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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Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Registration

5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Mezzanine

Thursday, March 27, 2003

Registration

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

MEZZANINE

Book Displays

11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

CALIFORNIA BALLROOM

Placement Center

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

MEZZANINE

Interview Rooms

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

ASCOT/DERBY/BRISTOL

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

MAYFAIR

Pacific Division Reception

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

GEORGIAN ROOM

Annual Reception

9:30 p.m. - midnight

COLONIAL ROOM

Group Meetings

9:00 a.m. - noon

North American Wittgenstein Society

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

North American Nietzsche Society, Session I

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

The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

International Institute for Field-Being, Session I

Radical Philosophy Association, Session I

North American Spinoza Society, Session I

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

American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Session I

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

American Association of Philosophy Teachers

International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy

International Hobbes Association

American Indian Philosophy Association, Session I and Business Meeting

International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session I

Society for German Idealism

Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs

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

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Graduate Student Session

North American Society for Social Philosophy

Philosophy of Religion Group

Leibniz Society of North America

SESSION I - Thursday Morning, March 27, 2003

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

I-A. Invited Symposium: Pragmatism and Reference

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Kaarina Beam (Linfield College)

Speakers: David B. Boersema (Pacific University)

"Pragmatism, Individuation, and Reference"

Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University)

"Pragmatism and Reference in Brandom and Habermas"

Robert Schwartz (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

"Pragmatic Instrumentalism"

I-B. Invited Symposium: Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Cristal Hsiao-Hui Huang (Soochow University)

Speakers: Jin Y. Park (American University)

"Thinking and Questioning: Buddhist gong'an and Merleau-Pontean Interrogation"

Glen A. Mazis (Penn State, Harrisburg)

"The Ethic of Affirmation of Embodiment in Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism"

Gereon Kopf (Luther College)

"Knowledge and Nothingness: The Epistemologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida"

Respondent: Dan Lusthaus (University of Missouri, Columbia)

I-C. Author Meets Critics: Robert W. Batterman, The Devil in the Details: Asymptotic Reasoning in Explanation, Reduction, and Emergence

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Craig Callender (University of California, San Diego)

Critics: Lawrence Sklar (University of Michigan)

Gordon Belot (New York University)

Mark L. Wilson (University of Pittsburgh)

Author: Robert W. Batterman (Ohio State University)

I-D. Invited Symposium: New Work on Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Lisa Shabel (Ohio State University)

Speakers: Daniel Sutherland (University of Illinois, Chicago)

"The Integration of Mathematics and Science in Kant's Philosophy"

Emily Carson (McGill University)

"Arithmetic and Possible Experience"

Respondent: Michael Friedman (Stanford University)

I-E. Invited Symposium: Epistemic Probability

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Brad Armendt (Arizona State University)

Speaker: Richard Fumerton (University of Iowa)

"Epistemic Probability"

Respondents: James Joyce (University of Michigan)

James Van Cleve (Brown University)

I-F. Symposium: Gender and Race
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women)

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Georgia Warnke (University of California, Riverside)

Speakers: Linda Alcoff (Syracuse University)

Robert Gooding-Williams (Northwestern University)

Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)

Respondent: Georgia Warnke (University of California, Riverside)

I-G. Author Meets Critics: Roslyn Weiss, Virtue in the Cave: Moral Inquiry in Plato's Meno

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Gale Justin (California State University, Sacramento)

Critics: Mitzi Lee (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Ronald Polansky (Duquesne University)

Author: Roslyn Weiss (Lehigh University and Princeton University Center for Human Values)

I-H. Symposium: Careers for Philosophers
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Career Opportunities)

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Pamela Hood (San Francisco State University)

Speakers: Christina M. Bellon (California State University, Sacramento) and Larry May (Washington University in St. Louis)

"Dual (Duel?) Careers"

Kirk Fitzpatrick (California State University, San Bernadino)

"Teaching Practica and Job Placement Strategies for Graduate Students"

Jeremy Ball (College of San Mateo)

"Interviews and Presentations: Tips, Techniques, and Technologies"

Michael Hodges (Vanderbilt University)

"Marketing Yourself for Diverse Academic Settings"

I-I. Symposium: Computers and the Mediation of Human Experience
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers and the Society for Philosophy and Technology)

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Noam Cook (San Jose State University)

Speakers: Tom Powers (University of Virginia)

"The Computer Layer in Pedagogy: Complements to Traditional Classroom Interaction"

David Kolb (Bates College)

"Philosophy Gone Hyper: New Voices and Forms of Scholarly Communication"

Branden Fitelson (San Jose State University)

"Some Recent Applications of Computing to Problem-Solving in Philosophy of Science, Logic, and Metaphysics"

I-J. Colloquium: Ethical Theory

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Ashley McDowell (University of Arizona)

Speaker: Walter E. Schaller (Texas Tech University)

"Three Objections to Neutrality of Justification"

Commentator: Daniel Farnham (University of Oklahoma)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Catherine Yu (University of Washington)

Speaker: Christopher C. Heathwood (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

"Desire Satisfactionism and Hedonism"

Commentator: Robert Epperson (University of Calgary)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Kari Middleton (Syracuse University)

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

"The Possibility of Moral Reasoning"

Commentator: William D. Casebeer (United States Air Force Academy)

I-K. Colloquium: Mind and Body

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Jung-In Kwon (State University of New York, Brockport)

Speaker: Eric A. Marcus (Auburn University)

"Why There Are No Token States"

Commentator: Matti Ecklund (University of Colorado, Boulder)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Brian Keeley (Pitzer College)

Speaker: William S. Robinson (Iowa State University)

"Reactive Dissociation and Pain Illusion"

Commentator: Murat Aydede (University of Florida)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Steven Reynolds (Arizona State University)

Speaker: Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta)

"The Inseparability Thesis and Phenomenal Intentionality"

Commentator: John Tienson (University of Memphis)

I-L. Colloquium: Early Modern Ethics

9:00 a.m.

Chair: Sherry Deveaux (Stanford University)

Speaker: Martin Lin (University of Toronto)

"Spinoza's Account of Akrasia"

Commentator: Thomas Cook (Rollins College)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Tommy Lott (San Jose State University)

Speaker: Daniel C. Russell (Wichita State University)

"Locke on Land and Labor"

**Winner of the Hampton Prize**

Commentator: Mark Michael (Austin Peay State University)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Ken Stalzer (Stanford University)

Speaker: Rachel Cohon (State University of New York, Albany)

"Hume's Theory of Moral Sensing and the `Modern Philosophy'"

Commentator: Stephen Finlay (University of Southern California)

I-M. Colloquium: Metaphysics

9:00 a.m.

Chair: David Hunter (Buffalo State College)

Speaker: Andrew Egan (MIT)

"Second-Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties"

Commentator: Peter Alward (University of Lethbridge)

10:00 a.m.

Chair: Timothy Preston (Dominican University of California)

Speaker: Josh Parsons (University of St. Andrews)

"Distributional Properties"

Commentator: Troy Cross (Yale University)

11:00 a.m.

Chair: Christopher Pincock (Purdue University)

Speaker: Sílvio J. Mota Pinto (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mórelos)

"The Tractatus and the Dispensability of Mathematical Objects"

Commentator: Peter Hanks (University of California, Davis)

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ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING

noon - 1:00 p.m.

OLYMPIC

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SESSION II - Thursday Early Afternoon, March 27, 2003

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

II-A. Author Meets Critics: Russell Goodman, Wittgenstein and William James

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Ellen Kappy Suckiel (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Critics: Karen Hanson (Indiana University)

Christopher Hookway (Sheffield University)

Ray Monk (University of Southampton)

Author: Russell Goodman (University of New Mexico)

II-B. Author Meets Critics: Tad Schmaltz, Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Patricia Easton (Claremont Graduate University)

Critics: Roger Ariew (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Nicholas Jolley (University of California, Irvine)

Monte Cook (University of Oklahoma)

Author: Tad Schmaltz (Duke University)

II-C. Invited Symposium: De Re Belief

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College)

Speaker: David Kaplan (University of California, Los Angeles)

"De Re Belief"

Respondents: Kenneth A. Taylor (Stanford University)

Robert Stalnaker (MIT)

II-D. Author Meets Critics: Claudia Baracchi, Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Peter Warnek (University of Oregon)

Critics: Amy Morgenstern (University of Dayton)

Robert Metcalf (University of Colorado, Denver)

Author: Claudia Barrachi (New School University)

II-E. Invited Symposium: Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Kelly Parker (Grand Valley State University)

Speaker: Sahotra Sarkar (University of Texas, Austin)

"Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy"

Respondents: Jay Odenbaugh (University of California,
San Diego)

Anya Plutynski (University of Utah)

II-F. Invited Symposium: War and Philosophers

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Yoko Arisaka (University of San Francisco)

Speakers: Predrag Cicovaki (College of the Holy Cross)

"War and Terrorism: Differences and Similarities"

Nobuo Kazashi (Kobe University)

"Japanese Philosophers in Resistance:
WWII, Vietnam War, and the Present"

Cynthia Kaufman (De Anza College)

"Relevant Theory for Radical Change:
A Look at the (Lack of) Connections between Philosophers and Anti-war Activists"

II-G. Symposium (Winner of the Kavka Prize) "Is There a Duty to Vote?," by Loren Lomasky and Geoffrey Brennan

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Leslie Francis (University of Utah)

Speakers: Gerald Gaus (Tulane University)

Eric Cave (Arkansas State University)

Respondents: Loren Lomasky (Bowling Green State University)

Geoffrey Brennan (The Australian National University)

II-H. Colloquium: Ethical Theory

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Mark Young (Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin)

Speaker: Stephen G. Scholz (North Carolina State University)

"What is Good about Making an Effort?"

Commentator: Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Diana Buccafurni (University of Utah)

Speaker: Joshua N. Gert (Florida State University)

"Problems for Moral Twin Earth Arguments"

Commentator: Mark Timmons (University of Memphis)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Gary Fuller (Central Michigan University)

Speaker: Justin D'Arms (Ohio State University)

"Self-Righteous Anger: A Case Study in Evolutionary Ethics"

Commentator: Ralph Acampora (Hofstra University)

II-I. Colloquium: Composing, Computing, and Realizing Mental States

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Jay Atlas (Pomona College)

Speaker: Daniel Weiskopf (Washington University in St. Louis)

"On Failing to Explain Compositionality"

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

Commentator: William Taschek (Ohio State University)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Kevin Falvey (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Speaker: Susan Schneider (Rutgers University)

"Fodor's Version of the Frame Problem: A Solution"

Commentator: Kirk Ludwig (University of Florida)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Andrew Botterell (Sonoma State University)

Speaker: Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Pittsburgh)

"Why Functionalism Does Not Entail Computationalism"

Commentator: Reinaldo Elugardo (University of Oklahoma)

II-J. Colloquium: Motives and Reasons

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Evan Tiffany (Simon Fraser University)

Speaker: Adrienne M. Martin (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

"A Case for Categorical Reasons"

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

Commentator: Stephen Brown (University of Oklahoma)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Edward Hinchman (Claremont McKenna College)

Speaker: Noa Latham (University of Calgary)

"Are There Any Non-motivating Reasons for Action?"

Commentator: Scott Sehon (Bowdoin College)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Andrea Westlund (University of Pittsburgh)

Speaker: Insoo Hyun (Western Michigan University) and Arthur Falk (Western Michigan University)

"To Desire to Desire"

Commentator: Don Hubin (Ohio State University)

II-K. Colloquium: Meta-Philosophy

1:00 p.m.

Chair: Alejandro Vallega (California StateUniversity, Stanislaus)

Speaker: Brendan P. Moran (University of Calgary)

"Prosaic Beauty of Philosophy: Walter Benjamin"

Commentator: Jennifer Holt (Vanderbilt University)

2:00 p.m.

Chair: Aaron Bunch (Loyola University, Chicago)

Speaker: Maralee M. Harrell (Colorado College)

"Conceptual Analysis and the Intuition Method: A Critique of Another Paradigm of Philosophy"

Commentator: Anne Jaap Jacobson (University of Houston)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Peter Hanowell (Florida State University)

Speaker: Edward A. Langerak (St. Olaf College)

"Academic Civility and Questioning Motives"

Commentator: Paul Hughes (University of Michigan, Dearborn)

II-L. Colloquium: Political Philosophy

1:00 p.m.

Chair: David A. Shapiro (University of Washington)

Speaker: Allan Bäck (Kutztown University)

"Thinking Clearly about Violence"

Commentator: Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves (Morgan State University)

2:00 p.m.

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

Speaker: Crista M. Lebens (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater)

"Concepts of Political Activity"

Commentator: Rachel Rosner (Northwestern University)

3:00 p.m.

Chair: Elizabeth V. Forrester (Sacramento City College)

Speaker: Patrick Durning (Tufts University)

"Philosophical Anarchism and Autonomy"

Commentator: Clifford Anderson (California State University, Sacramento)

SESSION III - Thursday Late Afternoon, March 27, 2003

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

III-M. Invited Symposium: Refuting Skepticism in Style

4:00 p.m.

Chair: David Hills (Stanford University)

Speaker: Elijah Millgram (University of Utah)

"Refuting Skepticism in Style"

Respondents: Stacie Friend (University of Michigan)

Daniel Jacobson (Bowling Green State University)

III-N. Invited Symposium: Racism and Community

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Lani Roberts (Oregon State University)

Speaker: Leonard Harris (Purdue University)

"Racism and Communities"

Respondents: Gerald Doppelt (University of California,
San Diego)

John Berteaux (San Diego State University)

III-O. Invited Symposium: Attending to Experience

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Aaron Zimmerman (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Speaker: Charles Siewart (University of Miami)

"Attending to Experience"

Respondent: Terry Horgan (University of Arizona)

III-P. Invited Symposium: Meta-judgment in Aquinas's Moral Psychology

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Susan Brower Toland (Saint Louis University)

Speaker: Scott MacDonald (Cornell University)

"Meta-judgment in Aquinas's Moral Psychology"

Respondents: Thomas Williams (University of Iowa)

Rega Wood (Stanford University)

III-Q. Symposium: Service Learning in Philosophy
(Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Teaching)

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Erin McKenna (Pacific Lutheran University)

Speakers: Lawrence M. Hinman and Virginia E. Lewis (University of San Diego)

"Teaching Peace, Teaching Ghandi: A Service Learning Approach"

Kathie Jenni (University of Redlands)

"Taking Animals Seriously: Theory and Practice in a Philosophy _ Service Learning Course"

III-R. Author Meets Critics: Jodi Halpern, From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice (Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine)

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Lainie Friedman Ross (University of Chicago)

Critics: Mary Mahowald (University of Chicago)

Neera K. Badhwar (University of Oklahoma)

Agnieska Jaworska (Stanford University)

Author: Jodi Halpern (University of California, Berkeley)

III-S. Symposium: Minding the Gap in Plato's Republic

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Ester Macedo (University of Toronto)

Speaker: Eric A. Brown (Washington University in St. Louis)

"Minding the Gap in Plato's Republic"

Respondent: Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University)

III-T. Symposium: Practical Intersubjectivity

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Michael DeWilde (Grand Valley State University)

Speaker: Abraham S. Roth (University of Illinois, Chicago)

"Practical Intersubjectivity"

Respondent: Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah)

III-U. Symposium: Saying in Carnap's "Logical Syntax of Language"

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Ian Proops (University of Michigan)

Speaker: Eric J. Loomis (University of South Alabama)

"Saying in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language"

Respondent: Robert J. H. Stainton (Carleton University)

III-V. Colloquium: Sartre

4:00 p.m.

Chair: J. Michael Russell (California State University, Fullerton)

Speaker: Kristana Arp (Long Island University)

"Two Types of Freedom in Sartre and Locke"

Commentator: Ruth Sample (University of New Hampshire)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: Rochelle Green (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Philip J. Bartok (University of Notre Dame)

"Sexism and Phenomenological Method in Sartre's Analysis of Bad Faith"

Commentator: Margaret McLaren (Rollins College)

III-W. Colloquium: There's Something About Mary

4:00 p.m.

Chair: William Lycan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Speaker: Torin Alter (University of Alabama)

"Jackson's Retraction"

Commentator: Robert Van Gulick (Syracuse University)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: Douglas Long (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Speaker: Emmett L. Holman (George Mason University)

"Dualism, Secondary Quality Eliminativism, and Recognitional Concepts: Putting a New Spin on the Knowledge Argument"

Commentator: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)

III-X. Colloquium: Memory in Epistemology

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Alexa Lee (University of California, Davis)

Speaker: Matthias Steup (St. Cloud State University)

"The Reliability of Memory and the Problem of the Crystal Ball"

Commentator: Myron Penner (Purdue University)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: Mark Bernstein (University of Texas, San Antonio)

Speaker: Jennifer Lackey (Pomona College)

"Memory as a Generative Epistemic Source"

Commentator: Robert Almeder (Georgia State University)

III-Y. Colloquium: Recent and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy

4:00 p.m.

Chair: Lisa Marie Blasch (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Marjorie Hass (Muhlenberg College)

"Here I Am/Hineyni: The Hebrew Verse in Levinas's Ethical Philosophy"

Commentator: Travis T. Anderson (Brigham Young University)

5:00 p.m.

Chair: Lawrence Udell Fike, Jr. (Yakima Valley Community College)

Speaker: Owen Michael Goldin (Marquette University)

"Tamir, Rawls, and the Temple Mount"

Commentator: Lowell Herr (California State University, Pomona)

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PACIFIC DIVISION RECEPTION

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

GEORGIAN ROOM

All registered participants are invited to attend this reception. The reception honors our hosts, the Philosophy Departments at the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University.

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

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ANNUAL RECEPTION

9:30 p.m. - midnight

COLONIAL

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

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