Proceedings
And Addresses
January, 2004 (Volume 77, Issue 3)
Main Program - Friday
Friday, March 26
Registration
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., International Foyer
Placement Service
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., International Foyer
Interview Room
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., International Ballroom
Book Displays
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., International Ballroom
Presidential Address
6:00-7:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Presidential Reception
7:00-9:00 p.m., Arcade
Friday Morning, March 26
Session IV - 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
IV-A. Author Meets Critics: John Campbell, Reference and Consciousness
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Chair: Byeong-Uk Yi (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
Critics: Austen Clark (University of Connecticut)
Mohan Matthen (University of British Columbia)
Author: John Campbell (Oxford University)
IV-B. Author Meets Critics: Terry Pinkard, German Philosophy: 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Pacific A
Chair: J. M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College)
Critics: Dale E. Snow (Loyola College-Maryland)
Robert Stern (University of Sheffield)
Author: Terry Pinkard (Northwestern University)
IV-C. Invited Symposium: "Families of Choice? Autonomy and the Practice of Having and Raising Children"
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., San Gabriel
Chair: Sara Goering (University of Washington)
Speakers: Eva Kittay (State University of New York-Stony Brook)
"Planning to Go to Italy and Winding up in Holland - The Delusion of Choice in Planning a Family"
Carolyn McLeod (University of Western Ontario)
"Triggering a Temptation for Control: The Move to Single Embryo Transfer in In Vitro Fertilization"
Claudia Mills (University of Colorado)
"Children and Culture: Some Questions about Transcultural Adoption"
IV-D. Invited Symposium: Memory and Morality
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Monterey
Chair: William Ruddick (New York University)
Speakers: Jeffrey Blustein (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
"On Ethics, Memory, and an Ethics of Memory"
Janna Thompson (Latrobe University and University of Melbourne)
"Obligation and Remembrance"
Ross Poole (Baruch College, CUNY)
"Memory, History, and the Claims of the Past"
Sue Campbell (Dalhousie University)
IV-E. Author Meets Critics: Paul Bloomfield, Moral Reality
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., San Marino
Chair: Albert Flores (California State University-Fullerton)
Critics: John Doris (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Don Loeb (University of Vermont)
Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Author: Paul Bloomfield (University of Connecticut)
IV-F. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., San Diego
Topic: Best Practices in Graduate Education
Chair: Peter French (Arizona State University)
Panelists: Nancy Simco (University of Memphis)
Steven Reynolds (Arizona State University)
David Boersema (Pacific University)
Stephen Erickson (Pomona College)
Thomas Christiano (University of Arizona)
George Wilson (University of California-Davis)
Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University)
Josef Stern (University of Chicago)
IV-G. Author Meets Critics: Brad Hooker, Ideal Code, Real World
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Santa Barbara
Chair: Thomas Carson (Loyola University-Chicago)
Critics: Alison McIntyre (Wellesley College)
Richard Arneson (University of California-San Diego)
Author: Brad Hooker (University of Reading)
IV-H. Invited Symposium: Toleration in the Early Modern Period
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Pacific B
Chair: John Christian Laursen (University of California-Riverside)
Speakers: Samuel Black (Simon Fraser University)
"Moral Fallibalism and Toleration in Locke"
Michael Rosenthal (University of Washington)
"Spinoza and Early Modern Toleration"
Richard Dees (University of Rochester)
"`The Paradoxical Principle and Salutary Practice': Hume on Toleration"
IV-I. Invited Symposium: Augustine on Wanting Bad Things
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Pacific C
Chair: Daniel Shartin (Worcester State University)
Speakers: Scott MacDonald (Cornell University)
"Petit Larceny, the Beginning of All Sin: Augustine's Theft of the Pears"
Gareth Matthews (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
"Augustine on Doing Wrong for the Sake of Doing Wrong"
William Mann (University of Vermont)
"Augustine on Wanting the Worse"
IV-J. Colloquium: Perception
9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m., Pasadena I
Chair: Dustin Stokes (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Susanna C. Siegel (Harvard University)
"How Does Phenomenology Constrain Object-Seeing?"
Commentator: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Michael Nelson (Yale University)
Speakers: Andrew Egan and John James (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"A Puzzle about Perception"
Commentator: Jon Ellis (University of California-Santa Cruz)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Anne Jaap Jacobson (University of Houston)
Speaker: Joshua Gert (Florida State University)
"Sensations and Circularity"
Commentator: Aaron Zimmerman (University of California-Santa Barbara)
IV-K. Colloquium: Liberalism
9:00-10:00 a.m., Pasadena II
Chair: Simon Roberts-Thomson (University of Arizona)
Speaker: Steven P. Scalet (Binghamton University)
"Liberalism's Bind"
Commentator: Walter Schaller (Texas Tech University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Michael White (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
"Problems with Galston's Pluralist Liberalism"
Commentator: Craig Duncan (Ithaca College)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Rodney Peffer (University of San Diego)
Speaker: David Reidy (University of Tennessee)
"Reciprocity Confronts Reasonable Disagreement: From Liberal to Democratic Legitimacy"
Commentator: John Christman (Pennsylvania State University)
IV-L. Colloquium: Philosophy of Biology
9:00-10:00 a.m., Del Mar
Chair: Steven Hoffman (Biology and Philosophy, Arizona State University)
Speaker: Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis & Clark College)
"True Lies: Robustness and Idealization in Ecological Explanation"
Commentator: Andrea Woody (University of Washington)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Anya Plutynski (University of Utah)
Speaker: Michael D. Root (University of Minnesota)
"Why Natural Selection is Color Blind"
Commentator: Lisa Gannett (California State University-Chico)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Steve Downes (University of Utah)
Speaker: Marshall D. Abrams (Colgate University)
"Two Roles for Probability in a Theory of Fitness"
Commentator: Robert Richardson (University of Cincinnati)
IV-M. Colloquium: Metaphysics
9:00-10:00 a.m., Sacramento
Chair: Gregory Velazco y Trianosky (California State University-Northridge)
Speaker: Thomas P. Kelly (University of Notre Dame)
"Moorean Facts"
Commentator: Kelly Jolley (Auburn University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Joe Ulatowski (University of Utah)
Speaker: Patrick Toner (University of Virginia)
"Meta-Ontology and Existence as Instantiation"
Commentator: Philip Goggans (Seattle Pacific University)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Chris Naticchia (California State University-San Bernardino)
Speaker: Tiger C. Roholt (Columbia University)
"Groove (Nonconceptual Content and Qualia)"
Commentator: York H. Gunther (California State University-Northridge)
IV-N. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
9:00-10:00 a.m., San Jose
Chair: Dawn Starr (University of California-Los Angeles)
Speaker: Dean Pettit (University of North Carolina)
"Deflationism and Imperatives"
Commentator: Douglas Patterson (Kansas State University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Kari Middleton (Syracuse University)
Speaker: Christopher Michael Kane (Brown University)
"Paying the Price for Transitivity"
Commentator: Angie Harris (University of Utah)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark A. Moffett (University of Wyoming)
Speaker: Roberta Ballarin (Southern Methodist University)
"Model Theoretic versus Metaphysical Interpretation of Necessity in Naming and Necessity"
Commentator: Douglas Cannon (University of Puget Sound)
Friday Early Afternoon, March 26
Session V - 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
V-A. Invited Symposium: Pictures and Epistemology
1:00-4:00 p.m., Monterey
Chair: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)
Speakers: Jonathan Cohen (University of California-San Diego) and Aaron Meskin (Texas Tech University)
"Spatially Agnostic Informants and the Epistemic Status of Photography"
John Kulvicki (Carleton University)
"Seeing-In, Skeletal Content, and Transparency"
Commentator: Scott Walden (New York University)
V-B. Invited Symposium: Rethinking Just War Theory: Who is Innocent?
1:00-4:00 p.m., San Gabriel
Chair: Deen Chatterjee (University of Utah)
Speakers: Lionel McPherson (Tufts University)
"The Moral Agency of Combatants"
Kai Draper (University of Delaware)
"Noncombatant Liability"
Virginia Held (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
"Legitimate Authority in Non-State Groups Using Violence"
V-C. Invited Symposium: Virtue Epistemology
1:00-4:00 p.m., Santa Barbara
Chair: Jay Wood (Wheaton College)
Speakers: Christopher Hookway (Sheffield University)
"Epistemic Virtues and Reasons for Belief"
John Greco (Fordham University)
"Holding Defeat to the Fire: Virtue Epistemology and the Problem of Defeating Evidence"
Christine McKinnon (Trent University)
"Hypocrisy and Some Related Vices: Lessons for Virtue Epistemologies?"
Commentator: Jay Wood (Wheaton College)
V-D. Invited Symposium: Metaphilosophy
1:00-4:00 p.m., San Marino
Chair: Joshua Rust (University of California-Riverside)
Speakers: George Bealer (University of Colorado-Boulder)
"Philosophy, Physics, and Intuition"
Brian Weatherson (Brown University)
"What Morality in Fiction Teaches Us about Conceivability"
Paul M. Churchland (University of California-San Diego)
V-E. Invited Symposium: Unity of Consciousness
1:00-4:00 p.m., Pacific A
Chair: Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto)
Speakers: Edwin McCann (University of Southern California)
"Why the Self is Not a Substance: Kant vs. Locke and Leibniz"
Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario)
"Hume's Response to the Achilles Argument"
Stephen Engstrom (University of Pittsburgh)
"Unity of Apperception"
V-F. Invited Symposium: Nietzsche and the Writing of Philosophy
1:00-4:00 p.m., Pacific B
Chair: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)
Speakers: Maudemarie Clark (Colgate University)
John Richardson (New York University)
Commentators: Joshua Landy (Stanford University)
Candace Vogler (University of Chicago)
V-G. Invited Paper: Physicalism
1:00-4:00 p.m., Pasadena I
Chair: Louise Antony (Ohio State University)
Speaker: Jaegwon Kim (Brown University)
"Explanatory Arguments for Type Physicalism and Why They Don't Work"
Commentators: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University)
Terrence Horgan (University of Arizona)
V-H. Author Meets Critics: Fred D'Agostino, Incommensurability and Commensuration: The Common Denominator
1:00-4:00 p.m., San Diego
Chair: S. A. Lloyd (University of Southern California)
Critics: Christopher MacMahon (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Gerald Gaus (Tulane University)
Author: Fred D'Agostino (University of New England, Australia)
V-I. Author Meets Critics: Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought
1:00-4:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Chair: Rosalind Hursthouse (University of Auckland)
Critics: John Deigh (University of Texas-Austin)
Ronald deSousa (University of Toronto)
Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland-College Park)
Author: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
V-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of American Indians in Philosophy
1:00-4:00 p.m., Pasadena II
Topic: Roundtable: American Indian Thought: A Philosophical Reader
Chair: Dale Turner (Dartmouth College)
Discussants: Vera Palmer (Cornell University)
Gordon Christie (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University)
Dale Turner (Dartmouth College)
Anne Waters (Independent Scholar)
V-K. Colloquium: Moral Duties
1:00-2:00 p.m., Sacramento
Chair: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Speaker: Steven Sverdlik (Southern Methodist University)
"Acting from Duty and Self-Interest"
Commentator: Mitch Avila (California State University-Fullerton)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: James Anderson (University of San Diego)
Speaker: Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto)
"Conventionalism about Promise Keeping"
Commentator: Adam Moore (University of Washington)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Hans Seigfried (Loyola University-Chicago)
Speaker: Willem F. Bakker (Washington University)
"On the Supposed Duty to Promote Others' Perfection"
Commentator: Susan M. Purviance (University of Toledo)
V-L. Colloquium: Practical Reason
1:00-2:00 p.m., Del Mar
Chair: Mark Collier (Stanford University)
Speaker: Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah)
"Standards, Advice, and Practical Reason"
Commentator: John Dreher (University of Southern California)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Matt Pamental (University of Utah)
Speaker: Mary C. Coleman (Bard College)
"Public Reasons and Practical Solipsism"
Commentator: Sandra Shapsay (Indiana University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: David Carey (Whitman College)
Speaker: Heidi M. Maibom (Carleton University)
"Psychopathic Unreason and Morality"
Commentator: Cory D. Wright (University of California-San Diego)
V-M. Invited Paper: Referring
1:00-4:00 p.m., Pacific C
Chair: Jay D. Atlas (Pomona College)
Speaker: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)
"On Referring and Not Referring"
Commentators: Jeffrey King (University of California-Davis)
Jason Stanley (University of Michigan)
V-N. Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind
1:00-2:00 p.m., San Jose
Chair: Dale Turner (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)
Speaker: Christian B. Miller (University of Notre Dame)
"The Policy-Based Approach to Identification"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Donald Hubin (Ohio State University)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Randall Parker (Pomona College)
Speaker: Carl F. Craver (Washington University)
"A Field Guide to Levels"
Commentator: Anthony Dardis (Hofstra University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: William Bracken (University of California-Riverside)
Speaker: Charles M. Hermes (Florida State University)
"How Peer Evaluations Can Be Deceptive"
Commentator: Philip Nickel (University of California-Irvine)
Friday Late Afternoon, March 26
Session VI - 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
VI-A. Workshop for Philosopher-Citizens: How to Write for the Op-Ed Page
4:00-6:00 p.m., Pasadena I
Discussant: John Lachs (Vanderbilt University)
Panelists: Susan Anderson (University of Connecticut)
Gregory Pence (University of Alabama-Birmingham)
Carlin Romano (Philadephia Inquirer)
VI-B. Symposium: Happiness and Introspection
4:00-6:00 p.m., Santa Barbara
Chair: Ron Mallon (University of Utah)
Speaker: Daniel M. Haybron (Saint Louis University)
"Do We Know How Happy We Are?"
Commentators: Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Joseph Neisser (Grinnell College)
VI-C. Invited Symposium: Moral Realism
4:00-6:00 p.m., San Marino
Chair: John Devlin (Arizona State University)
Speaker: James Dreier (Brown University)
Commentators: Nadeem Hussain (Stanford University)
Robert Johnson (University of Missouri-Columbia)
VI-D. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Career Opportunities
4:00-6:00 p.m., Monterey
Topic: Advice for Next Year's Job Searchers
Panelists: Pamela Hood (San Francisco State University)
Larry May (Washington University)
(A special invitation is extended to graduate students and graduate program coordinators/placement officers. Refreshments will be served.)
VI-E. Symposium: Blame
4:00-6:00 p.m., San Diego
Chair: Bryan Benham (University of Utah)
Speaker: Pamela Hieronymi (University of California-Los Angeles)
"The Fairness of Blame"
Commentators: Michael McKenna (Ithaca College)
Christopher Ciocchetti (Centenary College of Louisiana)
VI-F. Symposium: The Ethics of Conception
4:00-5:00 p.m., Pacific A
Chair: Wanda Teays (Mount St. Mary's College)
Speaker: Janet L. Malek (Rice University)
"The Ethics of Conception and the Possibility of Harm: A Refutation of Parfit"
Commentators: David Adams (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)
Margaret Battin and Diana Buccafurni (University of Utah)
VI-G. Colloquium: Evidence and Scientific Theories
4:00-5:00 p.m., Pacific B
Chair: Christopher Smeenk (University of California-Los Angeles)
Speaker: Franz-Peter Griesmaier (University of Wyoming)
"Simplicity and Error Avoidance"
Commentator: Michael Kruse (Independent Scholar)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Michael Malone (Northern Arizona University)
Speaker: Paul C. Anders (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Likelihoods and Intelligent Design: On William Dembski's Explanatory Filter and the Nature of Evidence"
Commentator: Robert Pennock (Michigan State University)
VI-H. Colloquium: Aristotle
4:00-5:00 p.m., Pacific C
Chair: Rachel Hollenberg (Long Beach City College)
Speaker: David C. Williams (Bethel College)
"Aristotle on the Methodology of Mathematical Concept Acquisition: Resolving an Apparent Inconsistency Between Metaphysics 1077B16 and 1077B33"
Commentator: Phil Corkum (University of California-Los Angeles)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Amanda Printz (University of Southern California)
Speaker: Richard Tierney (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
"Aristotle on Nature and Natural Motion"
Commentator: Malcolm Wilson (University of Oregon)
VI-I. Symposium: Hegel's Logic
4:00-6:00 p.m., San Gabriel
Chair: Kenneth R. Westphal (University of East Anglia)
Speaker: James Kreines (Yale University)
"The Problem of Action in Hegel's Logic: Hegel's Argument against Deflationary Anti-Dualism"
Commentators: Willem A. DeVries (University of New Hampshire)
Allen Wood (Stanford University)
VI-J. Symposium: Grelling's Paradox
4:00-6:00 p.m., Del Mar
Chair: Paul Benacerraf (Princeton University)
Speaker: Jay M. Newhard (University of Oklahoma)
"Grelling's Paradox"
Commentators: Ali Karma (University of Calgary)
C. Anthony Anderson (University of California-Santa Barbara)
VI-K. Symposium: Feminist Theory
4:00-6:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Chair: Elizabeth Potter (Mills College)
Speaker: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)
"Requirements of Inclusive Feminist Social Theory"
Commentators: Inmaculada DeMelo-Martin (St. Mary's University-San Antonio)
Alice Crary (New School University and Princeton University Center for Human Values)
VI-L. Colloquium: Philosophy of Physics
4:00-5:00 p.m., Sacramento
Chair: Richard Creath (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Francisco Flores (California Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo)
"Mass-Energy Equivalence"
Commentator: Craig Callender (University of California-San Diego)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Mariam Thalos (University of Utah)
Speaker: Brian Woodcock (University of California-Irvine)
"Hyperplane-Dependent Quantum State Collapse and the Problem of Coordination"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Wayne Myrvold (University of Western Ontario)
VI-M. Symposium: Philosophy of Mind
4:00-6:00 p.m., Pasadena II
Chair: Bernard Kobes (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Gualtiero Piccinini (Washington University)
"The Mind as Neural Software: Functionalism, Computationalism, and Computational Functionalism"
Commentators: Charles Wallis (California State University-Long Beach)
Matthias Scheutz (University of Notre Dame)
VI-N. Colloquium: Meaning
4:00-5:00 p.m., San Jose
Chair: William Peck (Reed College)
Speaker: Steven Rieber (Georgia State University)
"Non-Transparent Meaning"
Commentator: Christopher Horn (University of California-Santa Cruz)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Patricia Hanna (University of Utah)
Speaker: Henry Jackman (York University)
"Charity and the Normativity of Meaning"
Commentator: Sara Waller (California State University-Dominguez Hills and University of Pennsylvania, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience)
Friday Evening, March 26
Presidential Address
6:00-7:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Introduction: Hubert Dreyfus (University of California-Berkeley)
Presidential Address: Julia Annas (University of Arizona)
"Being Virtuous and Doing the Right Thing"
Presidential Reception
7:00-9:00 p.m., Arcade
Committee And Group Meetings
7:30-10:30 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
Society for Analytical Feminism, California Ballroom
North American Society for Social Philosophy & Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, San Gabriel
Special Session Arranged by APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the Profession & the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, Monterey
North American Kant Society, Session I, Pasadena I
Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, Pacific A
Association of Chinese Philosophers in America, San Jose
Society for Student Philosophers, Session I, Pacific C
Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion, Del Mar
International Society for the Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Sacramento
Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy, San Marino
Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism,
Session I,
Pasadena II
Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, San Diego
Society for German Idealism, Session II, Pacific B
Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Santa Barbara