Proceedings And Addresses
January, 2005 (Volume 78, Issue 3)
Group Program
Group Session GI - 6:00-8:00 p.m.
GI-1. Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism, Session 1
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Allen Wood, Karl Marx
Chair: Nancy Zeigler (University of San Francisco)
Critics: Phil Gasper (Notre Dame de Namur University)
"Philosophy and Revolution: Reading Marx to Change the World"
Debra Satz (Stanford University)
"The Marxist Critique of Rights: Themes from Allen Wood's Karl Marx"
Author: Allen Wood (Stanford University)
GI-2. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Deliberative Democracy
Chair: Kaarina Beam (Linfield College)
Speakers: Gregory Fernando Pappas (Texas A & M University)
"Dewey and Deliberative Democracy"
Judith Green (Fordham University)
"Democratic Epistemology and Social Hope"
GI-3. International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 1
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Confucians after Confucius
Chair: Wei-min Sun (California State University-Northridge)
Speakers: Alexus McLeod (University of Oklahoma)
"Beyond Qingtan: Reappraising the Philosophical Method of Wang Chong"
Xudong Fang (Shanghai University)
"Other's Pain: A Mediation on Ch'eng Hao's Doctrine `By Jen the Innumerable Things Are Regarded as One Substance'"
Commentator: Wei-min Sun
Group Session GII - 6:00-9:00 p.m.
GII-1. North American Spinoza Society
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Chair: Steve Barbone (San Diego State University)
Speakers: Eman Fallah (California Institute of Integral Studies)
"Emotional Regulation and the Role of Metacognition is Spinozistic Psychology"
Paul Hoskins (Olympic College)
"Winged Horses and Trees of Life"
Nicola Marcucci (Independent Scholar)
"Movement and Incompleteness in Spinoza's Conception of Citizenship"
GII-2. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 1
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Andrew Fiala, Practical Pacifism
Critics: Trudy Conway (Mount Saint Mary's University)
Lani Roberts (Oregon State University)
Author: Andrew Fiala (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)
GII-3. The Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 1
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: History, Postcolonialism, and India
Chair: Mark Bevir (University of California-Berkeley)
Speakers: Lori Witthaus (Grand Valley State University)
"Doing Philosophy Outside of History: Indian Philosophy and the Denial of Supersession"
Matt Baxter (University of California-Berkeley)
"Subaltern Studies as Philosophy and History"
Hira Singh (York University)
"Popular Protests and Populist Historiography in Postcolonial India"
Commentator: Mark Bevir
GII-4. Sartre Group
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Sartre and Violence: Philosophical and Psychiatric Perspectives
Speakers: Ron Santoni (Denison University)
"Sartre on Violence: Curiously Ambivalent: A Discussion"
Adrian Mirvish (California State University-Chico) and Lissa Rechtin (Kaiser Permanente Medical Group)
"An Anatomy of Terrorism: The Application of Sartrean Principles"
Commentator: Gregory Tropea (California State University-Chico)
GII-5. Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session 1
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Heidegger and Foucault
Chair: John M. Rose (Goucher College)
Speakers: Dana Belu (City University of New York)
"Between Realism and Idealism: Heidegger and Wittgenstein on Technology"
J. Jeremy Wisnewski (East Carolina University)
"Heidegger and the Natural Attitude"
Lee Braver (Hiram College)
"Foucault on Putnam: Why Anti-Realism Should be Historical and Ethical"
GII-6. Society for German Idealism, Session 1
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Kimberly Hutchings, Hegel and Feminist Philosophy
Chair: J. M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College)
Critics: Alison Brown (Northern Arizona University)
Jeffrey A. Gauthier (University of Portland)
Author: Kimberly Hutchings (London School of Economics and Political Science)
GII-7. Gandhi/King Society
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: "Taking Up `The Hispanic Challenge': Latinos
Unmasking Huntington's Who Are We?"
Chair: Steve Martinot (San Francisco State University)
Speakers: José-Antonio Orosco (Oregon State University)
"Huntington del otro Lado/From the Other Side"
Andrew Valls (Oregon State University)
"What It Means to be Hispanic"
Eduardo Mendieta (University at Stony Brook, State University of New York)
"Critique of Pure Arrogance"
GII-8. Philosophy of Religion Group
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: J. Howard Sobel, Logic and Theism
Chair: R. Douglas Geivett (Biola University)
Critics: Robert Koons (University of Texas-Austin)
Thomas Sullivan (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota)
Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College)
Author: J. Howard Sobel (University of Toronto)
GII-9. Concerned Philosophers for Peace
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: The Next Four Years
Moderator: Cathy Growdon (California State University-Chico)
Speakers: Kelly Candaele (Journalist/Screenwriter)
"Spiritual Politics"
Ron Hirschbein (California State University-Chico)
"Cognitive Insolence"
Judith Presler (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
"Habeas Corpus and the Open Society"
Group Session GIII - 8:00-10:00 p.m.
GIII-1. American Society for Aesthetics
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: The Epistemology of Pictures
Chair: Amie Thomasson (University of Miami)
Speakers: Robert Hopkins (University of Sheffield)
"Learning from Pictures"
Aaron Meskin (Texas Tech University)
"Beauty through Photography"
Commentator: Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana University)
GIII-2. North American Society for Social Philosophy
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Terrorism, Just War Theory, and Human Rights
Chair: Glen Pettigrove (Santa Clara University)
Speakers: Richard Buck (Mount Saint Mary's College)
Jordy Rocheleau (Austin Peay State University)
GIII-3. International Institute for Field Being, Session I
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Kwang-Sae Lee (Kent State University)
Speakers: John Quinn (University of Dayton)
"An Islamic Environmental Ethic: The 99 Beautiful Names"
Marc Applebaum (Saybrook Graduate School)
"Presence and Absence in Merleau-Ponty and Hairi-Yazdi"
Group Session GIV - 9:00 a.m.-noon
GIV-1. North American Nietzsche Society
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity
Chair: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)
Speakers: Bernard Reginster (Brown University)
Tamsin Shaw (Princeton University)
Commentator: Van Harvey (Stanford University)
Group Session GV - 7:00-9:00 p.m.
GV-1. Society of Christian Philosophers
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Chair: Richard Otte (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Speaker: Bruce Gordon (Baylor University)
"Quantum Field Theory and Process Thought: An Unnecessary and Problematic Union"
Commentator: Brad Stone (Loyola Marymount University)
Group Session GVI - 7:00-10:00 p.m.
GVI-1. International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 2
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Emotion, Harmony and Human Reality in Chinese Philosophy
Chair: Robin R. Wang (Loyola Marymount University)
Speakers: Robert Allinson (University of Hong Kong)
"The General and the Patriarch', Hui-Neng and the Philosophy of the Emotions"
Stephen C. Angle (Wesleyan University)
"Challenging Harmony"
Thomas Sherman (Loyola Marymount University)
"The Religious Character of Zhuangzi's Dao and the Sage's Relationship to the Dao"
Commentator: Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee (University of Mary Washington)
GVI-2. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 1
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Issues in Comparative Philosophy
Chair: Peter Groff (Bucknell University)
Speakers: Peter Groff
"Leaving the Garden: al-Razi and Nietzsche as Wayward Epicureans"
Walter Benesch (University of Alaska-Fairbanks)
"The Accommodation of Change in Process Logics: East/West"
Nicholas F. Gier (University of Idaho)
"Hindu Virtue Ethics"
Commentators: Marc Applebaum (Saybrook Graduate School)
Wei-min Sun (California State University-Northridge)
GVI-3. Society for Business Ethics
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Political Theory and Organizations — A Retrospective Examination of Christopher McMahon's Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management
Chair: Jeffery Smith (University of Redlands)
Speakers: Nien-hê Hsieh (University of Pennsylvania)
Jeff Moriarty (California State University-Long Beach)
Hans van Oosterhout (Erasmus University)
Author: Christopher McMahon (University of California-Santa Barbara)
GVI-4. Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 2
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Understanding Individuals and Collectivities
Chair: Colin Bird (University of Virginia)
Speakers: Stephen D. Ross (Binghamton University)
"Memories, Images, Borders: Forgotten Histories"
Naomi Choi (University of California-Berkeley)
"Crafting Aggregate Historical Concepts"
Ron Mallon (University of Utah)
"Anti-Essentialism, Culture, and Individual Difference"
Commentator: Mark Bevir (University of California-Berkeley)
GVI-5. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session 1
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Valentine Moulard-Leonard (University of Memphis)
Speakers: Amy Coplan (California State University-Fullerton)
"Caring about Characters: Three Determinants of Emotional Engagement"
Christopher M. Grau (Florida International University)
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Morality of Memory"
Sander Lee (Keene State College)
"Hitchcock's Heideggerian Breakdown"
Commentator: Valentine Moulard-Leonard
GVI-6. Kierkegaard Society
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Topic: Kierkegaard and 20th-Century Continental Thought
Chair: Anthony Rudd (St. Olaf College)
Speakers: Jeffrey Hanson (Fordham University)
"Returning the Gift of Death: Derrida and Kierkegaard"
Matthew J. Frawley (Princeton University)
"Kierkegaard's Mystical Absolutist Understanding of Neighbor-Love"
Iben Damgaard (University of Copenhagen)
"Temporality, Narrative and Otherness: Kierkegaard and Ricoeur"
Raj Sampath (Independent Scholar)
"The Problem of Parousia in the Philosophies of Kierkegaard and Heidegger"
Commentator: Anthony Rudd
GVI-7. Philosophy of Time Society
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Chair: Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Craig Callender (University of California-San Diego)
"Time's Ontic Voltage"
Commentator: Michael Nelson (Yale University)
Speaker: Michael Tooley (University of Colorado-Boulder)
"Presentism"
Commentator: Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)
GVI-8. North American Kant Society, Session I
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Topic: Kant's Theoretical Philosophy
Chair: Peter Thielke (Pomona College)
Speaker: Joongol Kim (University of Notre Dame)
"Euclidean Geometry as the Science of Pure Space"
Commentator: Daniel Sutherland (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Speaker: Melissa Merritt (Georgia State University)
"Science and the Synthetic Method of the Critique of Pure Reason"
Commentator: William Bristow (University of California-Irvine)
GVI-9. Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session I
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Topic: Speech and Desire, Public and Private
Chair: John M. Rose (Goucher College)
Speakers: Marina Berzins McCoy (Boston College)
"Rhetoric and Audience in Plato's Protagoras and Gorgias"
Michael M. Shaw (Utah Valley State College)
"Leo Strauss and the Ignoble Lie"
John Mouracade (Oklahoma Baptist University)
"Realism, Hedonism, and Desire in Plato
GVI-10. Western Phenomenology Conference
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Topic: A Session on the Work of Jacques Derrida
Chair: Daniela Vallega-Neu (California State University-Stanislaus)
Speakers: Benjamin Prior (University of Toledo)
"Derrida and Justice"
David Wood (Vanderbilt University)
"The Eleventh Plague"
Alejandro A. Vallega (California State University-Stanislaus)
"The Painting of Différance (The Sensibility of Thought)
GVI-11. Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Topic: Symposium: Mind, Brain, and Values
Chair: David Woodruff Smith (University of California-Irvine)
Speakers: Terence Horgan (University of Arizona)
Mark Timmons (University of Arizona)
Jeffrey Yoshimi (University of California-Merced)
GVI-12. Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy (co-sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the Profession)
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Honoring Mark Chekola
Chair: Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (Washington State University)
Speaker: Mark Chekola (Minnesota State University-Moorhead)
"Lives and Loves That Dared Not Speak Their Names: Well-Being and LGBT Persons"
Discussants: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin)
Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Carol Quinn (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University)
GVI-13. North American Wittgenstein Society
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Fred Mosedale (Millikin University/Founding Editor, Philosophical Investigations)
"Wittgenstein and Ebersole"
Commentator: Merrill Ring (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Jeffrey T. Johnson (University of Minnesota)
"When We Understand"
Commentator: Andrew Hsu (University of California-Los Angeles)
Speaker: Charles (Rich) Booher (University of Chicago)
"Conceptualizing in Recognition: Travis vs. McDowell"
Commentator: John W. Powell (Humboldt State University)
GVI-14. History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Peter Stone (Stanford University)
Speaker: Jane Duran (University of California-Santa Barbara)
"Russell on History and Intrinsic Value"
Commentator: Rosalind Carey (Lehman College, City University of New York)
Speaker: Bruce Fraser (Indian River College)
"From Necessity to Nativism: How Analytic Philosophy Inspired the Chomskian Revolution"
Commentator: Peter Stone (Stanford University)
Speaker: Sandra Lapointe (Concordia University)
"Bolzano On Axioms, `Grounding', and Synthetic
a
priori Knowledge"
Group Session GVII - 9:00-11:00 p.m.
GVII-1. Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism, Session 2
9:00-11:00 p.m.
Topic: Marxism, Socialism, and Social Justice
Chair: Rita Manning (San Jose State University)
Speakers: Rodney G. Peffer (University of San Diego)
"The New G. A. Cohen, Social Justice, and Marxism"
Olufemi Taiwo (University of Seattle)
"Premature Autopsies: Or Why Marxism May Have a Bright Future"
Commentator: Jeff Paris (University of San Francisco)
Group Session GVIII - 8:15 -11:15 p.m.
GVIII-1. Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Kuang-ming Wu, Cultural Hermeneutics: Daoism and Phenomenology
Chair: Jay Goulding (York University)
Critics: Maja Milcinski (Ljubljana University)
"The Problem of Daoist Hermeneutics"
Hwa Yol Jung (Moravian College)
"Transversality, Sinism, and Kuang-Ming Wu's Cultural Hermeneutics"
Jay Goulding (York University)
"Kuang-ming Wu and Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Daoism and Phenomenology"
Masami Tateno (Nihon University)
"Time and Dao in Zhuangzi: Dao from a Viewpoint of Time"
Ruth Chao (University of Missouri-Columbia)
"Kuang-ming Wu's Inter-Subjective Reflections on Psychology"
Author: Kuang-ming Wu (Michigan State University)
GVIII-2. Society for Empirical Ethics
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Topic: Empirical Approaches to Moral Responsibility
Chair: William Rottschaefer (Lewis & Clark College)
Speakers: William Casebeer (Naval Postgraduate School)
"The Neuroscience of Moral Agency: Toward a Compatibilist Detente"
John Doris (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Contextualism about Moral Responsibility"
Shaun Nichols (University of Utah)
"Natural Incompatibilism: A Partial Defense"
William Rottschaefer (Lewis & Clark College)
"Doing the Wrong Thing: Cognitive Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement"
GVIII-3. Society for Skeptical Studies, Session 1
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Duncan Pritchard,
Epistemic Luck
Chair: Richard Greene (Weber State University)
Critics: Ram Neta (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
John Greco (Fordham University)
Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky)
Guy Axtel (University of Nevada-Reno)
Author: Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling)
GVIII-4. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Chair: Julius Moravscik (Stanford University)
Speakers: Denis Vlahovic (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota)
"Plato on episteme and knowing logoi"
Scott Rubarth (Rollins College)
"Aristotle, Epistemic Exemplars, and Virtue Epistemology"
Gale Justin (California State University-Sacramento)
"Problems in the Phaedo Cyclical Argument"
GVIII-5. International Institute for Field-Being, Session 2
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Chair: Miran Bozovic (University of Ljubljana)
Speakers: Martin Schonfeld (University of South Florida)
"Philosophical Dynamics in Leibniz, Euler, and Kant: The History of Energy"
Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University)
"Power Concrescence: The Field-Being Concept of Living Force—with Specific Reference to the Concept of Qi in Chinese Cosmology"
GVIII-6. Radical Philosophy Association
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Topic: Can Dialectical Thought Still Speak in a Postmodern World?
Chair: Urszula Wislanka (Independent Scholar)
Speakers: Tom Jennot (Gonzaga University)
"Dialectics and Postmodernism: Hegel at the End of the Road"
Ron Kelch (Independent Scholar)
"Hegel's Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization for Today's World"
Eugene Gogol (Independent Scholar)
"The Hegelian-Marxism of Raya Dunayevskaya in the Present Moment"
GVIII-7. Society for Student Philosophers, Session 1
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Chair: Jennifer Wright (University of Wyoming)
Speakers: Colin Koopman (McMaster University)
"William James's Politics of Personal Freedom"
Fritz J. McDonald (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
"Kant on Possession, Property, and Distributive Justice"
Garret Merriam (Rice University)
"Locke and Intellectual Property Rights"
Eric Hall (Loyola Marymount University)
"The Role of Doubt and Skepticism in Hegel's System"
GVIII-8. Association of Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Chair: Jan Sobocan (Althouse College, University of Western Ontario)
Topic: Theoretical Issues
Speaker: Lilian Bermejo-Luque (University of Murcia)
"The Relationship between Reasoning and Arguing"
Commentator: Jerry Cederblom (University of Nebraska-Omaha)
Topic: Forum on Standardized Critical Thinking Tests
Speakers: Kevin Possin (Winona State University)
"Assessing Critical Thinking Assessment Tests"
Leo Groarke (Wilfrid Laurier University)
"What is Wrong with the CCTST? Critical Thinking Testing and Educational Accountability"
Donald Hatcher (Baker University)
"Using the Ennis-Weir and the CCTST for Outcomes Assessment: Which Test Should You Choose?"
Commentator: Jan Sobocan (Althouse College, University of Western Ontario)
GVIII-9. North American Kant Society, Session 2
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Topic: Kant's Practical Philosophy
Chair: Anne Margaret Baxley (Virginia Tech University)
Speakers: Melissa Zinkin (Binghamton University, State University of New York)
"Respect for the Law and the Use of Dynamical Terms in Kant's Theory of Moral Motivation"
Patrick Frierson (Whitman College)
"Kant's Empirical Account of Human Action"
Commentator: Jeanine Grenberg (St. Olaf College)
GVIII-10. Society for Women In Philosophy, Session 1
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Topic: Public Health Ethics
Chair: Michael Boylan, (Marymount University)
Speakers: Rosemarie Tong (University of North Caroline-Charlotte)
"Taking on `Big Fat': The Relative Risks and Benefits of the War against Obesity"
Jacquelyn Kegley (California State University-Bakersfield)
"A New Framework for Facilitating Decision-Making about Genetic Information"
Wanda Teays (Mount St. Mary's College)
"From Fear to Eternity: Riding the Waves of Violence"
GVIII-11. Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Chair: Mylan Engel, Jr. (Northern Illinois University)
Speaker: Robert P. Lovering (American University)
"Why Environmental Virtue Ethics Fails to Justify Hunting"
Commentator: Ralph Acampora (Hofstra University)
Speaker: Monica L. Gerrek (Bowling Green State University)
"Another Look into `The Moral Status of Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy"
Commentator: Dale E. Miller (Old Dominion University)
Speaker: Gary Steiner (Bucknell University)
"Do Animals Employ Concepts? A Reflection on the Controversy"
Commentator: Mylan Engel, Jr.
GVIII-12. Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Topic: Knowledge, Belief, and Justification
Speakers: Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University)
"Pyrrho and the `Naked Wise Men': What Did the Greek Skeptics Learn from Indian Philosophy"
Kisor K. Chakrabarti (Ferris State University)
"The Problem of Induction: Gangesa versus Russell, Strawson, and Popper"
Victoria Harrison-Carter (University of Glasgow)
"The Early Nyaya and Recent Direct Realism: On Repeating Old Mistakes"
Chandana Chakrabarti (Elon University)
"Indeterminate Perception, Knowledge by Acquaintance, and Pure Experience: Nyaya, Russell, and James"
Stephen Kaplan (Manhattan College)
"Advaita, Contradiction, and the Turn to Analogy"
Shyam Ranganathan (York University)
"Patanjali on Moral Knowledge and Moral Justification"
GVIII-13. International Hobbes Association, Session 1
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Moderator: Kristana Arp (Long Island University)
Speaker: Steve Viner (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Hobbes on the Inseparability of Natural and Civil Law"
Commentator: Eleanor Curran (Keele University)
Speaker: Jeremy Anderson (University of Redlands)
"Transcendent Interests in Behemoth"
Commentator: Juhana Lemetti (University of Helsinki)
Speaker: Erin Kealey (Boston College)
"The Need for the Leviathan: The Hobbesian Analysis of Human Behavior"
Commentator: Martin Harvey (Cleveland State University)
GVIII-14. Karl Jaspers Society of North America and Hannah Arendt Circle (co-sponsored by the APA Committee on International Cooperation)
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics
Chair: Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University)
Speakers: Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University)
"Jaspers, Heidegger, and Hannah Arendt"
Glen Pettigrove (Santa Clara University)
"Arendt on Forgiveness"
Malek Khazaee (California State University-Long Beach)
"The Looming Clouds of a Stateless Totalitarianism of the Spirit"
Commentator: Joseph Prabhu (California State University-Los Angeles)
GVIII-15. Society for German Idealism, Session 2
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Chair: Aaron Bunch (Loyola University Chicago)
Speakers: Michael Allen (Saint Louis University)
"Structural Domination and Intersubjective Recognition in the Modern State: Hegel and the Distinctive Value of Freedom"
Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida)
"Hegel and Eurocentrism"
Ernesto V. Garcia (Columbia University)
"Hegel's Critique of Kant's Transcendental Idealism in the 1807 Phenomenology: The Untold Story"
GVIII-16. International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 1
8:15 -11:15 p.m.
Topic: Gongsun Long's "White-Horse-Not-Horse" Argument and Contemporary Philosophy
Facilitator: Stephen C. Angle (Wesleyan University)
Roundtable Panelists: Chung-ying Ching (University of Hawaii-Manoa)
Yiu-ming Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Chad Hansen (University of Hong Kong)
Bo Mou (San Jose State University)
Group Session GIX - 7:00 -9:00 p.m.
GIX-1. Society for Skeptical Studies, Session 2
7:00 -9:00 p.m.
Chair: Tim Black (California State University-Northridge)
Speakers: Richard Greene (Weber State University)
"Epistemic Standards"
Sven Bernecker (University of Manchester)
"The KK Thesis, Zombies, and Skepticism"
Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina)
"Skepticism about Modal Knowledge"
(Session Length: 2 hours)
GIX-2. International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 2
7:00 -9:00 p.m.
Topic: Language, Mathematics, and Comparative Philosophy
Chair: Ginny Lin (California Institute of Integral Studies)
Speakers: Ma Lin (University of Leuven)
"How Can There be a Dialogue from House to House?"
Masato Mitsuda (University of San Francisco)
"A Mathematical Approach to Emptiness"
Discussant: Fern Alberts (San Jose State University)
GIX-3. International Hobbes Association, Session 2
7:00 -9:00 p.m.
Speaker: Iskra Fileva (Boston University)
"Foolish Games: Hobbes and the Safer Strategy of Trustworthiness"
Commentator: Susanne Sreedhar (University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill)
Speaker: Nicole Hassoun (University of Arizona)
"Hobbes's Rationality Account of Conflict"
Commentator: Bernard Gert (Dartmouth College)
Moderator: Timo Airaksinen (University of Helsinki)
GIX-4. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session 2
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Speakers: Sherri Irvin (Carleton University)
"Apprehension and Interpretation of Artworks"
Bassam Romaya (Temple University)
"Drag Ontology as Visual Art"
Commentator: Sally Markowitz (Willamette University)
Group Session GX - 7:00 -10:00 p.m.
GX-1. International Institute for Field Being, Session 3
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Chair: John Quinn (University of Dayton)
Speakers: Kwang-Sae Lee (Kent State University)
"Rorty and Social Practice"
Maja Milcinski (University of Ljubljana)
"Field-Being and the Chances of Multiculturalism"
Miran Bozovic (University of Ljubljana)
"Zhuang Zi through Early Modern Philosophy"
GX-2. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 2
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Topic: Rethinking Moral Approaches
Chair: Robert Allinson (University of Hong Kong)
Speaker: James Behuniak, Jr. (Sonoma State University)
"Recovering the Confucian Measure"
Commentator: Robert Allinson (University of Hong Kong)
Speaker: Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee (University of Mary Washington)
"Toward a Hybrid Feminist Theory: Confucian Feminism"
Commentator: Nona Bolin (Memphis College)
Speaker: Kim Skoog (University of Guam)
"Discussing Differences in Practices of Self-Death (Suicide): A New Typology of Moral Gradations of Suicide"
Commentator: Gene James (University of Memphis)
GX-3. Society for the Study of Process Philosophies
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Chair: John Quiring (Center for Process Studies)
Speaker: John Lango (Hunter College, City University of New York)
"Some Questions about the Role of Time in Whitehead's Metaphysics"
Commentator: Leemon McHenry (California State University-Northridge)
(Business Meeting will follow Philosophical Program)
GX-4. The Averroës and Enlightenment International Association (co-sponsored by the APA Committee for International Cooperation)
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics — The Problematics of Change in the Middle East (continued from the Main Program)
Chair: Alan Olson (Boston University)
Panelists: Mona Abousenna (Ain Shams University)
David George (University of Newcastle)
Judith Kipper (Director, Middle East Forum, Council on Foreign Relations)
Paul Kurtz (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
Krzysztof Michalski (Boston University and University of Warsaw)
David Rasmussen (Boston College)
John Silber (Boston University)
Mourad Wahba (Ain Shams University)
(The APA Committee on International Cooperation wishes to thank the Averroës and Enlightenment International Association for its support of this session.)
GX-5. International Society for Environmental Ethics
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Chair: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)
Speaker: Patrick Frierson (Whitman College)
"Natural Sentiments: From Adam Smith to Environmental Virtue Ethics"
Commentator: Clare Palmer (Washington University)
Speakers: Derek Turner (Connecticut College) and Kate Kovenock
(Connecticut College)
"Reformulating the Precautionary Principle"
Commentator: Gary Varner (Texas A & M University)
Speaker: Ernest Partridge (Independent Scholar)
"Disequilibrium Ecology: Much Ado about Nothing"
Commentary: Clare Palmer (Washington University)
GX-6. Society for Student Philosophers, Session II
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Chair: Lori Witthaus (Grand Valley State University)
Speakers: Nadia Zabtcheva Kennedy (Montclair State University)
"Toward Integrated Reasoning in a Community of Inquiry"
Jennifer Wright (University of Wyoming)
"The Problem with Principles"
John Stephen Brunero (Columbia University)
"Wallace and Broome on Instrumental Rationality and Belief Consistency"
Patrick Steven Ishizuka (Santa Clara University)
"Monetized Destiny: On the Discursive, Linguistic, and Ideological Expansion of Capital: A Study in Discipline, Analogy, and Commodity Production"
GX-7. Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session 2
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Topic: Plato's Cosmology
Chair: Adriel Trott (Villanova University)
Speakers: Mark Faller (Alaska Pacific University)
"Plato's Reversed Cosmos and the Conversation of Information"
Tim Menta (St. Francis College)
"The Roots of a Theocentric Environmental Ethic: Hartshorne's Appropriation and Extension of Plato's Cosmology"
Asher Seidel (Miami University of Ohio)
"Mindful Seeing"
GX-8. Society for Women in Philosophy, Session 2
7:00 -10:00 p.m. (mezzanine)
Author Meets Critics: Naomi Zack, Inclusive Feminism
Chair: Alison M. Jagger (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Critics: Ann Garry (California State University-Los Angeles)
Namita Goswami (DePaul University)
Ranjoo Seodu Herr (Bentley College)
Author: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)
(Business Meeting will follow Philosophical Program)
GX-9. Association for Philosophy of Education
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Topic: Alienation and Self-Knowledge
Chair: Angela Smith (University of Washington)
Speakers: Pamela Hieronymi (University of California-Los Angeles)
Victoria McGeer (Princeton University)
Commentator: Julie Tannenbaum (University of California-Santa Cruz)
GX-10. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Topic: Counseling the Self-Philosophy in Practice
Chair: James A. Tuedio (California State University-Stanislaus)
Speakers: J. Michael Russell (California State University-Fullerton)
"Kierkegaard in Philosophical Practice"
Diane Kern (Insight Center)
"Intra-Psychic Engineering: Ethical Considerations"
Paolo Teresa Grassi (Independent Practitioner)
"Philosophical Practice as a Biographical Aptitude"
Terry R. Mathis (University of California-Riverside)
"Comparing Aristotle and Thomas Ogden on Affect and Feeling: A Philosophical Approach to Counseling"
Commentator: James A. Tuedio
GX-11. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 2
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Topic: The Newest Approaches to Personal Identity
Chair: Barbara LaBossiere (California State University-Fresno)
Speakers: Chris Tennberg (University of California-Santa Barbara)
"Personal Identity and DNA"
Don Berkich (Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi)
"The Sense of Personal Identity"
Michael Wolf (California State University-Fresno)
"Persons, Norms and Practices"
Commentators: Christopher Pynes (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Matt Burstein (Southern Methodist University)
GX-12. Society for Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts
7:00 -10:00 p.m.
Speakers: Judy Salzman (California Polytechnic
State University-
San Luis Obispo)
"Peace through Power: Himsa and Ahimsa
in the
Martial Arts
Richard Schubert (Consumnes River College)
"Filial Piety in the Martial Arts"
Alan Bäck (Kutztown State University)
"Behaving Nonviolently"
Joseph Lynch (California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo)
"Self and Non-self in the Martial Arts"