Proceedings And Addresses
February 2006 (Volume 79, Issue 4)
Group Program
Group Session GI: Thursday Evening, April 27, 9:00 a.m. - Noon
GI-1. Joint Session Sponsored by the American
Association of Philosophy Teachers and the Association for Informal
Logic and Critical Thinking
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Learning to Teach Informal Logic: Aligning Graduate Education
with Hiring and Work Realities
Chair: Betsy Decyk (California State University–Long Beach)
Speakers: Rod Bertolet (Purdue University)
Adrianne McEvoy (Mansfield University)
Ralph Johnson (University of Windsor)
Tony Blair (University of Windsor)
GI-2. Radical Philosophy Association
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Speaker: Frances Latchford (York University)
“Distinguished Families: An Interrogation of the Prosaic Ontology
of Biological versus Adoptive Ties”
Speaker: Gary Thiher (University of Central Arkansas)
“Genetic Engineering and the ‘Trump of Nurture over Nature’”
Speakers: Ljubov Bugaeva (Saint Petersburg University/University of
Salzburg)
“Sexuality and Society”
Dawn Jakubowski (University of Central Arkansas)
“Prozac: The New Opiate of the Masses”
Amy Beth Hilden (College of St. Catherine)
“An Argument for the Moral Responsibility of Present-Day American
Whites for the Inherited Legacy of American Slavery”
Scott Wisor (University of Colorado)
“An Argument for the Selection of Government Representatives by
Random Lottery”
GI-3. International Association for the Philosophy
of Sport
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Sports Ethics
Chair: Jan Boxill (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Speakers: Michael Morgan (Indiana University–Bloomington)
“Do Sports Lack Moral Gravitas?”
Nicholas Dixon (Alma College)
“A Moral Evaluation of Dangerous Sport”
Jeffrey P. Fry (Ball State University)
“Sports and ‘the Therapy of Desire’”
GI-4. American Society for Aesthetics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: The Aesthetics of Popular Culture
Chair: Angela Curran (Carleton College)
Speakers: Monique Roelofs (Hampshire College)
"The Aesthetics of Ignorance: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and the Sensory Grounds of Difference"
Robin James (DePaul University):
“Does the Fetish Charcter of Music Necessarily Imply a 'Regression' in Listening? On Gender, Race, and Pop Music As an 'Oppositional Gaze'”
Commentator: Nalini Bushan (Smith College)
GI-5. Bertrand Russell Society
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Speakers: Stephen Mumford (University of Nottingham)
“Russell’s Defense of Idleness”
Sean Crawford (Lancaster University)
“On Belief as a Multiple Relation”
Nikolay Milkov (Universität Bieleford)
“The Joint Program of Russell and Wittgenstein (March-November
1912)”
Erik J. Wielenberg (DePauw University)
“Bertrand Russell and C. S. Lewis: Two Peas in a Pod”
Commentator: Nikolay Milkov (Universität Bieleford)
GI-6. Joint Session Sponsored by the Hannah
Arendt Circle and the Karl Jaspers Society of North America
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics
Chair: Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University)
Speakers: Craig M. Nichols (University of Rhode Island)
“Beyond Liberal and Conservative: Freedom, Transcendence, and
the Human Condition in Arendt, Jaspers, and Niebuhr”
Stephen Schulman (Ball State University)
“Public Forgiveness and Friendship in the Work of Hannah Arendt”
Commentator: David Pellauer (DePaul University)
GI-7. Philosophy of Religion Group
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Analytic Theology
Chair: Michael Rea (University of Notre Dame)
Speakers: Oliver Crisp (University of Bristol)
Andrew Dole (Amherst College)
Thomas M. Crisp (Biola University)
GI-8. Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Origins of C.S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Religion: Roundtable
Discussion
Speakers: Felicia Kruse (Xavier University)
“Peirce, God, and the ‘Transcendentalist Virus’”
David O’Hara (Augustana College)
“‘Playing on the way to Oregon’: Peirce’s N.A.
in light of Thoreau’s ‘Walking’”
Stacey Ake (Drexel University)
“When God Does Roll Dice: Finitude and Natural Evil in the Thought
of C. S. Peirce”
Douglas R. Anderson (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
“Peircean Faith?”
Michael Raposa (Lehigh University)
“Not by Design: Some Remarks concerning the Logic of Peirce's Neglected Argument”
GI-9. American Society for Value Inquiry
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Moral Values
Chair: Thomas Magnell (Drew University)
Speakers: James Stacey Taylor (St. Norbert College)
“Rawls, Epicurus, and Abortion”
Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)
“Bodily Autonomy”
GI-10. Joint Session Sponsored by the Personalist
Discussion Group and the Society for the Study of Process Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Speakers: William T. Myers (Birmingham Southern University)
“Why Process Philosophers Need John Dewey”
Joe Frank Jones III (Barton College)
GI-11. Society for Student Philosophers
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Eric Chelstrom (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Speakers: Eric Chelstrom (State University of New York at Buffalo)
“Kantian Criticism of BonJour’s Moderate Rationalism”
Michael Macomber (New School for Social Research)
“Are All Young Poets Naïve? Questioning the Possibility of
Erroneous Judgments of Taste in Kant’s Critique of Judgment”
Samuel Duncan (University of Virginia)
“The Difference Principle and Treating Others as Ends in Themselves”
Danielle LaSusa (Temple University)
“Eiffel Tower Statuettes and Other Pieces of Reality: A Philosophical
Look at the Tourist’s Habit of Souvenir Collecting”
GI-12. Society for Realist-Antirealist Discussion
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Mark Okrent (Bates College)
Speakers: Lee J. Braver (Hiram College)
“Davidson’s Reading of Gadamer: What He Missed and What
He Could Have Learned”
Timothy J. Nulty (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
“Metaphysical Pluralism without Conceptual Schemes”
Samuel C. Wheeler III (University of Connecticut)
“Truth, Being, Davidson and Derrida”
GI-13. North American Kant Society
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Ian Proops (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Speaker: Andrew Chignell (Cornell University)
“Kant on the Kinds of Knowledge”
Commentator: Anja Jauernig (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Desmond Hogan (Princeton University)
“Metaphysical Motives of Kant’s Analytic-Synthetic Distinction”
Commentator: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)
GI-14. William James Society
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: William James's Philosophy of Religion
Chair: David T. Vessey (University of Chicago)
Speakers: S. Nassir Ghaemi (Emory University)
“William James and the Psychology of Religious Experience”
Jacob Lynn Goodson (Garrett Theological Seminary)
“William James on the Doctrine of Transubstantiation”
Roger Ward (Georgetown College)
“Jamesean Conversion”
Group Session GII: Thursday, April 27, 5:15-7:15 p.m.
GII-1. Association for Informal Logic and Critical
Thinking
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Chair: Peter D. Asquith (Michigan State University)
Speaker: Tom Solon (Danville Area Community College)
“Generic Critical Thinking Infusion and Course Content Learning
in Introductory Psychology”
Commentator: Donald L. Hatcher (Baker University)
Speaker: David Sherry (Northern Arizona University)
“Yanal et al. on Linked and Convergent”
Commentator: Robert J. Yanal (Wayne State University)
GII-2. Joint Session Sponsored by the Society
for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy and the APA Committee on Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender People in the Profession
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: War, Terrorism, and LGBT Issues
Chair: Vince Samar (Loyola University of Chicago/Illinois Institute
of Technology)
Speakers: William Gay (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
“Political Use of the ‘War on Terrorism’ to Augment
Military and Domestic LGBT Repression”
Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (Washington State University) and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo
(Washington State University)
“The War in Iraq and Same-Sex Marriage: U.S. State Discourse,
the ‘War on Terror’, and a Decline in Public Approval”
Commentator: Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
GII-3. Society for the Study of Ethics and
Animals
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Chair: Mylan Engel, Jr. (Northern Illinois University)
Speakers: Bart Gruzalski (Pacific Center for Sustainable Living)
“Since Vegetable Farming Kills Sentient Beings, What Is a Utilitarian
to Eat?”
Gaverick Matheny (Dept. of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University
of Maryland)
Commentators: Henry R. West (Macalester College)
Alastair Norcross (Rice University)
GII-4. North American Kant Society
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Kant’s Philosophy of Right (The Mary Gregor Memorial Lecture)
Chair: Patricia Kitcher (Columbia University)
Speaker: Marcus Willaschek (Universität Frankfurt/Main)
“Kant on Right without Ethics: Reflections on Kant’s Conception
of ‘Strict Right’ in the Metaphysics of Morals”
Commentator: Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto)
There will be a short business meeting at the beginning of this
session.
GII-5. North American Spinoza Society
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Chair: Debra Nails (Michigan State University)
Speaker: Dan Esposito (Marquette University)
“Spinoza and the Order of Nature”
Commentator: Matt Wion (Marquette University)
Speaker: Richard N. Manning (Georgetown University)
“Spinoza’s Individuals”
Commentator: Brandon Look (University of Kentucky)
GII-6. Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Environmentalism and Environmental Justice
Chair: Christine Sistare (Muhlenberg College)
Speakers: Laura Westra (Osgoode Hall Law School/York University)
Mark Woods (University of San Diego)
Ronald L. Sandler (Northeastern University)
GII-7. Hume Society: Author Meets Critics:
Claudia Schmidt, David Hume: Reason in History
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Critics: Corliss Swain (St. Olaf College)
Saul Traiger (Occidental College)
Christopher Williams (University of Nevada–Reno)
Author: Claudia Schmidt (Marquette University)
GII-8. International Society for Environmental
Ethics
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Speaker: Steven Weiss (Augusta State University)
“Making the Connection Between Women’s Empowerment, Well-Being,
and Land Rights: Examining Bina Agarwal’s A Field of One’s
Own”
Commentator: Judith Andre (Michigan State University)
Speaker: Lisa M. Heldke (Gustavus Adolphus College)
“Newcomers Need Not Apply: A Racialized Reading of Wendell Berry”
Commentator: Lee McBride (Georgia Institute of Technology)
GII-9. Society for the Metaphysics of Science
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Speakers: Kenneth Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana)
“Biochemistry and Multiple Realization”
Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta)
“Meaning Making and the Mind of the Externalist”
GII-10. International Association for Computing
and Philosophy
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Issues concerning Open Source Software
Chair: Thomas Wren (Loyola University Chicago)
Speakers: John Snapper (Illinois Institute of Technology)
George Thiruvathukal (Loyola University Chicago)
Samir Chopra (City University of New York–Brooklyn College)
Scott Dexter (City University of New York–Brooklyn College)
GII-11. North American Nietzsche Society
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Nietzsche on Agency and Reliability
Chair: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)
Speakers: Paul Katsafanas (Harvard University)
“Nietsche on Agency and Self-Ignorance”
Randall Havas (Willamette University)
“Individuality as Reliability: A Dog Trainer’s Guide to
Nietzsche”
GII-12. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling,
and Psychotherapy
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Chair: Samuel Zinaich (Purdue University–Calumet)
Speaker: Kevin Aho (Florida Gulf Coast University)
“Acceleration and the Pathologies of Time: On the Social Psychology
of Heidegger’s Beitrage”
Commentator: Nan-Nan Lee (St. Xavier University–Chicago)
GII-13. Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: John Dewey’s Educational Philosophy and Its Critics
Chair: Stuart Rosenbaum (Baylor University)
Speakers: Matthew Flamm (Rockford College)
“Education, Humanism, and the Highbrow: Dewey versus Babbitt”
Victor Kestenbaum (Boston University)
“Pragmatism and ‘Spiritual Disorder’”
Commentator: Jessica Wahman (Dickinson College)
GII-14. Concerned Philosophers for Peace
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Iraq: Ethics and Exit
Chair: Harry van der Linden (Butler University)
Speakers: Joseph C. Kunkel (University of Dayton)
“Restoring Justice after an Unjust War”
John W. Lango (Hunter College)
“Applying Just War Principles to the Iraq Insurgency”
George Lucas (United States Naval Academy)
“Preventing Preventive Wars: Lessons Learned in Iraq”
Andrew Valls (Oregon State University)
“Jus Post Bellum: A Hobbesian Perspective”
GII-15. Committee on Institutional Cooperation
5:15-7:15 p.m.
GII-16. Society of Christian Philosophers
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Group Session GIII: Thursday, April 27, 7:30-10:30 p.m.
GIII-1. Radical Philosophy Association
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Speakers: Edward Abplanalp (University of Nebraska)
“Nature and the Nature of Capitalism”
David Schweickart (Loyola University Chicago)
“What Is Capitalism? What Is Socialism?”
Paul Warren (Florida International University)
“Global Exploitation and its Discontents: A Defense of the Labor
Injustice Charge”
Jacob Held (Marquette University)
“Rethinking Marxism: The Universal Class and Misrecognition”
Tony Smith (Iowa State University)
“Marx on Technology: Furthering or Overcoming Uneven Development
in the Capitalist Global System”
GIII-2. North American Society for Social Philosophy
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Recent Work in Race Theory
Chair: Nancy E. Snow (Marquette University)
Speakers: Linda Martín Alcoff (Syracuse University)
“Comparative Races, Comparative Racisms”
Lewis Gordon (Temple University)
“Philosophies of Myth, Symbols, and Form: Race in Philosophical
Anthropology”
Anika M. Mann (Morgan State University)
“Phenomenology and Racialized Subjectivity”
Michael Monahan (Marquette University)
“On Becoming Anti-Racist: Nietzschean Reflections on Racial Psychology”
GIII-3. Convivium: The Philosophy and Food
Roundtable
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: The Atkins Diet and Philosophy: A Roundtable
Chair: Lisa M. Heldke (Gustavus Adolphus College)
Speakers: Randall E. Auxier (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
“Cutting the Conceptual Carbs: Dewey as Dietician, Atkins as Pragmatist”
Daniel O’Connell (Institute for Cusanus Research, Trier University)
“Brillat-Savarin’s Nineteenth-Century Proto-Atkins Diet:
A Case Study in Inductive Inference”
Rebecca Bamford (Rhodes University, South Africa)
“The Nietzsche Diet and Dr. Atkins's Science”
Catherine A. Womack (Bridgewater State College)
“The Structure of Atkins’s New Diet Revolution: Proposing
a Paradigm Shift in Fighting Obesity”
Abby Wilkerson (George Washington University)
“Bias and Body Size: The Social Contract and the Fat Liberation
Movement”
David Detmer (Purdue University–Calumet)
“A Vegetarian’s Beef with Atkins”
Corinne Bedecarré (Normandale Community College)
“Tyranny of the Carbohydrate: Feminist Dietary Drama”
GIII-4. Joint Session Sponsored by the International
Society for Environmental Ethics and the Society for Philosophy and
Technology: Author Meets Critics: Bryan Norton, Sustainability
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: Paul B. Thompson (Michigan State University)
Critics: Larry Hickman (Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois
University–Carbondale)
Kelley A. Parker (Grand Valley State University)
Jennifer Welchman (University of Alberta)
Author: Bryan Norton (Georgia Institute of Technology)
GIII-5. Leibniz Society of North America
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: Laurence Carlin (University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh)
Speaker: Stefano Di Bella (Scuola Normale Superiore–Pisa)
“Leibniz’s Theory of Conditions: A Framework for Ontological
Dependence”
GIII-6. North American Division of the Schopenhauer
Society: Author Meets Critics: Douglas L. Berger, The Veil of Maya:
Schopenhauer’s System and Early Eastern Thought
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: David E. Cartwright (University of Wisconsin–Whitewater)
Critics: Richard Nance (Independent Scholar)
Lance Byron Richey (Cardinal Stritch University)
Author: Douglas L. Berger (Oakton College)
GIII-7. Society for the Philosophy of Creativity:
Gordon D. Kaufman, A Religious View of Creativity: Creativity as God
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: John Cogan (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
Critics: Jerome Stone (William Rainey Harper College/Meadville Theological
School)
Stephen H. Bickham (Mansfield University)
Author: Gordon D. Kaufman (Harvard Divinity School)
GIII-8. Society for the Philosophy of History
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Genealogies, Exceptions, and Norms
Chair: Benjamin S. Pryor (University of Toledo)
Speakers: Lee J. Braver (Hiram College)
“Heidegger, Genealogies, History of Being: Why Heidegger Has Always
Been, for Foucault’s Genealogy, the Essential Philosopher”
Jeanne Marie Kusina (Bowling Green State University)
“The Wolf at the Door: Agamben’s History of Exception”
Michael Allen (St. Louis University)
“Spontaneity and Generativity in the Co-Determination of Norms”
GIII-9. American Society for Value Inquiry
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Value Theory
Chair: G. John M. Abbarno (D’Youville College)
Speakers: David Schrader (Washington and Jefferson College)
“Naturalizing Value Theory”
Charles Watson (Earlham College)
“With Genus and Justice for All: John Dewey and Cornel West on
Freedom and Democracy as Moral Ideals”
GIII-10. Max Scheler Society
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Speaker: Daniel Dahlstrom (Boston University)
“Scheler on the Essence of Christian Religious Consciousness”
Commentator: Daw-Nay Evans (DePaul University)
Speaker: John White (Franciscan University–Steubenville)
“Two Idols of Phenomenology Idolatry in the Philosophies of Max
Scheler and Jean-Luc Marion”
Commentator: Kenneth Stikkers (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
Speakers: Zachary Davis (Keene State College)
“Scheler on the Relation between Political Idolatry and Despotism”
Eugene Kelly (New York Institute of Technology)
“In Lumine Dei: The Phenomenology of World and God”
GIII-11. Society for the Philosophic Study
of Genocide and the Holocaust
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: André Mineau (University of Quebec–Rimouski)
Speakers: Jennifer Scuro (St. John’s University)
“The Legacy of Auschwitz: Determining a New Sense of Intergenerational
Responsibility”
Roderick M. Stewart (Austin College)
“Responsibility and Luck in the Holocaust: Towards a Functionalist
Compatiblism”
André Mineau (University of Quebec at Rimouski)
“Biological Values in the Background of the Holocaust: A Case
Study”
GIII-12. Society for the Philosophic Study
of the Contemporary Visual Arts
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Film and Emotion
Chair: Mitchell Avila (California State University–Fullerton)
Speakers: Daniel Barratt (University of Kent)
“Tracing the Routes to Filmic Empathy: Association, Simulation,
or Appraisal?”
Amy Coplan (California State University–Fullerton)
“Film Feelings: Affective Engagement with Narrative Fiction Film”
Dan Flory (Montana State University)
“Race and Empathy in Narrative Film”
Jonathan Frome (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“The Role of Reality in Film Emotions”
Commentator: Mitchell Avila (California State University–Fullerton)
GIII-13. Society for Asian and Comparative
Philosophy
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Classical Asian Traditions in Retrospect and Prospect
Chair: J. N. Mohanty (Temple University)
Speakers: Bina Gupta (University of Missouri–Columbia)
“Common Myths about Indian Philosophy”
Donna Giancola (Suffolk University)
“Maya-Shakti-Devi (Maya): The Mother of Eco-Justice”
Marc Applebaum (Saybrook Graduate School)
“Sufism and Democratization: The Nuriyya-Melamiyya and the Turkish
Revolution”
Commentator: J. N. Mohanty (Temple University)
GIII-14. History of Early Analytic Philosophy
Society
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Speaker: Paul Pojman (Towson University)
“From Mach to Carnap: A Tale of Confusion”
Commentator: Christopher Pincock (Purdue University)
Speaker: Aaron Preston (Malone College)
“Scientism and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy”
Commentator: John Ongley (Edinboro University)
Speaker: Giancarlo Zanet (University of Palermo)
“Pragmatism, the A Priori, and Analyticity: Peirce, C. I. Lewis,
and Quine”
Commentator: Stefanie Rocknak (Hartwick College)
Group Session GIV: Friday, April 28, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
GIV-1. Joint Session Sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Circle and
the Karl Jaspers Society of North America
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Jaspers/Arendt
Chair: Alan M. Olson (Boston University)
Speakers: Shadia Drury (University of Regina, Canada)
“Aquinas and the Inquisition”
Lee Cooper (Colorado State University)
“Hannah Arendt on the Anti-Political Paradigm of Fabrication in
Plato’s Political Philosophy”
Commentator: David Pellauer (DePaul University)
GIV-2. Philosophers for Social Responsibility
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Dennis Rohatyn (University of San Diego)
Speakers: Douglas Kellner (University of California–Los Angeles)
“Lying in Politics: The Case of George W. Bush and Iraq”
Deni Elliott (University of South Florida)
“The Stability of Journalistic Responsibilities”
Eric Pierson (University of San Diego)
“The Digital Divide: Fairness and Equity in Cable Access Cost”
Edward Berggren (Wright College)
“Chomsky on the Media”
GIV-3. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Anthony Preus (Binghamton University)
Speakers: Rachel Singpurwalla (Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville)
“Reasoning with the Irrational: Moral Psychology in the Protagoras”
Andrew Payne (St. Joseph’s University)
“Eudaimonism and the Demands of Justice”
Steven Skultety (Northwestern University)
“Is ‘Part of Justice’ Justice at All? Reconsidering
Pol. III.9”
GIV-4. Society for Analytical Feminism
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Kristin Intemann (Montana State University, Bozeman)
Speaker: Devora Shapiro (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
“Knowledge of 'What It's Like': Introducing Non-Propositional,
x-Experiential Knowledge”
Commentator: Deborah Heikes (University of Alabama, Birmingham)
Speaker: Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology)
“The Skeptical Ploy and a Feminist Response”
Commentator: Joanne Waugh (University of South Florida)
Speaker: Sophie Fortin (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Rawls, Family, Limits of Political Liberalism”
Commentator: Elizabeth Brake (University of Calgary)
GIV-5. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Chinese and Comparative Philosophy
Chair: May Sim (College of the Holy Cross)
Speakers: Travis Holloway (Boston College)
“Heidegger/Asian Thought”
Eric S. Nelson (University of Massachusetts–Lowell)
“Does the Zhuangzi Have an Ethics?”
May Sim (College of the Holy Cross)
“Virtue Oriented Politics: Confucius and Aristotle”
GIV-6. Society for the Study of Husserl’s
Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Phenomenology and Asian Philosophies
GIV-7. International Institute for Field-Being
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: John Dewey’s Process Philosophy
Chair: Elizabeth F. Cooke (Creighton University)
Speakers: David E. White (St. John Fisher College)
“Art, Experience and the Common Faith of Field-Being”
Casey Haskins (State University of New York–Purchase College)
“The Disunified Field of Cultural Inquiry”
William T. Myers (Birmingham Southern University)
“John Dewey’s Metaphysics of Moral Experience”
GIV-8. Society for the Philosophy of History
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Postcolonial Histories
Speakers: Lori Witthaus (Grand Valley State University)
“Competing for History in South Asian Politics”
Shaireen Rasheed (Long Island University)
“Eroticizing Historical Space: Subverting the Post-Colonial Other”
Namita Goswami (DePaul University)
“Pride and Prejudice: Postcolonial Masculinity and National Iconicity”
GIV-9. Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
GIV-10. Søren Kierkegaard Society
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Kierkegaard and Epistemology
Chair: Ian M. Duckles (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Speakers: Ulrich Knappe (University of Copenhagen)
“Keynote Address: To Kant and Kierkegaard’s Conceptions
of Theoretical Truth”
Mark Tietjen (Baylor University)
“Doubts about Doubting: Kierkegaard’s Response to Skepticism
in Works of Love”
Thomas Carroll (Boston University)
“Fideism and the Nature of Truth in Kierkegaard’s Philosophical
Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript”
Commentator: Rick Furtak (Colorado College)
GIV-11. Philosophy of Time Society
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Presentism
Chair: L. Nathan Oaklander (University of Michigan–Flint)
Speakers: Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University)
“Presentism and Actualism”
M. Joshua Mozersky (Queen’s University (Ontario))
“The Future of Presentism”
Commentator: V. Alan White (University of Wisconsin–Manitowoc)
GIV-12. Society for the Philosophic Study of
Genocide and the Holocaust
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: André Mineau (University of Quebec–Rimouski)
Speakers: T. Storm Heter (East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania)
“Are We All Murderers? Sartre and the Ethics of Collective Evil”
Stephen Schulman (Ball State University)
“Can We Say: ‘We Should Forgive Them’? Jankélévitch
on the Impossibility of Forgiveness as an Ethical Prescription”
GIV-13. North American Spinoza Society
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Panel Discussion: Seeing Through Spinoza’s Lenses
Speakers: Melissa M. Shew (University of Oregon)
“Dead or Alive: Schelling’s Struggles with Spinoza’s
System”
Carolyn Culbertson (University of Oregon)
“Thinking God: Hegel on the Pantheism Controversy”
Adam Arola (University of Oregon)
“A Solitude for Two: Nietzsche and Spinoza”
GIV-14. Society for the Study of Indian and
Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Santaraksita: Comparative Issues, Tantra, and Philosophy
Chair: Raziel Abelson (New York University)
Speakers: Ben Vilhauer (William Paterson University)
“Santaraksita and Kant on the Infinite Divisibility and Insubstantiality
of Matter”
Marie Friquegnon (William Paterson University)
“Santaraksita and the Logic of the Tantra”
Toy Tung (Padmasambhava Buddhist Center/Columbia University)
“Santaraksita and Longchenpa on Causality”
Topic II: Santaraksita, Tantra and Philosophy
Chair: Paul Bernier (University of Moncton)
Speakers: Martin Adam (University of Victoria)
“Two Concepts of Meditation in Kamalasila's Bhavanakramas”
Douglas Duckworth (Florida State University)
“A Synthesis of Svatantrika-Prasangika in Mi-pham's Tradition”
Min Bahadur Shakya (Nagarjuna Institute)
“Acarya Kamalashila's views on the path to Buddhist Enlightenment”
Philippe Turenne (McGill University)
“A Nyingma Version of a Tantric Madhyamaka?”
GIV-15. Society for Student Philosophers
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Francis Bottenberg (Temple University)
Speakers: Francis Bottenberg (Temple University)
“The Barren Truth of Hegel’s Sense-Certainty”
Jackson T. Kirklin (University of Chicago)
“Necessitarianism in Spinoza’s Ethics”
Tuomas Manninen (University of Iowa)
“Decomposing the Sorties of Decomposition”
Craig Roxborough (York University)
“Determinism, Admonishment and Self-Refutation: A Critique of
Derek Pereboom’s Determinism al Dente”
GIV-16. Association for the Development of Philosophy Teaching
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Group Session GV: Saturday, April 29, 12:15-2:15 p.m.
GV-1. Society for Analytical Feminism
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College, Norco Campus)
Speaker: Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut)
“Two Models of Autonomy: Identity-Based Versus Action-Centered”
Commentator: Marilyn Friedman (Washington University in St. Louis)
A Business Meeting will follow the paper
GV-2. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Topic: Aesthetic Symbolism and Abstraction
Chair: Dan Flory (Montana State University)
Speakers: Raphael Sassower (University of Colorado–Colorado Springs)
“The Myths of Freedom: Aesthetic Symbols of Inspiration and Deception”
Jeffrey Strayer (Indiana University/Purdue University–Fort Wayne)
“Essentialist Abstraction”
Commentator: Phil Jenkins (Pennsylvania State University)
GV-3. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Topic: Enactivism and Representation in Theories of Consciousness
Chair: Ralph D. Ellis (Clark Atlanta University)
Speakers: Richard Menary (University of Hertfordshire)
“Do Enactivists Need Representation?”
Natika Newton (Nassau Community College)
“An Enactivist Approach to Mental Imagery”
Mark Rowlands (University of Hertfordshire)
“Representing in Action”
Daniel Hutto (University of Hertfordshire)
“Radical Enactivism and Representation”
GV-4. Concerned Philosophers for Peace
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Topic: Core Beliefs and Other Factors in Causing War and Violence
Chair: William Gay (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
Speakers: Carlo Filice (State University of New York–Geneseo)
“Violence and Amoral Group-Beliefs”
David Koukal (University of Detroit Mercy)
“Discreditation”
Mary Lenzi (University of Wisconsin–Platteville)
“The Philosophical, Psychological Causes of War and Peace”
Gail M. Presbey (University of Detroit Mercy)
“Gandhi’s Ideal of Ahimsa: Its Roots in Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, and His Own Unique Twist”
GV-5. Society for Philosophy and Technology
12:15-2:15 p.m.
GV-6. Max Scheler Society
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Speakers: Manfred Frings (Depaul University (Emeritus))
“The Impossibility of Proofs of the Existence of God and the Sphere of the Absolute”
John Crosby (Franciscan University–Steubenville)
“From Human Beings to Human Persons: Questions about the Radical Theocentrism in Scheler’s Anthropology”
Commentator: Philip Blosser (Lenoir Rhyne College)
Speaker: Peter H. Spader (Marywood University)
“Scheler’s Panentheism, Pantheism, and Theism”
Commentator: Philip Cronce (Chicago State University)
GV-7. Society for Bioethics and Classical Philosophy
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Speakers: Angela Harris (University of Utah)
“Ulysses Is Not Enough: Using Aristotle to Inform Us about Contemporary Treatment Methods for Bipolar Patients”
Thomas May (Medical College of Wisconsin)
“Aristotle and Informed Consent”
GV-8. Society for Business Ethics: Author Meets Critics: James S. Taylor, Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Chair: Denis G. Arnold (University of Tennessee)
Critics: Chris MacDonald (Saint Mary’s University)
Daniel E. Palmer (Kent State University–Trumbull)
Author: James S. Taylor (Louisiana State University)
GV-9. North American Nietzsche Society
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Chair: Richard Schacht (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
Speakers: Matthew Meyer (Boston University)
“The Comic Nature of Ecce Homo”
Tsarina Doyle (University College Dublin)
“The Kantian Background of Nietzsche’s Views on Causality”
GV-10. Journal of the History of Philosophy
9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
GV-11. Conference of Philosophical Societies
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Chair: G. John M. Abbarno (D’Youville College)
GV-12. Society for the Study of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Topic: Reflexive Awareness in Buddhist Philosophy
Speakers: Jay L. Garfield (Smith College, University of Massachusetts, Melbourne University, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies)
“The Conventional Status of Reflexive Awareness”
Paul Bernier (University of Moncton)
“Reflexive Awareness and the Cogito”
Commentator: Raziel Abelson (New York University)
GV-13. Association for the Development of Philosophy Teaching
12:15-2:15 p.m.