Proceedings And Addresses
September, 2005 (Volume 79, Issue 1)
Group Meeting Program
Tuesday Evening, December 27, 2005
Group
Session I – 7:00-11:00 p.m.
GI-1.
Association for Symbolic Logic
7:00-7:50
p.m.
Speakers: Grigori Mints
“Extracting Algorithms from Non-effective Cut Elimination Proofs”
Joel David Hamkins
“The Modal Logic of Forcing”
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Topic: Recent Developments in Computer Science and Set Theory and
Their Philosophical Implications
Speakers: Michael Rabin (Harvard University)
“Randomization and Non-transferable Proofs”
Sergei Artemov (City University of New York–Graduate Center)
“Computer Aided Proofs and Their Significance”
Peter Koellner (Harvard University)
“Foundational Aspects of Modern Set Theory”
GI-2. International Society for Chinese Philosophy
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Topic: Daoism and Interculturalism: Kuangming Wu's Cultural Hermeneutics
Chair: Robert Neville (Boston University)
Speakers: On-Cho Ng (Pennsylvania State University)
"Rooted Cosmopolitanism: The Inter-Cultural Hermeneutics of Wu Kuang-ming"
David Schenke (University of Missouri_Columbia)
"Philosophical Storytelling in Chuang Tzu and Plato"
Yong Huang (Kutztown University)
"Interpretation of the Other: On Wu's Cultural Hermeneutics"
Robert Neville (Boston University)
"Reflections on the Philosophy of Kuangming Wu"
Commentator: Kuangming Wu (Michigan State University)
GI-3. North American Nietzsche Society
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Topic: Author Meets Critics: John Richardson, Nietzche's New Darwinism
Chair: Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)
Critics: Maudemarie Clark (Colgate University)
Bernard Reginster (Brown University)
Author: John Richardson (New York University)
GI-4. Philosophy of Time Society
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Speakers: Bert Helm (Missouri State University)
"Power, Justice and Freedom: Marking Time with Bacon and Montaigne"
Ernani Magalhaes (West Virginia University)
"Temporality: Universals and Particulars"
Maxwell Goss (University of Texas_Austin)
"Transtemporal Responsibility Requires Endurantism"
Commentator: Arthur Falk (Western Michigan University)
GI-5. Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Chair: John Rose (Goucher College)
Speakers: Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina)
"An Anti-Realist Account of the Application of Mathematics"
Sam Page (Concordia College)
"Individuation, Reality, and Practice"
Jeremy Wisnewski (East Carolina University)
"The Case for Anti-Realism"
GI-6. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Speakers: Julie Van Camp (California State University_Long Beach)
"Illegal Art: When Should Art Be Exempt from Ethics and the Law?"
Bassam Romaya (Temple University)
"The Abuse of Essentialism: Historicism, Contextualism, and Danto's Philosophy of Art"
Marcus Verhaegh (Independent Scholar)
"Pleasure as an Epistemic Guide"
Costica Bradatan (Miami University_Ohio)
"`I was a Stranger, and Ye Took Me Not In.' Deus Ludens and Theology of Hospitality in Lars von Trier's Dogville"
Jeffrey Strayer (Indiana University_Purdue University, Fort Wayne)
"Consciousness, Art, and the Limits of Abstraction in Art"
Wednesday Morning, December 28, 2005
Group Session II _ 9:00-11:00 a.m.
GII-1. American Association of Philosophy Teachers
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Perpetual War Versus Perpetual Peace: Philosophical Views on The Conflict
Chair: Harold Brown (Pace University)
Speakers: William Evans (St. Peter's College, New Jersey)
"What Do Philosophy and Liberal Education Have to do with Teaching Peace?"
Margaret Cuonzo (Long Island University)
"Teaching the Paradoxes of War"
James Friel (Farmingdale State University)
"Philosopher Pope John Paul's Views of War in General, and the War in Iraq in Particular"
John Chaffee (City University of New York_La Guardia College)
"Socrates: Soldier, Thinker and Supporter of Legitimate Government"
GII-2. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Philosophical Counseling and Logic-Based Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Chair: Samuel Zinaich, Jr. (Purdue University_Calumet)
Speaker: Elliot Cohen (Institute for Critical Thinking)
"Absolute Nonsense: The Irrationality of Perfectionistic Thinking"
Commentator: Bruce Fraser (Indian River Community College)
(Business Meeting to follow.)
GII-3. Hegel Society of America
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Honoring the 200th Anniversary of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Speakers: Ardis Collins (Loyola University of Chicago)
"Hegel's Proof of Reason and Its Other"
Daniel Dahlstrom (Boston University)
"Reason's Place in the Phenomenology of Spirit"
Terry Pinkard (Georgetown University)
"What is a `Shape' of Spirit?"
John Russon (University of Guelph)
"Phenomenology and Closure: Hegel and the Future of Philosophy"
(This session may continue past 11:00 a.m.)
GII-4. History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Stefanie Rocknak (Hartwick College)
Speaker: Sandra Lapointe (Concordia University_Montreal)
"Husserl and Frege on Formal Meaning"
Commentator: TBA
Speaker: Chris Pincock (Purdue University)
"An Overlapping Consensus Model of the Origins of Analytic Philosophy"
Commentator: Aaron Preston (Malone College)
Speaker: Karen Green (Monash University_Australia)
"Fregean Existence and Non-existence"
Commentator: Kevin Klement (University of Massachusetts_Amherst)
GII-5. International St. Thomas Society
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Jean-Luc Marion's Post-Retraction Challenge to Aquinas's Natural Philosophy
Chair: W. Norris Clarke (Fordham University)
Speaker: Derek Morrow (University of Dallas)
GII-6. Karl Jaspers Society of North America and Hannah Arendt Circle
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Philosophy, Religion, Politics
Chair: Alan Olson (Boston University)
Speakers: Michael Zank (Boston University)
"The Theological-Political Conundrum and the Context of the Early Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt"
Leonard Ehrlich (University of Massachusetts_Amherst)
"Arendt, Jaspers, Kant on Evil, Radical and Banal: Part Two"
Commentator: Gregory Walters (Saint Paul's University_Ottawa)
(Business Meeting to follow.)
(This session may continue past 11:00 a.m.)
GII-7. North American Society for Social Philosophy
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: James Rachels Memorial Session
Chair: William Ruddick (New York University)
Speakers: Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University)
"Moral Responsibility in War"
Hugh LaFollette (University of South Florida_ St. Petersburg)
GII-8. North American Spinoza Society
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Paul J. Bagley (Loyola College in Maryland)
Speakers: Martin Yaffe (University of North Texas)
"Natural Philosophy or Religion and `Freedom of Philosophizing' in Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus"
Michael Rosenthal (University of Washington)
"Spinoza on Why the Sovereign Can Command Men's Tongues But Not Their Minds"
GII-9. Simone de Beauvoir Circle
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Questions of Interpretation
Chair: Nancy Bauer (Tufts University)
Speakers: Maeve O'Donovan (College of Notre Dame of Maryland)
"Rethinking The Second Sex: Simone de Beauvoir as Standpoint Theorist"
Darlene Rigo (Independent Scholar)
"Mitsein, Ontology, and Ethics in The Second Sex"
Valentine Moulard-Leonard (University of Memphis)
"The Ethics of Creativity: Transcendence, Immanence, and the Quest for Freedom"
GII-10. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Fascism and the United States Today
Chair: Edward Grippe (Norwalk Community College)
Speakers: John Stone-Mediatore (University of Chicago)
"Fascism and American Political Culture"
John Wright (Miami University_Ohio)
"National Insecurity: Fascism and the Defense of Liberal
Institutions"
GII-11. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy and William James Society
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: The Correspondence of William James: A Celebration
Chair: James Pawelski (University of Pennsylvania)
Speakers: James Campbell (University of Toledo)
"The Correspondence of William James"
Peter Hare (University at Buffalo_State University of New York)
"William James and the Perils of Intellectual Biography"
John McDermott (Texas A&M University)
"Reading Letters: Euro-America in Correspondence"
GII-12. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Integration and Liberation in Chinese and American Aesthetics
Chair: Tao Jiang (Rutgers University)
Speakers: Weiming Tu (Harvard University)
"Embodied Knowledge: Body, Heart/Mind, and Spirit in Confucian Aesthetics"
Thomas Alexander (Southern Illinois University_Carbondale)
"Mountains and Rivers without End: The Intertwining of Spirit and Nature in American Aesthetics"
Commentator: Robert Neville (Boston University)
Group Session III _ 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
GIII-1. American Society for Value Inquiry
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Presidential Address
Chair: Thomas Magnell (Drew University)
Speaker: Thomas Hill, Jr. (University of North Carolina_Chapel Hill)
GIII-2. Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Daniel Boone (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Speaker: Jonathan Adler (City University of New York_Brooklyn College)
"Refute-or-Accept: Credulity, Reductios, and Ignorance"
Commentators: Simon Evnine (University of Miami)
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)
GIII-3. Association for the Philosophy of the Unconscious
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Lacan and Sartre
Chair: Wilfried Ver Eecke (Georgetown University)
Speakers: Guillermine de Lacoste (Independent Scholar)
"Sartre and His Metonyms: Baudelaire, Genet, Flaubert"
Adrian Johnston (Emory University)
"Conscious, Unconscious, Hyper-conscious: Lacan, Sartre, and the Autonomous Subject"
Commentator: William McBride (Purdue University)
GIII-4. Bertrand Russell Society
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Chair: TBA
Speaker: Gary Cesarz (Southeast Missouri University)
"McTaggart and Broad on Leibniz's Law"
Commentator: TBA
Speaker: Nikolay Milkov (University of Bielefeld_Germany)
"Lotze's Influence on Russell"
Commentator: David Sullivan (Metropolitan State College of Denver)
Speaker: John Ongley (University of Edinboro_Pennsylvania)
"Cambridge and Lotze"
Commentator: Nikolay Milkov (University of Bielefeld_Germany)
GIII-5. Concerned Philosophers for Peace
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Chair: TBA
Speakers: TBA
GIII-6. International Society for Buddhist Philosophy
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: New Philosophical Readings of Dougen's `Genjoukouan'
Chair: Steven Heine (Florida International University)
Speakers: Gereon Kopf (Luther College)
"On Keiji Nishitani's Reading of Dougen"
Steven Heine (Florida International University)
"What's on the Other Side?: Illusion and Religion in `Genjoukouan'"
Ishii Seijun (Komazawa University_Japan)
"Keep Swimming, Keeping Flying: The Meaning of `To Activate the Buddha-nature'"
Dan Lusthous (Boston University)
"Dougen on Water and Firewood: His Logic of No Changing Self in `Genjoukouan'"
Carol Gould (Florida Atlantic University)
"A Platonist Interpretation of Dougen's Thought"
GIII-7. International Society for Environmental Ethics
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Environment and Virtue Ethics
Chair: Piers Stephens (Michigan State University)
Speakers: Jason Kawall (Colgate University)
"Complacency, Apathy, and Resignation"
Jennifer Welchman (University of Alberta)
"Stewardship: Olmstead, Character, and Environmentalism"
Louke van Wensveen (Independent Scholar)
"Practical Wisdom and the Precautionary Principle"
Commentators: Simon Keller (Boston University)
Ronald Sandler (Northeastern University)
GIII-8. Molinari Society
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Libertarianism through Thick and Thin
Chair: Roderick Long (Auburn University)
Speaker: Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo)
"Libertarianism: The Thick and the Thin"
Commentator: Charles Johnson (Molinari Institute)
Chair: Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska_Lincoln)
Speaker: Jack Ross (National Labor College)
"Labor and Liberty: A Lost Ideal and an Unlikely New Alliance"
Commentator: Charles Johnson (Molinari Institute)
GIII-9. Personalist Discussion Group
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: The Making of Selves
Chair: Douglas Anderson (Southern Illinois University_Carbondale)
Speakers: Shannon Sullivan (Pennsylvania State University)
"Unconscious Habits of White Privilege"
Daniel Campos (Pennsylvania State University)
"Peirce on Self-Discovery and Self-Creation"
GIII-10. Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Anonymity and Hauntology
Chair: Mary Beth Mader (University of Memphis)
Speakers: Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University of Chicago)
"Derrida on Hauntology"
Laura Hengehold (Case Western Reserve University)
"Is Anonymity the Point of Intersection between Seeing and Saying?"
GIII-11. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession and the Society of Philosophers in America
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: What Keeps Going Wrong with the APA?
Chair: John Lachs (Vanderbilt University)
Speakers: Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University)
David Hoekema (Calvin College)
Eric Hoffman (St. Joseph's University)
Michael Kelly (University of North Carolina_Charlotte)
Elizabeth Radcliffe (Santa Clara University)
Wednesday Afternoon, December 28
Group Session IV _ 2:00-5:00 p.m.
GIV-1. American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Topic: A Symposium on Rasmussen and Den Uyl's Norms of Liberty
Chair: Fred Miller, Jr. (Bowling Green State University)
Speakers: Aeon Skoble (Bridgewater State College)
Edwin England (Denison University)
Charlotte Thomas (Mercer University)
David Thunder (University of Notre Dame)
GIV-2. Association for Symbolic Logic
1:30-5:00 p.m.
Topic: Contributed Papers
Chair: TBA
Speakers: Jonas Reitz
“The Ground Axiom”
Thomas Johnstone
“Indestructibility of Strongly Unfoldable Cardinals”
Arnon Avron
“Roman Kuznets”
Kenneth A. Presting
“Embedding a Cylindrical Set Algebra into a Boolean
Algebra”
Gohar Marikyan
“Automation of Inference in Marin-Löf’s
Intuitionistic Type Theory”
Hidenori Kurokawa
“Cut-elimination for a Hypersequent Calculus
of Intuitionistic Logic with Classical Atoms”
Victoria Gitman
“Can the Proper Forcing Axiom Provide a Partial
Solution to the Scott Set Problem?”
Yimu Yin
“Quantifier Elimination for the Reals with a
Predicate for the Powers of Two”
GIV-3. Conference on Philosophical Societies
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophers at Global Crossroads: How Can Philosophers Make a Difference?
Chair: John Abbarno (D'Youville College)
Speakers: Gail Presbey (University of Detroit Mercy)
George McLean (Catholic University)
Christian Perring (Dowling College)
GIV-4. Hume Society
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Topic: Hume and his Contemporaries
Chair: Miriam McCormick (University of Richmond)
Speakers: Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario)
"Hume and Reid on Objectivity"
Peter Loptson (University of Guelph)
"Hume and Smith: Projects in Social Science and the Roots of Normativity"
James Harris (University of St. Andrews)
"Hume and Kames"
GIV-5. International Institute for Field-Being
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University)
Speakers: Joan Stambaugh (City University of New York)
"Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is Form"
Wesley DeMarco (Clark University)
"Field-Being and the Emptiest Possible Nothingness"
Kwang-Sae Lee (Kent State University)
"Postmodernism, Pluralism, and Eastern Philosophy"
Maja Milcinski (Ljubljana University_Slovenia)
"Transcending the History of Philosophy as a Single European Narrative through Field-Being"
May Sim (College of the Holy Cross)
"The Question of Being, Non-being, and `Creation Ex Nihilo' in Chinese Philosophy"
GIV-6. Josiah Royce Society
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Kelly Parker (Grand Valley State University)
Speaker: John Smith (Yale University)
"Reflections on Royce"
Wednesday Evening, December 28
Group Session V _ 5:15-7:15 p.m.
GV-1. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Philosophical Counseling and Positive Psychology
Chair: Bruce Fraser (Indian River Community College)
Speaker: James Pawelski (University of Pennsylvania)
"Philosophical Coaching: An New Approach to the Cultivation of Human Flourishing"
Commentator: Elliot Cohen (Institute for Critical Thinking)
Speaker: Janise Staab (Independent Scholar)
"Philosophical Coaching as Pedagogy"
Commentator: Samuel Zinaich, Jr. (Purdue University_Calumet)
GV-2. Charles S. Pierce Society
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Presidential Address
Chair: TBA
Speaker: Joseph Brent (University of the District of Columbia)
Topic: Winner of the 2005 Essay Contest
Speaker: TBA
GV-3. International Adam Smith Society
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Speakers: Eugene Heath (State University of New York_New Paltz)
"On Ambition: Ferguson and Smith"
Maria Alejandra Carrasco (Pontificia Universidad Católica_Chile)
"Sympathetic Impartiality and Universality in Adam Smith"
Commentators: Eric Schliesser (Syracuse University)
Jack Russell Weinstein (University of North Dakota)
GV-4. International Society for Chinese Philosophy
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Encounters of Chinese Philosophy and Western Philosophy
Chair: Vincent Shen (University of Toronto)
Speakers: Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii_Manoa)
"Understanding Confucius through Kant"
Vincent Shen (University of Toronto)
"Aristotle and Chinese Philosophy: The Rewriting of Aristotle's De Anima in 17th-Century China"
Francis Li Chung-hung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"The Solving of Subjectivity: A Dialogue between Christianity and Ancient Taoism"
Daixiang Chen (Xiangtan University_China)
"Confucian Ethics and Spirit of Christianity"
Albert Chan (University of Southern California)
"The Chinese Philosophical Connection between Shinran Buddhism and Protestant Christianity"
(This session may continue past 7:15 p.m.)
GV-5. Society for Business Ethics
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Religion in the Workplace: Sacred Right or Unwarranted Intrusion?
Chair: Denis Arnold (University of Tennessee_Knoxville)
Speaker: Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame)
Commentators: Edwin M. Hartman (Rutgers University)
Betsy Postow (University of Tennessee_Knoxville)
GV-6. Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought and APA Committee on Hispanics
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: SILAT Round-Table: NEH Institute on Latin American Philosophy
Chair: Oscar Marti (California State University_Northridge)
Speakers: Jorge Gracia (University at Buffalo_State University of New York)
"The NEH Institute on Latin American Philosophy"
Susana Nuccetelli (St. Cloud State University)
"Teaching Latin American Philosophy"
GV-7. Society for Machines and Mentality
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Classical Computation and Hypercomputation
Chair: Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury_New Zealand)
Speakers: Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri_Saint Louis)
"The Physical Church-Turing Thesis: Modest or Bold?"
Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"On the Computational Power of Accelerating Turing Machines"
Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury_New Zealand)
"Comments from the Chair: Hypercomputation and the Church-Turing Thesis"
GV-8. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Chair: Véronique Foti (Pennsylvania State University)
Speaker: Edward Casey (State University of New York_Stony Brook)
"Coming to the Edge"
Commentator: Gary Shapiro (University of Richmond)
GV-9. Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Democracy and Globalization: A Panel Discussion
Chair: Alistair Macleod (Queen's University)
Speakers: James Bohman (Saint Louis University)
Thomas Christiano (University of Arizona)
Andreas Follesda (University of Oslo)
Carol Gould (George Mason University)
Daniel Marc Weinstock (University of Montreal)
GV-10. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Why Paint? Painter-Philosophers Discuss Philosophy and the Artworld
Speakers: Jack Bender (Ohio University)
"On Abstract Art"
Keith Lehrer (University of Arizona)
"On Mixed Media"
Peg Brand (Indiana University_Purdue University, Indianapolis)
"On Feminist Art"
GV-11. Society for the Philosophy of Human Life Issues
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Introductory Ethics: Theory or Practice—A Disputed Question for Audience Debate
Chair: Donald Casey (Felician College)
Speakers: Yvonne Raley (Felician College)
Richard Burnor (Felician College)
Doug Lackey (City University of New York_Graduate Center)
GV-12. Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Chair: Rhiannon Boyd (John Tyler Community College)
Speaker: Aaron Simmons (Bowling Green State University)
"A Critique of Warren's Weak Animal Rights Views"
Commentators: Robert Bass (University of North Florida)
Benjamin Hale (University of Colorado_Boulder)
Speaker: Bertha Alvarez Manninen (Purdue University)
"Confessions of a Reluctant Carnivore: A Qualified Defense of Meat Eating"
Commentator: Jeremy Garrett (Rice University)
GV-13. Society for Women in Philosophy
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Distinguished Woman Philosopher
Chair: TBA
Speakers: TBA
(This session may continue past 7:15 p.m.)
GV-14. Society of Philosophers in America
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: The Range of American Philosophical Practice
Chairs: John Lachs (Vanderbilt University)
John Loughney (Westfield State University)
Speakers: Trustees of SOPHIA
(Business Meeting to follow.)
GV-15. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Discussion of New APA Placement Brochure
Speakers: Andrew Light (New York University)
Larry May (Washington University_St. Louis)
Group Session VI _ 7:30-10:30 p.m.
GVI-1. American Society for Aesthetics
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Fiction, Characters, and Characterizations
Chair: Kendall Walton (University of Michigan)
Speaker: Elisabeth Camp (University of Pennsylvania)
"Fiction, Characters, and Characterizations"
Commentators: Stacie Friend (Washington and Jefferson College)
Eileen John (University of Warwick_UK)
GVI-2. Association for Symbolic Logic
7:30-11:10 p.m.
Topic: Contributed Papers
Chair: TBA
Speakers: Billy Joe Lucas
“The Logic of Categorical Moral Reasoning”
Bryan Renne
“Games, Strategies, and Explicit Knowledge”
Samer Salame, Eric Pacuit, and Rohit Parikh
“Some Results on Adjusted Winner”
Horacio Arló-Costa and Rohit Parikh
“Some Non-normal Logics of Knowledge without
Logical Omniscience”
João Marcos
“Generalizing Truth-functionality”
Luis A. Urtubey
“Coping with Context Effects on Knowledge in
a Multi-agent Setting”
Walter Carnielli
“Deconstructing Logics by Means of Possible-translations
Semantics”
Srecko Kovac
“Impossibilities, Identities, and Belief”
Walter Dean
“Are Procedures Logical Objects?”
GVI-3. Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Chinese Philosophy: New Reflections and Comparisons
Chair: JeeLoo Liu (California State University_Fullerton)
Speakers: Haiming Wen (University of Hawaii_Manoa)
"What is Chinese Philosophical Creativity?"
Desheng Zong (Utica College)
"Sentences, Truth-bearers, and Chinese Philosophy"
Xiaomei Yang (Temple University)
"Does Chinese Moral Psychology in Pre-Qin Period Operate on the Contrast between Reason and Desire?"
Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii_Manoa)
"Understanding Kant through Confucius"
GVI-4. Leibniz Society of North America
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: Mark Kulstad (Rice University)
Speaker: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College)
"Leibniz on the Ends of Motion"
GVI-5. North American Kant Society
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: Eric Watkins (University of California_San Diego)
Speaker: Andrews Reath (University of California_Riverside)
"Setting Ends through Reason"
Commentator: William Fitzpatrick (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
GVI-6. Philosophers in Jesuit Education
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Reverence and Responsibility: Reflections on Whitehead's Claims Regarding the Essence of Education
Chair: Stanley Harrison (Marquette University)
Speaker: Vincent Colapietro (Pennsylvania State University)
GVI-7. Radical Philosophy Association
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy and/as Radical Critique
Chair: Anne Fairchild Pomeroy (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)
Speakers: Peter Amato (Drexel University)
"Applied Ethics as Radical Philosophy"
Gail Presbey (University of Detroit Mercy)
"Grappling with Gandhi's Ethics of Ahimsa"
Shyam Ranganathan (York University)
"Political Transparency and Metaphilosophy"
GVI-8. Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy of Mind: East and West
Chair: Chandana Chakrabarti (Elon University)
Speakers: Rocco J. Gennaro (Indiana State University_Terre Haute)
"Higher Order Theories of Consciousness"
Kisor Chakrabarti (Ferris State University)
"A Genus Linked (samanyatodrsta) Argument for Psycho-Physical Dualism"
Stephen Phillips (University of Texas_Austin)
"Negative-Only Conference (Kevalavyatirekanumana) in General and as Proof that a Living Body has a Self"
Keya Maitra (University of North Carolina_Asheville)
"Does Self-Ascription Always Precede Other-Ascription? Comparing Abhinavagupta and Sellars"
Richard Liebendorfer (Minnesota State University)
"An Expressivist Account of Conceptual Content"
Aditya Adarkar (Montclair State University)
"Accomodating the Mind and the Brain"
B.V.K. Sastry (Hindu University of Orlando)
"Philosophy of Mind and Matter: Comparison of Vaisesika System and Modern Sciences"
GVI-9. Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: James Long (Fairfield University)
Speakers: Steven Marrone (Tufts University)
"Re-examining the Doctrine of Divine Illumination in Latin Philosophy of the High Middle Ages"
Kevin Staley (St. Anselm College)
"God in Nicolas of Cusa's De Possest"
GVI-10. Society for Skeptical Studies
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: William Larkin (Southern Illinois University_Edwardsville)
Speakers: Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina)
"Pyrrhonism and the Empirical Stance"
Brien Ribeiro (University of Tennessee_Chattanooga)
"Clarke and Stroud on the Plane-Spotters"
William Larkin (Southern Illinois University_Edwardsville)
"Risk, Relevance, and Context"
GVI-11. Society for Social and Political Philosophy
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Peace
Chair: Deepak Sawhney (St. Mary's College of California)
Speakers: Sarah Miller (University of Memphis)
"Care, Duty, and the Global Politics of Peace"
Leigh M. Johnson (Pennsylvania State University)
"Truth and Reconciliation: South Africa's Transition to a Multiracial Democracy"
Shari Stone-Mediatore (Ohio Wesleyan University)
"Structural Violence, Moral Responsibility and the Role of Educators"
GVI-12. Society for Systematic Philosophy
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Colloquium on Hegel's Theory of Intelligence in the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
Chair: TBA
Speakers: Kenneth Westphal (Northwestern University)
Richard Dien Winfield (University of Georgia)
Commentators: Robert Berman (Xavier University)
William Maker (Clemson University)
GVI-13. World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: The Temporal and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology
Chair: William Chittick (State University of New York_Stony Brook)
Speakers: William Chittick (State University of New York_Stony Brook)
"The Temporal Unfolding of the Soul"
Angela Ales Bello (Lateran University_Italy)
"The Contingent and the Eternal (Edith Stein)"
Sayyid Muhammad Khamenei (Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute_Iran)
"Temporality and Emanation"
Robert Dobie (La Salle University)
"Existence and Temporality in the Thought of Ibn Al-`Arabi"
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning)
"Chronos and Kairos, Ontopoietic Timing of Life, and the Kairic Unfolding of the Sacral Spirit"
GVI-14. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the Profession
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Intersections of Race and Sexuality
Chair: Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (Washington State University)
Speakers: Rita Alfonso (Grinnell College)
"Topologies of Race and Desire"
Donna-Dale Marcano (Trinity College)
"Standing at the Intersection of Race and Sexuality and Uncertain Where to Cross"
Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond)
"Race, Sexuality, and Normalization"
Ronald Sundstrom (University of San Francisco)
"The Queer Relationship between Love and Racism"
Group Session VII _ 9:00-11:00 a.m.
GVII-1. Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: The Multiple Dimensions of Neo-Confucianism
Chair: On-Cho Ng (Pennsylvania State University)
Speakers: John Krummel (Temple University)
"Li: Transcendental or Immanent? Its Significance and History in Chinese Philosophy"
Harold Sjursen (Polytechnic University)
"Pure Practicality: Zhu Xi's Notion of the Self"
Yong Huang (Kutztown University)
"The Cheng Brothers on Human Nature: The Confucian Problem of Evil"
Pauline Lee (Washington University_St. Louis)
"Li Zhi's (1527-1602) Concept of the Mind (xin)"
(This session may continue past 11:00 a.m.)
GVII-2. Sartre Circle
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Bad Faith Reconsidered
Chair: Ronald Santoni (Denison University/Clare Hall, Cambridge)
Speakers: Matthew Eshleman (Duquesne University)
"The Misplaced Chapter on `Bad Faith', or Reading Being and Nothingness in Reverse"
Elizabeth Butterfield (Salem State College)
"Sartre on Bad Faith, Freedom, and Determinism: Between Poststructuralism and Postmodernism"
Paul Gyllenhammer (St. John's University)
"Sartre's Account of Literature Viewed in the Light of `Bad Faith'"
(This session may continue past 11:00 a.m.)
GVII-3. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
9:00-11:00 a.m., Clinton Suite
Chair: Anthony Preus (Binghamton University_State University of New York)
Speakers: Hallvard Fossheim (University of Oslo)
"On Plato's Use of Socrates as a Character in His Dialogues"
Havard Lokke (University of Oslo)
"True and False Emotions in the Philebus"
Thornton Lockwood (Fordham University)
"Physis and Nomos in Aristotle's Ethics"
(This session may continue past 11:00 a.m.)
GVII-4. Society of Christian Philosophers
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Divine Command Theory—Session in Honor of Philip Quinn
Speakers: John Hare (Yale University)
"Divine Command Theory and Moral Realism"
Stephen Evans (Baylor University)
"Kierkegaard and Divine Command Theory"
William J. Wainwright (University of Wisconsin_Milwaukee)
"Quinn's Case for Divine Command Theory"
(This session may continue past 11:00 a.m.)
Group Session VIII _ 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
GVIII-1. Association for the Philosophy of the Unconscious
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: The Unconscious and the Sexual Body
Chair: Wilfred Ver Eecke (Georgetown University)
Speakers: David Pettigrew (Southern Connecticut State University)
"The Unconscious Body"
Richard Boothby (Loyola College in Maryland)
"Sex as Symptom"
GVIII-2. Conference on Philosophical Societies
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Exploring Therapeutic Philosophy
Chair: David Schrader (Washington and Jefferson College)
Speakers: George Hole (Buffalo State College)
"Philosophical Theory of Chuang Tsu"
Samuel Zinaich, Jr. (Purdue University_Calumet)
"Beyond Method: A Critical Critique of Ran Lahav's and Gerd Auchenbach's Method of Philosophical Counseling"
GVIII-3. North American Spinoza Society
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Debra Nails (Michigan State University)
Speakers: Tammy Nyden-Bullock (Grinnell College)
"Parallelism à la Mode"
Christopher Martin (Purdue University)
"Rethinking Spinoza's Ideas of Ideas"
GVIII-4. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: New Issues in Understanding Buddhist Philosophy
Chair: Ashby Butnor (Ithaca College)
Speakers: Ashby Butnor (Ithaca College)
"Embodying Compassion: The Role of the Body in Ethical Relationships"
Scott Stroud (Temple University)
"Dewey and Dogen on the Role of Attention in Activity"
Matthew MacKenzie (Muhlenberg College)
"Enacting Worlds: Karma and the Construction of the Lifeworld"
GVIII-5. Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Marx, Dialectics, and Class Struggle
Chair: Anne Fairchild Pomeroy (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)
Speakers: Jason Bausher (Fordham University)
Thomas Jennot (Gonzaga University)
James L. Marsh (Fordham University)
Anne Fairchild Pomeroy (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)
GVIII-6. Society for the Philosophy of Creativity
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Philosophers and Medical School: It's about More than Ethics
Chair: Karen Kovach (Mercer University)
Speakers: Craig Irvine (Columbia University)
D. Micah Hester (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
GVIII-7. Society of Humanist Philosophers
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Symposium on the Darwinian Argument from Evil
Chair: Austin Dacey (University at Buffalo_State University of New York)
Speakers: Paul Draper (Florida International University)
Michael Murray (Franklin & Marshall College)
Thursday Afternoon, December 29
Group Session IX _ 1:30-4:30 p.m.
GIX-1. Association for Philosophy of Education
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Topic: Civic Virtues and Education
Chair: Amelie Rorty (Harvard University)
Speakers: Sigal Ben-Porath (University of Pennsylvania)
Richard Miller (Cornell University)
Ajume Wingo (University of Massachusetts_Boston)
Commentator: Lawrence Blum (University of Massachusetts_Boston)
GIX-2. Ayn Rand Society
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Topic: Ayn Rand as Aristotelian
Chair: John Cooper (Princeton University)
Speakers: James Lennox (University of Pittsburgh)
"Axioms and Their Validation"
Allan Gotthelf (University of Pittsburgh)
"Concepts and Essences"
Fred Miller, Jr. (Bowling Green State University)
"Values and Happiness"
Robert Mayhew (Seton Hall University)
"Literary Esthetics"
GIX-3. International Institute for Field-Being
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Curt Naser (Fairfield University)
Speakers: Laura Weed (College of St. Rose)
"Sunny Auyang's Notion of Complex Systems Theory: A Field-Being Approach to Philosophy of Science"
Miran Bozovic (Ljubljana University_Slovenia)
"Zhuang Zi's Butterfly Dream through the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Metaphysics"
Rong-po Chen (Tunghai University_Taiwan)
"The Comparative Views of Aesthetics between Chuang-Tzu and Gadamer"
Therese Dykeman (Fairfield University)
"Field-Being Rhetorics"
GIX-4. Society for Philosophy and Technology
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Andrew Feenberg's Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History
Chair: John Farnum (Portland Community College)
Critics: Daniel Dahlstrom (Boston University)
Robert Scharff (University of New Hampshire)
Author: Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University)
GIX-5. William James Society
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Topic: Presidential Address
Speaker: William Gavin (University of Southern Maine)
"`Problem' vs. `Trouble': James, Kafka, Dostoevsky, and `The Will to Believe'"
Topic: Seigfried's William James's Radical Reconstruction of Philosophy, Fifteen Years Later
Chair: Peter Hare (University at Buffalo_State University of New York)
Speakers: John Capps (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Megan Mustain (Southern Illinois University_Carbondale)
David Perley (University of Toronto)
Richard Shusterman (Florida Atlantic University)
Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue University)
(Business Meeting to follow.)
Thursday Evening, December 29
Group Session X _ 7:00-10:00 p.m.
GX-1. American Maritain Association:
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Relationships and Persons
Chair: Peter Simpson (City University of New York)
Speakers: Jorge Gracia (University at Buffalo_State University of New York)
"Personal and Group Identities: The Globalism vs. Particularism Dilemma"
Laura Garcia (Boston College)
"Relationships and Persons: Am I My Brother's Keeper?"
Commentators: Robert Delfino (St. John's University)
Jorge Garcia (Boston College)
GX-2. Association for Symbolic Logic
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Ivan Welty
“Truth or Logical Consequence: Frege and Tarski
on Indirect Proof”
Catarina Dutilh Novaes
“Logic, Symbols, and Icons”
John Mumma
“A Formal Analysis of Euclid’s Diagrammatic Constructions”
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Foundational Issues in Modern History of Mathematics and Logic
Speakers: William Tait (University of Chicago)
"The Concept of Intuition in Hilbert's Program and its Later Extensions"
Wilfried Sieg (Carnegie Mellon University)
"The Logicism of the Mathematicians: Dedekind and Hilbert"
Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Methodology and Metaphysics in the Development of
Dedekind's Theory of Ideals"
GX-3. International Society for Buddhist Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Buddhist Hermeneutics
Chair: Jin Park (American University)
Speakers: Guang Xing (University of Hong Kong)
"Hermeneutic Interpretation of Tathata in the Astasahasrikaprajñaparamitasutra"
Brian Nichols (Rice University)
"Elaborations of the Three-fold Typology of Wisdom from Vasubandhu to Kamalasila: A Consideration of the Relationship between Reflection and Meditation"
Eiji Suhara (Arizona State University)
"How Can We Arise the Awakened Mind?: Bodhicitta Discourse in Honen, Myoe, and Wonhyo"
James Mark Shields (Lakeland College_Japan)
"Against the Grain: Rethinking (Critical) Buddhist Hermeneutics as Scholarly Praxis"
Commentators: Christian Coseru (College of Charleston)
Pamela D. Winfield (Meredith College)
GX-4. International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Double Effect or Beyond: Comparing Double Effect, Quan, and Upaya
Chair: Manyul Im (California State University_Los Angeles)
Speakers: Josef Boyle (University of Toronto)
"Double Effect and Western Morality"
Jinfen Yan (University of Toronto_Scarborough)
"Intention in Catholic Double Effect, Confucian Quan, and Mahayana Upaya"
Dan Goldstick (University of Toronto)
"Double Effect and Terrorism"
Commentator: Xiaomei Yang (Temple University)
GX-5. Radical Philosophy Association
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Lucius Outlaw's In Search of Critical Social Theory in the Interests of Black Folk
Chair: J. Everet Green (Mercy College/New School University)
Critics: Lucia Desir (Mercy College)
Paget Henry (Brown University)
John McClendon (Bates College)
Author: Lucius Outlaw (Vanderbilt University)
GX-6. Santayana Society
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Angus Kerr-Lawson (University of Waterloo)
Speakers: Richard Marc Rubin (Washington University_St. Louis)
"The Philosophical and Interpretive Importance of Santayana's Marginalia"
Phillip Stambovsky (Boston College)
"Royce, Santayana, and `The Relational Form of the Ontological Argument'"
GX-7. Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Identity
Chair: David Seiple (Union Theological Seminary)
Speakers: Andy Wible (Muskegon Community College)
"Gay Identity: What Do We Want?"
Chris La Barbera (State University of New York_Stony Brook)
"Reclaiming Citizenship, Reporting Identity: `Don't Tell' and the Power of Speech Acts"
William S. Wilkerson (University of Alabama_Huntsville)
"Choosing Desire, Choosing Identity"
Commentator: John Corvino (Wayne State University)
GX-8. Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Idit Dobbs-Weinstein (Vanderbilt University)
Speakers: Josep Puig (Complutense University of Madrid)
"Eliahu del Medigo: An Attempted Averroism?"
Martin Pine (City University of New York_Queens College)
"Recent Interpretations of Pietro Pomponazzi"
GX-9. Society for Social and Political Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: War
Chair: Graciela Lechuga-Solis (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana_Xochimilco)
Speakers: Bonnie Mann (University of Oregon)
"How America Justifies its War: A Feminist Reading of `Shock and Awe'"
Marcelo Hoffman (University of Denver)
"Foucault's Politics and Bellicosity as a Matrix for Power Relations"
Lissa Skitol (Luther College)
"The Case for Comparison between Nazism and the War on Terror: A Study in Biopolitics"
GX-10. Society for the Philosophy of History
7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Hegel's Philosophy of History
Chair: Kevin Dodson (Lamar University)
Speakers: Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida)
"Is Hegel's Philosophy of History Eurocentric?"
Frederick Rauscher (Michigan State University)
"Rationality and Reality: Kant and Hegel on History"
Kevin Dodson (Lamar University)
"The Primacy of the Practical: Kant, Hegel, and Marx"
Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University)
"Hegel's Theories of Knowledge and History"
GX-11. Society for the Study of Women Philosophers
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Women Philosophers in America
Speakers: Therese Dykeman (Fairfield University)
"Anne Bradstreet, Mercy Otis Warren, and Judith Sargent Murray: Their Common Issues"
Dorothy Rogers (Montclair State University)
"Before the APA: Women in the Development of Academic Philosophy in America"
Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue University)
"Jane Addams's Autobiographical Account of Twenty Years at Hull House"
GX-12. Søren Kierkegaard Society
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: James Conant and his Critics on Kierkegaard's Authorship(s)
Chair: M. Jamie Ferreira (University of Virginia)
Speakers: Edward Mooney (Syracuse University):
"To Revoke a Text and Keep it Too: A Curtain Call for Climacus"
Paul Muench (Williams College)
"Understanding Kierkegaard's Climacus in the Postscript: Mirror of the Reader's Faults or Socratic Exemplar?"
Colin Patrick (University of Chicago)
"Reflected Existence: The Difficulties of the Concluding Unscientific Postscript"
Commentators: Genia Schönbaumsfeld (University of Southampton_UK)
James Conant (University of Chicago)
GX-13. World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: The Temporal and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology
Chair: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning)
Speakers: Nader El-Bizri (University of Cambridge)
"Perspectives on Time from the History of Philosophy and Phenomenology"
Mehdi Aminrazavi (Mary Washington College)
"Mir Damad on Time and Temporality"
Michael Andrews (Seattle University)
Title: TBA
Sirajul Islam (Visva-Bharati University_India)
"The Concept of Temporal and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy: Oriental and Occidental Phenomenological Perspective"
Abu Yaareb Marzouki (International Islamic University of Malaysia)
"Ibn Taymiyyah's Interpretation of Quranic Narrative and Temporality"
Kathleen Haney (University of Houston)
"The Ontopoietic Timing of Life Versus the Kairic Unfolding of the Trans-natural Destiny (A-T. Tymieniecka)"
Reza Akbarian (University of Tarbiat Modares_Iran)
"Temporal Creation of the Material World and Mulla Sadra's Trans-substantial Motion"
H. Kalbasi (Allameh Tabatabai University_Iran)
"Mulla-Sadra and Kant: Time, Temporality, and Phenomena"
John Crowley (Franciscan University of Steubenville)
"Temporality in the Moral Existence of the Person (Dietrich von Hildebrand)"
Abdul Rahim Afaki (University of Karachi_Pakistan)
"The Historicality of Linguistic Signs and the Ahistoricality
of Meanings: The Role of Neologisms in the Making of Islamic-Arab Tradition"
GX-14. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Pre-College Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy Video Festival
Group Session XI _ 9:00-11:00 a.m.
GXI-1. American Society for Value Inquiry
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Tibor Machan's Objectivity
Chair: Douglas Den Uyl (Liberty Fund Inc.)
Critics: John Reis (Elmhurst College)
Douglas Rasmussen (St. John's University)
Fred Seddon (Duquesne University)
Author: Tibor Machan (Chapman University)
GXI-2. Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Kent Emery, Jr. (University of Notre Dame)
Speakers: Bernd Goehring (University of Notre Dame)
"Henry of Ghent and Giles of Rome on Intellectual Cognition"
Giorgio Pini (Fordham University)
"Mental Representation in Giles of Rome"
Martin Pickavé (University of Toronto)
"Giles of Rome on Emotions"
(This session may continue past 11:00 a.m.)
Group Session XII _ 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
GXII-1. Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Technology and Virtues
Chair: Melvin Woody (Connecticut College)
Speakers: Jennifer Radden (University of Massachusetts_Boston) and John Sadler (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
"Technology and Virtues"
GXII-2. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Interpreting Daoist Philosophy
Chair: Erin Cline (Baylor University)
Speakers: Joel Krueger (Purdue University)
"Doing without Trying: Taoism, Cognitive Science, and Embodied Cognition"
Erin Cline (Baylor University)
"How to Fish Like a Daoist"
Weimin Sun (California State University_Northridge)
"Daoist Influence on Chan Buddhism"
Friday Afternoon, December 30
Group Session XIII _ 1:30-4:30 p.m.
GXIII-1. Hannah Arendt Circle and Karl Jaspers Society of North America
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy, Religion, Politics
Chair: Andrew Gluck (Independent Scholar)
Speakers: Serena Parekh (Boston College)
"When the Chips are Down: Arendtian Morality and Human Rights"
Brad Herling (Boston University)
"Machedicy-Making: Just War Theory and the Discourse on Evil in an Age of Terror"
Commentator: Ray Langley (Manhattanville College)
GXIII-2. International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Topic: On the Constructive-Engagement Methodological Strategy in Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy
Chair: Xianglong Zhang (Peking University)
Speakers: Manyul Im (California State University_Los Angeles)
"Engaging with the Dead: Classical Confucianism, Historicism, and the Viability of Ethical Options"
Xiaofei Tu (Syracuse University)
"New Confucians and the Kyoto Philosophers as Comparativists: The Cases of Mou Zongsan and Nishitani"
Bo Mou (California State University_San Jose)
"On Some Methodological Issues Involved in Constructive-Engagement of Chinese and Western Philosophy"
Commentator: Weimin Sun (California State University_Northridge)
GXIII-3. International Society for Environmental Ethics and Society for Philosophy and Geography
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Topic: Author Meets Critics: The Work of Mark Sagoff
Chair: Avram Hiller (Wake Forest University)
Critics: Bryan Norton (Georgia University of Technology)
David Schmidtz (University of Arizona)
Paul Thompson (Michigan State University)
Author: Mark Sagoff (University of Maryland)
GXIII-4. International Society for NeoPlatonic Studies
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Speakers: Peter Adamson (Kings College London)
"Soul in al-Kindi and Arabic Neoplatonism"
Carlos Fraenkel (McGill University)
"Platonic Interpretations of Revealed Religion: From Ancient Alexandria to Baghdad."
John Jones (Marquette University)
"An Absolutely Simple God? Divine Essence and Energies in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite"
Richard Taylor (Marquette University)
"Neoplatonic Elements in Averroes's Account of Intellect"
GXIII-5. North American Society for Social Philosophy
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Topic: The Why of Democracy
Chair: Barbara Andrew (William Paterson University)
Speakers: Alistair MacLeod (Queen's University)
"Can We Have Freedom and Justice without Democracy?"
Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo)
"Democracy by Main Force?"
Carol Gould (George Mason University)
Title: TBA