)

"The New Reproductive Technologies and the Limits and Structure of Privacy"

Commentator: Karen Stohr (Georgetown University)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Christopher Broniak (Roosevelt University)

Speaker: Ryan B. Spellecy (Medical College of Wisconsin)

"Ulysses Contracts as Practical Reasoning Prostheses"

Commentator: Chris Meyers (Southern Methodist University)