April 18-April 21, 2007
Palmer House Hilton Hotel

Program for Wednesday Afternoon/Evening, April 18

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

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

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

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

Program for Thursday Morning, April 19

Registration
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Salon 2 (3rd Floor (S))

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

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

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

Group and Committee Sessions, Thursday Morning
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GI: 9:00 a.m.-Noon
GI-1: American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Crystal Room
GI-2: Society for Analytical Feminism, Wabash Parlor
GI-3: International Society for Environmental Ethics, Private Dining Room 9
GI-4: North American Kant Society, Private Dining Room 4
GI-5: Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Private Dining Room 5
GI-6: Society for Realist-Antirealist Discussion, Private Dining Room 6
GI-7: William James Society, Private Dining Room 7
GI-8: Association for Symbolic Logic, Private Dining Room 8
GI-9: Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Private Dining Room 16
GI-10: Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Private Dining Room 17
GI-11: Hegel Society of America, Private Dining Room 18
GI-12: Association of Chinese Philosophers in America, Parlor A
GI-13: American Society for Aesthetics, Parlor B
GI-14: International Institute for Field-Being, Parlor C

Program for Thursday Afternoon, April 19

Group and Committee Sessions, Thursday Afternoon/Evening
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GII: 5:15-7:15 p.m.
GII-1: Society of Christian Philosophers, Crystal Room
GII-2: Joint Session: APA Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the Profession and the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, Wabash Parlor
GII-3: Joint Session: International Society for Environmental Ethics and Society for Philosophy and Technology, Private Dining Room 9
GII-4: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Private Dining Room 4
GII-5: Conference of Philosophical Societies, Private Dining Room 5
GII-6: Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, Private Dining Room 6
GII-7: Hume Society, Private Dining Room 7
GII-8: Society for the Metaphysics of Science, Private Dining Room 8
GII-9: Society for Student Philosophers, Private Dining Room 16
GII-10: North American Division of the Schopenhauer Society, Private Dining Room 17
GII-11: North American Spinoza Society, Private Dining Room 18
GII-12: North American Nietzsche Society, Parlor A
Session GIII: 7:30-10:30 p.m.
GIII-1: Joint Session: North American Society for Social Philosophy and Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, Crystal Room
GIII-2: Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Wabash Parlor
GIII-3: Society for Analytical Feminism, Private Dining Room 9
GIII-4: Association for the Development of Philosophy Teaching, Private Dining Room 4
GIII-5: Philosophy of Time Society, Private Dining Room 5
GIII-6: Joint Session: Society for the Philosophy of Creativity and Society for the Study of Process Philosophy, Private Dining Room 6
GIII-7: Society for the Philosophy of History, Private Dining Room 7
GIII-8: Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Private Dining Room 8
GIII-9: Society for Realist-Antirealist Discussion, Private Dining Room 16
GIII-10: Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, Private Dining Room 17
GIII-11: Radical Philosophy Association, Private Dining Room 18
GIII-12: Society for the Study of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy, Parlor A
GIII-13: Society for Empirical Ethics, Parlor B
GIII-14: Personalist Discussion Group, Cresthill Room

I-A. Symposium: Philosophy and Neuroscience: Cognitive and Moral Mechanisms
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 9 (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Thomas W. Polger (University of Cincinnati)
Speakers: Alcino Silva (University of California–Los Angeles and National Institute of Mental Health)
“Understanding the Strategies for the Search for Cognitive Mechanisms”
John Bickle (University of Cincinnati)
“Mind-to-Molecules Reductionism and Social Cognition”
Patricia Smith Churchland (University of California–San Diego)
“Inference to the Best Decision”
Carl F. Craver (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Memory and Moral Agency: Toward a Clinical Moral Psychology”
Randy Buckner (Harvard University)
“Self-Projection: The Brain’s Scaffolding for Remembering, Imagining, and Moral Reasoning”

I-B. Symposium: Does Democracy Still Work?
1:30-4:30 p.m., Wabash Parlor (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: William McBride (Purdue University)
Speakers: Emily Zakin (Miami University)
“Rethinking ‘The Concept of the Political’ from the Left”
Bonnie Honig (Northwestern University)
“Miracles and Metaphors: Toward a Pluralist Political Theology”
Todd May (Clemson University)
“Democracy is Where We Make It: The Relevance of Jacques Rancière”

I-C. Symposium: Plato on Eros
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 16 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Tad Brennan (Northwestern University)
Speakers: Rachel Barney (University of Toronto)
“Eros in the Republic”
Rachana Kamtekar (University of Arizona)
“Eros in the Phaedrus”
Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College)
“Eros in the Symposium”

I-D. Symposium: Rethinking Rationalism: Revising the Canon
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 17 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Yitzhak Melamed (University of Chicago)
Speakers: Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Lisa Downing (Ohio State University)
Andrew Pyle (University of Bristol)

I-E. Author Meets Critics: Paul Franks, All or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 18 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame)
Critics: Michael Forster (University of Chicago)
Sebastian Rödl (Universität Basel)
Author: Paul Franks (University of Toronto)

I-F. Colloquium: Normative Ethical Theory
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 5 (3rd Floor (M))
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Barbara Martin (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Alexander Jech (University of Notre Dame)
“Open Duties”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Andrew Blom (University of Illinois–Chicago)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Colin Klein (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Caspar Hare (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Rationality and the Distant Needy”
Commentator: Tristram McPherson (Princeton University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Thomas L. Carson (Loyola University–Chicago)
Speaker: R. Zachary Manis (Southwest Baptist University)
“Kierkegaard and Divine Command Theory: A Reply to Evans”
Commentator: Noel S. Adams (Marquette University)

I-G. Colloquium: Assertion and Testimony
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 6 (3rd Floor (M))
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Greg Sax (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Speaker: E. J. Coffman (University of Notre Dame)
“Assertion, Knowledge, and Justification”
Commentator: Otávio A. Bueno (University of Miami)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Mark Criley (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Speaker: Edward S. Hinchman (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
“Assertion, Judgment, and Knowledge”
Commentator: Henry Jackman (York University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Ronald Loeffler (Grand Valley State University)
Speaker: Jennifer Lackey (Northern Illinois University)
“Why Reliable Testimony Is Necessary for Testimonial Knowledge”
Commentator: Scott C. Hendricks (Clark University)

I-H. Colloquium: Ontology
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 7 (3rd Floor (M))
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Dana Lynne Goswick (University of California–Davis)
Speaker: Shieva Kleinschmidt (Rutgers University)
“Multilocation and Motion”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Cody S. Gilmore (University of California–Davis)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Holly Kantin (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Speaker: Nathaniel J. Goldberg (Ohio University)
“Response-Dependence, Noumenalism, and Ontological Mystery”
Commentator: Ásta Sveinsdóttir (San Francisco State University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Peter Nichols (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Speaker: Thomas Sattig (Tulane University)
“Identity in 4D”
Commentator: Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University)

I-I. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language I
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 8 (3rd Floor (M))
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Mitchell S. Green (University of Virginia)
Speaker: Christopher J. Tillman (University of Manitoba)
“Semantic Stipulation and Knowledge De Re”
Commentator: Bradley Armour-Garb (SUNY–University at Albany)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Kevin Coffey (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Speaker: Glen A. Hoffman (Ryerson University)
“The Semantic Theory of Truth: Field’s Incompleteness Objection”
Commentator: James A. Woodbridge (University of Nevada–Las Vegas)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Sarah Black Jones (Northern Michigan University)
Speaker: Salvatore Florio (The Ohio State University)
“Knowability and Cartesian Propositions”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: John M. Collins (East Carolina University)

I-J. Colloquium: Aesthetics
1:30-4:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 4 (3rd Floor (M))
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Jeff Dean (Blackwell Publishing)
Speaker: Jennifer Neilson (University of Texas–Austin)
“Can Moral Flaws Count as Aesthetic Virtues?”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Amy Mullin (University of Toronto–Mississauga)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Amie L. Thomasson (University of Miami)
Speaker: Nicholas Diehl (University of California–Davis)
“Fictional Narration and the Ontological Gap Debate”
Commentator: Andrew Kania (Trinity University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Carolyn W. Korsmeyer (University at Buffalo)
Speaker: William P. Seeley (Franklin & Marshall College)
“Can Neuroaesthetics Earn Its Keep?”
Commentator: Barbara G. Montero (City University of New York)

I-K. Colloquium: Metaphysics of Mind
1:30-4:30 p.m., Parlor C (6th Floor (M,S))
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: David Hilbert (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Robert J. Howell (Southern Methodist University)
“The Two-Dimensionalist Reductio”
Commentator: Brendan Murday (Ithaca College)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Jonathan D. Jacobs (University of Saint Thomas)
Speaker: Kevin Sharpe (Purdue University)
“Tropes and the Zombie Argument”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: David Robb (Davidson College)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Jason Bridges (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Alyssa Ney (University of Rochester)
“Parsimony, Parity, and the Extended Mind Thesis”
Commentator: Steven Harris (Luther College)

I-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine: Medicine and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Ethics and Conflicts of Interest
1:30-4:30 p.m., Parlor A (6th Floor (M,S))
Chair: Mark Sheldon (Northwestern University)
Speakers: Howard Brody (University of Texas Medical Branch)
Leonard J. Weber (University of Detroit Mercy)
Lance Stell (Davidson College)

I-M. Joint Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy and the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking: Assessing Critical Thinking
1:30-4:30 p.m., Parlor B (6th Floor (M,S))
Chair: David Hunter (Ryerson University)
Speakers: Robert H. Ennis (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“A Required Nationwide Test of Thinking for College Students in the U.S.A. Whose Institutions Receive Federal Money”
Leo Groarke (Wilfrid Laurier University)
“Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking Teaching”
Don Hatcher (Baker University)
“Comparing Standardized Critical Thinking Tests”
Commentator: Stephen Norris (University of Alberta)

I-N. Joint Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Women and the APA Committee on Inclusiveness: Why Are Women Only 21% of Philosophy?
1:30-4:30 p.m., Crystal Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Erin McKenna (Pacific Luthern University)
Speakers: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College–Norco Campus)
“What Do the Numbers Mean?”
Elizabeth Minnich (Association of American Colleges and Universities)
“21% of What?, Or: What Are We Getting Ourselves Into?”
Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Changing Ideology and Culture, Not by Reason (Alone)”
Abigail Stewart (University of Michigan)
“What Might Be Learned from the Natural and Social Sciences?”

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

Program for Friday Morning, April 20

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

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

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

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

II-A. Symposium: Humanitarian Intervention
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Wabash Parlor (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Ann E. Cudd (University of Kansas)
Speakers: Rex Martin (University of Kansas)
“Toleration and Coercive Intervention in the International Sphere”
Marilyn Friedman (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Female Terrorists and Humanitarian Interventions”
Larry May (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention”

II-B. Symposium: Aesthetics and Race
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 16 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Monique Roelofs (Hampshire College)
Speakers: Richard Shusterman (Florida Atlantic University)
Title TBA
Paul C. Taylor (Temple University)
Title TBA
Robert Gooding-Williams (University of Chicago)
“Black Aesthetics, Racial Representations, Sensibility”
Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Northwestern University)
Title TBA

II-C. Symposium: Eudaimonism in Early Modern Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 9 (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin)
Speakers: Donald Rutherford (University of California–San Diego)
“Happiness, Ancient and Modern”
Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University)
“Descartes’s Conception of the Human Good”
Jon Miller (Queens University)
Title TBA

II-D. Symposium: Subjective Accounts of Reasons for Action
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 17 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Donald Hubin (Ohio State University)
Speakers: Peter Railton (University of Michigan)
James Dreier (Brown University)
David Sobel (Bowling Green State University)

II-E. Author Meets Critics: Mark Wilson, Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 18 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Robert Schwartz (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Critics: Mark Richard (Tufts University)
Joseph Almog (University of California–Los Angeles)
Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh)
Author: Mark Wilson (University of Pittsburgh)

II-F. Colloquium: Property and Justice
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 5 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Ruth Abbey (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Idil Boran (York University)
“Challenging Global Distributive Justice on Cosmopolitan Grounds”
Commentator: Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Kyla Ebels Duggan (Northwestern University)
Speaker: Helga Varden (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“The Failure of Nozick’s Bilateral Voluntarism”
Commentator: Matthew Zwolinski (University of San Diego)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Cornelius Delaney (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Marc A. Cohen (George Washington University)
“A Rawlsian (Political) Conception of Exploitation for Business Ethics ”
Commentator: Richard Buck (Mount Saint Mary’s University)

II-G. Colloquium: Agency and Rationality
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 6 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Ted A. Warfield (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Juan M. Comesana (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Neo-Pyrrhonism, Contrastivism, and Normativity”
Commentator: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Brie Gertler (University of Virginia)
Speaker: Baron Reed (Northern Illinois University)
“Self-Knowledge and Rationality”
Commentator: Gurpreet Rattan (University of Toronto)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Josh Brown (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Speaker: Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)
“Practical Interests and Need for Closure in Belief Formation”
Commentator: Jason Stanley (Rutgers University)

II-H. Colloquium: Crossing the Analytic-Continental Divide
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 7 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Joshua Shaw (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College)
Speaker: Scott C. Davidson (Oklahoma City University)
“The Scandal of Philosophy: Cavell and Levinas on the Problem of Skepticism”
Commentator: Tyler Roberts (Grinnell College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University)
Speaker: Benjamin Bayer (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“Taking Sellarsian Holism Seriously”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: John Fennell (Grinnell College)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Joseph K. Schear (California Polytechnic State University–San Luis Obispo)
Speaker: Joseph C. Berendzen (Loyola University–New Orleans)
“Is Coping Nonconceptual? On Merleau-Ponty, Dreyfus, and McDowell”
Commentator: Joseph Neisser (Sam Houston State University)

II-I. Colloquium: Themes in Kant
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 8 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Brandon C. Look (University of Kentucky)
Speaker: Corey Dyck (University of British Columbia)
“Kant’s Account of Sensibility in the Early 1770s”
Commentator: Alison Laywine (McGill University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Ian Proops (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Speaker: Katherine Dunlop (Stanford University)
“Kant on the Content of Geometrical Concepts”
Commentator: Emily Carson (McGill University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Jeanine M. Grenberg (St. Olaf College)
Speaker: Sorin Baiasu (University of Manchester, Centre for Political Theory)
“Is Kant’s Moral Law Prior to the Good?”
Commentator: Tatiana Patrone (Montclair State University)

II-J. Colloquium: Moral Psychology
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 4 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Julie Kirsch (Marymount University)
Speaker: Tadeusz W. Zawidzki (George Washington University)
“The Function of Folk Psychology: Mind Reading or Mind Shaping?”
Commentator: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Steven E. Viner (Washington University in St. Louis)
Speaker: Scott M. James (University of Kentucky)
“The Caveman’s Conscience: Evolution and Moral Realism”
Commentator: Alexandra A. Plakias (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Anastasia Panagopoulos (University of Minnesota)
Speaker: Timothy Schroeder (Ohio State University)
“The Neuroscience of Moral Motivation”
Commentator: Anthony Landreth (University of Cincinnati)

II-K. Colloquium: Autonomy and Choice
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Parlor B (6th Floor (M,S))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Noell Birondo (Pomona College)
Speaker: Andrea Westlund (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
“Rethinking Relational Autonomy”
Commentator: Ingra Schellenberg (University of Kansas)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht (Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne)
Speaker: Joel Anderson (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
“Autonomy Gaps: Reframing the Problem of Too Much Choice”
Commentator: Peter Brian Barry (Saginaw Valley State University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Bradford Cokelet (Northwestern University)
Speaker: James M. Okapal (Missouri Western University)
“Comparative Choice without Comprehensive Factors”
Commentator: Joseph Moore (Amherst College)

II-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers: Issues in the Pedagogical Use of Computers in Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Parlor A (6th Floor (M,S))
Chair: Jerry Kapus (University of Wisconsin–Stout)
Speakers: Renée Smith (Coastal Carolina University)
“Lectures and Discussions for the Virtual Classroom”
Scott Chattin (Southeastern Community College)
“Designing Distance Philosophy Courses in a Community College Setting”
Peter Boltuc (University of Illinois–Springfield)
“A Blended Argument”
Marvin Croy (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
“Understanding the ‘No Significant Difference Phenomenon’”

II-M. Joint Session Sponsored by Committee on the Status of Women and the Committee on Inclusiveness: Celebrating Iris Marion Young: Her Life and Work
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Crystal Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Alison M. Jaggar (University of Colorado)
Speakers: Sandra L. Bartky (University of Illinois–Chicago)
“Iris Young and the Gendering of Phenomenology”
Anne Phillips (London School of Economics)
“Rethinking Responsibility: From Personal to Political”
Tanika Sarkar (Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) and University of Chicago)
“Reconfiguring Indian Histories of Gender: Some Clues from Iris Marion Young”
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
“Iris Young’s Last Book”
Beginning at 11:30 a.m., following the speakers’ presentations, there will be a reception in honor of Iris Marion Young, co-sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Women, the National Office of the American Philosophical Association, the University of Chicago, and the University of North Carolina–Charlotte.

II-N. Association for Symbolic Logic
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Parlor D (6th Floor (M,S))
Topic: Directions in Logic
Speakers: Yiannis Moschovakis (University of California–Los Angeles)
“(Mathematical and Philosophical) Logic from Computer Science”
Rohit Parikh (City University of New York)
“Sentences, Propositions, and Logical Omniscience: What Does Deduction Tell Us?”
Richmond Thomason (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
“Trends in Logic: Philosophy, Linguistics, and AI”

Program for Friday Afternoon/Evening, April 20

Group and Committee Sessions, Friday Afternoon/Evening
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GIV: 7:00-10:00 p.m.
GIV-1: North American Kant Society, Private Dining Room 16
GIV-2: Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Wabash Parlor
GIV-3: Philosophy of Religion Group, Private Dining Room 9
GIV-4: Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Private Dining Room 18
GIV-5: Society for the Metaphysics of Science, Private Dining Room 5
GIV-6: Society for the Philosophy of History, Private Dining Room 6
GIV-7: Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Private Dining Room 7
GIV-8: International Society of Chinese Philosophy, Private Dining Room 8
GIV-9: Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Crystal Room
GIV-10: Society for Philosophy and Technology, Parlor C
GIV-11: Radical Philosophy Association, Private Dining Room 4
GIV-12: Association for the Development of Philosophy Teaching, Parlor A
GIV-13: Society for the Philosophical Study of Education, Parlor B
GIV-14: American Society for Value Inquiry, Private Dining Room 17

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

III-A. Symposium: The Metaphysics of Absolute Generality
1:45-4:45 p.m., Wabash Parlor (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Carolina Sartorio (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Speakers: Matti Eklund (Cornell University)
“The Ontological Significance of Inscrutability”
Agustín Rayo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title TBA
Gabriel Uzquiano (Oxford University)
Title TBA

III-B. Symposium: Recent Work in Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 18 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Robert Howell (SUNY–University at Albany)
Speakers: Lisa Shabel (Ohio State University)
Daniel Sutherland (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Commentator: Charles Parsons (Harvard University)

III-C. Symposium: Emotion and Moral Judgment
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 16 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Anne Eaton (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speakers: Jesse J. Prinz (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“Values As Sentiments”
Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona)
Ron Mallon (University of Utah)
“Moral Rules and Moral Judgments”
Commentator: Jonathan Haidt (University of Virginia)

III-D. Symposium: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 17 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Alan D. Schrift (Grinnell College)
Speakers: Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University)
“Deleuze and the Theory of Thought”
Claire Colebrook (University of Edinburgh)
“Mathematics, Vitalism, and Genesis”
Leonard Lawlor (University of Memphis)
“The Generation of the Incorruptibles: Deleuze and Derrida on Animality”

III-E. Symposium: The Value Turn in Epistemology
1:45-4:45 p.m., Cresthill Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana University–Bloomington)
Speakers: Jonathan L. Kvanvig (Baylor University)
“Further Thoughts on the Swamping Problem”
Wayne D. Riggs (University of Oklahoma)
Title TBA
John Greco (Saint Louis University)
“The Nature of Ability and the Purpose of Knowledge”

III-F. Colloquium: Normative Ethics II
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 5 (3rd Floor (M))
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Anthony S. Laden (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Peter B. M. Vranas (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Three Objections to Ought Implies Can”
Commentator: Michael J. Zimmerman (University of North Carolina–Greensboro)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Irwin Goldstein (Davidson College)
Speaker: Steven Sverdlik (Southern Methodist University)
“The Availability of Motives”
Commentator: David Sussman (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Jon Garthoff (Northwestern University)
Speaker: Sarah K. Paul (Stanford University)
“Narrative Understanding and Practical Knowledge”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Douglas Lavin (Harvard University)

III-G. Colloquium: Locke and Hume
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 6 (3rd Floor (M))
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Margaret Atherton (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Speaker: D. Kenneth Brown (University of California–Irvine)
“Locke on Memory, Reflection, and the Structure of Complex Ideas”
Commentator: Lex Newman (University of Utah)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: David R. Cunning (University of Iowa)
Speaker: Benjamin D. Hill (University of Western Ontario)
“Formal Signs in Locke: The Simple Ideas of Substratum and Reality”
Commentator: Laura Keating (Hunter College–CUNY)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Michael Liston (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Speaker: Jennifer Smalligan (University of California–Berkeley)
“Does Hume Hold a Dispositional Account of Belief?”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: David Owen (University of Arizona)

III-H. Colloquium: Philosophy of Science
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 7 (3rd Floor (M))
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Victoria Rogers (Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis)
Speaker: Ranpal Dosanjh (University of Toronto)
“Real Laws Don’t Have Demonstrative Content”
Commentator: Christopher Pincock (Purdue University)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Stephen Leeds (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Speaker: Nicholaos Jones (The Ohio State University)
“Resolving the Bayesian Problem of Idealization”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Nick Huggett (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Bradford Skow (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
“The Law of Inertia”
Commentator: Doreen Fraser (University of Waterloo)

III-I. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language II
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 8 (3rd Floor (M))
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Michael Allers (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Speaker: Berit Brogaard (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
“Donkey Sentences and Quantifier Variability”
Commentator: Jessica Rett (Rutgers University)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Barbara Abbott (Michigan State University)
Speaker: Mikhail Kissine (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
“What Is a Locutionary Act?”
Commentator: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)

III-J. Colloquium: Ancient Greek Philosophy
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 4 (3rd Floor (M))
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Eric A. Brown (Washington University in St. Louis)
Speaker: Jeremy Kirby (Albion College)
“Subterranean Epistemic Blues: The Role of the Forms in Everyday Discourse”
Commentator: Scott Berman (Saint Louis University)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Robin Smith (Texas A&M University)
Speaker: Margaret E. Scharle (Reed College)
“Aristotle’s Synchronic Justification of Prime Matter”
Commentator: Russell M. Dancy (Florida State University)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Constance Meinwald (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Casey Perin (University of Massachusetts)
“Substantial Universals in Aristotle’s Categories”
Commentator: Allan Silverman (Ohio State University)

III-K. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges: What Graduate Students Need to Know about the Community College Job and Job Market
1:45-4:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 9 (3rd Floor (M))
Speakers: Bill Hartmann (St. Louis Community College–Forest Park College)
Colleen Burns (Harper College)
Holly Graff (Oakton Community College)
David Zacker (Elgin Community College)

III-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies: Virtue in Traditional Chinese Thought
1:45-4:45 p.m., Parlor A (6th Floor (M,S))
Chair: Chang-Seong Hong (Minnesota State University–Moorhead)
Speakers: Aaron Stalnaker (Indiana University)
“Virtue as Mastery in Early Chinese Thought”
Steve Coutinho (Muhlenberg College)
“Is Daoist Virtue without Humanity?”
Justin Tiwald (San Francisco State University)
“Virtue Ethics, Neo-Confucianism, and the Problem of Moralizing the Human Good”
Commentator: Amy Olberding (University of Oklahoma)

III-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Hispanics: Philosophy and Immigration
1:45-4:45 p.m., Parlor B (6th Floor (M,S))
Speaker: Ofelia Schuette (University of South Florida)
“Immigration and the Ethics of Care in a North/South Context”
Commentator: Sheryl Ross (University of Wisconsin–La Crosse)
Speaker: Peter Higgins (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Open Borders and the Right to Immigration: The Moral and Political Salience of Social Location”
Commentator: Steven Tammelleo (Lake Forest College)
Speaker: Jorge Valadez (Our Lady of the Lake University)
“Immigration and the Global Labor Market”
Commentator: Bernardo Cantens (Barry University)

III-N. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy: Public Scholarship and Civic Engagement across the Disciplines
1:45-4:45 p.m., Crystal Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Harry Brod (University of Northern Iowa)
Speakers: Michael Brintnall (Executive Director, American Political Science Association)
“Building a Public Presence—The American Political Science Association”
Gerald Graff (University of Illinois–Chicago)
“The University Is Popular Culture But Doesn’t Know It Yet—The Modern Language Association”
James Grossman (Vice President for Research and Education, The Newberry Library)
“Widening the Channel of History—The American Historical Association”
Lawrence R. Frey (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Communication Activism as Engaged Scholarship—The National Communication Association”
Noelle McAfee (George Mason University)
“Notes from a Public Philosopher: The American Philosophical Association”

Presidential Address
5:00-6:00 p.m., Red Lacquer Room (4th Floor (M))
Introduction: James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Ted Cohen (University of Chicago)
“Stories”

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

Program for Saturday, April 21

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

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

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

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

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

Group Sessions, Saturday Morning
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GV: 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
GV-14: Journal of the History of Philosophy, Private Dining Room 1 (3rd Floor (M))

IV-A. Symposium: Group Intentions
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Crystal Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Bennett W. Helm (Franklin & Marshall College)
Speakers: Michael E. Bratman (Stanford University)
Title TBA
Deborah Tollefsen (University of Memphis)
“The Phenomenology of Joint Agency”
Abraham Roth (Ohio State University)
Title TBA

IV-B. Symposium: Thinking with Models: Analogical Reasoning in Science
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 9 (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Laura Perini (Virginia Tech University)
Speakers: Nancy J. Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology)
“Representation-Building in Analogy”
Cameron Shelley (University of Waterloo)
Title TBA
Commentator: Andrea Woody (University of Washington)

IV-C. Symposium: Philosophical Consequences of Dynamic Logic
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 16 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Sam Cumming (Rutgers University)
Speakers: Jeroen Groenendijk (University of Amsterdam)
Martin Stokof (University of Amsterdam)
Anthony Gillies (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Commentator: Christopher Gauker (University of Cincinnati)

IV-D. Symposium: Feminist Meta-Ethics
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 17 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Samantha Brennan (University of Western Ontario)
Speakers: Alison M. Jaggar (University of Colorado)
Title TBA
Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)
“Standards of Rationality and Moral Worth”
Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah)
“Defective Desires”

IV-E. Symposium: Imagination, Empathy, and the Arts
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 18 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati)
Speakers: Tamar Szabo Gendler (Yale University)
“Empathic Imagination and Imaginative Empathy”
Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham)
“Photography, Imagination, and a (New) Problem of Imaginative Resistance”
Kendall Walton (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
“Empathy and Imagination: Understanding the Alien and the Inanimate”

IV-F. Colloquium: Nineteenth Century Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Parlor A (6th Floor (M,S))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Katie Terezakis (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Speaker: Dalia T. Nassar (Universität Tübingen)
“The Absolute and Politics: The Case of the German Romantics”
Commentator: Pauline Kleingeld (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Stephen Watson (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Joseph J. Westfall (University of Houston–Downtown)
“Barren of Wisdom: Kierkegaard’s Socratic Maieutic”
Commentator: David K. O’Connor (University of Notre Dame)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Michael Depaul (University of Notre Dame)
Speakers: Ben Eggleston (University of Kansas)
Dale E. Miller (Old Dominion University)
“India House Utilitarianism”
Commentator: Wendy Donner (Carleton University)

IV-G. Colloquium: Derrida
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 6 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Tina Chanter (DePaul University)
Speaker: Marie-Eve Morin (University of Winnipeg)
“The Community of Witnesses: Derrida Inheriting Husserl and Blanchot”
Commentator: Ann V. Murphy (Fordham University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern University)
Speaker: Samir Haddad (Fordham University)
“Why Not ‘Fraternity to Come’? An Instability in Derrida’s Politics of Friendship”
Commentator: Russell Ford (Elmhurst College)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Richard A. Lee, Jr. (DePaul University)
Speaker: Maurice Hamington (University of Southern Indiana)
“An Ethic of Hospitality: Derrida and U.S. Immigration Policy”
Commentator: Kenneth Itzkowitz (Marietta College)

IV-H. Colloquium: Experimental Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 7 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Joshua Knobe (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Speakers: Mark T. Phelan (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Hagop Sarkissian (Duke University)
“The Folk Strike Back; Or, Why You Didn’t Do It Intentionally, Though It Was Bad and You Knew It”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Thomas Nadelhoffer (Dickinson College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Joshua Knobe (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Speaker: Eric Wiland (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
“Intentional Action and ‘in Order to’”
Commentator: Andrei A. Buckareff (Franklin & Marshall College)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Joshua Knobe (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Speakers: Jennifer Lyn Wright (University of Wyoming)
John T. Bengson (University of Texas–Austin)
“Asymmetries in Folk Judgments of Moral Responsibility and Intentional Action”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Liane Young (Harvard University)

IV-I. Colloquium: Descartes and Spinoza
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 8 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Charles Hueneman (Utah State University)
Speaker: Andrew D. Youpa (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
“Spinoza’s Modal Monism”
Commentator: Syliane Malinowski-Charles (Temple University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Laurence Carlin (University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh)
Speaker: Raffaella De Rosa (Rutgers University–Newark)
“Descartes’s Causal Principle and Its Alleged Similarity Condition”
Commentator: Geoffrey A. Gorham (University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Clyde Ragland (Saint Louis University)
Speaker: Shoshana R. Smith (Colgate University)
“A Critique of Gewirth on Clarity and Distinctness”
Commentator: Georges Dicker (State University of New York–Brockport)

IV-J. Colloquium: Justification
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 4 (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Joe R. Salerno (Saint Louis University)
Speaker: Marc A. Alspector-Kelly (Western Michigan University)
“Avoiding Accidents: Justification Internalism and Knowledge Externalism”
Commentator: Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Joshua Alexander (Indiana University)
Speaker: Joshua Thurow (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“The A Priori Defended: A Defense of the Generality Argument”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: David Henderson (University of Memphis)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Gerald Vision (Temple University)
Speaker: Peter Murphy (University of Indianapolis)
“The Justification Scale”
Commentator: Jared G. Bates (Hanover College)

IV-K. Colloquium: Intrinsicality
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Cresthill Room (3rd Floor (M))
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Joshua Filler (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Speaker: Kelly Trogdon (University of Massachusetts)
“Monism and Intrinsicality”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Nick Treanor (Brown University and Trent University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: James John (University of Toronto)
Speaker: Neil E. Williams (University at Buffalo)
“Intrinsic Powers”
Commentator: Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)

IV-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers: Improving the Control of Technology: Contributions of Philosophy and Social Science
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Private Dining Room 5 (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Marvin Croy (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
Speaker: Helen Nissenbaum (School of Law, New York University)
“Websearch Privacy in a Liberal Democracy: The Case of TrackMeNot”
Commentator: Michael Kelly (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
Speaker: Ned Woodhouse (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
“Toward a Political Philosophy of Information Technology”
Commentator: Andrew R. Light (University of Washington)

IV-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies: Mereology and Reduction
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Parlor B (6th Floor (M,S))
Chair: Amy Olberding (University of Oklahoma)
Speakers: Peter van Inwagen (University of Notre Dame)
“The Self and Its Part”
Carl Gillett (Illinois Wesleyan University)
“Ontological Reduction in the Philosophy of Science and Buddhism”
Chang-Seong Hong (Minnesota State University–Moorhead)
“Reduction and the Buddhist Mereology”
Commentator: Mark Siderits (Illinois State University)

IV-N. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Blacks in Philosophy: Philosophical Perspectives on the “War on Terror”
9:00 a.m.-Noon, Wabash Parlor (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Charles Mills (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speakers: J. Angelo Corlett (San Diego State University)
“Terrorism as a Human Right”
Tomis Kapitan (Northern Illinois University)
“Reality and Rhetoric in the War on Terror”
Rodney C. Roberts (East Carolina University)
“The American Value of Fear and the Indefinite Detention of Terrorist Suspects”
Mohammed Abed (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Complicity, ‘Human Shields’, and the ‘War on Terror’”

IV-O. Association for Symbolic Logic
9:01 a.m.-12:01 p.m., Parlor C (6th Floor (M,S))
Topic: Invited Speakers
Speakers: John Baldwin (University of Illinois–Chicago)
“Model Theory in Perspective”
Steffen Lempp (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Separating Notions of Randomness” (joint work with Bart Kastermans)

Saturday Afternoon, April 21

Group and Committee Sessions, Saturday Afternoon
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GV: 12:15-2:15 p.m.
GV-1: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Private Dining Room 7
GV-2: American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy, Wabash Parlor
GV-3: International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Private Dining Room 9
GV-4: Society for Student Philosophers, Private Dining Room 4
GV-5: Society for the Philosophical Study of Education, Private Dining Room 5
GV-6: Joint Session: Society for Business Ethics and Adam Smith Society, Private Dining Room 6
GV-7: American Society for Value Inquiry, Crystal Room
GV-8: Society for the Study of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy, Private Dining Room 8
GV-9: North American Nietzsche Society, Private Dining Room 16
GV-10: Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Parlor A
GV-11: Joint Session: History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society and Bertrand Russell Society, Private Dining Room 18
GV-12: Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism, Private Dining Room 17
GV-13: Association for Symbolic Logic, Parlor B

V-A. Symposium: Grice and Game Theory
2:30-5:30 p.m., Crystal Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Peter Ludlow (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Speakers: Patrick N. Grim (SUNY–Stony Brook University)
Title TBA
Prashant Parikh (University of Pennsylvania)
Title TBA
Brian Skyrms (University of California–Irvine)
“Evolution of Inference and Conversational Implicature”
Robert van Rooij (University of Amsterdam)
“Playing with Quantity”
Nicholas Asher (University of Texas–Austin)
Title TBA

V-B. Symposium: Picture Perception
2:30-5:30 p.m., Wabash Parlor (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Susan L. Feagin (Temple University)
Speakers: Mark Rollins (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Knowing Art When You See It: How Representational Categories Are Recognized”
Barbara Tversky (Stanford University)
“How Graphics Communicate”
John Kulvicki (Dartmouth College)
Title TBA
Vilaynur Ramachandran (University of California–San Diego)
Title TBA

V-C. Symposium: Mental Health and Well-Being
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 16 (5th Floor (S))
Chair: John M. Doris (Washington University in St. Louis)
Speakers: Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota)
“What If Reflection Makes Us Miserable? Living Well and the Need for Compromise”
Daniel M. Haybron (Saint Louis University)
“Doubts about the Pursuit of Happiness”
Robert L. Woolfolk (Rutgers and Princeton Universities)
“Psychotherapy, Self-Knowledge, and the Pursuit of Happiness”

V-D. Symposium: Memorial Session for Robert Solomon
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 17 (5th Floor (S))
Speakers: Richard Schacht (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
Jesse J. Prinz (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
David Sherman (University of Montana)
Joanna Ciulla (University of Richmond)
Frithjof Bergmann (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)

V-E. Colloquium: Democracy
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 18 (5th Floor (S))
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Francis Beckwith (Baylor University)
Speaker: Christopher F. Zurn (University of Kentucky)
“Deliberative Majoritarianism and the Paternalism of Judicial Review: Assessing Waldron’s Formal Argument from Democracy”
Commentator: Bernard Jackson (Washington and Lee University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Steven W. Patterson (Marygrove College)
Speaker: Steven F. Geisz (University of Tampa)
“Deliberative, Democracy, Bargaining, and What Doesn’t Get Said”
Commentator: Michaela Mueller (University of Arizona)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Jeremy Samuel Neill (Saint Louis University)
Speaker: Christopher King (Vanderbilt University)
“What Can Be Said for Democratic Obedience? Some Thoughts about Epistemic Proceduralism”
Commentator: Christopher A. Pynes (Western Illinois University)

V-F. Colloquium: Spinoza
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 5 (3rd Floor (M))
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Debra Nails (Michigan State University)
Speaker: Christopher Martin (Purdue University)
“Spinoza’s Definition of the Essence of a Thing”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Tammy Nyden-Bullock (Grinnell College)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Edwin Curley (University of Michigan)
Speaker: Mary Krizan (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Conception, Deception, and Reflection: Spinoza on Finite Modes”
Commentator: Eugene J. Marshall (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Martin T. Lin (University of Toronto)
Speaker: Thaddeus Robinson (Purdue University)
“Motion in the Whole: Spinoza’s Infinite Mode of Extension”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Ronald L. Sandler (Northeastern University)

V-G. Colloquium: Metaethics
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 6 (3rd Floor (M))
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: David A. Merli (Franklin & Marshall College)
Speaker: Brad Majors (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“New Foundations for Moral Particularism”
Commentator: Elizabeth Tropman (Colorado State University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Neil Delaney (Georgetown University)
Speaker: Allen Thompson (Clemson University)
“Neurathian Ethical Naturalism”
Commentator: Mark LeBar (Ohio University)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: David Shoemaker (Bowling Green State University)
Speaker: Patricia A. Marino (University of Waterloo)
“Why Unification? Michael Smith’s Rationalism and the Normative Status of Coherence”
Commentator: Mark van Roojen (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)

V-H. Colloquium: Applied Ethics
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 7 (3rd Floor (M))
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Eugene Heath (State University of New York–New Paltz)
Speaker: Paul Dunn (Brock University)
“Gratitude, Ingratitude, and the Gifts of Tainted Donors”
Commentator: Anne Barnhill (New York University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Nicholas F. Stang (Princeton University)
Speaker: Robert F. Card (State University of New York–Oswego)
“Moral Prescriptions: Conscientious Objection and Emergency Contraception”
Commentator: Kimberly J. Leighton (Tufts University)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Mary Simmerling (MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago)
Speaker: Thomas D. Harter (University of Tennessee)
“Overcoming the Organ Shortage: The Need for Radical Reform”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Jason R. Kawall (Colgate University)

V-I. Colloquium: Politics and Identity
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 8 (3rd Floor (M))
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: John Brunero (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
Speaker: David Lefkowitz (University of North Carolina–Greensboro)
“Secession, Group Self-Determination, and the Right Not to Associate”
Commentator: Colleen Murphy (Texas A&M University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Michael Monahan (Marquette University)
Speaker: Kevin M. Graham (Creighton University)
“The Extraordinary Concept of Race: Hardimon on Race and Racialism”
Commentator: Michael Hardimon (University of California–San Diego)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Kenneth E. Shockley (University at Buffalo)
Speaker: Melissa Yates (Northwestern University)
“Does Political Liberalism Require Citizens to Split Their Identities?”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Johanna Meehan (Grinnell College)

V-J. Colloquium: Phenomenology, Meaning, and Ethics
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 4 (3rd Floor (M))
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Gary M. Gutting (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Mark Gedney (Gordon College)
“Ricœur and the Ethical Shape of Remembering and Forgetting”
Commentator: Daniel M. Price (University of Houston, Honors College)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: David T. Vessey (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Pol Vandevelde (Marquette University)
“Articulation as the Condition for the Ideality of Meaning in Husserl”
Commentator: Sebastian Luft (Marquette University)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Kirk Wolf (Delta College)
Speaker: Michael Feola (University of California–Berkeley)
“Hegel and Liberalism: Notes on the Dialectic of Right”
Commentator: Michael Morris (University of Notre Dame)

V-K. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on International Cooperation: Korea Today: Anticipating the 2008 World Congress
2:30-5:30 p.m., Private Dining Room 9 (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Arthur Falk (Western Michigan University)
Speakers: Wonsup Jung (Seoul National University and Visiting Scholar, Purdue University)
“Democratic Will Formation in Korea”
Julie H. Yoo (Lafayette College)
“Feminism in Korean Philosophy”

V-L. Association for Symbolic Logic
2:30-5:30 p.m., Parlor A (6th Floor (M,S))
Topic: Contributed Papers (to be announced)
V-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy: Integrating Philosophy into the K-12 Curriculum
2:30-5:30 p.m., Cresthill Room (3rd Floor (M))
Chair: Rafael Francisco Rondon (Resurrection Catholic School–Memphis)
Speakers: Carlos Rodriguez (Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University)
Steven Goldberg (Oak Park and River Forest High Schools, Chicago)