Proceedings And Addresses
January, 2005 (Volume 78, Issue 3)
Letter from the Secretary-Treasurer
To All Members of the Association:
The Executive Committee of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association cordially invites you to attend the 79th annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. The meeting will be held at the Westin St. Francis on Union Square from late afternoon on Tuesday, March 22th (when the first mini-conference begins), through Sunday morning, March 27, 2005 (when the main program ends).
1. Meeting Location and Special Attractions
The hotel is located on Powell Street, between Post and Geary, facing Union Square. The address is 335 Powell Street, San Francisco, California 94102-1875; the telephone number is 415-397-7000; and the fax number is 415-774-0124. One of the handful of classic and historic deluxe hotels in San Francisco, the Westin St. Francis has its own cable-car stop and a view overlooking the refurbished Union Square. The St. Francis now is the site of a new high-end restaurant called Mina. Mina enjoyed the highest profile opening accorded to any San Francisco restaurant during the past decade. Securing your reservation in advance is advised: call (415) 397-9222. The St. Francis remains a favorite stop for afternoon tea, and a new lobby bar, The Onyx, has expanded the locations where philosophers can enjoy conversing.
The hotel is within walking distance of Chinatown, the theater district, Yerba Buena Center, and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as dozens of San Francisco's finest restaurants. North Beach is a few minutes ride away on the cable car. A similarly short ride on the bus down Geary Street brings you to the Civic Center, which features the Symphony, the Ballet, and the Asian Art Museum.
For those aspiring to ascend speedily to the heights, five glass elevators zip up the 32-story tower at 1,000 feet per minute. Get in, press the 32 button and soar upwards at about one floor per second as Coit Tower, the Financial District and the Bay Bridge rush into view. The downward plummet is even more thrilling, especially for those who dare to press themselves against the glass and look down as they hurtle toward Union Square. (If this description doesn't appeal to you, ask for one of the hotel's plentiful supply of lower floor rooms.)
Plan to spend some extra days in San Francisco. A list of museums, galleries, theaters, concert halls, restaurants and clubs can be found in this issue of the Proceedings. If you are interested in taking a day trip to the Wine Country or Monterey, or heading for skiing in Tahoe, call the concierge at the St. Francis for booking advice. Reservations - A hotel reservation form is printed in this issue of the Proceedings. Reservations can be made by calling 415-397-7000. We urge you to make your reservations very early to assure that you obtain the APA convention rate of $159 for a single room and $179 for a double.
2. Travel Information
Driving: (Dial 511 for latest traffic information) -
From the South: Take 101 North to 4th St. exit onto Bryant St. Continue 1 block and turn left onto 3rd St., which becomes Kearny St. Cross the Market St. intersection at Geary and turn left onto Geary. The St. Francis auto entrance is on Geary, just past Union Square on your right.
From the North Across the Bay Bridge:
Take 101 South to Fremont St. exit, turn left on Fremont, turn left on Howard, turn right on Third St., Third St. becomes Kearny St. Then follow instructions above.
From the North Across the Golden Gate Bridge:
Exit Lombard St. Turn right onto Van Ness, and left onto Bush. At Powell (just at the corner or Union Square), turn right, then turn right at Geary to find hotel's auto entrance.
Parking: Parking in the garage under Union Square costs $28 per day. Drive down Geary - nearly to Van Ness - and you can find garages with a flat $10 fee, but it's a long walk back.
By Air: From San Francisco Airport (SFO), numerous shuttles will take you to Union Square. Check to find the most competitive price (can be as low as $10-$12), but be sure to ask when the van will leave (some wait till they are full) and whether they take you directly downtown to Union Square without many earlier stops. Taxis will take you downtown as well, with a fare running around $35.
You can BART (that is, ride Bay Area Rapid Transit's subway trains) to town from San Francisco Airport as well. The SFO BART station is located on the Departures/Ticketing Level (Level 3) of the International Terminal, on the Boarding Area G side of the terminal near the Berman Reflection Room. BART is also easily accessed from any terminal by riding SFO's AirTrain to the Garage G/BART Station stop. There is no charge to board AirTrain. BART to the Powell Street Station in San Francisco and head for Union Square, where our hotel is located. BART also provides a direct connection from SFO to Caltrain at the Millbrae station.
From Oakland Airport, you also can BART to San Francisco by taking an AirBART shuttle to the Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART station, and then the subway to the Powell Street Station in San Francisco. As at San Francisco Airport, there are numerous shuttles to San Francisco.
In the City: The Powell Street Cable
Car stops in front of the hotel. MUNI Buses 2,3,4 and 38 do so as well.
BART will take you to various parts of the City and to the East Bay
(Oakland and Berkeley). For detailed information about public transportation
in San Francisco, including transit maps, check
http://www.511.org/. You also can dial 511 on landline phones and on
most cell phones to obtain public transit information.
3. Convention Registration
The registration fee is $10.00 for student members, $50.00 for regular members, and $60.00 for non-members of the APA who wish to attend more than a single session. Special tickets for $10.00 will be available to non-members who wish to attend a single session or one of the receptions. Only those who are registered or have purchased the limited number of extra tickets may attend the scheduled sessions or receptions. Please be sure to wear your convention badge at all times to identify yourself as a registered participant.
A Pre-Registration form is included in the back of this issue of the Proceedings. People who are not now members of the APA may take advantage of the lower registration fee by becoming members. Membership forms are available from the National Office, on-line at www.apaonline.org, and also will be available at the Convention Registration desk.
Mini-conferences on the Philosophy of the Emotions and on Richard Rufus of Cornwall, each organized independently under the Pacific Division's mini-conference program, are included in the regular registration fee.
4. Placement Service
Only APA members are eligible to use the Placement services. Appointing officers and applicants are urged to make preparations for their part in the placement operation in advance of the meeting.
5. Presidential Address
The Presidential Address will be delivered by Hubert Dreyfus at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, March 25, in the Grand Ballroom. The title of the address is "How Analytic Philosophers Can Profit From What Continental Philosophers Say About Everyday Skillful Coping."
Vice President Jeffrie Murphy will introduce President Dreyfus.
6. Carus Lectures
The Pacific Division is pleased to host the Carus Lectures. Tyler Burge will deliver the Carus Lectures on "Perceptual Objectivity" in plenary sessions scheduled for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. each day in the Colonial Room.
7. Receptions and Special Events
The foyer of the Tower Salon, off the lobby
beyond the Tower elevators, is the site of a small reception at 5:30
p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, after the opening talk of the Philosophy
of the Emotions Mini-conference. A reception beginning at 5:00 p.m.
on Wednesday, March 23, the first day of the Main Program, also will
be held in the foyer of the Tower Salon. The Annual Reception will begin
at 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 24, in the Colonial Room. The Association
for Symbolic Logic will hold a reception on Friday, March 25, from 5:00
to 7:00 p.m. in the Italian Room. The Presidential
Reception will be held from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Friday, March
25, in the Italian Room.
Generally, receptions are for persons registered at the convention. Tickets for guests may be purchased at the door of receptions or the convention registration desk. Please check with the convention registration desk for information about receptions: more events may be added to the schedule as the convention date nears.
A Special Memorial Session on the Philosophy of Richard Wollheim, Past President of the APA Pacific Division, will be held on Friday, March 25, at 2:00 p.m. in Elizabethan A.
A Special Memorial Session on the Philosophy of Joel Feinberg, Past President of the APA Pacific Division and Past Chair of the APA Board of Officers, will be held on Saturday, March 26, at 2:00 p.m. in the Georgian Room.
A special invitation is extended to graduate students, and graduate program coordinators and placement officers, to attend a meeting at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 25, in Elizabethan B. This meeting is arranged by the APA Committee on Career Opportunities. The topic of the meeting is "Advice for Those Who Will Be in the Job Market Next Year."
8. Prizes
Sharon A. Street has won the 2005 Jean Hampton Prize for her paper "A Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value." The award is made by the APA and the University of Arizona Philosophy Department in memory of Jean Hampton to honor her contributions to philosophy and to the APA. It goes to the author in an early career stage who has written the best paper in Professor Hampton's areas of philosophical interest accepted for the APA Pacific Division Program. The members of the 2005 Hampton Prize Committee were Thomas Christiano (Chair), Christina Bellon, Michael Gill, Richard Healey, and Peter Thielke. Professor Street will deliver her paper at the Symposium on Value Realism (XI-H) on Saturday, March 26, at 5:00 p.m. in the Victorian Room.
David Reidy has won the 2005 Fred Berger Memorial Prize for his paper "Hate Crimes, Oppression, and Legal Theory." The award is made by the APA in memory of Fred Berger to honor his contributions to philosophy and to the APA. The 2005 prize was awarded for an outstanding article in philosophy of law published by a member of the APA in 2002 or 2003.
The APA Committee on Law and Philosophy selects the winning article. Members are Patricia Smith (Chair), Andrew Altman, Richard Arneson, Brian Bix, Jeffrey Brand-Ballard, Sarah Holtman, Mortimer Sellers, and Theodore Benditt. Professor Reidy will respond to discussions of his published paper at a Special Session (XI-J) arranged by the APA Committee on Law and Philosophy on Saturday, March 26, at 5:00 p.m. in the Georgian Room.
The APA Pacific Division Program Committee awards the prizes for outstanding papers by graduate students. The following list gives the authors, paper titles, and program session designations of the winners of the prizes for outstanding papers by graduate students:
Darren Abramson (Indiana University)
"Computability Theory and the Philosophy of Mind" (I-F)
Andrew M. Cullison (University of Rochester)
"Privileged Access, Externalism, and Ways of Believing" (X-E)
Daniel B. Dennis (University of Edinburgh)
"Kant's Account of Treating Human Beings as Ends: Moral Harm, Natural
Harm and Perfect Duty" (IX-G)
Stephen R. Grimm (University of Notre Dame)
"Nameless Values?" (VII-H)
Ramona Cristina Ilea (University of Minnesota)
"The Capabilities Approach and Non-Human Animals" (XII-G)
Daniel Korman (University of Texas_Austin)
"What Anti-Individualists Should Say About Dry Earth" (VI-G)
Alyssa Ney (Brown University)
"Can an Appeal to Constitution Solve the Exclusion Problem?"
(XII-J)
Lara Ostaric (University of Notre Dame)
"Point of View of Man or Knowledge of God? An Answer to Beatrice
Longuenesse" (X-G)
Aaron A. Schiller (University of California_San
Diego)
"That Other Myth: Understanding Sellars's Myth of Jones" (II-F)
Matthew H. Slater (Columbia University)
"The Arbitrariness of Mereological Immoderation" (VIII-I)
Teemu Toppinen (University of Helsinki)
"No Harm Done in the Expressivist Circles" (IX-F)
9. Mini-Conferences
The Executive Committee of the APA Pacific Division sponsors a mini-conference program that offers members the opportunity to organize small conferences in association with the Pacific Division's Annual Meeting. Proposals for mini-conferences are reviewed by the Executive Committee. Mini-conferences address philosophical topics that are not the subject of, or are insufficiently treated by, existing conference programs in the United States. Proposals should explain how a mini-conference on the selected topic advances philosophical scholarship. A request for proposals for mini-conferences is printed after the program information in this issue of the Proceedings.
The Mini-conference on Global Justice at the
2004 Annual Meeting marked the successful debut of the mini-conference
program. At the 2005 Annual Meeting, a Mini-conference on the Philosophy
of the Emotions begins on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 22, and ends
on Wednesday afternoon, March 23. The program will be found in this
Proceedings. For further information, please contact Organizing
Committee Chair Robert Solomon at rsolomon@mail.utexas.edu.
A Mini-conference on Richard Rufus of Cornwall begins on the afternoon
of Wednesday, March 23, and ends on Thursday afternoon, March 24. The
program will be found in this Proceedings. For further
information, please contact Organizing Committee Chair Rega Wood at
regawood@stanford.edu.
10. Business Meeting and Voting Membership
The annual Business Meeting will be held from noon to 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 24. If needed to complete the agenda, the Business Meeting also will be convened from noon to 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26. There will be reports from the Divisional and National Officers. According to the Association's By-Laws, regular membership is given by an act of the Executive Director on behalf of the Board of Officers. Each year the list of regular members that appears in the November Proceedings is used as the list of eligible voters for the three subsequent Divisional business meetings.
11. Report of the Pacific Division Nominating Committee
Wayne Martin (Chair), David Chalmers, and Marcia Homiak served as the 2004/05 Nominating Committee. They have nominated the following APA Pacific Division members for terms beginning July 1, 2005:
For Vice-President: Calvin Normore
For Representative to the Board of Officers: Allen Wood
For Executive Committee (3 year term): Janet Levin
12. 2005 Program Committee and Program
The Program Committee which prepared this year's program consists of Dominic McIver Lopes (Chair), Heather Battaly, Christina Bellon, Tim Black, Christopher Bobonich, Thomas Christiano, Jonathan Cohen, Stewart Cohen, Arthur Fine, J. M. Fritzman, Sara Goering, Pamela Hood, Gale Justin, David Kim, Jeffrey King, Christopher Kutz, Shaun Nichols, Thomas Nickles, Donald Rutherford, Eric Schwitzgebel, Cindy Stern, Peter Thielke, Mark Timmons, Takashi Yagisawa, Julie Van Camp, Andrea Woody, and Mark Wrathall. The Program Committee and Executive Committee thank Paul Bartha, Leslie Francis, Shaughan Lavine, Steven Savitt, Ori Simchen, and Chris Stephens for their generous service as program consultants.
Principal papers in Colloquia and Symposia were selected after blind review of all submitted papers. Participants in Invited Paper, Invited Symposia, Author Meets Critics and Workshop meetings were invited by the Program Committee. Participants in meetings arranged by APA Committees were selected by those Committees.
13. 2006 Meeting Site and Program
The 2006 Pacific Division Meeting will be held
at the Hilton in Portland, Oregon. The Program Committee for this 80th
Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division,
invites contributions for the 2006 meeting. The deadline for submission
is September 1, 2005. Each author may make only one submission. Please
indicate prominently that the paper is submitted for the 2006 Pacific
Division Meeting. Because the Program Committee will blind-review all
submissions, the names of the author and
her/his institution should appear only on a separate cover page; they
should not appear in the paper in any way that defeats the operation
of blind-reviewing.
The 2006 Program Committee also welcomes suggestions for topics and/or speakers of invited sessions. Recommendations (including self-nominations) for commentators and session chairs also are encouraged. These all should be sent to the 2006 Program Chair, Sara Goering, at the Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, 345 Savery, Box 353350, Seattle, WA 98195, or faxed to her at (206)685-8740, or emailed to sgoering@u.washington.edu. When volunteering someone other than yourself, please be sure your nominee is willing to participate in the program. Nominations should reach the program committee by September 1, 2005, and should include a short account of the individual's areas of specialization and record of scholarship.
14. Nominations for the 2006 Nominating and Program Committees
Pacific Division members may make nominations or volunteer for membership on the 2006 Nominating and Program Committees by emailing to the Secretary-Treasurer, Anita Silvers, at asilvers@sfsu.edu by March 14, 2005.
15. Accommodating Members with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
To provide a welcoming environment for members with multiple chemical sensitivities, all members are requested to refrain from wearing scented products.
On behalf of the Executive and Program Committees of the APA Pacific Division, I extend to every member of the American Philosophical Association a warm invitation to take part in our seventy-ninth Annual Meeting.
Cordially yours,
Anita Silvers, Secretary-Treasurer for the Executive Committee
Pacific Division
Sara Goering (Chair)
Julia Annas
David Brink
Hubert Dreyfus
Michael Jubien
Dominic McIver Lopes
Jeffrie Murphy
Calvin Normore
Nicholas Smith