Proceedings
And Addresses
January, 2004 (Volume 77, Issue 3)
Main Program - Saturday / Sunday
Registration
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Placement Service
8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Interview Room
8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Book Displays
8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Lunch Meeting for 2004 and 2005
APA Pacific Division Program Committee Members
12:00 p.m., (see APA Registration Desk for location)
Saturday Morning, March 27
Session VII
9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. (VII-A, VII-C - VII-J)
9:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m. (VII-B)
9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (VII-K - VII-O)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (VII-P)
VII-A. Special Memorial Session on Bernard Williams's Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Sarah Buss (University of Iowa)
Speakers: Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago)
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
Anthony Long (University of California-Berkeley)
Richard Moran (Harvard University)
VII-B. Symposium: Race and Capital Punishment
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Talia Bettcher (California State University-Los Angeles)
Speaker: Michael J. Cholbi (California Polytechnic University- Pomona)
"Race, Capital Punishment, and the Cost of Murder"
Commentators: Deirdre Golash (American University)
Elizabeth A. Linehan (St. Joseph's University)
VII-C. Author Meets Critics: Robert J. Richards, The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Aaron Bunch (Loyola University-Chicago)
Critics: Joan Steigerwald (Science & Society Program, York University)
John Zammito (Rice University)
Author: Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago)
VII-D. Author Meets Critics: Scott Soames, Beyond Rigidity
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Takashi Yagisawa (California State University-Northridge)
Critics: George Wilson (University of California-Davis)
Michael McKinsey (Wayne State University)
Author: Scott Soames (Princeton University)
VII-E. Invited Symposium: Moral Psychology in Actual Social Worlds
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Victoria McGeer (Princeton University and Australian National University)
Speakers: Peggy DesAutels (University of Dayton)
"Moral Mindfulness"
James Lindemann Nelson (Michigan State University)
"Austen's Emma and Ethical Formation"
Catherine Wilson (University of British Columbia)
"Evolutionary Psychology and the Preferences of Women"
Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Torture in Ordinary Circumstances"
VII-F. Invited Symposium: Encountering Evil
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Pamela Hood (San Francisco State University)
Speaker: C. Robert Mesle (Graceland University)
Respondents: John Roth (Claremont McKenna College)
Stephen Davis (Claremont McKenna College)
D. Z. Phillips (Claremont Graduate University)
Commentators: Marilyn Adams (Yale Divinity School)
Phillip Quinn (University of Notre Dame)
VII-G. Invited Symposium: Philosophical Perspectives on Cultural Property
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Julie Van Camp (California State University-Long Beach)
Speakers: Elizabeth Coleman (Center for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University)
"Ownership, Property and Rights"
Claire Lyons (Getty Research Institute)
"The Universal Museum? Antiquities in the National and International Perspective"
Geoffrey Scarre (University of Durham)
"Human Remains and Cultural Property"
Daniel Shapiro (School of Law, Columbia University; and President, International Cultural Property Society)
"Philosophy and Cultural Property"
James O. Young (University of Victoria)
"Cultures and Cultural Property"
VII-H. Invited Symposium: Temporal Ontology and a Timeless Eternity
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Kadri Vihvelin (University of Southern California)
Speaker: Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University)
Commentators: Thomas M. Crisp (Florida State University)
Peter Ludlow (University of Michigan)
Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)
VII-I. Author Meets Critics: Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Eric Cavallero (University of Arizona)
Critics: Brian Barry (Columbia University)
David Miller (Oxford University)
Author: Allen Buchanan (Duke University)
VII-J. Author Meets Critics: Christine Swanton, Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Maria Merritt (College of William & Mary)
Critics: Julia Driver (Dartmouth University)
Robert Solomon (University of Texas)
Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma)
Author: Christine Swanton (University of Auckland)
VII-K. Colloquium: Moral Realism, Certainty, and Truth
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Niko Kolodny (Harvard University)
Speaker: Charles B. Kurth (Arizona State University)
"Can Minimalism about Truth be Meta-Ethically Neutral?"
Commentator: Anthony Williams (Claremont McKenna College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Fred Schueler (University of New Mexico)
Speaker: Chris D. Meyers (Southern Methodist University)
"Moral Realism and Reasons to Act"
Commentator: Steve Arkonovich (Reed College)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Aimee Koeplin (University of Washington)
Speaker: William A. Rottschaefer (Lewis & Clark College)
"Scientifically Based Moral Realism"
Commentator: Dale Dorsey (University of California-San Diego)
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Chair: James Tuedio (California State University-Stanislaus)
Speaker: Martin Benjamin (Michigan State University)
"On (Ethical) Certainty"
Commentator: Daniel Guevara (University of California-Santa Cruz)
VII-L. Colloquium: Moral Status and the Right to Die
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Mary Ann Warren (San Francisco State University)
Speaker: Robert P. Lovering (American University)
"Another Modern Myth: That Some Entities Possess Full Moral Status"
Commentator: Dan Dombrowski (Seattle University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Ted Preston (University of California-Riverside)
Speaker: Alastair J. Norcross (Rice University)
"Rationality, Moral Status, and Marginal Cases"
Commentator: Lilly-Marlene Russow (Purdue University)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Christopher Meyers (California State University- Bakersfield)
Speaker: Michael B. Gill (University of Arizona)
"A Partial Defense of Physician-Assisted Suicide"
Commentator: Noël Merino (Humboldt State University)
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Chair: Licia Carlson (Seattle University)
Speaker: Frank Chessa (Bates College)
"Endangered Species and the Right to Die"
Commentator: Gary Varner (Texas A&M University)
VII-M. Colloquium: Plato
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: David Yount (Mesa Community College)
Speaker: Ellen Wagner (University of North Florida)
"Compulsion in the Republic Again"
Commentator: Marina McCoy (Boston College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University)
Speaker: Richard F. Foley (Eastern Illinois University)
"Plato's Undividable Line: Contradiction and Method in Republic VI"
Commentator: Henry Mendel (California State University-Los Angeles)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Rega Wood (Stanford University)
Speaker: May Sim (Oklahoma State University)
"The Divided Line and United Psyche in Plato's Republic"
Commentator: Charles Young (Claremont Graduate University)
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Chair: Christine J. Thomas (Dartmouth College)
Speaker: Daniel R. Sanderman (Lewis & Clark College)
"Why Socrates Mocks His Interlocuters"
Commentator: Julie Piering (University of Arkansas-Little Rock)
VII-N. Teaching Philosophy : Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Teaching Peace and Justice at the Graduate Level: the Kroc Institute Experience
Chair: Lawrence M. Hinman (University of San Diego)
Speakers: Virginia Lewis (Political Science, University of San Diego)
"Teaching Gandhi and Peace Studies"
Rodney Peffer (University of San Diego)
"Philosophical Perspectives on Peace and Justice Studies"
Mark Woods (University of San Diego)
"Teaching Environmental Justice"
Lee Ann Otto (Political Science, University of San Diego)
"Coordinating a Masters Program in Peace and Justice"
Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy and the APA Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Topic: Teaching Ethics at the Middle and High School Level
Speakers: Lawrence M. Hinman (University of San Diego)
"Structuring an EAC Program at the Middle and High School Levels"
Sandra Foy (Seattle Preparatory School and Matteo Ricci College)
"The Seattle Prep Experience"
Sara Goering (University of Washington)
"Adolescents, Authority, and Ethics: How Philosophy Can Help our High Schools"
Colloquium
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Chair: Arnold Wilson (University of Cincinnati)
Speaker: Lawrence M. Hinman (University of San Diego)
"I, Immanuel: Building a Robot to Understand Kant's Transcendental Turn"
Commentator: Matt McCormick (California State University- Sacramento)
VII-O. Colloquium: Early Modern Philosophy
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: P. D. Magnus (Bowdoin College)
Speaker: Rebecca E. Copenhaver (Lewis & Clark College)
"Is Reid a Mysterian?"
Commentator: Marion Ledwig (University of California-Santa Cruz)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Tim Crockett (University of California-Berkeley)
Speaker: Giovanni B. Grandi (Talbot College, University of Western Ontario)
"Thomas Reid's Notion of Visible Figure"
Commentator: Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: William Beardsley (University of Puget Sound)
Speakers: Antonia LoLordo (California Institute of Technology) and Jack Davidson (Iowa State University)
"Gassendi on Intellectual Indifference and Human Freedom"
Commentator: Monte Johnson (University of British Columbia)
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Chair: Julie Klein (Villanova University)
Speaker: Martin T. Lin (University of Toronto)
"Spinoza's Proofs of the Existence of God"
Commentator: Charles Huenemann (Utah State University)
VII-P. Responsibility
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Stavroula Glezakos (Claremont McKenna College)
Speaker: Daniel Speak (Azusa Pacific University)
"Responsibility and the Failure of the Counterexample Strategy"
Commentator: Dana Nelkin (University of California-San Diego)
Lunch Meeting for 2004 and 2005 APA Pacific Division Program Committee Members
12:00 p.m., (see APA Registration Desk for location)
Saturday Early Afternoon, March 27
Mini-Conference on Global Justice
2:30-10:00 p.m.
(See Mini-Conference Program for details)
Session VIII
1:00-4:00 p.m. (VIII-A - VIII-H, VIII-K - VIII-M)
1:00-3:00 p.m. (VIII-I, VII-N))
3:00-4:00 p.m. (VIII-J)
VIII-A. Author Meets Critics: Brian Skyrms, The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeffrey Barrett (University of California-Irvine)
Critics: James M. Joyce (University of Michigan)
Joshua Epstein (Brookings Institution and Santa Fe Institute)
J. McKenzie Alexander (London School of Economics)
Author: Brian Skyrms (University of California-Irvine)
VIII-B. Author Meets Critics: Joseph Levine, Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Murat Aydede (University of Florida)
Critics: David Chalmers (University of Arizona)
Georges Rey (University of Maryland-College Park)
William Lycan (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Author: Joseph Levine (Ohio State University)
VIII-C. Author Meets Critics: Hilary Kornblith, Knowledge and its Place in Nature
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Merrill Ring (California State University-Fullerton)
Critics: Laurence BonJour (University of Washington)
Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University)
Jose Bermudez (Washington University)
Author: Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
VIII-D. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Topic: Research Ethics and Human Vulnerability
Chair: Jeff Blustein (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Speakers: Kenneth Kipnis (University of Hawaii-Manoa)
"Seven Vulnerabilities in Human Research Subjects"
Dorle Vawter (Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics)
"Placebo-Controlled Surgical Research: Are Participants Vulnerable?"
Robert Goodin (Australian National University)
VIII-E. Author Meets Critics: Laurie Shrage, Abortion and Social Responsibility: Depolarizing the Debate
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Ann Garry (California State University-Los Angeles)
Critics: Christine Littleton (Law and Women's Studies, University of California-Los Angeles)
Meredith Michaels (Smith College)
Author: Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic University- Pomona)
VIII-F. Invited Symposium: Violence and the Racial State
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Ronald Sundstrom (University of San Francisco)
Speakers: Anne Waters (Independent Scholar)
"American Indian Genocide"
Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York-Stony Brook)
"Biopolitics and the Routinization of Genocide: Genealogy of Racism"
Ronald Sundstrom (University of San Francisco)
"On John Brown"
Commentator: Tommy Lott (San Jose State University)
VIII-G. Invited Symposium: Perspectives on Evil
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Alison Kafer (Claremont Graduate School)
Speakers: Maria Pia Lara (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Hilde Nelson (Michigan State University)
Hanna Schell (Monmouth College)
Robin May Schott (University of Copenhagen)
VIII-H. Invited Symposium: Psychoanalysis and Moral Psychology
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Dominic Murphy (California Institute of Technology)
Speakers: Edward Harcourt (University of Kent)
Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University)
Michael Stocker (Syracuse University)
VIII-I. Invited Symposium: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis & Clark College)
Speaker: Paula Gottlieb (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Aristotle and Moral Dilemmas"
Respondents: Susan Sauvé Meyer (University
of Pennsylvania)
Christopher Rowe (University of Durham)
VIII-J. Colloquium: Augustine
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Marc Baer (University of California-Irvine)
Speaker: Todd C. Calder (University of Western Ontario)
"Evil, Privation, and Value: The Privation of Augustine's Account of Evil"
Commentator: John Cogan (Southern Illinois University)
VIII-K. Colloquium: Well-Being and Pleasure
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: James Doyle (University of Bristol and University of
Virginia)
Speaker: Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota)
“How’s It Going? Judgments of Overall Life-Satisfaction and
Philosophical Theories of Well-Being”
Commentator: Daniel Callcut (University of North Florida)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Martin J. Beck Matuštík (Purdue University)
Speaker: Troy Booher (University of Utah)
“Mill’s Higher Pleasures: Not What They Seem”
Commentator: Cindy Holder (University of Victoria)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Andrews Reath (University of California-Riverside)
Speaker: Eric Moore (Longwood University)
“Motive-Utilitarianism Revisited”
Commentator: James Skidmore (Idaho State University)
VIII-L. Colloquium: Early Modern Philosophy
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: William Stephens (Creighton University)
Speaker: Geoffrey A. Gorham (St. Olaf College)
“Cartesian Time”
Commentor: Jorge Secada (University of Virginia)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeffrey McDonough (University of California-Irvine)
Speakers: Raffaella De Rosa and Otávio Bueno (University of South
Carolina)
“Descartes’s Quasi-Platonism about Mathematical Essences”
Commentator: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Jill Buroker (California State University-San Bernardino)
Speaker: Katherine Dunlop (University of California-Los Angeles)
“Berkeley’s Metaphysical Criticisms of the Calculus”
Commentator: Thomas Holden (Syracuse University)
VIII-M. Colloquium: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Philosophy
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Lydia L. Moland (Babson College)
Speaker: Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida)
“Hegel’s Idea of a Civil Religion for Modern Societies”
Commentator: Jason Wirth (Oglethorpe University)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Malek Khazaee (California State University-Long Beach)
Speaker: Dean F. Moyar (Johns Hopkins University)
“Fichte and the Moral(s) of Moore’s Paradox”
Commentator: Yolanda Estes (Mississippi State University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Jocelyn Hoy (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Speaker: David L. Sherman (University of Montana)
“Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Modern Self-Making”
Commentator: Jessica Berry (College of William & Mary)
VIII-N. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Franklin Bruno (University of California-Los Angeles)
Speaker: Nellie Wieland (University of California-San Diego)
“Error and Linguistic Beliefs”
Commentator: Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of California-Santa Cruz)
2:00 -3:00 p.m.
Chair: Lance P. Hickey (Saint Louis University)
Speaker: Edward C. Feser (Loyola Marymount University)
“Why Searle is a Property Dualist”
Commentator: Jennifer Hudin (University of California-Berkeley)
Group Meeting, 1:00-3:00 P.M.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
California State University Department Chairs
Saturday Late Afternoon, March 27
Session IX – 4:00 - 7:00 P.M.
IX-A. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee for Defense of
the Professional Rights of Philosophers and the American Association
of University Professors
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophers’ Professional Rights
Chair: Debra Nails (Michigan State University)
Speaker: Martha S. West (AAUP Committee A and University of California-Davis)
Panelists: John-Christian Smith (Youngstown State University)
William O. Stephens (Creighton University)
IX-B. Colloquium: Moral Rules
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Peter Tan (Mount Saint Mary's College)
Speaker: Jeffrey C. Brand-Ballard (George Washington University)
"Rules That Bend Without Breaking"
Commentator: Larry Alexander (University of San Diego)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Darryl Wright (Harvey Mudd College)
Speaker: Betsy C. Postow (University of Tennessee)
"Valid Competing Moral Codes"
Commentator: Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Laurence Houlgate (California State Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo)
Speaker: Rebecca Stangl (University of Notre Dame)
"Dancy's Particularism and the Point of Moral Principles"
Commentator: Leonard Kahn (University of California-Irvine and Oxford University)
IX-C. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law and the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Topic: Women and the U.S. Constitution
Chair: Carol Gould (Stevens Institute of Technology and Columbia University)
Panelists: Sibyl Schwarzenbach (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Tracy Higgins (Fordham University)
Judith DeCew (Clark University)
Carol Gould (Stevens Institute of Technology and Columbia University)
IX-D. Invited Symposium: Dynamical Systems and the Mind
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Alva Noë (University of California-Berkeley)
Speakers: Alicia Juarrero (Prince George's Community College)
C. A. Hooker (University of Newcastle-Australia)
Mark H. Bickhard (Lehigh University)
Commentators: William Bechtel (University of California-San Diego)
Galen Strawson (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
IX-E. Author Meets Critics: Carl Elliott, Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Mary Devereaux (University of California-San Diego)
Critics: Eric Juengst (Case Western Reserve University)
Kathryn Morgan (University of Toronto)
Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Author: Carl Elliott (University of Minnesota)
IX-F. Author Meets Critics: Christopher Bobonich, Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: George Rudebusch (Northern Arizona University)
Critics: John Cooper (Princeton University)
Jennifer Whiting (University of Toronto)
Author: Christopher Bobonich (Stanford University)
IX-G. Invited Symposium: Leibniz's New Essays at 300
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: John Carriero (University of California-Los Angeles)
Speakers: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)
"Nouveaux Essais: Conversation or Contest?"
Sean Greenberg (Johns Hopkins University)
"Mind, Will, and Human Freedom in the New Essays"
Nicholas Jolley (University of California-Irvine)
"Leibniz, Locke, and the Epistemology of Tolerance"
IX-H. Colloquium: Moral Emotions
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Kym Maclaren (Northern Arizona University)
Speaker: Amy Coplan (California State University-Fullerton)
"Empathy and Self Other Differentiation"
Commentator: John Draeger (Syracuse University)
5:00-6:00 p.m
Chair: Kenneth Rogerson (Florida International University)
Speaker: Allen Coates (Vanderbilt University)
"Ethical Internalism and Cognitive Theories of Motivation"
Commentator: Arthur Kuflik (University of Vermont)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Kirk Fitzpatrick (Southern Utah University)
Speaker: Michael Schleifer (University du Quebec à Montreal)
"Moods, Emotions, and Morality"
Commentator: Mark Jenkins (University of Puget Sound)
IX-I. Colloquium: Continental Philosophy
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Stephan Käufer (Franklin & Marshall College)
Speaker: Joseph K. Schear (University of Chicago)
"The Integrity of Assertion in Being and Time"
Commentator: David Cerbone (West Virginia University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Kristen A. Irwin (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker: Jen McWeeny (University of Oregon)
"Origins of Otherness: A Juxtaposition of Simone de Beauvoir and Emmanuel Levinas"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Joshua Shaw (Indiana University-Bloomington)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Philip Bartok (St. John's College-New Mexico)
Speaker: Christopher Nagel (California State University-Stanislaus)
"Conceiving Artificial Life: Merleau-Ponty and Computational Models"
Commentator: Stefano Franchi (University of Auckland)
IX-J. Colloquium: Descartes
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Patricia Easton (Claremont Graduate University)
Speaker: David R. Cunning (University of Iowa)
"A Variety of Minds in the Third and Fifth Meditations"
Commentator: Lex Newman (University of Utah)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Kurt Smith (Bloomsberg State University)
Speaker: David L. Clemenson (University of St. Thomas)
"Much Ado about Non-Things: Cartesian Idea Theory and the Doctrine of Material Falsity"
Commentator: Alan Nelson (University of California-Irvine)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Don Merrell (Arkansas State University)
Speaker: Michael LeBuffe (Texas A&M University)
"Four Cartesian Theses About Sensory Ideas"
Commentator: Roger Florka (Ursinus College)
IX-K. Colloquium: Epistemology
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Saul Traiger (Occidental College)
Speaker: Pierre G. Le Morvan (College of New Jersey)
"Goldman on Knowledge as True Belief"
Commentator: Don Fallis (University of Arizona)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Ron Wilburn (University of Nevada-Las Vegas)
Speaker: Leo W. Iacono (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
"Pragmatics and Epistemic Justification"
Commentator: Baron Reed (Northern Illinois University)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Kenneth Lucey (University of Nevada-Reno)
Speaker: Tadeusz W. Zawidzki (Ohio University)
"Why Some Epistemic Intensions are not Narrow Contents"
Commentator: Alex Byrne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
IX-L. Colloquium: Causation
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Kyle Stanford (University of California-Irvine)
Speaker: Michael Tooley (University of Colorado-Boulder)
"Counterfactual Analyses of Causation"
Commentator: Anjan Chakravartty (University of Toronto)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Doug Hill (University of California-Irvine)
Speaker: Ana C. Sartorio (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Disjunctive Causes"
Commentator: Brad Armendt (Arizona State University)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: John Stopple (University of California-Irvine)
Speaker: Jonathan M. Schaffer (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
"Contrastive Causation"
Commentator: Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia)
IX-M. Special Session Arranged By the APA Committee on Blacks in Philosophy
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Topic: Race and Racism in Modern Empiricism
Moderator: J. L. A. Garcia (Boston College)
Speakers: Barbara Hall (Georgia State University)
"Europeans and Non-Europeans in Hobbes's State of Nature"
William Uzgalis (Oregon State University)
"Berkeley and the Westward Course of Empire"
Andrew Valls (Oregon State University)
"`A Lousy Empirical Scientist': Reconsidering Hume's Racism"
Saturday Evening, March 27
Group Meetings, 7:00-11:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Society for the Philosophy of History, Session II
North American Kant Society, Session II
Society for Skeptical Studies
Hume Society
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session II
American Association of Philosophy Teachers
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Society for German Idealism, Session III
Society for Student Philosophers, Session II
American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy, Session II
International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session II
International Institute for Field-Being
9:00-11:00 p.m.
North American Spinoza Society, Session II
Max Scheler Society of North America, Session II
International Hobbes Association
Sunday Morning, March 28
Session X - 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
X-A. Author Meets Critics: Helen Longino, The Fate of Knowledge
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Jordi Cat (Indiana University-Bloomington)
Critics: Miriam Solomon (Temple University)
Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia)
James Robert Brown (University of Toronto)
Author: Helen Longino (University of Minnesota)
X-B. Author Meets Critics: Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Jim Woodward (California Institute of Technology)
Critics: Alfred Mele (Florida State University)
John Fischer (University of California-Riverside)
Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University)
Author: Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University)
X-C. Invited Paper: The Problem of the Criterion
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Stewart Cohen (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Earl Conee (University of Rochester)
"Foundational Epistemology"
Commentators: Ernest Sosa (Brown University)
Michael Huemer (University of Colorado-Boulder)
X-D. Author Meets Critics: Steven Nadler, Spinoza's Heresy
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Steve Barbone (San Diego State University)
Critics: Edwin Curley (University of Michigan)
Tad Schmaltz (Duke University)
Author: Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
X-E. Invited Symposium: Plato's Timaeus
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Michael Pakaluk (Clark University)
Speakers: Sarah Broadie (University of St. Andrews)
"Plato's Intelligible World?"
Andrew Mason (University of Edinburgh)
"Plato on Necessity and Chaos"
Respondent: Steven K. Strange (Emory University)
X-F. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Topic: Is High School a Better Place to Teach Introduction to Philosophy than College?
Chair: Ken Knisely (Milk Bottle Productions, Inc.)
Speakers: Thomas Doyle II (University of California-Irvine)
Jennifer Faust (California State University-Los Angeles)
Jim Maechling (Palos Verdes Peninsula High School)
Katherine Katsenis (Claremont Graduate University)
(Please see the Pre-College Instruction Committee's webpage for a list of questions to be discussed. The questions are posted at http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/governance/committees/pre-college/addlquestions.html)
X-G. Colloquium: Moral Realism
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Johnny Washington (Southwest Missouri State University)
Speaker: Noell Birondo (University of Arizona)
"Moral Realism without Values?"
Commentator: Robert Mabrito (Arizona State University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Candace Upton (University of Wyoming)
Speaker: Andrew M. Cullison (University of Rochester)
"Anti-Realism Meets Amoral Twin Earth"
Commentator: William Tolhurst (Northern Illinois University)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Julie Tannenbaum (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Speaker: William J. FitzPatrick (Virginia Tech University)
"Normative Realism, Constructivism, and the Instrumental Principle"
Commentator: Tamar Schapiro (Stanford University)
X-H. Colloquium: Philosophy of Religion
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Mark Pursley (Los Angeles Mission College)
Speaker: Daniel F. Zelinski (Richard Bland College)
"Mystical Prudence: Considering the Morality of Nondualistic Mysticism"
Commentator: Jerome Gellman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: John Birmingham (Moorpark College and California Lutheran University)
Speaker: Andrew Eshleman (University of Arkansas-Little Rock)
"Can an Atheist Believe in God?"
Commentator: Rico Vitz (University of California-Riverside)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: David Corner (California State University-Sacramento)
Speaker: Saam Trivedi (Simmons College)
"Idealism and Yogacara Buddhism"
Commentator: T. R. Raghunath (California State University- Fresno)
X-I. Colloquium: Aesthetics
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Kayley Vernallis (California State University-Los Angeles)
Speaker: Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati)
"Expression in Music: Genuine Expression or Doggy Appearance?"
Commentator: Andrew Kania (University of Maryland)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: John Carvalho (Villanova University)
Speaker: Robert A. Stecker (Central Michigan University)
"Two Kantian Conceptions of Aesthetic Experience"
Commentator: Rachel Zuckert (Rice University)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Carol Skrenes (University of California-Irvine)
Speaker: Catherine J. Wearing (University of Western Ontario)
"Context-Dependence in Semantic Accounts of Metaphor"
Commentator: Barbara Scholz (San Jose State University)
X-J. Colloquium: Epistemology
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Mateusz Oleksy (University of California-Berkeley)
Speaker: Cheryl K. Chen (Bryn Mawr College)
"Massive Reduplication and the Relation between Thought and Experience"
Commentator: Michelle Montague (University of California-Irvine)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Heather Battaly (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Jennifer Lackey (Northern Illinois University)
"It Takes Two to Tango: Reductionism and Non-reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony"
Commentator: Joseph Shieber (Lafayette College)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Peter Kung (New York University)
Speaker: Sarah Sawyer (University of Kansas)
"Knowing Which Questions to Beg"
Commentator: William Taschek (Ohio State University)
X-K. Colloquium: Issues in the Development of Theories
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Matt Haber (University of California-Davis)
Speaker: Allen J. Hazlett (Brown University)
"Against Fictionalism"
Commentator: Daniel Nolan (Syracuse University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Zlatan Damnjanovic (University of Southern California)
Speakers: Gabriel Uzquiano and Agustin Rayo (University of Rochester)
"A Puzzle for Structuralism"
Commentator: Aldo Antonelli (University of California-Irvine)
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chair: Steven Reynolds (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Bryan R. S. Frances (University of Leeds)
"Universal Skepticism"
Commentator: Sarah McGrath (College of the Holy Cross)