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Program for Wednesday, April 23

Registration

5:00 PM-10:00 PM

Third Floor Lobby (3rd floor)

Placement Service

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

Wade (3rd floor)

Placement Interview Area

5:00 PM-10:00 PM

Van Aken (4th floor)

Exhibit Setup

8:00 PM-11:00 PM

Gold Room (3rd floor)

Group Meetings, Wednesday Afternoon/Evening

(see Group Meeting Program for details)

Session G: 6:00 PM-10:00 PM

G-1: Conference of Philosophical Societies, Case

Executive Committee

7:00 PM-11:00 PM

Rockefeller Boardroom (4th floor)

Registration

9:00 AM-9:00 PM

Third Floor Lobby (3rd floor)

Placement Service

9:00 AM-9:00 PM

Wade (3rd floor)

Placement Interview Area

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Whitehall Room (3rd floor)

Book Exhibits

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Gold Room (3rd floor)

Group Meetings, Thursday Morning

(see Group Meeting Program for details)

Session GI: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

GI-1: Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, Garfield

GI-2: American Society for Value Inquiry, Case

GI-3: North American Nietzsche Society, Owens

GI-4: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Szell

GI-5: Society for Analytical Feminism, Blossom

GI-6: Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, Van Aken

GI-7: International Institute for Field-Being, Humphrey

GI-8: Hannah Arendt Circle, Holden

GI-9: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Halle

Group Meetings, Thursday Afternoon/Evening

(see Group Meeting Program for details)

Session GII: 5:15 PM-7:15 PM

GII-1: Society of Christian Philosophers, Superior

GII-2: Hume Society, Bush

GII-3: Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Humphrey

GII-4: Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Rockefeller Boardroom

Session GIII: 7:30 PM-10:30 PM

GIII-1: Leibniz Society of North America, Garfield

GIII-2: American Society for Value Inquiry, Case

GIII-3: Sören Kierkegaard Society, Willey

GIII-4: Society for the Philosophy of Creativity, Szell

GIII-5: Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Blossom

GIII-6: Society for the Philosophy of History, Van Aken

GIII-7: North American Kant Society, Humphrey

GIII-8: International Institute for Field-Being, Holden

GIII-9: Philosophy of Religion Group, Halle

GIII-10: Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Bush

GIII-11: Society for Realist-Antirealist Discussion, Superior

GIII-12: American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Owens

Carus Lecture I "Evaluatives"

12:30 PM-1:45 PM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

Speaker: Judith Jarvis Thomson (MIT)

Reception for Carus Lecturer

1:45 PM-3:15 PM

Severance (4th floor)

Reception for Award Recipients (Article Prize, APA/PDC Prize, Edinburgh Fellowship, Rockefeller Prize, Sharp Prize)

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Severance (4th floor)

Annual Reception

8:30 PM-12:00 AM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

I-A. Symposium: Counterfactuals and Entropy (change from the printed program updated on March 21, 2003. New title: Counterfactuals and the Past Hypothesis)

Jeffrey Bub is unable to participate in this Symposium. The first speaker will
instead be Matthias Frisch (Northwestern University). The title of his
presentation will be "Counterfactuals and the Past Hypothesis".

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

Van Aken (4th floor)

Chair: Robert Batterman (Ohio State University)

Speaker: Matthias Frisch (Northwestern University)

Speaker: Douglas Kutach (Texas Tech University)

Commentator: Adam Elga (Princeton University)

I-B. Symposium: Artifact Concepts

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

Case (4th floor)

Chair: Reinaldo Elugardo (University of Oklahoma)

Speaker: Crawford L. Elder (University of Connecticut)

Speaker: Gloria Origgi (University of Bologna)

Commentator: Eric Margolis (Rice University)

I-C. Symposium: Recent Work on Sartre

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

Bush (3rd floor)

Chair: Peter Caws (George Washington University)

Title: "Politico-Historical Thinker or Ontologist? Sartre As Both at Once"

Speaker: William McBride (Purdue University)

Title: "Sartre at One Hundred: A Man of the 19th Century Thinking the 21st?"

Speaker: Thomas R. Flynn (Emory University)

Title: "Revisiting Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Sartre"

Speaker: Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis)

I-D. Author Meets Critics: Richard Moran, Authority and Estrangement

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

Chair: David Velleman (University of Michigan)

Commentator: Sydney Shoemaker (Cornell University)

Commentator: Lucy O'Brien (University College London)

Response: Richard Moran (Harvard University)

I-E. Colloquium: Semantics and the Philosophy of Mind

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

Garfield (4th floor)

1:45-2:45 "Compositionality without Conceptuality? Evans's Generality Constraint Reconsidered"

(Winner of a 2003 Graduate Student Travel Stipend)

Speaker: Bence Nanay (University of California, Berkeley)

Chair: Josefa Toribio (Indiana University)

Commentator: John Kulvicki (Washington University in St. Louis)

2:45-3:45 "Vague Singulars, Semantic Indecision, and the Metaphysics of Persons"

(Winner of a 2003 Graduate Student Travel Stipend)

Speaker: Donald P. Smith (University of Notre Dame)

Chair: Cara Spencer (Howard University)

Commentator: Susana Nuccetelli (St. Cloud State University)

3:45-4:45 "Temporal Externalism and Our Ordinary Linguistic Practice"

Speaker: Henry Jackman (York University)

Chair: Peter Ludlow (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Commentator: Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky)

I-F. Colloquium: German Aesthetics

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

Blossom (4th floor)

1:45-2:45 "The Sublime Not Now: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in Dispute"

Speaker: Bart P. Vandenabeele (University of Leuven)

Chair: Anne Eaton (Bucknell University)

Commentator: Judith Norman (Trinity University)

2:45-3:45 "Two Intentional Reflections: On the Debate about the Intentionality of Judgements of Taste in Kant's Critique of Judgement"

Speaker: Joseph Cannon (Northwestern University)

Chair: Theodore Kinnaman (George Mason University)

Commentator: Rebecca Kukla (Carelton University/Georgetown University)

3:45-4:45 "The Ironic Self: The I As a Work of Art in Early Romantic Thought"

(Winner of a 2003 Graduate Student Travel Stipend)

Speaker: Gerard Kuperus (DePaul University)

Chair: Katalin Makkai (Barnard College, Columbia University)

Commentator: Jane Kneller (Colorado State University)

I-G. Colloquium: Justice: Global and Local

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

Humphrey (3rd floor)

1:45-2:45 "Justice and the Politics of Deference"

Speaker: Avery H. Kolers (University Of Louisville)

Chair: Daniel Farnham (University of Oklahoma)

Commentator: Irfan Khawaja (The College of New Jersey)

2:45-3:45 "Global Distributive Justice and Desert"

Speaker: Gillian Brock (University of Auckland)

Chair: Alyssa R. Bernstein (Ohio University)

Commentator: Jennifer Thompson (Vanderbilt University)

3:45-4:45 "The Moral Case for a Policy of Assassination"

Speaker: Stephen Kershnar (SUNY, Fredonia)

Chair: William H. Wilcox (Indiana State University)

Commentator: Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)

I-H. Colloquium: Moral Psychology

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

Holden (4th floor)

1:45-2:45 "Instrumental Reasoning and the Motivational Power of Beliefs"

Speaker: Chris D. Meyers (Southern Methodist University)

Chair: James E. Mahon (Washington & Lee University)

Commentator: Dorothy Coleman (Northern Illinois University)

2:45-3:45 "Depression, Practical Reason, and the Pursuit of Happiness"

Speaker: Michael J. Cholbi (Brooklyn College)

Chair: Ulrike Heuer (University of Pennsylvania)

Commentator: Manyul Im (University of Oklahoma)

3:45-4:45 "Person-Focused Emotions"

Speaker: Bennett W. Helm (Franklin & Marshall College)

Chair: Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma)

Commentator: Maria Merritt (College of William & Mary)

I-J. Colloquium: Ancient Metaphysics and Epistemology

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

Superior (1st floor)

1:45-2:45 "The Status of Elements and Parts of Animals in Aristotle's Physics II.1 and Metaphysics Z.16"

Speaker: Margaret Scharle (University of California, Los Angeles)

Chair: Michael Baumer (Cleveland State University)

Commentator: Jon McGinnis (University of Missouri, St. Louis)

2:45-3:45 "Practical Knowledge, Due Measure and Limit in Late Plato"

(Winner of a 2003 Graduate Student Travel Stipend)

Speaker: George Harvey (University of Kentucky)

Chair: Marc Lucht (Kenyon College)

Commentator: Allan Silverman (The Ohio State University)

3:45-4:45 "Fallible, Infallible Noûs"

Speaker: Allan Bäck (Kutztown University)

Chair: Robin Smith (Texas A&M University)

Commentator: Errol Katayama (Ohio Northern University)

I-K. Colloquium: Descartes and Spinoza

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

Willey (4th floor)

1:45-2:45 "Is Spinoza's Account of Striving Top-Down?"

Speaker: Martin T. Lin (University of Toronto)

Chair: Jan Cover (Purdue University)

Commentator: Karen Detlefsen (University of Pennsylvania)

2:45-3:45 "Descartes on the Folly of Trying to Define Truth"

Speaker: Adam A. Kovach (Haverford College)

Chair: Nelson Pole (Cleveland State University)

Commentator: Alice Sowaal (Texas Tech University)

3:45-4:45 "Descartes on Composite Natures"

Speaker: Justin Skirry (Purdue University)

Chair: Kurt Smith (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania)

Commentator: David Cunning (Northern Illinois University)

I-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Hispanics: Affirmative Action

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

Halle (4th floor)

Chair: Carla Johnson (St. Cloud State University)

Speaker: Jorge Gracia (University at Buffalo)

Speaker: Jorge Valadez (Our Lady of the Lake University)

Speaker: Celia Wolf-Devine (Stonehill College)

Commentator: Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert (DePaul University)

I-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges: Online Teaching in Philosophy

1:45 PM-4:45 PM

Szell (4th floor)

Speaker: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside City College, Norco Campus)

Speaker: Geoffrey Frasz (College of Southern Nevada)

Reception for Award Recipients (Article Prize, APA/PDC Prize, Edinburgh Fellowship, Rockefeller Prize, Sharp Prize)

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Severance (4th floor)

Annual Reception

8:30 PM-12:00 AM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

Registration

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Third Floor Lobby (3rd floor)

Placement Service

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Wade (3rd floor)

Placement Interview Area

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Whitehall Room (3rd floor)

Book Exhibits

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Gold Room (3rd floor)

Group Meetings, Friday Morning

(see Group Meeting Program for details)

Session GIV-A: 8:45 AM-11:45 AM

GIV-A-1: North American Society for Social Philosophy, Superior

Presidential Address

5:45 PM-6:45 PM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

"Manipulativeness"

Introduction: Vice President Stephen Darwall

Presidential Address: President Marcia Baron

Presidential Reception

9:00 PM-12:00 AM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

II-A. Symposium: The Work of Hannah Arendt (change from the printed program updated on March 21, 2003. New title: Arendt on Action and Freedom)

Bonnie Honig is unable to participate in this Symposium. The first speaker
will instead be Roy T. Tsao (Georgetown University). The title of Professor
Tsao's presentation will be "Arendt on Action and Freedom."

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Van Aken (4th floor)

Chair: Larry May (Washington University in St. Louis)

Title: "Eichmann's Family Romance"

Speaker: Roy T. Tsao (Georgetown University)

Title: Arendt on Action and Freedom

Speaker: Peg Birmingham (DePaul University)

Title: "The Politics of International Justice: Rereading Eichmann in Jerusalem"

Speaker: Morris Kaplan (Purchase College, SUNY)

II-B. Symposium: Philosophy of Biology

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Severance (4th floor)

Chair: Bruce Glymour (Kansas State University)

Title: "Intelligent Design is Untestable. What about Natural Selection?"

Speaker: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Title: "Selection, Drift and the `Forces' of Evolution"

Speaker: Christopher Stephens (University of British Columbia)

Commentator: Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana University)

II-C. Author Meets Critics: William G. Lycan, Real Conditionals

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Bush (3rd floor)

Chair: Richard Grandy (Rice University)

Commentator: Dorothy Edgington (Birkbeck College)

Commentator: David Sanford (Duke University)

Response: William G. Lycan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

II-D. Authors Meet Critics: David B. Hausman & Alan Hausman, Descartes's Legacy: Minds and Meaning in Early Modern Philosophy

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

Chair: Louis E. Loeb (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Commentator: Fred Wilson (University of Toronto)

Commentator: Jorge E. K. Secada (University of Virginia)

Responses: David Hausman (Southern Methodist University)

Alan Hausman (Hunter College)

II-E. Colloquium: Metaphysics

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Halle (4th floor)

8:45-9:45 "Temporal Overlap Is Coincidence"

Speaker: Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri, Columbia)

Chair: Lawrence B. Lombard (Wayne State University)

Commentator: Mark Heller (Southern Methodist University)

9:45-10:45 "Assessing the Case against A Posteriori Physicalism"

(Winner of a 2003 Graduate Student Travel Stipend)

Speaker: Warren E. Shrader (University of Notre Dame)

Chair: Neil Feit (SUNY, Fredonia)

Commentator: Mark Couch (Columbia University)

10:45-11:45 "Yablo on Proportionality, Causation, and Exclusion"

Speaker: Thomas D. Bontly (University of Connecticut)

Chair: S. H. Vollmer (University of Alabama, Birmingham)

Commentator: Jeremy Fantl (Harvard University)

II-F. Colloquium: Kant I

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Blossom (4th floor)

8:45-9:45 "On the Necessity of the Death Penalty in Kant's Moral and Political Philosophy"

(Winner of a 2003 Graduate Student Travel Stipend)

Speaker: Benjamin S. Yost (University of California, Berkeley)

Chair: Stephen R. Grimm (University of Notre Dame)

Commentator: Andrew N. Carpenter (Kaplan College)

9:45-10:45 "Dissecting Juristic Trickery: Kant on Punishment and the Social Contract"

Speaker: Frederick Rauscher (Michigan State University)

Chair: Megan Laverty (Montclair State University)

Commentator: Jennifer A. Mensch (Villanova University)

10:45-11:45 "A Semantic Approach to Kant's Practical Philosophy"

Speaker: Timothy Rosenkoetter (University of Chicago)

Chair: Noell Birondo (University of Notre Dame)

Commentator: Robert Hanna (University of Colorado, Boulder)

II-G. Colloquium: Reference

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Humphrey (3rd floor)

8:45-9:45 "What Was Kripke's Mistake?"

Speaker: John Justice (Randolph-Macon Woman's College)

Chair: Deborah C. Smith (Kent State University)

Commentator: Deborah Hansen Soles (Wichita State University)

9:45-10:45 "Elmer's Befuddlement and the `Naive' Direct Reference Theory"

Speaker: Thomas W. Peard (Baker University)

Chair: Nathan Nobis (University of Rochester)

Commentator: Anthony C. Genova (University of Kansas)

10:45-11:45 "What Should a Correspondence Theory Be?"

Speaker: Patricia A. Marino (Stanford University)

Chair: Nancy Simco (University of Memphis)

Commentator: Robert Kraut (Ohio State University)

II-H. Colloquium: Moral Reasoning

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Holden (4th floor)

8:45-9:45 "The Conclusion of Practical Reason"

Speaker: Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto)

Chair: Julie McDonald (Saint Joseph's University)

Commentator: Nancy E. Snow (Marquette University)

9:45-10:45 "Reasons and the Alternatives"

Speaker: Christopher Knapp (Binghamton University)

Chair: Jennifer Manion (Carleton College)

Commentator: Samantha Brennan (University of Western Ontario)

10:45-11:45 "Moral Perplexity"

Speaker: Carla Bagnoli (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Chair: Sheila Lintott (Appalachian State University)

Commentator: Joshua Gert (Florida State University)

II-J. Colloquium: Recent French Philosophy

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Szell (4th floor)

8:45-9:45 "The Myth of the Given in Sellars and Althusser"

Speaker: Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University Chicago)

Chair: Richard N. Manning (Carleton & Georgetown University)

Commentator: Willem deVries (University of New Hampshire)

9:45-10:45 "The Instruction of Ethics By Tragedy: Ricoeur's Reading of Antigone in Oneself as Another"

Speaker: Robert Piercey (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Chair: Bettina Bergo (Duquesne University)

Commentator: Ann V. Murphy (Mt. Holyoke College)

10:45-11:45 "The Method to Foucault's Madness"

Speaker: David F. Dudrick (Colgate University)

Chair: Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University)

Commentator: Tina Chanter (DePaul University)

II-K. Colloquium: Ancient Ethics and Political Philosophy

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Willey (4th floor)

8:45-9:45 "Aristotle on the Best Good: Is Nicomachean Ethics 1094a18-22 Fallacious?"

Speaker: Peter B.M. Vranas (Iowa State University)

Chair: Mark Moller (Denison University)

Commentator: Joel Richeimer (Kenyon College)

9:45-10:45 "The Many Challenges of Republic II"

Speaker: John M. Mouracade (Oklahoma Baptist University)

Chair: Scott Carson (Ohio University)

Commentator: T.J. Singleton (Spring Hill College)

10:45-11:45 "Intrinsic, Derived, and Anthropocentric Teleology in Politics i.8"

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

Chair: Carrie-Ann Khan (Bowling Green State University)

Commentator: Douglas B. Rasmussen (St. John's University)

II-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine: Coming to Terms with Medical Implantable Chips and Internal Miniaturized Machines

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Garfield (4th floor)

Chair: D. Micah Hester (Mercer University)

Title: "Implantable Brain Chips: Ethical And Policy Questions"

Speaker: Ellen McGee (Long Island Center for Ethics, Long Island University)

Title: "When Chips Gain Teeth: Issues in Autonomous Surgical Nano-Bots"

Speaker: Paul Ford (The Cleveland Clinic)

Title: "Remote Medicine?"

Speaker: Keith Bauer (Marquette University)

II-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Women: Feminism and the History of Philosophy

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Case (4th floor)

Chair: Angela Curran (Franklin & Marshall University)

Speaker: Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern University)

Speaker: Cynthia Freeland (University of Houston)

Speaker: Jane Kneller (Colorado State University)

Speaker: Mary Ellen Waithe (Cleveland State University)

Group Meetings, Friday Afternoon/Evening

(see Group Meeting Program for details)

Session GIV: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM

GIV-1: Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Superior

GIV-2: Philosophy of Time Society, Case

GIV-3: Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, Owens

GIV-4: Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Willey

GIV-5: Society for the Philosophy of History, Blossom

GIV-6: Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, Van Aken

GIV-7: North American Kant Society, Humphrey

GIV-8: Personalist Discussion Group, Holden

GIV-9: Society for the Study of Husserl's Philosophy, Halle

GIV-10: Society for Realist-Antirealist Discussion, Bush

GIV-11: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Garfield

Business Meeting

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

Carus Lecture II "Reasons for Action"

1:00 PM-2:15 PM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

Title: "Reasons for Action"

Speaker: Judith Jarvis Thomson (MIT)

III-A. Symposium: Race, Gender, and Public Life

2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Van Aken (4th floor)

Chair: Bill E. Lawson (Michigan State University)

Title: "Racial Exploitation and the Wages of Whiteness"

Speaker: Charles Mills (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Title: "Should Philosophies of Science Be Socially Relevant?"

Speaker: Sandra Harding (University of California, Los Angeles)

Title: "A Government of Our Peers: Challenging Race and Gender Inequalities in Public Life"

Speaker: Alison M. Jaggar (University of Colorado)

III-B. Symposium: Happiness and Well-Being

2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Severance (4th floor)

Chair: David Copp (Bowling Green State University)

Title: "Aristotle on the Complete Life"

Speaker: Gabriel Richardson (Yale University)

Title: To Be Announced

Speaker: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Claremont Graduate University)

Title: "The Viability of Some Conceptions of Well-Being"

Speaker: Richard Kraut (Northwestern University)

III-C. Invited Session: The Patrick Romanell Lecture

2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

Title: "Narrow Content and Representationalism"

Speaker: Frank Jackson (Australian National University)

III-D. Symposium: Kant, Nietzsche and Perspectivism

2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Bush (3rd floor)

Chair: Sam Kerstein (University of Maryland, College Park)

Title: "Kantian Perspectivism"

Speaker: Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania)

Title: "Nietzschean Perspectivism"

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

Commentator: Fred Rush (University of Notre Dame)

III-E. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language

2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Halle (4th floor)

2:30-3:30 "The Problem of Negative Existentials Does Not Exist: Another Case for Dynamic Semantics"

Speaker: Leonard Clapp (Illinois Wesleyan University)

Chair: Andrew P. Mills (Otterbein College)

Commentator: Mitchell S. Green (University of Virginia)

3:30-4:30 "Making Meaning Happen: Computational Models for Meaning as Use"

Speakers: Patrick N. Grim, Trina Kokalis, Ali Alai-Tafti, Nicholas Kilb, and Paul St. Denis (all SUNY, Stony Brook)

Chair: Gary Fuller (Central Michigan University)

Commentator: Kenneth Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana)

4:30-5:30 "Plurals and Simples"

Speaker: Gabriel Uzquiano (University of Rochester)

Chair: James Kelly (Miami University)

Commentator: Michael Rea (University of Notre Dame)

III-F. Colloquium: The Will

2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Blossom (4th floor)

2:30-3:30 "Free Choice and Moral Character: A Difficulty for Libertarians"

Speaker: Thomas B. Talbott (Willamette University)

Chair: Scott McElreath (Peace College)

Commentator: Michael McKenna (Ithaca College)

3:30-4:30 "Wanting Isn't Trying: Why Kane's Response to the Chance Objection Fails"

Speaker: James Petrik (Ohio University)

Chair: Kenton Machina (Illinois State University)

Commentator: Richard P. Reilly (St. Bonaventure University)

4:30-5:30 "Is Conscious Will an Illusion?"

Speaker: Jing Zhu (University of Waterloo)

Chair: Robert F. Allen (Central Michigan University)

Commentator: Eddy Nahmias (Florida State University)

III-G. Colloquium: Epistemology

2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Humphrey (3rd floor)

2:30-3:30 "The Explanatory Power of Skeptical Scenarios"

Speaker: Peter J. Murphy (Utah State University)

Chair: David L. Hildebrand (University of Memphis/Christian Brothers University)

Commentator: Panayot Butchvarov (University of Iowa)

3:30-4:30 "Two Problems for Bealer's Intuitions"

Speaker: David Kasmier (University of Southern California)

Chair: Tomis Kapitan (Northern Illinois University)

Commentator: George Bealer (University of Colorado, Boulder)

4:30-5:30 "On a `Fatal Dilemma' for Moderate Foundationalism"

Speakers: Christian Lee (Western Washington University)

Daniel Howard-Snyder (Western Washington University)

Chair: Robert Audi (University of Nebraska)

Commentator: Patrick Francken (Illinois State University)

III-H. Colloquium: Ethical Theory

2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Holden (4th floor)

2:30-3:30 "Moral Response-Dependence and the Motive of Duty"

Speaker: Jason R. Kawall (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga)

Chair: Mark LeBar (Ohio University)

Commentator: Elysa Koppelman (Oakland University)

3:30-4:30 "Korsgaard, Identity and Normativity"

Speaker: Larry Krasnoff (College of Charleston)

Chair: Kimberly J. Leighton (University of Massachusetts)

Commentator: John Rudisill (George Washington University)

4:30-5:30 "Prankster's Ethics"

Speakers: Brian J. Weatherson (Brown University)

Andrew Egan (MIT)

Chair: Kevin K. J. Durand (Henderson State University)

Commentator: Kathleen Poorman Dougherty (George Washington University)

III-J. Colloquium: Philosophy of Science

2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Superior (1st floor)

2:30-3:30 "Thagard's Historicist Methodology of Science"

Speaker: William M. Knorpp (James Madison University)

Chair: Ian A. Smith (Ohio State University)

Commentator: Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo)

3:30-4:30 "What Really is Right with Constructive Empiricism"

Speaker: Joseph F. Hanna (Michigan State University)

Chair: Myron A. Penner (Purdue University)

Commentator: Bradley Monton (University of Kentucky)

4:30-5:30 "David Hilbert and Werner Heisenberg on Consistency, Simplicity and Reduction"

Speaker: Mélanie Frappier (University of Western Ontario)

Chair: Lon S. Becker (Colgate University)

Commentator: Martin Jones (Oberlin College)

III-K. Colloquium: Medieval Philosophy

2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Willey (4th floor)

2:30-3:30 "Aquinas on the Nature of Human Beings"

Speaker: Jason Thomas Eberl (Saint Louis University)

Chair: Joan Franks (Ohio Dominican University)

Commentator: James South (Marquette University)

3:30-4:30 "Aquinas on Malicious Acts"

Speaker: Colleen McCluskey (St. Louis University)

Chair: David Solomon (University of Notre Dame)

Commentator: Joseph Koterski (Fordham University)

4:30-5:30 "On Behalf of a Suarezian Middle Knowledge"

Speaker: Dean A. Kowalski (University of Indianapolis)

Chair: Kevin Guilfoy (University of Akron)

Commentator: Charles F. Kielkopf (Ohio State University)

III-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law: Author Meets Critics: Brian Barry, Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism

2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Garfield (4th floor)

Commentator: Thomas Christiano (University of Arizona)

Commentator: Chandran Kukathas (Australian Defense Force Academy)

Commentator: William A. Galston (University of Maryland)

Response: Brian Barry (Bowling Green State University)

Presidential Address

5:45 PM-6:45 PM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

"Manipulativeness"

Introduction: Vice President Stephen Darwall

Presidential Address: President Marcia Baron

Presidential Reception

9:00 PM-12:00 AM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

Registration

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Third Floor Lobby (3rd floor)

Placement Service

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Wade (3rd floor)

Placement Interview Area

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Whitehall Room (3rd floor)

Book Exhibits

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Gold Room (3rd floor)

Group Meetings, Saturday Morning

(see Group Meeting Program for details)

Session GV: 11:45 AM-1:45 PM

GV-1: North American Nietzsche Society, Superior

GV-2: North American Society for Social Philosophy, Case

GV-3: Conference of Philosophical Societies, Owens

GV-4: Society for Philosophy and Technology, Brush

GV-5: Radical Philosophy Association, Blossom

GV-6: International Society for Environmental Ethics, Van Aken

GV-7: American Indian Philosophy Association, Humphrey

GV-8: Convivium: The Philosophy and Food Roundtable, Holden

GV-9: Adam Smith Society, Halle

GV-10: Society for Women in Philosophy, Bush

GV-11: Bertrand Russell Society, Garfield

IV-A. Symposium: Moral Evil

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Van Aken (4th floor)

Chair: Daniel M. Haybron (Saint Louis University)

Title: "Evil"

Speaker: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Title: "Evil and Forgiveness"

Speaker: Lawrence Thomas (Syracuse University)

Title: "What Counts as Evil"

Speaker: Bat-Ami Bar On (Binghamton University)

IV-B. Symposium: Continental Aesthetics

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Superior (1st floor)

Chair: Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern University)

Speaker: Gary Shapiro (University of Richmond)

Speaker: Stephen Watson (University of Notre Dame)

Commentator: John Carvalho (Villanova University)

IV-C. Author Meets Critics: Robert Pasnau, Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Bush (3rd floor)

Chair: Anthony J. Lisska (Denison University)

Commentator: Mary Sirridge (Louisiana State University)

Commentator: Anthony Kenny (St. John's College, Oxford)

Response: Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder)

IV-D. Symposium: Fictional Names

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

Chair: James K. Swindler (Illinois State University)

Title: "Empty Names, Fictional Names, Mythical Names"

Speaker: David Braun (University of Rochester)

Title: "Speaking of Fictional Characters"

Speaker: Amie L. Thomasson (University of Miami)

Commentator: Mark Richard (Tufts University)

IV-E. Colloquium: Modern Philosophy: British Empiricism

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Halle (4th floor)

8:45-9:45 "The Moral Theory of Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679-1749): Lockean `Reflection'
and the Foundations of Morality"

Speaker: Patricia Sheridan (University of Guelph)

Chair: Mary Ellen Waithe (Cleveland State University)

Commentator: Allyson R. Robichaud (Cleveland State University)

9:45-10:45 "`The Empiricism of Locke and Newton': Suggestions for a Reappraisal"

(Winner of a 2003 Graduate Student Travel Stipend)

Speaker: Mary A. Domski (Indiana University)

Chair: Mark C. Vopat (University of Western Ontario)

Commentator: Andrew Janiak (Duke University)

10:45-11:45 "The Role of Indirect Passions In Hume's Ethics"

Speaker: Andrew C. Ward (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Chair: Eugene Heath (SUNY, New Paltz)

Commentator: Jane McIntyre (Cleveland State University)

IV-F. Colloquium: Skepticism

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Blossom (4th floor)

8:45-9:45 "Twin Earth, Dry Earth, and the Significance of BIV Skepticism"

Speaker: William S. Larkin (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)

Chair: Henry Kreuzman (Wooster College)

Commentator: Heimir Geirsson (Iowa State University)

9:45-10:45 "A Feminist Response to Philosophical Skepticism"

Speakers: John M. Capps (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Chair: Phyllis Rooney (Oakland University)

Commentator: Larry Hickman (Center for Dewey Studies,
SIU, Carbondale)

10:45-11:45 "Skepticism and Warranted Assertion"

Speaker: Timothy A. Black (University of Utah)

Chair: John W. Bender (Ohio University)

Commentator: Raymond J. VanArragon (Asbury College)

IV-G. Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Humphrey (3rd floor)

8:45-9:45 "The New Privileged Access Problem"

Speaker: Krista Lawlor (Stanford University)

Chair: Sara Worley (Bowling Green State University)

Commentator: Joseph Thomas Tolliver (University of Arizona)

9:45-10:45 "What's So Transparent about Transparency"

Speaker: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)

Chair: Dion Scott-Kakures (Scripps College)

Commentator: Robert A. Stecker (Central Michigan University)

10:45-11:45 "Against Phenomenal Direct Reference"

Speaker: Gordon P. Barnes (University of St. Thomas)

Chair: Diane Steinberg (Cleveland State University)

Commentator: Edward T. Cox (James Madison University)

IV-H. Colloquium: Social and Political Philosophy

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Holden (4th floor)

8:45-9:45 "Neutrality of Justification vs. Strong Egalitarianism: Wall's Criticisms of Rawlsian Liberal Neutrality"

Speaker: Walter E. Schaller (Texas Tech University)

Chair: Tracy A. Edwards (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Commentator: Steven Wall (Bowling Green State University)

9:45-10:45 "Rational Faith and Democratic Legitimacy: Habermas and Michelman on Constitutional Founding"

Speaker: Ciaran Cronin (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Chair: Johanna Meehan (Grinnell College)

Commentator: Kenneth Baynes (SUNY, Stony Brook)

10:45-11:45 "Defending a Duty to Obey the Law as the Correlative of a State's Right to Rule"

(Winner of a 2003 Graduate Student Travel Stipend)

Speaker: David Lefkowitz (University of Maryland)

Chair: Willem F. Bakker, II (Washington University in St. Louis)

Commentator: William A. Edmundson (Georgia State University)

IV-J. Colloquium: Kant II

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Hopkins (4th floor)

8:45-9:45 "The Kantian Moral Ideal: Reflections on Onora O'Neill's Account of the Categorical Imperative"

Speaker: William N. Nelson (University of Houston)

Chair: Jeanine M. Grenberg (St. Olaf College)

Commentator: Timothy M. Costelloe (College of William & Mary)

9:45-10:45 "Kantian Objections to a World State"

Speaker: David A. Billings (Calvin College)

Chair: Daw-Nay Evans, Jr. (DePaul University)

Commentator: Peter Koslowski (Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, Indiana/University of Witten/Herdecke)

10:45-11:45 "Kant's Defense of the League of States"

Speaker: Pauline Kleingeld (Washington University in St. Louis)

Chair: Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert (DePaul University)

Commentator: Philip J. Rossi (Marquette University)

IV-K. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee
on the Status of American Indians in Philosophy:
Panel Discussion: The Blackwell Anthology of Native American Philosophy

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Willey (4th floor)

IV-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy: What Graduate Programs in Philosophy Teach about Teaching

8:45 AM-11:45 AM

Garfield (4th floor)

Panelists: Jan Staab (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

Timothy Kirk (Villanova University)

Lee McBride (Purdue University)

Martin Benjamin (Michigan State University)

Saturday Afternoon/Evening, April 26

Board of Officers Lunch

12:00 PM-2:00 PM

Rockefeller Boardroom (4th floor)

Carus Lecture III "Directives"

1:45 PM-3:00 PM

Ambassador Ballroom (2nd floor)

Title: "Directives"

Speaker: Judith Jarvis Thomson (MIT)

V-A. Symposium: Radical Pragmatics vs. Truth-Conditional Semantics

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Van Aken (4th floor)

Chair: Christopher Gauker (University of Cincinnati)

Title: "Context Shifting Arguments"

Speakers: Herman Cappelen (Vassar College)

Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University)

Commentator: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)

Commentator: Robert Stainton (Carleton University)

V-B. Symposium: Aristotle's Philosophy of Mind

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Case (4th floor)

Chair: Lawrence Jost (University of Cincinnati)

Speaker: Christopher Shields (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Title: "Aristotle on Belief"

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

Title: "The Spirit and the Letter: Reading Aristotle on Perception"

Speaker: Victor Caston (University of California, Davis)

V-C. Symposium: Global Politics (change from the printed program updated on March 21, 2003. New title: International Justice, a Global State, and the Basic Needs)

Allen Buchanan is unable to participate in this Symposium. David Copp
will be the second speaker instead. The title of Professor Copp's
presentation is "International Justice, a Global State, and the Basic
Needs"

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Bush (3rd floor)

Chair: Margaret Urban Walker (Arizona State University)

Title: "A Duty to Protect: The Case of Humanitarian Intervention"

Speaker: Kok-Chor Tan (University of Pennsylvania)

V-D. Colloquium: Heidegger

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Brush (4th floor)

3:00-4:00 "Ideology and the Rhetoric of Agency in Heidegger's `Origin of the Work of Art'"

Speaker: Karen S. Feldman (University of California, Berkeley)

Chair: Jonathan Maskit (Denison University)

Commentator: Christa Davis Acampora (Hunter College, CUNY)

4:00-5:00 "`Another Insistence of Man': A Prolegomena to the Question of the Animal in Derrida's Reading of Heidegger"

Speaker: Matthew Calarco (Sweet Briar College)

Chair: Craig B. Matarrese (Minnesota State University, Mankato)

Commentator: Steven Vogel (Denison University)

5:00-6:00 "From Reflective to Hermeneutical Phenomenology: The Early Heidegger's Critique of Husserl"

Speaker: Sean McGrath (University of Toronto)

Chair: Kirk Wolf (Delta College)

Commentator: William McNeill (DePaul University)

V-E. Colloquium: Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Halle (4th floor)

3:00-4:00 "Possibly v. Actually the Case: On Davidson's Omniscient Interpreter"

Speaker: Nathaniel Goldberg (Georgetown University)

Chair: Brian J. Huschle (Northwest Technical College)

Commentator: Kirk Ludwig (University of Florida)

4:00-5:00 "Carnap's Aufbau Rehabilitated"

Speaker: C. Wade Savage (University of Minnesota)

Chair: Joseph S. Ullian (Washington University in St. Louis)

Commentator: Christopher Pincock (Purdue University)

5:00-6:00 "The Old Problem of Induction and the New Reflective Equilibrium"

Speaker: Jared G. Bates (University of Minnesota, Duluth)

Chair: Donald Gustafson (University of Cincinnati)

Commentator: Robert Alan Skipper, Jr. (University of Cincinnati)

V-F. Colloquium: Cognitive Science

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Blossom (4th floor)

3:00-4:00 "A Three-dimensional Analysis of Reason"

Speaker: Mariam Thalos (University of Utah)

Chair: Alan S. Rosenbaum (Cleveland State University)

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

4:00-5:00 "The HOT Theory of Consciousness: Between a Rock and a Hard Place?"

Speaker: Rocco J. Gennaro (Indiana State University)

Chair: Samuel A. Richmond (Cleveland State University)

Commentator: Frederick Adams (University of Delaware)

5:00-6:00 "Core Physical Knowledge and the Marks of Thought"

(Winner of a 2003 Graduate Student Travel Stipend)

Speaker: Sara Bernal (Rutgers University)

Chair: Karsten Stueber (Holy Cross)

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

V-G. Colloquium: Moral Character

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Wade (3rd floor)

3:00-4:00 "Another Way of Naturalizing Virtue Ethics"

Speaker: Stephen R. Brown (University of Oklahoma)

Chair: Martin Benjamin (Michigan State University)

Commentator: Douglas Den Uyl (Bellarmine College)

4:00-5:00 "Do Wrongdoers Have a Right to Make Amends?"

Speaker: Linda Radzik (Texas A&M University)

Chair: Gopal Sreenivasan (University of Toronto)

Commentator: Judith A. Little (SUNY, Potsdam)

5:00-6:00 "Autonomy and Self-Identity"

Speaker: Marina Oshana (Bowling Green State University)

Chair: Kai Chong Wong (Washington University in St. Louis)

Commentator: Jennifer Hawkins (University of Toronto)

V-H. Colloquium: Hegel

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Holden (4th floor)

3:00-4:00 "Hegel's Theory of Refutation: The Cases of Spinoza and Leibniz"

Speaker: Daniel J. Selcer (DePaul University)

Chair: John Russon (Pennsylvania State University)

Commentator: David N. McNeill (Grinnell College)

4:00-5:00 "Hegel, Property, and the Female Body"

(Winner of a 2003 Graduate Student Travel Stipend)

Speaker: Michelle Darnell (Purdue University)

Chair: Nancy Bauer (Tufts University)

Commentator: Diane Perpich (Vanderbilt University)

5:00-6:00 "How Hegel Defends Kantian Freedom, by Reconceiving Its Relation to Being and Nature"

Speaker: Robert M. Wallace (Colgate University)

Chair: Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame)

Commentator: Michelle Kosch (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

V-J. Colloquium: Philosophy of Religion

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Hopkins (4th floor)

3:00-4:00 "Rowe's Argument from Freedom"

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

Chair: Sharon M. Kaye (John Carroll University)

Commentator: Thomas M. Crisp (Florida State University)

4:00-5:00 "A Morally Unsurpassable God Must Create the Best"

Speaker: Erik J. Wielenberg (DePauw University)

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

Commentator: Evan Fales (University of Iowa)

5:00-6:00 "In Defense of Anselmian Trinitarianism: A Response to Keith Yandell"

Speaker: Timothy D. Miller (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School)

Chair: Louis A. Mancha Jr. (Purdue University)

Commentator: David P. Hunt (Whittier College)

V-K. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of American Indians in Philosophy: In Memoriam: Viola Cordova

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Willey (4th floor)

V-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on International Cooperation: Implications of Feminist Theory for International Political Philosophy

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Garfield (4th floor)

Chair: Marjorie C. Miller (Purchase College, SUNY)

Title: "Feminist Political Theory—Can It Travel East?"

Speaker: Nanette Funk (Brooklyn College)

Title: "Globalization, Gender and Interdependency"

Speaker: Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir (University of Iceland)

Title: "A Critical Re-thinking of Changes in Women's Position in Post-Mao China"

Speaker: Lijun Yuan (Beijing Academy of Social Sciences)

Commentator: Marjorie C. Miller (Purchase College, SUNY)

V-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies: Organizational Meeting

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Rockefeller Boardroom (4th floor)