To All Members of the Association:

The Executive Committee of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association cordially invites you to attend the Seventy-Eighth annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. The meeting will be held at the Hilton Pasadena, Wednesday, March 24, through Sunday, March 28, 2004. Accommodations and meeting space also are provided by the Sheraton Pasadena.

1. Meeting Location: Special Attractions

Pasadena is a small city with well-preserved turn-of-the-century architecture. More than 600 buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. The weather in March should be warm and sunny. Our hotels are within walking distance of a very large number of outstanding restaurants, theaters, clubs, museums, and other cultural sites and events. (An extensive, informative restaurant list prepared by our local arrangements committee follows the program information.)

The Norton Simon Museum is a short ride on the free downtown Arts Shuttle Bus, and the Huntington Library and Gardens is a quick taxi ride away. There is a walking track within a mile and a jogging track within two miles. The rest of Southern California's attractions are easily reached. The thoroughbred racing season at Santa Anita will still be on in March. There is ice-skating a block from the hotel. Skiing at Mountain High Resort is about an hour's drive away, or, to the west, there are beach and boating within 25 miles and scuba diving within 60. (A list of attractions within Pasadena, and in the larger area, follows the program information.)

2. Our Hotels: Location, Reservations, Parking

Our hotels are located at the intersection of the Old Pasadena District and the Playhouse District. Old Pasadena was the nineteenth-century center of the city. Over 200 nineteenth-century buildings in this 22-block area are still in use. The Playhouse District fans out from the Pasadena Playhouse, is replete with historic architecture, and offers a mix of bookstores, restaurants, antique, and specialty shops. Also within easy walking distance is South Lake Avenue, 10 blocks of restaurants and shops that run the span from Rodeo Drive-type boutiques to excellent used book stores.

The Hilton Pasadena is a historic property now renovated as a boutique-style hotel. Most rooms have views of either Old Pasadena or the San Gabriel Mountains. The hotel has an outdoor swimming pool, and an indoor pool table as well. The hotel's address is 168 South Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, 91101. Telephone is (626) 577-1000. Fax is (626) 584-3148

The Sheraton Pasadena is one block from the Hilton. It is across the street from the Paseo Colorado shopping center, with all its restaurants and an excellent wine bar. It has an outdoor pool and lighted tennis courts. The hotel's address is 303 East Cordova, Pasadena, CA 91101. Telephone is (626) 449-4000. Fax is (626) 796-6209.

Hotel Reservations: A hotel reservation form can be found at the back of this Proceedings, and on the APA website. You may make your reservations online at www.pasadenacal.com/housing/APA_form.htm.

Parking: There is public parking at the Hilton. The charge is $10.00 a day. Parking lots serving the Pasadena Convention Center and Paseo Colorado Shopping Center are very nearby, and street parking is available.

3. Travel Information: Driving, Air, Rail, Buses, and the Free Pasadena Shuttle

Driving

The Pasadena Freeway (the 110) connects Pasadena to Los Angeles, and also to Long Beach and to the 405 to San Diego. The Foothill Freeway (the 210) goes north and east. The Ventura Freeway (the 134) leads to Ventura County on the coast, and Northern California.

Driving to the Hilton

I-5 and 210 (this route from Burbank Airport, 15-20 minutes): Take the I-5 South to the 134 Freeway East to 210 East. Exit at Lake Avenue, go South one mile past Colorado Boulevard to Cordova. Turn right (West) to corner at Los Robles Avenue.

I-105 and 110 (this route from LAX, one hour): Take I-105 East to the 110 North. The 110 will end in Pasadena and become Arroyo Parkway. Continue one mile North to Cordova. Hotel is at the corner of Cordova and Los Robles.

Driving to the Sheraton

From South: Take Interstate 110 North until it ends and turns into Arroyo Parkway. Continue on Arroyo Parkway until you come to Cordova Street. Turn right onto Cordova Street and the hotel will be located on the left-hand side.

From East: Take Interstate 210 West, and exit at Fair Oaks Avenue/Marengo Avenue. Turn left onto Marengo Avenue. Proceed to Cordova Street and turn left. The hotel is located on the left-hand side.

From West: Take Interstate 10 East until you come to Interstate 110 North. Travel on Interstate 110 North which will become Arroyo Parkway. Continue on Arroyo Parkway and turn right onto Cordova Street. The hotel is located on the left-hand side.

From Altadena (North): Travel south to Colorado Boulevard. Take Colorado Boulevard west towards Marengo Avenue. Turn left onto Marengo Avenue and then turn left onto Cordova Street. The hotel is located on the left-hand side.

By Air

Burbank Airport is served by many carriers. It is a small, pleasant airport only fifteen minutes from our hotels. Taxi is $25.00, and limo service runs around $65.00. (For airport shuttles, see below.) At the time of this writing, Burbank is served by Alaska, Aloha, American, America West, United, and Southwest.

Los Angeles International Airport is one of the largest in the nation. It has both the conveniences and the disadvantages of a very large facility. It is only a little more than twice as far from our hotels as Burbank Airport, and in principle travel time is half an hour, but allow a full hour when there is traffic. Taxi about $40.00, and limo service runs about $65.00.

Airport Shuttles: There are three airport shuttle services that will take you to your hotel in Pasadena from Burbank or LAX. Super Shuttle is (818) 556-6600 or (800) 258-3826, with a website at www.supershuttle.com. Prime Time Shuttle is (800) 733-8267, with a website at www.primetimeshuttle.com. Xpress Shuttle is (800) 427-7483, with a website at www.xpressshuttle.com.

By Train

You may take a train to Union Station in Los Angeles, and then take the light-rail Gold Line to Pasadena (see below).

Light-Rail

The Gold Line runs from Pasadena into Los Angeles. There is a station on Del Mar Blvd. about four blocks from the Sheraton and five blocks from the Hilton. You also can use the Gold Line to travel to other parts of Pasadena.

Bus Service

The free Pasadena ARTS Buses shuttle visitors between the popular shopping/entertainment districts of Old Pasadena, South Lake Avenue, and the Pasadena Playhouse District. The ARTS Buses are easily recognizable by their decorations. Stops, which are designated by a pink triangle marked "ARTS," are found throughout the city. (626) 744-4055. Operating hours: Monday_Thursday, 11 a.m._8:30 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Foothill Transit Authority buses operate throughout the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys. Check the schedule at (626)967-3147 or www.foothilltransit.org.

LA MTA offers service throughout Los Angeles County. Check the schedule at (213) 626-4455 or www.mta.net.

4. Convention Registration

The registration fee is $10.00 for student members, $50.00 for regular members, and $60.00 for non-members who wish to attend more than a single session. Special tickets for $10.00 will be available to non-members who wish to attend a single session or one of the receptions. Only those who are registered or have purchased the limited number of extra tickets may attend the scheduled sessions or receptions. Please be sure to wear your convention badge at all times to identify yourself as a registered participant.

A Pre-Registration form is included in the back of this issue of the Proceedings. People who are not now members of the APA may take advantage of the lower registration fee by becoming members. Membership forms are available from the National Office, online at www.apaonline.org, and also will be available at the Convention Registration desk.

A Mini-Conference on Global Justice, organized independently under the Pacific Division's new mini-conference program, is included in this year's regular registration fee.

5. Placement Service

Only APA members are eligible to use the Placement services. Appointing officers and applicants are urged to make preparations for their part in the placement operation in advance of the meeting.

6. Presidential Address

The Presidential Address will be delivered by Julia Annas at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, March 26, in the California Ballroom. President Annas will be introduced by Vice President Hubert Dreyfus.

7. Receptions and Special Events

The Annual Reception will be held from 9:00 p.m. to midnight on Thursday, March 25, in the California Ballroom. The Presidential Reception will be held from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Friday, March 26, in the Arcade, following the Presidential Address. Generally, receptions are for persons registered at the convention. Tickets for guests may be purchased at the door of receptions or the convention registration desk.

A Memorial Session to celebrate the life of Donald Davidson, former President and former Secretary-Treasurer of the APA Pacific Division, will be held in the California Ballroom on Thursday, March 25, beginning at 1:00 p.m. A reception will follow the speakers. The reception will continue to 5:30 p.m. to accommodate members who wish to honor Professor Davidson but whose commitments to the program prevent their attending at 1:00 p.m.

A Memorial Session on the work of Bernard Williams will be held on Saturday, March 27, at 9:00 a.m.

A special invitation is extended to graduate students, and graduate program coordinators and placement officers, to attend a meeting at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 26. This meeting is arranged by the APA Committee on Career Opportunities. The topic of the meeting is "Advice for Next Year's Job Searchers." Refreshments will be served.

Please check with the convention registration desk for information about receptions: more events may be added to the schedule as the convention date nears.

8. Mini-Conference on Global Justice and Future Mini-Conferences

The Executive Committee of the APA Pacific Division sponsors a mini-conference program that offers members the opportunity to organize small conferences in association with the Pacific Division Meeting. Proposals for mini-conferences are reviewed by the Executive Committee. These mini-conferences address philosophical topics that are not the subject of, or are insufficiently treated by, existing conference programs in the United States. Proposals should explain why a mini-conference on the selected topic will advance philosophical scholarship. A request for proposals for mini-conferences is printed after the program information in this Proceedings.

The 2004 Annual Meeting marks the debut of the mini-conference program. A Mini-Conference on Global Justice is scheduled to begin on Saturday afternoon, March 27, and continue through Tuesday morning, March 30, at the Hilton. Registration for this conference is included in your regular registration fee. The program for the Mini-Conference on Global Justice can be found following the main program and group meetings program.

The Mini-Conference on Global Justice was made possible through the initiative, planning, and work of the conference organizing committee: Harry Brighouse, Gillian Brock, Darrel Moellendorf, and Rodney Peffer.

A mini-conference on Philosophy of the Emotions will be held in conjunction with the 2005 APA Pacific Division meeting in San Francisco. The conference's organizing committee members are Robert C. Solomon (Chair), John Deigh, Ronald De Sousa, Paul Griffiths, Kathleen Higgins, Jerome Neu, and Jenefer Robinson. For further information, you may contact Robert Solomon at rsolomon@mail.utexas.edu.

9. Business Meeting and Voting Membership

The annual Business Meeting will be held at noon on Thursday, March 25. There will be reports from the Divisional and National Officers. According to the Association's By-Laws, regular membership is given by an act of the Executive Director on behalf of the Board of Officers. Each year the list of regular members that appears in the November Proceedings is used as the list of eligible voters for the three subsequent Divisional business meetings.

10. Report of the Pacific Division Nominating Committee

Catherine Wilson (Chair), Kenneth Kipnis, and David Owen served as the 2003 Nominating Committee. They have nominated the following APA Pacific Division members for terms beginning in July, 2004:

For Vice President: Jeffrie Murphy

For Executive Committee (3-year term): Nicholas Smith

11. 2004 Program Committee and Program

The Program Committee that prepared this year's program consists of:

Leslie Francis (Chair)
Dominic McIver Lopes
R. Lanier Anderson
Thomas Nickles
Heather Battaly
Alva Noë
Jeffrey Barrett
Donald Rutherford
Tim Black
Eric Schwitzgebel
Thomas Christiano
Dion Scott-Kakures
Stewart Cohen
Lisa Shapiro
J. M. Fritzman
Christopher Shields
Sara Goering
Ellen Suckiel
Pamela Hood
Paul Teller
Gale Justin
Takashi Yagisawa
David Kim
Julie Van Camp
Jeffrey King
Margaret Urban Walker
Christopher Kutz

Principal papers in Colloquia and Symposia were selected after blind review of all submitted papers. Participants in Invited Paper, Invited Symposia, Author Meets Critics, and Workshop meetings were invited by the Program Committee. Participants in meetings arranged by APA Committees were selected by those Committees.

12. 2005 Meeting Site and Program

The 2005 Pacific Division meeting will be held at the St. Francis Hotel, Union Square, San Francisco. The Program Committee for the Seventy-Ninth annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, invites contributions for the 2005 meeting. The deadline for submission is September 1, 2004. Each author may make only one submission. Please indicate prominently on the envelope that the paper is submitted for the 2005 Pacific Division Meeting. Because the Program Committee will blind review all submissions, the names of the author and her/his institution should appear only on a separate cover page; they should not appear in the paper in any way that defeats the operation of blind reviewing.

The 2005 Program Committee also welcomes suggestions for topics and/or speakers of invited sessions. Recommendations (including self-nominations) for commentators and session chairs also are encouraged. These should be sent to the 2005 Program Chair, Dominic McIver Lopes, at the Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 1866 Main Mall E370, Vancouver
BC Canada V6T 1Z1, or faxed to him at (604) 822-8782, or emailed to dom.lopes@ubc.ca. When volunteering someone other than yourself, please be sure your nominee is willing to participate in the program. Nominations should reach the program committee by September 1, 2004, and should include a short account of the individual's areas of specialization and record of scholarship.

13. Nominations for the 2005 Nominating and Program Committees

Pacific Division members may make nominations or volunteer for membership on the 2005 Nominating and Program Committees by emailing the Secretary-Treasurer, Anita Silvers, at asilvers@sfsu.edu by March 14, 2004.

14. Accommodating Members with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities

To provide a welcoming environment for members with multiple chemical sensitivities, all members are requested to refrain from wearing scented products.

On behalf of the Executive and Program Committees of the APA Pacific Division, I extend to every member of the American Philosophical Association a warm invitation to take part in our Seventy-Eighth annual meeting.

Cordially yours,

Anita Silvers, Secretary-Treasurer for the Executive Committee
Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association
Sara Goering (Chair)
Julia Annas
David Brink
Hubert Dreyfus
Leslie Francis
Michael Jubien
Calvin Normore