Proceedings
And Addresses
January, 2004 (Volume 77, Issue 3)
Group Program - Friday
Friday Evening, March 26
Group Session GIII _ 7:30 - 10:30 p.m.
GIII-1. Society for Analytical Feminism
7:30-10:30 p.m., California Ballroom
Topic: Feminist Critiques of Reason
Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College)
Speakers: Maureen Linker (University of Michigan-Dearborn)
"Applying the Principle of Charity in a Social Context"
Helen Longino (University of Minnesota-Minneapolis)
"Reason and Values in Feminist Science Studies"
Peg O'Connor (Gustavus Adolphus College)
"Putting the Practice into Practical Moral Reason"
Mariam Thalos (University of Utah)
"What is a Feminist to Do with Rational Choice Theory?"
Commentator: Jennifer Faust (California State University-Los Angeles)
GIII-2. North American Society for Social Philosophy and Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
7:30-10:30 p.m., San Gabriel
Topic: "Pragmatism and Social Hope: Working Utopias"
Co-Chairs: Jeff Paris (University of San Francisco)
Kaarina Beam (Linfield College)
Speakers: Maurice Hamington (Lane Community College)
"Hull-House: A Feminist Pragmatist Utopia"
Doug Anderson (Pennsylvania State University)
"Thomas Davidson's Breadwinners College: Teaching Culture"
Erin McKenna (Pacific Lutheran University)
"Pluralism and Tolerance at Home, WA: A Pragmatist Approach to Anarchy"
GIII-3. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the Profession and the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy
7:30-10:30 p.m., Monterey
Topic: Philosophy of the Body and Queer Issues
Chair: Andy Wible (Muskegon Community College)
Speakers: George Wright (University of Wisconsin-Superior)
"Martin Heidegger and the Place of Sex"
Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and
Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (Washington State University)
"`The War on Terror' and the Queer Body: Same-Sex Marriage, AIDS, and the Shaping of U.S. Public Opinion"
Kayley Vernallis (California State University-Los Angeles)
"Queer Portraiture and the Politics of Representation"
Rachel H. Heller (San Diego State University)
"Pardon Me, Mr. Finnis, but Homosexual Acts Provide More than Just Pleasure"
GIII-4. North American Kant Society, Session I
7:30-10:30 p.m., Pasadena I
Topic: Kant on Transcendental Idealism and Environmental Philosophy
Chair: Jennifer Uleman (University of Miami)
Speaker: Lucy Allais (Oxford University)
"A Partial Defence of Langton on Kant"
Commentator: James Van Cleve (Brown University and University of Southern California)
Speaker: Holly Wilson (University of Louisiana-Monroe)
"Kant and Environmental Philosophy: Just How Green is Kant?"
Commentator: Martin Schönfeld (University of South Florida)
GIII-5. Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
7:30-10:30 p.m., Pacific A
Chair: Scott Dixon (University of California-Riverside)
Speaker: Chris Campolo (Hendrix College)
"Misology and Equipollence"
Commentator: Andrew Eshleman (University of Arkansas-Little Rock)
Speaker: Daniel Cohen (Colby College)
"Argumentation and Modal Logic on the Argumentatively Possible and the Logically Impossible"
Commentator: Edward Maine (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Dale Turner (California State Polytechnic University- Pomona)
"You Should Have Reasons for Your Views?"
Commentator: Jonathan Adler (City University of New York, Brooklyn
College)
GIII-6. Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
7:30-10:30 p.m., San Jose
Topic: Topics in Buddhist Philosophy
Chair: Thomas Sherman (Loyola Marymount University)
Speakers: Dale S. Wright (Occidental College)
"What Consequences Follow from Locating Buddhist Philosophy as a Subcategory of Meditation?"
Charles Goodman (Binghamton University)
"Some Arguments from the Madhyamakavatara"
David W. Tien (University of Michigan)
"The Problem of Evil in the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana"
Commentators: Thomas Sherman (Loyola Marymount University)
Peter Groff (Bucknell University)
GIII-7. Society for Student Philosophers, Session I
7:30-10:30 p.m., Pacific C
Chair: Michael Daniels (Trinity University)
Speakers: P. J. Lomelino (University of Colorado-Boulder)
"Euthanasia: Within the Bounds of Self-Determinism"
Ted M. Preston (California State University-Long Beach and University of California-Riverside)
"The Private and Public Appeal of Self-Fashioning"
William P. Seeley (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
"Naturalizing Aesthetics: Art and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision"
Anastasia Panagopoulos (Simon Fraser University)
"Rethinking the Internalism/Externalism Controversy: A Criticism of Strong Internalism"
GIII-8. Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion
7:30-10:30 p.m., Del Mar
Speakers: Kisor K. Chakrabarti (Ferris State University)
"The Grue Paradox: An Indian Solution"
Paul Saka (University of Houston)
"Statistical Determinism and Advaita Free Will"
Shyam Ranganathan (York University)
"Ramanuja on Natural Theology"
Horace Fairlamb (University of Houston)
"Moral Development and Religious Pluralism: Reconciling Difference and Progress"
Chandana Chakrabarti (Elon University)
"Emptiness Revisited"
GIII-9. International Society for the Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Philosophy
7:30-10:30 p.m., Sacramento
Topic: Contemporary Issues in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy
Chair: Chanh Phan (San Jose State University)
Speakers: Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii-Manoa)
"Overcoming Contemporary Issues in Confucianism"
Marina Carnogurska-Ferancova (Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Science)
"Chinese Philosophy through a Prism of Euro(West) and Chinese Philosophical Relations in Their Global Context"
Linhe Han (Harvard-Yenching Institute and Peking University)
"Zhuangzi Compared with the Early Wittgenstein"
JeeLoo Liu (State University of New York-Geneseo)
"The Status of Cosmic Principles (Li) in the Natural State of Being: A Comparative Study of the Neo-Confucian Metaphysics Commentators"
Commentators: Hui-chieh Loy (University of California-Berkeley)
Bo Mou (San Jose State University)
GIII-10. Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
7:30-10:30 p.m., San Marino
Topic: Husserl and Philosophy of Science
Chair: David Woodruff Smith (University of California-Irvine)
Speakers: Michael Friedman (Stanford University)
Dagfinn Føllesdal (Stanford University and University of Oslo)
GIII-11. Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session I
7:30-10:30 p.m., Pasadena II
Topic: Desire and Structure
Chair: Marina McCoy (Boston College)
Speakers: Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino)
"Eros philo-sophos? Looking Back to Plato"
Asher Seidel (Miami University)
"Plato's Postponed Revolution"
Geraldine Finn (Carleton University)
"On Listening. To mousike. In the Text of Philosophy."
Coleen Zoller (Susquehanna University)
"A Decade of Mathematics? A Look at Mathematical Method and the Hierarchy of Platonic Forms"
GIII-12. Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals
7:30-10:30 p.m., San Diego
Chair: Matt Silliman (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)
Speaker: A. Anchustegui (Boise State University)
"Biocentric Ethics and Animal Prosperity"
Commentator: William McCarthy (Northern Illinois University)
Chair: Daniel A. Dombrowski (Seattle University)
Speaker: Garret Merriam (Rice University)
"Virtue Ethics and the Moral Significance of Animals"
Commentator: Matt Silliman (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)
Chair: William McCarthy (Northern Illinois University)
Speaker: Jane Duran (University of California-Santa Barbara)
"Gorilla Minds"
Commentator: Daniel A. Dombrowski (Seattle University)
GIII-13. Society for German Idealism, Session II
7:30-10:30 p.m., Pacific B
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Michael Mack, German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responsiveness
Critics: Arthur Jacobson (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law)
John McCumber (University of California-Los Angeles)
Aaron Bunch (Loyola University-Chicago)
Author: Michael Mack (Syracuse University)
GIII-14. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
7:30-10:30 p.m., Santa Barbara
Chair: Sheri Ross (Beloit College)
Speakers: John Carvalho (Villanova University)
"Purpose, Cause, Destiny, Control in The Matrix Reloaded"
Pedro Fernandez (Endicott College)
"Photographic Punctum as Bliss in Barthes's Camera Lucida"
Richard Gilmore (Concordia College)
"An Epistemological Turn in Hitchcock's Vertigo"
Vera Jakoby (McDaniel College)
"Cannibals in Paradise: Hannibal and Nietzsche's Overman"
Jung-In Kwon (State University of New York-Brockport College)
"Memory Simulated: Memento"
Commentator: Sheri Ross (Beloit College)