Proceedings and Addresses
September 2007 (Volume 81, Issue 1)
Group Meeting Program
Thursday Evening, December 27
Group Session I – 6:30-9:30 p.m.
GI-1. Academy for Jewish Philosophy
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Topic: Spinoza and Jewish Philosophy
Chair: Edward Halper (University of Georgia)
Speakers: Eugene Garver (St. John’s University)
“Political Freedom in a Deterministic World: Spinoza on Freedom of the Will and the Freedom to Philosophize”
Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Spinoza and Secular Judaism”
Michael Rosenthal (University of Washington)
“Spinoza, Miracles, and Modern Judaism”
(Papers will be available at http://www.phil.uga.edu/faculty/halper/ajp/)
GI-2. Conference on Philosophical Societies
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Topic: Philosophical Themes of World Congresses: What Impact?
Speakers: David Schrader (Executive Director, APA)
George McLean (Catholic University of America)
John Abbarno (D’Youville College)
William McBride (Purdue University)
GI-3. International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Topic: New Perspectives on Chinese Philosophy of Mind
Chair: Steven Geisz (University of Tampa)
Speakers: Warren Frisina (Hofstra University)
“One Body with All Things”
Chad Hansen (University of Hong Kong)
“Putting the Heart-Mind in Nature”
Alexus McLeod (University of Connecticut)
“The Psychologization of the Confucian Ren”
Chan Lee (University of Hawaii)
“Neo-Confucian Discourse of Mind: Can we call ‘xin’ mind?”
Commentator: Steven Horst (Wesleyan University)
GI-4. North American Society for Social Philosophy
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Topic: William James as Social and Political Philosopher
Chair: Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
Speakers: Andrew Smith (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
“Communication and Conviction: James’s Contribution to Deliberative Democracy”
Colin Koopman (University of California–Santa Cruz)
“William James on the Democratic Potentials of Capitalism”
John Kaag (Harvard University)
“A Call to Arms? William James on Militarism and Political Unity”
Commentator: Harvey Cormier (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
GI-5. Society for Machines and Mentality
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Topic: Ray Kurzweil and Philosophy
Chair: Eric Steinhart (William Paterson University)
Speakers: Ray Kurzweil (Kurzweil Technologies)
Amnon Eden (University of Essex–United Kingdom)
Linda MacDonald Glenn (Alden March Bioethics Institute–Albany Medical College)
Greg Peterson (South Dakota State University)
(Papers will be available at http://www.cs.hamilton.edu/~sfmm/)
Friday Morning, December 28
Group Session II – 9:00-11:00 a.m.
GII-1. American Society for Aesthetics
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Aesthetic Properties
Chair: Tobyn DeMarco (Bergen Community College)
Speakers: Anna Christina Ribeiro (Texas Tech University)
“Aesthetic Properties: The Case of Poetry”
Brandon Cooke (Minnesota State University)
“A Reality Check for Response-Dependence”
Commentator: Alan Goldman (College of William and Mary)
GII-2. American Society for Value Inquiry
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Values and Moral Concepts
Chair: John Abbarno (D’Youville College)
Speakers: Andrew Payne (St. Joseph’s University)
“Thick Concepts and Environmentalism”
John Huss (Wellesley College)
“Valuing Environmental Values”
GII-3. International Society for Buddhist Philosophy
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Re-orienting Life and Death: Buddhism, Daoism and Their Challenge to Our Bioethics
Chair: William LaFleur (University of Pennsylvania)
Speakers: Annewieke Vroom (Free University of Amsterdam–Netherlands)
“Can We Fight What’s Empty? Masao Abe’s View on Struggling with Evil”
Joel Kupperman (University of Connecticut)
“The Meanings of Life and Death”
Hans-Georg Moeller (Brock University)
“The Emancipation of Death: Daoism and Negative Bioethics”
William LaFleur (University of Pennsylvania)
“Life/Death and Contemporary Bioethics: Unpacking Implications of Masao Abe’s Perspective”
Commentator: Steven Heine (Florida International University)
GII-4. International Society for Environmental Ethics
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Author Meets Critics: Warwick Fox, A Theory of General Ethics
Chair: James Sterba (University of Notre Dame)
Critics: Hugh LaFollette (University of South Florida)
Gary Varner (Texas A&M University)
Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham–United Kingdom)
Author: Warwick Fox (University of Central Lancashire–United Kingdom)
GII-5. International St. Thomas Society
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: The Divine Ideas in St. Thomas Aquinas
Chair: W. Norris Clarke (Fordham University)
Speaker: Gregory Dolan (Catholic University of America)
GII-6. Society for Skeptical Studies
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Joe Ulatowski (Weber State University)
Speakers: Brian Ribeiro (University of Tennessee–Chattanooga)
“Pyrrhonism and Religion in Sextus and Montaigne”
Otávio Bueno (University of Miami)
“Contextualism: A Pyrrhonist Defense”
Blake Roeber (Northern Illinois University)
“Does the Theist Have an Epistemic Advantage over the Atheist? Descartes and Plantinga on Theism, Atheism and Skepticism”
GII-7. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: William James and the Importance of Individuals
Chair: Gregory Fahy (University of Maine–Augusta)
Speaker: James Pawelski (University of Pennsylvania)
“William James’s Dynamic Individualism”
Commentator: Douglas Anderson (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
Speaker: William Gavin (University of Southern Maine)
“Pragmatism and the Individual at the End of Life”
Commentator: Colin Koopman (University of California–Santa Cruz)
GII-8. Society for the Study of Women Philosophers
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Women and Forgotten Movements in American Philosophy
Speakers: John Kaag (Harvard University)
“Creativity and Community: The Work of Ella Lyman Cabot and Mary Parker Follett”
Elizabeth Caldwell (University of Oregon)
“The Meanings of Work and Rest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Woman Destroyed’”
Mat Foust (University of Oregon)
“Addams, Calkins and the ‘Moral Equivalent of War’”
(Business Meeting to follow.)
Group Session III – 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
GIII-1. American Society for Value Inquiry
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Presidential Address
Chair: Thomas Magnell (Drew University)
Speaker: TBA
GIII-2. Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Intersections of Racism and Psychiatry
Chair: Melvin Woody (Connecticut College)
Speaker: S. Nassir Ghaemi (Emory University)
“Franz Fanon, Martin Luther King and the Psychology of Racism”
Commentator: Nancy Potter (University of Louisville)
GIII-3. History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society and Bertrand Russell Society
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Montgomery Link (Suffolk University)
Speaker: Christian Beenfeld (Oxford University–United Kingdom)
“Turing’s Philosophy of Mind”
Commentator: TBA
Speaker: Kevin Cahill (University of Bergen–Norway)
“Explanation, Wonder, and the Cultural Point of the Tractatus”
Commentator: Craig Fox (California University of Pennsylvania)
Speaker: Joongol Kim (Western Illinois University)
“Numbers, Quantities, and Hume’s Principle”
Commentator: TBA
GIII-4. International Society for Chinese Philosophy
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: The Dao and Zhongyong
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa)
Speakers: Alan Fox (University of Delaware)
“Metaphysics and Heuristics in Daoist Philosophy”
Ting-Chao Chou (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
“On the Revelation of Confucian Doctrine of the Mean in Modern Science Principle”
Commentator: Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa)
GIII-5. Josiah Royce Society
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Josiah Royce and the Origins of Modern Logic
Chair: Kelly Parker (Grand Valley State University)
Speakers: J. Brent Crouch (San Diego City College)
“Frege, Peirce’s Reduction Thesis, and the Logic of Tetrads”
Scott Pratt (University of Oregon)
“On the Politics of Disjunction: Russell and the Logic of Action”
(Papers will be available at www.roycesociety.org)
GIII-6. Personalist Discussion Group
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Spinoza and Taylor on Individuals
Chair: Douglas Anderson (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
Speakers: Andrew Youpa (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
“Spinoza on Individual Essence and Value”
Michael Schleeter (Pennsylvania State University)
“Taylor and the Limits of Expressive Individualism”
Commentator: Douglas Anderson (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
GIII-7. Sartre Circle
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Pure Reflection and Intentionality in Sartre’s Early Philosophy
Chair: Ronald E. Santoni (Denison University)
Speaker: Eric Morelli (Emory University)
“Pure Reflection and Intentional Process: The Foundation of Sartre’s Phenomenological Ontology”
Commentators: Thomas Busch (Villanova University)
Yiwei Zheng (St. Cloud State University)
GIII-8. Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Participation and Democracy
Chair: Carol Gould (Temple University)
Speakers: Michael Menser (Brooklyn College–City University of New York)
“Disarticulate the State! Bioregionalism, Transnational Anticapitalism, and the Maximization of Democracy”
David Graeber (Yale University)
“There Was Never a West: Democracy Emerges from Spaces in Between”
Thomas Ponniah (Harvard University)
“The World Social Forum: Building a Theory of Global Justice”
Commentator: Carol Gould (Temple University)
Friday Afternoon, December 28
Group Session IV – 2:45-5:45 p.m.
GIV-1. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: Counseling Issues: Bioethics, Narrative Ethics, and Philosophical Practice
Chair: Samuel Zinaich, Jr. (Purdue University–Calumet)
Speaker: Michael deWilde (Grand Valley State University)
“Art, Aristotle, and Ambiguity: A Case Study in Corporate Philosophy”
Commentator: Kate Mehuron (Eastern Michigan University)
Speaker: Tod Chambers (Northwestern University)
“The Case for Applied Philosophy”
Commentator: Sarah Heidt (Eastern Michigan University)
Speaker: Elliot Cohen (Indian River College)
“Relieving Your Can’tstipation: Some Potent Philosophical Enemas”
Commentator: Samuel Zinaich, Jr. (Purdue University–Calumet)
GIV-2. American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: Loyalty
2:45-4:10 p.m.
Chair: Sanford Levinson (University of Texas)
Speaker: Daniel Markovits (Yale University)
“Lawyerly Fidelity”
Commentators: TBA
4:20-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Jacob Levy (McGill Unversity)
Speaker: Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University)
“For the Sake of Comrades”
Commentators: TBA
GIV-3. Ayn Rand Society
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: The Foundations of Ethics: Objectivism and Analytic Philosophy
Chair: Allan Gotthelf (University of Pittsburgh)
Speaker: Irfan Khawaja (University of Notre Dame)
Commentator: Paul Bloomfield (University of Connecticut)
GIV-4. Concerned Philosophers for Peace
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: Culture, Propaganda and Peace
Chair: Eddy Souffrant (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
Speakers: Richard Peterson (Michigan State University)
“Symbolic Violence”
Rodney Roberts (East Carolina University)
“No Justice, No Peace: Moral Reasoning and The Black Experience in America”
Sheri Ross (University of Wisconsin–La Crosse)
“Propaganda for Peace: Some Ethical Considerations”
Eddy Souffrant (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
“Douglass and a Culture of Violence”
GIV-5. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Tony Preus (Binghamton University)
Speakers: Andrew Payne (St. Joseph’s University)
“Studying Mathematics for the Sake of the Good”
John Bowin (University of California–Santa Cruz)
“Aristotle on the Order and Direction of Time”
Beverly Hinton (West Virginia University)
“On Chance and Spontaneity in Aristotle”
GIV-6. William James Society
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: Presidential Address
Speaker: John Lachs (Vanderbilt University)
“Human Blindness”
Topic: Human Blindness
Speakers: James Pawelski (University of Pennsylvania)
Fred Ruf (Georgetown University)
Commentator: David Leary (University of Richmond)
(Business Meeting to follow.)
Friday Evening, December 28
Group Session V – 6:00-8:00 p.m.
GV-1. Association for the Philosophy of the Unconscious
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Feminism and Psychoanalysis
Chair: Wilfried Ver Eecke (Georgetown University)
Speaker: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat (Lewis University)
“Fanonian Psychoanalysis and Feminist Phenomenology; or, Feminist Psychoanalysis and Fanonian Phenomenology”
Commentator: Carolyn Cusick (Vanderbilt University)
Speaker: Debra Bergoffen (George Mason University)
“Re-Marking Women’s Vulnerable Bodies”
Commentator: Lynn Constantine (George Mason University)
GV-2. Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Rethinking Zhu Xi (1130-1200) – A Representative Neo-Confucian Philosopher
Chair: JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton)
Speaker: Al Martinich (University of Texas–Austin)
“Ideal Interpretation: The Theories of Zhu Xi and Ronald Dworkin”
Commentator: JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton)
Speaker: Justin Tiwald (San Francisco State University)
“A Euthyphro Problem in Neo-Confucian Welfare Theory”
Commentator: Suk Choi (Towson University)
Speaker: Vincent Shen (University of Toronto)
“Zhu Xi’s Explanation of Cosmic Process and Natural Phenomena”
Commentator: Chan Lee (University of Hawaii–Manoa)
(This session will continue past 8:00 p.m.)
GV-3. Charles S. Peirce Society
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Presidential Address
Chair: Jaime Nubiola (Universidad de Navarra–Spain)
Speaker: Lucia Santaella (Sao Paulo Catholic University–Brazil)
“Pervasive Semiosis”
Topic: Winner of the 2007 Essay Contest
Speaker: TBA
GV-4. Hume Society
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Humean Theory and Practice
Chair: Daniel Flage (James Madison University)
Speakers: Miriam McCormick (University of Richmond)
“Hume’s Skeptical Politics”
Andrew Lister (Queens University–Ontario)
“Varieties of Scepticism and Toleration”
GV-5. International Society for Environmental Ethics
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Chair: Emily Brady (University of Edinburgh–United Kingdom)
Speakers: Chris Stevens (University of Maryland)
“Aesthetic Preservationism: Environmental Preservation and Nature’s Aesthetic Value”
Avram Hiller (Wake Forest University)
“What Is Instrumental Value?”
Darren Domsky (Texas A&M University)
“The Impossible Situation of Environmental Ethics”
Phil Cafaro (Colorado State University)
“The Environmental Argument for Limiting Immigration into the United States”
GV-6. International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Chair: John Phillips (University of Tennessee–Chattanooga)
Speakers: Adam Labecki (University of Kentucky)
“The Role of Pythagorean Number in the Development of Neoplatonic Henology”
Dwayne Moore (Wilfrid Laurier University)
“A Platonic Argument for the Unity of the Knower and Thing Known?”
Marcin Podbielski (The King’s College–New York)
“Plato and Proclus: Mythical Construction, Allegorical Deconstruction”
GV-7. International Society for Universal Dialogue
6:00-8:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom
Topic: Globalization and Intercultural Dialogue: Islam and Modernity
Chair: Marc Lucht (Alvernia College)
Speakers: Shams Inati (Villanova University)
Title TBA
Jenny Tillmans (Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities–Bern, Switzerland)
“Engaging in Effective Dialogue Requires One to Question and Understand the Self, the Other and their Relationship”
Kevin Brien (Washington College)
“The Need for a Cross-Cultural Jihad of Ijtihad”
M. Ashraf Adeel (Kutztown University)
“Islamic Ethics, Science, and Technology: A Proposal for Modernization of Islamic Societies“
GV-8. North American Spinoza Society
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Chair: Paul Bagley (Loyola College–Maryland)
Speakers: Adam Arola (University of Oregon)
“The Attainment of Happiness: Spinoza and Farabi on Religion, Philosophy, and Happiness”
Charles Huenemann (Utah State University)
“Spinoza’s Theological Project”
Commentator: Jeffrey Bernstein (College of the Holy Cross)
GV-9. Philosophers in Jesuit Education
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Chair: Joseph Godfrey (St. Joseph’s University)
Speaker: Judith Green (Fordham University)
(Paper will be available at www.sju.edu/pje)
GV-10. Society for Business Ethics
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Corporations and the Law in Liberal Democracies
Speakers: David Silver (University of Delaware)
Edward Soule (Georgetown University)
Denis Arnold (University of Tennessee)
GV-11. Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Topic: Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality
Chair: Dennis Cooley (North Dakota State University)
Speakers: Ernesto Rosen Velasquez (University at Buffalo–State University of New York)
“Racial Change, Ethnic Change and Sexual Change”
Ronald Sundstrom (University of San Francisco)
“Interracial Intimacies: The Political Romance of the Browning of America”
Commentator: Linda Martín Alcoff (Syracuse University)
GV-12. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Chair: Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
Speaker: Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt University)
“Sexual Difference, Animal Difference: Derrida and Difference ‘worthy of its name’”
Commentator: Tina Chanter (DePaul University)
GV-13. Society for Women in Philosophy
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Title: Distinguished Woman Philosopher of 2007: Joan Callahan
Chair: Patricia Smith (City University of New York)
Speakers: Nancy Tuana (Pennsylvania State University)
Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)
Eric Smaw (Rollins College)
Anne Donchin (Indiana University)
Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
(This session will continue past 8:00 p.m. Reception to follow.)
Group Session VI – 8:15-11:15 p.m.
GVI-1. Association for Philosophy of Education
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Topic: Religion and Education
Chair: Victoria Costa (Florida State University)
Speakers: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
“Education for Mutual Respect in Multireligious Societies”
Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale University)
“Does the Religious Voice have a Place in Democratic Education?”
Walter Feinberg (University of Illinois–Chicago)
“An Inquiry into the Justification for Full-Time Religious Schools in the Liberal Democratic State”
Commentator: Paul Weithman (University of Notre Dame)
GVI-2. International Association for Environmental Philosophy
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Chair: James Hatley (Salisbury State University)
Speakers: Molly Sturdevant (DePaul University)
“Is Descartes a Better Ground for Ecological Consciousness Than Spinoza?”
Christian Diehm (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point)
“Minding Nature: Ecofeminism and the Problem of Moral Extensionism”
John Basl (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Restoration in the Age of Machines: Restoration, Restitution, and Nanotechnology”
Roger Gottlieb (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
“Democracy and Ecological Democracy”
GVI-3. International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Topic: Emotion and the Moral Life in Chinese Philosophy
Chair: Chad Hansen (University of Hong Kong)
Speakers: Liu Qingping (Beijing Normal University)
“On the Emotional Principle of Chinese Philosophy”
Jinfen Yan (University of Toronto)
“Against Ethical Objectivity: Consciousness in Chan Buddhist Moral Life’
Hagop Sarkissian (Duke University)
“Rituals, Intuitions and Social Magic: Emotions and Automaticity in the Analects”
Suk Choi (Towson University)
“Chu Hsi, Yi Hwang, and Cognitive Theory on Emotion”
Commentator: Justin Tiwald (San Francisco State University)
GVI-4. Karl Jaspers Society of North America
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychopathology
Chair: Alan Olson (Boston University)
Speakers: S. Nassir Ghaemi (Emory University)
“Jaspers’s Concept of Psychiatry”
Elena Bezubova (University of California–Irvine)
“A Critical Reading of the Epistemology and Methodology of DSM-IV-TR through the Prism of Jaspers’s Allgemeine Psychopathologie”
Leonard Ehrlich (University of Massachusetts)
“Jaspers’s Methodology of Verstehen: Its Basis for History, Psychology, Translation”
GVI-5. North American Kant Society
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Karl Ameriks, Kant and the Historical Turn
Chair: Robert Pippin (University of Chicago)
Critics: Frederick Beiser (University of Syracuse)
Fred Neuhouser (Barnard College–Columbia University)
Author: Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame)
GVI-6. Radical Philosophy Association
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Topic: The Political Thought of Anna Julia Cooper and Frederick Douglass
Chair: J. Everet Green (The New School/Mercy College)
Speakers: Neil Roberts (Johns Hopkins University)
“Douglass, Freedom, and the Flight from Slavery”
Kathryn Gines (Vanderbilt University)
“Anna Julia Cooper”
Anika Maaza Mann (Morgan State University)
“Anna Julia Cooper”
Ronald Sundstrom (University of San Francisco)
“Anna Julia Cooper and Frederick Douglass”
Bill Lawson (University of Memphis)
“Douglass among the Romantics”
GVI-7. Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Chair: Kas Saghafi (University of Memphis)
Speakers: Catherine Malabou (Université de Paris X-Nanterre)
“Freud et la neurologie contemporaine: le sens de l’accident”
Rodolphe Gasché (University at Buffalo–State University of New York)
“De-Closing the Horizon”
François Raffoul (Louisiana State University)
“Derrida and the Ethics of the Im-possible”
GVI-8. Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Topic: On Knowing
Chair: Gordon Wilson (University of North Carolina–Asheville)
Speakers: Jack Zupko (Emory University)
“Augustine, Certitude, and the Fourth Condition”
Julian Davies (Siena College)
“Ockham’s Critique of Scotus’ Proof for the Existence of God”
GVI-9. Society for Systematic Philosophy
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Richard Dien Winfield, The Just State: Rethinking Self-Government
Chair: Wendell Kisner (Athabasca University–Canada)
Critics: Kenneth Baynes (Syracuse University)
Robert Berman (Xavier University)
Wendell Kisner (Athabasca University–Canada)
Author: Richard Dien Winfield (University of Georgia)
GVI-10. Society for the History of Political Philosophy
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Topic: The Political Art in Plato
Chair: Jason Tipton (St. John’s College)
Speakers: Matthew Oberrieder (Mercer University)
“On Socrates’ Royal Tale in Plato’s Alcibiades I: Pride, Ambition, and Eros”
Evanthia Speliotis (Bellarmine University)
“A Scientific Knower of Matters of Action: Statesman 284c”
Nalin Ranasinghe (Assumption College)
“Socrates as Sole Practitioner of the True Political Art: Gorgias 521d”
Commentators: Charlotte Thomas (Mercer University)
Richard Velkley (Tulane University)
GVI-11. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Chair: Bassam Romaya (Temple University)
Speakers: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)
“Disaster Documentaries, Political Philosophy, and Politics”
Aaron Smuts (Temple University)
“The Ghost is the Thing”
Commentator: Sheila Lintott (Bucknell University)
GVI-12. Søren Kierkegaard Society
8:15-11:15 p.m.
Topic: Kierkegaard and World Religions
Chair: Stephen Evans (Baylor University)
Speakers: Steven Emmanuel (Virginia Wesleyan College)
“Kierkegaard and Buddhism”
Peter Mehl (University of Central Arkansas)
“Can Kierkegaard Speak to a Theologically Pluralistic World?”
Michael Tilley (University of Kentucky)
“Divided Against Oneself? Faith and Politics in Qutb and Kierkegaard”
Commentator: David Cain (University of Mary Washington)
Saturday Morning, December 29
Group Session VII – 9:00-11:00 a.m.
GVII-1. American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Loyalty
Chair: Nancy Rosenblum (Harvard University)
Speaker: Russell Muirhead (University of Texas–Austin)
“Partisan Loyalties”
Commentators: TBA
(Preceded in same room by ASPLP breakfast, 8:00-9:00 a.m.)
GVII-2. Karl Jaspers Society of North America
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Raymond Langley (Manhattanville College)
Speakers: Lida Voronina (United States Department of State)
“Suicide Bombing: Ideology and/or Psychopathology?”
Rebecca Hardcastle (Independent Scholar)
“Exoconsciousness and Psychopathology”
GVII-3. Personalist Discussion Group and Society of Philosophers in America
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: John McDermott’s The Drama of Possibility and Experience as Philosophy: On the Work of John J. McDermott, edited by James Campbell and Richard Hart
Chair: Douglas Anderson (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
Speakers: Peter Hare (University at Buffalo–State University of New York)
Megan Mustain (St. Mary’s University–San Antonio)
John McDermott (Texas A&M University)
GVII-4. Society for the Philosophy of Creativity
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Pragmatism, Creative Democracy, and Race
Chair: Dwayne Tunstall (Grand Valley State University)
Speakers: Melvin Rogers (University of Virginia)
“Pragmatism Behind the Veil: John Dewey and Alain Locke”
Jennifer McErlean (Siena College)
“You’re Out of the Ivory Tower Now: A Philosopher Joins the NAACP”
GVII-5. Society for the Philosophy of Human Life Issues
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: War Poses an Obligation on Philosophers to Become Critically Engaged in a Public Fashion: A Disputed Question for Audience Debate
Chair: Joseph Koterski (Fordham University)
Speaker: Jennifer Cohen (Norwalk Community College)
Commentator: Peter Simpson (College of Staten Island and Graduate Center–City University of New York)
Group Session VIII – 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
GVIII-1. International Association for the Philosophy of Sport
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy of Sport
Chair: Heather Reid (Morningside College)
Speakers: Stephen Schmid (University of Wisconsin–Rock County)
“Justifying Play”
Joan Grassbaugh (Temple University)
“Liberal Feminism and the New Amazon: Sport, Gender Equity, and Genetic Technology”
Daniel Dombrowski (Seattle University)
“The Absurdity of Athletics v. the Absurdity of Life”
Richard Dean (American University of Beirut–Lebanon)
“Going Out on Top”
GVIII-2. International Berkeley Society
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Stephen H. Daniel (Texas A&M University)
Speaker: Samuel Rickless (University of California–San Diego)
“The Relation between Anti-Abstractionism and Idealism in Berkeley’s Metaphysics”
Commentator: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)
Speaker: Suk-jae Lee (Ohio State University)
“Berkeley on the Activity of Spirits”
Commentator: Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard University)
GVIII-3. International Society for Buddhist Philosophy
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Space and Body in Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrines of the Tathagatagarbha and the Trikaya
Chair: James Shields (Bucknell University)
Speakers: Usha Khosla (University of Toronto)
“Comparing the Models of the Tathagatagarbha and the Three Body Doctrine, the Brahmanic and Jaina Traditions”
Soonil Hwang (Dongguk University–South Korea)
“The State of Tathagata after Death within the Theravada Exegetical Tradition”
Henry Shiu (University of Toronto)
“The Relationship between the Tathagatagarbha and the Three Kayas”
Albert Welter (University of Winnipeg)
“Chan as Mahayana or Chan vs. Mahayana?: Chan Perspectives on Mahayana Trikaya (Three Bodies of the Buddha) Doctrine”
GVIII-4. Molinari Society
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Anarchy: It’s Not Just a Good Idea, It’s the Law
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Chair: Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Speaker: Charles Johnson (Molinari Institute)
“A Place for Positive Law: A Contribution to Anarchist Legal Theory”
Commentator: John Hasnas (Georgetown University)
12:15-1:15 p.m.
Chair: TBA
Speaker: Roderick Long (Auburn University)
“Inside and Outside Spooner’s Natural Law Jurisprudence”
Commentator: Geoffrey Plauché (Louisiana State University)
GVIII-5. North American Society for Social Philosophy
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Theorizing Difficult Conversations: Epistemic Authority, Power, and Difference
Chair: Barry DeCoster (Vassar College)
Speakers: Crista Lebens (University of Wisconsin–Whitewater)
“Rationality and the Whiteliness of Philosophy”
Barry DeCoster (Vassar College)
“Explanations of Disease: Improving Knowledge and Placing Blame”
Meredith Verrochi (University of Michigan)
“Theorizing Hate Speech: Cooperation and Resistance”
GVIII-6. Philosophy of Time Society
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Chair: David P. Taylor (University of Iowa)
Speaker: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)
“Kant and the Conventionality of Simultaneity”
Commentator: Ernani Magalhaes (West Virginia University)
Speaker: Yuri Balashov (University of Georgia)
“Against Alexandrov Present and Alexandrov Coexistence”
Commentator: Brian Pitts (University of Notre Dame)
(Papers will be available at www.philtimesociety.net)
GVIII-7. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Education in a Democracy through Socrates and Plato
Chair: Edward Grippe (Norwalk Community College)
Speakers: Paul Eckstein (Bergen Community College)
“The Socratic Challenge to Democracy”
Mehul Shah (Independent Scholar)
“Teaching To Learn: An Interpretation of Socratic Midwifery”
Edward Grippe (Norwalk Community College)
“Teaching Plato’s Forms: A Thought Experiment”
GVIII-8. Society for Skeptical Studies
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Blake Roeber (Northern Illinois University)
Speakers: Steven Reynolds (Arizona State University)
“Good Skeptical Hypotheses”
Stephen Maitzen (Acadia University)
“Skeptical Theism and Moral Obligations”
James Henderson (University of Pittsburgh–Titusville)
“Does It Pay to Speak with Non-Skeptics?”
GVIII-9. Society for the Study of Process Philosophies
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Brian Henning (Mount St. Mary’s University)
Speakers: Thomas Kelly (National University of Ireland–Maynooth)
“Real Presences: The Dialogic Nature of Process”
Derek Malone-France (George Washington University)
“Between Molina and Hartshorne: A Whiteheadian Construal of Divine Foreknowledge”
Commentator: George Shields (Kentucky State University)
GVIII-10. Society of Christian Philosophers
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation
Chair: John Zeis (Canisius College)
Speaker: William Abraham (Southern Methodist University)
Commentators: Thomas Sullivan (University of St. Thomas)
Andrei Buckareff (Marist College)
Saturday Afternoon, December 29
Group Session IX – 2:45-5:45 p.m.
GIX-1. American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: Two New Books on Justification and the State
Chair: Douglas Rasmussen (St. John’s University)
1: Daniel Shapiro, Is The Welfare State Justified?
Critics: Jerry Gaus (University of Arizona)
James Sterba (University of Notre Dame)
Author: Daniel Shapiro (West Virginia University)
2: Aeon Skoble, Deleting the State
Critics: Stephen Kershnar (State University of New York–Fredonia)
Aaron Garrett (Boston University)
Author: Aeon Skoble (Bridgewater State College)
GIX-2. Hegel Society of America
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: H. S. Harris and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Chair: Philip Grier (Dickinson College)
Speakers: Michael Baur (Fordham University)
“Mounting Hegel’s Ladder: Directions from Fichte, Schelling, and Harris”
George Di Giovanni (McGill University)
“Emil Fackenheim’s and Henry Harris’s Readings of Hegel’s Phenomenology: A Jewish and Post-Christian Appropriation”
John Russon (University of Guelph–Canada)
“Harris, Hegel, and the Vocation of the Scholar”
GIX-3. International Institute for Field-Being
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University)
Speakers: Joan Stambaugh (Hunter College–City University of New York)
“Dogen on Being-Time”
Miran Bozovic (Ljubljana University–Slovenia)
“Diderot’s Philosophy of Nature”
Jinmei Yuan (Creighton University)
“Differences in the Structure of Thinking: A Comparison of Chinese Logical Statements to Western Logical Propositions”
Russell Pryba (University at Buffalo–State University of New York)
“Leibniz’s Interpretation of Li in Chu Hsi’s Neo-Confucianism”
GIX-4. North American Spinoza Society
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Paul Bagley (Loyola College–Maryland)
Speakers: Melissa Shew (University of Oregon)
“Chance, Fortune, and Human Error in Spinoza and Lucretius”
Timothy Bagwell (Independent Scholar)
“Spinoza and the Second Amendment: Spinoza’s Militia and the Right to Bear Arms”
Gideon Segal (Holon Institute of Technology–Israel)
“The Plight and Prospects of a Rational Citizen”
GIX-5. Society for Arab, Persian, and Islamic Philosophy
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: Contemporary Arab Cultural Critique: Debating Islamicization as a Form of Re-Ethnicization of the Mind
Chair: Raja Halwani (Art Institute of Chicago)
Speakers: Elizabeth Kassab (Yale University)
“Contemporary Arab Critiques of Islamicization as a Form of Re-Ethnicization”
Mohammed Kamal Abed (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Islamicization Reconsidered: A Comment on Professor Kassab”
Ofelia Schutte (University of South Florida)
Title TBA
Other speakers TBA
Saturday Evening, December 29
Group Session X – 8:00-11:00 p.m.
GX-1. American Association of Philosophy Teachers
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Topic: How (not) To Teach Transgressive Topics
Chair: Donna Engelmann (Alverno College)
Speakers: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Teaching Radicalesbian Feminism”
Harry Brod (University of Northern Iowa)
“Educational Affirmative Action: The Need to Teach against Dominant Frameworks”
Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)
“Teaching ‘Philosophy of Disaster and Emergency Response’”
David Concepción (Ball State University)
“Working with Anger and Guilt”
GX-2. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Topic: Psychopathology: Critiques from Philosophical Practitioners
Chair: Elliot Cohen (Indian River College)
Speaker: Kevin Aho (Florida Gulf Coast University)
“Rethinking the Psychopathology of Depression: What Can Philosophical Counseling Offer?”
Commentator: James Taylor (The College of New Jersey)
Speaker: Kate Mehuron (Eastern Michigan University)
“Encountering the Diagnosis in Philosophical Counseling Sessions”
Commentator: Samuel Zinaich, Jr. (Purdue University–Calumet)
(Business Meeting to follow.)
GX-3. George Santayana Society
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Chair: Angus Kerr-Lawson (University of Waterloo–Canada)
Speakers: Glenn Tiller (Texas A&M University)
“Counting Categories with Peirce and Santayana”
Paul Forster (University of Ottowa)
“What Grounds the Categories: Peirce and Santayana”
Michael Brodrick (Vanderbilt University)
“Animal Struggle, Intellectual Salvation”
GX-4. International Society for Chinese Philosophy
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Topic: Antonio Cua and Confucian Ethical Studies
Chair: Vincent Shen (University of Toronto)
Speakers: Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa)
“Xunzi’s Position in Classical Confucian Philosophy: Starting with Professor Antonio Cua”
Vincent Shen (University of Toronto)
“Antonio Cua’s Conceptual Analysis of Xunzi’s Moral Philosophy”
Paul Goldin (University of Pennsylvania)
“Appeals to History on Early Chinese Philosophy and Rhetoric”
Tan Mingran (University of Toronto)
“A Re-evaluation of Xunzi’s Moral Theory from the Aspect of Mind”
GX-5. International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Chair: John Phillips (University of Tennessee–Chattanooga)
Speakers: Anna Zhyrkova (Tel Aviv University–Israel)
“The Academic Roots of Plotinus’ Treatment of the Aristotelian Categories”
Gina Zavota (Kent State University)
“On Porphyry’s Reading of Aristotle’s Categories”
Michael Wagner (University of San Diego)
“Plotinus’ Reformation of Eros: Human and Divine Implications”
Edward Moore (St. Elias School of Orthodox Theology)
“Christ as Demiurge: The Platonic Sources of Origen’s Logos Theology in the Commentary on John”
GX-6. Leibniz Society of North America
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)
Speaker: Mark Kulstand (Rice University)
“Leibniz on the Relationship of God and the World”
GX-7. North American Nietzsche Society
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Robert Pippin, Nietzsche, moraliste français: La conception nietzschéenne d’une psychologie philosophique
Chair: Nadeem Hussain (Stanford University)
Critics: Christa Davis Acampora (Hunter College and Graduate Center–City University of New York)
Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)
James Conant (University of Chicago)
Author: Robert Pippin (University of Chicago)
GX-8. Sartre Circle
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Steve Martinot, Forms in the Abyss: A Philosphical Bridge between Sartre and Derrida
Chair: Martin Beck Matustik (Purdue University)
Critics: Cynthia Willett (Emory University)
Peter Graton (University of San Diego)
Author: Steve Martinot (San Francisco State University)
GX-9. Society for Arab, Persian, and Islamic Philosophy
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Topic: Philosophical Perspectives on Political Oppression in the Developing World: Responsibility for Justice, Proposals for Redress
Chair: Mohammed Kamal Abed (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Speakers: Shahin Izadi (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“A Model of Non-Violent Resistance to Oppression: The Case of Baha’is in Iran”
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
“Empowering Women: Education, Political Voice, Economic Agency”
Michael Walzer (Institute for Advanced Study–Princeton)
Title TBA
Other speakers TBA
GX-10. Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Topic: God and Absolute: East and West
Chair: Gordon Haist (University of South Carolina–Beaufort)
Speakers: Gordon Haist (University of South Carolina–Beaufort)
“Affect, Autoaffection and the Word of God”
Kisor Chakrabarti (Duke University)
“The Cosmo-Teleological Proof of the Existence of God”
Jeffrey Fisher (Bethany College)
“Absolute Contingency”
Keya Maitra (University of North Carolina–Asheville)
“The Role of Non-Conceptual Content in a Perception of God”
R. S. Dalvi (Brock University)
“On Bhakti and Brahman: Madhusudana Saraswati’s Monistic Soteriology”
Chandana Chakrabarti (Elon University)
“Is God an Illusion? Freud, Bradley and Buddha”
David Buchta (University of Pennsylvania)
“Internal Dynamics of Divinity: Baladeva Vidyabhunaea’s Vicena Theory and the Christian Trinity”
GX-11. Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Topic: Ethics
Chair: Charles Bolyard (James Madison University)
Speakers: Ronna Burger (Tulane University)
“Maimonides’ Ethics”
Thomas Osborne, Jr. (University of St. Thomas)
“Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus on Human Acts and the Ultimate End”
GX-12. Society for Social and Political Philosophy
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Topic: Feminist Political Philosophy
Chair: Annika Thiem (Villanova University)
Speakers: Marianne Janack (Hamilton College)
“The Evidence of Experience and the Problem of Subjectivity”
Chloé Taylor (McGill University)
“Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes”
Colin Koopman (University of California–Santa Cruz)
“Public and Private in Feminism and Pragmatism”
Jennifer Scurro (College of New Rochelle)
“Thinking of Bhopal: Women’s Bodies as Waste-Sites”
Sunday Morning, December 30
Group Session XI – 9:00-11:00 a.m.
GXI-1. Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Author Meets Critics: Paul Thagard, Hot Thought
Chair: Daniel Boone (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Critics: Carole Lee (Mt. Holyoke College)
Christopher Viger (University of Western Ontario)
Author: Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo–Canada)
GXI-2. Conference on Philosophical Societies
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Dewey on Values
Chair: Andrew Payne (St. Joseph’s University)
Speakers: Haiming Wei (Renmin University–China)
“Culture and John Dewey’s Value of Education”
Kenneth Stikker (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
“The Primacy of Value in Max Scheler and American Pragmatism”
GXI-3. Radical Philosophy Association
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Leaps of Faith: Mania Meets Modernity
Chair: Martin Beck Matustik (Purdue University)
Speakers: Michael Paradiso-Michau (Purdue University)
“Ethical Love as Revolutionary in the Present Age”
Stephen Gallagher (Independent Scholar)
“The Suicide Bomber and the Leap of Faith”
Gail Presbey (University of Detroit–Mercy)
“Governments That Instill Fear and the Civil Resisters Who Resist Fear”
(This session will continue past 11:00 a.m.)
GXI-4. Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Imagination and Intellect in Avicenna and Averroes
Chair: Thérèse-Anne Druart (Catholic University of America)
Speaker: Deborah Black (University of Toronto)
“Rational Imagination: Avicenna on the Cognitive Power”
Commentator: Jon McGinnis (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
Speaker: Richard Taylor (Marquette University)
“Participation in Averroes’ Noetics: The Role of Themistius”
Commentator: Alfred Ivry (New York University)
(This session will continue past 11:00 a.m.)
GXI-5. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Ontological Issues in Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Chair: May Sim (College of the Holy Cross)
Speakers: Jeffrey Richey (Berea College)
“Materiality and Mind in Epicurean and Taoist Thought”
May Sim (College of the Holy Cross)
“Being qua Being and Unity in Aristotle, Liezi, and Zhuxi”
Linda Patrik (Union College)
“Loosening the Coarse Body, Speaking Out the Subtle Body”
Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa)
“Nature and Experience in the Yijing”
(This session will continue past 11:00 a.m.)
GXI-6. Society of Humanist Philosophers
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Author Meets Critics: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
Critics: Philip Hamburger (Columbia University)
Connie Rosati (University of Arizona)
Author: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (University at Buffalo–State University of New York)
Sunday Afternoon, December 30
Group Session XII – 1:30-4:30 p.m.
GXII-1. Karl Jaspers Society of North America
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy, Psychology and Psychopathology
Chair: Andrew Gluck (Independent Scholar)
Speakers: Alina Feld (Willamette University)
“Jaspers on Melancholia”
Mario Wenning (The New School)
“Jaspers and Bloch: Similar Answers to Different Questions?”
(Business Meeting to follow.)
GXII-2. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Topic: Existential and Epistemological Issues in Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Chair: Sumner Twiss (Florida State University)
Speakers: Kimiyo Murata-Soraci (Belmont University)
“Heidegger, Dogen and Ippen on Logos”
James Behuniak (Colby College)
“Thinking Parts and Wholes: Plato and Chinese Buddhism”
Sumner Twiss (Florida State University)
“P.C. Chang, John Dewey, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”
Charles Wesley DeMarco (Clark University)
“Righting the Names of Change”
GXII-3. Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Topic: Development and the Critique of Capitalism
Chair: Matthew Whitt (Vanderbilt University)
Speakers: Scott Zeman (Vanderbilt University)
“Marx, Fetishism, and Development”
Kathleen Eamon (Evergreen State College)
“Work in the Aftermath of the Real Subsumption of Production by Capital”
Forrest Perry (Vanderbilt University)
“Marxist-Deweyan Growth”