The American Philosophical Association

Eastern Division
One Hundred Second Annual Meeting Program

December 27-30, 2005
Hilton New York

Tuesday Afternoon, December 27

Executive Committee Meeting

1:00-6:00 p.m., Hilton Board Room (Fourth Floor)

Registration

3:00-10:00 p.m., Second Floor Promenade

Placement Information

Interviewers: 2:00-10:00 p.m., Petit Trianon (Third Floor)

Candidates: 3:00-10:00 p.m., Rendezvous Trianon (Third Floor)

Interview Tables: Americas Hall I (Third Floor)

Tuesday Evening, December 27

Group Meetings, 8:00-11:00 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

Association for Symbolic Logic, Concourse G

International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Concourse F

North American Nietzsche Society, Concourse A

Philosophy of Time Society, Concourse E

Society for Realist/Anti-Realist Discussion, Concourse C

Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Concourse D

Wednesday Morning/Afternoon, Registration to I-D

Wednesday Morning, December 28

Registration

9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Second Floor Promenade

Placement Information

Interviewers: 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Petit Trianon (Third Floor)

Candidates: 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Rendezvous Trianon (Third Floor)

Interview Tables: Americas Hall I (Third Floor)

Book Exhibits

10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Rhinelander Gallery (Second Floor)

Committee and Group Meetings, 9:00-11:00 a.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Concourse B

American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Concourse C

Hegel Society of America, Concourse A

History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society, Concourse F

International St. Thomas Society, Concourse G

Karl Jaspers Society of North America and Hannah Arendt Circle, Gibson Suite (Second Floor)

North American Society for Social Philosophy, Morgan Suite (Second Floor)

North American Spinoza Society, Clinton Suite (Second Floor)

Simone de Beauvoir Circle, Concourse H

Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Concourse D

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy and William James Society, Gramercy Suite B (Second Floor)

Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, Bryant Suite (Second Floor)

Committee and Group Meetings, 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

American Society for Value Inquiry, Concourse B

Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, Concourse C

Association for the Philosophy of the Unconscious, Concourse D

Bertrand Russell Society, Concourse F

Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Gramercy Suite B (Second Floor)

International Society for Buddhist Philosophy, Concourse H

International Society for Environmental Ethics, Concourse G

Molinari Society, Morgan Suite (Second Floor)

Personalist Discussion Group, Bryant Suite (Second Floor)

Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, Clinton Suite (Second Floor)

Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession and the Society of Philosophers in America, Regent Parlor (Second Floor)

Wednesday Afternoon, December 28

Session I _ 2:00-5:00 p.m.

I-A. Symposium: Evil, Atrocity, and Complicity

2:00-5:00 p.m., Beekman Parlor (Second Floor)

Chair: Margaret Walker (Arizona State University)

Speakers: Iris Marion Young (University of Chicago)

Christopher Kutz (University of California_Berkeley)

Commentator: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin)

I-B. Symposium: Philosophy for Children 30 Years Later

2:00-5:00 p.m., Regent Parlor (Second Floor)

Chair: Gareth Matthews (University of Massachusetts_Amherst)

Speakers: Kristina Calvert (University of Hamburg_Germany)

David Kennedy (Montclair State University)

Commentator: Gareth Matthews (University of Massachusetts_Amherst)

I-C. Symposium: Phenomenology and the Environment

2:00-5:00 p.m., Sutton Parlor South (Second Floor)

Chair: Bruce Foltz (Eckerd College)

Speakers: Edward Casey (State University of New York_Stony Brook)

Charles Scott (Pennsylvania State University)

Commentator: David Wood (Vanderbilt University)

I-D. Symposium: A Priori Knowledge and Justification

2:00-5:00 p.m., Sutton Parlor Center (Second Floor)

Chair: Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachusetts_Amherst)

Speakers: George Bealer (Yale University)

Michael Devitt (City University of New York_Graduate Center)

Commentator: James Pryor (Princeton University)

I-E. Authors Meet Critics: Max Bennett and Peter Hacker, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience

2:00-5:00 p.m., Gramercy Suite A (Second Floor)

Chair: Owen Flanagan (Duke University)

Critics: Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)

John Searle (University of California_Berkeley)

Authors: Max Bennett (University of Sydney) and Peter Hacker (Oxford University)

I-F. Author Meets Critics: David Sedley, Plato's Cratylus

2:00-5:00 p.m., Sutton Parlor North (Second Floor)

Chair: Matthew Evans (New York University)

Critics: James Allen (University of Pittsburgh)

Christine Thomas (Dartmouth College)

Author: David Sedley (Cambridge University)

I-G. Colloquium: Hermeneutics

2:00-5:00 p.m., Gramercy Suite B (Second Floor)

Chair: James Risser (Seattle University)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Speaker: Sebastian Luft (Marquette University)

"Husserl's `Hermeneutical Phenomenology'"

Commentator: John Drummond (Fordham University)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Speaker: James Couch (Southern Illinois University)

"The Worldly and Human Significance of Art: An Exercise in Understanding through Arendt and Gadamer"

Commentator: Bernard Flynn (New School University)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Speaker: William McNeill (DePaul University)

"A Wave in the Stream of Chaos: Life Beyond the Body in Heidegger's Nietzsche"

Commentator: William Richardson (Boston College)

I-H. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language

2:00-5:00 p.m., Murray Hill Suite A (Second Floor)

Chair: Mark Richard (Tufts University)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Speaker: Tomis Kapitan (Northern Illinois University)

"Indexicals and Modality"

Commentator: Graeme Forbes (Tulane University)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Berit Brogaard (University of Missouri_St. Louis)

"Russell's Theory of Descriptions vs. the Predicative Analysis: A Reply to Graff"

Commentator: Delia Graff (Princeton University)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Speaker: Anthony Corsentino (Harvard University)

"Predicates and Properties"

Commentator: Ram Neta (University of North Carolina_Chapel Hill)

I-I. Colloquium: Rawlsian Liberalism and the Circumstances of Justice

2:00-5:00 p.m., Murray Hill Suite B (Second Floor)

Chair: Jon Garthoff (Northwestern University)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Speaker: Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)

"Does Political Liberalism Rest on a Mistake?"

Commentator: Victoria Kamsler (Institute for Advanced Study_Princeton)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Paul Gomberg (Chicago State University)

"Dilemmas of Rawlsian Opportunity"

Commentator: Charles Mills (University of Illinois_Chicago)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Speaker: Hye-ryoung Kang (University of Colorado_Boulder)

"Rethinking `The Circumstances of Global Justice' in Non-ideal Conditions"

Commentator: Idil Boran (University of Quebec_Montréal)

I-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness

2:00-5:00 p.m., Clinton Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethics of Identity

Chair: Anna Stubblefield (Rutgers University_Newark)

Critics: Jorge Gracia (University at Buffalo_State University of New York)

Michele Moody-Adams (Cornell University)

Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)

Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton University)

I-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation

2:00-5:00 p.m., Morgan Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: Philosophy in Portugal

Chair: Ernest Sosa (Brown University)

Speakers: João Branquinho (University of Lisbon_Portugal)

"On the Persistence of Indexical Belief"

João Saagua (New University of Lisbon_Portugal)

"Contexts, Minimal Propositions and Communication"

Antonio Marques (New University of Lisbon_Portugal)

"An Expressivist Point of View on the Inner and Outer Relation"

Maria Filomena Molder (New University of Lisbon_Portugal)

"The Productive Inactuality of Benjamin's Concept of Criticism"

Commentator: Jason Stanley (Rutgers University)

I-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies

2:00-5:00 p.m., Bryant Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: The Contemporary Relevance of Confucian Philosophy

Chair: Bryan W. Van Norden (Vassar College)

Speakers: Eric Schwhitzgebel (University of California_Riverside)

"Human Nature and Moral Education"

Aaron Stalnaker (Indiana University)

"Confucian Democracy and the Virtue of Deference"

Commentator: Philip Ivanhoe (Boston University)

Group Meetings, 2:00-5:00 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society, Concourse C

Association for Symbolic Logic, Concourse G

Conference on Philosophical Societies, Concourse B

Hume Society, Concourse D

International Institute for Field-Being, Concourse F

Josiah Royce Society, Concourse E

Wednesday Evening, December 28

APA Prize Reception (open to all; wine/cheese served)

5:00-6:00 p.m., Mercury Rotunda (Third Floor)

APA National Prizes

Book Prize

Winner: Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado)

Title: Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature

Honorable Mention: Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin)

Title: Moral Realism: A Defence

Honorable Mention: David Boonin (University of Colorado_Boulder)

Title: A Defense of Abortion

Latin American Thought

Winner: Gregory Pappas (Texas A&M University)

Title: "The American Challenge: The Tension between the Values of the Anglo and the Hispanic" (V-I)

Eastern Division Graduate Student Travel Stipends

Winner: David Bourget (University of Toronto)

Title: "Surface Externalism: Confronting the Dark Side of Twin Earth" (III-F)

Winner: James Couch (Southern Illinois University)

Title: "The Worldly and Human Significance of Art: An Exercise in Understanding through Arendt and Gadamer" (I-G)

Winner: Iskra Fileva (Boston University)

Title: "The Neutrality of Rightness and the Indexicality of Goodness: Beyond Objectivity and Back Again" (II-E)

Winner: Gregory Frost-Arnold (University of Pittsburgh)

Title: "Too Much Reference: Semantics for Multiply Signifying Terms" (IV-H)

Winner: Robert Hughes (University of California_Los Angeles)

Title: "Self-Ownership and Coercion" (II-H)

Winner: Anthony Jensen (Emory University)

Title: "The Historical Background of Nietzsche's Own `Historie'" (V-D)

Winner: Daniel Korman (University of Texas)

Title: "Locke on Substratum: A Deflationary Reading" (III-H)

Winner: Geoffrey Pynn (Yale University)

Title: "Knowing a Name" (IV-H)

Winner: Elka Shortsleeve (University of Florida)

Title: "Knowledge and Certainty: A Speech-Act Contextualist Account" (III-I)

Committee and Group Meetings, 5:15-7:15 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Concourse C

Charles S. Pierce Society, Concourse B

International Adam Smith Society, Concourse D

International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Concourse F

Society for Business Ethics, Concourse E

Society for Iberian and Latin American Philosophy and APA Committee on Hispanics, Concourse H

Society for Machines and Mentality, Concourse G

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Gramercy Suite A (Second Floor)

Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, Gibson Suite (Second Floor)

Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Bryant Suite (Second Floor)

Society for the Philosophy of Human Life Issues, Clinton Suite (Second Floor)

Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, Morgan Suite (Second Floor)

Society for Women in Philosophy, Nassau Suite B (Second Floor)

Society of Philosophers in America, Murray Hill Suite A (Second Floor)

Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement, Gramercy Suite B (Second Floor)

Committee and Group Meetings, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

American Society for Aesthetics, Concourse C

Association for Symbolic Logic, Concourse G

Association of Chinese Philosophers in America, Concourse D

Leibniz Society of North America, Concourse B

North American Kant Society, Murray Hill Suite B (Second Floor)

Philosophers in Jesuit Education, Concourse H

Radical Philosophy Association, Concourse E

Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion, Bryant Suite (Second Floor)

Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Morgan Suite (Second Floor)

Society for Skeptical Studies, Gibson Suite (Second Floor)

Society for Social and Political Philosophy, Gramercy Suite B (Second Floor)

Society for Systematic Philosophy, Murray Hill Suite A (Second Floor)

World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Clinton Suite (Second Floor)

Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the Profession, Gramercy Suite A (Second Floor)

Reception

8:00-Midnight, Grand Ballroom (Third Floor)

Thursday Morning, December 29

Registration

9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Second Floor Promenade

Placement Information

Interviewers: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Petit Trianon (Third Floor)

Candidates: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Rendezvous Trianon (Third Floor)

Interview Tables: Americas Hall I (Third Floor)

Book Exhibits

10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Rhinelander Gallery (Second Floor)

Session II _ 9:00-11:00 a.m.

II-A. Invited Papers: Centennial of Einstein's Theory of Relativity

9:00-11:00 a.m., Gramercy Suite A (Second Floor)

Chair: Ori Belkind (University of Western Ontario)

Speakers: Don Howard (University of Notre Dame)

Michael Friedman (Stanford University)

II-B. Invited Papers: Centennial of "On Denoting"

9:00-11:00 a.m., Regent Parlor (Second Floor)

Chair: Stephen Schiffer (New York University)

Speakers: Scott Soames (University of Southern California)

Stephen Neale (Rutgers University)

II-C. Invited Papers: Kant and Nietzsche

9:00-11:00 a.m., Sutton Parlor South (Second Floor)

Chair: Babette E. Babich (Fordham University)

Speakers: Douglas Burnham (University of Staffordshire_UK)

Volker Gerhardt (Humboldt University_Germany)

II-D. Symposium: Our Call: The Constitutive Importance of the People's Judgment

9:00-11:00 a.m., Sutton Parlor North (Second Floor)

Chair: Rebecca Kukla (Carleton University)

Speaker: Henry Richardson (Georgetown University)

Commentators: Scott Shapiro (University of Michigan)

Christopher Wellman (Washington University_St. Louis)

II-E. Colloquium: Moral Stances

9:00-11:00 a.m., Sutton Parlor Center (Second Floor)

Chair: Justin Weinberg (College of William & Mary)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Iskra Fileva (Boston University)

"The Neutrality of Rightness and the Indexicality of Goodness: Beyond Objectivity and Back Again"

Commentator: Douglas Lavin (Harvard University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Speaker: Edward Kleist (Loyola University of New Orleans)

"Imagination and Values: An Exercise in Moral Mapping"

Commentator: Troy Jollimore (California State University_Chico)

II-F. Colloquium: Berkeley

9:00-11:00 a.m., Gramercy Suite B (Second Floor)

Chair: Nancy Kendrick (Wheaton College_Massachusetts)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Marc Hight (Hampden_Sydney College)

"Berkeley on `All the Dispute is about a Word'"

Commentator: Ken Winkler (Wellesley College)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Speaker: Genevieve Migely (Claremont Graduate University)

"Berkeley's Mental Architecture: A Coherent Account of Intentionality"

Commentator: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)

II-G. Colloquium: Numbers

9:00-11:00 a.m., Murray Hill Suite A (Second Floor)

Chair: Gideon Rosen (Princeton University)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Cian Dorr (University of Pittsburgh)

"Numbers and Electrons"

Commentator: Karen Bennett (Princeton University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Speaker: Joongol Kim (Western Illinois University)

"An Adverbial Theory of Numbers"

Commentator: Agustin Rayo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

II-H. Colloquium: Coercion

9:00-11:00 a.m., Murray Hill Suite B (Second Floor)

Chair: Alisa Carse (Georgetown University)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Robert Hughes (University of California_Los Angeles)

"Self-Ownership and Coercion"

Commentator: Andrew Jason Cohen (Georgia State University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Speaker: Scott Anderson (University of British Columbia)

"Of Theories of Coercion, Two Axes, and Some Grinding"

Commentator: Alan Wertheimer (University of Vermont)

II-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Blacks and Philosophy

9:00-11:00 a.m., Gibson Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: Black Women in/and The Profession of Philosophy

Chair: George Yancy (Duquesne University)

Speakers: Anita Allen (University of Pennsylvania)

Anika Mann (Morgan State University)

Donna-Dale Marcano (Trinity College)

Michele Moody-Adams (Cornell University)

Jacqueline Scott (Loyola University of Chicago)

(This session may continue past 11:00 a.m.)

II-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Non-Academic Careers

9:00-11:00 a.m., Concourse A

Topic: Transitions to Non-Academic Careers: Philosophers Meet the "Real World"

Chair: Georgia Warnke (University of California_Riverside)

Speakers: John Drennan (US Government attorney)

Megan Pincus Kajitani (University of California_San Diego)

Rebecca Bryant (University of Illinois_Urbana-Champaign)

Saul Fisher (American Council of Learned Societies)

(This session may continue past 11:00 a.m.)

Group Meetings, 9:00-11:00 a.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

Association of Chinese Philosophers in America, Concourse F

Sartre Circle, Concourse B

Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Clinton Suite (Second Floor)

Society of Christian Philosophers, Nassau Suite B (Second Floor)

Business Meeting

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom (Third Floor)

Group Meetings, 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

Association for the Philosophy of the Unconscious, Concourse D

Conference on Philosophical Societies, Concourse C

North American Spinoza Society, Concourse E

Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Concourse G

Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism, Concourse H

Society for the Philosophy of Creativity, Bryant Suite (Second Floor)

Society of Humanist Philosophers, Morgan Suite (Second Floor)

Thursday Afternoon, December 29

Session III _ 1:30-4:30 p.m.

III-A. Symposium: Multinational Corporations & Global Justice

1:30-4:30 p.m., Regent Parlor (Second Floor)

Chair: Judith Lichtenberg (University of Maryland)

Speakers: Denis Arnold (University of Tennessee_Knoxville)

Thomas Donaldson (University of Pennsylvania)

Commentator: Georges Enderle (University of Notre Dame)

III-B. Symposium: Essence and Existence: Thomas Aquinas and Islamic Philosophy

1:30-4:30 p.m., Sutton Parlor South (Second Floor)

Chair: Stephen Menn (McGill University)

Speakers: Anthony Kenny (Oxford University)

Robert Wisnovsky (McGill University)

Commentator: Peter Adamson (Kings College London)

III-C. Symposium: Early Modern Biology

1:30-4:30 p.m., Sutton Parlor North (Second Floor)

Chair: Dennis Des Chene (Washington University_St. Louis)

Speakers: Karen Detlefsen (University of Pennsylvania)

Justin Smith (Concordia University)

Commentator: Saul Fisher (American Council of Learned Societies)

III-D. Symposium: Perspectives on Analytic and Continental Philosophy

1:30-4:30 p.m., Gramercy Suite A (Second Floor)

Chair: Stephen Watson (University of Notre Dame)

Speakers: Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh)

Simon Critchley (New School University)

Commentator: Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University)

III-E. Author Meets Critics: Alan Paskow, Paradoxes of Art

1:30-4:30 p.m., Beekman Parlor (Second Floor)

Chair: John Kulvicki (Dartmouth College)

Critics: Andrew Benjamin (University of Sydney)

Gary Shapiro (University of Richmond)

Author: Alan Paskow (St. Mary's College of Maryland)

III-F. Colloquium: Ontological Issues in the Philosophy of Mind

1:30-4:30 p.m., Sutton Parlor Center (Second Floor)

Chair: Karsten Stueber (College of the Holy Cross)

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Speaker: David Bourget (University of Toronto)

"Surface Externalism: Confronting the Dark Side of Twin Earth"

Commentator: Henry Jackman (York University_Ontario)

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Speaker: Paul Raymont (Trent University)

"Some Experienced Qualities Belong to the Experience"

Commentator: Adam Pautz (University of Texas_Austin)

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Speaker: Peter Bokulich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Putting Zombies to Rest: The Role of Dynamics in Reduction"

Commentator: William Seager (University of Toronto)

III-G. Colloquium: Kant's Ethics

1:30-4:30 p.m., Gramercy Suite B (Second Floor)

Chair: Samuel Kerstein (University of Maryland)

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Speaker: Matthew Caswell (Boston University)

"Kant on the Diabolical Will: A Neglected Alternative?"

Commentator: David Sussman (University of Illinois_Urbana-Champaign)

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Speaker: Lucas Thorpe (Bilkent University_Turkey)

"Kant's Moral Idealism: What's Wrong with Constructivist Readings of Kant's Ethics"

Commentator: Julian Wuerth (University of Cincinnati)

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Speaker: Crystal Thorpe (University of Florida)

"The Gap in Kant's Derivation of the Categorical Imperative"

Commentator: Carol Voeller (University of Maryland_Baltimore County)

III-H. Colloquium: History and Metaphysics

1:30-4:30 p.m., Murray Hill Suite A (Second Floor)

Chair: Yitzhak Melamed (University of Chicago)

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Speaker: Daniel Korman (University of Texas)

"Locke on Substratum: A Deflationary Reading"

Commentator: Matthew Stuart (Bowdoin College)

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Speaker: Mary MacLeod (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

"Kant's Theory of Synthesis and the Problem of Universals"

Commentator: Bruce Aune (University of Massachusetts_Amherst)

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Speaker: J.C. Berendzen (Loyola University of New Orleans)

"Horkeimer's Materialist Stance"

Commentator: Max Pensky (Binghamton University_State University of New York)

III-I. Colloquium: Epistemology

1:30-4:30 p.m., Murray Hill Suite B (Second Floor)

Chair: Sharon Ryan (West Virginia University)

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Speaker: Jonathan Schaffer (University of Massachusetts_Amherst)

"Knowing the Answer"

Commentator: Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana University)

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Speaker: Elka Shortsleeve (University of Florida)

"Knowledge and Certainty: A Speech-Act Contextualist Account"

Commentator: Adam Leite (Indiana University)

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Speaker: Christopher Tillman (University of Rochester)

"Some Problems for Contextualism"

Commentator: Peter Ludlow (University of Michigan)

III-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation

1:30-4:30 p.m., Morgan Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: Philosophical Studies in China in View of Constructive Engagement

Chair: Bo Mou (California State University_San Jose)

Speakers: Dikun Xie (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

"A General Introduction to Philosophical Studies in China"

Xianglong Zhang (Peking University)

"Studies of Western Philosophy in China"

Commentator: Jinfen Yan (University of Toronto_Scarborough)

III-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine

1:30-4:30 p.m., Bryant Suite (Second Floor)

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"

III-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Pre-College Philosophy

1:30-4:30 p.m., West Promenade (Third Floor)

Topic: The Ethics of Consumption

Chair: Kenneth (No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed)

Speakers: Students from New York Area High Schools

III-M. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy

1:30-4:30 p.m., Gibson Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: What Does Philosophy Contribute to Public Life?

Chair: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)

Speakers: Arthur Danto (Columbia University)

Cornel West (Princeton University)

Others TBA

III-N. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women and the APA Committee on Inclusiveness

1:30-4:30 p.m., Clinton Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: Ontology of Race and Gender

Chair: Joan Callahan (University of Kentucky)

Speakers: Tracy Edwards (Brandeis University)

"Social Construction and Real Bodies"

Linda Alcoff (Syracuse University)

"Reproduction and Gender Identity"

Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)

"A Philosophically Serious Comparison of the Ontologies of Race and Gender"

Group Meetings, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

Association for Philosophy of Education, Concourse E

Ayn Rand Society, Nassau Suite B (Second Floor)

International Institute for Field-Being, Concourse F

Society for Philosophy and Technology, Concourse D

William James Society, Concourse G

Presidential Address

4:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom (Third Floor)

Introduction: Seyla Benhabib (Yale University)

Speaker: Jerry Fodor (Rutgers University), President

"What's Universally Quantified and Necessary and A Posteriori and it Flies South for the Winter?"

Thursday Evening, December 29

Committee and Group Meetings, 7:00-10:00 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program For Details)

American Maritain Association, Concourse F

Association for Symbolic Logic, Concourse G

International Society for Buddhist Philosophy, Bryant Suite (Second Floor)

International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Concourse D

Radical Philosophy Association, Concourse E

Santayana Society, Concourse H

Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, Morgan Suite (Second Floor)

Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Clinton Suite (Second Floor)

Society for Social and Political Philosophy, Concourse C

Society for the Philosophy of History, Concourse B

Society for the Study of Women Philosophers, Gibson Suite (Second Floor)

Søren Kierkegaard Society, Murray Hill Suite A (Second Floor)

World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Murray Hill Suite B (Second Floor)

Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Pre-College Philosophy, Gramercy Suite B (Second Floor)

Reception

9:00 p.m.-Midnight, Grand Ballroom (Third Floor)

Friday Morning, December 30

Registration

9:00 a.m.-Noon, Second Floor Promenade

Placement Information

Interviewers: 9:00 a.m.-Noon, Petit Trianon (Third Floor)

Candidates: 9:00 a.m.-Noon, Rendezvous Trianon (Third Floor)

Interview Tables: Americas Hall I (Third Floor)

Book Exhibits

9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., Rhinelander Gallery (Second Floor)

Session IV _ 9:00-11:00 a.m.

IV-A. Invited Papers: Aristotle and Confucius

9:00-11:00 a.m., Regent Parlor (Second Floor)

Chair: Joel Kupperman (University of Connecticut)

Speakers: Jiyuan Yu (University at Buffalo_State University of New York)

Philip Ivanhoe (Boston University)

IV-B. Invited Paper: Dignity and Autonomy

9:00-11:00 a.m., Sutton Parlor South (Second Floor)

Chair: Susan Brison (Dartmouth College)

Speaker: Meir-Dan Cohen (University of California_Berkeley)

Commentator: Anita Allen (University of Pennsylvania)

IV-C. Symposium: Fodor's Version of the Frame Problem: A Solution

9:00-11:00 a.m., Sutton Parlor North (Second Floor)

Chair: Joshua Knobe (University of North Carolina_Chapel Hill)

Speakers: Kirk Ludwig (University of Florida) and Susan Schneider (Moravian College)

Commentator: Dominec Murphy (California Institute of Technology)

IV-D. Symposium: Epistemic Permissiveness

9:00-11:00 a.m., Beekman Parlor (Second Floor)

Chair: Bryan Frances (Fordham University)

Speaker: Roger Lewis White (New York University)

Commentator: Thomas Kelly (Princeton University)

IV-E. Colloquium: Derrida

9:00-11:00 a.m., Sutton Parlor Center (Second Floor)

Chair: David Allison (State University of New York_Stony Brook)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Marie-Eve Morin (University of Freiburg_Germany)

"A Mêlée without Sacrifice: Jean-Luc Nancy's Ontology of Offering against Jacques Derrida's Politics of Sacrifice"

Commentator: François Raffoul (Louisiana State University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Speaker: Brett Buchanan (DePaul University)

"Chasing Chimeras: Aesthetic Constructions of the Animal"

Commentator: James Hatley (Salisbury University)

IV-F. Colloquium: Music

9:00-11:00 a.m., Gramercy Suite B (Second Floor)

Chair: Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Andrew Kania (Trinity University)

"In Defense of Musical Ontology"

Commentator: Aaron Ridley (University of Southampton_UK)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Speaker: Michael Greene (Bradley University)

"Jankélévitch and the Question of Music"

Commentator: Bruce Ellis Benson (Wheaton College_Illinois)

IV-G. Colloquium: Bioethics

9:00-11:00 a.m., Murray Hill Suite A (Second Floor)

Chair: Hilde Lindemann (Michigan State University)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Hylarie Kochiras (University of North Carolina_ Chapel Hill)

"Freud Said—Or Simon Says? Informed Consent and the Advancement of Psychoanalysis as a Science"

Commentator: Christian Perring (Dowling College)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Speaker: Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah)

"Environmental Damage and the Puzzle of the Self-Torturer"

Commentator: Simon Keller (Boston University)

IV-H. Colloquium: Reference

9:00-11:00 a.m., Murray Hill Suite B (Second Floor)

Chair: David Sanford (Duke University)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Gregory Frost-Arnold (University of Pittsburgh)

"Too Much Reference: Semantics for Multiply Signifying Terms"

Commentator: Krista Lawlor (Stanford University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Speaker: Geoffrey Pynn (Yale University)

"Knowing a Name"

Commentator: Dylan Sabo (University of North Carolina_Chapel Hill)

IV-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Blacks and Philosophy

9:00-11:00 a.m., Bryant Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Cornel West, Democracy Matters

Chair: Howard McGary (Rutgers University)

Critics: Bernard Boxill (University of North Carolina_Chapel Hill)

Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York_Stony Brook)

Iris Marion Young (University of Chicago)

Author: Cornel West (Princeton University)

(This session may continue past 11:00 a.m.)

IV-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers

9:00-11:00 a.m., Morgan Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: Do-It-Yourself Digital Audio and Video for the Philosophy Classroom: Old Wine in New Technologies

Speakers: Kate Parsons (Webster University)

Bruce Umbaugh (Webster University)

IV-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women and the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law

9:00-11:00 a.m., Clinton Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: Pornography Revisited

Chair: Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina_Charlotte)

Speakers: Alisa Carse (Georgetown University)

"Subordinative Expression and Creative Subversion: Reflections on Pornography as Embodied Practice"

Amy Adler (New York University)

"Pornography and `Feminist' Speech: The Problem of Resignification"

Tracy Edwards (Brandeis University)

"Pornography and Women's Equal Moral Status: Exploring the Issues of Harm and Agency"

Rae Langton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Speaker's Freedom and Maker's Knowledge"

(This session may continue past 11:00 a.m.)

Group Meetings, 9:00-11:00 a.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

American Society for Value Inquiry, Concourse B

Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, Concourse D

Session V _ 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

V-A. Invited Paper: Contracts and Promising

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Regent Parlor (Second Floor)

Chair: Alec Walen (University of Baltimore)

Speaker: Daniel Markovits (Yale University)

Commentator: Jay Wallace (University of California_Berkeley)

V-B. Invited Paper: Naïve Truth Theory

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Gramercy Suite A (Second Floor)

Chair: Michael Glanzberg (University of California_Davis)

Speaker: Hartry Field (New York University)

Commentator: Hannes Leitgeb (University of Salzburg)

V-C. Information Session: Epistemic Modals

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Sutton Parlor South (Second Floor)

Chair: Andy Egan (Australian National University)

Speakers: Thony Gillies (University of Michigan)

John MacFarlane (University of California_Berkeley)

Kai von Fintel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

V-D. Symposium: The Historical Background of Nietzsche's Own `Historie'

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Sutton Parlor North (Second Floor)

Chair: Claude Evans (Washington University_St. Louis)

Speaker: Anthony Jensen (Emory University)

Commentator: Matthew Meyer (Boston University)

V-E. Colloquium: Reason and Will

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Beekman Parlor (Second Floor)

Chair: Sean Greenberg (Johns Hopkins University)

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Speaker: Andrew Youpa (Southern Illinois University)

"Spinoza's Theory of Motivation"

Commentator: Michael della Rocca (Yale University)

12:15-1:15 p.m.

Speaker: Pamela Hieronymi (University of California_Los Angeles)

"The Will as Reason"

Commentator: Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania)

V-F. Colloquium: Vagueness

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Sutton Parlor Center (Second Floor)

Chair: Ted Sider (Rutgers University)

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Speaker: Robert Lane (University of West Georgia)

"Oak Trees and Ashes: An Argument that Identity is Vague and Non-Transitive"

Commentator: Roy Cook (Villanova University)

12:15-1:15 p.m.

Speakers: Greg Ray and Ivana Simic (University of Florida)

"A Decisive Refutation of Epistemicism"

Commentator: Roy Sorensen (Dartmouth College)

V-G. Colloquium: Merleau-Ponty

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Gramercy Suite B (Second Floor)

Chair: Anne Ashbaugh (Colgate University)

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Speaker: Kirk Besmer (Gonzaga University)

"Re-Writing the Transcendental Moment: Merleau-Ponty on Novel Expression and Rationality"

Commentator: Hans-Herbert Kögler (University of North Florida)

12:15-1:15 p.m.

Speaker: Jen McWeeny (John Carroll University)

"Emotional Intentionality: Living Meaning in Emotional Experiences"

Commentator: Bettina Bergo (University of Montreal)

V-H. Colloquium: Ancient Greek Philosophy

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Murray Hill Suite A (Second Floor)

Chair: Gale Justin (California State University_Sacramento)

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Speaker: Jolanta Jaskolowska (Lexington College)

"Intellectual Akrasia: Universal Cause and Action in Aristotle's Poetics"

Commentator: Zena Hitz (Auburn University)

12:15-1:15 p.m.

Speaker: Roslyn Weiss (Lehigh University)

"Sophrosune from Top to Bottom"

Commentator: Michael Pakaluk (Clark University)

V-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Gibson Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: Winner of the 2005 Prize on Latin American Philosophy

Chair: Gary Seay (University of Texas/Pan American)

Speaker: Gregory Pappas (Texas A&M University)

"The American Challenge: The Tension between the Values of the Anglo and the Hispanic"

Commentator: Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina)

V-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Morgan Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: Breaking out of Academe: Outreach Programs for Young Philosophers

Chair: Kenneth Knisely (No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed)

Speakers: Debbie Whittaker (California State University_Long Beach)

Sharalee Brindell (University of Colorado_Boulder)

David Backer and Steve Wood (George Washington University)

Renée Smith (Coastal Carolina University)

Group Meetings, 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Concourse C

Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Concourse F

Friday Afternoon, December 30

Session VI _ 1:30-4:30 p.m.

VI-A. Symposium: Fundamental Structure of the Universe

1:30-4:30 p.m., Regent Parlor (Second Floor)

Chair: Mathias Frisch (University of Maryland)

Speakers: David Albert (Columbia University)

Tim Maudlin (Rutgers University)

Commentator: Adam Elga (Princeton University)

VI-B. Symposium: Race and Natural Kinds

1:30-4:30 p.m., Gramercy Suite A (Second Floor)

Chair: Howard McGary (Rutgers University)

Speakers: Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton University)

Philip Kitcher (Columbia University)

Commentator: Tommie Shelby (Harvard University)

VI-C. Symposium: Confirmation Theory Old and New

1:30-4:30 p.m., Sutton Parlor South (Second Floor)

Chair: David Christensen (University of Vermont)

Speakers: James Joyce (University of Michigan)

Branden Fitelson (University of California_Berkeley)

Commentator: Patrick Maher (University of Illinois)

VI-D. Author Meets Critics: Jody Azzouni, Deflating Existential Consequence

1:30-4:30 p.m., Sutton Parlor North (Second Floor)

Chair: Mark Colyvan (University of Queensland_Australia)

Critics: John Burgess and Gideon Rosen (Princeton University)

Michael Resnik (University of North Carolina_Chapel Hill)

Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina)

Author: Jody Azzouni (Tufts University)

VI-E. Author Meets Critics: Gideon Yaffe, Manifest Activity

1:30-4:30 p.m., Beekman Parlor (Second Floor)

Chair: Vere Chappell (University of Massachusetts_Amherst)

Critics: James Harris (University of St. Andrews)

Gary Watson (University of California_Riverside)

Author: Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California)

VI-F. Colloquium: Medieval Philosophy

1:30-4:30 p.m., Sutton Parlor Center (Second Floor)

Chair: Fred Purnell (City University of New York_Queens College)

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Speaker: Yiwei Zheng (St. Cloud State University)

"How to Start and Stop: A Discussion of Walter Burley's Solution to the Problem of Transition"

Commentator: Gyula Klima (Fordham University)

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Speaker: Carlos Bovell (Institute for Christian Studies)

"Axiomatic Boethius vs. Dialectical Aquinas in De Hebdomadibus"

Commentator: Margaret Cameron (City University of New York_Hunter College)

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Speaker: A.S. McGrade (University of Connecticut)

"The Ontology and Scope of Human Rights: Forward with Ockham"

Commentator: Patrick Miller (Duke University)

VI-G. Qualitative Dimensions of Mind

1:30-4:30 p.m., Gramercy Suite B (Second Floor)

Chair: Rocco J. Gennaro (Indiana State University)

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Speaker: Simon Evnine (University of Miami)

"Is There Something It is Like?"

Commentator: John Spackman (Middlebury College)

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Speaker: Murat Aydede (University of Florida)

"Is Feeling Pain the Perception of Something?"

Commentator: Valerie Hardcastle (Virginia Polytchnic Institute and State University)

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Speaker: Peter Ross (California State University_Pomona)

"Common Sense, Proper Sensibles, and the Senses"

Commentator: Brian Keeley (Pitzer College)

VI-H. Colloquium: Virtue and Vice

1:30-4:30 p.m., Murray Hill Suite A (Second Floor)

Chair: Michael Slote (University of Miami)

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Speaker: Dale Clark (University of Utah)

"Vice Versa"

Commentator: Julia Driver (Dartmouth College)

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Speaker: Margaret Cuonzo (Long Island University)

"Gossip and Higher-Order Intentionality"

Commentator: Ronald de Sousa (University of Toronto)

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Speaker: Lawrence A. Lengbeyer (United States Navel Academy)

"Courage without Fear"

Commentator: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)

VI-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness

1:30-4:30 p.m., Clinton Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: Philosophy and Disability: Reflections on Cognition, Ethics, and Epistemology

Chair: Mark Chekola (Minnesota State University_Moorhead)

Speakers: Anna Stubblefield (Rutgers University_Newark)

"Autism and Philosophy"

Alexa Schriempf (Penn State University)

"An Epistemology of Disability: Deaf Knowing and Testimony's Epistemic Role"

Eva Kittay (State University of New York_Stony Brook)

"The (Un)ethical Use of the Mental Retardation as Philosophical Example"

VI-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers

1:30-4:30 p.m., Bryant Suite (Second Floor)

Chair: Susan Stuart (University of Glasgow_UK)

Speakers: Ron Chrisley (University of Sussex_UK)

"What the Failure of Penrose's Argument Against AI Tells Us about Computability"

Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (Mälardalen University_Sweden)

"Semantic Information in System Modeling"

Peter Boltuc (University of Illinois_Springfield)

"Computers Contra Physicalism"

VI-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy

1:30-4:30 p.m., Gibson Suite (Second Floor)

Topic: Going Public: Philosophers and the Press (a media workshop)

Chair: Noelle McAfee (American University)

Speakers: Carlin Romano (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Gordon Marino (St. Olaf's College)

Group Meetings, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

Hannah Arendt Circle and Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Concourse C

International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Concourse B

International Society for Environmental Ethics and Society for Philosophy and Geography, Concourse E

International Society for Neo-Platonic Studies, Concourse D

North American Society for Social Philosophy, Morgan Suite (Second Floor)