Proceedings
And Addresses
January, 2004 (Volume 77, Issue 3)
Main Program - Wednesday / Thursday
Wednesday Evening, March 24
Executive Committee Meeting
6:00-10:00 p.m., Santa Monica
Placement Service
5:00 -10:00 p.m., International Foyer
Registration
5:00-10:00 p.m., International Foyer
Group Meeting, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Society of Humanist Philosophers, San Jose
Thursday, March 25
Registration
8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m., International Foyer
Placement Service
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., International Foyer
Interview Room
11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., International Ballroom
Book Displays
11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., International Ballroom
Annual Business Meeting
12:00-1:00 p.m., Pacific C
Annual Reception
9:00 p.m.-Midnight, California Ballroom
Thursday Morning, March 25
Session I
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (I-A - I-I, I-K - I-M)
9:00 a.m.-11:00 p.m. (I-J)
9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (I-N)
I-A. Author Meets Critics: Bas van Fraassen, The Empirical Stance
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Chair: Mark Colyvan (University of Queensland)
Critics: Anja Jauernig (University of Notre Dame)
Ernan McMullin (University of Notre Dame)
Author: Bas van Fraassen (Princeton University)
I-B. Author Meets Critics: Josef Stern, Metaphor in Context
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Pacific C
Chair: Jeffrey Dean (Blackwell Publishing)
Critics: Elisabeth Camp (Harvard University)
David Hills (Stanford University)
Author: Josef Stern (University of Chicago)
I-C. Invited Symposium: Dewey and Moral Particularism
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Pacific A
Chair: Kaarina Beam (Linfield College)
Speakers: David J. Bakhurst (Queen's University)
Raymond D. Boisvert (Siena College)
Margaret Little (Georgetown University)
I-D. Invited Symposium: Introspection
9:00 a. m.-12.00 p.m., San Gabriel
Chair: Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California-Riverside)
Speakers: Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University)
"An Introspective Model of First-Person Attribution"
Fred Dretske (Duke University)
"Externalism and Self Knowledge"
Shaun Nichols (College of Charleston)
"Introspection and the Attribution of Agency"
I-E. Authors Meet Critics: James Sterba and Carl Cohen, Affirmative Action: A Debate
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Monterey
Chair: James Nickel (Arizona State University)
Critics: Neil Gotanda (Western College of Law)
Michele Moody-Adams (Cornell University)
Celia Wolf-Devine (Stonehill College)
Laurence Thomas (Syracuse University)
Authors: Carl Cohen (University of Michigan)
James Sterba (University of Notre Dame)
I-F. Invited Symposium: The Platonic Scholarship of Gail Fine
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., San Diego
Chair: Stephen Gardiner (University of Utah)
Speakers: Lesley Brown (Oxford University)
Verity Harte (King's College, London)
Respondent: Gail Fine (Cornell University)
I-G. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., San Marino
Topic: Michèle Le Doeuff and the Philosophical Imaginary: Celebrating the Publication of The Sex of Knowing
Chair: Georgia Warnke (University of California-Riverside)
Speakers: Marguerite La Caze (University of Queensland)
"Michèle Le Doeuff: Philosophy of the Unthought"
Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern University)
"Le Doeuff's The Sex of Knowing: On One Harriett Taylor and Three John Stuart Mills"
Dorothea Olkowski (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs)
"The Heloise Complex"
Discussant: Lorraine Code (York University)
"Blue Stockings, Viragos, and Other Wise Women: Translating Michèle Le Doeuff's Le Sexe du Savoir"
I-H. Author Meets Critics: Taylor Carman, Heidegger's Analytic
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Pasadena I
Chair: Wayne Martin (University of California-San Diego)
Critics: Sean Kelly (Princeton University)
Pierre Keller (University of California-Riverside)
Author: Taylor Carman (Barnard College)
I-I. Invited Paper: Analyzing Modality
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Pacific B
Chair: Frank McGuinness (California State University-Northridge)
Speaker: Michael Jubien (University of California-Davis)
Commentators: Karen Bennett (Princeton University)
Linda Wetzel (Georgetown University)
I-J. Colloquium: Free Will and Agency
9:00-10:00 a.m., San Jose
Chair: Stephen Morris (Florida State University)
Speaker: Peter W. Ross (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)
"Empirical Constraints on the Problem of Free Will"
Commentator: Stephan Johnson (City College of San Francisco)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Robert F. Allen (Central Michigan University)
Speaker: Manuel R. Vargas (University of San Francisco and California Institute of Technology)
"How to Think about the Importance of History for Responsible Agency"
Commentator: Christopher Grau (Florida International University)
I-K. Invited Paper: Planning Agency, Autonomous Agency
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Santa Barbara
Chair: Paul Hurley (Pomona College)
Speaker: Michael Bratman (Stanford University)
Commentators: Gary Watson (University of California-Riverside)
Sarah Buss (University of Iowa)
I-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Del Mar
Topic: Teaching Kant
Speakers: Eleanor Wittrup (University of the Pacific)
Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)
Jill Buroker (California State University-San Bernardino)
I-M. Colloquium: Early Modern Philosophy
9:00-10:00 a.m., Sacramento
Chair: Hollibert Phillips (Whitman College)
Speaker: Uriah Kriegel (University of Arizona)
"Locke on Consciousness"
Commentator: Paul Lodge (Oxford University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Matthew Kisner (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker: Benjamin D. Hill (Illinois Wesleyan University)
"Locke's Ideational Definition of Knowledge and Knowing Idea-Independent Reality"
Commentator: Samuel Rickless (University of California-San Diego)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Manyul Im (California State University-Los Angeles)
Speaker: Evan C. Tiffany (Simon Fraser University)
"Naturalism and the Value of Rational Nature"
Commentator: David Sussman (Princeton University)
I-N. Colloquium/Symposium: Semantics
Colloquium
9:00-10:00 a.m, Pasadena II
Chair: Bonnie Paller (California State University-Northridge)
Speaker: Kirk Ludwig (University of Florida)
"A Conservative Modal Semantics with Applications to de re Necessities"
Commentator: James W. Garson (University of Houston)
Colloquium
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Fiona Cowie (California Institute of Technology)
Speaker: Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky)
"An Anti-Individualist Semantics for `Empty' Natural Kind Terms"
Commentator: Ted Sider (Rutgers University)
Symposium
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Pasadena II
Chair: Robert May (University of California-Irvine)
Speaker: Joan Weiner (Indiana University)
"Semantic Descent"
Commentator: Jamie Tappenden (University of Michigan)
Annual Business Meeting
12:00-1:00 p.m., Pacific C
Thursday Early Afternoon, March 25
Session II - 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
II-A. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation and the Karl Jaspers Society of North America
1:00-4:00 p.m., Pacific A
Topic: Karl Jaspers and Intercultural Philosophy
Chair: Malek Khazaee (California State University-Long Beach)
Speakers: Jacob Bender (New York City)
"Searching for Paideia in the Lives and Works of Averröes, Maimonides, and Aquinas: A Filmmaker's Perspective"
Alan M. Olson (Boston University)
"Reason and Revelation: The Cases of Ishmael and Isaac Revisited"
Stephen Erickson (Pomona College)
"The Philosophy of History in Hegel, Heidegger, and Jaspers"
Tomoko Iwasawa (Kogakuin University)
"Demythologizing and Remythologizing the Concept of Tama in Japanese Literature"
Commentator: Joseph Prahbu (California State University-Los Angeles)
II-B. Invited Symposium: Ethical Issues in Genetics
1:00-4:00 p.m., Pacific B
Chair: Ellen Kappy Suckiel (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Speakers: Mary Mahowald (University of Chicago)
"Cloning, Stem Cells, and Self-Preservation"
Lisa Parker (University of Pittsburgh)
"Reflecting on Genetic Findings, Speculating about Social Practices"
Stephen Munzer (University of California-Los Angeles School of Law)
"Conceptual and Justificatory Issues in Plant Genetics and Intellectual Property Rights"
II-C. Author Meets Critics: Howard Wettstein, The Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
1:00-4:00 p.m., San Gabriel
Chair: Peter Graham (University of California-Riverside)
Critics: David Kaplan (University of California-Los Angeles)
Joseph Almog (University of California-Los Angeles)
Robin Jeshion (Yale University)
Author: Howard Wettstein (University of California-Riverside)
II-D. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics
1:00-4:00 p.m., Monterey
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Maria Lugones, Pilgrimages/Peregrinages: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions
Chair: Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York-Stony Brook)
Critics: Rita Alfonso (State University of New York-Stony Book)
Michael Hames-Garcias (Binghamton University)
Author: Maria Lugones (Binghamton University)
II-E. Special Session in Memory of Donald Davidson
1:00-4:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University)
Tyler Burge (University of California-Los Angeles)
Marcia Cavell (University of California-Berkeley)
Dagfinn Føllesdal (Stanford University and University of Oslo)
Olbeth Hansberg (University of Mexico)
Gilbert Harman (Princeton University)
Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University)
John McDowell (University of Pittsburgh)
Thomas Nagel (New York University)
Richard Rorty (Stanford University)
Carol Rovane (Columbia University)
Bruce Vermazen (University of California-Berkeley)
Following the speakers, a reception will be held until 5:30 p.m. Please join us to celebrate the life of Donald Davidson.
II-F. Author Meets Critics: Ruby Blondell, The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues
1:00-4:00 p.m., Pasadena I
Chair: Debra Nails (Michigan State University)
Critics: Richard Kraut (Northwestern University)
Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago)
Author: Ruby Blondell (University of Washington)
II-G. Invited Symposium: The Environmental Philosophy of Holmes Rolston III (Winner of the 2003 Templeton Prize)
1:00-4:00 p.m., San Marino
Chair: Philip Cafaro (Colorado State University)
Speakers: Baird Callicott (University of North Texas)
Eugene Hargrove (University of North Texas, Editor, Environmental Ethics)
Ned Hettinger (College of Charleston)
Clare Palmer (Lancaster University, Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy)
Kate Rawles (Independent Scholar)
Respondent: Holmes Rolston III (Colorado State University)
II-H. Author Meets Critics: Michael Strevens, Bigger than Chaos: Understanding Complexity Through Probability
1:00-4:00 p.m., San Diego
Chair: Alan Hájek (California Institute of Technology)
Critics: Lawrence Sklar (University of Michigan)
Bruce Glymour (Kansas State University)
Author: Michael Strevens (Stanford University)
II-I. Colloquium: Desert
1:00-2:00 p.m., San Jose
Chair: Henry West (Macalester College)
Speaker: Geoffrey C. Goddu (University of Richmond)
"More on Blameworthiness and Alternative Possibilities"
Commentator: Kevin Timpe (University of Notre Dame and Saint Louis University)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Michelle Switzer (Whittier College)
Speaker: Troy Jollimore (California State University-Chico)
"Second-Order Desert and the Problem of Moral Luck"
Commentator: Susan Stark (Bates College)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeff Gauthier (University of Portland)
Speaker: Jeffrey Moriarty (California State University-Long Beach)
"The Epistemological Argument Against Desert"
Commentator: Shelley Wilcox (Temple University)
II-J. Colloquium: Political Philosophy and Metaethics
1:00-2:00 p.m., Santa Barbara
Chair: Anatole Anton (San Francisco State University)
Speaker: Paul J. Weithman (University of Notre Dame)
"Agenda-Setting and the Scope of Deliberative Democracy"
Commentator: Colin Bird (Politics, University of Virginia)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Megan Laverty (Montclair University)
Speaker: Jennifer Welchman (University of Alberta)
"Is Loyalty a Virtue? Reflections on Loyalty Day"
Commentator: Nancy Snow (Marquette University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark Redhead (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Daniel R. Boisvert (California State University-Bakersfield)
"Expressive-Assertivism and `The Embedding Objection'"
Commentator: Mark van Roojen (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
II-K. Colloquium: Philosophy of Law
1:00-2:00 p.m., Pasadena II
Chair: Debra Whittaker (California State University-Long Beach)
Speaker: Paul Hughes (University of Michigan-Dearborn)
"Temptation, Autonomy, and the Problem of Entrapment"
Commentator: Robert Schopp (University of Nebraska College of Law)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Aaron James (University of California-Irvine)
Speaker: Michael J. Scanlan (Oregon State University)
"Locke and Intellectual Property Rights"
Commentator: Alan Fuchs (College of William & Mary)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Robin R. Wang (Loyola Marymount University)
Speaker: Virginia Warren (Chapman University)
"Just Peace: An Alternative to Just War Theory"
Commentator: Pauline Kaurin (Pacific Lutheran University)
II-L. Colloquium: Early Modern Philosophy
1:00-2:00 p.m., Del Mar
Chair: Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue University)
Speaker: Lorraine L. Besser-Jones (Stanford University)
"Hume's Account of the Motivation to be Just"
Commentator: Stephen Crowley (Indiana University-Bloomington)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Cindy Stern (California State University-Northridge)
Speaker: Glenn Branch (National Center for Science Education)
"Hume's Volte-Face on Personal Identity"
Commentator: Lawrence Nolan (California State University-Long Beach)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Eric Watkins (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker: Gregory Reihman (Stanford University)
"Categorically Denied: Kant's Criticism of Chinese Philosophy"
Commentator: Martin Schönfeld (University of South Florida)
II-M. Symposium/Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind
1:00-3:00 p.m., Pacific C
Chair: Carolyn Brighouse (Occidental College)
Speaker: C. Wade Savage (University of Minnesota)
"A New/Old Resolution of the Mind-Body Problem"
Commentators: Melinda Hogan (University of British Columbia and Kwantlen University College)
Eric Marcus (Auburn University)
3:00-4:00 p.m., Colloquium, Pacific C
Chair: Jiuan Heng (National University of Singapore)
Speaker: Brian Garrett (California State University-Fullerton)
"The Metaphysics of Property Identity and the Hard Problem of Consciousness"
Commentator: Torin Alter (University of Alabama)
II-N. Colloquium: Metaphysics
1:00-2:00 p.m., Sacramento
Chair: Paul Tang (California State University-Long Beach)
Speakers: Wayne T. Wright (Washington University) and Kent Johnson (University of California-Irvine)
"Colors as Properties of the Special Sciences"
Commentator: Janet Levin (University of Southern California)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: David Byrd (University of California-Davis)
Speaker: Warren E. Shrader (University of Notre Dame)
"Shoemaker on Emergence"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Simon Evnine (University of Miami)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Matthew Davidson (California State University-San Bernardino)
Speaker: Kathrin Koslicki (Tufts University)
"Almost Indiscernible Objects and the Suspect Strategy"
Commentator: Guy Rohrbaugh (Auburn University)
Thursday Late Afternoon, March 25
Session III - 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
III-A. Patrick Romanell Lecture
4:00-6:00 p.m., San Gabriel
Introduction: Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University)
Speaker: Jerry Fodor (Rutgers University)
"Context"
III-B. Invited Symposium: War and Democracy
4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., Monterey
Chair: Theodore Waldman (Harvey Mudd College)
Speakers: Haskell Fain (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"America vs. Amerika"
David Estlund (Brown University)
"What is the Duty of a Soldier with Doubts?"
Jeremi Suri (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"The Historical Origins and Implications of Contemporary Hegemony"
III-C. Invited Symposium: Aristotle on Perception
4:00-6:00 p.m., San Marino
Chair: Al Spangler (California State University-Long Beach)
Speakers: Rob Bolton (Rutgers University)
"Aristotle on the Nature of Perception"
Thomas Johansen (University of Edinburgh)
"Aristotle on the Difference between Human and Animal Perception"
III-D. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers and the Society for Philosophy and Technology
4:00-6:00 p.m., Pacific A
Topic: Computers and the Mediation of Human Experience
Chair: Noam Cook (San Jose State University)
Panelists: Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University)
"Computers and Communication Theory"
Charles Ess (Drury University)
"Ethics and Culture Offline and Online"
III-E. Symposium: Moral Reasons
4:00-6:00 p.m., San Diego
Chair: Thomas E. Hill, Jr. (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Speaker: Adrienne M. Martin (Minnesota State University-Moorhead)
"Reasons Both Universalizable and Defeasible"
Commentators: Richard Galvin (Texas Christian University)
Allan Gibbard (University of Michigan)
III-F. Colloquium: Causal Laws
4:00-5:00 p.m., Santa Barbara
Chair: Chuang Liu (University of Florida)
Speaker: Daniel Korman (University of Colorado-Boulder)
"The Modal Flexibility of Causal Laws"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Kurt Torell (Roger William University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Rob Loftis (Saint Lawrence University)
Speaker: William Russell Payne (Independent Scholar)
"Some Good and Some Not So Good Arguments for Necessary Laws"
Commentator: Gary Fuller (Central Michigan University)
III-G. Colloquium: Moral Imperatives and Moral Virtues
4:00-5:00 p.m., Pasadena I
Chair: Sharon Bishop (California State University-Los Angeles)
Speaker: Paul Alan Green (Mount St. Mary's College)
"Etiquette as a System of Categorical Imperatives"
Commentator: Christina M. Bellon (California State University-Sacramento)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Matthew Liao (Princeton University)
Speaker: Jason Kawall (Colgate University)
"Of Carts and Horses: On the Primacy of the Virtues"
Commentator: Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma)
III-H. Colloquium: Reliabilism
4:00-5:00 p.m., Pacific B
Chair: Clayton Littlejohn (University of Nebraska)
Speaker: James R. Beebe (Louisiana State University)
"Reliabilism and Deflationism"
Commentator: Adam Leite (Indiana University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University)
Speaker: Kelly M. Becker (University of New Mexico)
"Reliabilism and the Skeptical Paradox"
Commentator: Wayne Riggs (University of Oklahoma)
III-I. Symposium: Contractarianism
4:00-6:00 p.m., Pacific C
Chair: Joseph Grcic (Indiana State University)
Speaker: Cynthia Stark (University of Utah)
"Contractarianism and Contribution, Or Why Talents Matter `Somewhat'"
Commentators: Elizabeth Harman (New York University)
Colin Macleod (University of Victoria)
III-J. Colloquium: Paradoxes
4:00-5:00 p.m., Pasadena II
Chair: Jeremy Morris (University of Miami)
Speaker: Matthew C. Weiner (University of Utah)
"Deductive Closure and the Sorites"
Commentator: Jonathan Sutton (Southern Methodist University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: L. A. Paul (University of Arizona)
Speaker: Jeffrey Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"The Liar Paradox and Ontology"
Commentator: Weimin Sun (California State University-Northridge)
III-K. Colloquium: Safe and Unsafe Knowledge
4:00-5:00 p.m., Del Mar
Chair: Michael Wolf (California State University-Fresno)
Speaker: Juan M. Comesaña (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Unsafe Knowledge"
Commentator: Ram Neta (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Debby Hutchins (Boston College)
Speaker: Joe R. Salerno (Saint Louis University)
"Tracking Versus Safety: Some Counterexamples"
Commentator: Steven Luper (Trinity University)
III-L. Symposium: Religious Skepticism and Swinburne
4:00-6:00 p.m., Sacramento
Chair: Charles Hughes (Chapman University)
Speaker: Stephen Wykstra (Calvin College)
"Skeptical Gambits and the Two Roads to Atheism: Swinburne versus CORNEA"
Commentators: Michael Rea (University of Notre Dame)
Nathan Nobis (University of Rochester)
III-M. Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind
4:00-5:00 p.m., San Jose
Chair: Luca Struble (University of California-Los Angeles)
Speaker: Brad Rives (University of Maryland)
"Why Dispositions Are (Still) Distinct from Their Bases and Causally Impotent"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Dan Ryder (Indiana University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Gerald Doppelt (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker: Patrick W. Rysiew (University of British Columbia)
"Adaptive Cognition"
Commentator: Roger White (New York University)
Thursday Evening, March 25
Annual Reception
9:00 p.m.-Midnight, California Ballroom
Group Meetings, 6:00-11:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
6:00-8:00 p.m.
International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session I, San Gabriel
Society of Christian Philosophers, Pacific A
North American Nietzsche Society, Pacific B
Society for the Philosophy of History, Session I, Sacramento
North American Spinoza Society, Session I, Pasadena I
Philosophy of Time Society, Pacific C
American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy, Session I, Santa Monica
American Society for Aesthetics, Santa Barbara
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Reid Society, Del Mar
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Monterey
International Society for Chinese Philosophy, San Jose
Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Pasadena II
Concerned Philosophers for Peace, San Diego
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Philosophy of Religion Group, San Gabriel
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy-Graduate Student Panel, Santa Monica
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Society for German Idealism, Session I, Pacific A
Society for Business Ethics Group, Pasadena I
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Pacific B
Max Scheler Society of North America, Session I, Sacramento
Radical Philosophy Association, Pacific C
Society for Women in Philosophy, San Marino
North American Wittgenstein Society, Santa Barbara