Proceedings and Addresses
January 2008 (Volume 81, Issue 3)
Letter from the Secretary-Treasurer
To All Members of the Association:
The Executive Committee of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association cordially invites you to attend the 82nd annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. The meeting will be held at the Hilton Pasadena, Wednesday, March 19, through Sunday, March 23, 2008. Accommodations and meeting space also are provided by the Sheraton Pasadena.
1. Meeting Location: Special Attractions
Pasadena is a small city with well-preserved turn of the century architecture. More than 600 buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. The weather in March should be warm and sunny. Our hotels are within walking distance of a very large number of outstanding restaurants, theaters, clubs, museums, and other cultural sites and events. (An extensive, informative restaurant list prepared by our local arrangements committee follows the program information.)
The Norton Simon Museum is a short ride on the free downtown Arts Shuttle Bus, and the Huntington Library and Gardens is a quick taxi ride away. There is a walking track within a mile and a jogging track within two miles. The rest of Southern California’s attractions are easily reached. The thoroughbred racing season at Santa Anita will still be on in March. There is ice skating a block from the hotel. Skiing at Mountain High Resort is about an hour’s drive away, or, to the west, there is beach and boating within 25 miles and scuba diving within 60. (A list of attractions within Pasadena, and in the larger area, follows the program information.)
2. Our Hotels: Location, Reservations, Parking
Our hotels are located at the intersect of the Old Pasadena District and the Playhouse District. Old Pasadena was the 19th-century center of the city. Over 200 19th-century buildings in this 22-block area are still in use. The Playhouse District fans out from the Pasadena Playhouse, is replete with historic architecture, and offers a mix of bookstores, restaurants, antique and specialty shops. Also within easy walking distance is South Lake Avenue, 10 blocks of restaurants and shops that run the span from Rodeo Drive type boutiques to excellent used book stores.
The Pasadena Hilton is an historic property now renovated as a boutique style hotel. Most rooms have views of either Old Pasadena or the San Gabriel Mountains. The hotel has an outdoor swimming pool, and an indoor pool table as well. The hotel’s address is 168 South Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101. Telephone is (626) 577-1000. Fax is (626) 584-3148.
The Sheraton Pasadena is one block from the Hilton. It is across the street from the Paseo Colorado shopping center, with all its restaurants and an excellent wine bar. It has an outdoor pool and lighted tennis courts. The hotel’s address is 303 East Cordova, Pasadena, CA 91101. Telephone is (626) 449-4000. Fax is (626) 796-6209.
Hotel Reservations: A hotel reservation form can be found at the back of this Proceedings, and on the APA homepage (Pacific Division page) on the web. You may make your reservations online at http://www.pasadenacal.com/housing. Both hotels comply with the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act. For accessible, adaptive sleeping rooms, please reserve early and communicate any special requests to the Pasadena Convention Bureau Housing Office.
Parking: There is public parking at the Hilton. Parking lots serving the Pasadena Convention Center and Paseo Colorado Shopping Center are very nearby, and street parking is available.
3. Travel Information: Driving, Air, Rail, Buses, and the Free Pasadena Shuttle
Driving -
The Pasadena Freeway (the 110) connects Pasadena to Los Angeles, and also to Long Beach and to the 405 to San Diego. The Foothill Freeway (the 210) goes north and east. The Ventura Freeway (the 134) leads to Ventura County on the coast, Santa Barbara, and Northern California.
Driving to the Hilton -
I-5 and 210 (this route from Burbank Airport, 15 - 20 minutes): Take the I-5 South to the 134 Freeway East to 210 East. Exit at Lake Avenue, go South one mile past Colorado Boulevard to Cordova. Turn right (west) to corner at Los Robles Avenue.
I-105 and 110 (this route from LAX, one hour): Take I-105 East to the 110 North. The 110 will end in Pasadena and become Arroyo Parkway. Continue one mile north to Cordova. Hotel is at the corner of Cordova and Los Robles.
Driving to the Sheraton -
From South: Take Interstate 110 North until it ends and turns into Arroyo Parkway. Continue on Arroyo Parkway until you come to Cordova Street. Turn right onto Cordova Street and the hotel will be located on the left-hand side.
From East: Take Interstate 210 West, and exit at Fair Oaks Avenue/Marengo Avenue. Turn left onto Marengo Avenue. Proceed to Cordova Street and turn left. The hotel is located on the left-hand side.
From West: Take Interstate 10 East until you come to Interstate 110 North. Travel on Interstate 110 North, which will become Arroyo Parkway. Continue on Arroyo Parkway and turn right onto Cordova Street. The hotel is located on the left-hand side.
From Altadena (North): Travel south to Colorado Boulevard. Take Colorado Boulevard west towards Marengo Avenue. Turn left onto Marengo Avenue and then turn left onto Cordova Street. The hotel is located on the left-hand side.
By Air -
Burbank Airport is served by many carriers. It is a small, pleasant airport only fifteen minutes from our hotels. Taxi is $35, and limo service runs around $70. (For airport shuttles, see below.) At the time of this writing, Burbank is serviced by Alaska, American, America West, Delta, Jetblue, United, and Southwest.
Los Angeles International Airport is one of the largest in the nation. It has both the conveniences and the disadvantages of a very large facility. It’s only a little more than twice as far from our hotels as Burbank Airport, and in principle travel time is half an hour, but allow a full hour when there is traffic. Taxi is about $40, and limo service runs about $65. There are wheelchair accessible taxis in the taxi lines at LAX—if none is at the line outside your baggage area, the dispatcher can call one from the garage.
Airport Shuttles: There are three airport shuttle services that will take you to your hotel in Pasadena from Burbank or LAX. Super Shuttle is (818) 556-6600 or (800) 258-3826, with a website at www.supershuttle.com. Prime Time Shuttle is (800) 733-8267, with a website at www.primetimeshuttle.com. Xpress Shuttle is (800) 427-7483, with a website at www.xpressshuttle.com. Super Shuttle can arrange for wheelchair accessible transportation to and from either airport.
By Train -
You may take a train to Union Station in Los Angeles, and then take the light-rail Gold Line to Pasadena (see below).
Light-Rail -
The Gold Line runs from Pasadena into Los Angeles. There is a station on Del Mar Blvd. about four blocks from the Sheraton and five blocks from the Hilton. You also can use the Gold Line to travel to other parts of Pasadena. Light-rail is wheelchair accessible.
Bus Service -
The free Pasadena ARTS Buses shuttle visitors between the popular shopping/entertainment districts of Old Pasadena, South Lake Avenue, and the Pasadena Playhouse District. The ARTS Buses are easily recognizable by their decorations. Stops, which are designated by a pink triangle marked “ARTS,” are found throughout the city. Check (626) 744-4055 or http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.us/trans/transit/trans_arts.asp for the schedule.
Foothill Transit Authority buses operate throughout the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys. Check the schedule at (626) 967-3147 or www.foothilltransit.org.
LA MTA offers service throughout Los Angeles County. Check the schedule at (213) 626-4455 or www.mta.net.
Buses are wheelchair accessible. For more information, see websites given above.
4. Convention Registration
The registration fee is $10.00 for student members, $50.00 for regular members, and $60.00 for non-members of the APA who wish to attend more than a single session. Special tickets for $10.00 will be available to non-members who wish to attend a single session or one of the receptions. Only those who are registered or have purchased the limited number of extra tickets may attend the scheduled sessions or receptions. Please be sure to wear your convention badge at all times to identify yourself as a registered participant.
A pre-registration form is included in the back of this issue of the Proceedings. People who are not now members of the APA may take advantage of the lower registration fee by becoming members. Membership forms are available from the National Office, online at www.apaonline.org, and also will be available at the Convention Registration desk.
Mini-conferences on Making Philosophy of Science More Socially Relevant and on Spinoza’s Psychology, organized independently under the Pacific Division’s mini-conference program, are included in this year’s regular registration fee.
5. Placement Service
Only APA members are eligible to use the Placement service. Appointing officers and applicants are urged to make preparations for their part in the placement operation in advance of the meeting.
6. Presidential Address
The Presidential Address will be delivered by Nicholas Smith at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, March 21, in the California Ballroom. President Smith will be introduced by Vice President Nancy Cartwright.
7. Receptions and Special Events
There will be a reception for the Mini-conference on Making Philosophy of Science More Socially Relevant on Wednesday, March 19, 6:30-8:30 p.m., in the California Ballroom.
Barry Stroud will deliver the Dewey Lecture on Thursday, March 20, 4:00-5:30 p.m., in the California Ballroom. A reception will follow, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
The Association for Symbolic Logic will hold a reception on Thursday, March 20, 5:00-7:00 p.m., in the Piazza Ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel.
The APA Board of Officers invites members to a reception honoring former Board Chair Karen Hanson on Thursday, March 20, 9:00-10:00 p.m., in the California Ballroom.
The Annual Reception will be held from 10:00 p.m. to midnight on Thursday, March 20, in the California Ballroom.
There will be a session in memory of Richard Rorty at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 21, in the California Ballroom. A reception will follow, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
The Presidential Reception will be held from 7:30-9:00 p.m. on Friday, March 21, in the International Ballroom Foyer, following the Presidential Address.
The Prometheus Prize Lecture will be delivered by Elliot Sober on Friday, March 21, 1:00-3:00 p.m., in the San Marino Room. A reception hosted by Prometheus Press will follow the lecture, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
The APA Committee on Philosophy and Law will give a reception to honor Jeffrie Murphy on Saturday, March 22, 4:00-5:30 p.m., in the California Ballroom, following the 1:00 p.m. session on the work of Jeffrie Murphy.
There will be a reception hosted by Springer Publishing welcoming the new journal Neuroethics on Saturday, March 22, 6:00-7:00 p.m., in San Gabriel.
Generally, receptions are for persons registered at the convention. Tickets for guests may be purchased at the door of receptions or the convention registration desk.
Please check with the convention registration desk for information about receptions: more events may be added to the schedule as the convention date nears.
8. Mini-conferences
A Mini-conference on Making Philosophy of Science More Socially Relevant will take place on Wednesday, March 19, and Thursday, March 20. A Mini-conference on Spinoza’s Psychology will take place on Saturday, March 22, and Sunday morning, March 23.
9. Association for Symbolic Logic
The Association for Symbolic Logic will meet jointly with the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, on Thursday, March 20, and Friday, March 21. The ASL sessions wll commence at 1:00 p.m. on each of these days in the Sheraton Pasadena hotel.
10. Business Meeting and Voting Membership
The annual Business Meeting will be held at noon on Thursday, March 20, in the California Ballroom. There will be reports from the Divisional and National Officers. According to the Association’s By-Laws, regular membership is given by an act of the Executive Secretary on behalf of the Board of Officers. Each year the list of regular members that appears in the November Proceedings is used as the list of eligible voters for the three subsequent Divisional business meetings.
11. Report of the Pacific Division Nominating Committee
Calvin Normore (Chair), Robert Pasnau, and James van Cleve served as the 2007 Nominating Committee. They have nominated the following APA Pacific Division members for terms beginning in July 2008:
For Vice-President: Michael Bratman, Terence Parsons, Michael Tooley
For Representative to the Board of Officers: Heather Battaly, Andrews Reath
For Executive Committee Member: Brad Armendt, Ned Markosian
12. 2008 Program Committee and Program
The Program Committee which prepared this year’s program consists of Mark Wrathall (Chair), Richard Arneson, Andrew Askland, Mohammad Azadpur, Kelly Becker, Craig Callender, Joseph Campbell, Rebecca Copenhaver, Branden Fitelson, Peter Graham, Patricia Hanna, Bruce Hunter, Paul Hurley, Eric Hutton, Sherry Irvin, Robin Jeshion, Bernard Kobes, Mark McPherran, Dana Nelkin, Phillip Nickel, Ryan Nichols, Jay Odenbaugh, Mary Rorty, Amy Schmitter, Fred Schueler, Charles Siewert, and Ian Thomson.
Principal papers in Colloquia and Symposia were selected after blind review of all submitted papers. Participants in Invited Paper, Invited Symposia, Author Meets Critics, and Workshop meetings were invited by the Program Committee. Participants in meetings arranged by APA Committees were selected by those Committees.
13. 2009 Meeting Site and Program
The 2009 Pacific Division Meeting will be held at the Westin Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Program Committee for this 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, invites contributions for the 2009 meeting. The deadline for submission is September 1, 2008. Each author may make only one submission. Please indicate prominently that the paper is submitted for the 2009 Pacific Division Meeting. Because the Program Committee will blind-review all submissions, the names of the author and her/his institution should appear only on a separate cover page; they should not appear in the paper in any way that defeats the operation of blind-reviewing.
The 2009 Program Committee also welcomes suggestions for topics and/or speakers of invited sessions. Recommendations (including self-nominations) for commentators and session chairs also are encouraged. These all should be sent to the 2009 Program Chair, Paul Hurley, at Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College, 500 E 9th St., Claremont, CA 91711, or paul.hurley@cmc.edu.
When volunteering someone other than yourself, please be sure your nominee is willing to participate in the program. Nominations should reach the program committee by September 1, 2008, and should include a short account of the individual’s areas of specialization and record of scholarship.
14. Nominations for the 2009 Program Committee
Pacific Division members may make nominations or volunteer for membership on the Program Committee by emailing the Secretary-Treasurer, Anita Silvers, at asilvers@sfsu.edu, by March 14, 2008.
15. Accommodating Members with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
To provide a welcoming environment for members with multiple chemical sensitivities, all members are requested to refrain from wearing scented products.
On behalf of the Executive and Program Committees of the APA Pacific Division, I extend to every member of the American Philosophical Association a warm invitation to take part in our eighty-second Annual Meeting.
Cordially yours,
Anita Silvers, Secretary-Treasurer
for the Executive Committee
Pacific Division, The American Philosophical Association:
Joan MacGregor (Chair)
Nancy Cartwright
Stewart Cohen
Janet Levin
Calvin Normore
Nicholas Smith
Allen Wood
Mark Wrathall