Proceedings And Addresses
January, 2005 (Volume 78, Issue 3)
Main Program
Executive Committee Meeting
4:00-10:00 p.m.
Registration
Noon-8:00 p.m., Mezzanine
Placement Information
Noon-8:00 p.m., Mezzanine
Reception
5:00 p.m., Tower Salon (Lobby Level)
Wednesday Early Afternoon, March 23
Session I — 1:00-4:00 p.m.
I-A. Invited Symposium: Philosophy and Popular Culture
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Eric Bronson (Berkeley College)
Speakers: Craig Delancey (State University of New York-Oswego)
"Passion, Reason, and Rock"
William Irwin (Kings College)
"What Is Popular Culture?"
Ted Schick (Muhlenberg College)
"Popular Culture and the Philosophy of `What If?'"
I-B. Invited Symposium: Hegel's Logic and Analytic Philosophy: The Topic of Language
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Aaron Bunch (Loyola University-Chicago)
Speakers: David Kolb (Bates College)
"The Necessities of the Logic?"
John McCumber (University of California-Los Angeles)
"Hegel and `Natural Language'"
Angelica Nuzzo (Brooklyn College, City University
of
New York)
"Metaphor, Vagueness, and Meaning Variance
in Hegel"
Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University)
"Some Recent Analytic `Realist' Readings of Hegel"
I-C. Author Meets Critics: Joseph Rouse, How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark Lance (Georgetown University)
Critics: Karen Barad (Mount Holyoke College)
Brian Cantwell Smith (University of Toronto)
Rebecca Kukla (Carleton University)
Author: Joseph Rouse (Wesleyan University)
I-D. Author Meets Critics: Michael P. Lynch, True to Life
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Merrill Ring (California State University)
Critics: Gila Sher (University of California-San Diego)
Marian David (University of Notre Dame)
Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Author: Michael P. Lynch (University of Connecticut)
I-E. Colloquium: Consequentialism
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)
Speaker: Eric Moore (Longwood University)
"Objective Consequentialism, Right Actions,
and
Good People"
Commentator: Don Habibi (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Elizabeth Forrester (Sacramento City College)
Speaker: Jean-Paul Vessel (New Mexico State University)
"What Objective Consequentialism Must Be Like"
Commentator: Mary Coleman (Bard College)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto)
Speaker: Paul Weirich (University of Missouri)
"Utility Maximization Generalized"
Commentator: Henry R. West (Macalester College)
I-F. Symposium/Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Gary Varner (Texas A&M University)
Speakers: Philip A. Robbins (Washington University in St. Louis) and Anthony I. Jack (Washington University in St. Louis)
"The Phenomenal Stance"
Commentators: Heidi Maibom (Carleton University)
Rob Rupert (Texas Tech University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Clark Glymour (Carnegie Mellon University)
Speaker: Darren Abramson (Indiana University)
"Computability Theory and the Philosophy of Mind"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Anthony Dardis (Hofstra University)
I-G. Symposium/Colloquium: Abortion
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark Brasher (TransPacific Hawaii College/St. Francis International Center for Healthcare Ethics)
Speaker: Stephen Munzer (University of California-Los Angeles)
"Motives, Conditional Intentions, and Abortion"
Commentators: Mary Anne Warren (San Francisco State University)
Margaret Battin (University of Utah)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Susan Finsen (California State University-San Bernadino)
Speaker: Francis J. Beckwith (Baylor University)
"Needy Beings and Being Needy: A Response to David Boonin's Distinction between Responsibility for Existence and Responsibility for Neediness"
Commentator: David Boonin (University of Colorado-Boulder)
I-H. Colloquium: Ancient Philosophy
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Ruby Blondell (University of Washington)
Speaker: Marina Berzins McCoy (Boston College)
"Performative Aspects of Socratic Questioning"
Commentator: Jill Gordon (Colby College)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Gale Justin (California State University-Sacramento)
Speaker: Alejandro Santana (University of Portland)
"The Problem of the Socratic Elenchus: Is its Constructivist Assumption Justified?"
Commentator: Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis & Clark College)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: William Prior (Santa Clara University)
Speaker: Naomi Reshotko (University of Denver)
"Necessity, Sufficiency, and Instrumentalism and the Socratic Quest for Wisdom"
Commentator: Mark McPherran (University of Maine-Farmington)
Wednesday Late Afternoon, March 23
Session II — 4:00-6:00 p.m.
II-A. Workshop for Philosopher-Citizens: How to
Write for the
Op-Ed Pages
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: John Lachs (Vanderbilt University)
Speakers: Susan Anderson (University of Connecticut)
Gregory Pence (University of Alabama-Birmingham)
Carlin Romano (Philadephia Inquirer)
II-B. Author Meets Critics: Albert Casullo, A Priori Justification
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Tim Black (California State University-Northridge)
Critics: Tony Brueckner (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Robin Jeshion (Yale University and University of California-Riverside)
Author: Albert Casullo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
II-C. Author Meets Critics: Alison Stone, Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: J. M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College)
Critics: Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University)
Edward Halper (University of Georgia)
Author: Alison Stone (Lancaster University)
II-D. Author Meets Critics: Allan Silverman, The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Sean Kelsey (University of California-Los Angeles)
Critics: Mary Margaret McCabe (King's College London)
Michael Ferejohn (Duke University)
Author: Allan Silverman (Ohio State University)
II-E. Colloquium: Character
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: David W. Shoemaker (Bowling Green State University)
Speaker: Todd C. Calder (University of Victoria)
"Evil Character"
Commentator: Daniel M. Haybron (Saint Louis University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Marissa Lelanuja (University of Utah)
Speaker: Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah)
"Going from Bad (Or Not So Bad) to Worse: On Harmful Addictions and Habits"
Commentator: Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California)
II-F. Colloquium: History of Analytic Philosophy
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Joe Ulatowski (University of Utah)
Speaker: Patrick Kenny (University of Rochester)
"Frege on Definition"
Commentator: Kelly Dean Jolley (Auburn University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Kenneth Lucey (University of Nevada-Reno)
Speaker: Aaron A. Schiller (University of California-San Diego)
"That Other Myth: Understanding Sellars's Myth of Jones"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Richard Manning (Georgetown University)
II-G. Colloquium: Political Philosophy
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeremy Anderson (University of Redlands)
Speaker: Jeffrey C. Brand-Ballard (George Washington University)
"Transcending the Debate between Inclusive and Exclusive Legal Positivists"
Commentator: Kenneth Einar Himma (Seattle Pacific University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Margaret Walker (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Charles L. Howell (Minnesota State University-Moorhead)
"Liberalism and Children's Internalization of Values"
Commentator: Rachel Singpurwalla (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
II-H. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Topic: Thinking Theater: Using Drama to Teach
Philosophy
to High School Students
Chair: Betsy Newell Decyk (California State University-
Long Beach)
Speakers: Sharon Kaye (John Carroll University)
"Wonderings: A New Philosophy Textbook
for
Thinking Theater"
Paul Thomson (John Carroll University)
"Bringing Philosophy Alive: An Experimental Course in Thinking Theater"
Robert Prisco (John Carroll University)
"The Role of Documentary Video in Thinking Theater"
Dan Matusicky and Rhiannon Lathy (John Carroll University)
"Our Experience as TAs for Thinking Theater"
II-I. Mini-Conference on Richard Rufus of Cornwall
4:00-6:00 p.m., St. Francis Suite, East Room (12th Floor)
Topic: Establishing the Text of a Critical Edition:
Problems
in Optics
Chair: Neil Lewis (Georgetown University)
Participants: Max Etchemendy (Stanford University)
Dorothea Frede (Hamburg University)
Christopher J. Martin (University of Auckland)
Jennifer Ottman (Stanford University)
Michael Smith (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Olga Weijers (Constantijn Huygens Instituut)
Rega Wood (Stanford University)
RECEPTION
5:00 p.m. Tower Salon (Lobby Level)
Oxford University Press and the APA Pacific Division invite you to a reception at 5:00 p.m. in the lobby of the Tower Salon following this last session of the Mini-Conference on the Philosophy of the Emotions.
Group Meetings, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism, Session 1
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 1
Group Meetings, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
North American Spinoza Society
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 1
Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 1
Sartre Group
Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session 1
Society for German Idealism, Session 1
Gandhi/King Society
Philosophy of Religion Group
Concerned Philosophers for Peace
Group Meetings, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
American Society for Aesthetics
North American Society for Social Philosophy
International Institute for Field Being, Session I
Registration
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Mezzanine
Book Displays
11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Placement Information
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Mezzanine
Placement Interviewing
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Ascot, Bristol, Derby (2nd Floor)
Annual Business Meeting
Noon-1:00 p.m., Colonial Room (Mezzanine)
Carus Lecture I
1:00-2:00 p.m., Colonial Room (Mezzanine)
Annual Reception
9:00 p.m.-Midnight, Colonial Room (Mezzanine)
Thursday Morning, March 24
Session III — 9:00 a.m.-Noon
III-A. Invited Symposium: Change-Blindness
9:00 a.m.-Noon (Mezzanine)
Chair: David Rosenthal (City University of New York)
Speakers: Michael Tye (University of Texas-Austin)
"Change Blindness and the Refrigerator Light Illusion"
Guven Guzeldere (Duke University)
"Change Blindness"
Commentator: Mohan Matthen (University of British Columbia)
III-B. Author Meets Critics: Dale Jamieson, Morality's Progress
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Sara Goering (University of Washington)
Critics: Colin Allen (Indiana University)
N. Ann Davis (Pomona College)
Robert Elliot (University of the Sunshine Coast)
Katie McShane (North Carolina State University)
Ani Satz (Law School, Emory University)
Author: Dale Jamieson (New York University)
III-C. Author Meets Critics: Robert Brandom, Tales
of the
Mighty Dead
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Paul Hurley (Pomona College)
Critics: Danielle Macbeth (Haverford College)
Robert Pippin (University of Chicago)
John Haugeland (University of Chicago)
Author: Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh)
III-D. Invited Symposium: Hobbes and Justice
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Steven Arkonovich (Reed College)
Speakers: Michael Green (University of Chicago)
"Liberty in Leviathan"
Russell Hardin (New York University)
"Hobbes's Social Science"
Commentators: Steve Hetcher (Law, Vanderbilt University)
Gerardo Vildostegui (University of California-Berkeley)
III-E. Invited Symposium: Leibniz: Mathematics and Nature
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Donald Rutherford (University of California-San Diego)
Speakers: Richard Arthur (McMaster University)
"`Complete Denial of the Continuous'? Leibniz's Philosophy of the Continuum"
Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
"Leibniz: Applying Mathematics to the Physical World"
Commentator: Domenico Bertoloni-Meli (Indiana University)
III-F. Mini-Conference on Richard Rufus of Cornwall
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Funding Research in Philosophy (European and U.S. Models Compared)
Chair: Rega Wood (Stanford University)
Speakers: Dorothea Frede (Hamburg University)
"Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DF)"
Olga Weijers (Constantijn Huygens Instituut)
"Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)"
Kenneth Kolson (National Endowment for
the Humanities)
"National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)"
André De Tienne (Indiana University)
"Peirce Edition Project"
Edward Zalta (Stanford University)
"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"
III-G. Colloquium: Action Theory
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Andy Egan (Australian National University)
Speaker: Eric Swanson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Common Attitudes"
Commentator: Michelle Maiese (University of Colorado-Boulder)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Edward Maine (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Sarah Stroud (McGill University)
"Deliberation in the Third Person"
Commentator: Bryce Huebner (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Cindy Holder (University of Victoria)
Speaker: Abigail Gosselin (University of Colorado-Boulder)
"Problems with Agent-Centered Accounts
of Responsibility"
Commentator: Seth Shabo (University of Vermont)
III-H. Colloquium: Epistemology
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Gary Ebbs (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Speaker: Peter Markie (University of Missouri-Columbia)
"Knowing How Isn't Knowing That"
Commentator: Aaron Zimmerman (University of California-
Santa Barbara)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: George Streeter (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
"The Legacy of Foundationalism"
Commentator: Reza Lahroodi (University of Northern Iowa)
11:00-Noon
Chair: Shari Starrett (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Jennifer Lackey (Northern Illinois University)
"Why We Don't Deserve Credit for Everything We Know"
Commentator: Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University)
III-I. Colloquium: Foucault and Irigaray
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Kari Middleton (Syracuse University)
Speaker: Christina L. Hendricks (University of British Columbia)
"Foucault's Kantian Critique: Philosophy
and
the Present"
Commentator: Craig Hanks (Texas State University-San Marcos)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Lee A. McBride III (Saint Mary's College of California)
Speaker: Amy Allen (Dartmouth College)
"Foucault, Autonomy, and the Genetic Fallacy"
Commentator: Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Sharyn Clough (Oregon State University)
Speaker: Sarah K. Donovan (Wagner College)
"Rereading Irigaray's Spinoza: Thinking Through `Corporeality' With Gatens and Lloyd"
Commentator: Diane Perpich (Vanderbilt University)
III-J. Colloquium: Philosophy of Science
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Neocles Serafimidis (University of Washington)
Speaker: Anjan Chakravartty (University of Toronto)
"Scientific Kinds and the New Essentialism"
Commentator: Sherrilyn Roush (Rice University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Thomas Nickles (University of Nevada-Reno)
Speakers: Matthew Rellihan (Georgetown University) and Nathaniel Goldberg (Mount Saint Mary's University)
"There's No Escaping It: Incommensurability
and
Concept Acquisition"
Commentator: Jose Martin (University of Nevada-Reno)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Kelly Becker (University of New Mexico)
Speaker: Chase B. Wrenn (University of Alabama)
"Moderate Rationalism's Problem with Induction"
Commentator: Troy Cross (Yale University)
III-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Perspectives on Philosophy On-Line
Chair: Royce Jones (University of Illinois-Springfield)
Speakers: Patrick Suppes (Stanford University)
"Teaching Computer-based Logic and Probability from Kindergarten to 12th Grade"
Peter Boltuc (University of Illinois-Springfield)
"Can True Philosophy be Taught Online?"
Marvin Croy (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
"Teaching On-Line Courses to On-Campus
Students: Practical and Ethical Questions"
Group Meeting, 9:00 a.m.-Noon
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
North American Nietzsche Society
ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
Noon-1:00 p.m.Colonial (Mezzanine)
Thursday Afternoon, March 24
Carus Lectures
1:00-2:00 p.m., Colonial (Mezzanine)
Introduction: Calvin Normore (University of California-Los Angeles)
Speaker: Tyler Burge (University of California-Los Angeles)
"Perceptual Objectivity: Lecture I"
Session IV — 2:00-5:00 p.m.
IV-A. Invited Symposium: The Personal Philosophical: Doing Philosophy Through Autobiography
2:00-5:00 p.m. (Mezzanine)
Chair: Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Speakers: Christine Overall (Queen's University)
"Writing What Comes Naturally? The Pleasures and Perils of Autobiographical Philosophy"
Carol Quinn (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
"Palimpsest"
John Whitmire (Haverford College)
"Questioning the Self: Continental Autobiography"
Sara Ruddick (New School University)
"Practicing the Personal Philosophical"
IV-B. Invited Symposium: Cartesian Theories of Perception
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University)
Speakers: Larry Nolan (California State University-Long Beach)
"Imagination and Reason in Malebranche's
Theory
of Vision in God"
Alison Simmons (Harvard University)
"Guarding the Body: A Cartesian Phenomenology
of Perception"
Commentator: Tad Schmaltz (Duke University)
IV-C. Author Meets Critics: Luc Bovens and Stephan Hartmann, Bayesian Epistemology
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Branden Fitelson (University of California-Berkeley)
Critics: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
James Joyce (University of Michigan)
Clark Glymour (Carnegie Mellon University)
Authors: Luc Bovens (London School of Economics)
Stephan Hartmann (London School of Economics)
IV-D. Mini-Conference on Richard Rufus of Cornwall
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Topic: Mind, Science, and Theology in Richard Rufus's Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima
Chair: Victor Caston (University of California-Davis)
Speakers: Christopher J. Martin (University of Auckland)
"Richard Rufus on Sense Perception: The Physiology of Spiritual Change"
A. Mark Smith (University of Missouri-Columbia)
"Intromission and Extramission Accounts of Vision"
Neil Lewis (Georgetown University)
"Human Reproduction: Theology Meets Aristotle in the Works of Richard Rufus"
Jennifer Ottman (Stanford University)
"The Influence of Aristotelian Psychology on Rufus's Account of Free Will"
Commentator: Rega Wood (Stanford University)
IV-E. Double Symposium: Motivational Internalism
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Richard Galvin (Texas Christian University)
Speakers: Christian B. Miller (Wake Forest University)
"Motivational Internalism: A New Problem"
Jakob Elster (University of Oslo)
"Can the Level of Our Moral Motivation Influence the Content of Our Moral Duties?"
Commentators: Alan Goldman (College of William & Mary)
Steven Sverdlick (Southern Methodist University)
IV-F. Colloquium: Well-Being
2:00-5:00 p.m.
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)
Speaker: Matthew C. Cashen (Washington University in St. Louis)
"False Happiness"
Commentator: Nancy Snow (Marquette University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University)
Speaker: Christopher H. Toner (Air University)
"Aristotelian Well-Being: A Response to
L. W.
Sumner's Critique"
Commentator: Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark McEvoy (Hofstra University)
Speaker: Lawrence J. Jost (University of Cincinnati)
"Aristotelian Eudaimonia: What's God Got to Do with It, Do with It...?"
Commentator: Corinne Gartner (Stanford University)
IV-G. Colloquium: Epistemology
2:00-5:00 p.m.
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Philip Nickel (University of California-Irvine)
Speaker: Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)
"Epistemic Compatibilism"
Commentator: Baron Reed (Northern Illinois University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Scott Hendricks (Clark University)
Speaker: Thomas D. Senor (University of Arkansas)
"Lackey on Memory as a Generative Epistemic Source"
Commentator: Thomas Blackson (Arizona State University)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Matthew Davidson (California State University-
San Bernadino)
Speaker: Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay (Montana State University)
"Belief and Beyond: Toward a New Orientation
in Epistemology"
Commentator: Glenn Ross (Franklin & Marshall College)
IV-H. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
2:00-5:00 p.m.
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Christopher Hom (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Speaker: Paul Saka (University of Houston)
"The Argument From Ignorance against Truth-
Conditional Semantics"
Commentator: Douglas Patterson (Kansas State University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Avrum Stroll (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker: Gurpreet Rattan (University of Toronto)
"I-language, E-language, and Semantic Intuitions"
Commentator: Dean Pettit (University of North Carolina)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Patricia Hanna (University of Utah)
Speaker: Ronald W. Loeffler (Grand Valley State University)
"Normative Phenomenalism"
Commentator: Jay F. Rosenberg (University of North
Carolina-
Chapel Hill)
IV-I. Colloquium: Philosophy of Religion
2:00-5:00 p.m.
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Josh Bright (University of California-Riverside)
Speaker: Klaas Kraay (Ryerson University)
"Mission Impossible? God and the Hypothesis of No Prime Worlds"
Commentator: Kevin Timpe (University of San Diego)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Daniel Campana (University of La Verne)
Speaker: John T. Bengson (University of Wyoming)
"On the Value of Mystical and Religious Experience"
Commentator: Michael Almeida (University of Texas-San Antonio)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Aimee Koeplin (Loyola Marymount University)
Speaker: Sander H. Lee (Keene State College)
"Rights, Morality, and Faith in the Light of the Holocaust"
Commentator: Andrew Eshleman (University of Arkansas-Little Rock)
IV-J. Colloquium: Gadamer and Habermas
2:00-5:00 p.m.
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: James Faulconer (Brigham Young University)
Speaker: David T. Vessey (University of Chicago)
"Gadamer and the Fusion of Horizons"
Commentator: David Weberman (Georgia State University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Iain Thomson (University of New Mexico)
Speaker: Lenny Moss (University of Notre Dame)
"Habermas, Human Nature, and the Anthropological Framework of Critical Theory"
Commentator: Hans-Herbert Kögler (University of North Florida)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Lani Roberts (Oregon State University)
Speaker: Jari I. Niemi (Purdue University)
"The Foundations of Habermas's Discourse Ethics"
Commentator: Andy Wallace (Sonoma State University)
IV-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophical Issues on War in a Time of Terrorism
Chair: Blane Neufeld (Stanford University)
Speakers: Larry May (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Humanity and Torture"
Lionel K. McPherson (Tufts University)
"What Is Distinctively Wrong about Terrorism?"
David Rodin (Oxford University and Australian
National University)
"Torture in War"
IV-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee
on Blacks
in Philosophy
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophical Aesthetics in Black
Chair: Ronald Sundstrom (University of San Francisco)
Speakers: Leonard Harris (Purdue University)
"Philosophical Aesthetics in Black: Alain Locke"
Tommy Lott (San Jose State University)
"Philosophical Aesthetics in Black: Film and Music"
Thursday Early Evening, March 24
Session V — 5:00-7:00 p.m.
V-A. Author Meets Critics: Nancy Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom
5:00-7:00 p.m (Mezzanine)
Chair: Christina Bellon (California State University-Sacramento)
Critics: Susan Brison (Dartmouth College)
Marilyn Friedman (Washington University in St. Louis)
Author: Nancy Hirschmann (University of Pennsylvania)
V-B. Special Meeting of California State University Philosophy Department Chairs
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Topics: Transfer Curriculum and Other Issues
V-C. Symposium: Philosophy of Language
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark Crimmins (Stanford University)
Speaker: Roger Wertheimer (Agnes Scott College)
"Quotations, Displays, and Autonomes"
Commentators: Reinaldo Elugardo (University of Oklahoma)
Marga Reimer (University of Arizona)
V-D. Symposium: Testimony
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Mitch Avila (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Christopher R. Green (University of Notre Dame)
"Testimony and the Transmission of Defeaters: Some Light from the Law of Constructive Knowledge, Justifiable Reliance, and Imputed Knowledge by Agents"
Commentators: Jonathan Adler (Brooklyn College/Graduate School, City University of New York)
Peter Graham (University of California-Riverside)
V-E. Colloquium: Metaphysics
5:00-7:00 p.m.
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeffrey Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Speaker: James D. Rissler (University of Notre Dame)
"Does Armstrong Need States of Affairs?"
Commentator: Gerald Vision (Temple University)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: L. A. Paul (University of Arizona)
Speaker: Josh Parsons (University of California-Davis)
"Is Everything a World?"
Commentator: Kristopher McDaniel (Syracuse University)
V-F. Colloquium: Logic
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Ali Kazmi (University of Calgary)
Speaker: Gabriel Uzquiano (University of Rochester)
"The Price of Universality"
Commentator: Michael Hand (Texas A&M University)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Herminia Reyes (University of San Diego)
Speaker: Christopher A. Pynes (University of Tennessee)
"Events, Mass Terms, and Logical Form"
Commentator: Ray Jennings (Simon Fraser University)
V-G. Colloquium: Philosophy of Literature
5:00-7:00 p.m.
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Dustin Stokes (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Mark Silcox (Auburn University)
"Does the Reader Make the Text?: Some Thoughts on Literary Competence"
Commentator: William P. Seeley (Brooklyn College)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Betsy Newell Decyk (California State University-
Long Beach)
Speaker: Amy Coplan (California State University-Fullerton)
"Catching Characters' Emotions"
Commentator: Thomas Leddy (San Jose State University)
V-H. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Topic: Asian American Philosophy and Contemporary Thinkers: Derrida, Said, and Chomsky
Chair: Falguni Sheth (Hampshire College)
Speakers: Kyoo Lee (LaGrange College)
"Buttery Flies: Ironies of M. Butterfly
Read through
a Triangular Intersection between Rorty, Derrida,
and West"
Darrell Moore (DePaul University)
"Edward Said and Asian American Philosophical Practice"
Gary Mar (University at Stony Brook, State University of New York)
"Democratizing Higher Education: Some Disciplinary Strategies from Chomsky for Asian American Studies"
Commentator: Falguni Sheth (Hampshire College)
V-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee
on
Pre-College Philosophy
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophical Communities On-Line
Speaker: Mark Hannah (Immortal Drum Productions)
"Building Online Philosophical Communities Using Emerging Internet Marketing Techniques"
Topic: Update on North American High School Philosophy Association
Speakers: Ken Knisely (Milk Bottle Productions)
Tom Doyle (University of California-Irvine)
V-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee
on
Philosophy and Computers and the Society for Philosophy and Technology
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Topic: Computers and the Mediation of Human Experience
Chair: Noam Cook (San Jose State University)
Speakers: Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University)
"Online Community: It's Real and It's Happening"
John Sullins (Sonoma State University)
"Beyond Our Biology"
V-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Topic: Advice for Those Who Will Be in the Job
Market
Next Year
Speakers: Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis & Clark College)
Larry May (Washington University in St. Louis)
V-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)
Speakers: Theodore Schick (Muhlenberg College)
"Choice, Purpose, and Understanding: Neo, the Merovingian, and the Oracle"
Harold Weiss (Northampton Community College)
"The Matrix, the Cave, and the Classroom"
Commentator: Daniel Palmer (Kent State University-Trumbull)
Thursday Evening, March 24
Group Meeting, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Society of Christian Philosophers
Group Meetings, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 2
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 1
Society for Business Ethics
Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 2
Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary
Visual Arts,
Session 1
Kierkegaard Society
Philosophy of Time Society
North American Kant Society, Session I
Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session I
Western Phenomenology Conference
Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy (co-sponsored by the APA
Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in the Profession)
North American Wittgenstein Society
History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society
Group Meeting, 9:00-11:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism, Session 2
Annual Reception
9:00 p.m.-Midnight, Colonial (Mezzanine)
Registration
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Mezzanine
Book Displays
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Placement Information
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Mezzanine
Placement Interviewing
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Bristol, Ascot, Derby (2nd Floor)
Continuation of Annual Business Meeting (if needed)
Noon-1:00 p.m., Colonial (Mezzanine)
Carus Lecture II
1:00-2:00 p.m., Colonial (Mezzanine)
Symbolic Logic Association Reception
5:00-7:00 p.m., Italian (Mezzanine)
Presidential Address
7:00-8:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom (Mezzanine)
Presidential Reception
8:00-10:00 p.m., Italian (Mezzanine)
Friday Morning, March 25
Breakfast Meeting of the APA Committee on Inclusiveness
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast Meeting of the 2005/2006 Pacific Division
Program Committees
8:00 a.m.
Session VI — 9:00 a.m.-Noon
VI-A. Invited Symposium: Naturalized Metaethics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: John Doris (Washington University in St. Louis)
Speakers: Allan Gibbard (University of Michigan)
"Moral Feelings and Moral Concepts"
Michael Gill (University of Arizona)
"Empirical Metaethics and Our Miscellaneous
Moral Discourse"
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)
"Framing Moral Intuitions"
VI-B. Invited Symposium: The Psychology of Non-Conceptual Content
9:00 a.m.-Noon (Mezzanine)
Chair: Jonathan Cohen (University of California-San Diego)
Speakers: Jerry Fodor (Rutgers University)
"Nonconceptual Content"
Richard Heck (Harvard University)
"Are There Different Kinds of Content?"
Commentator: Alex Byrne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
VI-C. Invited Symposium: Hegel's Transformation
of
Fichtean Thought
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Will Dudley (Williams College)
Speaker: Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins University)
"Fichte's Method of Self-Consciousness in Hegel's Phenomenology"
Commentator: Wayne Martin (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker: Paul Redding (University of Sydney)
"Fichte's Role in Hegel's Phenomenology
of Spirit,
Chapter 4"
Commentator: Scott Jenkins (Reed College)
Speaker: Allen Wood (Stanford University)
"Fichtean Themes in Hegel's Dialectic of Recognition"
Commentator: Klaus Brinkman (Boston University)
VI-D. Invited Symposium: Foucault and Critical Disability Theory
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Alexa Schriempf (Pennsylvania State University)
Speakers: Licia Carlson (Seattle University)
"Problematizing Disability within and beyond the Foucauldian Text"
Kathryn Morgan (University of Toronto)
"Social Eugenics and the Eradication of `Gender-Disabled' Subjects"
Shelley Tremain (University of Toronto-Mississauga)
"Reproductive Freedom, Self-Regulation, and the Government of Impairment in Utero"
Commentator: Jana Sawicki (Williams College)
VI-E. Author Meets Critics: Jenefer Robinson, Deeper than Reason: Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and Art
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Ronald de Sousa (University of Toronto)
Critics: Kathleen Higgins (University of Texas-Austin)
Alex Neill (Southampton University)
Robert Solomon (University of Texas-Austin)
Author: Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati)
VI-F. Colloquium: Action Theory
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Malek Khazaee (California State University-Long Beach)
Speakers: Donald P. Smith (Virginia Commonwealth University) and E. J. Coffman (University of Notre Dame)
"A Principled Argument for Agency Theory"
Commentator: Meg Bowman (University of Utah)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Angie Harris (University of Utah)
Speaker: G. F. Schueler (University of New Mexico)
"A Puzzle about the Humean Theory of Motivation"
Commentator: Mark Phelan (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: David Widerker (Bar-Ilan University)
Speaker: H. E. Baber (University of San Diego)
"Meet the Meat: So, Where's the Beef?"
Commentator: Evan Tiffany (Simon Fraser University)
VI-G. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Susan Schneider (Moravian College)
Speaker: Daniel Korman (University of Texas-Austin)
"What Anti-Individualists Should Say about Dry Earth"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Patti Nogales (California State University-Sacramento)
Speaker: Sven Bernecker (University of Manchester)
"Rule-Following and Externalism"
Commentator: Ori Simchen (University of British Columbia)
11:00-Noon
Chair: Byeong-Uk Yi (University of Minnesota)
Speaker: Sam Scott (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Saying Something about Santa Claus: Empty Names, Gappy Propositions, and Literal Meaning"
Commentator: Thomas Hofweber (University of North
Carolina-
Chapel Hill)
VI-H. Colloquium: Aristotle
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Aphrodite Alexandrakis (Barry University)
Speaker: Maria M. Adamos (Georgia Southern University)
"The Unity of Emotion: An Aristotelian Solution"
Commentator: David Demoss (Pacific University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: David Freelove (University of California-Davis)
Speaker: Travis L. Butler (Iowa State University)
"Aristotle and Dual Complexity"
Commentator: Phil Corkum (University of California-Los Angeles)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: James Butler (Berea College)
Speaker: Margaret E. Scharle (Reed College)
"The Role of the Elements in Understanding Aristotle's Natural Teleology"
Commentator: Blake Hestir (Texas Christian University)
VI-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee
on International Cooperation (co-sponsored by The Karl Jaspers
Society of North America, and The Hannah
Arendt Circle)
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics
Chair: Dianne Taylor (John Carroll University)
Speakers: Joseph Margolis (Temple University)
"Moral Philosophy after 9-11"
Tomoko Iwasawa (Kogakuin University)
"Politicizing Cultural and Religious Mythology"
Helgard Mahrdt (University of Oslo)
"Freedom in Politics is not a Phenomenon of the Will: Hannah Arendt on Thinking, Opinion, and Acting"
Commentator: Mohammad Ashraf Adeel (University of Peshawar)
VI-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Can Analytic Philosophy Flourish in the
Hispanic World?
Chair: Graciela De Pierris (Stanford University)
Speakers: Jorge Gracia (University at Buffalo, State
University of
New York)
"Analytic Philosophy and the History of Philosophy in Latin America"
Ernesto Rabossi (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
"Is It So Important that Analytical Philosophy
Flourish
in Iberoamerica?"
Luis Valdes Villanueva (Universidad de Oviedo)
"The Peculiar Reception of Analytic Philosophy in Spain"
Commentator: Otavio Bueno (University of South Carolina)
VI-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Self and Consciousness in Chinese Philosophy
Chair: Chang-Seong Hong (Minnesota State University-Moorhead)
Speakers: James Behuniak, Jr. (Sonoma State University)
"Dewey, Dao, and Method"
Jiyuan Yu (University at Buffalo, State University
of
New York)
"Relational Self and Social Animal"
Amy Olberding (University of Oklahoma)
"Personal Style and Moral Sensibility in The Analects"
Commentator: Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University)
Continuation of Annual Business meeting (if needed)
Noon-1:00 p.m., Colonial (Mezzanine)
Friday Afternoon, March 25
Carus Lectures
1:00-2:00 p.m., Colonial (Mezzanine)
Introduction: Joseph Tolliver (University of Arizona)
Speakers: Tyler Burge (University of California-Los Angeles)
"Perceptual Objectivity: Lecture II"
Session VII — 2:00-5:00 p.m.
VII-A. Invited Symposium: Special Memorial Session on Richard Wollheim's Philosophy
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Kayley Vernallis (California State University-Los Angeles)
Speakers: Peter Goldie (King's College London)
"Emotion and Imagination"
Robert Hopkins (University of Sheffield)
"Painting, History, and Experience"
Peter Kivy (Rutgers University)
"The Rebirth of Aesthetics: Praising Wollheim and Pressing On"
Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago)
"The Bodily Mind"
VII-B. Invited Symposium: Moral Psychology in Ancient China
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Craig K. Ihara (California State University-Fullerton)
Speakers: Chad Hansen (University of Hong Kong)
"Learning to Be Natural: The Dialectic of Daoism"
Benjamin Wong (Nanyang Technological University)
"The Moral and Political Psychology of the Daxue"
Eric Hutton (University of Utah)
"Character and Virtue in Early Confucianism"
VII-C. Invited Symposium: Life
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: John Sullins (Sonoma State University)
Speakers: Mark Bedau (Reed College)
"The Problem of Life"
Carol Cleland (University of Colorado)
"Defining `Life'"
Michael Ruse (Florida State University)
"Organized Complexity: The Mark of the Living?"
VII-D. Invited Symposium: Plato's Philebus
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Christine J. Thomas (Dartmouth College)
Speakers: Dorothea Frede (University of Hamburg)
"The Concept of Happiness in the Philebus"
Russell Dancy (Florida State University)
"The Limits of Being in the Philebus"
Commentator: George Rudebusch (Northern Arizona University)
VII-E. Invited Symposium: Contextualism and Subject-Sensitive Invariantism
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Stewart Cohen (Arizona State University)
Speakers: John Hawthorne (Rutgers University)
"Invariantism in Epistemology: Some Competing Views"
Jason Stanley (Rutgers University)
"Interest-Relative Invariantism"
Jonathan Schaffer (University of Massachusetts)
"The Irrelevance of the Subject"
VII-F. Author Meets Critics: Alva Noë, Action in Perception
2:00-5:00 p.m. (Mezzanine)
Chair: Nathan Westbrook (University of California-Irvine)
Critics: Sean Kelly (Princeton University)
John Campbell (University of California-Berkeley)
Michael Martin (University College London)
Author: Alva Noë (University of California-Berkeley)
VII-G. Author Meets Critics: James Sterba, The Triumph of Practice Over Theory in Ethics
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Troy Jollimore (California State University-Chico)
Critics: Julia Driver (Dartmouth College)
Sharon Lloyd (University of Southern California)
Alastair Norcross (Rice University)
Author: James Sterba (University of Notre Dame)
VII-H. Colloquium:Metaethics
2:00-5:00 p.m.
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark Balaguer (California State University-Los Angeles)
Speaker: Stephen R. Grimm (University of Notre Dame)
"Nameless Values?"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Noell Birondo (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Fritz Allhoff (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Speaker: Christopher M. Grau (Florida International University)
"Irreplaceability, Unique Value, and Intrinsic Value"
Commentator: William Tolhurst (Northern Illinois University)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark Alfino (Gonzaga University)
Speaker: James Liszka (University of Alaska-Anchorage)
"What is Pragmatic Ethics?"
Commentator: G. Randolph Mayes (California State University-Sacramento)
VII-I. Colloquium: Consciousness
2:00-5:00 p.m.
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Michael Nelson (Yale University and University of California-Riverside)
Speakers: Uriah Kriegel (University of Arizona)
"Phenomenal Consciousness and Access Consciousness: A New Account of Their Relationship"
Massimo Grassia (Columbia University)
"Phenomenality as Accessibility: A Methodological Argument"
Commentator: Georges Rey (University of Maryland)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: David Hunter (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
Speaker: Paul D. Raymont (University of Toronto)
"Rosenthal on Inaccurate HOTs"
Commentator: Bernard W. Kobes (Arizona State University)
VII-J. Colloquium: Fichte and Hegel
2:00-5:00 p.m.
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University)
Speaker: Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University)
"Fichte's Self-Positing Subject"
Commentator: Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves (Morgan State University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: David Boersema (Pacific University)
Speaker: James Kreines (Yale University)
"The Philosophical Appeal of Hegel's Metaphysical Idealism"
Commentator: Lydia Moland (Babson College)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Bertha Alvarez (Purdue University)
Speaker: Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida)
Commentator: Allegra de Laurentiis (University at Stony Brook, State University of New York)
VII-K. Special Session Arranged by the Association
for
Symbolic Logic
2:00-5:00 p.m., Colonial (Mezzanine)
Topic: Contributed Papers
Chair: Shaughan Lavine (University of Arizona)
Speakers: Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University)
"How to Prove the Consistency of Elementary Arithmetic"
Michael Rescorla (University of California-Santa Barbara)
"Church's Thesis and the Conceptual Analysis
of Computability"
Matthew E. Moore (Brooklyn College and City University of New York)
"Naturalism, Truth, and Beauty of Mathematics"
Otavio Bueno (University of South Carolina)
"Pluralism about Logical Pluralism"
Majis Amini (Virginia State University)
"Justification of Deduction"
A reception follows this session.
VII-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Topic: Multiculturalism and Women's Rights
Chair: Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto)
Speakers: Baukje Prins (University of Groningen)
"Cultural Rights and the Autonomy of Women:
The
Dutch Case"
Pascale Fournier (Law, Harvard University and McGill University)
"The Reception of Islamic Family Law in Western States: Can Muslim Subaltern Women Speak?"
Commentator: Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)
VII-M. Special Meeting Arranged by the APA Committee
on
Public Philosophy
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Topics: Brainstorming Session
Chair: Roger Wertheimer (Agnes Scott College)
(APA members are invited to participate in a fourm to develop suggestions
and ideas for the new APA Committee on Public Philosophy.)
Friday Early Evening, March 25
Session VIII — 5:00-7:00 p.m.
VIII-A. Invited Paper: Equality and Race
5:00-7:00 p.m. (Mezzanine)
Chair: Lorraine Besser-Jones (Stanford University)
Speaker: Laurence Thomas (Syracuse University)
"Conceptions of Equality and the Kantian Paradigm"
Commentators: Paul C. Taylor (Temple University)
Angela Smith (University of Washington)
VIII-B. Invited Paper: Stoic Psychology
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Voula Tsouna (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Speaker: John Cooper (Princeton University)
"The Emotional Life of the Wise"
Commentators: Rachel Barney (University of Toronto)
Raphael Woolf (Harvard University)
VIII-C. Author Meets Critics: Carol C. Gould, Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Nancy Daukas (Guilford College)
Critics: James Bohman (St. Louis University)
James Nickel (Arizona State University)
Author: Carol C. Gould (George Mason University)
VIII-D. Author Meets Critics: Robert Audi, The
Good In The Right:
A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark Timmons (University of Arizona)
Critics: Thomas Hurka (University of Toronto)
Candace Vogler (University of Chicago)
Author: Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame)
VIII-E. Author Meets Critics: Crawford Elder, Real Natures and Familiar Objects
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Cindy Stern (California State University-Northridge)
Critics: William Carter (North Carolina State University)
Amie Thomasson (University of Miami)
Author: Crawford Elder (University of Connecticut)
VIII-F. Symposium: Moral Responsibility
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Michael N. Liston (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Speaker: Manuel R. Vargas (University of San Francisco)
"Moral Influence, Moral Responsibility"
Commentators: Andrei Buckareff (University of Rochester)
Elizabeth Harman (New York University)
VIII-G. Colloquium: Respect
5:00-7:00 p.m.
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Charles Griswold (Boston University and Stanford
Humanities Center)
Speaker: Kenneth E. Shockley (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
"On Being Party to Respectful Practices"
Commentator: Paul Hughes (University of Michigan-Dearborn)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Debra Jackson (California State University-Bakersfield)
Speaker: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
"Arrogance, Respect, and Self-Respect: A Feminist View"
Commentator: Elizabeth Brake (University of Calgary)
VIII-H. Colloquium: Pictures
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Robert Hopkins (University of Sheffield)
Speaker: John V. Kulvicki (Dartmouth College)
"Pictorial Realism as Verity"
Commentator: Catharine Abell (Macquarie University)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Thomas Herrnstein (University of Utah)
Speaker: John W. Bender (Ohio University)
"Exemplification and Expression in Painting: Goodman's Theories are Wrong"
Commentator: James Harold (Mount Holyoke College)
VIII-I. Colloquium: Metaphysics
5:00-7:00 p.m.
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Daniel A. Krasner (University of California-Los Angeles)
Speaker: Matthew H. Slater (Columbia University)
"The Arbitrariness of Mereological Immoderation"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Ted Sider (Rutgers University)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Trent Dougherty (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Speaker: Jeffrey H. Green (University of Notre Dame)
"A Critique of the Jumping Animals Account of Resurrection"
Commentator: Michael Bruno (University of Arizona)
VIII-J. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
5:00-7:00 p.m.
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Marc Joseph (Mills College)
Speaker: Henry Jackman (York University)
"Holistic Atomism: Semantics between the Old Testament and the New"
Commentator: Matt Phillips (City College, City University of New York)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeffrey King (University of Southern California)
Speaker: Salvatore Florio (Ohio State University)
"`That' Clauses, Propositions, and Substitutivity"
Commentator: Peter Hanks (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
VIII-K. Colloquium: Descartes
5:00-7:00 p.m.
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Ryan Hickerson (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker: David L. Clemenson (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota)
"Descartes's Direct Realisms"
Commentator: Kurt Smith (Bloomsburg University)
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Kristen Irwin (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker: Matthew J. Kisner (University of South Carolina)
"Against a Psychologistic Reading of Descartes"
Commentator: David Cunning (University of Iowa)
VIII-L. Author Meets Critics: Kenneth Westphal, Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Rod Bertolet (Purdue University)
Critics: Rolf George (University of Waterloo)
William Harper (University of Western Ontario)
Author: Kenneth R. Westphal (University of East Anglia)
RECEPTION
5:00-7:00 p.m., Italian (Mezzanine)
The Symbolic Logic Association hosts this reception.
Presidential Address
7:00-8:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom
Introduction: Jeffrie Murphy (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Hubert Dreyfus (University of California-Berkeley)
"How Analytic Philosophers Can Profit
from What Continental Philosophers Say about Everyday
Skillful Coping"
PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION
8:00-10:00 p.m., Italian (Mezzanine)
Group Meetings, 8:15-11:15 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
Society for Empirical Ethics (Mezzanine)
Society for Skeptical Studies, Session 1
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
International Institute for Field-Being, Session 2
Radical Philosophy Association
Society for Student Philosophers, Session 1
Association of Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
North American Kant Society, Session 2
Society for Women In Philosophy, Session 1
Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals
Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion
International Hobbes Association, Session 1
The Karl Jaspers Society of North America and The Hannah Arendt Circle (co-sponsored by the APA Committee on International Cooperation)
Society for German Idealism, Session 2
International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 1
Registration
8:30 a.m.- Noon, Mezzanine
Book Displays
8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., California Ballroom
Placement Information
8:30 a.m.- Noon, Mezzanine
Placement Interviewing
8:30 a.m.- Noon, Ascot, Bristol, Derby (2nd Floor)
Continuation of Annual Business meeting (if needed)
Noon-1:00 p.m., Colonial (Mezzanine)
Carus Lecture III
1:00-2:00 p.m., Colonial (Mezzanine)
Saturday Morning, March 26
Breakfast Meeting of the APA Committee on the Status of Women
8:00 a.m.
Session IX — 9:00 a.m.-Noon
IX-A. Invited Symposium: Virtue and Sex
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Heather Battaly (California State University-Fullerton)
Speakers: Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
"Wickedness and Some of the Other Faces of Sexual Intemperance"
Lara Denis (Agnes Scott College)
"Animality, Agency, and Abortion"
Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma)
"Carnal Wisdom and Sexual Virtue"
Commentator: John Bishop (University of Auckland)
IX-B. Invited Symposium: Evolution and Rationality
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Patrick Rysiew (University of British Columbia)
Speakers: Jose Bermudez (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Evolution, Massive Modularity, and Rationality"
David Papineau (King's College London)
"Truth, Normativity, and Natural Selection"
Christopher Stephens (University of British Columbia)
"Evolution, Emotion, and Decision"
Commentator: Paul Griffiths (University of Queensland)
IX-C. Invited Symposium: Samuel Todes, Body and World
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Hubert Dreyfus (University of California-Berkeley)
Speakers: Piotr Hoffman (University of Nevada-Reno)
Adrian Cussins (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)
Dagfinn Follesdal (Stanford University)
Shaun Gallagher (University of Central Florida)
Taylor Carman (Barnard College)
IX-D. Invited Symposium: Presocratic Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Victor Caston (University of California-Davis)
Speakers: Daniel W. Graham (Brigham Young University)
"On the Nature of Things"
John Palmer (University of Florida)
"`Parmenides's Three Ways"
Patricia Curd (Purdue University)
"Gorgias and What-Is-Not"
IX-E. Author Meets Critics: Susan Hurley, Justice, Luck, and Knowledge
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Colonial (Mezzanine)
Chair: Thomas Christiano (University of Arizona)
Critics: Gary Watson (University of California-Riverside)
Samuel Freeman (University of Pennsylvania)
Richard Arneson (University of California-San Diego)
Author: Susan Hurley (University of Warwick)
IX-F. Colloquium: Metaethics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Mane Hajdin (Dominican University of California)
Speaker: Teemu Toppinen (University of Helsinki)
"No Harm Done in the Expressivist Circles"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Nathan Nobis (University of Rochester)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: J. Thomas Cook (Rollins College)
Speaker: Todd Weber (Monterey Peninsula College)
"Analyzing Wrongness as `Sanctionworthiness'"
Commentator: Elinor Mason (University of Edinburgh)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Clifford Anderson (California State University-Sacramento)
Speaker: Jason R. Kawall (Colgate University)
"On Johnson, Rightness, and Virtuous Ideal Observers"
Commentator: Julie Tannenbaum (University of California-Santa Cruz)
IX-G. Colloquium: Kantian Ethics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Jocelyn Hoy (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Speaker: Karen S. Feldman (University of California-Berkeley)
"On Arendt, Privacy, and Orality"
Commentator: Katalin Makkai (Barnard College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Justin Kalef (University of Portland)
Speaker: Daniel B. Dennis (University of Edinburgh)
"Kant's Account of Treating Human Beings as Ends: Moral Harm, Natural Harm, and Perfect Duty"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Sean McAleer (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Tim Christie (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: John R.Wright (Miami University)
"Legislating the Moral Law: Anscombe's
Modern
Moral Philosophy"
Commentator: Scott Anderson (University of British Columbia)
IX-H. Colloquium: Perception
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Janet Levin (University of Southern California)
Speakers: Ben Caplan (University of Manitoba) and
Timothy Schroeder (University of Manitoba)
"On the Content of Experience"
Commentator: Michael Thau (Temple University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Ram Neta (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Speaker: Michelle I. Montague (University of California-Irvine)
"Russell's Principle and a Problem with Vision"
Commentator: Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Melinda Hogan (Kwantlen University College)
Speaker: Cara Spencer (Howard University)
"Unconscious Vision and the Platitudes of Folk Psychology"
Commentator: John Jacobson (University of California-San Diego)
IX-I. Colloquium: Hume
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco)
Speaker: Steven Gamboa (California State University-Bakersfield and Claremont Graduate University)
"Hume on Resemblance, Relevance, and Representation"
Commentator: Mark Collier (Pomona College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Ronald McIntyre (California State University-Northridge)
Speaker: Graciela De Pierris (Stanford University)
"Hume, the Mechanical Philosophy, and
the Idea
of Necessity"
Commentator: Saul Traiger (Occidental College)
11:00 a.m.-Noon.
Chair: G. J. Mattey (University of California-Davis)
Speaker: William E. Morris (Illinois Wesleyan University)
"The Myth of Hume's Compatibilism"
Commentator: Jeffrey Tlumak (Vanderbilt University)
IX-J. Colloquium: Philosophy of Science
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Paul Roth (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Speaker: William H. Krieger (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)
"Against a Unified Method: A Case Study in Geography and Archaeology"
Commentator: Scott Hutson (Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Michael Malone (Northern Arizona University)
Speaker: Daniel P. Steel (Michigan State University)
"Rethinking the Naturalism/Interpretivism Debate in Philosophy of Social Science"
Commentator: Harold Kincaid (University of Alabama-Birmingham)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: David Kaspar (University of Nevada-Reno)
Speaker: Anna Alexandrova (University of California-San Diego)
"Connecting Rational Choice Models to the Real World"
Commentator: Don Ross (University of Cape Town/University of Alabama-Birmingham)
IX-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation
9:00 a.m.-Noon (Mezzanine)
Topic: International Trade, Responsibility, and Global Justice
Chair: Debra Satz (Stanford University)
Speakers: Iris Marion Young (University of Chicago)
"Responsibility and Global Justice"
Mathias Risse (Harvard University)
"Fairness in International Trade"
Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego State University)
"Justice, Trade, and Development"
IX-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: The Belmont Report: The 25th Anniversary
Chair: Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
Speakers: Tom Beauchamp (Georgetown University)
"The Belmont Report: Some Second Thoughts"
Ruth Macklin (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
"The Belmont Principle of Justice: An Idea Whose Time Has Come"
Alex John London (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Justice in The Belmont Report and the
Social Division
of Labor"
Jodi Halpern (University of California-Berkeley)
"Respect for Persons: How Emotions Influence the Ability to Consent to Research"
Franklin G. Miller (National Institutes of Health)
"The Ethical Significance of Distinguishing Clinical Research and Medical Care"
IX-M. Special Session Arranged by the Association
for
Symbolic Logic
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Revising Beliefs about Game Theory: Strategies for Rational Choice
Chair: Anthony S. Gillies (University of Michigan)
Speakers: Robert Stalnaker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Counterfactuals and Dispositions in Games"
Rohit Parikh (City University of New York)
"Going beyond First-Order Logic"
Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam and Stanford University)
"Update and Revision in the Course of a Game"
Continuation of Annual Business Meeting (if needed)
Noon-1:00 p.m., Colonial (Mezzanine)
Saturday Afternoon, March 26
Carus Lectures
1:00-2:00 p.m., Colonial (Mezzanine)
Introduction: Amelie Rorty (Harvard University)
Speaker: Tyler Burge (University of California-Los Angeles)
"Perceptual Objectivity: Lecture III"
Session X — 2:00-5:00 p.m.
X-A. Invited Symposium: Special Memorial Session on Joel Feinberg's Philosophy
2:00-5:00 p.m. (Mezzanine)
Chair: Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Speakers: Jules Coleman (Yale University)
Richard Arneson (University of California-San Diego)
Christopher Heath Wellman (Washington University
in
St. Louis)
X-B. Invited Symposium: Promises
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Jennifer Hudin (University of California-Berkeley)
Speakers: Margaret Gilbert (University of Connecticut)
"Three Dogmas about Promises"
Michael Pratt (Queen's University)
"Voluntary Obligations in Law and Morality"
Commentator: Niko Kolodny (Harvard University)
X-C. Invited Symposium: Phenomenology
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California-Riverside)
Speakers: Charles Siewert (University of California-Riverside)
"The Relevance of Phenomenology"
Terence Horgan (University of Arizona)
"The Phenomenology of Agency"
Galen Strawson (University of Reading and City University of New York Graduate Center)
"Why Intentionality Entails Consciousness"
X-D. Invited Symposium: Plato, Pythagoras, and the Pythagoreans
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Richard McKirahan (Pomona College)
Speakers: Luc Brisson (CNRS Paris)
"Pythagoreanism in Plato: The Case of Philolaus"
Charles Kahn (University of Pennsylvania)
"What Is Pythagorean in Plato?"
Commentator: Carl Huffman (DePauw University)
X-E. Colloquium: Epistemology
2:00-5:00 p.m.
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Peter Kung (Pomona College)
Speaker: Larry A. Herzberg (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
"Constitutivism and Knowing One's Emotional State"
Commentator: York Gunther (California State University-Northridge)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky)
Speaker: Andrew M. Cullison (University of Rochester)
"Privileged Access, Externalism, and Ways of Believing"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Krista Lawlor (Stanford University)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Albert Flores (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Edward S. Hinchman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
"Judging as Inviting Self-Trust"
Commentator: Robert Barnard (University of Mississippi)
X-F. Colloquium: Applied Ethics
2:00-5:00 p.m.
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Ben Bradley (Syracuse University)
Speaker: Michael Otsuka (University College London)
"Should We Save the Greater Number? A Defense of Taurek against Kamm and Scanlon"
Commentator: Sarah McGrath (Holy Cross College)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeffery D. Smith (University of Redlands)
Speaker: Adam D. Moore (University of Washington)
"Toward Informational Privacy Rights"
Commentator: Judith Wagner DeCew (Clark University)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Sibyl Schwarzenbach (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Speaker: Eric H. Reitan (Oklahoma State University)
"Defining Terrorism"
Commentator: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
X-G. Colloquium: Kant
2:00-5:00 p.m.
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Michael Hardimon (University of California-San Diego)
Speaker: Timothy Rosenkoetter (Dartmouth College)
"Can Kant's Analytic Judgments Be True?"
Commentator: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: William Peck (Reed College)
Speakers: Alexander Rueger (University of Alberta) and Sahan Evren (Middle East Technical University)
"Natural Beauty as a Symbol of the Systematicity
of Nature"
Commentator: Andrew Chignell (Cornell University)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)
Speaker: Lara Ostaric (University of Notre Dame)
"Point of View of Man or Knowledge of God? An Answer to Beatrice Longuenesse"
**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**
Commentator: Beatrice Longuenesse (New York University)
X-H. Colloquium: Time
2:00-5:00 p.m.
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)
Speaker: Lawrence B. Lombard (Wayne State University)
"Scope Fallacies and the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics"
Commentator: Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: James Crippen (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Tony P. Roark (Boise State University)
"Aristotelian Temporal Passage"
Commentator: Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: William O. Stephens (Creighton University)
Speaker: Eric Lewis (McGill University)
"Chrysippus, Cyclical Time and the Master Argument"
Commentator: Scott Rubarth (Rollins College)
X-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committees
on Inclusiveness, the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
and Transgender People, and the Status of Women
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Topic: Considering Same-Sex Marriage: Spring 2005 Reflections
Chair: Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (Washington State University)
Speakers: Joan Callahan (University of Kentucky)
"Why Marriage Matters - At Least for Now"
Richard D. Mohr (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Lesbian and Gay Marriage: Leftist Challenges,
Liberal Solutions"
Adèle Mercier (Queens University)
"Can Semantics Stop Same-Sex Marriage?"
X-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation (co-sponsored by the Averroës and Enlightenment International Association)
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics: The
Problematics
of Change in the Middle East
Chair: Alan Olson (Boston University)
Speakers: Judith Kipper (Director, Middle East Forum, Council on Foreign Relations)
Mona Abousenna (Ain Shams University)
John Silber (Boston University)
David Rasmussen (Boston College)
Paul Kurtz (University at Buffalo, State University
of
New York)
Mourad Wahba (Ain Shams University)
David George (University of Newcastle)
Krzysztof Michalski (Boston University and University
of Warsaw)
X-K. Special Session Arranged by the Association
for
Symbolic Logic
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Topic: Logic Instruction and Philosophy Graduate Training
Co-Chairs: Richard Zach (University of California-Irvine)
and
Andy Arana (Kansas State University)
Discussants: Delia Graff (Cornell University)
Michael Glanzberg (University of California-Davis)
Ted Sider (Rutgers University)
X-L. Author Meets Critics: David Charles, Aristotle
on Meaning
and Essence
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Chris Bobonich (Stanford University)
Critics: Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)
Alan Code (University of California-Berkeley)
Author: David Charles (Oxford University)
Saturday Early Evening, March 26
Session XI — 5:00-7:00 p.m.
XI-A. Invited Paper: Literary Interpretation
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Stephen Davies (University of Auckland)
"Author's Intentions and Literary Interpretation"
Commentators: Aaron Meskin (Texas Tech University)
Sherri Irvin (Carleton University)
XI-B. Invited Paper: Platonic Psychology
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Charles Young (Claremont Graduate University)
Speaker: Rachana Kamtekar (University of Arizona)
"Speaking with the Same Voice as Reason: Personification in Plato's Psychology"
Commentators: Anthony Long (University of California-Berkeley)
Charles Kahn (University of Pennsylvania)
XI-C. Author Meets Critics: Eric Watkins, Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Mary Domski (California State University-Fresno)
Critics: Manfred Kuehn (University of Marburg and Boston University)
Martin Schonfeld (University of South Florida)
Author: Eric Watkins (University of California-San Diego)
XI-D. Author Meets Critics: Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore, Insensitive Semantics
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Takashi Yagisawa (California State University-Northridge)
Critics: Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University)
John MacFarlane (University of California-Berkeley)
Authors: Herman Cappelen (University of Oslo)
Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University)
XI-E. Author Meets Critics: Thomas Ryckman, The Reign of Relativity: Philosophy in Physics, 1915-1925
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Chair: Arthur Fine (University of Washington)
Critics: Michael Friedman (Stanford University)
Donald Howard (University of Notre Dame)
Author: Thomas Ryckman (S