The American Philosophical Association

Eastern Division
One Hundred Fourth Annual Meeting Program

December 27-30, 2007
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront and Other Hotels, Baltimore, MD

(Note: C=Marriott Courtyard; P5=Pier V Hotel; R=Renaissance Harborplace. All meeting rooms not prefaced by one of these designations are in the Marriott Waterfront.)

Thursday Afternoon, December 27

Executive Committee Meeting
1:00-6:00 p.m.

Registration
3:00-10:00 p.m.

Placement Information
Interviewers: 2:00-10:00 p.m.
Candidates: 3:00-10:00 p.m.
Interview Tables

Thursday Evening, December 27

Session I – 6:30-9:30 p.m.

I-A. Symposium: Anscombe’s Intention 50 Years Later
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Chair: Anton Ford (University of Pittsburgh)
Speakers: Michael Thompson (University of Pittsburgh)
Doug Lavin (Harvard University)
Joshua Knobe (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)

I-B. Symposium: Ethics and Aesthetics
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Chair: Peter Railton (University of Michigan)
Speakers: Nadeem Hussain (Stanford University)
Jonathan Gilmore (Yale University)
Commentator: Karen Hanson (University of Indiana)

I-C. Symposium: Hermeneutics and Scientific Theory Choice
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Chair: Joseph Rouse (Wesleyan University)
Speakers: Joseph Margolis (Temple University)
Harold Brown (Northern Illinois University)
Commentator: Dimitri Ginev (Ohdriski University of Sofia–Bulgaria)

I-D. Informational Session: Philosophy of Physics
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Chair: Tim Maudlin (Rutgers University)
Speakers: Sheldon Goldstein (Rutgers University)
Lee Smolin (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Giancarlo Ghirardi (International Center for Theoretical Physics–Trieste, Italy)

I-E. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Topic: Prize Winning Essay on Latin American Philosophy
Chair: Susana Nuccetelli (St. Cloud State University)
Speaker: Roberto D. Toledo (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
Title: “The Authenticity of Indigenous Rebellion in Mexico: Luis Villoro’s Critique of Leopoldo Zea’s Nationalism”
Commentator: Greg Gilson (University of Texas–Pan American)
(This session will end at 7:30 p.m. Reception to follow in Recognition of Recent Contributions to Latin American Philosophy.)

I-F. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law and the APA Committee on the Status of Women
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Topic: Women and Terrorism
Chair: Virginia Held (City University of New York–Graduate Center)
Speakers: Bat-Ami Bar On (Binghamton University–State University of New York)
“Martyrdom, Relationality and Accountability”
Marilyn Friedman (Washington University in St. Louis/Charles Sturt and The Australian National Universities)
“Justifying Terrorism: Does Gender Matter?”
Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt University)
“Women as Weapons of War”

Group Meetings, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
Academy for Jewish Philosophy
Conference on Philosophical Societies
International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy
North American Society for Social Philosophy
Society for Machines and Mentality

Friday Morning, December 28

Registration
8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

Placement Information
Interviewers: 9:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Candidates: 9:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Interview Tables

Book Exhibits
10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Session II – 9:00-11:00 a.m.

II-A. Invited Paper: Gunk
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Yuri Balashov (University of Georgia)
Speaker: Frank Arntzenius (University of Oxford)
Commentator: Brad Skow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

II-B. Invited Papers: Eastern and Western Conceptions of the Self
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Raymond Martin (Union College)
Speakers: Roy Perrett (University of Hawaii)
Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois–Chicago)

II-C. Invited Papers: Contemporary French Thought
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Hugh Silverman (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
Speakers: Frédéric Worms (Université de Lille III–France)
Catherine Malabou (Université de Paris X–Nanterre)

II-D. Invited Paper: Stoic Physics
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Tad Brennan (Cornell University)
Speaker: Katja Vogt (Columbia University)
Commentator: John Cooper (Princeton University)

II-E. Author Meets Critic: William J. Talbott, Which Rights Should Be Universal?
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: David Crocker (University of Maryland)
Critic: Christopher Knapp (Binghamton University–State University of New York)
Author: William J. Talbott (University of Washington)

II-F. Symposium: Hobbes and the Really Big Stick
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
Speaker: Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta)
Commentator: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University)

II-G. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Blacks and Philosophy
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Beyond Alain Locke: The Problem of Interpretation in the History of African-American Philosophy
Chair: Patrick Goodin (Howard University)
Speakers: Stephen Ferguson (North Carolina A&T State University)
“The Legacy of Dr. Wayman McLaughlin: An Inquiry into the History of African-American Philosophy”
John McClendon (Bates College)
“Forest Wiggins: The Missing Chapter in McCumber on McCarthyism”
George Yancy (Duquesne University)
“Anna Julia Cooper as African-American Philosopher”

Group Meetings, 9:00-11:00 a.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
American Society for Aesthetics
American Society for Value Inquiry
International Society for Buddhist Philosophy
International Society for Environmental Ethics
International St. Thomas Society
Society for Skeptical Studies
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Society for the Study of Women Philosophers

Session III –11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

III-A. Invited Paper: Fiction and Emotion
11:15 a.m-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Elisabeth Camp (University of Pennsylvania)
Speakers: Tyler Doggett (University of Vermont) and Andy Egan (University of Michigan) (co-authored paper)
Commentator: Tim Schroeder (Ohio State University)

III-B. Invited Papers: Rousseau
11:15 a.m-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Alan Udoff (St. Francis College)
Speakers: Hilail Gildin (City University of New York–Queens College)
Charles Butterworth (University of Maryland)

III-C. Invited Papers: Gadamer and Davidson on Incommensurability
11:15 a.m-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University)
Speakers: David Vessey (University of Chicago)
Barbara Fultner (Denison University)

III-D. Invited Papers: Logic for Philosophy
11:15 a.m-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Robert Rynasiewicz (Johns Hopkins University)
Speakers: Harvey Friedman (Ohio State University)
Peter Koellner (Harvard University)

III-E. Author Meets Critics: Dorit Bar-On, Speaking My Mind
11:15 a.m-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Nico Silins (Cornell University)
Critics: Matthew Boyle (Harvard University)
David Rosenthal (City University of New York–Graduate Center)
Author: Dorit Bar-On (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)

III-F. Symposium: The Mistake in “I’ll be glad I did it” Reasoning
11:15 a.m-1:15 p.m.
Chair: David Wasserman (Yeshiva University)
Speaker: Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University)
Commentator: Jackie Scully (Newcastle University–United Kingdom)

III-G. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Topic: The Ethics of Emerging Technologies
Chair: Michael Kelly (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
Speakers: Harriet Baber (University of San Diego)
“Access to Information in Teaching and Research”
Marvin Croy (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
“Ethical Considerations in the Development of Intelligent Tutoring Systems”
Andrew Light (University of Washington)
“Information Technology and Sustainability“

Group Meetings, 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
American Society for Value Inquiry
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society and Bertrand Russell Society
International Society for Chinese Philosophy
Josiah Royce Society
Personalist Discussion Group
Sartre Circle
Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs

Friday Afternoon, December 28

Carus Lecture I
1:30 p.m., Harborside Ballroom
Topic: Appearance, Reality, and [the] I
Introduction: Stephen Leeds (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Speaker: Bastiaan Van Fraassen (Princeton University)
Title: “On Neurath’s Ship: Naturalism (?)”

Session IV – 2:45-5:45 p.m.

IV-A. Symposium: History of Philosophy with Attention to Difference
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Alice Sowaal (San Francisco State University)
Speakers: Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis)
Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern University)
Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
Eileen O’Neill (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)

IV-B. Symposium: Kabbalism in Early Modern Philosophy
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Tammy Nyden-Bullock (Grinnell College)
Speakers: Yitzhak Melamed (University of Chicago)
Allison Coudert (University of California–Davis)
Commentator: Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

IV-C. Symposium: Philosophy and Linguistics
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: James Higginbotham (University of Southern California)
Speakers: Peter Ludlow (University of Michigan)
Paul Pietrowski (University of Maryland)
Barry Schein (University of Southern California)

IV-D. Symposium: Iris Marion Young
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Jane Mansbridge (Harvard University)
Speakers: Jacob T. Levy (McGill University)
Ann Ferguson (University of Massachusetts)
Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University)

IV-E. Colloquium: Continental Philosophy – Theoretical and Practical Questions
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: David Pettigrew (Southern Connecticut University)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Speaker: Zachary Davis (St. John’s University)
“A Phenomenology of Political Apathy: Scheler and Arendt on Mass Violence”
Commentator: Michael R. Kelly (Boston College)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Speaker: Chad Engelland (John Carroll University)
“How Must We Be to Know What Is? Demystifying Heidegger’s Preliminary Question”
Commentator: Brad Elliot Stone (Loyola Marymount University)
4:45-5:45 p.m.
Speaker: B. Scot Rousse (Northwestern University)
“Heidegger and Frankfurt on the Circularity of the Practical Question”
Commentator: John Rose (Goucher College)

IV-F. Colloquium: Philosophy of Religion
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Rose Ann Christian (Towson University)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Speaker: Melissa Bergeron (US Military Academy–West Point)
“Cliffordian Knights of the Razor and the Jamesian Spiritual Sphere: Evidence and an Unseen Realm”
Commentator: Charles Hobbs (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Speaker: Adam Green (Saint Louis University)
“Reading the Mind of God (Without Hebrew Lessons): Alston, Shared Attention, and Mystical Experience”
Commentator: Josh Bright (University of California–Riverside)
4:45-5:45 p.m.
Speakers: David Taylor (Franklin and Marshall College) and Michael Murray (Franklin and Marshall College)
(co-authored paper)
“Inscrutable Goods and the Argument from Hiddenness”
Commentator: Cherie McGill (Johns Hopkins University)

IV-G. Colloquium: Metaphysics
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Lynne Baker (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Speaker: Daniel Korman (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“Unrestricted Composition and Restricted Quantification”
Commentator: Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Speaker: Charles Hermes (University of Texas–Arlington)
“Defending Lewis’s Compatibilism”
Commentator: Peter A. Graham (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
4:45-5:45 p.m.
Speaker: Raul Saucedo (Cornell University)
“Parthood and Location”
Commentator: Thomas Sattig (Washington University in St. Louis)

IV-H. Colloquium: Truth and Belief
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Guy Rohrbaugh (Auburn University)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Speaker: Chase Wrenn (University of Alabama)
“Practical Success and the Nature of Truth”
Commentator: Ted Parent (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Speaker: Steven Reynolds (Arizona State University)
“Against the Goal of True Beliefs”
Commentator: Sarah Scott (Auburn University)
4:45-5:45 p.m.
Speakers: Julien Murzi (University of Sheffield–United Kingdom) and Salvatore Florio (Ohio State University)
(co-authored paper)
“The Paradox of Idealization”
Commentator: Joe Salerno (Saint Louis University)

IV-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Blacks and Philosophy
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: A Retrospective on Bernard Boxill’s Blacks and Social Justice
Chair: Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
Critics: Charles Mills (Northwestern University)
Tommie Shelby (Harvard University)
Laurence Thomas (Syracuse University)
Author: Bernard Boxill (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)

IV-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy in India: Philosophy of Contemporary Science
Chair: Mark Siderits (Illinois State University)
Speaker: Sundar Sarukkai (National Institute of Advanced Studies–Bangalore, India)
“Metaphysics of Symmetry”
Commentators: Zachary Ernst (University of Missouri)
Nick Huggett (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Prajit Basu (University of Hyderabad–India)
“The Logic of Chemical Synthesis: Reason and Imagination”
Commentators: Stephen Weininger (Worcester Polytechnic Institute/Massachussetts Institute of Technology)
Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania)

IV-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: Are Psychopaths Responsible?
Chair: Gary Watson (University of California–Riverside)
Speakers: James Blair (National Institutes of Health)
Steven Morse (University of Pennsylvania)
Walter Glannon (University of Calgary)
Heidi Maibom (Carleton University)

IV-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: Grounds for Ethical Norms in Chinese Thought
Chair: TBA
Speakers: Chad Hansen (University of Hong Kong)
“The Foundations of the Path of Virtue”
Manyul Im (Fairfield University)
“Particularism, Intuitionism and Mencius”
May Sim (College of the Holy Cross)
“Knowledge of the First Principles of Virtue in Zhuxi and Aristotle”
Commentator: Yang Xiao (Kenyon College)

Group Meetings, 2:45-5:45 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
Ayn Rand Society
Concerned Philosophers for Peace
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
William James Society

Carus Reception
4:30-6:00 p.m.
In honor of Bastiaan van Fraassen.

Friday Evening, December 28

APA Prize Reception (open to all: wine/cheese served)
5:45-6:45 p.m.
This reception is sponsored by Polity.

APA National Prizes

APA/PDC Prize 2006
Winner: The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, Illinois Institute of Technology
Book Prize
Winner: Jason Stanley (Rutgers University)
Title: Knowledge and Practical Interests

Honorable Mention: Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee (University of Colorado)
Title: Epistemology after Protagoras

Honorable Mention: Alva Noe (University of California–Berkeley)
Title: Action in Perception

Latin American Thought
Winner: Roberto D. Toledo (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
Title: “The Authenticity of Indigenous Rebellion in Mexico: Luis Villoro’s Critique of Leopoldo Zea’s Nationalism” (I-E)

Sharp Prize
Winner: Jefferson McMahan (Rutgers University)
Title: “The Morality and Law of War”

Eastern Division Prizes and Stipends
William James Prize
Winner: Melissa Bergeron (US Miliary Academy–West Point)
Title: “Cliffordian Knights of the Razor and the Jamesian Spiritual Sphere: Evidence and an Unseen Realm” (IV-F)

Graduate Student Travel Stipends
Winner: Marcus Arvan (University of Arizona)
Title: “Does a Cosmopolitan Interpretation of Rawls’ Conception of Fairness Imply Different Methods, and Requirements of Justice, than Commonly Thought?” (VII-F)

Winner: Danielle Bromwich (University of Toronto)
Title: “A Dilemma for Korsgaard: The Internalism Requirement or the Universal Normativity of Moral Reasons?” (VI-E)

Winner: Keith Bustos (University of Tennessee)
Title: “Corporate Environmental Responsibility: A Kantian Approach” (V-I)

Winner: Albert Chan (University of Southern California)
Title: “The Emergent Component of Trust in ‘Believing Someone’” (VII-G)

Winner: Chad Kautzer (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
Title: “Locke’s Protestant State of Nature: Colonialism and the Problem of Jurisdiction” (VI-F)

Winner: Oran Moked (Columbia University)
Title: “Luck Egalitarianism, Responsibility, and Respect” (V-I)

Winners: Julien Murzi (University of Sheffield–United Kingdom) and Salvatore Florio (Ohio State University)
Title: “The Paradox of Idealization” (IV-H)

Winner: Julie Ponesse (University of Western Ontario)
Title: “Aristotle on Luck and Chance” (VI-D)

Winner: Josh Rasmussen (University of Notre Dame)
Title: “Mind-Body Supervenience’s Cardinal Sin” (VI-G)

Winner: B. Scot Rousse (Northwestern University)
Title: “Heidegger and Frankfurt on the Circularity of the Practical Question” (IV-E)

Winner: Raul Saucedo (Cornell University)
Title: “Parthood and Location” (IV-G)

Winner: Benjamin Tremoulet (Université de Paris IV)
Title: “The ‘Power of Judgment’ as Blind Spot: Did Heidegger and Arendt Follow Kant’s Own Blindness?” (VIII-D)

Winner: Jason Wyckoff (University of Colorado–Boulder)
Title: “Race, Reference and Reality” (VI-F)

Group Meetings, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
Association for the Philosophy of the Unconscious
Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
Charles S. Peirce Society
Hume Society
International Society for Environmental Ethics
International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
International Society for Universal Dialogue, Grand Ballroom
North American Spinoza Society
Philosophers in Jesuit Education
Society for Business Ethics
Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Society for Women in Philosophy

Group Meetings, 8:15-11:15 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
Association for Philosophy of Education
International Assocation for Environmental Philosophy
International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy
Karl Jaspers Society of North America
North American Kant Society
Radical Philosophy Association
Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Society for Systematic Philosophy
Society for the History of Political Philosophy
Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
Søren Kierkegaard Society

Reception
8:00 p.m.-Midnight

Saturday Morning, December 29

Registration
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Placement Information
Interviewers: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Candidates: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Interview Tables

Book Exhibits
10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Session V – 9:00-11:00 a.m.

V-A. Invited Paper: Non-Cognitivism
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Sharon Street (New York University)
Speaker: Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)
Commentator: Jacob Ross (University of Southern California)

V-B. Invited Papers: Foucault’s Courses at the Collège de France
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
Speakers: Frédéric Gros (Université de Paris XII)
James Bernauer (Boston College)
Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)

V-C. Invited Paper: The Epistemology of Testimony
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Adam Leite (Indiana University)
Speaker: Jennifer Lackey (Northern Illinois University)
Commentator: Peter Graham (University of California–Riverside)

V-D. Author Meets Critics: G.R.F. Ferrari, City and Soul in Plato’s Republic
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University)
Critics: Mitchell Miller (Vassar College)
Daniel Devereux (University of Virginia)
Author: John Ferrari (University of California–Berkeley)

V-E. Author Meets Critics: Michelle Kosch, Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling and Kierkegaard
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Fred Neuhouser (Barnard College–Columbia University)
Critics: Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame)
Eckart Förster (Johns Hopkins University)
Author: Michelle Kosch (Cornell University)

V-F. Symposium: The Origins of Concepts
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Carl Gillett (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Speaker: Dan Weiskopf (University of South Florida)
Commentator: Sara Rachel Chant (University of Missouri)

V-G. Colloquium: Philosophy of Mathematics
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Roy Cook (Villanova University)
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Christopher Pincock (Purdue University)
“The Possession Conditions of Arithmetical Concepts”
Commentator: Josh Schechter (Brown University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Russell Marcus (Hamilton College)
“Intrinsic Explanation and Field’s Dispensabilist Strategy”
Commentator: Sorin Bangu (University of Western Ontario)

V-H. Colloquium: Democracy
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Barbara Andrew (William Paterson University)
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
“A Farewell to Deweyan Democracy”
Commentator: Noelle McAfee (George Mason University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Christopher King (Vanderbilt University)
“Why Minimalism Fails as a Justification for Democracy”
Commentator: Maurice Hamington (Metropolitan State College–Denver)

V-I. Colloquium: Responsibility
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: William Behun (Pennsylvania State University)
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Keith Bustos (University of Tennessee)
“Corporate Environmental Responsibility: A Kantian Approach”
Commentator: Erin McKenna (Pacific Lutheran University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Oran Moked (Columbia University)
“Luck Egalitarianism, Responsibility, and Respect”
Commentator: Monica Mueller (Binghamton University–State University of New York)

V-J. Colloquium: Historical Perspectives on Mind
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Meredith Williams (Johns Hopkins University)
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Raffaella De Rosa (Rutgers University–Newark)
“On Causal Accounts of the Representationality of Cartesian Sensations”
Commentator: Desmond Hogan (Princeton University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Jennifer Susse (Michigan State University)
“Reliving British Emergentism”
Commentator: Ana Diaz (Johns Hopkins University)

V-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Technology in Support of Philosophy Research
Chair: Harriet Baber (University of San Diego)
Speakers: Harriet Baber (University of San Diego)
Robert Rynasiewicz (Johns Hopkins University)
Sayeed Chaudhury (Johns Hopkins University)
Bill Anderson (Ontology Works, Inc.)

V-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women and the APA Committee on Inclusiveness
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Standpoint Theory: From Different Standpoints
Chair: Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
Speakers: Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University)
“Standpoint Theory, Ethics, and Embodiment Accounts”
Charles Mills (Northwestern University)
“Standpoint Theory and Race”
Sandra Harding (University of California–Los Angeles)
“Standpoint Methodology, Scientific Knowledge, and Social Justice”
(This session will continue past 11:00 a.m.)

Group Meetings, 9:00-11:00 a.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
Karl Jaspers Society of North America
Personalist Discussion Group and Society of Philosophers in America
Society for the Philosophy of Creativity
Society for the Philosophy of Human Life Issues

Business Meeting
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

Group Meetings, 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
International Association for the Philosophy of Sport
International Berkeley Society
International Society for Buddhist Philosophy
Molinari Society
North American Society for Social Philosophy
Philosophy of Time Society
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
Society for Skeptical Studies
Society for the Study of Process Philosophies
Society of Christian Philosophers

Saturday Afternoon, December 29

Carus Lecture II
1:30 p.m., Harborside Ballroom
Topic: Appearance, Reality, and [the] I
Introduction: Michael Devitt (City University of New York–Graduate Center)
Speaker: Bastiaan Van Fraassen (Princeton University)
Title: “On What There Is: Realism (?)”

Session VI – 2:45-5:45 p.m.

VI-A. Symposium: The War on Terror and the Ethics of Exceptionalism
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University)
Speakers: Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University)
David Luban (Georgetown University)
Michael Gross (Haifa University–Israel)
Jonathan Marks (Pennsylvania State University)

VI-B. Symposium: Cognitive Disability and Agency
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
Speakers: Agnieszka Jaworska (Stanford University)
Bruce Jennings (The Hastings Center)
Commentator: Licia Carlson (Harvard University)

VI-C. Symposium: Mathematics and Metaontology
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Ted Sider (Rutgers University)
Speakers: Crispin Wright (University of St. Andrews–United Kingdom)
Matti Eklund (Cornell University)
Commentator: Øystein Linnebo (University of Bristol–United Kingdom)

VI-D. Colloquium: Aristotle
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Robin Smith (Texas A&M University)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Speaker: John Bowin (University of California–Santa Cruz)
“Aristotle on the Order and Direction of Time”
Commentator: Denis Corish (Bowdoin College)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Speaker: Julie Ponesse (University of Western Ontario)
“Aristotle on Luck and Chance”
Commentator: James Allen (University of Pittsburgh)
4:45-5:45 p.m.
Speaker: Errol Katayama (Ohio Northern University)
“Soul and Natural Sublunary Elemental Motion in Aristotle”
Commentator: Mary Louise Gill (Brown University)

VI-E. Colloquium: Ethical Ends
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Hilary Bok (Johns Hopkins University)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Speaker: Danielle Bromwich (University of Toronto)
“A Dilemma for Korsgaard: The Internalism Requirement or the Universal Normativity of Moral Reasons?”
Commentator: Josh Gert (Florida State University)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Speaker: Thornton Lockwood (Boston University)
“Aquinas on Judging Injustice: Justice in Aquinas’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics”
Commentator: Michael Pakaluk (Clark University)
4:45-5:45 p.m.
Speaker: Jonathan Garthoff (Northwestern University)
“Structuring Ends”
Commentator: Mane Hajdin (Santa Clara University)

VI-F. Colloquium: Thinking Race
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Harvey Cormier (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Speaker: Jason Wyckoff (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Race, Reference, and Reality”
Commentator: Linda Martín Alcoff (Syracuse University)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Speaker: Chad Kautzer (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
“Locke’s Protestant State of Nature: Colonialism and the Problem of Jurisdiction”
Commentator: Idil Boran (York University–Ontario)
4:45-5:45 p.m.
Speaker: Zachary Silver (University of Oklahoma)
“The Impossible Virtue”
Commentator: James Bohman (Saint Louis University)

VI-G. Colloquium: Mind
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Crystal L’Hôte (St. Michael’s College)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Speaker: Josh Rasmussen (University of Notre Dame)
“Mind-Body Supervenience’s Cardinal Sin”
Commentator: Dana Goswick (University of California–Davis)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Speaker: Jason Leddington (Centre College)
“Perceptual Presence”
Commentator: Maura Tumulty (Colgate University)
4:45-5:45 p.m.
Speaker: Jason Hedderman (University of Missouri–Columbia)
“A Problem for Tye’s PANIC Theory and a Methodological Concern about the Representational Approach to Phenomenal Consciousness”
Commentator: Fred Adams (University of Delaware)

VI-H. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa
Chair: Sheryll Turtle-Ross (University of Wisconsin–La Crosse)
Speakers: Otávio Bueno (University of Miami)
“Sosa and Skepticism”
Noah Lemos (College of William and Mary)
“Sosa on Circularity and Virtue”
Susan Nuccetelli (St. Cloud State University)
“Sosa’s Moore and the New Dogmatists”
Commentator: Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)

VI-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: The Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics
Chair: Robert Baker (Alden March Bioethics Institute/Union College)
Speakers: Hilde Lindemann (Michigan State University)
Laurence McCullough (Baylor College of Medicine)
Bernard Gert (Dartmouth College)
Other speakers TBA

VI-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: Roundtable: Asian-American Feminist Philosophers in Conversation with Feminist Philosophers across the Field: Commonalities, Differences, Solidarities?
Chair: Falguni A. Sheth (University of California–Berkeley/Hampshire College)
Speakers: Namita Goswami (DePaul University)
Falguni A. Sheth (University of California–Berkeley/Hampshire College)
Jennifer L. Vest (University of Central Florida)
Mariana Ortega (John Carroll University)

VI-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women and the APA Committee on Inclusiveness
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy: Our Way of Changing the World
Chair: Elizabeth Minnich (Association of American Colleges and Universities)
Speakers: Kristie Dotson (Purdue University)
“Avoiding Super-Philosophy: Difference and the Politics of Defiance”
Bat-Ami Bar On (Binghamton University–State University of New York)
“Philosophical Effects”
Alexa Schriempf (Williams College)
“Philosophy Matters/Testimony Matters”
Donna-Dale Marcano (Trinity College)
“The Passion of Alcibiades: Loving and Hating Philosophy”

VI-L. Dewey Lecture
2:45-5:45 p.m.
Chair: Paul Benacerraf (Princeton University)
Speaker: Hilary Putnam (Harvard University)

VI-M. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy
2:45-4:45 p.m.
Topic: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Ethics to Students at the Pre-College Level
Chair: Stuart Gluck (Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth)
Speakers: TBA

Group Meetings, 2:45-5:45 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society
Hegel Society of America
International Institute for Field-Being
North American Spinoza Society
Society for Arab, Persian and Islamic Philosophy

Saturday Evening, December 29

Presidential Address
6:00 p.m., Harborside Ballroom
Introduction: Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University)
Speaker: Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton University)
“Experimental Philosophy”

Group Meetings, 8:00-11:00 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
American Association of Philosophy Teachers
American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy
George Santayana Society
International Society for Chinese Philosophy
International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Leibniz Society of North America
North American Nietzsche Society
Sartre Circle
Society for Arab, Persian and Islamic Philosophy
Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Society for Social and Political Philosophy

Reception
9:00 p.m.-Midnight

Sunday Morning, December 30

Registration
8:30 a.m.-Noon

Placement Information
Interviewers: 9:00 a.m.-Noon
Candidates: 9:00 a.m.-Noon
Interview Tables

Book Exhibits
9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Session VII – 9:00-11:00 a.m.

VII-A. Invited Papers: Tribute to the late D.Z. Phillips
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Stephen Davis (Claremont McKenna College)
Speakers: Raimond Gaita (Kings College London)
William Brenner (Old Dominion University)

VII-B. Invited Papers: Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Charles Siewert (University of California–Riverside)
Speakers: Dermot Moran (University College Dublin)
Steven Crowell (Rice University)

VII-C. Invited Paper: Renaissance Ethics
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Sean Greenberg (University of California–Irvine)
Speaker: Martin Stone (Catholic University of Leuven–Belgium)
Commentator: Michael Murray (Franklin and Marshall College)

VII-D. Invited Paper: Are Spatio-Temporal Objects Mind-Dependent?
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Eric Marcus (Auburn University)
Speaker: Anton Koch (Tübingen University–Germany)
Commentator: Jay Rosenberg (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)

VII-E. Author Meets Critics: Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Bethany Dunn (Vassar College)
Critics: Jay Bernstein (The New School)
Bernie Flynn (The New School)
Author: Peg Birmingham (DePaul University)

VII-F. Symposium: Political Philosophy – Rawls
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Dick Howard (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
Speaker: Marcus Arvan (University of Arizona)
Commentators: David Rasmussen (Boston College)
Helena De Bres (Stanford University)

VII-G. Colloquium: Persons and Judgments
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Reza Mahmoodshahi (Carnegie Mellon University)
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Albert Chan (University of Southern California)
“The Emergent Component of Trust in ‘Believing Someone’”
Commentator: Matthew Noah Smith (Yale University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: John Davis (California State University–Fullerton)
“Normative Judgments, Personal Traits of the Judge, and the Basing Relationship”
Commentator: David Jehle (Cornell University)

VII-H. Colloquium: The Family
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Victoria Costa (Florida State University)
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Elizabeth Brake (University of Calgary)
“Is Divorce Promise-Breaking?”
Commentator: Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham–United Kingdom)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Lawrence Lengbeyer (United States Naval Academy)
“Children, Gratitude, and Respect: Filial Piety as a Vice”
Commentator: Laurence Thomas (Syracuse University)

VII-I. Colloquium: Normative Dispositions
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Lisa Tessman (Binghamton University–State University of New York)
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Edward Kleist (Concordia College)
“Rationality and Other Values: A Study in First and Second-Person Moral Necessitation”
Commentator: Heath White (University of North Carolina–Wilmington)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Bradford Cokelet (Northwestern University)
“Dispositions and the Value of Virtue”
Commentator: Julia Driver (Dartmouth College)

VII-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness and the APA Committee on Hispanics
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Topic: Philosophy and Literature
Chair: Gary Seay (City University of New York–Medgar Evers College)
Speakers: Otávio Bueno (University of Miami)
“Thinking about Fiction: Borges and Beyond”
Pablo Iannone (Central Connecticut State University)
“Inclusion and Exclusion in Hispanic Literature, Thought, and Life”
Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)
“The Tyranny of the Ending in Literature and Philosophy”

Group Meetings, 9:00-11:00 a.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
Conference on Philosophical Societies
Radical Philosophy Association
Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Society of Humanist Philosophers

Carus Lecture III
11:15 a.m., Harborside Ballroom
Topic: Appearance, Reality, and [the] I
Introduction: Catherine Elgin (Harvard University)
Speaker: Bastiaan van Fraassen (Princeton University)
Title: “On Being Somewhere: The Self Delusion (?)”

Sunday Afternoon, December 30

Session VIII –1:30-4:30 p.m.

VIII-A. Symposium: Global Justice and Caring
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Debra Satz (Stanford University)
Speakers: Michael Slote (University of Miami)
Allison Weir (Wilfrid Laurier University–Canada)
Commentator: Sarah Miller (University of Memphis)

VIII-B. Symposium: Reparations and Historical Injustice
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Bernard Boxill (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Speakers: Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
Margaret Walker (Arizona State University)
Commentator: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University)

VIII-C. Symposium: Philosophical Psychology
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
Speakers: Chris Mole (University College Dublin)
Jesse Prinz (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Ned Block (New York University)

VIII-D. Colloquium: Continental Philosophy – Judgment and Infinity
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Paul Livingston (Villanova University)
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: David Morris (Trent University–Canada)
“Reversibility and Ereignis: Being as Kantian Imagination in Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger”
Commentator: Nathan Ross (DePaul University)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Speaker: Benjamin Tremoulet (Université de Paris IV)
“The ‘Power of Judgment’ as Blind Spot: Did Heidegger and Arendt Follow Kant’s Own Blindness?”
Commentator: Kyle Robert Grady (Pennsylvania State University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Adam Miller (Collins Community College)
“Re-Thinking Infinity: Alain Badiou’s Being and Event”
Commentator: Antonio Calcagno (University of Scranton)

VIII-E. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: David Braun (University of Rochester)
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Andres Colapinto (Stony Brook University–State University of New York)
“‘Edible’ and Other –ibles: A Case Study in Linguistically Oriented Phenomenology”
Commentator: Michael Johnson (Rutgers University)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Speaker: Phillip Honenberger (Temple University)
“Brandom’s Idealist Thesis: What’s the Idea?”
Commentator: Susanna Schellenberg (Australian National University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Berit Brogaard (Australian National University)
“An Extensional Approach to Quantifier Domain Restriction”
Commentator: Jason Stanley (Rutgers University)

VIII-F. Colloquium: Ancient Philosophy East and West
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Rachana Kamtekar (University of Arizona)
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Anna Marmodoro (Oxford University)
“Is Being One Only One?: The Uniqueness of Platonic Forms”
Commentator: Hugh Benson (University of Oklahoma)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Speaker: Richard Foley (University of Missouri–Columbia)
“The Order Question: Plato’s Theory of Love in the Symposium”
Commentator: David Roochnik (Boston University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Daniel Coyle (Our Lady of the Lake University)
“Efficacy in the Book of Master Guigu”
Commentator: Christopher Kirby (University of South Florida)

VIII-G. Colloquium: Perspectives on Kant
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Stephen Grover (City University of New York–Graduate Center)
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Melissa Zinkin (Binghamton University–State University of New York)
“Force and Feeling: Kant’s Argument in the Amphiboly”
Commentator: Brandon Look (University of Kentucky)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Speaker: Sebastian Luft (Marquette University)
“From Being to Givenness and Back: Some Remarks on the Meaning of Transcendental Idealism in Kant and Husserl”
Commentator: Taylor Carman (Barnard College)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Bryan Hall (Indiana University Southeast)
“Resolving a Trilemma For Kant’s Theory of Affection”
Commentator: Rae Langton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

VIII-H. Colloquium: Puzzles in Epistemology
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Jamin Asay (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Michael Veber (East Carolina University)
“Knowing Moore by Knowing Les: On a Supposed Solution to the Surprise Quiz Paradox”
Commentator: Chris Smith (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Speakers: Peter Murphy (University of Indianapolis) and Allen Coates (East Tennessee State University)
(co-authored paper)
“An Evidence Puzzle”
Commentator: Dylan Sabo (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Blake Roeber (Northern Illinois University)
“Contextualism and Virtue Perspectivism: How to Preserve Our Intuitions about Knowledge and ‘Knows’”
Commentator: Tim Black (California State University–Northridge)

VIII-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy Undergraduates as Philosophy Teachers: Rationales and Benefits
Chair: Thomas Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College)
Speakers: Debbie Whitaker (California State University–Long Beach)
“Philosophy for Children at Cal State Long Beach”
Kiet Pham and Aimee Phenicie (California State University–Long Beach) (co-authored paper)
“How We Have Benefited from Teaching Philosophy”
Thomas Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College)
“Why Philosophy Departments Need Philosophy for Children”
Rebecca Bailey (Mount Holyoke College)
“The Importance of Teaching Philosophy for an Undergraduate Philosophy Major”
Topic: The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl
Chair: Robert Ladenson (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Speakers: Lida Anestidou (National Academy of Science)
Patrick Croskery (Ohio Northern University)
Joanne Ladenson (The Ladenson Group)
Julia Pedroni (Williams College)

Group Meetings, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
(See Group Meeting Program for Details)
Karl Jaspers Society of North America
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism