Proceedings
And Addresses
January, 2004 (Volume 77, Issue 3)
Group Program - Saturday
Saturday Afternoon, March 27
Group Session GIV _ 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
GIV-1. California State University Department Chairs
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Saturday Evening, March 27
Group Session GV
7:00-9:00 p.m. (GV-1 - GV-4)
7:00-10:00 p.m. (GV-5 - GV-12)
9:00-11:00 p.m. (GV-13 - GV-15)
GV-1. Society for the Philosophy of History, Session II
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Historical Interpretation in the Human Sciences
Chair: Andrews Reath (University of California-Riverside)
Speakers: Taylor Carman (Barnard College-Columbia University)
"Narrative and Knowledge"
Naomi Choi (University of California-Berkeley)
"Legal Interpretation and Law's Normativity"
Jorge Secada (University of Virginia)
"How to Do the History of Philosophy"
GV-2. North American Kant Society, Session II
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Kant on Reason
Chair: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)
Speaker: Paul Redding (University of Sydney)
"Kant on Hypothetical and Analogical Reasoning"
Commentator: Robert Hanna (University of Colorado-Boulder)
GV-3. Society for Skeptical Studies
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Chair: Richard Greene (Weber State University)
Speakers: John Collins (East Carolina University)
"Content Externalism and Skepticism about Introspective Knowledge of Logical Form"
William Larkin (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
"A Puzzle about the Significance of Skepticism"
GV-4. Hume Society
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark Collier (Stanford University)
Speaker: Nicholas Jolley (University of California-Irvine)
"Hume, Malebranche, and the Last Occult Quality"
GV-5. Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session II
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Plato and Poetry
Chair: Adriel Trott (Villanova University)
Speakers: Lawrence Hatab (Old Dominion University)
"Orality and Literacy: A Key to Plato's Critique of Poetry."
Gary Scott, (Loyola College-Maryland)
"The Last Word on the Poets: Reconsidering Republic X"
John Rose (Goucher College)
"Kindled by a Leaping Spark: Plato's Poetic Dialectics"
Bernard Freydberg (Slippery Rock University)
"Huponoia in Platonic Poetics"
GV-6. American Association of Philosophy Teachers
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Pedagogical and Ethical Issues in Publishing Student Webpages
Chair: Betsy Newell Decyk (California State University-Long Beach)
Teacher Panelists: Robert Timko (Mansfield University)
Erin Livingston (Miyazaki International College)
Janine Dewitt-Heffner (Marymount University)
Student Panelists: Jessica Cranney (California State University-Long Beach)
Amanda Trefethen (California State University-Long Beach)
GV-7. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Issues in Comparative Philosophy: East and West
Chair: Robin R. Wang (Loyola Marymount University)
Speaker: Thomas Sherman (Loyola Marymount University)
"The Good Man and Goodness of Action in Laozi and Aristotle"
Commentator: Paul Kjellberg (Whittier College)
Speaker: Peter Groff (Bucknell University)
"Al-Kindi and Nietzsche on the Stoic Art of Banishing Sorrow"
Commentator: Marc Applebaum (Saybrook Graduate School-San Francisco)
Ian Muhlhauser (San Francisco State University)
"The Sangha and the Schole: Buddhist Meditation and Ancient Greek Contemplation"
Commentator: David W. Tien (University of Michigan)
GV-8. Society for German Idealism, Session III
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeffrey A. Gauthier (University of Portland)
Speaker: Jennifer Bates (University of Guelph)
"The Moral Chemist of the Corpus Mysticum: Why Some Version of Kant's Practical Postulates are Necessary, Even for Hegel"
Speaker: Matthew C. Altman (Central Washington University)
"The Prescience of Fichte's Anstoss: German Idealism and Post-Nietzschean Philosophy"
Speaker: Michael Allen (Saint Louis University)
"Hegel between Non-Domination and Expressive Freedom"
GV-9. Society for Student Philosophers, Session II
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Anastasia Panagopoulos (Simon Fraser University)
Speakers: Michael Daniels (Trinity University, San Antonio)
"On the Inevitability of Political Metaphysics"
John Jacob Kaag (University of Oregon)
"Tethering the Balloon of Philosophy: Seeking the Ground of American Thought"
Joseph L. Guza (Boston College)
"Contemplative Musings: D. Z. Phillips and Ludwig Wittgenstein on the Nature of Philosophy"
Stephanie Wykstra (Rutgers University)
"The Agent in Action: A Critique of Velleman"
GV-10. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy, Session II
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy in Practice
Chair: James A. Tuedio (California State University-Stanislaus)
Speakers: Megan Laverty (Montclair State University)
"Philosophical Dialogue and Ethics: Redefining the Virtues"
J. Michael Russell (California State University-Fullerton)
"The Philosophical Yield of Philosophical Practice"
Paola Teresa Grassi (Milan, Italy)
"Clinical Psychiatry and Philosophical Counseling: On the Possibility of Networking"
Commentator: James A. Tuedio (California State University-Stanislaus)
GV-11. International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session II
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Environmental Ethics—Practical Applications
Chair: Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (Colorado College)
Speaker: Kate Rawles (Independent Scholar)
"Outdoor Environmental Philosophy"
Commentators: Mark Woods (University of San Diego)
Chaone Mallory (University of Oregon)
Speaker: Rob Loftis (Saint Lawrence University)
"Germ-Line Enhancement of Humans and Nonhumans"
Commentators: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (Colorado College)
GV-12. International Institute for Field-Being
9:00-11:00 p.m.
Chair: Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University)
Speakers: James Giles (Cambridge University)
"The Tao as Consciousness"
Rong-po Chen (Tunghai University)
"Comparative Views of Philosophy between the I-Ching and the Later Heidegger"
Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University)
"Jiao: Individuation in the Tao Te Ching"
GV-13. North American Spinoza Society, Session II
9:00-11:00 p.m.
Chair: Charles Huenemann (Utah State University)
Speaker: Jason Read (University of Southern Maine)
"Order and Connection of Ideas: Thinking in and with Spinoza"
Commentator: Blake McBride (Independent Scholar)
Speaker: Julie Klein (Villanova University)
"Natural Necessity, Material Freedom"
Commentator: Tammy Nyden-Bullock (University of Nevada-Las Vegas)
GV-14. Max Scheler Society of North America, Session II
9:00-11:00 p.m.
Speaker: Eugene Kelly (New York Institute of Technology)
" `On Taking a Friend to the Store:' Peter Spader's Account of the Phenomenology of Moral Action in Max Scheler"
Respondent: Peter Spader (Marywood University)
GV-15. International Hobbes Association
9:00-11:00 p.m.
Chair: S. A. Lloyd (University of Southern California)
Speaker: Martin Bertman (Helsinki University)