Wednesday, April 4, 2007

“Models of God” Continental Breakfast
7:15-8:00 a.m.

Registration
11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.

Placement Information
11:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

Reception for “Faces of God” Mini-Conference (all registered APA Pacific Division attendees are welcome)
5:15-7:00 p.m.

Reception and Tutored Wine Tasting for “Philosophy and Wine” Mini-Conference
6:00-8:00 p.m.

There is a fee to cover wine and wine service. Space is limited. To reserve a place, please write, after February 1 and before March 15, to Kent Bach at kbach@sfsu.edu.

Wednesday Morning, April 4

Session I — 9:00 a.m.-Noon (Models of God Mini-Conference begins at 8:00 a.m. and continues until 11:45 p.m.; Philosophy and Wine Mini-Conference begins at 9:30 a.m. and continues until 1:00 p.m.)

I-A. Author-Meets-Critics: Andrew Melnyk, A Physicalist Manifesto: Thoroughly Modern Materialism
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Terry Horgan (University of Arizona)
Critics: Joseph Levine (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
Daniel Stoljar (Australian National University)
Author: Andrew Melnyk (University of Missouri–Columbia)

I-B. Author-Meets-Critics: James B. Freeman, Acceptable Premises: An Epistemic Approach to an Informal Logic Problem
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Maurice Finocchiaro (University of Nevada–Las Vegas)
Critics: Richard Feldman (University of Rochester)
Hans V. Hansen (University of Windsor)
Mark Weinstein (Montclair State University)
Author: James B. Freeman (City University of New York–Hunter College)

I-C. Author-Meets-Critics: Warren Farrell and James P. Sterba, Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? A Debate
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic University–Pomona)
Critics: Tom Digby (Springfield College)
Ellen Klein (U.S. State Department)
Authors: Warren Farrell (Independent Scholar)
James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame)

I-D. Invited Symposium: Autonomy and Advance Directives
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Dana Nelkin (University of California–San Diego)
Speakers: Dennis McKerlie (University of Calgary)
“Alzheimer’s Patients and Life-Extending Medical Treatment”
Agnieszka Jaworska (Stanford University)
“Vanishing Persons and the Authority of the Former Self: Dilemmas in Alzheimer’s Disease”
Commentators: Sara Goering (University of Washington)
Julie Tannenbaum (National Institutes of Health)

I-E. Colloquium: Appearances
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: James Messina (University of California–San Diego)
Speaker: Robert Schroer (Arkansas State University)
“How the Transparency of Visual Experience Impacts Inverted Earth”
Commentator: Gurpreet Rattan (University of Toronto)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Joseph Keim Campbell (Washington State University)
Speaker: Kranti Saran (Harvard University)
“Illusions Without Contents?”
Commentator: Bennett Barr (University of Washington)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Tony Bezsylko (University of California–Berkeley)
Speaker: René Jagnow (University of Georgia)
“Disappearing Appearances: A Critique of Alva Noë’s Approach to Spatial Perceptual Content”
Commentator: Bharath Vallabha (Harvard University)

I-F. Colloquium: Language and Logic
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Francis Jeffry Pelletier (Simon Fraser University)
Speaker: Bernhard Nickel (Harvard University)
“Generics and Plural Quantification”
Commentator: Agustin Rayo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Neil Tennant (Ohio State University)
Speaker: Glen Hoffmann (Ryerson University)
“Truth, Superassertability, and Conceivability”
Commentator: Cory Wright (University of California–San Diego)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Michael Caie (University of California–Berkeley)
Speaker: Charles Hermes (Florida State University)
“Dispositional and Counterfactual Logic”
Commentator: Kenny Easwaran (University of California–Berkeley)

I-G. Colloquium: Mental Content
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Matthew Lockard (University of California–Los Angeles)
Speaker: Daniel Weiskopf (University of South Florida)
“Empiricism and the Vehicles of Thought”
Commentator: Steven Reynolds (Arizona State University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University)
Speaker: Jussi Haukioja (University of Turku)
“Externalism and Conceptual Analysis”
Commentator: Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Paul Audi (Colgate University)
Speaker: Jason Ford (University of Minnesota–Duluth)
“Tye-Dyed Teleology and the Inverted Spectrum”
Commentator: Michael Tye (University of Texas–Austin)

I-H. Colloquium: Political Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Andrew Jason Cohen (Georgia State University)
Speaker: Kevin Vallier (University of Arizona)
“Liberalism and Economic Growth”
Commentator: Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College)
Speaker: Alistair M. Macleod (Queen’s University)
“Is Consistency in the Application of Unjust Laws a Form of Justice?”
Commentator: Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Rachel Fern (California Polytechnic State University)
Speaker: Jeff Gauthier (University of Portland)
“Sexual Coercion and the Problem of Preemptive Consent”
Commentator: Alan Wertheimer (National Institutes of Health)

I-I. Colloquium: Preferences and Values
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Matthew Baxter-Parrott (University of California–Berkeley)
Speaker: Mariam Thalos (University of Utah)
“Allais-like Preference Reversals Are Everywhere”
Commentator: Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Gregory Pence (University of Alabama–Birmingham)
Speaker: Chris Heathwood (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Fitting Attitudes and Welfare”
Commentator: Bana Bashour (City University of New York–Graduate School)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Charles Young (Claremont Graduate University)
Speaker: Nicolas Espinoza (Royal Institute of Technology)
“Margins of Error in Value Comparisons”
Commentator: Don Fallis (University of Arizona)

I-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Blacks in Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Author-Meets-Critics: Angela Davis, Abolition Democracy
Commentators: Angela Davis (University of California–Santa Cruz)
Lewis R. Gordon (Temple University)
Douglas Kellner (University of California–Los Angeles)
Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York–Stony Brook)

I-MI-1 and 2 Mini-Conference on Models of God
8:00-9:45 a.m.
Topic: Models of God
10:00-11:45 a.m.
Topic: Challenges to Prevailing Models
(See Mini-Conference Program for details.)

I-MII-1, 2, and 3 Mini-Conference on Philosophy and Wine
9:30-10:45 a.m.
Topic: Wine Perception
10:55-11:55 a.m., Tower Suite
Topic: Philosophy of Wine Perception
Noon-1:00 p.m., Tower Suite
Topic: Analyzing and Categorizing Wines
(See Mini-Conference Program for details.)

Wednesday Afternoon, April 4

Session II — 1:00-4:00 p.m. (Models of God Mini-Conference begins at 12:45 p.m. and continues until 5:15 p.m.; Philosophy and Wine Mini-Conference begins at 2:30 p.m. and continues until 5:50 p.m.)

II-A. Author-Meets-Critics: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Moral Skepticisms
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Margaret Walker (Arizona State University)
Critics: Garrett Cullity (University of Adelaide)
James Dreier (Brown University)
David McNaughton (Florida State University)
Author: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)

II-B. Author-Meets-Critics: Harvey Brown, Physical Relativity: Space-time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia)
Critics: Richard Healey (University of Arizona)
Lawrence Sklar (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Christopher Smeenk (University of California–Los Angeles)
Author: Harvey Brown (Oxford University)

II-C. Author-Meets-Critics: Hud Hudson, The Metaphysics of Hyperspace
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Kris McDaniel (Syracuse University)
Critics: Mark Heller (Syracuse University)
Josh Parsons (University of Otago)
Michael Rea (University of Notre Dame)
Author: Hud Hudson (Western Washington University)

II-D. Invited Symposium: Correspondence Theory of Truth
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Bruce Hunter (University of Alberta)
Speakers: Richard Fumerton (University of Iowa)
Andrew Newman (University of Nebraska–Omaha)
Gerald Vision (Temple University)

II-E. Invited Symposium: Demystifying Social Construction
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Steve Downes (University of Utah)
Speakers: Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Constructing the Social: Practices, Categories, Kinds”
Ron Mallon (University of Utah)
“Making Up Your Mind and Explaining Yourself: Social Construction and Human Kinds”
Alison Wylie (University of Washington)
“What Knowers Know Well: Identity Constructs, Social Location, and Standpoint Epistemology”

II-F. Invited Symposium: Descartes’s Metaphysics of Substance
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Alice Sowaal (San Francisco State University)
Speakers: Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“Attributes and the Perception of Substance”
Dan Kaufman (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Descartes’s Corporeal Substances: Annihilation, Separability, and Real Distinctions”
Commentator: Jorge Secada (University of Virginia)

II-G. Invited Symposium: Expanding Epistemology
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Jason Kawall (Colgate University)
Speakers: Guy Axtell (University of Nevada–Reno)
“Expanding Epistemology: A Responsibilist Approach”
Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University)
“Epistemology after Skepticism”
Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh)
“On Knowing How and Knowing That”
Commentator: Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck College London)

II-H. Colloquium: Ethics
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Christian Coseru (College of Charleston)
Speaker: Anthony Rudd (St. Olaf College)
“Narrative Unity: A Defence”
Commentator: John Davenport (Fordham University)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Pamela Hood (San Francisco State University)
Speaker: Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College)
“The Role of Emotion in Decision and Moral Evaluation”
Commentator: Svetlana Beggs (University of California–Riverside)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Nadeem J. Z. Hussain (Stanford University)
Speaker: Eric Moore (Longwood University)
“Getting a Clue about Consequences: Counterfactual Semantics, Agent Ability, and the Epistemic Objection”
Commentator: Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California)

II-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy in India: Metaethics
Chair: Arthur Falk (Western Michigan University)
Speakers: Ramesh C. Pradhan (University of Hyderabad)
“How to Be a Moral Objectivist”
Sharad Deshpande (University of Pune)
“Is Indian Ethics Autonomous?”
Bijoy Boruah (Indian Institute of Technology–Kanpur)
“Moral Agency and Nominal Individuality”
Commentators: Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University)
Karin Brown (San Jose State University)
William McBride (Purdue University)

II-MI-3 and 4. Mini-Conference on Models of God
12:45-2:15 p.m.
Topic: Panel on Process Theism
2:30-5:15 p.m.
Topic: Extant Novel Models of God
(See Mini-Conference Program for details.)

II-MII-4, 5, and 6. Mini-Conference on Philosophy and Wine
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Topic: Evaluating Wines
3:40-4:40 p.m.
Topic: Aesthetics of Wine
4:50-5:50 p.m.
Closing Panel
(See Mini-Conference Program for details.)

Wednesday Early Evening, April 4

Session III — 4:00-6:00 p.m.

III-A. Author-Meets-Critics: David Levy and Sandra Peart, The ‘Vanity of the Philosopher’
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Brian Berkey (University of California–Berkeley)
Critics: Nicholas Capaldi (Loyola University–New Orleans)
Andrew Terjesen (Washington and Lee University)
Authors: David Levy (George Mason University)
Sandra Peart (Baldwin-Wallace College)

III-B. Author-Meets-Critics: Eric Olson, The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Raymond Martin (Union College)
Critics: Lynne Rudder Baker (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)
Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University)
Author: Eric Olson (University of Sheffield)

III-C. Invited Symposium: Situationism, Freedom, and Responsibility
4:00-6:00 p.m.,
Chair: Sharon Skare (University of California–San Diego)
Speakers: Dominic Murphy (California Institute of Technology)
“From My Lai to Abu Ghraib: Atrocity, Normative Competence, and Excusing Conditions”
Manuel Vargas (University of San Francisco)
“Situationism and Blame”
Commentators: Christian Miller (Wake Forest University)
Matt Talbert (University of California–San Diego)

III-D. Colloquium: Personhood
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Carol Bayley (Catholic Healthcare West)
Speaker: Timothy Mosteller (California Baptist University)
“Teleology and Embryonic Personhood”
Commentator: Kenneth Kipnis (University of Hawaii–Manoa)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Leslie Francis (University of Utah)
Speaker: Melissa Yates (Northwestern University)
“The Underdetermination of Political Conceptions of Personhood”
Commentator: Gerald D. Doppelt (University of California–San Diego)

III-E. Colloquium: Philosophy of Art
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley (California State University–Bakersfield)
Speaker: Anna Bergqvist (University of Reading)
“Sibley and Defeasible Reasons: Holism about Reasons in Aesthetic Evaluations”
Commentator: J. M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Alessandro Pignocchi (Institut Jean Nicod)
“Motor Perception: A Third Way to Perceive Pictures?”
Commentator: Tiger Roholt (Columbia University)

III-F. Colloquium: Philosophy of Religion
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Daniel Murphy (St. Anselm College)
Speaker: Glen Pettigrove (Massey University)
“The Paradox of Divine Forgiveness”
Commentator: Chris Callaway (Westmont College)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Benjamin Crowe (University of Utah)
Speaker: Klaas Kraay (Ryerson University)
“Why Theism Requires a Multiverse (And Why It Is the Best of All Possible Worlds)”
Commentator: Adam Atchison (Claremont Graduate University)

III-G. Colloquium: Political Philosophy
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Vijay Mascarenhas (Metropolitan State College of Denver)
Speaker: Waheed Hussain (University of Pennsylvania)
“A Challenge to Pettit’s Republican Theory of Freedom”
Commentator: Mark Redhead (California State University–Fullerton)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Michael Strawser (University of Central Florida)
Speaker: Brian Thomas (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“Clearing a Path Towards a Critical Theory of Social Identity”
Commentator: Kenneth Faber (Vanderbilt University)

III-H. Symposium: Agency and Causation
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Rebekah Rice (Whitworth College)
Speaker: Carolina Sartorio (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Omissions: An Exclusion Problem for Causalism”
Commentators: Randolph Clarke (Florida State University)
Christopher Hitchcock (California Institute of Technology)

III-I. Symposium: Hegel and Punishment
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Andy Wallace (Sonoma State University)
Speaker: Christopher Yeomans (Kenyon College)
“Hegel on Retribution and Punishment”
Commentators: Michael Hardimon (University of California–San Diego)
Allen Wood (Stanford University)

III-J. Symposium: Know-how and Concept Possession
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Phyllis Rooney (Oakland University)
Speakers: John T. Bengson (University of Texas–Austin)
Marc Moffett (University of Wyoming)
“Know-how and Concept Possession”
Commentators: Kevin Falvey (University of California–Santa Barbara)
Aaron Zimmerman (University of California–Santa Barbara)

III-K. Symposium: Stem Cell Research and Abortion
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Cathy Gere (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Marin Gillis (University of Nevada–Reno)
“Parallels between the Ethics of Embyonic Stem Cell Research and Abortion”
Commentators: Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine and City University of New York–Graduate Center)
Mary Anne Warren (Independent Scholar)

III-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Topic: Teaching Ethics
Chair: Daniel Palmer (Kent State University)
Speakers: Nina Rosenstand (San Diego Mesa College)
“Courage and Cowardice in Fact and Fiction: Talking about Values with College Students”
Harold Weiss (Northampton Community College)
“Teaching and Learning about Suicide in Undergraduate Philosophy Courses”

Reception for “Models of God” Mini-Conference (all registered APA Pacific Division attendees are welcome)
5:15-7:00 p.m.

Reception and Tutored Wine Tasting for “Philosophy and Wine” Mini-Conference
6:00-8:00 p.m.

There is a fee to cover wine and wine service. Space is limited. To reserve a place at the tasting, please register asap using this form:
2007 Wine Tasting Mini-Conference Registration Forms (PDF) (HTML)

Group Meetings, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 1
Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy

Group Meetings, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Radical Philosophy Association, Session 1
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Society for German Idealism, Session 1
Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought
Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session 1
Society for Student Philosophers, Session 1
Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 1
Western Phenomenology Conference

Group Meeting, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Joint Meeting of Mini-Conference on Models of God and the Society of Christian Philosophers

Group Meetings, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
North American Wittgenstein Society, Session 1

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Placement Information
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Placement Interviewing
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Registration
8:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m.

Book Displays
11:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Annual Business Meeting
Noon-1:00 p.m.

Reception to Welcome New APA Executive Director
(All registered Pacific Division Meeting attendees are invited)
5:30-8:00 p.m.

Annual Reception
9:00-12:00 p.m.

Thursday Morning, April 5

Session IV — 9:00 a.m.-Noon (Models of God Mini-Conference begins at 8:30 a.m. and continues until 12:15 p.m.)

IV-A. Author-Meets-Critics: Alvin Goldman, Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Jonathan Ellis (University of California–Santa Cruz)
Critics: Alison Gopnik (University of California–Berkeley)
Christopher Hill (Brown University)
Susan L. Hurley (University of Bristol and All Souls College)
Author: Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University)

IV-B. Special Memorial Session: Ellery Eells: Gentleman and Scholar
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Malcolm Forster (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Speakers: Charles Chihara (University of California–Berkeley)
“Eells and Inductive Support”
Brian Skyrms (University of California–Irvine)
“Eells on Rational Decision and Deliberation”
Christopher Hitchcock (California Institute of Technology)
“Eells’s Views on Probabilistic Causation”

IV-C. Invited Symposium: Knowledge and Science in Later Medieval Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Michael Rota (University of St. Thomas–Minnesota)
Speakers: Scott MacDonald (Cornell University)
“Grosseteste and Aristotelian Science”
Martin Pickave (University of Toronto)
“Late Medieval Debates about the Scientific Status of Metaphysics”
Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Medieval Scientia and Early Modern Science”

IV-D. Invited Symposium: The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Patrick Suppes (Stanford University)
Speakers: John Perry (Stanford University)
“Hintikka on Demonstratives”
Vincent F. Hendricks (Roskilde Universitetscenter)
Ernest LePore (Rutgers University)
“Information and Epistemology”
Judson Webb (Boston University)
“The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka”
Commentator: Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University)

IV-E. Colloquium: Early Modern Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Talia Bettcher (California State University–Los Angeles)
Speaker: Matthew J. Kisner (University of South Carolina)
“Spinoza on the Intelligence of the Passions”
Commentator: Michael LeBuffe (Texas A&M University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Jennifer Smalligan (University of California–Berkeley)
Speaker: Donald L.M. Baxter (University of Connecticut)
“Hume, Distinctions of Reason, and Differential Resemblance”
Commentator: Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Ginger Clausen (University of Texas–Austin)
Speaker: Georges Dicker (State University of New York–Brockport)
“Anti-Berkeley”
Commentator: Patrick Kenny (University of Rochester)

IV-F. Colloquium: Freedom and Responsibility
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Kenneth Lucey (University of Nevada–Reno)
Speaker: E. J. Coffman (University of Notre Dame)
“Luck and Standard Libertarianism”
Commentator: Neil Levy (University of Melbourne)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: David DeMoss (Pacific University)
Speakers: Felipe Leon (University of California–Riverside)
Neal A. Tognazzini (University of California–Riverside)
“Why Frankfurt-Examples Don’t Need to Succeed to Succeed”
Commentator: Kevin Timpe (University of San Diego)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Mark Brasher (TransPacific Hawaii College)
Speaker: Frank Hindriks (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
“The Freedom of Collective Agents”
Commentator: David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point)

IV-G. Colloquium: Philosophy and Biology
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Nathan Westbrook (University of California–Riverside)
Speaker: Sean Hermanson (Florida International University)
“Blindsight in Monkeys, Lost and Perhaps Found”
Commentator: Teed Rockwell (Sonoma State University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Bonnie Paller (California State University–Northridge)
Speakers: Andre Ariew (University of Missouri–Columbia)
Zachary J. Ernst (University of Missouri–Columbia)
“Why Fitness Is Not a Propensity”
Commentator: Christopher Stephens (University of British Columbia)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Martin Thomson-Jones (Oberlin College)
Speaker: William A. Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College)
“Are There Any Biological Explanations in Experimental Biology? Marcel Weber’s Account of Heteronomous Explanation in Experimental Biology”
Commentator: Matt Haber (University of Utah)

IV-H. Colloquium: Philosophy of Science
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Tarun Menon (University of California–San Diego)
Speaker: Bradford Skow (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
“Two Arguments Against the Mill-Ramsey-Lewis Theory”
Commentator: John Halpin (Oakland University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Ioan Muntean (University of California–San Diego)
Speaker: Andrew Wayne (University of Guelph)
“Singular Limits, Explanation, and Emergence in Physics”
Commentator: Patrick McGivern (University of Alberta)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Shannon Vallor (Santa Clara University)
Speaker: K. Brad Wray (State University of New York–Oswego)
“The Real Value of Prediction”
Commentator: David Harker (East Tennessee State University)

IV-I. Colloquium: Practical Reason
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: David Hunter (Ryerson University)
Speaker: Patricia Marino (University of Waterloo)
“On Essentially Conflicting Desires”
Commentator: Timothy Schroeder (Ohio State University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Alan Goldman (College of William and Mary)
Speaker: Joshua Gert (Florida State University)
“Generalism about Practical Reasons: A Defense from the Analogy with the Epistemic”
Commentator: Jacob Ross (University of Southern California)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Benjamin Vilhauer (William Paterson University)
Speaker: Jennifer Morton (Stanford University)
“Practical Reasoning and the Varieties of Agency”
Commentator: Andrei Buckareff (Franklin and Marshall College)

IV-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Political Reconciliation and Transitional Justice
Speakers: Larry May (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Genocide and Reconciliation with the Past”
Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego State University)
“Reconciliation as a Political Value”
Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
“Speaking of Reconciliation”

IV-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Chinese Philosophy of Religion
Chair: Xiaomei Yang (Temple University)
Speakers: Philip J. Ivanhoe (City University of Hong Kong)
“Heaven as a Source for Ethical Warrant in Early Confucianism”
Yang Xiao (Kenyon College)
“The Justifications and Sources of Ritual Action in the Mozi and the Mencius”
Erin Cline (University of Oregon)
“The Way, the Right, and the Good”

MI-7 and 8. Mini-Conference on Models of God
8:30-10:30 a.m.
Topic: Panel on Open Theism
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Topic: Panel on Pantheism
(See Mini-Conference Program for details)

Annual Business Meeting
Noon-1:00 p.m.

Thursday Afternoon, April 5

Session V — 1:00-4:00 p.m. (Models of God Mini-Conference begins at 2:00 p.m. and continues until 5:15 p.m.)

V-A. Author-Meets-Critics: Andrews Reath, Agency and Autonomy in Kant’s Moral Theory: Selected Essays
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark Timmons (University of Arizona)
Critics: Thomas Hill (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Samuel Kerstein (University of Maryland–College Park)
Jens Timmermann (University of St. Andrews)
Author: Andrews Reath (University of California–Riverside)

V-B. Author-Meets-Critics: Graham Priest, Doubt Truth to Be a Liar; In Contradiction: A Study of the Transconsistent
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeffrey Roland (Louisiana State University)
Critics: JC Beall (University of Connecticut)
Otávio Bueno (University of Miami)
Hartry Field (New York University)
Author: Graham Priest (University of Melbourne and University of St. Andrews)

V-C. Author-Meets-Critics: Frederick Beiser, Schiller as Philosopher
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Ryan Hickerson (Western Oregon University)
Critics: Anne Margaret Baxley (Washington University in St. Louis)
Stephen Houlgate (Warwick University)
Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa)
Author: Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University)

V-D. Author-Meets-Critics: Peter Carruthers, The Architecture of the Mind: Massive Modularity and the Flexibility of Thought
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: William P. Seeley (Franklin and Marshall College)
Critics: Fiona Cowie (California Institute of Technology)
Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta)
Author: Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland–College Park)

V-E. Invited Symposium: Kripke and After: Modal Arguments Against Materialism
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Peter Kung (Pomona College)
Speakers: David Papineau (King’s College London)
“Kripke’s Argument is Ad Hominem, not Two-Dimensional”
Alex Byrne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Possibility and Imagination”
Stephen Yablo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Unexplained Modal Illusions”
Commentator: Tyler Doggett (University of Vermont)

V-F. Colloquium: Ancient Philosophy
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: James Butler (Berea College)
Speaker: Beverly Hinton (West Virginia University)
“On Matter and Two Models of Change in Aristotle’s Physics A”
Commentator: Casey Perin (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark McPherran (Simon Fraser University)
Speaker: Richard Mohr (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“Some Identity Statements in Plato: An Old Puzzle in the Sophist and a New Sense of ‘To Be’”
Commentator: Dorothea Frede (University of California–Berkeley)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Antonio Chu (Metropolitan State College of Denver)
Speaker: Philip Corkum (University of Alberta)
“Aristotle on Mathematical Existence”
Commentator: John Mouracade (University of Alaska–Anchorage)

V-G. Colloquium: Bioethics
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Michelle Sandell (California State University–Sacramento)
Speaker: Ben Eggleston (University of Kansas)
“Genetic Discrimination in Health Insurance: An Ethical and Economic Analysis”
Commentator: Paul Menzel (Pacific Lutheran University)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Dawson Schultz (Gonzaga University)
Speaker: Richard Dees (University of Rochester)
“Better Brains, Better Selves? The Ethics of Neuroenhancements”
Commentator: James L. Nelson (Michigan State University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado–Boulder)
Speaker: Suze Berkhout (University of British Columbia)
“Relational Autonomy and Human Capabilities”
Commentator: Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo)

V-H. Colloquium: Epistemology
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Hollibert Phillips (Whitman College)
Speaker: William S. Larkin (Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville)
“Knowledge, Assertion, and Risk”
Commentator: Joseph Shieber (Lafayette College)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: David Boersema (Pacific University)
Speaker: Jamie Phillips (Clarion University)
“What Can a Drunk Really Know? Solving a Puzzle for Pragmatism”
Commentator: Simon Evnine (University of Miami)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod)
Speaker: Heimir Geirsson (Iowa State University)
“Acquaintance and De Re Belief”
Commentator: Bernard Linsky (University of Alberta)

V-I. Colloquium: Kant
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Daniel Considine (University of Southern California)
Speaker: Steven M. Bayne (Fairfield University)
“Kant’s Critique of Leibniz on the Distincition between Sensible and Intellectual Representations”
Commentator: Lucy Allais (University of Sussex)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Marc Bobro (Santa Barbara City College)
Speaker: Corey Dyck (Boston College)
“Connubium Rationis et Experientiae: Christian Wolff on the Relation Between Empirical and Rational Psychology”
Commentator: Brian Chance (University of Pennsylvania)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Samuel Henry (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Aaron Bunch (Washington State University)
“What Kant Means by ‘Objective Reality’ and Its Bearing on the Transcendental Deductions”
Commentator: Katherine Dunlop (Stanford University)

V-J. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Asta Sveinsdottir (San Francisco State University)
Speaker: Allan J. Hazlett (Brown University)
“The Myth of Factive Verbs”
Commentator: John Woods (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Chris Tillman (University of Manitoba)
Speaker: Jonathan M. Schaffer (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
“The Least Discerning and Most Promiscuous Truthmaker”
Commentator: Ross Cameron (University of Leeds)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Charles Siewert (University of California–Riverside)
Speaker: Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University)
“Modal Property Comprehension”
Commentator: Chris Swoyer (University of Oklahoma)

V-K. Colloquium: Philosophy of Science
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Alexandre V. Korolev (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Angela Potochnik (Stanford University)
“Generality, Complexity, and Approaches to Explanation”
Commentator: Andrew Hamilton (Arizona State University)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Craig Callender (University of California–San Diego)
Speaker: Jill North (Yale University)
“The ‘Structure’ of Physics: A Case Study”
Commentator: Oliver Davis Johns (San Francisco State University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College)
Speaker: Barry M. Ward (University of Arkansas–Fayetteville)
“Taking the Raven Paradox with a Grain of Salt”
Commentator: Greg Frost-Arnold (University of Nevada–Las Vegas)

VI-MI-9 and 10. Mini-Conference on Models of God
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Keynote Address: John Bishop (University of Auckland)
“How a Modest Fideism May Constrain Concepts of God: A Christian Alternative to Classical Theism”
3:45-5:15 p.m.
Topic: Plenary Discussion

Thursday Early Evening, April 5

Session VI — 4:00-6:00 p.m.

VI-A. Author-Meets-Critics: James A. Harris, Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College)
Critics: Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania)
Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California)
Author: James A. Harris (University of St. Andrews)

VI-B. Author-Meets-Critics: Gary Iseminger, The Aesthetic Function of Art
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Dabney Townsend (Armstrong Atlantic State University)
Critics: Noël Carroll (Temple University)
Andrew Kania (Trinity University)
Author: Gary Iseminger (Carleton College)

VI-C. Invited Paper: Terminological Disputes and Philosophical Progress
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: L. A. Paul (University of Arizona)
Speaker: David Chalmers (Australian National University)
“Terminological Disputes and Philosophical Progress”
Commentators: James Pryor (New York University)

VI-D. Invited Symposium: Action and Evaluation
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Fred Stoutland (St. Olaf College)
Speakers: Matthew Hanser (University of California–Santa Barbara)
“Action, Acting, and Acting Well”
Ulrike Heuer (University of Leeds)
“When Values Are Reasons”
Commentator: Andrew Eshleman (University of Arkansas–Little Rock)

VI-E. Invited Symposium: Ancient Greek Metaphysics
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeremy Kirby (Albion College)
Speakers: Frank Lewis (University of Southern California)
“What’s the Matter with Prime Matter?”
Stephen Menn (McGill University)
“On Socrates’s First Criticisms of the Physicists?”
Commentators: Thomas Blackson (Arizona State University)
Joel Martinez (Lewis and Clark College)

VI-F. Invited Symposium: Charity and Justice
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Joshua Cohen (Stanford University)
Speakers: Mathias Risse (Harvard University)
“Justice, Charity, and the Un-Foundational Character of Human Rights”
Judith Lichtenberg (University of Maryland–College Park)
“The Realm of Charity and the Realm of Justice”
Commentator: Matthew Noah Smith (Yale University)

VI-G. Invited Symposium: The Ethics of Neuroenhancement and Personhood
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Mary V. Rorty (Stanford University)
Speakers: Thomas Buller (University of Alaska–Anchorage)
“Minds, Brains, and Agents”
Walter Glannon (University of Calgary)
“Psychopharmacological Enhancement”
Eric Racine (Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal)
“Two Moral Tests for Cognitive Enhancement”

VI-H. Invited Symposium: The Philosophy of Philippa Foot
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Stephen Brown (Briar Cliff College)
Speakers: Candace Vogler (University of Chicago)
“Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism”
Michael Thompson (University of Pittsburgh)
“The Philosophy of Philippa Foot”
Commentator: Troy Jollimore (California State University–Chico)

VI-I. Colloquium: Descartes
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Patricia Easton (Claremont Graduate University)
Speaker: Rico Vitz (University of North Florida)
“Descartes and the Question of Direct Doxastic Voluntarism”
Commentator: Andrew Youpa (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: John Carriero (University of California–Los Angeles)
Speaker: David L. Clemenson (University of St. Thomas–Minnesota)
“Descartes on Consciousness and Forms of Thought”
Commentator: Roger Florka (Ursinus College)

VI-J. Symposium: Causes
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Roberta L. Millstein (University of California–Davis)
Speaker: Kenneth Waters (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities)
“Causes That Make a Difference”
Commentators: Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis and Clark College)
Michael Strevens (New York University)

VI-K. Symposium: The ‘Practical Contradiction’ Interpretation of the Categorical Imperative
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Philip Nickel (University of California–Irvine)
Speaker: Richard Galvin (Texas Christian University)
“The Practical Contradiction Interpretation Reconsidered”
Commentators: Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University)
Ernesto Garcia (Syracuse University)

VI-L. Special Session Arranged By The APA Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research: The Romanell Lecture
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Introduction: Don Garrett (New York University)
Speaker: Louis Loeb (University of Michigan)
“The Naturalisms of Hume and Reid”

Reception to Welcome New APA Executive Director
(All registered Pacific Division Meeting attendees are invited)
5:30-8:00 p.m.

Annual Reception
9:00 p.m.-Midnight

Group Meetings, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
American Association of Philosophy Teachers
Hume Society
Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
Society for the Metaphysics of Science

Group Meetings, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 1
Concerned Philosophers for Peace
Kierkegaard Society
North American Nietzsche Society
North American Spinoza Society, Session 1
Society for Analytical Feminism
Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy and the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in the Profession
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 1
Society for Student Philosophers, Session 2
William James Society

Group Meetings, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
North American Wittgenstein Society, Session 2
Society for Systematic Philosophy, Session 1
Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts

Friday, April 6, 2007

Breakfast Meeting of the Committee on the Status of Women
7:30-9:00 a.m.

Breakfast Meeting of the 2007/2008 Pacific Division Program Committees
8:00-9:00 a.m.

Placement Information
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Placement Interviewing
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Book Displays
8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Registration
8:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m.

Luncheon for APA Board Members and Committee Chairs
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

John Dewey Lecture
4:00-5:30 p.m.

John Dewey Lecture Reception
(All Pacific Division Meeting attendees are invited)
5:30-6:30 p.m.

Presidential Address
6:30-7:30 p.m.

Presidential Reception
7:30-9:00 p.m.

Friday Morning, April 6

Session VII — 9:00 a.m.-Noon

VII-A. Author-Meets-Critics: David DeGrazia, Human Identity and Bioethics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Jennifer Hawkins (University of Toronto)
Critics: Margaret Battin (University of Utah)
Daniel Brock (Harvard University)
Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Author: David DeGrazia (George Washington University and National Institutes of Health)

VII-B. Author-Meets-Critics: George Sher, In Praise of Blame
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Ken Rogerson (Florida International University)
Critics: Pamela Hieronymi (University of California–Los Angeles)
Robert Kane (University of Texas–Austin)
Angela Smith (University of Washington)
Author: George Sher (Rice University)

VII-C. Author-Meets-Critics: Stephen Mulhall, Philosophical Myths of the Fall
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Randall Havas (Willamette University)
Critics: Taylor Carman (Barnard College)
Ed Minar (University of Arkansas–Fayetteville)
John Richardson (New York University)
Author: Stephen Mulhall (Oxford University)

VII-D. Author-Meets-Critics: Francesco Guala, The Methodology of Experimental Economics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Paul Teller (University of California–Davis)
Critics: Anna Alexandrova (University of Missouri–Saint Louis)
Daniel Hausman (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
James Woodward (California Institute of Technology)
Author: Francesco Guala (University of Exeter)

VII-E. Invited Symposium: Adam Smith on Liberty and Sympathy
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Don Sievert (University of Missouri–Columbia)
Speakers: James Otteson (University of Alabama–Tuscaloosa)
“Adam Smith and Liberty”
Kate Abramson (Indiana University–Bloomington)
“Smith and/vs. Hume on Sympathy”
Commentators: Fonna Forman-Barzilai (University of California–San Diego)
Eric Schliesser (Syracuse University and Universiteit Leiden)

VII-F. Invited Symposium: Singular Thought
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Peter Alward ( University of Lethbridge)
Speakers: John Hawthorne (Oxford University)
David Manley (University of Southern California)
“Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?”
Robin Jeshion (University of California–Riverside)
“Singular Thought: Semantic Instrumentalism and Cognitive Elasticity”
Commentator: Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University)

VII-G. Invited Symposium: The Psychology of the Self
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Alexandra Plakias (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Speakers: David Velleman (New York University)
“Artificial Agency”
John Doris (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Talking to Our Selves”
Philip Robbins (Washington University in St. Louis)
“The Self and Its Social Body”

VII-H. Colloquium: Kantian Aesthetics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Richard Holmes (University of Waterloo)
Speaker: Joseph Cannon (Northwestern University)
“Is Ugliness a Pure Aesthetic Category in Kant’s Theory of Taste?”
Commentator: Lara Ostaric (St. Michael’s College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Oliver Sensen (Tulane University of New Orleans)
Speaker: James Reid (Metropolitan State College of Denver)
“Freedom in Nature: The Moral of Kant’s Critique of Judgment”
Commentator: Michael Rohlf (Brown University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Brian Laetz (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Alex Rueger (University of Alberta)
“Beautiful Surfaces: Kant on Beauty and Perfection”
Commentator: Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds and Cornell University)

VII-I. Colloquium: Kantian Ethics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Chris Brown (University of Arizona)
Speaker: Zachary Hoskins (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Kantian Respect: Why Should Humanity, Not the Good Will, Be Treated as an End in Itself?”
Commentator: Jennifer K. Uleman (State University of New York–Purchase)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Stephen Palmquist (Stanford University and Hong Kong Baptist University)
Speaker: Jason Wyckoff (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Solving the Problem of Timing Maxims in Kantian Ethics”
Commentator: Robert Johnson (University of Missouri–Columbia)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Falguni A. Sheth (Hampshire College)
Speaker: Helga Varden (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“International Political Obligations”
Commentator: John Harris (University of Colorado–Boulder)

VII-J. Colloquium: Metaphysics and Language
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Bernard W. Kobes (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Berit Brogaard (University of Missouri–Saint Louis)
“Sea Battle Semantics”
Commentator: Peter Ludlow (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Angie Harris (University of Utah)
Speaker: John Justice (Randolph College)
“Singular-Term Semantics Simplified”
Commentator: David Shier (Washington State University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Joe R. Salerno (St. Louis University)
Speaker: Julien Murzi (University of Sheffield)
“All Truths Are Known? The Church-Fitch Paradox and the Problem of Transworld Knowability”
Commentator: Roy Cook (Villanova University)

VII-K. Colloquium: Political Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Martin Benjamin (Michigan State University)
Speaker: Benjamin A. Sachs (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Teleology and Deontology in Distributive Justice”
Commentator: Nalin Ranasinghe (Assumption College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: David Lefkowitz (University of North Carolina–Greensboro)
Speaker: Brian Prince (Rice University)
“Possible Bridges and Hypothetical Consent”
Commentator: Yolonda Wilson (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Sandra Woien (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Louis-Philippe Hodgson (York University)
“Later Selves and Legal Paternalism”
Commentator: Fritz McDonald (State University of New York–New Paltz)

VII-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Latin American Philosophical Themes in the Humanities
Chair: Susana Nuccetelli (University of Texas–Pan America)
Speakers: Monica Diaz (University of Texas–Pan American)
“Indigenous Presence on Latin American Colonial Thought”
Jesús Aguilar (Rochester Institute of Technology)
“On the Possibility of a Distinctive Latin-American Thought”
Greg Gilson (University of Texas–Pan American)
“Rationality, Practical Reason, and the Mayans”
Arleen Salles (St. John’s University)
“Rodo’s Ariel and the Search for the Good (Latin American) Life”
William Carter (South Texas College)
“Scotus, Ockham, and the Conquest of the Americas”
Suzanne Lalonde (University of Texas–Brownsville)
“Simone de Beauvoir in Latin American Feminism”
Luis Rodriguez-Abad (University of Texas–Brownsville)
“The Contribution of ‘Latin’ American Thought to Western Philosophy”

Luncheon for APA Board Members and Committee Chairs
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Friday Afternoon, April 6

Session VIII — 1:00-4:00 p.m.

VIII-A. Author-Meets-Critics: Stephen Darwall, The Second Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Alex Rajczi (Claremont McKenna College)
Critics: Christine M. Korsgaard (Harvard University)
R. Jay Wallace (University of California–Berkeley)
Gary Watson (University of California–Riverside)
Author: Stephen Darwall (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)

VIII-B. Author-Meets-Critics: Wayne Martin, Theories of Judgment: Psychology, Logic, Phenomenology
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Joseph Schear (California Polytechnic State University)
Critics: Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)
Hans Sluga (University of California–Berkeley)
Guenter Zoeller (University of Munich)
Author: Wayne Martin (University of Essex)

VIII-C. Invited Symposium: Contemplation and Virtue in Greek Thought
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Corinne Gartner (Princeton University)
Speakers: Eric Brown (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Contemplative Withdrawal in the Hellenistic Age”
Gabriel Richardson Lear (University of Chicago)
“Aristotle on Theory and Practice”
Christian Wildberg (Princeton University)
“Fatal Distraction: Plotinus on Evil and Vice”
Commentator: Daniel Devereux (University of Virginia)

VIII-D. Invited Symposium: Epistemic Value
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Kelly Becker (University of New Mexico)
Speakers: Neal Judisch (University of Oklahoma)
Wayne Riggs (University of Oklahoma)
“Knowledge and the Problem of ‘Easy Credit’”
Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling)
“Scepticism, Luck, and Epistemic Value”
Jonathan Kvanvig (Baylor University)
“The Nature and Value of Understanding”
Commentator: John Greco (St. Louis University)

VIII-E. Invited Symposium: Ethics and Cultural Appropriation
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: James O. Young (University of Victoria)
Speakers: Elizabeth Coleman (La Trobe University)
Rosemary Coombe (York University)
“Broken Records: Music and Cultural Rights”
Anne Wescott Eaton (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Ivan Gaskell (Harvard University)
“Do Subaltern Artifacts Belong in Art Museums?”
Laura Arbour (University of British Columbia)
Daryl Pullman (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
“Cultural Appropriation of Human Genetic Materials”

VIII-F. Invited Symposium: The Nature of Film
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Angela Curran (Carleton College)
Speakers: Thomas Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College)
“Film as Philosophy: The Case of The Flicker”
Katherine Thomson-Jones (Oberlin College)
“The Literary Origins of the Cinematic Narrator”
Amy Coplan (California State University–Fullerton)
“The Low-Road to Affect: How Film Elicits Non-Cognitive Affective Responses”
Commentator: Carl Plantinga (Calvin College)

VIII-G. Colloquium: Agency
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Elizabeth Hamilton (University of California–Riverside)
Speaker: Facundo Martin Alonso (Stanford University)
“Reliance in Shared Intention”
Commentator: Meghan Griffith (Davidson College)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Susanne Sreedhar (Tulane University of New Orleans)
Speaker: Sara Rachel Chant (University of Missouri–Columbia)
“The Simple View of Collective Agency”
Commentator: Abraham Roth (Ohio State University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeffrey Green (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Jesús Aguilar (Rochester Institute of Technology)
“Agential Systems and Causal Deviance”
Commentator: Mary Clayton Coleman (Bard College)

VIII-H. Colloquium: Metaphysics
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Iris Einheuser (Duke University)
Speaker: Dana Lynne Goswick (University of California–Davis)
“Ontological Conventionalism: The New Essentialism”
Commentator: David Barnett (University of Colorado–Boulder)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Helen Longino (Stanford University)
Speaker: Alyssa Ney (University of Rochester)
“Physical Causation and Difference-making”
Commentator: Douglas N. Kutach (Brown University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Dale Dorsey (University of California–San Diego)
Speaker: Joshua Spencer (University of Rochester)
“A Tale of Two Simples”
Commentator: Ted Sider (Rutgers University)

VIII-I. Colloquium: Names and Indexicals
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Seth Holtzman (Catawba College)
Speaker: Michael P. Wolf (California State University–Fresno)
“Why Are There Indexicals?”
Commentator: Anastasia Panagopoulos (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Stephanie Patridge (Otterbein College)
Speaker: Stavroula Glezakos (Wake Forest University)
“Names and Public Language”
Commentator: Dylan Dodd (Syracuse University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Herminia Reyes (San Diego State University)
Speaker: Heidi Tiedke (University of Maryland–College Park)
“A Semantics for Names with Full Benefits”
Commentator: Matthew Mosdell (University of Utah)

VIII-J. Colloquium: Political Philosophy
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Bertha Alvarez Manninen (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Jason Hanna (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Democracy and Children’s Suffrage”
Commentator: Agnes Curry (St. Joseph College)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Judith Wagner DeCew (Clark University and Wellesley College)
Speaker: Anne Baril (University of Arizona)
“Employment Freedom”
Commentator: Kory Schaff (Occidental College)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Stephan Johnson (City College of San Francisco)
Speaker: Eric Roark (University of Missouri–Columbia)
“Is Michael Otsuka’s Conception of Robust Self-Ownership Too Robust for a Left-Libertarian?”
(Winner of the Jean Hampton Prize)
Commentator: H. Benjamin Shaeffer (Humboldt State University)

VIII-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Topic: Should Children Be Tested for Adult-onset Genetic Disorders?
Chair: Gary Seay (University of Texas–Pan American)
Speakers: Karen Kovach (Mercer University)
“If I Knew Now What I’ll Know Then...Genetic Testing and the Crystal Ball Problem”
R. G. Frey (Bowling Green State University)
“Luck of the Draw from Child to Adult: Is There Utility in Choosing Not to Know?”
Bonnie Steinbock (State University of New York–Albany and Union-Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
“Prenatal Testing for Adult-onset Genetic Disorders: Cui Bono?”
Loretta Kopelman (East Carolina University)
“Using the Best Interest Standard to Decide Whether to Test Children for Adult-onset Genetic Disorders”

VIII-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Topic: Diasporic Asians, Politics, Citizenship, and Race
Chair: Falguni A. Sheth (Hampshire College)
Speakers: Monique Roelofs (Hampshire College)
“Aesthetics, Racial Address, and the Politics of Cultural Productions”
Falguni A. Sheth (Hampshire College)
“Liberalism and the Rule of Law: Outcasting South Asians in North America at the Turn of the 20th Century”
Mickaella Perina (University of Massachusetts–Boston)
“Reshaping Politics and Community: Race and the Construction of Diasporic Citizenship and Identities”
Darrell Moore (DePaul University)
“States of Exception, Japanese Internment, and Post September 11th Detainment”

Friday Early Evening, April 6

Session IX — 4:00-6:00 p.m.

IX-A. Author-Meets-Critics: Paul Franks, All or Nothing
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Peter Thielke (Pomona College)
Critics: Daniel Breazeale (University of Kentucky)
Paul Redding (University of Sydney)
Author: Paul Franks (University of Toronto)

IX-B. Author-Meets-Critics: Lisa Tessman, Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Lijun Yuan (Texas State University–San Marcos)
Critics: Cheshire Calhoun (Colby College)
Marilyn Friedman (Washington University in St. Louis)
Christine Koggel (Bryn Mawr College)
Author: Lisa Tessman (State University of New York–Binghamton)

IX-C. Author-Meets-Critics: Tim O’Keefe, Epicurus on Freedom
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Anthony A. Long (University of California–Berkeley)
Critics: Todd Ganson (Oberlin College)
Monte Johnson (University of California–San Diego)
Author: Tim O’Keefe (Georgia State University)

IX-D. Author-Meets-Critics: Robert Audi, Practical Reasoning and Ethical Decision
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Peter A. Graham (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
Critics: Stephen Finlay (University of Southern California)
David Owens (University of Sheffield)
Bruce Russell (Wayne State University)
Author: Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame)

IX-E. Invited Paper: Probability
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Byeong-Uk Yi (University of Toronto)
Speaker: John Pollock (University of Arizona)
“Probable Probabilities”
Commentators: James Hawthorne (University of Oklahoma)
Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University)

IX-F. Colloquium: Aristotle
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Rod Jenks (University of Portland)
Speaker: David Forman (University of Nevada–Las Vegas)
“Aristotle and McDowell on ‘Second Nature’”
Commentator: D.S. Neil Van Leeuwen (Stanford University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College)
Speaker: Nathanael Stein (Oxford University)
“Aristotle and the Homonymy of Cause”
Commentator: Blake Hestir (Texas Christian University)

IX-G. Colloquium: Justice and Public Deliberation
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Alexei Angelides (Stanford University)
Speaker: Scott Aikin (Vanderbilt University)
“Democratic Deliberation, Public Reason, and Environmental Politics”
Commentator: Robert Guay (State University of New York–Binghamton)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Tony Smith (University of Colorado–Boulder)
Speaker: Stephen L. Nathanson (Northeastern University)
“John Stuart Mill on Economic Justice and the Alleviation of Poverty”
Commentator: Brian Hutchinson (Metropolitan State College of Denver)

IX-H. Colloquium: Philosophy of Art
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: David Kaspar (University of Nevada–Reno)
Speaker: Nicholas Diehl (University of California–Davis)
“Think Like a Character: Analyzing Arguments in Fictional Contexts”
Commentator: Douglas Cannon (University of Puget Sound)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Renee Conroy (University of Washington)
Speakers: Ben Caplan (Ohio State University)
Carl Matheson (University of Manitoba)
“Modality, Individuation, and the Ontology of Art”
Commentator: Julie C. Van Camp (California State University–Long Beach)

IX-I. Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Jeff Johnson (College of St. Catherine)
Speaker: L. Bryce G. Huebner (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“If You Like Pina Coladas...”
Commentator: Rocco J. Gennaro (Indiana State University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Brian Epstein (Virginia Tech)
Speaker: Malte Willer (University of Texas–Austin)
“In Defense of the Phenomenal Concept Strategy”
Commentator: York Gunther (California State University–Northridge)

IX-J. Colloquium: Wellbeing
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Carol C. Gould (Temple University)
Speaker: Martin Peterson (University of Cambridge)
“Are Persons Mere Containers for Well Being?”
Commentator: Holly M. Smith (Rutgers University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Ranjoo Herr (Bentley College)
Speaker: H. E. Baber (University of San Diego)
“The Zero-One Rule”
Commentator: Bruce Chapman (University of Toronto)

IX-K. Symposium: Evolution and Moral Realism
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Doran Smolkin (Kwantlen University College)
Speaker: Kevin Brosnan (University of California–Santa Cruz)
“The Dissolution of a Dilemma: Why Darwinian Considerations Don’t Confront Moral Realism with Hard Choices”
Commentators: Mark van Roojen (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford University)

IX-L. Symposium: Fallibilism and Purism in Epistemology
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Allen Carlson (University of Alberta)
Speakers: Jeremy Fantl (University of Calgary)
Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri–Columbia)
“A Case for Pragmatic Encroachment (or for Semi-skepticism)”
Commentators: Adam Leite (Indiana University–Bloomington)
Adam Morton (University of Alberta)

IX-M. Symposium: The Contingency of Existence
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University)
Speaker: Michael Nelson (University of California–Riverside)
“The Contingency of Existence”
Commentators: Karen Bennett (Princeton University)
Christopher Menzel (Texas A&M University)

IX-N. John Dewey Lecture
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Chair: James Van Cleve (University of Southern California)
Speaker: Keith Lehrer (University of Arizona)
“Knowledge, Art, and Autonomy”
The John Dewey Lecture offers a major philosopher the occasion for personal reflection on a lifetime of work as a teacher and scholar.

John Dewey Lecture Reception
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Convention attendees are cordially invited to a reception hosted by the John Dewey Foundation.

Presidential Address
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Introduction: Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College)
Speaker: Calvin Normore (University of California–Los Angeles)
“Freedom, Contingency, and Rational Power”

Presidential Reception
7:30-9:00 p.m.

Group Meetings, 8:00-11:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 2
International Hobbes Association, Session 1
Karl Jaspers Society and the Victor von Weizsäcker Society
North American Kant Society, Session 1
Radical Philosophy Association, Session 2
Society for Empirical Ethics
Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session 2
Society for Social and Political Philosophy: Historical, Continental, and Feminist Perspectives, Session 1
Society for Student Philosophers, Session 3
Society for Systematic Philosophy, Session 2
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 2
Society for Women in Philosophy

Saturday, April 7, 2007

Book Displays
8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Placement Information
8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Placement Interviewing
8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Registration
8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Saturday Morning, April 7

Session X — 9:00 a.m.-Noon

X-A. Author-Meets-Critics: Ann Cudd, Analyzing Oppression
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Peta Bowden (Murdoch University)
Critics: Susan Brison (Dartmouth College)
Marcia Homiak (Occidental College)
Paul Roth (University of California–Santa Cruz)
Author: Ann Cudd (University of Kansas)

X-B. Author-Meets-Critics: P. Kyle Stanford, Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Sherri Roush (University of California–Berkeley)
Critics: Anjan Chakravartty (University of Toronto)
Arthur Fine (University of Washington)
Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard University)
Author: P. Kyle Stanford (University of California–Irvine)

X-C. Author-Meets-Critics: Alfred Mele, Free Will and Luck
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Daniel Speak (Azusa Pacific University)
Critics: John Martin Fischer (University of California–Riverside)
Sarah McGrath (Brandeis University)
Derk Pereboom (University of Vermont)
Author: Alfred Mele (Florida State University)

X-D. Invited Symposium: Ancient Natural Philosophy and Science
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Sylvia Berryman (University of British Columbia)
Speakers: Malcolm Wilson (University of Oregon)
“Aristotle’s Brainstorm: A Methodology of Discovery in the Meteorologica”
Henry Mendell (California State University–Los Angeles)
“Mathematical Properties and Aristotle’s Physics”
Commentator: Alan Code (University of California–Berkeley)

X-E. Invited Symposium: Context and Content
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)
Speakers: Peter Lasersohn (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
John MacFarlane (University of California–Berkeley)
Zoltan Szabo (Cornell University)

X-F. Invited Symposium: Queer Perspectives on Virtue, Free Will, and the Self
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Speakers: William Wilkerson (University of Alabama–Huntsville)
“Choosing Desire, Choosing Identity: Freedom, Determinism, and Sexual Orientation”
Carlos Ball (Pennsylvania State University)
“Property, Self, and Sexuality”
Heather Battaly (California State University–Fullerton)
“Virtue Epistemology and Knowing Our Sexual Orientations”
Commentator: Chris Cuomo (University of Georgia)

X-G. Colloquium: Epistemology
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Scott Hendricks (Clark University)
Speaker: Stephen Wykstra (Calvin College)
“The Illusion of Transmission: Where Wright Goes Wrong”
Commentator: Joshua Schechter (Brown University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Justin C. Fisher (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Brian Glenney (University of Southern California)
“Touch at a Distance: A Case for Spatial Experience”
Commentator: Giovanni Grandi (Auburn University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: John Bender (Ohio University)
Speaker: Apaar Kumar (Emory University)
“Does Spontaneity Relate Rationally to Receptivity?”
Commentator: Danielle Macbeth (Haverford College)

X-H. Colloquium: Metaethics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Robert Shanklin (University of Southern California)
Speaker: Susana Nuccetelli (University of Texas–Pan America)
“What’s Right with the Open Question Argument”
Commentator: Charlie Kurth (University of California–San Diego)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: John Mizzoni (Neumann College)
Speaker: Jorn Sonderholm (Louisiana State University)
“A Logical Response to Blackburn’s Supervenience Argument”
Commentator: Alexander Guerrero (New York University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Michael Gill (University of Arizona)
Speaker: James Harold (Mount Holyoke College)
“Meta-metaethics: Moderate Skepticism about Some Concepts of Metaethical Inquiry”
Commentator: Michael Pendlebury (North Carolina State University)

X-I. Colloquium: Perception and Content
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Jennifer Matey (State University of New York–Stony Brook)
Speaker: Anne Jacobson (University of Houston)
“Properly Functioning Vision: On Block on Noë?”
Commentator: Charles Wallis (California State University–Long Beach)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Sara Bernstein (University of Arizona)
Speaker: James Genone (University of California–Berkeley)
“Perceptual Experience and Error”
Commentator: Mohan Matthen (University of Toronto)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Nick Treanor (Brown University)
Speaker: Ted Poston (University of South Alabama)
“Cognitive Abilities and the Conceptualist/Nonconceptualist Debate”
Commentator: Diana Raffman (University of Toronto)

X-J. Colloquium: Philosophy of Religion
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Henry West (Macalester College)
Speaker: Shieva J. Kleinschmidt (Rutgers University)
“Many-One Identity and the Trinity”
Commentator: Kenneth Himma (Seattle Pacific University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Michael Koch (State University of New York–Oneonta)
Speaker: John Zeis (Canisius College)
“Believing in Order to Know”
Commentator: Majid Amini (Virginia State University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Zach Simpson (Claremont Graduate University)
Speaker: Eric Charles Steinhart (William Paterson University)
“Stage Theory and Resurrection Replicas”
Commentator: David Vander Laan (Westmont College)

X-K. Colloquium: Time
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Lawrence Lombard (Wayne State University)
Speaker: Stephan Torre (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
“In Defense of (a Formulation of) the Date Theory”
Commentator: David Ian Spencer (University of California–Davis)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Tobey Scharding (Stanford University)
Speaker: Tony Roark (Boise State University)
“On a Moment’s Notice: Aristotle on Perceiving Instants in Time”
Commentator: Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Tuomas Manninen (University of Iowa)
Speaker: Caspar Hare (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“A Puzzle about Other-directed Time-bias”
Commentator: Cody Gilmore (University of California–Davis)

X-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Indigenous People and Property Rights
Chair: John Christman (Pennsylvania State University)
Speakers: Justine Lacey (University of Queensland)
Julian Lamont (University of Queensland)
“The Ethics of Genetic Research on Indigenous Populations”
Clark Wolf (Iowa State University)
“Theft By Patent”
Stephen Munzer (University of California–Los Angeles)
Kal Raustiala (University of California–Los Angeles)
“Traditional Knowledge in Law and Global Justice”
Commentators: John Christman (Pennsylvania State University)
Rebecca Tsosie (Arizona State University)

X-M. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committees on the Status of Women and Inclusiveness
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Women in Philosophy across the Career Span
Chair: Christine Koggel (Bryn Mawr College)
Speakers: Marya Bower (Earlham College)
“Blending Philosophy and Non-Traditional Career Paths”
Christina Bellon (California State University–Sacramento)
“Identifying Woman- and Feminist-Friendly Graduate Programs”
Christina VanDyke (Calvin College)
“Negotiating the Tenure Process”
Barbara Wall (Villanova University)
“Philosophy, Women, and Administrative Careers”
Elizabeth Minnich (Association of American Colleges and Universities)
“Trends in Academia and Their Impact on Women”

Saturday Afternoon, April 7

Session XI — 1:00-4:00 p.m.

XI-A. Author-Meets-Critics: Deborah J. Brown, Descartes and the Passionate Mind
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: John Marshall (University of Virginia)
Critics: Lilli Alanen (Uppsala Universitet)
Ronald de Sousa (University of Toronto)
André Gombay (University of Toronto)
Author: Deborah J. Brown (University of Queensland)

XI-B. Author-Meets-Critics: Michael Devitt, Ignorance of Language
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of California–Santa Cruz)
Critics: Elisabeth Camp (University of Pennsylvania)
Mark Crimmins (Stanford University)
James Higginbotham (University of Southern California)
Author: Michael Devitt (City University of New York–Graduate Center)

XI-C. Author-Meets-Critics: Frances M. Kamm, Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Gerald Dworkin (University of California–Davis)
Critics: Alastair Norcross (Rice University)
Michael Otsuka (University College London)
Henry S. Richardson (Georgetown University)
Author: Frances M. Kamm (Harvard University)

XI-D. Invited Symposium: Aristotle’s Psychology
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Elliot Welch (University of Maine–Farmington)
Speakers: Jennifer Whiting (University of Toronto)
“Self and Self-consciousness in Aristotle”
Christopher Shields (Oxford University)
“The Priority of Soul in Aristotle”
Victor Caston (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
“Aristotle on Perceptual Content”
Commentator: Tad Brennan (Northwestern University)

XI-E. Invited Symposium: Chinese Philosophy
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Justin Tiwald (San Francisco State University)
Speakers: Philip J. Ivanhoe (City University of Hong Kong)
“Lessons from the Past: Zhang Xuecheng and the Ethical Dimensions of History”
Kwong-loi Shun (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
“Wholeness and Purity: Moral Trials in Confucian Thought”
David B. Wong (Duke University)
“Identifying with the Nonhuman in Early Daoism”

XI-F. Invited Symposium: Judgment Aggregation
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Branden Fitelson (University of California–Berkeley)
Speakers: Franz Dietrich (Universiteit Maastricht)
Christian List (London School of Economics)
“Aggregating Causal Judgements”
Fabrizio Cariani (University of California–Berkeley)
Marc Pauly (Stanford University)
Josh Snyder (Stanford University)
“Decision Framing in Judgment Aggregation”
Stephan Hartmann (London School of Economics)
Gabriella Pigozzi (King’s College London)
“Merging Judgments and the Problem of Truth-tracking”

XI-G. Invited Symposium: Perception
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Jonathan Cohen (University of California–San Diego)
Speakers: Mark Johnston (Princeton University)
“Presentation, Not Representation”
Andrew Egan (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and Australian National University)
“Seeing and Believing: Perception, Belief Formation, and the Divided Mind”
John Campbell (University of California–Berkeley)
“Sensory Experience and Modes of Presentation”

XI-H. Colloquium: Epistemology
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Matt Weiner (Texas Tech University)
Speaker: Berislav Marusic (University of California–Berkeley)
“Why Not the Self-knowledge Rule?”
Commentator: Michael A. Rescorla (University of California–Santa Barbara)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Lisa Warenski (Union College)
Speaker: Stephen Crowley (Boise State University)
“How Reliable Is That Monkey?”
Commentator: Thomas Senor (University of Arkansas–Fayetteville)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Jack Lyons (University of Arkansas–Fayetteville)
Speaker: Juan Comesaña (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Reliability and Probability”
Commentator: Michael Levin (City University of New York–Graduate Center)

XI-I. Colloquium: Locke
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Ian Evans (University of Arizona)
Speaker: Shelley Weinberg (University of Toronto)
“Locke: The Role of Consciousness in Sensitive Knowledge”
Commentator: Lex Newman (University of Utah)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto)
Speaker: Walter Ott (Virginia Tech)
“Relations and Powers”
Commentator: Hans Lottenbach (University of Pittsburgh)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Josh Bright (University of California–Riverside)
Speaker: Mary Domski (University of New Mexico)
“Construction Without Spatial Constraints: Locke on Geometrical Reasoning”
Commentator: Daniel Sutherland (University of Illinois–Chicago)

XI-J. Colloquium: Philosophical Methods
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark Wrathall (Brigham Young University)
Speaker: Aaron Allen Schiller (University of California–San Diego)
“Dreyfus’s Phenomenological Foundations: A Reply”
Commentator: Hubert Dreyfus (University of California–Berkeley)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Joshua Rust (Metropolitan State College of Denver)
Speaker: S. Matthew Liao (Oxford University)
“A Defense of Intuitions”
Commentator: Joshua Alexander (Indiana University–Bloomington)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Michael Hodges (Vanderbilt University)
Speaker: Richard Liebendorfer (Minnesota State University–Mankato)
“Wittgenstein’s Expressivism”
Commentaor: Joseph Ulatowski (University of Utah)

XI-K. Colloquium: Virtue Ethics
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University)
Speakers: Robert Johnson (University of Oklahoma)
Russell Jones (University of Oklahoma)
“Counterfactual Exemplar-based Virtue Accounts of Right Action”
Commentator: Erin Taylor (University of California–Los Angeles)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco)
Speaker: Eric Silverman (St. Louis University)
“Michael Slote’s Unjustified Rejection of Neo-Aristotelian Ethics”
Commentator: Elisa Hurley (University of Western Ontario)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Elizabeth Radcliffe (Santa Clara University)
Speaker: Rebecca Lynn Stangl (University of Virginia)
“A Dilemma for Particularist Virtue Ethics”
Commentator: Scott A. Anderson (University of British Columbia)

XI-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Topic: Changing Paradigms in Biology
Chair: Ruth Groenhout (Calvin College)
Speakers: Lorraine Code (York University)
“Ecological Naturalism and the Biological Sciences”
Carla Fehr (Iowa State University)
“Feminist Theory and Evolutionary Paradigms in Biology”
Lenny Moss (University of Exeter)
“Phenotypic Plasticity, Detachment, and Gender: Reflections on the Latest Developments in Biology”

XI-M. Special Session on Berger Prize Winning Essay Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Topic: Berger Prize Essay: Mark Greenberg’s “How Facts Make Law”
Chair: Judith Wagner DeCew (Clark University and Wellesley College)
Speakers: Kenneth Einar Himma (Seattle Pacific University)
Jeffrey C. Brand-Ballard (George Washington University)
Respondent: Mark Greenberg (University of California, Los Angeles)
Berger Session Reception
4:00-6:00 p.m., Tower B
Convention attendees are cordially invited to a reception hosted by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law

Saturday Early Evening, April 7

Session XII — 4:00-6:00 p.m.

XII-A. Author-Meets-Critics: Albert Borgmann, Real American Ethics
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Eric Walker (University of Montana)
Critics: Marion Hourdequin (Colorado College)
Paul B. Thompson (Michigan State University)
Author: Albert Borgmann (University of Montana)

XII-B. Invited Paper: Value and Emotion
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: William Peck (Reed College)
Speaker: Jesse Prinz (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“Emotion and Aesthetic Value”
Commentators: Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati)
James Shelley (Auburn University)

XII-C. Invited Symposium: Kant and Non-Conceptual Content
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Eric Watkins (University of California–San Diego)
Speakers: Robert Hanna (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Embodied Rationality: Towards a Kantian Non-Conceptualism”
Hannah Ginsborg (University of California–Berkeley)
“Was Kant a Nonconceptualist?”
Commentator: Jose Luis Bermudez (Washington University in St. Louis)

XII-D. Colloquium: Humans and Nonhumans
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Ellen Suckiel (University of California–Santa Cruz)
Speaker: Pamela Lomelino (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Crossing Species Boundaries: A Feminist Critique of Human-Nonhuman Chimeras”
Commentator: Jason Robert (Arizona State University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Peggy DesAutels (University of Dayton)
Speaker: Thomas White (Loyola Marymount University)
“DeGrazia, MacIntyre, and Dolphins: A Case Study in the Necessary Evolution of Methodology”
Commentator: Gary Varner (Texas A&M University)

XII-E. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Albert Casullo (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Speaker: Mary Beth Willard (Yale University)
“Fictional Realism Rescued”
Commentator: Roberta Ballarin (University of British Columbia)
5:00-6:00
Chair: Ray Rennard (University of the Pacific)
Speaker: Madeleine Arseneault (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“On Idiom, Ambiguity, and What Is Said”
Commentator: Catherine Wearing (Wellesley College)

XII-F. Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Hilmi Demir (California State University–San Bernadino)
Speaker: Larry A. Herzberg (University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh)
“A Puzzle about Emotion, Perception, and Rationality”
Commentator: John Draeger (Buffalo State College)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Adam Arico (University of Arizona)
Speaker: Dan Ryder (University of Connecticut)
“Too Close for Comfort? Psychosemantics and the Distal”
Commentator: Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri–Saint Louis)

XII-G. Colloquium: Political Philosophy
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Christina Bellon (California State University–Sacramento)
Speaker: Peter Higgins (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Open Borders and the Right to Immigration”
Commentator: Richard Nunan (College of Charleston)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Ada Jaarsma (Sonoma State University)
Speaker: Lisa H. Schwartzman (Michigan State University)
“Can Liberalism Account for Women’s ‘Adaptive Preferences’?”
Commentator: Russell DiSilvestro (California State University–Sacramento)

XII-H. Colloquium: Promising and Trust
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Yvette Pearson (Old Dominion University)
Speaker: Anita Ho (University of British Columbia)
“The Phenomenon of Trust in Clinical Settings”
Commentator: Hilde Lindemann (Michigan State University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Devonya Havis (Boston College)
Speaker: Kenneth E. Shockley (State University of New York–Buffalo)
“The Peculiar Practice of Promising”
Commentator: Noell Birondo (Pomona College)

XII-I. Colloquium: Punishment
4:00-6:00 p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Michael Cholbi (California State Polytechnic University–Pomona)
Speaker: Erin I. Kelly (Tufts University)
“Punishment and Collective Responsibility”
Commentator: Douglas Portmore (Arizona State University)
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Diana Buccafurni (University of Utah)
Speaker: Japa Pallikkathayil (Harvard University)
“Threats, Punishment, and Proportionality”
Commentator: Christine Overall (Queen’s University)

XII-J. Symposium: Epistemic Externalism
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Naomi Reshotko (University of Denver)
Speaker: Tomoji Shogenji (Rhode Island College)
“An Externalist Guide to Epistemic Practice”
Commentators: James R. Beebe (State University of New York–Buffalo)
Baron Reed (Northern Illinois University)

XII-K. Symposium: Freedom of the Will
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Christopher Grau (Florida International University)
Speaker: Kadri Vihvelin (University of Southern California)
“Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, and Impossibilism”
Commentators: Michael McKenna (Florida State University)
Jason Turner (Rutgers University)

XII-L. Symposium: The Non-Identity Problem
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: John Beatty (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Rivka Weinberg (Scripps College)
“Identifying and Dissolving the Non-Identity Problem”
Commentators: Richard Greene (Weber State University)
Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University)

XII-M. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Topic: Romanell Lecture
Chair: Don Garrett (New York University)
Speaker: Louis Loeb (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
“The Naturalisms of Hume and Reid”

XII-N. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women and the Society for Women in Philosophy
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Topic: Special Session in Honor of Iris Marion Young
Chair: Marilyn Friedman (Washington University in St. Louis)
Speakers: Carol C. Gould (Temple University)
Cynthia Willett (Emory University)
Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)

Group Meetings, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
North American Kant Society, Session 2
Philosophy of Time Society
Society for German Idealism, Session 2
Society for Skeptical Studies, Session 1
Society for Social and Political Philosophy: Historical, Continental, and Feminist Perspectives, Session 2

Group Meetings, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
American Society for Aesthetics
International Hobbes Association, Session 2
International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 2
Philosophy of Religion Group
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
Society for Business Ethics
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 2
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Graduate Student Section
Society for the Study of Process Philosophy, Josiah Royce Society, and the Society for the Philosophy of Creativity

Group Meetings, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
International Society for Chinese Philosophy
North American Spinoza Society, Session 2
Society for Skeptical Studies, Session 2

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Sunday Morning, April 8

Easter Egg Hunt and Reception in Honor of APA Pacific Division President Calvin Normore
(All Pacific Division Meeting attendees and their children are invited. If you are coming with your children, please contact Secretary-Treasurer Anita Silvers at asilvers@sfsu.edu before the meeting with children’s names, ages, and information about any food allergies, so we can be sure to have appropriate goodies for your children to find on the Easter Egg hunt.)
8:00-10:00 a.m.

Session XIII — 9:00 a.m.-Noon

XIII-A. Author-Meets-Critics: David Schmidtz, Elements of Justice
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Rob Reich (Stanford University)
Critics: Richard Arneson (University of California–San Diego)
Jacob Levy (McGill University)
Christine Swanton (University of Auckland)
Author: David Schmidtz (University of Arizona)

XIII-B. Author-Meets-Critics: H. Peter Steeves, The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Michael Naas (DePaul University)
Critics: Richard Lee (DePaul University)
Dennis Rohatyn (University of San Diego)
David Wood (Vanderbilt University)
Author: H. Peter Steeves (California State University–Fresno and DePaul University)

XIII-C. Invited Symposium: Feeding the Body, Feeding the Mind: Philosophical Explorations of Food
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Andrew Askland (Arizona State University)
Speakers: Abigail Gosselin (Regis University)
“Eating and Encumbrance: Navigating Freedom and Responsibility through Food”
Jon Jensen (Luther College)
“Food with a Face: Ethics, Connections, and Local Food Movements”
Steven Kramer (Southwest State University)
“Food, Authenticity, and the Good Life”
Commentators: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)
Ramona Ilea (Pacific University)

XIII-D. Invited Symposium: Plato’s Psychology
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Fred D. Jr. Miller (Bowling Green State University)
Speakers: Thomas C. Brickhouse (Lynchburg College)
Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College)
“Moral Psychology in Plato’s Meno”
Allan Silverman (Ohio State University)
“Plato’s Republic as a Vocation”
Commentators: Rachel Singpurwalla (Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville)
Joel Yurdin (University of California–Berkeley)

XIII-E. Colloquium: Epistemology
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Abrol Fairweather (University of San Francisco)
Speaker: Patrick W. Rysiew (University of Victoria)
“Epistemic Agency and the Non-Local Truth Goal”
Commentator: Mashahiro Yamada (Claremont Graduate University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Kay Mathiesen (University of Arizona)
Speaker: Reza Lahroodi (University of Northern Iowa)
“Collective Epistemic Virtues”
Commentator: Todd Jones (University of Nevada–Las Vegas)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Nikolaj Jang Pedersen (University of California–Los Angeles)
Speaker: Jeffrey Glick (Rutgers University)
“Testimonial Defeat: A Reply to Lackey”
Commentator: Peter Graham (University of California–Riverside)

XIII-F. Colloquium: Practical Rationality
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Paul Hurley (Claremont McKenna College)
Speaker: Jason M. Bridges (University of Chicago)
“The Normativity of Rationality”
Commentator: Linda Radzik (Texas A&M University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Nina Davis (University of California–San Diego)
Speaker: Paul