Proceedings
And Addresses
January, 2004 (Volume 77, Issue 3)
Group Program - Wednesday / Thursday
Wednesday Evening, March 24
Group Session GI _ 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
GI-1. Society of Humanist Philosophers
7:00-10:00 p.m., San Jose
Topic: Theodore Drange's Philosophy of Religion
Chair: Charles Echelbarger (State University of New York- Oswego)
Speaker: Theodore Drange (West Virginia University)
"Is `God Exists' Cognitive?"
Commentator: Matt McCormick (California State University-Sacramento)
Speaker: Keith Parsons (University of Houston-Clear Lake)
"Thoughts on Drange's Nonbelief and Evil"
Commentator: Theodore Drange (West Virginia University)
Speaker: Stephen T. Davis (Claremont McKenna College)
"Some Aspects of Drange's Philosophy of Religion"
Commentator: Theodore Drange (West Virginia University)
Thursday Evening, March 25
Group Session GII
6:00-8:00 p.m. (GII-1 - GII-8)
6:00-9:00 p.m. (GII-9 - GII-13)
8:00-10:00 p.m. (GII-14 - GII-15)
8:00-11:00 p.m. (GII-16 - GII-22)
GII-1. International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session I
6:00-8:00 p.m., San Gabriel
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Lisa Sideris, Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection
Chair: Louke van Wensveen (Loyola Marymount University)
Critics: Holmes Rolston III (Colorado State University)
Clare Palmer (Lancaster University)
Daniel McFee (Mercyhurst College)
Author: Lisa Sideris (McGill University)
GII-2. Society of Christian Philosophers
6:00-8:00 p.m., Pacific A
Topic: The Social View of the Trinity
Chair: Charles T. Hughes (Chapman University)
Speaker: Stephen T. Davis (Claremont McKenna College)
Commentators: Garrett Deweese (Biola University)
Dale Wright (Occidental College)
GII-3. North American Nietzsche Society
6:00-8:00 p.m., Pacific B
Topic: Reconsidering Eugene Fink's Nietzsche's Philosophy
Chair: Lawrence Hatab (Old Dominion University)
Speakers: James Winchester (Georgia College & State University)
Babette Babich (Fordham University)
Steven Crowell (Rice University)
GII-4. Society for the Philosophy of History, Session I
6:00-8:00 p.m., Sacramento
Topic: Idealism, Pragmatism, and Historical Logics
Chair: Mark Bevir (University of California-Berkeley)
Speakers: Karim Dharamsi (University of Winnipeg)
"Grey on Grey: Philosophy and Historical Understanding"
Raymond Martin (Union College)
"Humanistic Historical Studies, Objectivity, and the Politics of Inclusion"
William Sweet (St. Francis Xavier University)
"Idealism and History"
GII-5. North American Spinoza Society, Session I
6:00-8:00 p.m., Pasadena I
Chair: Debra Nails (Michigan State University)
Speaker: Firmin DeBrabander (Boston College)
"Psychotherapy and Moral Perfection: Spinoza and the Stoics and the Prospect of Happiness"
Commentator: Eman Fallah (California Institute of Integral Studies)
Speaker: Ben Frazer-Smith (University of Colorado-Denver)
"Spinoza, Godel, and the Incompleteness of God: Spinoza's Transcendental Arguments in the TdIE"
Commentator: Joe VanZandt (Independent Scholar)
GII-6. Philosophy of Time Society
6:00-8:00 p.m., Pacific C
Chair: L. Nathan Oaklander (University of Michigan-Flint)
Speaker: Frank Arntzenius (Rutgers University)
"Time and Infinity"
Commentator: Heather Dyke (University of Otago)
Chair: Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)
Speaker: L. A. Paul (University of Arizona)
"Change is Multiple Realization"
Commentator: Jill North (Rutgers University)
GII-7. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy, Session I
6:00-8:00 p.m., Santa Monica
Topic: Method and Purpose in Philosophical Practice
Chair: James A. Tuedio (California State University-Stanislaus)
Speakers: Sandra Dreisbach (Philosophical Practitioner)
"What is a Philosophical Cafe? An Exploration of Method and Purpose"
Pierre Grimes (Opening Mind Academy)
"The Common Thread between the Pathologos and Genocide"
Diane Kern (Insight Center)
"Self as an Emergent Property: Complexity Theory Informs Philosophical Practice"
Commentator: J. Michael Russell (California State University-Fullerton)
GII-8. American Society for Aesthetics
6:00-8:00 p.m., Santa Barbara
Topic: Literary Interpretation: Intentionalism vs. Reader-Response
Speakers: Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati)
Robert Stecker (Central Michigan University)
Commentator: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)
GII-9. Reid Society
6:00-9:00 p.m., Del Mar
Chair: Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California)
Speakers: Patrick Rysiew (University of British Columbia)
"Reidian Evidence"
John-Christian Smith (Youngstown State University)
"Reid's Projection Relation: Double-blind Representation"
Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis & Clark College)
"Reid on Memory"
GII-10. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
6:00-9:00 p.m., Monterey
Chair: Julius Moravscik (Stanford University)
Speakers: Tushar Irani (Northwestern University)
"Theory and Practice in Plato's Theaetetus: The Question of Knowledge and the Primacy of Dialectic"
Denis Vlahovic (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota)
"Politics III on he ariste politeia"
Michael Bowler (Kenyon College)
"The Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns: Aristotle's Realism and the Modern Skeptic"
GII-11. International Society for Chinese Philosophy
6:00-9:00 p.m., San Jose
Topic: Chinese Philosophy in Contemporary Contexts
Chair: Mary Bockover (Humboldt State University)
Speakers: Paul Saka (University of Houston)
"A Confucian Look at Hate Speech"
Wing-cheuk Chan (Brock University)
"Mou Tsung-san and Buddhism"
Kim Skoog (University of Guam)
"Moral Gradations of Suicide: A Moral Analysis of Acts of Self-Death in East Asia Traditions"
Linghong Kong (Zhejiang University)
"Modern Neo-Daoism Declaration"
Commentator: Mary Bockover (Humboldt State University)
GII-12. Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion
6:00-9:00 p.m., Pasadena II
Chair: Paul Tang (California State University-Long Beach)
Speakers: Eleanor Godway (Central Connecticut State University)
"Writing Aesthetics: The Aesthetic Writ Large: John Macmurray's Theory of Art and its Implications for History"
Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina)
"How is Structural Empiricism Possible?"
John H. McClendon III (Bates College)
"Lenin, Einstein, and Mach: The Contending Question of Realism in Physics"
GII-13. Concerned Philosophers for Peace
6:00-9:00 p.m., San Diego
Topic: Peacemaking in an Age of Terror
Chair: Ron Hirschbein (California State University-Chico)
Speakers: Kelly Candaele (Occidental College)
"Spiritual Politics: Peacemaking in Northern Ireland"
Gail Presbey (University of Detroit-Mercy)
"Survelliance and the Meaning of Life: Philosophic Reflections on the Film Black River and Combat Zones that See (CTS) Technology"
Wendy Hamblet (Adelphi University)
"Perversions of Democracy: A Contemplation of Aristotle on Democratic Ideals"
GII-14. Philosophy of Religion Group
8:00-10:00 p.m., San Gabriel
Chair: Jeffrey Yim (University of California-Riverside)
Speaker: Frank Grabowski (Wayne State University)
"Anslem's Ontological Argument and Platonic Realism"
Commentator: Richard Davis (Tyndale University College)
Speaker: Patrick Toner (University of Virginia)
"Eternalism and Divine Judgment"
Commentator: Garrett Deweese (Talbot School of Theology)
GII-15. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Graduate Student Panel
8:00-10:00 p.m., Santa Monica
Topic: Conceptual Mediations—Methods of Interpretation and Translation
Chair: Chaone Mallory (University of Oregon)
Speaker: John Kaag (University of Oregon)
"Paddling in the Stream of Experience_Rowing and the Habits of Thought"
Commentator: Alain Beauclair (University of Oregon)
Speaker: Celia Bardwell-Jones (University of Oregon)
"The Role of Pragmatism in Feminist Epistemology—Feminist Border Politics and Josiah Royce"
Commentator: Alison Crane Reiheld (Michigan State University)
Speaker: Scott Aikin (Vanderbilt University)
"The Given Ain't a Myth-How Pragmatists Can Live With That"
Commentator: Tom Nail (University of Oregon)
GII-16. Society for German Idealism, Session I
8:00-11:00 p.m., Pacific A
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Kyriaki Goudeli, Challenges to German Idealism: Schelling, Fichte, and Kant
Chair: J. M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College)
Critics: Richard Findler (Slippery Rock University)
Jason Wirth (Oglethorpe University)
Author: Kyriaki Goudeli (Patras University)
GII-17. Society for Business Ethics Group
8:00-11:00 p.m., Pasadena I
Topic: Stakeholder Theory and Global Justice
Chair: Jeffery Smith (University of Redlands)
Speaker: Robert Phillips (University of San Diego)
"Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics"
Commentator: Jeffery Smith (University of Redlands)
Speaker: Nien-hê Hsieh (University of Pennsylvania)
"Global Justice and Transnational Corporations"
Commentator: Denis Arnold (University of Tennessee)
GII-18. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
8:00-11:00 p.m., Pacific B
Topic: Oppression, its Manifestations, and Proposed Solutions
Chair: Barbara LaBossiere (California State University-Fresno)
Speaker: Irfan Khawaja (College of New Jersey)
"Muslim Anti-Semitism and Zionist Orientalism: The Workings of a Vicious Cycle"
Commentator: Sarah Pessin (California State University-Fresno)
Speaker: Chioke I'Anson (University of South Florida)
"Fanon, Sartre, and the Other"
Commentator: Kermit L. Harrison II (Florida State University)
Speaker: Lijun Yuan (Texas State University-San Marcos)
"Class and Gender Oppression: Seeking an Alternative to Mao's View of Women"
Commentator: Donna Reeves (University of Colorado)
GII-19. Max Scheler Society of North America, Session I
8:00-11:00 p.m., Sacramento
Speakers: Philip Blosser (Lenoir-Rhyne College)
"The Difference between the Moral and the Simply Normative"
Philip Cronce (Chicago State University)
"Objectivity, Validity, and Universality in Max Scheler's Ethics"
John F. Crosby (Franciscan University of Steubenville)
"Person and Authority: Critical Reflections on the Anti-Authoritarian Strain in Scheler's Personalism"
Zachary Davis (University of New Hampshire)
"The Examplarity of Alien Weltanschauungen: Max Scheler's Phenomenology of Cross Cultural Conflict"
Manfred S. Frings (Max Scheler Archives and Institute, Albuquerque)
"Max Scheler's Philosophy of Time: Discoveries and Issues"
GII-20. Radical Philosophy Association
8:00-11:00 p.m., Pacific C
Topic: Hardt's and Negri's Empire in the Light of Iraq
Chair: TBA
Speakers: Pierre Lamarche (Utah Valley State College)
"Sovereignty, Empire, and Iraq"
Max Rosenkrantz (California State University-Long Beach)
"Empire or Empire?"
Mark Rauls (Community College of Southern Nevada)
"The Biopolitical, on the Road to Baghdad"
GII-21. Society for Women in Philosophy
8:00-11:00 p.m., San Marino
Topic: A Feminist Conversation on Cognitive Disability
Chair: Janet Horrigan (California State University-Fullerton)
Speakers: Licia Carlson (Seattle University)
"Humanizing Feminist Discourse about Cognitive Disability"
Anita Ho (College of St. Catherine)
"Is `Reproductive Autonomy for Women with Cognitive Disabilities' an Oxymoron?"
Anna Stubblefield (Rutgers University-Newark)
"The Chimera of Race and Cognitive Ability"
A short business meeting will follow.
GII-22. North American Wittgenstein Society
8:00-11:00 p.m., Santa Barbara
Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Isaac [Yanni] Nevo (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
"Davidson's Private Languages"
Richard Allen (New York University)
"Interpretation and Intention"
William H. Hyde (Golden West College)
"The Ethical and `das Mystische' in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy"