Proceedings And Addresses
January, 2006 (Volume 79, Issue 3)
Group Program
Wednesday Evening, March 22
Group Session GI — 6:00-8:00 p.m.
GI-1. North American Society for Social Philosophy
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Terrorism, Security, and Human Rights
Chair: Jeffrey Gauthier (University of Portland)
Speakers: Johanna Brenner (Portland State University)
“Gender, Security, and Terrorism”
Richard Buck (Mount Saint Mary’s College)
“Terrorism and the Justificatory Limits of Human Rights”
John Rowan (Purdue University–Calumet)
“The Human Rights of Terrorism Stakeholders”
GI-2. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session I
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy and Film
Chair: Barbara LaBossiere (California State University–Fresno)
Speakers: Karen Bardsley (Morehead State University)
“On Seeing Unicorns: Perception and the Content of Fictional Representations”
Michael Wolf (California State University–Fresno)
“Why Andy Kaufmann Wasn’t Funny”
Commentators: Catherine Sherron (Thomas More College)
James Behuniak (Sonoma State University)
Group Session GII — 6:00-9:00 p.m.
GII-1. Society for Student Philosophers, Session I
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Responses and Responsibilities—19th-century German Readings of Modern Philosophy
Chair: Melissa M. Shew (University of Oregon)
Speakers: Melissa M. Shew (University of Oregon)
“Schelling and Spinoza: The Haunted and the Hunted”
Carolyn Culbertson (University of Oregon)
“Hegel and Jacobi: On Thinking and Intuiting”
Adam Arola (University of Oregon)
“Nietzsche and Spinoza: The Joys of Untimely Philosophy”
GII-2. Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session I
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Catharsis, Motion, and Death in Plato’s Phaedo
Chair: Pierre Lamarche (Utah Valley State College)
Speaker: Michael Shaw (Utah Valley State College)
“Forms without Motion in Metaphysics A”
Sara Brill (Fairfield University)
“A Chorus of Swans: On the Manifold Nature of Death”
Ryan Drake (Georgia Southern University)
“Currency and Catharsis”
Thursday Afternoon, March 23
Group Session G-III — 1:00-4:00 p.m.
GIII-I. North American Kant Society, Session I
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Henry Allison, Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation And Defense, Revised and Enlarged Edition (2004)
Chair: Michael Friedman (Stanford University)
Critics: Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania)
Allen Wood (Stanford University)
Commentator: Henry Allison (University of California–Davis)
Thursday Evening, March 23
Group Session G-IV — 6:00-8:00 p.m.
GIV-1. Josiah Royce Society
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Inaugural Program
Chair: Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley (California State University–Bakersfield)
Speaker: Mary Mahowald (University of Chicago)
“Roycean Communities and Prenatal Testing for Disability”
Commentator: Eva Feder Kittay (State University of New York–Stony Brook)
GIV-2. Society for Business Ethics
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Business Ethics is a Pluralism
Chair: Jeffery Smith (University of Redlands)
Speaker: John Dienhart (Seattle University)
Commentators: Joseph DesJardins (St. John’s University/College of St. Benedict)
John McCall (St. Joseph’s University)
GIV-3. Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Einstein Meets Husserl
Chair: David Woodruff Smith (University of California–Irvine)
Speakers: Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University)
Richard Tieszen (San Jose State University)
GIV-4. North American Kant Society, Session II
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Kantian Political Philosophy
Chair: Corey Dyck (Boston College)
Speaker: Pablo Gilabert (Concordia University)
“Basic Positive Duties of Justice: A Kantian Perspective”
Commentator: Helga Varden (University of Toronto)
GIV-5. Joint Meeting of Society of Christian Philosophers and Society for the Study of Process Philosophy
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Chair: Daniel Dombrowski (Seattle University)
Proponents (from SSPP): Donald Viney (Pittsburg State University)
“God as the Most and Best Moved Mover: Hartshorne’s Importance for Philosophical Theology”
Randall Auxier (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
“God’s Mortal Soul”
Commentators (from SCP): David Basinger (Roberts Wesleyan College)
C. Stephen Evans (Baylor University)
GIV-6. Association for Philosophy of Education
6:00-8:00 p.m.,
Topic: Education, Philosophy, and Psychology
Chair: Deborah Kerdeman (University of Washington)
Speakers: Philip Robbins (Washington University)
“Educating Intuition: Explanatory Gaps and the Balkanized Brain”
Jeffrey Sugarman (Simon Fraser University)
“The Form of the Personal and the Irreducibility of Psychological Reality”
Group Session GV — 6:00-9:00 p.m.
GV-1. Society for the Study of Ethics & Animals
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Chair: Nathan Nobis (University of Alabama–Birmingham)
Speaker: Jeremy Garrett (Rice University)
“Utility-Based Vegetarianism and Human Health: A Response to the Causal Impotence Objection”
Commentator: Lawry Finsen (University of Redlands)
Chair: Gary Steiner (Bucknell University)
Speaker: Mylan Engel Jr. (Northern Illinois University)
“Moral Individualism and Our Duties to Animals”
Commentator: Susan Finsen (California State University–San Bernardino)
Chair: Ian Muhlhauser (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Rebecca Walker (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“The Good Life for Non-Human Animals: What Virtue Requires of Humans”
Commentator: Kathie Jenni (University of Redlands)
GV-2. Joint Session of Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy and the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in the Profession
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Film and LGBT Studies
Chair: William Wilkerson (University of Alabama–Huntsville)
Speakers: Richard Nunan (College of Charleston)
“A Tale of Two Lesbians: William Wyler’s Disinterment of The Children’s Hour”
Kayley Vernallis (California State University–Los Angeles)
“Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of the Good and Tom Joslin’s Documentary Silverlake Life”
Commentator: Rita Alfonso (Grinnell College)
GV-3. Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Trade, Labor, Taxation, and Global Justice
Chair: Carol Gould (George Mason University)
Speakers: Christian Barry (Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs)
“Just Linkage: International Trade and Labor Standards”
Gillian Brock (University of Auckland)
“Taxation and Global Justice”
Commentator: Don Ross (University of Alabama at Birmingham/University of Cape Town)
GV-4. International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: The Confucian Virtue of Yi in Comparative Perspectives
Chair: Sun Junheng (Wuhan University of Science and Technology)
Speakers: Wu Genyou (Wuhan University)
“Daoyi and Zhengyi: A Comparative Reflection on Confucius’s and Plato’s Views on Political Legitimacy”
Jinfen Yan (University of Toronto)
“The Formation and Character of Yi in Confucianism and of Justice in J. S. Mill’s Moral Philosophy”
Marshall Willman (University of Iowa)
“Mencius on Yi and Self-Reflection from a Kantian Point of View Commentators”
Commentators: Sun Junheng (Wuhan University of Science and Technology)
Hagop Sarkissian (Duke University)
GV-5. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session II
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Andrew Fiala, Practical Pacificism
Chair: Barbara LaBossiere (California State University–Fresno)
Critics: Trudy Conway (Mount Saint Mary’s University)
Lani Roberts (Oregon State University)
Author: Andrew Fiala (California State University–Fresno)
GV-6. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Session I
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Approaching Metaphysical Issues in Philosophical Practice
Chair: James A.Tuedio (California State University–Stanislaus)
Speakers: Greg Tropea (California State University–Chico)
“Hypothetically Making Sense of Religion”
Peter Raabe (University College of the Fraser Valley)
“Esoteric Metaphysics in Philosophical Counseling”
Sara Ellenbogen (Quincy College)
“From Philosophical Therapy to Psychotherapy: Wittgenstein and Philosophical Counseling”
GV-7. International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session I
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Kathleen Dean Moore, The Pine Island Paradox
Chair: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)
Critics: Leslie Francis (University of Utah)
Michael Nelson (University of Idaho)
Daniel McFee (Mercyhurst College)
Deborah Slicer (University of Montana)
Derek Turner (Connecticut College)
Author: Kathleen Dean Moore (Oregon State University)
GV-8. North American Wittgenstein Society
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Wittgensteinian Methods
Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University–Fullerton)
Speaker: Howard Wettstein (University of California–Riverside)
“The Magic Prism: Direct Reference by Way of Wittgenstein”
Commentator: John W. Powell (Humboldt State University)
Speaker: Don Levi (University of Oregon)
“The Existence of Language”
Commentator: Jeff Johnson (University of Minnesota)
Speaker: Kelly Jolley (Auburn University)
“Wittgenstein’s Three Living Principles”
Commentator: Elizabeth Wolgast (California State University–East Bay)
GV-9. Society for Student Philosophers, Session II
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Chair: Matthew Lockard (University of California–Los Angeles)
Speakers: Jeremy Henkel (University of Hawaii–Manoa)
“What the Categorical Imperative Cannot Do: Toward a Kantian Account of Choice”
Anne Barnhill (New York University)
“Sexual Objectification, Sexual Subjectification, and a Problem with Porn”
Michael Anthony Long (University of Houston)
“A Case for an Informed Current-Desire Conception of Welfare
Eric Chelstrom (State University of New York–Buffalo)
“The Philosophical Understanding of Music in the Nineteenth Century: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche”
Group Session GVI — 8:00-10:00 p.m.
GVI-1. William James Society
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: William James’s Ethics
Chair: Mark Moller (Denison University)
Speakers: Wesley Cooper (University of Alberta)
“Cerebralism and Voluntarism in James’s Will-to-Believe Doctrine”
Henry Jackman (York University)
“James, Objectivity, and Ethical Truth”
Todd Lekan (Muskingum College)
“Strenuous Moral Living”
GVI-2. Philosophy of Religion Group, Session I
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Christianity and Metaphysics
Chair: John Y. Kwak (Biola University)
Speakers: Jeffrey Green (University of Notre Dame)
“On the Morality of Perdurantism”
Joshua David Blander (University of California–Los Angeles)
“Scotus’s Formal Distinction, the Trinity, and the Problem of Material Constitution”
GVI-3. Society for Skeptical Studies, Session I
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Rachel Robison (Weber State University)
Speakers: Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina)
“Davidson and Skepticism: How Not to Respond to the Skeptic”
James R. Beebe (State University of New York–Buffalo)
“Bonjour on Skepticism”
GVI-4. Karl Jaspers Society, Session I
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics
Chair: Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University)
Speaker: James Barry (Indiana University–Southeast)
“The Birth of the Social Realm in Arendt’s Post-Mortem of the Nation-State”
Commentator: Stephen Schulman (Ball State University)
GVI-5. Hume Society
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Saul Traiger (Occidental College)
Speaker: Jackie Taylor (University of San Francisco)
“Hume on Beauty and Virtue”
Group Session GVII — 9:00-11:00 p.m.
GVII-1. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session I
9:00-11:00 p.m.
Topic: Metaphysics in Laozi and Liezi
Chair: James Behuniak (Sonoma State University)
Speakers: Tongdong Bai (Xavier University)
“Being and Non-Being in Laozi”
June W. Seo (Sungkyunkwan University)
“Metaphysical Claims in the Liezi”
Commentator: James Behuniak (Sonoma State University)
Friday Evening, March 24
Group Session GVIII — 7:15-10:15 p.m.
GVIII-1. Society for Social and Political Philosophy: Historical, Continental, and Feminist Perspectives, Session I
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Topic: Social and Political Thought/Issues: Trans-Disciplinary and Trans-Cultural Intersections
Chair: Ted Stolze (Cerritos College)
Speakers: Hasana Sharp (McGill University)
“Love Slavery: Notes Towards a Dialogue between Spinoza and Feminism”
Ted Stolze (Cerritos College)
“The History of Buddhist Philosophy Considered as a Struggle of Tendencies”
Alejandro de Acosta (Southwestern University)
“Civilization and Barbarism: Reconsiderations”
GVIII-2. North American Nietzsche Society
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Topic: New Work on Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology
Chair: Paul Miklowitz (California Polytechnic University–San Luis Obispo)
Speakers: David McNeill (University of Essex)
“Bad Conscience and Human Temporality”
Robert Guay (Barnard College)
“Transcendental Elitism”
Mathias Risse (Harvard University)
“Nietzsche on Justice and the Duties of the ‘Uebermensch’”
Commentator: John Richardson (New York University)
GVIII-3. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session I
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Topic: Painting and Film
Chair: Edward Winters (West Dean College)
Speaker: Mary Wiseman (City University of New York–Brooklyn College)
“Painting Women: Lisa Yuskavage and Kiki Smith”
Commentator: Sally Markowitz (Willamette University)
Speaker: Andrew Kania (Trinity University)
“Working Backwards: Memento and the Ontology of Popular Cinema”
Commentator: John Marmysz (College of Marin)
Speaker: Dennis Rothermel (California State University–Chico)
“How Deleuze Thinks about Cinema”
Commentator: John Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College)
GVIII-4. Western Phenomenology Conference
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Topic: Schelling and Phenomenology
Chair: Alejandro A. Vallega (California State University–Stanislaus)
Speakers: Peter Warnek (University of Oregon)
“Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, and the Phenomenology of Freedom”
Jason Wirth (Seattle University)
“The Art of Nature: Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, and the Agony of the Will”
Commentator: Silvia Benso (Siena College)
GVIII-5. Society for Skeptical Studies, Session II
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Topic: New Waves in Epistemology
Chair: Richard Greene (Weber State University)
Introduction: Duncan Pritchard (Stirling University) and Vincent Hendricks (Roskilde)
Speakers: Tim Black (California State University–Northridge)
“Defending a Sensitive Neo-Moorean Invariantism”
Berit Brogaard (Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville) and Joe R. Salerno (Saint Louis University)
“Knowability, Possibility, and Paradox”
Boudewijn de Bruin (Amsterdam University)
“Epistemic Logic and Epistemology”
Troy Catterson (University of Hawaii)
“Hintikkan Epistemology”
Paul Egre (Paris IV)
“Williamsonian Epistemology”
Ram Neta (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“How to Naturalise Epistemology”
Duncan Pritchard (Stirling University)
“Knowledge, Luck, and Lotteries”
Wayne Riggs (Oklahoma University)
“The Value Turn in Epistemology”
Franz Huber (California Institute of Technology)
“The Plausibility-Informativeness Theory”
GVIII-6. Society for Empirical Ethics
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Topic: Psychology, Neuroscience, and Moral Cognition
Chair: Robert Halliday (Utica College)
Speakers: William Casebeer (Naval Postgraduate School/Harvard University)
“Narratives and Moral Judgment: The Neuroscience of Framing Effects in Moral Cognition”
Jorge Moll (National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
“The Event-Feature-Emotion Complex (EFEC): An Integrative Model for the Neural Bases of Moral Cognition”
Shaun Nichols (University of Utah)
“Intuitions and Individual Differences: The Knobe Effect Revisited”
William Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College)
“Parenting and Moral Learning”
Commentators: Robert Halliday (Utica College)
Jennifer Wright (University of Wyoming)
GVIII-7. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session II
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Topic: Transcending Evil in the Asian Context
Chair: Craig Ihara (California State University–Fullerton)
Speakers: Richard Reilly (St. Bonaventure University)
“Precepts for Avoiding Doing Evil”
Judy Saltzman-Saveker (California Polytechnic State University–San Luis Obispo)
“Spiritual Education in the Martial Arts: Transcending Violence and Evil”
Adam J. Buben (University of New Mexico)
“How to Live as One Should: Kierkegaard and the Samurai”
Commentator: Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee (Mary Washington University)
GVIII-8. American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Co-Sponsored by The APA Committee on Teaching Philosophy
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Topic: Engaged Learning
Chair: Donna Engelmann (Alverno College)
Speakers: Karen Hornsby (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University)
“Building Ethical Reasoning Skills through Active Learning”
Barry DeCoster (University of Louisville)
“Writing Ourselves into the Moral Stories of Others: Teaching Applied Ethics through Narrative”
John Zavodny (Unity College)
“The Play’s the Thing: Teaching Ethics through Theater”
Betsy Decyk (California State University–Long Beach)
“The Coordination of Collaboration: Insights from Student-Faculty Conversations on Learning”
GVIII-9. International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session II
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Chair: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)
Topic: The Environmental Philosophy of Rachel Carson
Speakers: Baird Callicott (University of North Texas)
Kathleen Dean Moore (Oregon State University)
Commentator: Mark Woods (University of San Diego)
Topic: Sharing with Wolves
Speaker: Michael Nelson (University of Idaho)
Commentator: John A. Vucetich (Michigan Technological University)
GVIII-10. Society for Analytical Feminism
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Topic: Feminist Virtue Ethics
Chair: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speakers: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
“Feminist Virtue Ethics”
Nancy Nyquist Potter (University of Louisville)
“Defiance and Other Virtues of the Ruled”
Marilyn Friedman (Washington University)
“On Being Bad and Feeling Good”
Anne Barnhill (New York University)
“Feminist Sexual Virtue and Feminist Sexual Vice”
GVIII-11. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Robert Westbrook, Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth
Chair: Mark Van Hollebeke (Seattle University)
Critics: Brendan Hogan (Pacific Lutheran University)
Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
Eric MacGilvray (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
James Johnson (University of Rochester)
Jack Knight (Washington University in St. Louis)
Author: Robert Westbrook (University of Rochester)
GVIII-12. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Chair: Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College)
Speakers: Rusty Jones (Oklahoma University)
“Self-Love and Friendship: Re-examining the Argument of Nicomachean Ethics IX.4”
Allan Bäck (Kutztown University)
“The Conception of Abstraction”
Fouad Kalouche (Albright College)
“Antisthenes’s Theory of Unique Enunciation: Similarities, Differences, and Possible Influences”
GVIII-13. Association of Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
7:15-10:15 p.m.
Chair: David Hunter (State College of New York–Buffalo)
Speaker: John Woods (University of British Columbia/King’s College–London)
“A Resource-Based Approach to Fallacies”
Commentator: Dale Turner (California State Polytechnic University–Pomona)
Speaker: John Hoaglund (Christopher Newport College)
“Classical Logic as Foundational: Some Questions”
Commentator: Donald Hatcher (Baker University)
Speaker: David Sherry (Northern Arizona University)
“Formal Logic for Informal Logicians”
David Sherry’s paper was awarded the AILACT Essay Prize for 2005.
Saturday Evening, March 25
Group Session GIX — 6:00-8:00 p.m.
GIX-1. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session II
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Film as Argument
Chair: Amy Coplan (California State University–Fullerton)
Speaker: Thomas Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College)
“Film as Argument”
Commentators: Angela Curran (Carleton College)
Kathleen Rowe Karlyn (University of Oregon)
GIX-2. Society for Social and Political Philosophy: Historical, Continental, and Feminist Perspectives, Session II
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Social and Political Thought/Issues: Praxis, Non-Place, and Simulacrum
Chair: Alejandro de Acosta (Southwestern University)
Speakers: Manuel Chávez-Jiménez (Binghamton University/Saint Lawrence University)
“The Spatiality of Praxis”
Margret Grebowicz (University of Houston-Downtown)
“Relocating the Non-Place: Reading Negri with/against Haraway”
Stephen Gallagher (Independent Scholar)
“Jessica Lynch: Simulacrum”
GIX-3. Philosophy of Religion Group, Session II
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Christianity and Epistemology
Chair: Daniel Speak (Azusa Pacific University)
Speakers: David P. Hunt (Whittier College)
“Divine Providence and Simple Foreknowledge: A Reply to Some Critics”
Tim Mosteller (University of San Diego)
“Why Recent Correspondence Theories Fail Religious Epistemology”
GIX-4. Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Marxism, Socialism, and Social Justice
Moderator: Rita Manning (San Jose State University)
Speakers: Rodney G. Peffer (University of San Diego)
“The New G. A. Cohen, Social Justice, and Marxism”
Olufemi Taiwo (University of Seattle)
“Premature Autopsies: Or Why Marxism May Have a Bright Future”
Commentator: Jeffrey Paris (University of San Francisco)
Group Session GX — 6:00-9:00 p.m.
GX-1. Society for German Idealism
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Chair: Aaron Bunch (Lewis and Clark College)
Speakers: David Ciavatta (Northern Arizona University)
“On Burying the Dead: The Role of Ritual in Hegel’s Account of Spirit”
Barbara Hannan (University of New Mexico)
“Schopenhauer on Freedom, Responsibility, and Character”
Jeffrey Reid (University of Ottawa)
“Chaos and System in Friedrich Schlegel’s Progressive, Universal Poetry”
GX-2. Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Chair: Joseph Lynch (California Polytechnic State University–San Luis Obispo)
Speakers: Michael J. Monahan (Marquette University)
“Martial Arts as Nietzschean ‘Self-Overcoming’”
Alan Bäck (Kutztown University)
“Gandhi the Martial Artist”
Rick Schubert (Cosumnes River College)
“Soteriological Consequentialism and Violence in the Martial Arts”
Judy Saltzman-Saveker (California Polytechnic State University–San Luis Obispo)
“Himsa and Ahimsa and the Martial Arts”
GX-3. American Society for Aesthetics
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Art and Pornography
Chair: Flo Leibowitz (Oregon State University)
Speaker: Christy Mag Uidhir (Rutgers University)
“The Impossibility of Pornographic Art”
Commentator: Nicole Hassoun (University of Arizona/University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Speaker: Tanya Rodriguez Eckman (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities)
“Point of View and Subjugating Images”
Commentator: Catherine McKeen (State University of New York–Brockport)
GX-4. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Session II
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Title: Judgment and Openness in Philosophical/Psychological Practice
Chair: James A. Tuedio (California State University–Stanislaus)
Speakers: Donald E. Polkinghorne (University of Southern California)
“A Judgment-Based Practice of Care”
Richard Askay (University of Portland)
“Heidegger’s Zollikon Seminars and Their Possible Relevance to Psychotherapy and Counseling Practices”
James A. Tuedio (California State University–Stanislaus)
“Calibrating Attunement in Philosophical Practice”
GX-5. Society for Student Philosophers, Session III
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeremy Henkel (University of Hawaii–Manoa)
Speakers: Matthew Lockard (University of California–Los Angeles)
“Disjunctivism and the Fallibility of Perceptual Belief”
Brandy Burfield (University of Houston)
“Putnam and Mathematical Objectivism”
Xiaoyang Tang (New School for Social Research)
“To a Piece of White Paper Itself: An Exemplification of the Phenomenological Maxim in Heidegger’s Early Thoughts”
David M. Krueger (State University of New York–Albany)
“The Kierkegaard/Wittgenstein Connection: Private Language and the Role of Faith”
GX-6. Gandhi/King Society
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Chair: José-Antonio Orosco (Oregon State University)
Speakers: Lani Roberts (Oregon State University)
“Balanced with What?”
Karen Bardsley (Morehead State University)
“The University Classroom and the Marketplace of Ideas”
Cheyney Ryan (University of Oregon)
“Why Conservatives Can’t Compete in the Marketplace of Ideas”
Catherine Sherron (Thomas More College)
“Fair and Balanced Teaching”
GX-7. Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session II
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Toward a Democratic Community in the Philosophy of Plato
Chair: Melissa Shew (University of Oregon)
Speakers: Adriel M. Trott (Villanova University)
“Plato’s Socrates: Failed King or Democrat?”
Jena Jolissant (Oglethorpe University)
“I Take This Mythical Tale to Be True: Love and Self-Narrative in Plato’s Phaedrus”
J. Eric Butler (Villanova University)
“The City/Soul Analogy in Plato’s Later Dialogues (Especially the Philebus)”
GX-8. Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic: Problems of Subjectivity, Meaning, and Intention in the Arts and Psychoanalysis
Chair: Charles Young (Claremont Graduate University)
Speakers: Eleanor Katz (Orange Coast College)
“Internationality and the Creative Act”
Constance DeVereaux (Shenandoah University)
“The Writer, Language Behavior, and Aesthetic Value”
Sarah Donovan (Wagner College)
“Autonomy and Inclusion: Irigaray, Butler, and Benjamin on Subjectivity”
GX-9. International Hobbes Association
6:00-9:00 p.m.
(This session may extend to 10:00 p.m.)
Part I.
Chair: Timo Airaksinen (Cambridge University/University of Helsinki)
Speaker: Martin Bertman (International Hobbes Association)
“Hobbes and Kant Compared”
Commentator: Susanne Sreedhar (Tulane University of New Orleans)
Speaker: Eleanor Curran (Keele University)
“Hobbesian Rights as Liberty Rights: The (Mis)application of Hohfeld”
Commentator: Mary Helen Berk (San Francisco State University)
Speaker: Samantha Frost (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“The Action and Passion of Politics: Hobbes on Power”
Commentator: Jeremy Anderson (United States Air Force Academy)
Part II.
Chair: Rosamond Rhodes (Mt. Sinai School of Medicine/ City University of New York–Graduate Center)
Speaker: Juhana Lemetti (University of Helsinki)
“Hobbes and Infinity: A Neglected Discussion”
Commentator: John Whipple (University of California–Irvine)
Speaker: Sammy Basu (Willamette University)
“‘There Never Was a Greater Generation of Scoffers at Religion’: Thomas Hobbes and the Humor of the Leviathan”
Commentator: Michael Green (University of Chicago)
GX-10. Society for Women in Philosophy
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Chair: Heather Battaly (California State University–Fullerton)
Topic: Theorizing Transgender
Speaker: Talia Mae Bettcher (California State University–Los Angeles)
“Hallucinating in the Borderlands: Reflections on Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion”
Topic: How Should We Prepare? Philosophy, Feminism, and Disasters
Speaker: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)
“The Philosophy of Disaster and Emergency Response”
Group Session GXI — 8:00-10:00 p.m.
GXI-1. Philosophy of Time Society
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: David P. Hunt (Whittier College)
Speaker: Alan R. Rhoda (University of Nevada–Las Vegas)
“In Defense of Prior’s ‘Peircean’ Tense Logic”
Commentator: H. E. Baber (University of San Diego)
Speaker: Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University)
“Eternal Tense Logic”
Commentator: Steven F. Savitt (The University of British Columbia)
GXI-2. Karl Jaspers Society, Session II
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics
Chair: Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University)
Speakers: Dianna Taylor (James Carroll University)
“The Significance of Arendt’s Analysis of Terror for the Contemporary United States”
Emily Zakin (Miami University)
“Arendt and Kristeva on the Alienatiion of Judgment”
GXI-3. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Graduate Session
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Applications of Classical American Thought to Contemporary Social Issues
Chair: Mathew Foust (University of Oregon)
Speakers: Stephen Arthur (Oregon State University)
“Royce and the Klamath Basin: A Modern Provincial Approach”
Kara Barnette (University of Oregon)
“Royce, Feminist Realism, and Performing Gender”
Mark Tschaepe (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
“Evolutionary Education as Techné: An Analysis of Teaching Evolutionary Theory as a Form of Technology”
GXI-4. Association for Chinese Philosophers in America
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Confucianism and Democracy
Chair: Lijun Yuan (Texas State University–San Marcos)
Speakers: Tongdong Bai (Xavier University)
“A Mencian Version of Limited Democracy”
Weimin Sun (California State University–Northridge)
“Confucianism and Democracy: Where Do They Conflict?”
Commentator: Donna Reeves (University of Colorado–Boulder)