April 26-April 29, 2006
Palmer House Hilton Hotel

Placement Interview Area
5:00-10:00 p.m., Salon 3 (3rd Floor (S))

Placement Service
5:00-10:00 p.m., Salon 1 (3rd Floor (S))

Registration
5:00-10:00 p.m., Salon 2 (3rd Floor (S))

Executive Committee
7:00-11:00 p.m., Cresthill Room (3rd Floor (M))

Thursday, April 27

Book Exhibits
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Lower Exhibit Hall Salons 4-12 (3rd Floor (S))

Group and Committee Sessions, Thursday Morning
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GI: 9:00 a.m.-Noon
GI-1: Joint Session: American Association of Philosophy Teachers and the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, Crystal Room
GI-2: Radical Philosophy Association, Wabash Parlor
GI-3: International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Private Dining Room 9
GI-4: American Society for Aesthetics, Private Dining Room 4
GI-5: Bertrand Russell Society, Private Dining Room 5
GI-6: Joint Session: Hannah Arendt Circle and the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Private Dining Room 6
GI-7: Philosophy of Religion Group, Private Dining Room 7
GI-8: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Private Dining Room 8
GI-9: American Society for Value Inquiry, Private Dining Room 16
GI-10: Joint Session: Personalist Discussion Group and the Society for the Study of Process Philosophy, Private Dining Room 17
GI-11: Society for Student Philosophers, Private Dining Room 18
GI-12: Society for Realist-Antirealist Discussion, Parlor A
GI-13: North American Kant Society, Parlor B
GI-14: William James Society, Parlor C
GI-15: Association for the Development of Philosophy Teaching, Parlor D

Placement Interview Area
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Salon 3 (3rd Floor (S))

Placement Service
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Salon 1 (3rd Floor (S))

Registration
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Salon 2 (3rd Floor (S))

Group and Committee Sessions, Thursday Afternoon/Evening
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GII: 5:15-7:15 p.m.
GII-1: Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, Crystal Room
GII-2: Joint Session: Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the Profession and the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, Wabash Parlor
GII-3: Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, Private Dining Room 9
GII-4: North American Kant Society, Private Dining Room 4
GII-5: North American Spinoza Society, Private Dining Room 5
GII-6: Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, Private Dining Room 6
GII-7: Hume Society, Private Dining Room 7
GII-8: International Society for Environmental Ethics, Private Dining Room 8
GII-9: Society for the Metaphysics of Science, Private Dining Room 16
GII-10: International Association for Computing and Philosophy, Private Dining Room 17
GII-11: North American Nietzsche Society, Private Dining Room 18
GII-12: American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy, Parlor A
GII-13: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Parlor B
GII-14: Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Cresthill Room
GII-15: Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Parlor D
Session GIII: 7:30-10:30 p.m.
GIII-1: Radical Philosophy Association, Crystal Room
GIII-2: North American Society for Social Philosophy, Wabash Parlor
GIII-3: Convivium: The Philosophy and Food Roundtable, Private Dining Room 9
GIII-4: Joint Session: International Society for Environmental Ethics and the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Private Dining Room 4
GIII-5: Leibniz Society of North America, Private Dining Room 5
GIII-6: North American Division of the Schopenhauer Society, Private Dining Room 6
GIII-7: Society for the Philosophy of Creativity, Private Dining Room 7
GIII-8: Society for the Philosophy of History, Private Dining Room 8
GIII-9: American Society for Value Inquiry, Private Dining Room 16
GIII-10: Max Scheler Society, Private Dining Room 17
GIII-11: Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust, Private Dining Room 18
GIII-12: Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Parlor A
GIII-13: Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Parlor B
GIII-14: History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society, Cresthill Room

I-A. Symposium: Truthmakers
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 9 (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Marian David (University of Notre Dame)
Speakers: J.C. Beall (University of Connecticut)
Trenton Merricks (University of Virginia)
“Truth Supervenes on Being”
Commentator: Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham)

I-B. Symposium: Deliberative Democracy
1:30-4:30 p.m., Wabash Parlor (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University)
Speakers: Iris Marion Young (University of Chicago)
“The Importance of De-Centering Deliberative Democracy”
David Estlund (Brown University)
“Democracy and the Jury Theorem: New Skeptical Reflections”
James Bohman (St. Louis University)
“Deliberative Democracy and the European Union: The Aims of Transnational Constitutionalism”
Commentator: Thomas Christiano (University of Arizona)

I-C. Symposium: Aristotle’s Metaphysics
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 16 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Tad Brennan (Northwestern University)
Speakers: Stephen Menn (McGill University)
Lloyd Gerson (University of Toronto)
Commentator: Jonathan Beere (University of Chicago)

I-D. Symposium: Cosmological Arguments
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 17 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: William Rowe (Purdue University)
Speakers: Alexander R. Pruss (Georgetown University)
Graham Oppy (Monash University)
“Cosmological Arguments”
Commentator: Robert Koons (University of Texas–Austin)

I-E. Symposium: Memorial Session for Berent Enç
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 18 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Dennis Stampe (University of Wisconsin)
Speakers: Fred Dretske (Duke University/Stanford University)
“Enç on Action”
Alfred R. Mele (Florida State University)

I-F. Colloquium: Metaphysics of Science
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 5 (3rd Floor (M))
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Kenneth Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana)
Speaker: Matthew Haug (Cornell University)
“Natural Selection as a Realized Causal Process”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Robert Skipper (University of Cincinnati)

2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Mark Criley (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Speaker: Kenneth A. Presting (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“Lange on Stablility”
Commentator: Barry M. Ward (University of Arkansas)

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Mylan Engel, Jr. (Northern Illinois University)
Speaker: Barbara G. Montero (City University of New York)
“Physicalism in an Infinitely Decomposable World”
Commentator: Andrew Melnyk (University of Missouri–Columbia)

I-G. Colloquium: Descartes
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 6 (3rd Floor (M))
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Joel A. Schickel (Hampton-Sydney College)
Speaker: Andrew D. Youpa (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
“Will, Intellect, and Cartesian Virtue”
Commentator: Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University)

2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Margaret Atherton (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Speaker: Raffaella De Rosa (Rutgers University–Newark)
“The Myth of Cartesian Qualia”
Commentator: Roger Florka (Ursinus College)

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: David R. Cunning (University of Iowa)
Speaker: Matthew J. Kisner (University of South Carolina)
“Descartes and the Limits of Reason”
Commentator: Antonia LoLordo (University of Virginia)

I-H. Colloquium: Moral Psychology
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 7 (3rd Floor (M))
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Ronald L. Sandler (Northeastern University)
Speaker: Jeffrey C. Brand-Ballard (George Washington University)
“Favoring, Polarity, and Particularism”
Commentator: Andrew M. Cullison (University of Rochester)

2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Heidi Lene Meibom (Carleton University)
Speaker: Andrea Westlund (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
“Anger, Pain, and Forgiveness”
Commentator: Rodney C. Roberts (East Carolina University)

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Vincent Chiao (Northwestern University)
Speaker: Joseph Quinn Olechnowicz (Florida State University)
“What’s the Harm in a Little Self-Deception?”
Commentator: Adam A. Kovach (Marymount University)

I-I. Colloquium: Epistemic Justification
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 8 (3rd Floor (M))
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Christopher R. Green (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Timm Triplett (University of New Hampshire)
“The Role of Certainty”
Commentator: Jennifer Lackey (Northern Illinois University)

2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Allen Plug (Malone College)
Speaker: Robert W. Schroer (Arkansas State University)
“Can the Mere Passage of Time Justify a Belief? A Defense of Memory Foundationalism”
Commentator: Earl Conee (University of Rochester)

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Glenn Ross (Franklin & Marshall College)
Speaker: Ted L. Poston (University of Missouri)
“Internalism and the Problem of Scatter”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Juan Comesaña (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

I-J. Colloquium: Special Responsibilities
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 4 (3rd Floor (M))
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Linda Radzik (Texas A&M University)
Speaker: Sarah Harper (Boston College)
“What’s So Special about Special Responsibilities?”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Diane Jeske (University of Iowa)

2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Marilea Bramer (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities)
Speaker: David Schwartz (Randolph Macon Woman’s College)
“Consumer Choice and Moral Responsibility”
Commentator: Christopher M. Caldwell (Southwestern College)

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Richard T. DeGeorge (University of Kansas)
Speaker: Denis G. Arnold (University of Tennessee)
“The Ethical Obligations of Corporations Concerning Global Climate Change”
Commentator: Terry L. Price (University of Richmond)

I-K. Colloquium: Consciousness and Understanding
1:30-4:30 p.m., Parlor C (6th Floor (M,S))
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Malcolm Forster (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Speaker: Sean J. Allen-Hermanson (Florida International University)
“Morgan’s Canon Revisited”
Commentator: Colin Allen (Indiana University)

2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Warren E. Shrader (Indiana University–South Bend)
Speaker: Stephen R. Grimm (University of Notre Dame)
“The Sense of Understanding”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: J. D. Trout (Loyola University Chicago)

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: William Jaworski (Fordham University)
Speaker: Torin Alter (University of Alabama)
“What Do Split-Brain Cases Show about the Unity of Consciousness?”
Commentator: Brie Gertler (University of Virginia)

I-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Blacks in Philosophy: Author Meets Authors Critically
1:30-4:30 p.m., Parlor A (6th Floor (M,S))
In this session, three authors of recent books will comment on one another’s work:
Tommie Shelby (author of Ethics Along the Color Line)
Anna Stubblefield (author of We Who Are Dark)
Paul C. Taylor (author of Race: A Philosophical Introduction)
Chair: Bill E. Lawson (University of Memphis)
Critics: Tommie Shelby (Harvard University)
Anna Stubblefield (Rutgers University)
Paul C. Taylor (Temple University)

I-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies: Mark Siderits, Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy
1:30-4:30 p.m., Parlor B (6th Floor (M,S))
Chair: Chang-Seong Hong (Minnesota State University–Moorhead)
Critics: Jay L. Garfield (Smith College, University of Massachusetts, Melbourne University, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies)
“Fusion and Fiction: Other Models for Buddhist Theories of Personal Identity”
John Taber (University of New Mexico)
“Subjectivity and Reductionism: Some Vedantic Misgivings”
Dan Arnold (University of Chicago)
“On How It Can Be Ultimately True That There Is No Ultimate Truth”
Author: Mark Siderits (Illinois State University)

I-N. The John Dewey Lecture
1:30-4:30 p.m., Crystal Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Alvin Plantinga (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale University)

Reception
8:30 p.m.-Midnight, Red Lacquer Room (4th Floor (M))

Friday, April 28, 2006

Book Exhibits
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Lower Exhibit Hall Salons 4-12 (3rd Floor (S))

Placement Interview Area
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Salon 3 (3rd Floor (S))

Placement Service
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Salon 1 (3rd Floor (S))

Registration
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Salon 2 (3rd Floor (S))

II-A. Symposium: Induction and Scientific Explanation
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Crystal Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Daniel McKaughan (University of Notre Dame)
Speakers: Branden Fitelson (University of California–Berkeley)
“Inductive Logic and Probabilistic Explanation”
Michael Strevens (New York University)
“In Praise of Instance Confirmation”
Commentator: James Joyce (University of Michigan)

II-B. Symposium: Epistemic Relativism
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Wabash Parlor (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Sherrilyn Roush (Rice University)
Speakers: Paul Boghossian (New York University)
Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University)
Commentator: Gideon Rosen (Princeton University)

II-C. Author Meets Critics: Claude Panaccio, Ockham on Concepts
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 16 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Susan Brower-Toland (St. Louis University)
Critics: Marilyn McCord Adams (Oxford University)
John Boler (University of Washington)
Author: Claude Panaccio (University of Quebec–Montreal)

II-D. Author Meets Critics: Jonathan Dancy, Ethics without Principles
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 17 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Critics: Margaret Little (Georgetown University)
Michael Ridge (University of Edinburgh)
Sean D. McKeever (Davidson College)
Author: Jonathan Dancy (University of Reading/University of Texas–Austin)

II-E. Symposium: The Metaphysics of Causation
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 18 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Timothy O’Connor (Indiana University–Bloomington)
Speakers: Stephen Mumford (University of Nottingham)
Jonathan M. Schaffer (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
Commentator: John W. Carroll (North Carolina State University)

II-F. Colloquium: Philosophy of Psychology
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 5 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Robert Schwartz (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Speaker: Paula J. Droege (Pennsylvania State University)
“Time and the Observer Redux”
Commentator: John Jacobson (University of California–San Diego)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Jonathan D. Cohen (University of California–San Diego)
Speaker: Justin C. Fisher (University of Arizona)
“Color Representations as Hash Values”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Benj Hellie (University of Toronto)

11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
Speaker: Henry Jackman (York University)
“Fodor on Concepts and Modes of Presentation”
Commentator: Brad Rives (Union College)

II-G. Colloquium: Kantian Ethics
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 6 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Sally Sedgwick (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Melissa Seymour (Indiana University–Bloomington)
“Kant’s Later Argument for a Duty of Beneficence”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Timothy J. Rosenkoetter (Dartmouth College)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University Chicago)
Speaker: Thomas D. Harter (University of Tennessee)
“Dying to Be Good: Kant and the Permissibility of Suicide”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: David Sussman (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)

11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Benjamin A. Sachs (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Speaker: Cynthia A. Schossberger (Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville)
“Moral Worth and Common Sense: Kant’s Use of Example”
Commentator: David Forman (University of Nevada–Las Vegas)

II-H. Colloquium: Aesthetics
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 7 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Dan Flory (Montana State University)
Speaker: Henry J. Pratt (Bucknell University)
“Formula and Comparison: Against the Uniqueness of Art”
Commentator: Mitchell Avila (California State University–Fullerton)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: William Tolhurst (Northern Illinois University)
Speaker: Molly Sturdevant (DePaul University)
“Nature, Freedom, and Sublime Feeling in Kant’s Critique of Judgment”
Commentator: Jacqueline Marina (Purdue University)

11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: James K. Swindler (Illinois State University)
Speaker: Kenneth F. Rogerson (Florida International University)
“Kant, Free Harmony, and Aesthetic Ideas”
Commentator: William P. Seeley (Franklin and Marshall College)

II-I. Colloquium: Action Theory
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 8 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Luca Ferrero (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Speaker: Edward S. Hinchman (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
“Receptivity and the Will”
Commentator: Andrei A. Buckareff (Franklin and Marshall College)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Abraham Roth (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Wayne Wu (University of California–Berkeley/Carnegie Mellon University)
“How to Do Things with Reasons”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Noel E. Hendrickson (James Madison University)

11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Tamler Sommers (University of Minnesota–Morris)
Speaker: Chris Tucker (Purdue University)
“Agent Causation and the Alleged Impossibility of Rational Free Action”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Alicia Finch (Saint Louis University)

II-J. Colloquium: Ethics and Religion
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 4 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: C. Stephen Evans (Baylor University)
Speaker: Ian M. Duckles (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
“Kierkegaard, MacIntyre and the Limits of Reflection in Ethics”
Commentator: Steven M. Emmanuel (Virginia Wesleyan College)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Katherin A. Rogers (University of Delaware)
Speaker: Dean A. Kowalski (University of Wisconsin–Waukesha)
“Alston’s Evaluative Particularism and Euthyphro’s Dilemma”
Commentator: Christina Van Dyke (Calvin College)

11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Hugh J. McCann (Texas A&M University)
Speaker: R. Zachary Manis (Baylor University)
“On Moral and Religious Obligations: Some Problems for Metaethical Divine Command Theories”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Thomas Williams (University of South Florida)

II-K. Colloquium: Hermeneutic Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 9 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Dermot Moran (University College Dublin)
Speaker: Myron A. Penner (Trinity Western University)
“The Doctrine of the Hermeneutical Circle and Traditional Epistemology”
Commentator: David M. Kaplan (University of North Texas)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Christian Lotz (Michigan State University)
Speaker: Daniel P. Malloy (Appalachian State University)
“Accusing Being: Heidegger’s Concept of Categories in Being and Time”
Commentator: Leslie MacAvoy (East Tennessee State University)

11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University)
Speaker: David T. Vessey (University of Chicago)
“Disconnecting Intersubjectivity and Ethics”
Commentator: Christopher F. Zurn (University of Kentucky)

II-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Blacks in Philosophy: Author Meets Critics: Anthony Bogues, Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Parlor A (6th Floor (M,S))
Chair: Frank Kirkland (Hunter College)
Critics: Gertrude James Gonzalez de Allen (Spelman College)
Charles Mills (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Eddy Souffrant (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
Author: Anthony Bogues (Brown University)

II-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies: Themes from Jaegwon Kim
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Parlor B (6th Floor (M,S))
Chair: Marcelo H. Sabatés (Kansas State University)
Critics: Carl Gillett (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Larry Shapiro (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Thomas W. Polger (University of Cincinnati)
Response: Jaegwon Kim (Brown University)

II-N. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Women: Breakfast Meeting
7:30-9:00 a.m., Cresthill Room (3rd Floor (M))

I-O. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of
Women and the APA Committee on Inclusiveness: Feminism and Disability
1:30-4:30, Cresthill Room CC
Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)
Speakers: Leslie Francis (University of Utah)
“Understanding Their Good By, With, and For People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities: What Feminism Can Contribute”
Kim Hall (Appalachian State University)
“Queer Breasted Experience”
Eva Feder Kittay (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
“Care and Disability”
Alexa Schriempf (Pennsylvania State University)
“An Epistemology of Deafness: Feminism and Testimony”
Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University)
“Neuroethics, Feminist Ethics, and the Ethics of Disability: Trust at the Center Holds”
Abby Wilkerson (George Washington University)
“Medical Agency, Political Agency: Transgender Perspectives”

Group and Committee Sessions, Friday Afternoon/Evening
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GIV: 7:00-10:00 p.m.

GIV-1: Joint Session: Hannah Arendt Circle and the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Private Dining Room 16
GIV-2: Philosophers for Social Responsibility, Wabash Parlor
GIV-3: Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Private Dining Room 9
GIV-4: Society for Analytical Feminism, Private Dining Room 18
GIV-5: Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Private Dining Room 5
GIV-6: Society for the Study of Husserl’s Philosophy, Private Dining Room 6
GIV-7: International Institute for Field-Being, Private Dining Room 7
GIV-8: Society for the Philosophy of History, Private Dining Room 8
GIV-9: Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy, Crystal Room
GIV-10: Søren Kierkegaard Society, Parlor C
GIV-11: Joint Session: Society for Systematic Philosophy and the Society for Systematic Philosophy, Private Dining Room 4
GIV-12: Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust, Parlor A
GIV-13: North American Spinoza Society, Parlor B
GIV-14: Society for the Study of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy, Private Dining Room 17
GIV-15: Society for Student Philosophers, Parlor D

Business Meeting
12:15-1:30 p.m., Wabash Parlor (3rd Floor (M))

III-A. Symposium: Theories of Substance: Ancient, Medieval, Modern
1:45-4:45 p.m., Crystal Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado–Boulder)
Speakers: Christopher Shields (Oxford University)
Jeffrey E. Brower (Purdue University)
Calvin Normore (University of California–Los Angeles)

III-B. Symposium: Fine Tuning and the Improbable Universe
1:45-4:45 p.m., Wabash Parlor (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Neil A. Manson (University of Mississippi)
Speakers: Robin Collins (Messiah College)
“On Making the Fine-Tuning Design Argument Rigorous”
John Earman (University of Pittbsurgh)
Timothy McGrew (Western Michigan University)

III-C. Author Meets Critics: Graham Priest, Towards Non-Being
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 16 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University)
Critics: Terence Horgan (University of Arizona)
Terence Parsons (University of California–Los Angeles)
Author: Graham Priest (University of Melbourne)

III-D. Symposium: The Re-Emergence of the Torture Debate
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 17 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Avery Kolers (University of Louisville)
Speakers: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Thomas E. Hill, Jr. (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Alastair Norcross (Rice University)

III-E. Author Meets Critics: Larry Shapiro, Mind Incarnate
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 18 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin)
Critics: Mark Rowlands (University of Hertfordshire)
Frederick Adams (University of Delaware)
Author: Larry Shapiro (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

III-F. Colloquium: Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 5 (3rd Floor (M))
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Michael Kremer (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Otávio A. Bueno (University of South Carolina)
“How Structuralism Can Solve the ‘Access’ Problem”
Commentator: Christopher Pincock (Purdue University)

2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Gerald Vision (Temple University)
Speaker: Berit Brogaard (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
“Quantifying over Cases”
Commentator: Andrew Egan (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)

3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Walter Edelberg (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Gregory Landini (University of Iowa)
“Was Frege’s Original Logicism a Success?”
Commentator: Patricia Blanchette (University of Notre Dame)

III-G. Colloquium: Metaphysics and Philosophy of Physics
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 6 (3rd Floor (M))
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Nick Huggett (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Bradford Skow (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
“Sophisticated Substantivalism and Spacetime Symmetries”
Commentator: J. Brian Pitts (University of Notre Dame)

2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: William Hasker (Huntington College)
Speaker: Patrick Toner (University of Virginia)
“Emergent Substance”
Commentator: Jeffrey H. Green (University of Notre Dame)

3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Daniel Speak (Azusa Pacific University)
Speaker: Roberta Ballarin (Southern Methodist University)
“Omissions: Responsibility and Causation”
Commentator: Carolina Sartorio (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

III-H. Colloquium: Plato
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 7 (3rd Floor (M))
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University)
Speaker: Daw-Nay Evans (DePaul University)
“Nietzsche’s Décadent: A Reading of ‘The Problem of Socrates’ in Twilight of the Idols”
Commentator: Clancy Martin (University of Missouri–Kansas City)

2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: David K. O’Connor (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Matthew C. Cashen (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Does Wisdom Make You Lucky? Euthydemus 279d-280b”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Angela Curran (Carleton College)

3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Julie Ward (Loyola University Chicago)
Speaker: Charlie Tanksley (University of Virginia)
“The Third Man, Resemblance Regress, and Parmenides: A New Interpretation”
Commentator: To be announced

III-I. Colloquium: Rationalism and Common Sense
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 8 (3rd Floor (M))
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Dennis Whitcomb (Rutgers University)
Speaker: Baron Reed (Northern Illinois University)
“Epistemic Circularity Squared? Skepticism about Common Sense”
Commentator: Noah Lemos (College of William and Mary)

2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Albert Casullo (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Speaker: James R. Beebe (University at Buffalo)
“BonJour’s Arguments Against Skepticism about the A Priori”
Commentator: Adam J. Leite (Indiana University–Bloomington)

3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Daniel M. Mittag (University of Rochester)
“The Coherence of Rationalism”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Speaker: Andrew D. Spear (University at Buffalo)
Commentator: Stephen Maitzen (Acadia University)

III-J. Colloquium: Political Philosophy
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 4 (3rd Floor (M))
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Kevin Graham (Creighton University)
Speaker: Gerald Doppelt (University of California–San Diego)
“Can Political Liberalism Deliver Equality in the Social-Bases of Self-Respect?”
Commentator: Paul Weithman (University of Notre Dame)

2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Colleen Murphy (Texas A&M University)
Speaker: Kai Chong Wong (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Inter-Group Forgiveness in Multicultural Democracies: Self-Respect and Self-Esteem as Evaluative Criteria”
Commentator: Mariano Crespo (Catholic University of Chile)

III-K. Colloquium: Virtue
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 9 (3rd Floor (M))
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Heidi Malm (Loyola University Chicago)
Speaker: Judith Andre (Michigan State University)
“Facets of Honesty”
Commentator: Jon Garthoff (Northwestern University)

2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Thomas L. Carson (Loyola University Chicago)
Speaker: Matthew A. Tedesco (Beloit College)
“Indirect Consequentialism, Suboptimality, and Friendship”
Commentator: Eric Wiland (University of Missouri–St. Louis)

3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Scott Anderson (University of British Columbia)
Speakers: Mariam Thalos (University of Utah) and Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah)
“Sense and Sensibility”
Commentator: Mark P. Jenkins (Johns Hopkins University)

III-L. Joint Session Sponsored by the Committee on Inclusiveness and the Committee on the Status of Women: Roundtable on Inclusiveness Issues in the Profession
1:45-4:45 p.m., Parlor A (6th Floor (M,S))
Chair: Susana Nuccetelli (University of Texas–Pan American)
Speakers: Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (Washington State University)
Frank Kirkland (Hunter College)
Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert (DePaul University)
Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
Commentator: Greg Gilson (University of Texas–Pan American)

III-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges: Strategies and Standards for Introducing Philosophy: Lessons from Two-Year Colleges
1:45-4:45 p.m., Parlor B (6th Floor (M,S))
Speakers: Charles R. Myers (Okaloosa-Walton College)
Daniel E. Palmer (Kent State University–Trumbull)
Eric Brandon (Fresno City College)
Gerald Mozur (Lewis and Clark Community College)

III-N. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Women and the APA Committee for Defense of the Professional Rights of Philosophers: Teaching in a Climate of Conservatism
1:45-4:45, Cresthill Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)
Speakers: Ann E. Cudd (University of Kansas)
“Revolution vs. Devolution in Kansas”
Jennifer Faust (California State University, Los Angeles)
“Teaching Out in Utopia”
Alison M. Jaggar (University of Colorado)
“Teaching in Colorado: Not a Rocky Mountain High”
JoBeth Jordan (University of Kentucky)
“The Big Chill”
Jeanine Weeks Schroer (Arkansas State University)
“Blue Delta: A Black Feminist in the Rural Christian South”

Presidential Address
5:00-6:00 p.m., Red Lacquer Room (4th Floor (M))
Introduction: Ted Cohen
Speaker: Eleonore Stump
“Love, By All Accounts”

Presidential Reception
9:00 p.m.-Midnight, Red Lacquer Room (4th Floor (M))

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Book Exhibits
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Lower Exhibit Hall Salons 4-12 (3rd Floor (S))

Placement Interview Area
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Salon 3 (3rd Floor (S))

Placement Quiet Interview Space
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 3 (3rd Floor (M))

Placement Service
9:00 a.m.-Noon Salon 1 (3rd Floor (S))

Registration
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Salon 2 (3rd Floor (S))

IV-A. Invited Session: The Patrick J. Romanell Lecture
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Crystal Room (3rd Floor (M))
Speaker: Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney)
“Home Alone: Cognitive Solipsism in the 17th and 18th Centuries”

IV-B. Symposium: The Metaphysics of Ordinary Objects
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 9 (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Michael Rea (University of Notre Dame)
Speakers: L. A. Paul (University of Arizona)
“Material Coincidence”
Josh Parsons (University of Otago)
Commentator: Thomas M. Crisp (Biola University)

IV-C. Symposium: Anscombe on Action
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 16 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Candace Vogler (University of Chicago)
Speakers: Michael Thompson (University of Pittsburgh)
Richard Moran (Harvard University)
Commentator: J. David Velleman (University of Michigan)

IV-D. Author Meets Critics: Deborah Modrak, Aristotle’s Theory of Language and Meaning
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 17 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Robin Smith (Texas A&M University)
Critics: David Charles (Oxford University)
Paolo Crivelli (Oxford University)
Fred D. Miller, Jr. (Bowling Green State University)
Author: Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)

IV-E. Author Meets Critics: Nomy Arpaly, Unprincipled Virtue
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 18 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Douglas Lavin (Harvard University)
Critics: Robert B. Pippin (University of Chicago)
Michael Stocker (Syracuse University)
Author: Nomy Arpaly (Brown University)

IV-F. Invited Session: The Extended Mind and Scientific Psychology
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Wabash Parlor (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Carl Gillett (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Speakers: Alva Noë (University of California–Berkeley)
“Extended Consciousness”
Rick Grush (University of California–San Diego)
Robert Rupert (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Extended Cognition As a Framework for Cognitive Science: The Costs Outweighs the Benefits”
Commentator: Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta)

IV-G. Colloquium: Philosophy of Science
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 6 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Daniel M. Hausman (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Speaker: Jeffrey Roland (Louisiana State University)
“Kitcher and the Obsessive Unifier”
Commentator: John T. Roberts (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Joshua Thurow (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Speaker: Marc A. Alspector-Kelly (Western Michigan University)
“Empiricism as Stance and Empiricism Naturalized”
Commentator: Bradley Monton (University of Kentucky)

11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Robert Batterman (University of Western Ontario)
Speaker: Sorin Bangu (University of Toronto)
“Underdetermination and the Argument from Indirect Confirmation”
Commentator: John Koolage (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

IV-H. Colloquium: Historical Kant
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 7 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Jane Kneller (Colorado State University)
Speaker: Kenneth R. Westphal (University of East Anglia)
“Kant’s Transcendental Proofs of Mental Content Externalism”
Commentator: Nelson Potter (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Jeppe Platz (University of Tennessee)
“On Kant’s Distinctions between Perfect and Imperfect and Narrow and Wide Duties”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Jeanine M. Grenberg (St. Olaf College)

11:00 a.m.-Noon
Speaker: James Kreines (Yale University)
“Between Human Experience and Divine Intuition: Hegel’s Response to Kant’s Limitation of Our Knowledge”
Commentator: Jennifer A. Mensch (Villanova University)

IV-I. Colloquium: Epistemology, Logic, and Language
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 8 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Stephanie Lewis (Municipal Capital Management, LLC)
Speaker: Janice L. Dowell (Bowling Green State University)
“Meaning, Reason, and Modality”
Commentator: Josh Dever (University of Texas–Austin)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Ian Proops (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Speaker: Jon M. Cogburn (Louisiana State University)
“Moore Problems for the Anti-Realist?”
Commentator: Joe R. Salerno (St. Louis University)

11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Jason Bridges (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Mark Silcox (University of Central Oklahoma)
“On the Conceivability of an Omniscient Interpreter”
Commentator: Anthony Dardis (Hofstra University)

IV-J. Colloquium: Democracy
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 4 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research)
Speaker: Diane Perpich (Vanderbilt University)
“The Equality-Difference Dilemma and Contemporary Feminist Politics”
Commentator: Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: David B. Ingram (Loyola University Chicago)
Speaker: Christopher King (Vanderbilt University)
“The Logic of Political Liberalism: A Critique of Estlund’s Acceptance Criterion”
Commentator: William Rehg (St. Louis University)

11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Anthony S. Laden (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
“Why Pragmatists Must Be Perfectionists”
Commentator: Kenneth Baynes (Syracuse University)

IV-K. Colloquium: Spinoza
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Cresthill Room (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Matthew J. Kisner (University of South Carolina)
Speaker: Eugene J. Marshall (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Spinoza on Akrasia”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Michael LeBuffe (Texas A&M University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Diane Steinberg (Cleveland State University)
Speaker: Christopher Martin (Purdue University)
“Rethinking Spinoza’s Concept of Ideas of Ideas”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Karolina Hubner (University of Chicago)

11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Charles Hueneman (Utah State University)
Speaker: Shannon Dea (University of Western Ontario)
“Spinoza on the Indivisibility of Substance and the Inconceivability of Extension”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Samuel Newlands (Yale University)

IV-L. Colloquium: Wittgenstein
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 5 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: James C. Klagge (Virginia Tech)
Speaker: Andrew Graham (Acadia University)
“Wittgenstein and Kripke on the Standard Metre”
Commentator: Heather J. Gert (University of North Carolina–Greensboro)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Kelly Dean Jolley (Auburn University)
Speaker: Craig Fox (University of Illinois–Chicago)
“The Transient Paragraph: An Understanding of PI §43 Aided by an Analysis of a Late Stage of Composition of the Philosophical Investigations”
Commentator: Alice Crary (The New School for Social Research)

IV-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Hispanics: What Is an Ethnic Group?
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Parlor B (6th Floor (M,S))
Chair: Gary Seay (City University of New York)
Speakers: Jorge Gracia (University at Buffalo)
Susana Nuccetelli (University of Texas–Pan American)
Michael D. Root (University of Minnesota)
Paul C. Taylor (Temple University)
Commentators: Jesús Aguilar (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Omar Mirza (St. Cloud State University)
Onyoung Oh (Medgar Evers College/CUNY Graduate Center)
Steve Tammelleo (Lake Forest College)

IV-N. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness: Theorizing Disability
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Parlor A (6th Floor (M,S))
Chair: Abby Wilkerson (George Washington University)
Speakers: Paul R. Marchbanks (English, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“Intimations of Developmental Disability: Configuring Care and Causation in the Brontës’ Villette and Wuthering Heights”
Scott DeShong (English, Quinebaugh Valley Community College)
“Disability Studies and the Metaphysics of Ability”
Christine A. James (Valdosta State University)
“Disability Interpreted in the Early Modern Period and in Medical Ethics”

IV-O. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness: Breakfast Meeting
7:30-9:00 a.m., Parlor C (6th Floor (M,S))

Saturday Afternoon/Evening, April 29

Group and Committee Sessions, Saturday Afternoon/Evening
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GV: 12:15-2:15 p.m.

GV-1: Society for Analytical Feminism, Private Dining Room 7
GV-2: Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Wabash Parlor
GV-3: Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Private Dining Room 9
GV-4: Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Private Dining Room 4
GV-5: Society for Philosophy and Technology, Private Dining Room 5
GV-6: Max Scheler Society, Private Dining Room 6
GV-7: Society for Bioethics and Classical Philosophy, Crystal Room
GV-8: Society for Business Ethics, Private Dining Room 8
GV-9: North American Nietzsche Society, Private Dining Room 16
GV-10: Journal of the History of Philosophy, Private Dining Room 17
GV-11: Conference of Philosophical Societies, Private Dining Room 18
GV-12: Society for the Study of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy, Parlor A
GV-13: Association for the Development of Philosophy Teaching, Parlor B

V-A. Invited Session: Mechanism in the Sciences
2:30-6:00 p.m., Crystal Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Robert Richardson (University of Cincinnati)
Speakers: William Wimsatt (University of Chicago)
“Introductory Overview: The Biological Origins of Modern Mechanism in Philosophy”
Peter Machamer (University of Pittsburgh (HPS))
“Mechanisms, Explanations and Information”
Stuart Glennan (Butler University)
“Prospects and Problems for a Mechanical Theory of Causation”
Commentators: Stathis Psillos (University of Athens)
Carl F. Craver (Washington University in St. Louis)

V-B. Symposium: Philosophy of Religion in the 21st Century
2:30-5:30 p.m., Wabash Parlor (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Michael Bergmann (Purdue University)
Speakers: Richard Swinburne (Oxford University)
“Justification of Religious Belief”
Paul Draper (Florida International University)
“Partisanship and Inquiry in Philosophy of Religion”
Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale University)

V-C. Symposium: Early Modern Theories of Causation
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 16 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Karen Detlefsen (University of Pennsylvania)
Speakers: Eileen O’Neill (University of Massachusetts)
Tad M. Schmaltz (Duke University)
Commentator: Sukjae Lee (Ohio State University)

V-D. Symposium: Recognition or Redistribution?
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 17 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: José Medina (Vanderbilt University)
Speakers: Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research)
Rainer Forst (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität)
“First Things First: (Re-)Distribution, Recognition, and Power”
Commentator: Linda Martín Alcoff (Syracuse University)

V-E. Author Meets Critics: Scott Soames, Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 18 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: David Sosa (University of Texas–Austin)
Critics: David Chalmers (Australian National University)
Robert Stalnaker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Author: Scott Soames (University of Southern California)

V-F. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 5 (3rd Floor (M))
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: John Fennell (Grinnell College)
Speaker: Paul Saka (University of Houston)
“Ambiguity Beyond Number”
Commentator: Chris Kennedy (University of Chicago)

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Leonard Clapp (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Speaker: Michael A. Rescorla (University of California–Santa Barbara)
“Assertion and Its Constitutive Norms”
Commentator: Gary Ebbs (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)

4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: William W. Taschek (Ohio State University)
Speakers: Peter W. Hanks (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) and Brendan O’Sullivan (Rhodes College)
“Reflexive Content and the Modal Argument”
Commentator: Boris Kment (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)

V-G. Colloquium: Aristotle
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 6 (3rd Floor (M))
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Stephanie Gregoire (St. Jerome’s University)
“Can Women Be Philosophers for Aristotle?”
Commentator: Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Gabriel Richardson Lear (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Kevin Sharpe (Purdue University)
“A Neglected Premise in Aristotle’s Argument for the Unity of the Virtues”
Commentator: Miriam N. Byrd (University of Texas–Arlington)

4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Lawrence J. Jost (University of Cincinnati)
Speaker: Thomas M. Tuozzo (University of Kansas)
“A Reductionist Account of Aristotelian Powers to Cause Change”
Commentator: Richard J. Tierney (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)

V-H. Colloquium: Challenges to Traditional Epistemology
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 7 (3rd Floor (M))
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Marcelo H. Sabatés (Kansas State University)
Speaker: Benjamin Bayer (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“Neglecting Indeterminacy and Behaviorism: Kim’s Critique of Quine’s Naturalized Epistemology”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Cory F. Juhl (University of Texas–Austin)

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Frederick F. Schmitt (Indiana University–Bloomington)
Speaker: E. J. Coffman (University of Notre Dame)
“Williamson’s Evidence”
Commentator: Nicholas L. Silins (New York University)

4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Jesús Aguilar (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Speaker: Jared G. Bates (Hanover College)
“Kornblith on the Value of Knowlege”
Commentator: Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana University–Bloomington)

V-I. Colloquium: War
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 8 (3rd Floor (M))
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Mark N. Jensen (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Steven E. Viner (Washington University in St. Louis)
“On State Self-Defense and Guantanamo Bay”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: John Davenport (Fordham University)

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Rory J. Conces (University of Nebraska–Omaha)
Speaker: Stephen L. Nathanson (Northeastern University)
“Terrorism and the Ethics of War”
Commentator: James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame)

V-J. Colloquium: Metaethics
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 4 (3rd Floor (M))
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University)
Speaker: Peter B. M. Vranas (Iowa State University)
“I Ought, Therefore I Can”
Commentator: Anastasia Panagopoulos (University of Minnesota)

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: John Hare (Yale University)
Speaker: Nathan Nobis (University of Alabama–Birmingham)
“R. M. Hare, Non-Moral ‘Oughts’ and the Value of Reason and Consistency”
Commentator: Christian Miller (Wake Forest University)

4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Terence Cuneo (Calvin College)
Speaker: Andrew Payne (St. Joseph’s University)
“Gibbard on Thick Concepts and Normative Facts”
Commentator: Melissa Barry (Williams College)

V-K. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine: The Role of Compassion in Medical Education and Medical Practice
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 9 (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Lee M. Brown (Howard University)
Speakers: Laura Ekstrom (College of William and Mary)
“Compassion, Autonomy, and Respect”
Gordon Greene (University of Hawaii–Manoa)
“Imperturbability Is Not Armor: Approaches to Training”
Benjamin Rich (University of California–Davis)
“Breeding Cynicism: The Re-Education of Medical Students”
Sandra L. Shapshay (Indiana University/Indiana University Center for Bioethics)
“Compassion, A Double-edged Scalpel”
Howard Spiro (Yale University)
“Is It Passion or Compassion That Is Needed?”
Angelo Volandes (Harvard University, Center for Bioethics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
“Illness as Experience: Beyond the Language of Autonomy and Disease”

V-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law: State, Religion, and the Establishment Clause Today
2:30-5:30 p.m., Parlor A (6th Floor (M,S))
Chair: Lucinda Joy Peach (American University)
Speakers: Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame)
“Scientific Education and Church-State Separation”
Kent Greenwalt (Columbia University)
“Religion, Science, Intelligent Design, and the Establishment Clause”
Michael Perry (Emory University)
“The Nonestablishment Ideal”
Steven Shiffrin (Cornell University)
“Liberalism and the Establishment Clause: Is Religion Special?”

V-M. Symposium: Memorial Session for Richard Popkin
2:30-5:30 p.m., Cresthill Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Al Martinich (University of Texas–Austin)
Speakers: Jose Maia Neto (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
“Suspension of Judgment and Belief in Early Modern Skepticism”
Margaret Osler (University of Calgary)
“Reading Gassendi: Sceptics, Libertines, and Historians of Philosophy”
James Force (University of Kentucky)
“Samuel Clarke (1675-1729): Subtle Newtonian”