Proceedings And Addresses
January, 2006 (Volume 79, Issue 3)
Letter from the Secretary-Treasurer
To All Members of the Association:
The Executive Committee of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association cordially invites you to attend the 80th annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. The meeting will be held at the Portland Hilton from Wednesday morning, March 22nd (when the first mini-conference begins), through Sunday afternoon, March 26, 2006 (when the second mini-conference ends).
1. Meeting Location and Special Attractions
The meeting will be held at the Portland Hilton and Executive Tower, 921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97204, Tel: +1-503-226-1611, Fax: +1-503-220-2565. The hotel features an impressive lobby restored to its early twentieth-century grandeur, with mountain or river views from many of the rooms. There is wireless computer access. The hotel has a full service health club with steam room and sauna, sky-lighted pool, whirlpool, and waveless lap pool.
Many restaurants and cultural venues are within walking distance, and many others are reachable on the downtown streetcar and light rail (which are free of charge in the core city area). The Willamette River runs through the city a few blocks from the Hilton; both its banks are waterside parks with jogging routes. Please see the section of this program on Portland attractions and restaurants for a detailed account of the many pleasures of Portland, as well as for information about planning day trips such as whale watching and wine tasting.
2. Reservations
A hotel reservation form is printed in this issue of the Proceedings. Reservations can be made by calling the Portland Hilton at 503-499-4244 or faxing 503-220-2286, or calling Hilton Reservations at 1-800-HILTONS. Or you can make your reservation online at http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/private_groups/pdxphhh_apa/index.jhtml. We urge you to make your reservations very early to assure that you obtain the APA convention rate of $119 for a single room and $134 for a double.
3. Travel Information
Driving:
From the Airport, take I-205 South and exit onto I-84 West. At the end of I-84 West, you will reach the junction of I-5 North & South. Head South toward Salem (to your left) on I-5. Follow the signs onto I-405. Take the 6th Ave exit off of I-405. Follow 6th Ave for 13 blocks and the main building will be on your left. The Hilton Portland (main building) is located on SW 6th Ave between SW Salmon & SW Taylor. Executive Tower’s main entrance is located on 545 SW Taylor between 6th Ave and 5th Ave.
From the North (Southbound) on I-5, take Exit 302A. The exit will say Rose Quarter/City Center. Follow the City Center signs, which will take you across the Broadway Bridge and place you directly on Broadway Ave. Take Broadway 19 blocks and turn left onto SW Salmon Street. Take Salmon 1 block and turn left onto SW 6th Ave. The Hilton’s front doors (main building) will be on your left-hand side. Front doors for the Executive Tower are located on 545 SW Taylor.
Parking: Both the Main Hilton Building and the Executive Towers (across the street from the Main Building) have self-parking ($18 a day) and valet parking ($23 a day).
There are seven public parking garages in the area, and Portland boasts new solar powered parking meters.
By Air: Portland International Airport (PDX) is about half an hour from downtown (less if there is no traffic).
MAX light rail is a most convenient transportation method. It’s $1.70 and stops at Pioneer Square, two blocks from the Hilton. MAX is wheelchair accessible.
Blue Star Shuttle will take you to the hotel for $13. 800-247-2272. www.bluestarbus.com. There are other shuttles as well—go to the ground transportation kiosk. None of the shuttles is wheelchair accessible.
Taxis cost about $30 to downtown and can be found at the cab stand by the transportation kiosk. Several companies have one or two wheelchair accessible taxis, but these are hard to come by. To avoid a long wait for a wheelchair taxi, it’s advisable to call ahead for a reservation, and then to call again when your plane lands. Try Radio Cab: 503-227-1212, Broadway Cab: 503-227-1234, and Portland Taxi: 503-256-5400.
By Rail: Historic Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave is served by three scheduled intercity passenger trains. Cascades serves Seattle and Vancouver. Coast Starlight runs from Los Angeles though San Francisco to Portland and Seattle. Empire Builder starts in Portland and traces the path taken by explorers Lewis and Clark through Glacier National Park. It terminates in Chicago.
4. Convention Registration
The registration fee is $10.00 for student members, $50.00 for regular members, and $60.00 for non-members of the APA who wish to attend more than a single session. Special tickets for $10.00 will be available to non-members who wish to attend a single session or one of the receptions. Only those who are registered or have purchased the limited number of extra tickets may attend the scheduled sessions or receptions. Please be sure to wear your convention badge at all times to identify yourself as a registered participant.
A Pre-Registration form is included in this issue of the Proceedings. People who are not now members of the APA may take advantage of the lower registration fee by becoming members. Membership forms are available from the National Office, online at www.apaonline.org, and also will be available at the Convention Registration desk.
Mini-conferences on “Secrecy” and on “Scientific Images,” each organized independently under the Pacific Division’s mini-conference program, are included in the regular registration fee.
5. Placement Service
Only APA members are eligible to use the Placement services. Appointing officers and applicants are urged to make preparations for their part in the placement operation in advance of the meeting.
6. Presidential Address
The Presidential Address will be delivered by Jeffrie Murphy at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, March 24. Vice President Calvin Normore will introduce President Murphy.
7. Receptions and Special Events
Wednesday
Early arrivers can enjoy a continental breakfast before the start of the mini-conference on “Secrecy,” Wednesday morning, March 22, 8:30-9:30 a.m. There will be a reception for all convention attendees at the close of the “Secrecy” mini-conference, Wednesday afternoon, March 22, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Thursday
There will be a live broadcast of “Philosophy Talk,” the public radio show with John Perry and Ken Taylor, on Thursday, March 23. Audience participation is invited, and refreshments will be served. 5:00-7:00 p.m.
The Annual Reception will take place 9:00 p.m.-Midnight.
Friday
Parmenides Publishing invites all attendees to a reception on Friday, March 24, 4:00-6:00 p.m., following the session on J. Angelo Corlett’s book, Interpreting Plato’s Dialogues.
The Presidential Reception will take place following the Presidential Address, at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday
The APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers invites all attendees to a reception on Saturday, March 25, at Noon, following the session honoring Hubert Dreyfus, winner of the 2005 Barwise Prize. Please also see announcement about the Barwise Prize on page 117.
8. Graduate Student Prizes
The APA Pacific Division Program Committee awards the prizes for outstanding papers by graduate students. The following list gives the authors, paper titles, and program session designations of the winners of the prizes for outstanding papers by graduate students:
John Bengson (University of Texas)
“How to Perceive the Past with Your Eyes Shut”
III-H. Colloquium: Perception, Thursday, 9:00 a.m.
Mark Phelan (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“The Red Herring of Compositionality and Beyond”
I-E. Colloquium: Mind and Representation, Wednesday, 1:00 p.m.
Matthew Rellihan (Georgetown University)
“The Medium Is Not the Message”
III-H. Colloquium: Perception, Thursday, 10:00 a.m.
Colin Marshall (New York University)
“Two Arguments against the Particular Content Reading of Malebranche’s General Volitions”
VI-H. Colloquium: History of Modern Philosophy, Friday, 9:00 a.m.
Christopher Green (Notre Dame University)
“Testimony and Memory as Generative Epistemic Sources”
III-G. Colloquium: Epistemology, Thursday, 10:00 a.m.
Matthew Slater (Columbia University)
“Epistemicism Can’t Save the Individuality of Species”
I-G. Colloquium: Philosophy of Biology, Wednesday, 3:00 p.m.
Nicole Hassoun (University of Arizona/University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“World Poverty and Individual Freedom”
I-I. Colloquium: Political Philosophy, Wednesday, 1:00 p.m.
Teemu Toppinen (University of Helsinki/University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“The Passions that Rule”
I-F. Colloquium: Moral Psychology, Wednesday, 2:00 p.m.
Neal Tognazzini (University of California–Riverside)
“On Being a Morally Responsible Stage”
V-F. Colloquium: Personal Identity, Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
Benjamin Sachs (University of Wisconsin)
“Can There Be Reasons that Don’t Require?”
I-D. Colloquium: Ethics, Wednesday, 2:00 p.m.
Jason Brennan (University of Arizona)
“On Behalf of Moral Principles”
VI-G. Colloquium: Ethics, Friday, 11:00 a.m.
9. Mini-Conferences
The mini-conference on Global Justice at the 2004 Annual Meeting marked the successful debut of the mini-conference program, and the 2005 Annual Meeting included both a mini-conference on the Philosophy of the Emotions and a mini-conference on Richard Rufus of Cornwall. The 2006 Meeting also includes two mini-conferences, one on “Secrecy” and one on “Scientific Images.” There will be two mini-conferences at the 2007 meeting, one on “Philosophy and Wine” and one on “Models of God.” Instructions for proposing a mini-conference can be found in this issue of the Proceedings.
10. Business Meeting and Voting Membership
The annual Business Meeting will be held from Noon to 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 23. There will be reports from the Divisional and National Officers. According to the Association’s ByLaws, regular membership is given by an act of the Executive Director on behalf of the Board of Officers. Each year the list of regular members that appears in the November Proceedings is used as the list of eligible voters for the three subsequent Divisional business meetings.
11. Report of the Pacific Division Nominating Committee
Keith Lehrer (Chair), Rebecca Copenhaver, and Cynthia Stark served as the 2005/06 Nominating Committee. They have nominated the following APA Pacific Division members for terms beginning July 1, 2006:
For Vice-President: Nicholas Smith
For Executive Committee (three-year term): Joan MacGregor
For Executive Committee (one-year term): Sharon Lloyd
For Secretary-Treasurer (two-year term): Anita Silvers
They have nominated the following APA Pacific Division member for a term beginning July 1, 2008:
For Secretary-Treasurer (one-year term): Dominic McIver Lopes
12. 2006 Program Committee and Program
The Program Committee which prepared this year’s program consists of Sara Goering (Chair), Andrew Askland, Heather Battaly, Kelly Becker, Christina Bellon, Tim Black, Christopher Bobonich, Joseph Campbell, Thomas Christiano, Jonathan Cohen, Branden Fitelson, Patricia Hanna, Pamela Hood, Bruce Hunter, David Kim, Jeffrey King, Dominic McIver Lopes, Shaun Nichols, Philip Nickel, Thomas Nickles, Donald Rutherford, Fred Schueler, Eric Schwitzgebel, Peter Thielke, Mark Timmons, Julie Van Camp, Andrea Woody, and Mark Wrathall.
Principal papers in Colloquia and Symposia were selected after blind review of all submitted papers. Participants in Invited Paper, Invited Symposia, Author Meets Critics, and Workshop meetings were invited by the Program Committee. Participants in meetings arranged by APA Committees were selected by those Committees.
13. 2007 Program
The Program Committee for the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, invites contributions for the 2007 meeting. The deadline for submission is September 1, 2006. Each author may make only one submission. Please indicate that the paper is submitted for the 2007 Pacific Division Meeting. Because the Program Committee will blind-review all submissions, the names of the author and her/his institution should not appear in the paper in any way that defeats the operation of blind-reviewing.
The 2006 Program Committee also welcomes suggestions for topics and/or speakers of invited sessions. Recommendations (including self-nominations) for commentators and session chairs also are encouraged. These all should be sent to the 2007 Program Chair, Fred Schueler, at the Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, MSC 03 2140, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, or faxed to him at (505) 277-6362, or emailed to schueler@unm.edu. When volunteering someone other than yourself, please be sure your nominee is willing to partic-ipate in the program. Nominations should reach the program committee by September 1, 2006, at the latest and should include a short account of the individual’s areas of specialization and record of scholarship.
14. Nominations for the 2007 Nominating and Program Committees
Pacific Division members may make nominations or volunteer for membership on the 2007 Nominating and Program Committees by emailing to the Secretary-Treasurer, Anita Silvers, at asilvers@sfsu.edu by March 14, 2006.
15. Accommodating Members with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
To provide a welcoming environment for members with multiple chemical sensitivities, all members are requested to refrain from wearing scented products.
On behalf of the Executive and Program Committees of the APA Pacific Division, I extend to every member of the American Philosophical Association a warm invitation to take part in our eightieth Annual Meeting.
Cordially yours,
Anita Silvers, Secretary-Treasurer
for the Executive Committee
Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association:
Sara Goering (Chair)
Hubert Dreyfus
Janet Levin
Jeffrie Murphy
Calvin Normore
Nicholas Smith
Allen Wood