final draft program: December 8, 2003

Executive Committee Meeting

6:00-10:00 p.m., Santa Monica

Registration

5:00-10:00 p.m., International Foyer

Group Meeting

(See Group Meeting Program for details)

7:00-10:00 p.m.

Registration

8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m., International Ballroom Foyer

Book Displays

11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., International Ballroom

Placement Information

8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m., International Ballroom Foyer

Interview Room

11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., International Ballroom

Annual Business Meeting, Pacific C

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Annual Reception

9:00 p.m.-midnight, California Ballroom

Session I

9:00 - 12:00 p.m. (I-A - I-I, I-K - I-M)

9:00 - 11:00 p.m. (I-J)

9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (I-N)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Mark Colyvan (University of Queensland)

Critics: Anja Jauernig (University of Notre Dame)

Ernan McMullin (University of Notre Dame)

Author: Bas van Fraassen (Princeton University)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Jeffrey Dean (Blackwell Publishing)

Critics: Elisabeth Camp (Harvard University)

David Hills (Stanford University)

Author: Josef Stern (University of Chicago)

9:00 a.m.-12.00 p.m.

Chair: Kaarina Beam (Linfield College)

Speakers: David J. Bakhurst (Queen’s University)

Raymond D. Boisvert (Siena College)

Margaret Little (Georgetown University)

9:00 a. m.-12.00 p.m.

Chair: Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California-Riverside)

Speakers: Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University)

"An Introspective Model of First-Person Attribution"

Fred Dretske (Duke University)

"Externalism and Self Knowledge"

Shaun Nichols (College of Charleston)

"Introspection and the Attribution of Agency"

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: James Nickel (Arizona State University)

Critics: Neil Gotanda (Western College of Law)

Michele Moody-Adams (Cornell University)

Celia Wolf-Devine (Stonehill College)

Laurence Thomas (Syracuse University)

Authors: Carl Cohen (University of Michigan)

James Sterba (University of Notre Dame)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Stephen Gardiner (University of Utah)

Speakers: Lesley Brown (Oxford University)

Verity Harte (King’s College, London)

Respondent: Gail Fine (Cornell University)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Topic: Michele Le Doeuff and the Philosophical Imaginary: Celebrating the Publication of The Sex of Knowing

Chair: Georgia Warnke (University of California-Riverside)

Speakers: Marguerite La Caze (University of Queensland)

"Michèle Le Doeuff: Philosophy of the Unthought"

Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern University)

"Le Doeuff’s The Sex of Knowing: On One Harriett Taylor and Three John Stuart Mills"

Dorothea Olkowski (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs)

"The Heloise Complex"

Discussant: Lorraine Code (York University)

"Blue Stockings, Viragos and Other Wise Women: Translating Michele Le Doeuff’s Le Sexe du savoir"

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Wayne Martin (University of California-San Diego)

Critics: Sean Kelly (Princeton University)

Pierre Keller (University of California-Riverside)

Author: Taylor Carman (Barnard College)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Frank McGuinness (California State University-Northridge)

Speaker: Michael Jubien (University of California-Davis)

Commentators: Karen Bennett (Princeton University)

Linda Wetzel (Georgetown University)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Stephen Morris (Florida State University)

Speaker: Peter W. Ross (California State Polytechnic University- Pomona)

"Empirical Constraints on the Problem of Free Will"

Commentator: Stephan Johnson (City College of San Francisco)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Robert F. Allen (Central Michigan University)

Speaker: Manuel R. Vargas (University of San Francisco/California Institute of Technology)

"How to Think About the Importance of History for Responsible Agency"

Commentator: Christopher Grau (Florida International University)

9:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.

Chair: Paul Hurley (Pomona College)

Speaker: Michael Bratman (Stanford University)

Commentators: Gary Watson (University of California-Riverside)

Sarah Buss (University of Iowa)

9:00 a.m.-12.00 p.m.

Topic: Teaching Kant

Speakers: Eleanor Wittrup (University of the Pacific)

Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)

Jill Buroker (California State University-San Bernardino)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Hollibert Phillips (Whitman College)

Speaker: Uriah Kriegel (University of Arizona)

"Locke on Consciousness"

Commentator: Paul Lodge (Oxford University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Matthew Kisner (University of California-San Diego)

Speaker: Benjamin D. Hill (Illinois Wesleyan University)

"Locke’s Ideational Definition of Knowledge and Knowing Idea-Independent Reality"

Commentator: Samuel Rickless (University of California-San Diego)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Manyul Im (California State University-Los Angeles)

Evan C. Tiffany (Simon Fraser University)

"Naturalism and the Value of Rational Nature"

Commentator: David Sussman (Princeton University)

Colloquium

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Bonnie Paller (California State University-Northridge)

Speaker: Kirk Ludwig (University of Florida)

"A Conservative Modal Semantics with Applications to de re Necessities"

Commentator: James W. Garson (University of Houston)

Colloquium

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Fiona Cowie (California Institute of Technology)

Speaker: Sanford Goldberg (University of Kentucky)

"An Anti-Individualist Semantics for ‘Empty’ Natural Kind Terms"

Commentator: Ted Sider (Rutgers University)

Symposium

11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Chair: Robert May (University of California-Irvine)

Speaker: Joan Weiner (Indiana University)

"Semantic Descent"

Commentator: Jamie Tappenden (University of Michigan)

12:00-1:00 p.m., pacific c

1:00 -4:00 p.m.

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Topic: Karl Jaspers and Intercultural Philosophy

Chair: Malek Khazaee (California State University-Long Beach)

Speakers: Jacob Bender (New York City)

"Searching for Paideia in the Lives and Works of Averröes, Maimonides and Aquinas: A Filmmaker’s Perspective"

Alan M. Olson (Boston University)

"Reason and Revelation: The Cases of Ishmael and Isaac Revisited"

Stephen Erickson (Pomona College)

"The Philosophy of History in Hegel, Heidegger, and Jaspers"

Tomoko Iwasawa (Kogakuin University)

"Dymythologizing and Remythologizing the Concept of Tama in Japanese Literature"

Commentator: Joseph Prahbu (California State University-Los Angeles)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Ellen Kappy Suckiel (University of California-Santa Cruz)

Speakers: Mary Mahowald (University of Chicago)

"Cloning, Stem Cells, and Self-Preservation"

Lisa Parker (University of Pittsburgh)

"Reflecting on Genetic Findings, Speculating about Social Practices"

Stephen Munzer (University of California-Los Angeles School of Law)

"Conceptual and Justificatory Issues in Plant Genetics and Intellectual Property Rights"

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Peter Graham (University of California-Riverside)

Critics: David Kaplan (University of California-Los Angeles)

Joseph Almog (University of California-Los Angeles)

Robin Jeshion (Yale University)

Author: Howard Wettstein (University of California-Riverside)

1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Maria Lugones, Pilgrimages/Peregrinages: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions

Chair: Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York-Stony Brook)

Critics: Rita Alfonso (State University of New York-Stony Book)

Michael Hames-Garcias (State University of New York-Binghamton) University

Author: Maria Lugones (State University of New York-Binghamton)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University)

Tyler Burge (University of California-Los Angeles)

Marcia Cavell (University of California-Berkeley)

Dagfinn Føllesdal (Stanford University/University of Oslo)

Olbeth Hansberg (University of Mexico)

Gilbert Harman (Princeton University)

Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University)

John McDowell (University of Pittsburgh)

Thomas Nagel (New York University)

Richard Rorty (Stanford University)

Carol Rovane (Columbia University)

Bruce Vermazen (University of California-Berkeley)

Following the speakers, a reception will be held until 5:30 p.m. Please join us to celebrate the life of Donald Davidson.

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair:  Debra Nails (Michigan State University)

Critics: Richard Kraut (Northwestern University)

Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago)

Author: Ruby Blondell (University of Washington)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Philip Cafaro (Colorado State University)

Speakers: Baird Callicott (University of North Texas)

Eugene Hargrove (University of North Texas/editor, Environmental Ethics)

Ned Hettinger (College of Charleston)

Clare Palmer (Lancaster University, Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy)

Kate Rawles (Independent Scholar)

Respondent: Holmes Rolston III (Colorado State University)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Alan Hájek (California Institute of Technology)

Critics: Lawrence Sklar (University of Michigan)

Bruce Glymour (Kansas State University)

Author: Michael Strevens (Stanford University)

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Chair: Henry West (Macalester College)

Speaker: Geoffrey C. Goddu (University of Richmond)

"More on Blameworthiness and Alternative Possibilities"

Commentator: Kevin Timpe (University of Notre Dame/St. Louis University)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: Michelle Switzer (Whittier College)

Speaker: Troy Jollimore (California State University-Chico)

"Second-Order Desert and the Problem of Moral Luck"

Commentator: Susan Stark (Bates College)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Jeff Gauthier (University of Portland)

Speaker: Jeffrey Moriarty (California State University-Long Beach)

"The Epistemological Argument Against Desert"

Commentator: Shelley Wilcox (Temple University)

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Chair: Anatole Anton (San Francisco State University)

Speaker: Paul J. Weithman (University of Notre Dame)

"Agenda-Setting and the Scope of Deliberative Democracy"

Commentator: Colin Bird (Politics, University of Virginia)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: Megan Laverty (Montclair University)

Speaker: Jennifer Welchman (University of Alberta)

"Is Loyalty a Virtue? Reflections on Loyalty Day"

Commentator: Nancy Snow (Marquette University)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Mark Redhead (California State University-Fullerton)

Speaker: Daniel R. Boisvert (California State University-Bakersfield)

"Expressive-Assertivism and ‘The Embedding Objection’"

Commentator: Mark van Roojen (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Chair: Debra Whittaker (California State University-Long Beach)

Speaker: Paul Hughes (University of Michigan-Dearborn)

"Temptation, Autonomy, and the Problem of Entrapment"

Commentator: Robert Schopp (University of Nebraska College of Law)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: Aaron James (University of California-Irvine)

Speaker: Michael J. Scanlan (Oregon State University)

"Locke and Intellectual Property Rights"

Commentator: Alan Fuchs (College of William and Mary)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Robin R. Wang (Loyola Marymount University)

Speaker: Virginia Warren (Chapman University)

"Just Peace:  An Alternative to Just War Theory" 

Commentator: Pauline Kaurin (Pacific Lutheran University)

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Chair: Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue University)

Speaker: Lorraine L. Besser-Jones (Stanford University)

"Hume’s Account of the Motivation to be Just"

Commentator: Stephen Crowley (Indiana University- Bloomington)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: Cindy Stern (California State University-Northridge)

Speaker: Glenn Branch (National Center for Science Education)

"Hume’s Volte-Face on Personal Identity"

Commentator: Lawrence Nolan (California State University-Long Beach)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Eric Watkins (University of California-San Diego)

Speaker: Gregory Reihman (Stanford University)

"Categorically Denied: Kant’s Criticism of Chinese Philosophy"

Commentator: Martin Schönfeld (University of South Florida)

Symposium

1:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: Carolyn Brighouse (Occidental College)

Speaker: C. Wade Savage (University of Minnesota)

"A New/Old Resolution of the Mind-Body Problem"

Commentators: Melinda Hogan (University of British Columbia /Kwantlen University College)

Eric Marcus (Auburn University)

Colloquium

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Jiuan Heng (National University of Singapore)

Speaker: Brian Garrett (California State University-Fullerton)

"The Metaphysics of Property Identity and the Hard Problem of Consciousness"

Commentator: Torin Alter (University of Alabama)

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Chair: Paul Tang (California State University-Long Beach)

Speakers: Wayne T. Wright (Washington University) and Kent Johnson (University of California-Irvine)

"Colors as Properties of the Special Sciences"

Commentator: Janet Levin (University of Southern California)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: David Byrd (University of California-Davis)

Speaker: Warren E. Shrader (University of Notre Dame)

"Shoemaker on Emergence"

**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**

Commentator: Simon Evnine (University of Miami)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Matthew Davidson (California State University-San Bernardino)

Speaker: Kathrin Koslicki (Tufts University)

"Almost Indiscernible Objects and the Suspect Strategy"

Commentator: Guy Rohrbaugh (Auburn University)

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Introduction: Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University)

Speaker: Jerry Fodor (Rutgers University)

"Context"

4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Theodore Waldman (Harvey Mudd College)

Speakers: Haskell Fain (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"America vs. Amerika"

David Estlund (Brown University)

"What is the Duty of a Soldier with Doubts?"

Jeremi Suri (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"The Historical Origins and Implications of Contemporary Hegemony"

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Al Spangler (California State University-Long Beach)

Speakers: Rob Bolton (Rutgers University)

"Aristotle on the Nature of Perception"

Thomas Johansen (University of Edinburgh)

"Aristotle on the Difference between Human and Animal Perception"

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Topic: Computers and the Mediation of Human Experience

Chair: Noam Cook (San Jose State University)

Panelists: Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University)

"Computers and Communication Theory"

Charles Ess (Drury University)

"Ethics and Culture Offline and Online"

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair:  Thomas E. Hill, Jr. (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Speaker: Adrienne M. Martin (Minnesota State University-Moorehead)

"Reasons Both Universalizable and Defeasible"

Commentators:  Richard Galvin (Texas Christian University)

Allan Gibbard (University of Michigan)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Chuang Liu (University of Florida)

Speaker: Daniel Korman (University of Colorado-Boulder)

"The Modal Flexibility of Causal Laws"

**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**

Commentator: Kurt Torell (Roger William University)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Rob Loftis (Saint Lawrence University)

Speaker: William Russell Payne (Independent Scholar)

"Some Good and Some Not So Good Arguments for Necessary Laws"

Commentator: Gary Fuller (Central Michigan University)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair:  Sharon Bishop (California State University-Los Angeles)

Speaker: Paul Alan Green (Mt. St. Mary’s College)

"Etiquette as a System of Categorical Imperatives"

Commentator:  Christina M. Bellon (California State University- Sacramento)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Matthew Liao (Princeton University Center for Human Values)

Speaker: Jason Kawall (Colgate University)

"Of Carts and Horses: On the Primacy of the Virtues"

Commentator: Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Clayton Littlejohn (University of Nebraska)

Speaker: James R. Beebe (Louisiana State University)

"Reliabilism and Deflationism"

Commentator: Adam Leite (Indiana University)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University)

Speaker: Kelly M. Becker (University of New Mexico)

"Reliabilism and the Skeptical Paradox"

Commentator: Wayne Riggs (University of Oklahoma)

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Joseph Grcic (Indiana State University)

Speaker: Cynthia Stark (University of Utah)

"Contractarianism and Contribution, Or Why Talents Matter ‘Somewhat’"

Commentators: Elizabeth Harman (New York University)

Colin Macleod (University of Victoria)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Jeremy Morris (University of Miami)

Speaker: Matthew C. Weiner (University of Utah)

"Deductive Closure and the Sorites"

Commentator: Jonathan Sutton (Southern Methodist University)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: L. A. Paul (University of Arizona)

Speaker: Jeffrey Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"The Liar Paradox and Ontology"

Commentator: Weimin Sun (California State University-Northridge)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Michael Wolf (California State University-Fresno)

Speaker: Juan M. Comesana (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"Unsafe Knowledge"

Commentator: Ram Neta (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Debby Hutchins (Boston College)

Speaker: Joe R. Salerno (St. Louis University)

"Tracking Versus Safety: Some Counterexamples"

Commentator: Steven Luper (Trinity University)

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Charles Hughes (Chapman University)

Speaker: Stephen Wykstra (Calvin College) "Skeptical Gambits and the Two Roads to Atheism: Swinburne versus CORNEA"

Commentators: Michael Rea (University of Notre Dame)

Nathan Nobis (University of Rochester)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Luca Struble (University of California-Los Angeles)

Speaker: Brad Rives (University of Maryland)

"Why Dispositions Are (Still) Distinct From Their Bases and Causally Impotent"

**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**

Commentator: Dan Ryder (Indiana University)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Gerald Doppelt (University of California-San Diego)

Speaker: Patrick W. Rysiew (University of British Columbia)

"Adaptive Cognition"

Commentator: Roger White (New York University)

Annual Reception

9:00 p.m.-midnight, california ballroom

Group Meetings, 6:00-11:00 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

6:00-8:00 p.m.

International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session I

Society of Christian Philosophers

North American Nietzsche Society

Society for the Philosophy of History, Session I

North American Spinoza Society, Session I

Philosophy of Time Society

American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Session I

American Society for Aesthetics

6:00-9:00 p.m.

Reid Society

Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy

International Society for Chinese Philosophy

Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

8:00-10:00 p.m.

Philosophy of Religion Group

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy-Graduate Student Panel

8:00-11:00 p.m.

Society for German Idealism, Session I

Society for Business Ethics Group

Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World

Max Scheler Society of North America, Session I

Radical Philosophy Association

Society for Women in Philosophy

North American Wittgenstein Society

Registration

8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., International Foyer

Book Displays

8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., International Ballroom

Placement Information, International Foyer

8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Interview Room, International Ballroom

8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Presidential Address, California Ballroom

6:00-7:00 p.m.

Presidential Reception, Arcade

7:00-9:00 p.m.  

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Byeong-Uk Y (University Minnesota-Twin Cities)

Critics: Austen Clark (University of Connecticut)

Mohan Matthen (University of British Columbia)

Author: John Campbell (Oxford University)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: J.M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College)

Critics: Dale E. Snow (Loyola College-Maryland)

Robert Stern (University of Sheffield)

Author: Terry Pinkard (Northwestern University)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Sara Goering (University of Washington)

Speakers: Eva Kittay (State University of New York-Stonybrook)

"‘Planning to go to Paris and Winding up in Holland’-The Delusion of Choice in Planning a Family"

Carolyn McLeod (University of Western Ontario)

"Triggering a Temptation for Control: The Move to Single Embryo Transfer in In Vitro Fertilization"

Claudia Mills (University of Colorado)

"Children and Culture: Some Questions about Transcultural Adoption"

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: William Ruddick (New York University)

Speakers: Jeffrey Blustein (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

"On Ethics, Memory, and an Ethics of Memory"

Janna Thompson (Latrobe University/ University of Melbourne)  

"Obligation and Remembrance"

Ross Poole (Baruch College, CUNY)

"Memory, History, and the Claims of the Past"

Sue Campbell (Dalhousie University)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Albert Flores (California State University-Fullerton)

Critics: John Doris (University of California-Santa Cruz)

Don Loeb (University of Vermont)

Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Author: Paul Bloomfield (University of Connecticut)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Topic: Best Practices in Graduate Education

Chair: Peter French (Arizona State University)

Panelists: Nancy Simco (University of Memphis)

Steven Reynolds (Arizona State University)

David Boersma (Pacific University)

Stephen Erickson (Pomona College)

Thomas Christiano (University of Arizona)

George Wilson (University of California-Davis)

Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University)

Josef Stern (University of Chicago)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Thomas Carson (Loyola University-Chicago)

Critics: Alison McIntyre (Wellesley College)

Richard Arneson (University of California-San Diego)

Author: Brad Hooker (University of Reading)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: John Christian Laursen (University of California-Riverside)

Speakers: Samuel Black (Simon Fraser University)

"Moral fallibalism and toleration in Locke"

Michael Rosenthal (University of Washington)

"Spinoza and Early Modern Toleration"

Richard Dees (University of Rochester)

"‘The paradoxical principle and salutary practice’: Hume on toleration"

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Daniel Shartin (Worcester State University)

Speakers: Scott MacDonald (Cornell University)

"Petit Larceny, the Beginning of All Sin: Augustine’s Theft of the Pears"

Gareth Matthews (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

"Augustine on Doing Wrong for the Sake of Doing Wrong"

William Mann (University of Vermont)

"Augustine on Wanting the Worse"

9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Dustin Stokes (University of British Columbia)

Speaker: Susanna C. Siegel (Harvard University)

"How Does Phenomenology Constrain Object-seeing?"

Commentator: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Michael Nelson (Yale University)

Speakers: Andrew Egan and John James (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"A Puzzle About Perception"

Commentator: Jon Ellis (University of California-Santa Cruz)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Anne Jaap Jacobson (University of Houston)

Speaker: Joshua Gert (Florida State University)

"Sensations and Circularity"

Commentator: Aaron Zimmerman (University of California-Santa Barbara)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Simon Roberts-Thomson (University of Arizona)

Speaker: Steven P. Scalet (State University of New York- Binghamton)

"Liberalism’s Bind"

Commentator: Walter Schaller (Texas Tech University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Michael White (Arizona State University)

Speaker: Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt University)

"Problems with Galston’s Pluralist Liberalism"

Commentator: Craig Duncan (Ithaca College)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Rodney Peffer (University of San Diego)

Speaker: David Reidy (University of Tennessee)

"Reciprocity Confronts Reasonable Disagreement: From Liberal to Democratic Legitimacy"

Commentator: John Christman (Pennsylvania State University)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair:  Steven Hoffman (Biology and Philosophy, Arizona State University)

Speaker:  Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis and Clark College)

"True Lies:  Robustness and Idealization in Ecological Explanation" 

Commentator: Andrea Woody (University of Washington) 

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Anya Plutynski (University of Utah)

Speaker:  Michael D. Root (University of Minnesota)

"Why Natural Selection is Color Blind" 

Commentator: Lisa Gannett (California State University-Chico) 

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Steve Downes (University of Utah)

Speaker:  Marshall D. Abrams (Colgate University)

"Two Roles for Probability in a Theory of Fitness" 

Commentator: Robert Richardson (University of Cincinnati) 

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Gregory Velazco y Trianosky (California State University- Northridge)

Speaker: Thomas P. Kelly (University of Notre Dame)

"Moorean Facts"

Commentator: Kelly Jolley (Auburn University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Joe Ulatowski (University of Utah)

Speaker: Patrick Toner (University of Virginia)

"Meta-ontology and Existence as Instantiation"

Commentator: Philip Goggans (Seattle Pacific University)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Chris Naticchia (California State University-San Bernardino)

Speaker: Tiger C. Roholt (Columbia University)

"Groove (Nonconceptual Content and Qualia)"

Commentator: York H. Gunther (California State University- Northridge)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Dawn Starr (University of California-Los Angeles)

Speaker: Dean Pettit (University of North Carolina)

"Deflationism and Imperatives"

Commentator: Douglas Patterson (Kansas State University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Kari Middleton (Syracuse University)

Speaker: Christopher Michael Kane (Brown University)

"Paying the Price for Transitivity"

Commentator: Angie Harris (University of Utah)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Mark A. Moffett (University of Wyoming)

Speaker: Roberta Ballarin (Southern Methodist University)

"Model Theoretic versus Metaphysical Interpretation of Necessity in ‘Naming and Necessity’"

Commentator: Douglas Cannon (University of Puget Sound)

1:00 -4:00 p.m.

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)

Speakers: Jonathan Cohen (University of California-San Diego) and Aaron Meskin (Texas Tech University)

"Spatially Agnostic Informants and the Epistemic Status of Photography"

John Kulvicki (Carleton University)

"Seeing-in, Skeletal Content, and Transparency"

Commentator: Scott Walden (New York University)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Deen Chatterjee (University of Utah)

Speakers: Lionel McPherson (Tufts University)

"The Moral Agency of Combatants"

Kai Draper (University of Delaware)

"Noncombatant Liability"

Virginia Held (The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

"Legitimate Authority in Non-State Groups Using Violence"

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair and Commentator: Jay Wood (Wheaton College)

Speakers: Christopher Hookway (Sheffield University)

"Epistemic Virtues and Reasons for Belief"

John Greco (Fordham University)

"Holding Defeat to the Fire: Virtue Epistemology and the Problem of Defeating Evidence"

Christine McKinnon (Trent University, Canada)

"Hypocrisy and Some Related Vices: Lessons for Virtue Epistemologies?"

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Joshua Rust (University of California-Riverside)

Speakers: George Bealer (University of Colorado-Boulder)

"Philosophy, Physics, and Intuition"

Brian Weatherson (Brown University)

"What Morality in Fiction Teaches us about Conceivability"

Paul M. Churchland (University of California-San Diego)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto)

Speakers: Edwin McCann (University of Southern California)

"Why the self is not a substance: Kant vs. Locke and Leibniz"

Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario)

"Hume’s Response to the Achilles Argument"

Stephen Engstrom (University of Pittsburgh)

"Unity of Apperception" 

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)

Speakers: Maudemarie Clark (Colgate University)

John Richardson (New York University)

Commentators: Joshua Landy (Stanford University)

Candace Vogler (University of Chicago)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair:  Louise Antony (Ohio State University)

Speaker: Jaegwon Kim (Brown University)

"Explanatory Arguments for Type Physicalism and Why They Don’t Work"

Commentators: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University)

Terrence Horgan (University of Arizona)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: S.A. Lloyd (University of Southern California)

Critics: Christopher MacMahon (University of California-Santa Barbara)

Gerald Gaus (Tulane University)

Author: Fred D’Agostino (University of New England, Australia)

1:00-4:00 p.m., california ballroom

Chair: Rosalind Hursthouse (University of Auckland)

Critics: John Deigh (University of Texas-Austin)

Ronald deSousa (University of Toronto)

Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland-College Park)

Author: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Topic: Roundtable: American Indian Thought: A Philosophical Reader

Chair: Dale Turner (Dartmouth College)

Discussants: Vera Palmer (Cornell University)

Gordon Christie (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University)

Dale Turner (Dartmouth College)

Anne Waters (Independent Scholar)

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Chair: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill)

Speaker: Steven Sverdlik (Southern Methodist University) "Acting From Duty and Self-Interest"

Commentator: Mitch Avila (California State University-Fullerton)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: James Anderson (University of San Diego)

Speaker: Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto) "Conventionalism about Promise Keeping"

Commentator: Adam Moore (University of Washington)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Hans Seigfried (Loyola University-Chicago)

Speaker: Willem F. Bakker (Washington University)

"On the Supposed Duty to Promote Others’ Perfection"

Commentator: Susan M. Purviance (University of Toledo)

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Chair: Mark Collier (Stanford University)

Speaker: Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah)

"Standards, Advice, and Practical Reason"

Commentator: John Dreher (University of Southern California)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: Matt Pamental (University of Utah)

Speaker: Mary C. Coleman (Bard College)

"Public Reasons and Practical Solipsism"

Commentator: Sandra Shapsay (Indiana University)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: David Carey (Whitman College)

Speaker: Heidi M. Maibom (Carleton University)

"Psychopathic Unreason & Morality"

Commentator: Cory D. Wright (University of California-San Diego)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Jay D. Atlas (Pomona College)

Speaker: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)

"On Referring and Not Referring"

Commentators: Jeffrey King (University of California-Davis)

Jason Stanley (University of Michigan)

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Chair: Dale Turner (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)

Speaker: Christian B. Miller (University of Notre Dame)

"The Policy-Based Approach to Identification"

**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**

Commentator: Donald Hubin (The Ohio State University)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: Randall Parker (Pomona College)

Speaker: Carl F. Craver (Washington University)

"A Field Guide to Levels"

Commentator: Anthony Dardis (Hofstra University)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: William Bracken (University of California-Riverside)

Speaker: Charles M. Hermes (Florida State University)

"How Peer Evaluations Can be Deceptive"

Commentator: Philip Nickel (University of California-Irvine)

4:00 -6:00 p.m.

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Discussion Leader: John Lachs (Vanderbilt University)

Panelists: Susan Anderson (University of Connecticut)

Gregory Pence (University of Alabama-Birmingham)

Carlin Romano (Philadephia Inquirer)

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Ron Mallon (University of Utah)

Speaker: Daniel M. Haybron (Saint Louis University)

"Do We Know How Happy We Are?"

Commentators: Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute Of Chicago)

Joseph Neisser (Grinnell College)

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: John Devlin (Arizona State University)

Speaker: James Dreier (Brown University)

Commentators: Nadeem Hussain (Stanford University)

Robert Johnson (University of Missouri-Columbia)

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Topic: Advice for Next Year's Job Searchers

Panelists: Pamela Hood (San Francisco State University)

Larry May (Washington University)

A special invitation is extended to graduate students and graduate program

coordinators/placement officers. Refreshments will be served.

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Bryan Benham (University of Utah)

Speaker: Pamela Hieronymi (University of California, Los Angeles)

"The Fairness of Blame"

Commentators: Michael McKenna (Ithaca College)

Christopher Ciocchetti (Centenary College of Louisiana)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Wanda Teays (Mt. St. Mary’s College)

Speaker: Janet L. Malek (Rice University)

"The Ethics of Conception and the Possibility of Harm: A Refutation of Parfit"

Commentators: David Adams (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)

Margaret Battin and Diana Buccafurni (University of Utah)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Christopher Smeenk (University of California-Los Angeles)

Speaker: Franz-Peter Griesmaier (University of Wyoming)

"Simplicity and Error Avoidance"

Commentator: Michael Kruse (Independent Scholar)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Michael Malone (Northern Arizona University)

Speaker: Paul C. Anders (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"Likelihoods and Intelligent Design: On William Dembski’s Explanatory Filter and the Nature of Evidence"

Commentator: Robert Pennock (Michigan State University) 

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Rachel Hollenberg (Long Beach City College)

Speaker: David C. Williams (Bethel College)

"Aristotle on the Methodology of Mathematical Concept Acquisition: Resolving an Apparent Inconsistency Between Metaphysics 1077B16 and 1077B33"

Commentator: Phil Corkum (University of California-Los Angeles)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Amanda Printz (University of Southern California)

Speaker: Richard Tierney (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

"Aristotle on Nature and Natural Motion"

Commentator: Malcolm Wilson (University of Oregon)

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Kenneth R. Westphal (University of East Anglia)

Speaker: James Kreines (Yale University)

"The Problem of Action in Hegel’s Logic: Hegel’s Argument Against Deflationary Anti-Dualism"

Commentators: Willem A. DeVries (University of New Hampshire)

Allen Wood (Stanford University)

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Paul Benacerraf (Princeton University)

Speaker: Jay M. Newhard (University of Oklahoma)

"Grelling’s Paradox"

Commentators: Ali Karma (University of Calgary)

C. Anthony Anderson (University of California-Santa Barbara)

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Elizabeth Potter (Mills College)

Speaker: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)

"Requirements of Inclusive Feminist Social Theory"

Commentators: Inmaculada DeMelo-Martin (St. Mary's University, San Antonio)

Alice Crary (The New School for Social Research/Princeton University Center for Human Values)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Richard Creath (Arizona State University) 

Speaker: Francisco Flores (California Polytechnic University- San Luis Obispo) 

"Mass-Energy Equivalence"  

Commentator: Craig Callender (University of California-San Diego) 

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Mariam Thalos (University of Utah)

Speaker: Brian Woodcock (University of California-Irvine)

"Hyperplane-Dependent Quantum State Collapse and the Problem of Coordination"

**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**

Commentator: Wayne Myrvold (University of Western Ontario) 

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Bernard Kobes (Arizona State University)

Speaker: Gualtiero Piccinini (Washington University)

"The Mind as Neural Software: Functionalism, Computationalism, and Computational Functionalism"

Commentators: Charles Wallis (California State University-Long Beach)

Matthias Scheutz (University of Notre Dame)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: William Peck (Reed College)

Speaker: Steven Rieber (Georgia State University)

"Non-Transparent Meaning"

Commentator: Christopher Horn (University of California-Santa Cruz)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Patricia Hanna (University of Utah)

Speaker: Henry Jackman (York University)

"Charity and the Normativity of Meaning"

Commentator: Sara Waller (California State University-Dominguez Hills/ University of Pennsylvania, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience)

Presidential Address

6:00-7:00 p.m., california ballroom

Introduction: Hubert Dreyfus (University of California-Berkeley)

Presidential Address: Julia Annas (University of Arizona)

"Being Virtuous and Doing the Right Thing"

Presidential Reception

7:00-9:00 p.m., Arcade 

Committee And Group Meetings, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

Society for Analytical Feminism

North American Society for Social Philosophy

& Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

Special Session Arranged by APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in the Profession & the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy

North American Kant Society, Session I

Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking

Association of Chinese Philosophers in America

Society for Student Philosophers, Session I

Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion

International Society for the Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Philosophy

Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy

Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session I

Society for the Study of Ethics & Animals

Society for German Idealism, Session II

Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts

Registration

8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., International Foyer

Book Displays

8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., International Ballroom

Placement Information, International Foyer

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

Interview Room, International Ballroom

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

Lunch Meeting for 2004 and 2005

APA Pacific Division Program Committee Members

12:00 p.m., (see APA Registration Desk for location)

9:00 -12:00 p.m. (VII-A, VII-C - VII-J)

9:00 -11:00 p.m. (VII-B)

9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (VII-K - VII-O)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (VII-P)

9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

Chair: Sarah Buss (University of Iowa)

Speakers: Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago)

Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)

Anthony Long (University of California-Berkeley)

Richard Moran (Harvard University)

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

Chair: Talia Bettcher (California State University-Los Angeles)

Speaker: Michael J. Cholbi (California Polytechnic University- Pomona)

"Race, Capital Punishment, and the Cost of Murder"

Commentators: Deirdre Golash (American University)

Elizabeth A. Linehan (St. Joseph’s University)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Aaron Bunch (Loyola University-Chicago)

Critics: Joan Steigerwald (Science & Society Program, York University)

John Zammito (Rice University)

Author: Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Takashi Yagisawa (California State University-Northridge)

Critics: George Wilson (University of California-Davis)

Michael McKinsey (Wayne State University)

Author: Scott Soames (Princeton University)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Victoria McGeer (Princeton University/Australian National University)

Speakers: Peggy DesAutels (University of Dayton)

"Moral Mindfulness"

James Lindemann Nelson (Michigan State University)

"Austen’s Emma and Ethical Formation"

Catherine Wilson (University of British Columbia)

"Evolutionary Psychology and the Preferences of Women"

Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"Torture in Ordinary Circumstances"

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Pamela Hood (San Francisco State University)

Speaker: C. Robert Mesle (Graceland University)

Respondents: John Roth (Claremont McKenna College)

Stephen Davis (Claremont McKenna College)

D.Z. Phillips (Claremont Graduate University)

Commentators: Marilyn Adams (Yale University/Yale Divinity School)

Phillip Quinn (University of Notre Dame)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Julie Van Camp (California State University-Long Beach)

Speakers: Elizabeth Coleman (Center for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University)

"Ownership, Property and Rights"

Claire Lyons (Getty Research Institute)

"The Universal Museum? Antiquities in the National and International Perspective"

Geoffrey Scarre (University of Durham)

"Human Remains and Cultural Property"

Daniel Shapiro (School of Law, Columbia University/President, International Cultural Property Society)

"Philosophy and Cultural Property"

James O. Young (University of Victoria)

"Cultures and Cultural Property"

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Kadri Vihvelin (University of Southern California)

Speaker: Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University)

Commentators: Thomas M. Crisp (Florida State University)

Peter Ludlow (University of Michigan)

Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Eric Cavallero (University of Arizona)

Critics: Brian Barry (Columbia University)

David Miller (Oxford University)

Author: Allen Buchanan (Duke University)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Maria Merritt (College of William and Mary)

Critics: Julia Driver (Dartmouth University)

Robert Solomon (University of Texas)

Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma)

Author: Christine Swanton (University of Auckland)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Niko Kolodny (Harvard University)

Speaker: Charles B. Kurth (Arizona State University)

"Can Minimalism About Truth Be Meta-Ethically Neutral?

Commentator: Anthony Williams (Claremont McKenna College)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Fred Schueler (University of New Mexico)

Speaker: Chris D. Meyers (Southern Methodist University)

"Moral Realism and Reasons to Act"

Commentator: Steve Arkonovich (Reed College)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Aimee Koeplin (University of Washington)

Speaker: William A. Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College)

"Scientifically Based Moral Realism"

Commentator: Dale Dorsey (University of California-San Diego)

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Chair: James Tuedio (California State University-Stanislaus)

Speaker: Martin Benjamin (Michigan State University)

"On (Ethical) Certainty"

Commentator: Daniel Guevara (University of California-Santa Cruz)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair, Mary Ann Warren (San Francisco State University)

Speaker: Robert P. Lovering (American University)

"Another Modern Myth: That Some Entities Possess Full Moral Status"

Commentator: Dan Dombrowski (Seattle University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Ted Preston (University of California-Riverside)

Speaker: Alastair J. Norcross (Rice University)

"Rationality, Moral Status, and Marginal Cases"

Commentator: Lilly-Marlene Russow (Purdue University)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Christopher Meyers (California State University- Bakersfield)

Speaker: Michael B. Gill (University of Arizona)

"A Partial Defense of Physician-Assisted Suicide"

Commentator: Noël Merino (Humboldt State University)

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Chair: Licia Carlson (Seattle University)

Speaker: Frank Chessa (Bates College)

"Endangered Species and the Right to Die"

Commentator: Gary Varner (Texas A&M University)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: David Yount (Mesa Community College)

Speaker: Ellen Wagner (University of North Florida)

"Compulsion in the Republic Again"

Commentator: Marina McCoy (Boston College)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)

Speaker: Richard F. Foley (Eastern Illinois University)

"Plato’s Undividable Line: Contradiction and Method in Republic VI"

Commentator: Henry Mendel (California State University-Los Angeles)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair:  Rega Wood (Stanford University)

Speaker: May Sim (Oklahoma State University)

"The Divided Line and United Psyche in Plato’s Republic"

Commentator: Charles Young (Claremont Graduate University)

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Chair: Christine J. Thomas (Dartmouth College)

Speaker: Daniel R. Sanderman (Lewis and Clark College)

"Why Socrates Mocks His Interlocuters"

Commentator: Julie Piering (University of Arkansas-Little Rock)

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Topic: Teaching Peace and Justice at the Graduate Level: the Kroc Institute Experience

Chair: Lawrence M. Hinman (University of San Diego)

Speakers: Virginia Lewis (Political Science, University of San Diego)

"Teaching Gandhi and Peace Studies"

Rodney Peffer (University of San Diego)

"Philosophical Perspectives on Peace and Justice Studies"

Mark Woods (University of San Diego)

"Teaching Environmental Justice"

Lee Ann Otto (Political Science, University of San Diego)

"Coordinating a Masters Program in Peace and Justice"

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Topic: Teaching Ethics at the Middle and High School Level

Speakers: Lawrence M. Hinman (University of San Diego)

"Structuring an EAC Program at the Middle and High School Levels"

Sandra Foy (Seattle Preparatory School and Matteo Ricci College)

"The Seattle Prep Experience"

Sara Goering (University of Washington)

"Adolescents, Authority, and Ethics: How Philosophy Can Help our High Schools"

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Chair: Arnold Wilson (University of Cincinnati)

Speaker: Lawrence M. Hinman (University of San Diego)

"I, Immanuel: Building a Robot to Understand Kant’s Transcendental Turn"

Commentator: Matt McCormick (California State University- Sacramento)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: P.D. Magnus (Bowdoin College)

Speaker: Rebecca E. Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College)

"Is Reid a Mysterian?"

Commentator: Marion Ledwig (University of California-Santa Cruz)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Tim Crockett (University of California-Berkeley)

Speaker: Giovanni B. Grandi (Talbot College, University of Western Ontario)

"Thomas Reid’s Notion of Visible Figure"

Commentator: Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: William Beardsley (University of Puget Sound)

Speakers: Antonia LoLordo (California Institute of Technology) and Jack Davidson (Iowa State University)

"Gassendi on Intellectual Indifference and Human Freedom"

Commentator: Monte Johnson (University of British Columbia)

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Chair: Julie Klein (Villanova University)

Speaker: Martin T. Lin (University of Toronto)

"Spinoza’s Proofs of the Existence of God"

Commentator: Charles Huenemann (Utah State University)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Stavroula Glezakos (Claremont McKenna College)

Speaker: Daniel Speak (Azusa Pacific University)

"Responsibility and the Failure of the Counterexample Strategy"

Commentator: Dana Nelkin (University of California-San Diego)

Lunch Meeting for 2004 and 2005 APA Pacific Division Program Committee Members

12:00 p.m., (see APA Registration Desk for location)

Mini-Conference on Global Justice

2:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

(See Mini-Conference Program for details)

1:00 -4:00 p.m. (VIII-A - VIII-H, VIII-K - VIII-M)

1:00 -3:00 p.m. (VIII-I, VII-N))

3:00-4:00 p.m. (VIII-J)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Jeffrey Barrett (University of California-Irvine)

Critics: James M. Joyce (University of Michigan)

Joshua Epstein (The Brookings Institution/Santa Fe Institute)

J. McKenzie Alexander (London School of Economics)

Author: Brian Skyrms (University of California-Irvine)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Murat Aydede (University of Florida)

Critics: David Chalmers (University of Arizona)

Georges Rey (University of Maryland-College Park)

William Lycan (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Author: Joseph Levine (The Ohio State University)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Merrill Ring (California State University-Fullerton)

Critics: Laurence BonJour (University of Washington)

Michael Williams (The Johns Hopkins University)

Jose Bermudez (Washington University)

Author: Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Topic: Research Ethics and Human Vulnerability

Chair: Jeff Blustein (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

Speakers: Kenneth Kipnis (University of Hawaii-Manoa)

"Seven Vulnerabilities in Human Research Subjects"

Dorle Vawter (Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics)

"Placebo-Controlled Surgical Research: Are Participants Vulnerable?"

Robert Goodin (Australian National University)

1:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: Ann Garry (California State University-Los Angeles)

Critics: Christine Littleton (Law and Women’s Studies, University of California-Los Angeles)

Meredith Michaels (Smith College)

Author: Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic University- Pomona)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Ronald Sundstrom (University of San Francisco)

Speakers: Anne Waters (Independent Scholar)

"American Indian Genocide"

Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York-Stony Brook)

"Biopolitics and the Routinization of Genocide: Genealogy of Racism"

Ronald Sundstrom (University of San Francisco)

"On John Brown"

Commentator: Tommy Lott (San Jose State University)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Alison Kafer (Claremont Graduate School)

Speakers: Maria Pia Lara (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)

Hilde Nelson (Michigan State University)

Hanna Schell (Monmouth College)

Robin May Schott (University of Copenhagen)

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Dominic Murphy (California Institute of Technology)

Speakers: Edward Harcourt (University of Kent)

Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University)

Michael Stocker (Syracuse University)

1:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair:  Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College)

Speaker:  Paula Gottlieb (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"Aristotle and Moral Dilemmas"

Respondents:  Susan Sauvé Meyer (University of Pennsylvania)
Christopher Rowe (University of Durham)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Marc Baer (University of California-Irvine)

Speaker: Todd C. Calder (University of Western Ontario)

"Evil, Privation and Value: The Privation of Augustine’s Account of Evil"

Commentator: John Cogan (Southern Illinois University)

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Chair: James Doyle (University of Bristol/University of Virginia)

Speaker: Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota)

"How’s It Going? Judgments of Overall Life-Satisfaction and Philosophical Theories of Well-Being"

Commentator: Daniel Callcut (University of North Florida)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: Martin J. Beck Matustik (Purdue University)

Speaker: Troy Booher (University of Utah)

"Mill’s Higher Pleasures: Not What They Seem"

Commentator: Cindy Holder (University of Victoria)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Andrews Reath (University of California-Riverside)

Speaker: Eric Moore (Longwood University)

"Motive-Utilitarianism Revisited"

Commentator: James Skidmore (Idaho State University)

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Chair: William Stephens (Creighton University)

Speaker: Geoffrey A. Gorham (St. Olaf College)

"Cartesian Time"

Commentor: Jorge Secada (University of Virginia)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: Jeffrey McDonough (University of California-Irvine)

Speakers: Raffaella De Rosa and Otavio Bueno (University of South Carolina)

"Descartes’s Quasi-Platonism about Mathematical Essences"

Commentator: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Jill Buroker (California State University-San Bernardino)

Speaker: Katherine Dunlop (University of California-Los Angeles)

"Berkeley’s Metaphysical Criticisms of the Calculus"

Commentator: Thomas Holden (Syracuse University)

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Chair: Lydia L. Moland (Babson College)

Speaker: Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida)

"Hegel’s Idea of a Civil Religion for Modern Societies"

Commentator: Jason Wirth (Oglethorpe University)

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Chair: Malek Khazaee (California State University-Long Beach)

Speaker: Dean F. Moyar (The Johns Hopkins University)

"Fichte and the Moral(s) of Moore’s Paradox"

Commentator: Yolanda Estes (Mississippi State University)

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Chair: Jocelyn Hoy (University of California-Santa Cruz)

Speaker: David L. Sherman (University of Montana)

"Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Modern Self-Making"

Commentator: Jessica Berry (College of William and Mary)

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Chair: Franklin Bruno (University of California-Los Angeles)

Speaker: Nellie Wieland (University of California-San Diego)

"Error and Linguistic Beliefs"

Commentator: Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of California-Santa Cruz)

2:00 -3:00 p.m.

Chair: Lance P. Hickey (St. Louis University)

Speaker: Edward C. Feser (Loyola Marymount University)

"Why Searle is a Property Dualist"

Commentator: Jennifer Hudin (University of California-Berkeley)

Group Meeting, 1:00-3:00 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

California State University Department Chairs

4:00 -7:00 p.m.

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4:00-7:00 p.m.

Topic: Philosophers’ Professional Rights

Chair: Debra Nails (Michigan State University)

Speaker: Jonathan Knight (Director, Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance, AAUP)

Panelists: John-Christian Smith (Youngstown State University)

William O. Stephens (Creighton University)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Peter Tan (Mt. Saint Mary’s College)

Speaker: Jeffrey C. Brand-Ballard (George Washington University)

"Rules That Bend Without Breaking"

Commentator: Larry Alexander (University of San Diego)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Darryl Wright (Harvey Mudd College)

Speaker: Betsy C. Postow (University of Tennessee)

"Valid Competing Moral Codes"

Commentator: Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)

6:00-7:00 p.m.

Chair: Laurence Houlgate (California State Polytechnic University -San Luis Obispo)

Speaker: Rebecca Stangl (University of Notre Dame)

"Dancy’s Particularism and the Point of Moral Principles"

Commentator: Leonard Kahn (University of California-Irvine/ Oxford University)

4:00-7:00 p.m.

Topic: Women and the U.S. Constitution

Chair: Carol Gould (Stevens Institute of Technology/Columbia University)

Panelists: Sibyl Schwarzenbach (The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

Tracy Higgins (Fordham Law School)

Judith DeCew (Clark University)

Carol Gould (Stevens Institute of Technology/Columbia University)

4:00-7:00 p.m.

Chair: Alva Noe (University of California-Berkeley)

Speakers: Alicia Juarrero (Prince George’s Community College)

C.A. Hooker (University of Newcastle-Australia)

Mark H. Bickhard (Lehigh University)

Commentators: William Bechtel (University of California-San Diego)

Galen Strawson (The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

4:00-7:00 p.m.

Chair: Mary Devereaux (University of California-San Diego)

Critics: Eric Juengst (Case Western Reserve University)

Kathryn Morgan (University of Toronto)

Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)

Author: Carl Elliott (University of Minnesota)

4:00-7:00 p.m.

Chair: George Rudebusch (Northern Arizona University)

Critic: John Cooper (Princeton University)

Author: Christopher Bobonich (Stanford University)

4:00-7:00 p.m.

Chair: John Carriero (University of California-Los Angeles)

Speakers: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)

"Nouveaux Essais: Conversation or Contest?"

Sean Greenberg (The Johns Hopkins University)

"Mind, Will, and Human Freedom in the New Essays"

Nicholas Jolley (University of California-Irvine)

"Leibniz, Locke, and the Epistemology of Tolerance"

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Kym Maclaren (Northern Arizona University)

Speaker: Amy Coplan (California State University-Fullerton)

"Empathy and the Self Other Differentiation"

Commentator: John Draeger (Syracuse University)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Kenneth Rogerson (Florida International University)

Speaker: Allen Coates (Vanderbilt University)

"Ethical Internalism and Cognitive Theories of Motivation"

Commentator: Arthur Kuflik (University of Vermont)

6:00-7:00 p.m.

Chair: Kirk Fitzpatrick (Southern Utah University)

Speaker: Michael Schleifer (University du Quebec à Montreal)

"Moods, Emotions, and Morality"

Commentator: Mark Jenkins (University of Puget Sound)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Stephan Käufer (Franklin and Marshall College)

Speaker: Joseph K. Schear (University of Chicago)

"The Integrity of Assertion in Being and Time"

Commentator: David Cerbone (West Virginia University)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Kristen A. Irwin (University of California-San Diego)

Speaker: Jen McWeeny (University of Oregon)

"Origins of Otherness: A Juxtaposition of Simone de Beauvoir and Emmanuel Levinas"

**Winner of an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award**

Commentator: Joshua Shaw (Indiana University-Bloomington)

6:00-7:00 p.m.

Chair: Philip Bartok (St. John’s College-New Mexico)

Speaker: Christopher Nagel (California State University-Stanislaus)

"Conceiving Artificial Life: Merleau-Ponty and Computational Models"

Commentator: Stefano Franchi (University of Auckland)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Patricia Easton (Claremont Graduate University)

Speaker: David R. Cunning (University of Iowa)

"A Variety of Minds in the Third and Fifth Meditations"

Commentator: Lex Newman (University of Utah)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Kurt Smith (Bloomsberg State University)

Speaker: David L. Clemenson (University of St. Thomas)

"Much Ado About Non-Things: Cartesian Idea Theory and the Doctrine of Material Falsity"

Commentator: Alan Nelson (University of California-Irvine)

6:00-7:00 p.m.

Chair: Don Merrell (Arkansas State University)

Speaker: Michael LeBuffe (Texas A & M University)

"Four Cartesian Theses About Sensory Ideas"

Commentator: Roger Florka (Ursinus College)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Saul Traiger (Occidental College)

Speaker: Pierre G. Le Morvan (College of New Jersey)

"Goldman on Knowledge as True Belief"

Commentator: Don Fallis (University of Arizona)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Ron Wilburn (University of Nevada-Las Vegas)

Speaker: Leo W. Iacono (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

"Pragmatics and Epistemic Justification"

Commentator: Baron Reed (Northern Illinois University)

6:00-7:00 p.m.

Chair: Kenneth Lucey (University of Nevada-Reno)

Speaker: Tadeusz W. Zawidzki (Ohio University)

"Why Some Epistemic Intensions are not Narrow Contents"

Commentator: Alex Byrne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Kyle Stanford (University of California-Irvine)

Speaker: Michael Tooley (University of Colorado-Boulder)

"Counterfactual Analyses of Causation"

Commentator: Anjan Chakravartty (University of Toronto)

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Chair: Doug Hill (University of California-Irvine)

Speaker: Ana C. Sartorio (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"Disjunctive Causes"

Commentator: Brad Armendt (Arizona State University)

6:00-7:00 p.m.

Chair: John Stopple (University of California-Irvine)

Speaker: Jonathan M. Schaffer (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

"Contrastive Causation"

Commentator: Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia)

4:00-7:00 p.m.

Topic: Race & Racism in Modern Empiricism

Moderator: J. L. A. Garcia (Boston College)

Speakers: Barbara Hall (Georgia State University)

"Europeans & Non-Europeans in Hobbes' State of Nature"

William Uzgalis (Oregon State University)

"Berkeley and the Westward Course of Empire"

Andrew Valls (Oregon State University)

"'A Lousy Empirical Scientist': Reconsidering Hume's Racism"

Group Meetings, 7:00-11:00 p.m.

(See Group Meeting Program for Details)

7:00-9:00 p.m.

Society for the Philosophy of History, Session II

North American Kant Society, Session II

Society for Skeptical Studies

Hume Society

7:00-10:00 p.m.

Society for the Contemporary Assessment of Platonism, Session II

American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

Society for German Idealism, Session III

Society for Student Philosophers, Session II

American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Session II

International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session II

International Institute for Field-Being

9:00-11:00 p.m.

North American Spinoza Society, Session II

Max Scheler Society of North America, Session II

International Hobbes Association

Mini-Conference on Global Justice

8:30 a.m.-10:00 p.m.

(See Mini-Conference Program for details. The Mini-Conference continues through Tuesday morning, March 30.)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Jordi Cat (Indiana University-Bloomington)

Critics: Miriam Solomon (Temple University)

Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia)

James Robert Brown (University of Toronto)

Author: Helen Longino (University of Minnesota)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Jim Woodward (California Institute of Technology)

Critics: Alfred Mele (Florida State University)

John Fischer (University of California-Riverside)

Timothy O’Connor (Indiana University)

Author: Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Stewart Cohen (Arizona State University)

Speaker: Earl Conee (University of Rochester)

"Foundational Epistemology"

Commentators: Ernest Sosa (Brown University)

Michael Huemer (University of Colorado-Boulder)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Steve Barbone (San Diego State University)

Critics: Edwin Curley (University of Michigan)

Tad Schmaltz (Duke University)

Author: Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Michael Pakaluk (Clark University)

Speakers: Sarah Broadie (University of St. Andrews)

"Plato's Intelligible World?"

Andrew Mason (University of Edinburgh) 

"Plato on Necessity and Chaos" 

Respondent:  Steven K. Strange (Emory University)

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Topic: Is High School a Better Place to Teach Introduction to Philosophy than College?

Chair: Ken Knisely (Milk Bottle Productions, Inc.)

Speakers: Thomas Doyle II (University of California-Irvine)

Jennifer Faust (California State University-Los Angeles)

Jim Maechling (Palos Verdes Peninsula High School)

Katherine Katsenis (Claremont Graduate University)

(Please see the PreCollege Instruction Committee's webpage for a list of questions to be discussed. The questions are posted at http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/governance/committees/pre-college/)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Johnny Washington (Southwest Missouri State University)

Speaker: Noell Birondo (University of Arizona)

"Moral Realism Without Values?"

Commentator: Robert Mabrito (Arizona State University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Candace Upton (University of Wyoming)

Speaker: Andrew M. Cullison (University of Rochester)

"Anti-Realism Meets Amoral Twin Earth"

Commentator: William Tolhurst (Northern Illinois University)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Julie Tannenbaum (University of California-Santa Cruz)

Speaker: William J. FitzPatrick (Virginia Tech University)

"Normative Realism, Constructivism and the Instrumental Principle"

Commentator: Tamar Schapiro (Stanford University)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Mark Pursley (Los Angeles Mission College)

Speaker: Daniel F. Zelinski (Richard Bland College)

"Mystical Prudence: Considering the Morality of Nondualistic Mysticism"

Commentator: Jerome Gellman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: John Birmingham (Moorpark College/California Lutheran University)

Speaker: Andrew Eshleman (University of Arkansas-Little Rock)

"Can an Atheist Believe in God?"

Commentator: Rico Vitz (University of California-Riverside)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: David Corner (California State University-Sacramento)

Speaker: Saam Trivedi (Simmons College)

"Idealism and Yogacara Buddhism"

Commentator: T. R. Raghunath (California State University- Fresno)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Kayley Vernallis (California State University-Los Angeles)

Speaker: Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati)

"Expression in Music: Genuine Expression or Doggy Appearance"

Commentator: Andrew Kania (University of Maryland)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: John Carvalho (Villanova University)

Speaker: Robert A. Stecker (Central Michigan University)

"Two Kantian Conceptions of Aesthetic Experience"

Commentator: Rachel Zuckert (Rice University)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Carol Skrenes (University of California-Irvine)

Speaker: Catherine J. Wearing (University of Western Ontario)

"Context-dependence in Semantic Accounts of Metaphor"

Commentator: Barbara Scholz (San Jose State University)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Mateusz Oleksy (University of California-Berkeley)

Speaker: Cheryl K. Chen (Bryn Mawr College)

"Massive Reduplication and the Relation between Thought and Experience"

Commentator: Michelle Montague (University of California- Irvine

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Heather Battaly (California State University-Fullerton)

Speaker: Jennifer Lackey (Northern Illinois University)

"It Takes Two to Tango: Reductionism and Non-reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony"

Commentator: Joseph Shieber (Lafayette College)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Peter Kung (New York University)

Speaker: Sarah Sawyer (University of Kansas)

"Knowing Which Questions to Beg"

Commentator: William Taschek (The Ohio State University)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Chair: Matt Haber (University of California-Davis)

Speaker: Allen J. Hazlett (Brown University)

"Against Fictionalism"

Commentor: Daniel Nolan (Syracuse University)

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Zlatan Damnjanovic (University of Southern California)

Speakers: Gabriel Uzquiano and Agustin Rayo (University of Rochester)

"A Puzzle for Structuralism"

Commentator: Aldo Antonelli (University of California-Irvine)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Chair: Steven Reynolds (Arizona State University)

Speaker: Bryan R.S. Frances (University of Leeds)

"Universal Skepticism"

Commentator: Sarah McGrath (College of the Holy Cross)

7:00-10:00 p.m.

Topic: Theodore Drange's Philosophy of Religion

Chair: Charles Echelbarger (State University of New York-Oswego)

Speaker: Theodore Drange (West Virginia University)

"Is 'God exists' Cognitive?"

Commentator: Matt McCormick (California State University-Sacramento)

Speaker: Keith Parsons (University of Houston-Clear Lake)

"Thoughts on Drange's Nonbelief and Evil"

Commentator: Theodore Drange (West Virginia University)

Speaker: Stephen T. Davis (Claremont McKenna College)

"Some Aspects of Drange's Philosophy of Religion"

Commentator: Theodore Drange (West Virginia University)

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. (GII-1 - GII-8)

6:00 - 9:00 p.m. (GII-9 - GII-13)

8:00 - 10:00 p.m. (GII-14 - GII-15)

8:00 - 11:00 p.m. (GII-16 - GII-22)

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Lisa Sideris, Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection

Chair: Louke van Wensveen (Loyola Marymount University)

Critics: Holmes Rolston III (Colorado State University)

Clare Palmer (Lancaster University)

Daniel McFee (Mercyhurst College)

Author: Lisa Sideris (McGill University)

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Topic: The Social View of the Trinity.

Chair: Charles T. Hughes (Chapman University)

Speaker: Stephen T. Davis (Claremont-McKenna College)

Commentators: Garrett Deweese (Biola University)

Dale Wright (Occidental College)

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Topic: Reconsidering Eugene Fink's Nietzsche's Philosophy

Chair: Lawrence Hatab (Old Dominion University)

Speakers: James Winchester (Georgia College & State University)

Babette Babich (Fordham University)

Steven Crowell (Rice University)

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Topic: Idealism, Pragmatism, and Historical Logics

Chair: Mark Bevir (University of California-Berkeley)

Speakers: Karim Dharamsi (University of Winnipeg)

"Grey on Grey: Philosophy and Historical Understanding"

Raymond Martin (Union College)

"Humanistic Historical Studies, Objectivity, and the Politics of Inclusion"

William Sweet (St Francis Xavier University)

"Idealism and History"

GII-5. North American Spinoza Society, Session I

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Chair: Debra Nails (Michigan State University)

Speaker: Firmin DeBrabander (Boston College)

"Psychotherapy and Moral Perfection: Spinoza and the Stoics and the Prospect of Happiness"

Commentator: Eman Fallah (California Institute of Integral Studies)

Speaker: Ben Frazer-Smith (University of Colorado-Denver)

"Spinoza, Godel, and the Incompleteness of God: Spinoza’s Transcendental Arguments in the TdIE"

Commentator: Joe VanZandt (Independent Scholar)

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Chair: L. Nathan Oaklander (University of Michigan-Flint)

Speaker: Frank Arntzenius (Rutgers University)

"Time and Infinity"

Commentator: Heather Dyke (University of Otago)

Chair: Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)

Speaker: L. A. Paul (University of Arizona)

"Change is Multiple Realization"

Commentator: Jill North (Rutgers University)

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Topic: Method and Purpose in Philosophical Practice

Chair: James A. Tuedio (California State University-Stanislaus)

Speakers: Sandra Dreisbach (Philosophical Practitioner)

"What is a Philosophical Cafe? An Exploration of Method and Purpose"

Pierre Grimes (Opening Mind Academy)

"The Common Thread Between the Pathologos and Genocide"

Diane Kern (Marriage and Family Therapist; Insight Center)

"Self as an Emergent Property: Complexity Theory Informs Philosophical

Practice"

Commentator: J. Michael Russell (California State University-Fullerton)

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Topic: Literary interpretation: Intentionalism vs. Reader-Response

Speakers: Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati)

Robert Stecker (Central Michigan University)

Commentator: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)

6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Chair: Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California)

Speakers: Patrick Rysiew (University of British Columbia)

"Reidian Evidence"

John-Christian Smith (Youngstown State University)

"Reid's Projection Relation: Double-blind Representation"

Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College)

"Reid on Memory"

6:00-9:00 p.m.

Chair: Julius Moravscik (Stanford University)

Speakers: Tushar Irani (Northwestern University)

"Theory and Practice in Plato's Theaetetus: The Question of Knowledge and the Primacy of Dialectic"

Denis Vlahovic (University of St. Thomas)

"Politics III on he ariste politeia"

Michael Bowler (Kenyon College)

"The Quarrel Between the Ancients and the Moderns: Aristotle's Realism and the Modern Skeptic"

6:00-9:00 p.m.

Topic: Chinese Philosophy in Contemporary Contexts

Chair: Mary Bockover (Humboldt State University)

Speakers: Paul Saka (University of Houston)

"A Confucian Look at Hate Speech"

Wing-cheuk Chan (Brock University)

"Mou Tsung-san and Buddhism"

Kim Skoog (University of Guam)

"Moral Gradations of Suicide: A Moral Analysis of Acts of Self-Death in East Asia Traditions"

Linghong Kong (Daoism Study Center of Zhejiang University)

"Modern Neo-Daoism Declaration"

Commentator: Mary Bockover (Humboldt State University)

6:00-9:00 p.m.

Chair: Paul Tang (California State University-Long Beach)

Speakers: Eleanor Godway (Central Connecticut State University)

"Writing Aesthetics: The Aesthetic Writ Large: John Macmurray's Theory of Art and its Implications for History."

Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina)

"How is Structural Empiricism Possible?"

John H. McClendon III (Bates College)

"Lenin, Einstein, and Mach: The Contending Question of Realism in Physics"

6:00-9:00 p.m.

Topic: Peacemaking in an Age of Terror

Chair: Ron Hirschbein (California State University-Chico)

Speakers: Kelly Candaele (Occidental College)

"Spiritual Politics: Peacemaking in Northern Ireland."

Gail Presbey (University of Detroit-Mercy)

"Survelliance and the Meaning of Life: Philosophic Reflections on the film Black River and Combat Zones that See (CTS) Technology."

Wendy Hamblet (Adelphi University)

"Perversions of Democracy: A Contemplation of Aristotle on Democratic Ideals."

8:00-10:00 p.m.

Chair: Jeffrey Yim (University of California-Riverside)

Speaker: Frank Grabowski (Wayne State University)

"Anslem's Ontological Argument and Platonic Realism"

Commentator: Richard Davis (Tyndale University College)

Speaker: Patrick Toner (University of Virginia)

"Eternalism and Divine Judgment"

Commentator: Garrett Deweese (Talbot School of Theology)

8:00-10:00 p.m.

Topic: Conceptual Mediations - Methods of Interpretation and Translation

Chair: Chaone Mallory (University of Oregon)

Speakers: John Kaag (University of Oregon)

"Paddling in the Stream of Experience - Rowing and the Habits of Thought"

Commentator: Alain Beauclair (University of Oregon)

Celia Bardwell-Jones (University of Oregon)

"The Role of Pragmatism in Feminist Epistemology - Feminist Border Politics and Josiah Royce"

Commentator: Alison Crane Reiheld (Michigan State University)

Scott Aikin (Vanderbilt University)

"The Given Ain't a Myth - How Pragmatists Can Live With That"

Commentator: Tom Nail (University of Oregon)

8:00 - 11:00 p.m.

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Kyriaki Goudeli, Challenges to German Idealism: Schelling, Fichte, and Kant

Chair: J. M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College)

Critics: Richard Findler (Slippery Rock University)

Jason Wirth (Oglethorpe University)

Author: Kyriaki Goudeli (Patras University)

8:00 - 11:00 p.m.

Topic: Stakeholder Theory and Global Justice

Chair: Jeffery Smith (University of Redlands)

Speaker: Robert Phillips (University of San Diego)

"Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics"

Commentator: Jeffery Smith (University of Redlands)

Speaker: Nien-hê Hsieh (University of Pennsylvania)

"Global Justice and Transnational Corporations"

Commentator: Denis Arnold (University of Tennessee)

8:00 - 11:00 p.m.

Topic: Oppression, Its Manifestations and Proposed Solutions

Chair: Barbara LaBossiere (California State University-Fresno)

Speaker: Irfan Khawaja (The College of New Jersey)

"Muslim Anti-Semitism and Zionist Orientalism: The Workings of a Vicious Cycle"

Commentator: Sarah Pessin (California State University-Fresno)

Speaker: Chioke I'Anson (University of South Florida)

"Fanon, Sartre, and the Other"

Commentator: Kermit L. Harrison II (Florida State University)

Speaker: Lijun Yuan (Texas State University-San Marcos)

"Class and Gender Oppression: Seeking an Alternative to Mao's View of Women"

Commentator: Donna Reeves (University of Colorado)

8:00-11:00 p.m.

Speakers: Philip Blosser (Lenoir-Rhyne College)

"The Difference between the Moral and the Simply Normative."

Philip Cronce (Chicago State University)

"Objectivity, Validity, and Universality in Max Scheler's Ethics."

John F. Crosby (Franciscan University of Steubenville)

"Person and Authority: Critical Reflections on the Anti-Authoritarian Strain

in Scheler's Personalism."

Zachary Davis (University of New Hampshire)

"The Examplarity of Alien Weltanschauungen: Max Scheler's Phenomenology of Cross Cultural Conflict."

Manfred S. Frings (The Max Scheler Archives and Institute, Albuquerque)

"Max Scheler's Philosophy of Time: Discoveries and Issues."

8:00 - 11:00 p.m.

Topic: Hardt's and Negri's Empire in the Light of Iraq

Chair: TBA

Speakers: Pierre Lamarche (Utah Valley State College)

"Sovereignty, Empire, and Iraq"

Max Rosenkrantz (California State University-Long Beach)

"Empire or Empire?"

Mark Rauls (Community College of Southern Nevada)

"The Biopolitical, on the Road to Baghdad"

8:00 - 11:00 p.m.

Topic: A Feminist Conversation on Cognitive Disability

Chair: Janet Horrigan (California State University-Fullerton)

Speakers: Licia Carlson (Seattle University)

"Humanizing Feminist Discourse About Cognitive Disability"

Anita Ho (College of St. Catherine)

"Is 'Reproductive Autonomy for Women with Cognitive Disabilities' an Oxymoron?"

Anna Stubblefield (Rutgers University-Newark)

"The Chimera of Race and Cognitive Ability"

A short business meeting will follow.

8:00-11:00 p.m.

Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University-Fullerton)

Speaker: Isaac [Yanni] Nevo (Ben Gurion University)

"Davidson's Private Languages"

Richard Allen (New York University)

"Interpretation and Intention"

William H. Hyde (Golden West College)

"The Ethical and 'das Mystische' in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy"

7:30 - 10:30 p.m.

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: Feminist Critiques of Reason

Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College)

Speakers: Maureen Linker (University of Michigan-Dearborn)

"Applying the Principle of Charity in a Social Context"

Helen Longino (University of Minnesota-Minneapolis)

"Reason and Values in Feminist Science Studies"

Peg O'Connor (Gustavus Adolphus College)

"Putting the Practice into Practical Moral Reason"

Mariam Thalos (University of Utah)

"What is a Feminist to do with Rational Choice Theory?"

Commentator: Jennifer Faust (California State University-Los Angeles)

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: "Pragmatism and Social Hope: Working Utopias"

Co-Chairs: Jeff Paris (University of San Francisco)

Kaarina Beam (Linfield College)

Speakers: Maurice Hamington (Lane Community College)

"Hull House: A Feminist Pragmatist Utopia"

Doug Anderson (Pennsylvania State University)

"Thomas Davidson's Breadwinners College: Teaching Culture"

Erin McKenna (Pacific Lutheran University)

"Pluralism and Tolerance at Home, WA: A Pragmatist Approach to Anarchy"

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: Philosophy of the Body and Queer Issues

Chair: Andy Wible (Muskegon Community College)

Speakers: George Wright (University of Wisconsin-Superior)

"Martin Heidegger and the Place of Sex"

Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo (Washington State University)

Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (Washington State University)

"'The War on Terror' and the Queer Body: Same-Sex Marriage, AIDS, and

the Shaping of U.S. Public Opinion"

Kayley Vernallis (California State University-Los Angeles)

"Queer Portraiture and the Politics of Representation"

Rachel H. Heller (San Diego State University)

"Pardon Me, Mr. Finnis, But Homosexual Acts Provide More Than Just Pleasure"

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: Kant on Transcendental Idealism and Environmental Philosophy

Chair: Jennifer Uleman (University of Miami)

Speaker: Lucy Allais (Oxford University)

"A Partial Defence of Langton on Kant"

Commentator: James Van Cleve (BrownUniversity/University of Southern

California)

Speaker: Holly Wilson (University of Louisiana-Monroe)

"Kant and Environmental Philosophy: Just How Green is Kant?"

Commentator: Martin Schönfeld (University of South Florida)

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Chair: Scott Dixon (University of California-Riverside)

Speaker: Chris Campolo (Hendrix College)

"Misology and Equipollence"

Commentator: Andrew Eshleman (University of Arkansas-Little Rock)

Speaker: Daniel Cohen (Colby College)

"Argumentation and Modal Logic On the Argumentatively Possible and the Logically Impossible"

Commentator: Edward Maine (California State University-Fullerton)

Speaker: Dale Turner (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)

"You Should Have Reasons for Your Views?"

Commentator: Jonathan Adler (City University of New York, Brooklyn

College)

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: Topics in Buddhist Philosophy

Chair: Thomas Sherman (Loyola Marymount University)

Speakers: Dale S. Wright (Occidental College)

"What Consequences Follow from Locating Buddhist Philosophy as a Subcategory of Meditation?"

Charles Goodman (Binghamton University):

"Some Arguments from the Madhyamakavatara"

David W. Tien (University of Michigan)

"The Problem of Evil in the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana"

Commentators: Thomas Sherman (Loyola Marymount University)

Peter Groff (Bucknell University)

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Chair: Michael Daniels (Trinity University)

Speakers: P.J. Lomelino (University of Colorado-Boulder)

"Euthanasia: Within the Bounds of Self-Determinism"

Ted M. Preston (California State University-Long Beach/University of

California-Riverside)

"The Private and Public Appeal of Self-Fashioning"

William P. Seeley (The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

"Naturalizing Aesthetics: Art and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision"

Anastasia Panagopoulos (Simon Fraser University)

"Rethinking the Internalism/Externalism Controversy: A Criticism of

Strong Internalism"

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Speakers: Kisor K. Chakrabarti (Ferris State University)

"The Grue Paradox: An Indian Solution"

Paul Saka (University of Houston)

"Statistical Determinism and Advaita Free Will"

Shyam Ranganathan (York University)

"Ramanuja on Natural Theology"

Horace Fairlamb (University of Houston)

"Moral Development and Religious Pluralism: Reconciling Difference and

Progress"

Chandana Chakrabarti (Elon University)

"Emptiness Revisited"

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: Contemporary Issues in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy

Chair: Chanh Phan (San Jose State University)

Speakers: Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii-Manoa)

"Overcoming Contemporary Issues in Confucianism"

Marina Carnogurska-Ferancova (Institute of Oriental and African

Studies, Slovak Academy of Science)

"Chinese Philosophy through a Prism of Euro(West) and Chinese

Philosophical Relations in Their Global Context"

Linhe Han (Harvard-Yenching Institute/Peking University)

"Zhuangzi Compared with the Early Wittgenstein"

JeeLoo Liu (State University of New York-Geneseo)

"The Status of Cosmic Principles (Li) in the Natural State of Being: A

Comparative Study of the Neo-Confucian Metaphysics Commentators"

Commentators: Hui-chieh Loy (University of California-Berkeley)

Bo Mou (San Jose State University)

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: Husserl and Philosophy of Science

Chair: David Woodruff Smith (University of California-Irvine)

Speakers: Michael Friedman (Stanford University)

Dagfinn Føllesdal (Stanford University/University of Oslo)

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: Desire and Structure.

Chair: Marina McCoy (Boston College)

Speakers: Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino)

"Eros philo-sophos? Looking back to Plato"

Asher Seidel (Miami University)

"Plato's Postponed Revolution"

Geraldine Finn (Carleton University)

"On Listening. To mousike. In the text of Philosophy."

Coleen Zoller (Susquehanna University)

"A Decade of Mathematics? A Look at Mathematical Method and the Hierarchy of Platonic Forms"

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Chair: Matt Silliman (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)

Speaker: A. Anchustegui (Boise State University)

"Biocentric Ethics and Animal Prosperity"

Commentator: William McCarthy (Northern Illinois University)

Chair: Daniel A. Dombrowski (Seattle University)

Speaker: Garret Merriam (Rice University)

"Virtue Ethics and the Moral Significance of Animals"

Commentator: Matt Silliman (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)

Chair: William McCarthy (Northern Illinois University)

Speaker: Jane Duran (University of California-Santa Barbara)

"Gorilla Minds"

Commentator: Daniel A. Dombrowski (Seattle University)

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: Author Meets Critics - Michael Mack, German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responsiveness

Critics: Arthur Jacobson (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law)

John McCumber (University of California-Los Angeles)

Aaron Bunch (Loyola University-Chicago)

Author: Michael Mack (Syracuse University)

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Chair: Sheri Ross (Beloit College)

Speakers: John Carvalho (Villanova University)

"Purpose, Cause, Destiny, Control in The Matrix Reloaded"

Pedro Fernandez (Endicott College)

"Photographic Punctum as Bliss in Barthes' Camera Lucida"

Richard Gilmore (Concordia College)

"An Epistemological Turn in Hitchcock's Vertigo"

Vera Jakoby (McDaniel College)

"Cannibals in Paradise: Hannibal and Nietzsche's Overman"

Jung-In Kwon (State University of New York-Brockport College)

"Memory Simulated: Memento"

Commentator: Sheri Ross (Beloit College)

Group Session GIV

12 - 1.00 p.m.

1:00 - 3 p.m.

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. (GV-1 - GV-4)

7:00 - 10:00 p.m. (GV-5 - GV-12)

9:00 - 11:00 p.m. (GV-13 - GV-15)

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Historical Interpretation in the Human Sciences

Chair: Andrews Reath (University of California-Riverside)

Speakers: Taylor Carman (Barnard College, Columbia University)

"Narrative and Knowledge".

Naomi Choi (University of California-Berkeley)

"Legal Interpretation and Law's Normativity"

Jorge Secada (University of Virginia)

"How to do the History of Philosophy"

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Topic: Kant on Reason

Chair: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)

Speaker: Paul Redding (The University of Sydney)

"Kant on Hypothetical and Analogical Reasoning"

Commentator: Robert Hanna (University of Colorado-Boulder)

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Chair: Richard Greene (Weber State University)

Speakers: John Collins (East Carolina University)

"Content Externalism and Skepticism about Introspective Knowledge of Logical Form"

William Larkin (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)

"A Puzzle about the Significance of Skepticism"

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Chair: Mark Collier (Stanford University)

Speaker: Nicholas Jolley (University of California-Irvine)

"Hume, Malebranche, and the Last Occult Quality"

7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Topic: Plato and Poetry

Chair: Adriel Trott (Villanova University)

Speakers: Lawrence Hatab (Old Dominion University)

"Orality and Literacy: A Key to Plato's Critique of Poetry."

Gary Scott, (Loyola College-Maryland)

"The Last Word on the Poets: Reconsidering Republic X"

John Rose (Goucher College)

"Kindled By a Leaping Spark: Plato's Poetic Dialectics"

Bernard Freydberg (Slippery Rock University)

"Huponoia in Platonic Poetics"

7:00-10:00 p.m.

Topic: Pedagogical and Ethical Issues in Publishing Student Webpages

Chair: Betsy Newell Decyk (California State University-Long Beach)

Philosophy Teacher Panelists: Robert Timko (Mansfield University)

Erin Livingston (Miyazaki International College)

Janine Dewitt-Heffner (Marymount University)

Student Panelists: Jessica Cranney (California State University-Long Beach)

Amanda Trefethen (California State University-Long Beach)

7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Topic: Issues in Comparative Philosophy: East and West

Chair: Robin R. Wang (Loyola Marymount University)

Speaker: Thomas Sherman (Loyola Marymount University)

"The Good Man and Goodness of Action in Laozi and Aristotle"

Commentator: Paul Kjellberg (Whittier College)

Speaker: Peter Groff (Bucknell University):

"Al-Kindi and Nietzsche on the Stoic Art of Banishing Sorrow"

Commentator: Marc Applebaum (Saybrook Graduate School-San Francisco)

Ian Muhlhauser (San Francisco State University):

"The Sangha and the Schole: Buddhist Meditation and Ancient Greek Contemplation"

Commentator: David W. Tien (University of Michigan)

7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Chair: Jeffrey A. Gauthier (University of Portland)

Speaker: Jennifer Bates (University of Guelph)

"The Moral Chemist of the Corpus Mysticum: Why Some Version of Kant's Practical Postulates are Necessary, Even for Hegel"

Speaker: Matthew C. Altman (Central Washington University)

"The Prescience of Fichte's Anstoss: German Idealism and Post-Nietzschean Philosophy"

Speaker: Michael Allen (Saint Louis University)

"Hegel Between Non-Domination and Expressive Freedom"

7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Chair: Anastasia Panagopoulos (Simon Fraser University)

Speaker: Michael Daniels (Trinity University)

"On the Inevitability of Political Metaphysics"

Speaker: John Jacob Kaag (University of Oregon)

"Tethering the Balloon of Philosophy: Seeking the Ground of American

Thought"

Speaker: Joseph L. Guza (Boston College)

"Contemplative Musings: D.Z. Phillips and Ludwig Wittgenstein on the

Nature of Philosophy"

Speaker: Stephanie Wykstra (Rutgers University)

"The Agent in Action: A Critique of Velleman"

7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Topic: Philosophy in Practice

Chair: James A. Tuedio (California State University-Stanislaus)

Speakers: Megan Laverty (Montclair State University)

"Philosophical Dialogue and Ethics: Redefining the Virtues"

J. Michael Russell (California State University-Fullerton)

"The Philosophical Yield of Philosophical Practice"

Paola Teresa Grassi (Milan, Italy)

"Clinical Psychiatry and Philosophical Counseling: On the Possibility of Networking"

Commentator: James A. Tuedio (California State University-Stanislaus)

7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Topic: Environmental Ethics-Practical Applications

Chair: Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (Colorado College)

Speaker: Kate Rawles (Independent Scholar)

"Outdoor Environmental Philosophy"

Commentators: Mark Woods (University of San Diego)

Chaone Mallory (University of Oregon)

Speaker: Rob Loftis (Saint Lawrence University)

"Germ-Line Enhancement of Humans and Nonhumans"

Commentators: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (Colorado College)

9:00 - 11:00 p.m.

Chair: Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University)

Speakers: James Giles (Cambridge University)

"The Tao as Consciousness"

Rong-po Chen (Tung Hai University)

"Comparative Views of Philosophy between the I-Ching and the Later

Heidegger"

Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University)

" Jiao: Individuation in the Tao Te Ching"

9:00 - 11:00 p.m.

Chair: Charles Huenemann (Utah State University)

Speaker: Jason Read (University of Southern Maine)

"Order and Connection of Ideas: Thinking in and with Spinoza"

Commentator: Blake McBride (Independent Scholar)

Speaker: Julie Klein (Villanova University)

"Natural Necessity, Material Freedom"

Commentator: Tammy Nyden-Bullock (University of Nevada-Las Vegas)

9:00-11:00 p.m.

Speaker: Eugene Kelly (New York Institute of Technology)

" 'On Taking a Friend to the Store:' Peter Spader's account of the

Phenomenology of Moral Action in Max Scheler."

Respondent: Peter Spader (Marywood University)

9:00-11:00 p.m.

Chair: S. A. Lloyd (University of Southern California)

Speaker: Martin Bertman (Helsinki University)

2:30-6:00 p.m.

2:30-4:30 p.m.

Chair: Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego State University)

Speaker: Charles Beitz (Princeton University)

"Problems About Cosmopolitanism"

Discussants: Leif Wenar (University of Sheffield)

Mathias Risse (Harvard University)

Kristen Hessler (Iowa State University)

Jon Mandle (State University of New York-Albany)

Michael Blake (Harvard University)

Opening Reception

4:30-6:00 p.m.

8:00-10:00 p.m.

Speakers: Ryoa Chung (University of Montreal)

"Health, Justice and Global Governance"

Caroline Allard (University of Montreal)

"The Moral Responsibility of Nations Facing Epidemics: A Question of Organization"

Mira Johri (University of Montreal/McGill University)

"Caring for HIV/AIDS in Resource-Limited Settings: Social justice and International Responsibilities"

Gopal Sreenivasan (University of Toronto)

"International Justice and Health: A Proposal"

Daniel Wikler (Harvard University)

TBA

Daniel Weinstock (University of Montreal)

TBA

8:00-10:00 p.m.

Chair: David Adams (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)

Speaker: Soran Reader (University of Durham)

"Cosmopolitanism, War and Criminal Justice"

Commentator: Larry May (Washington University)

Speaker: Lisa Portmess (Gettysburg College)

"Military Tribunals: Procedural Justice and the Problem of Evidence"

Commentator: Tim Challans (Combat Studies Institute, Command and General Staff College)

8:00-10:00 p.m.

Chair: Deen K. Chatterjee (University of Utah)

Speaker: Elizabeth Ashford (University of St. Andrews)

"Poverty, Human Rights and Obligations"

Commentator: Ramon Das (Victoria University-Wellington)

Speaker: Anna Moltchanova (Carleton College)

"A Pragmatic Definition of Nationhood"

Commentator: Simon Cushing (University of Michigan-Flint)

8:30-10:20 a.m.

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Chair: Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)

Speakers: Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado-Boulder)

"Western Feminism and Global Responsibility"

Hye-ryoung Kang