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Tweet2010 Pacific Division Meeting Program
Draft of December 16, 2009.
| Group Program | ||||||
| Wednesday Evening, March 31 | ||||||
| Group Session GIV — 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GIV-A. | International Association for the Philosophy of Sport | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Speakers: | Joan Grassbaugh Forry (Vanderbilt University) | |||||
| “Environmental Ethics and the ‘Greening’ of Intercollegiate Sport” | ||||||
| Douglas McLaughlin (California State University–Northridge) | ||||||
| “Sweet Tension: The Significance of Games to the Good Life” | ||||||
| GIV-B. | International Hobbes Association, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Sharon Lloyd, Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes | |||||
| Moderator: | Martin Bertman (Hobbes Studies) | |||||
| Author: | Sharon A. Lloyd (University of Southern California) | |||||
| Critics: | Al Martinich (University of Texas–Austin) | |||||
| Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine and City University of New York–Graduate Center) | ||||||
| Susanne Sreedhar (Boston University) | ||||||
| GIV-C. | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Peter S. Groff (Bucknell University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Emily McRae (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | |||||
| “Emotions and Moral Self-Development in Tibetan Buddhism” | ||||||
| Peter S. Groff (Bucknell University) | ||||||
| “The Divine and the Inhuman: Apophatic Approaches to God and Nature in al-Sijistānī and Nietzsche” | ||||||
| Matthew LoPresti (Hawaii Pacific University) | ||||||
| “The Philosophy of Religious Diversity in the Bhagavadgītā and Its Commentaries” | ||||||
| Group Session GV — 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GV-A. | Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | A Close Examination of Wang Yangming’s Liangzhi Theory | |||||
| Chair: | Philip J. Ivanhoe (City University of Hong Kong) | |||||
| Speaker: | David Tien (National University of Singapore) | |||||
| “‘Like a Cat Catching Mice:’ Neo-Confucian Cognitive Therapy as a Method for Freeing and Extending the Liangzhi” | ||||||
| Commentator: | JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| Speaker: | Tzu-Li Chang (National Zhengzhi University) | |||||
| “Reflections on Wang Yangming’s Theory of Liangzhi in Light of Moral Practice and Moral Judgment” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Rina Marie F. Camus (National Chengchi University) | |||||
| “Epistemological Observations about Wang Yangming’s Liangzhi” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Weimin Sun (California State University–Northridge) | |||||
| GV-B. | Bay Area Continental Philosophy Association | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Beautiful | |||||
| Chair: | Gerard Kuperus (University of San Francisco) | |||||
| Speaker: | Thaddeus Taylor-O’Neil (State University of New York–Stony Brook) | |||||
| “Kant and the Dynamically Sublime in Surfing: Sublimity Engaged Dynamically” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jason Burke Murphy (St. Louis University) | |||||
| Speaker: | David Won Johnson (Pennsylvania State University) | |||||
| “The ‘Deadliness’ and Fragility of Action: An Oakeshottean View of Beauty” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco) | |||||
| GV-C. | Concerned Philosophers for Peace | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Perspectives on Warfare: Myth and Reality | |||||
| Speakers: | Ovadia Ezra (Tel Aviv University) | |||||
| “An Unheroic Perspective on Military Service” | ||||||
| Mavis Biss (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | ||||||
| “Moral Imagination and Violent Conflict Resolution” | ||||||
| Ron Hirschbein (California State University–Chico) | ||||||
| “The Evil of Banality” | ||||||
| Andrew Fiala (California State University–Fresno) | ||||||
| “The Just War Myth” | ||||||
| GV-D. | International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Environmental Metaphysics | |||||
| Chair: | Geoffrey Frasz (College of Southern Nevada) | |||||
| Speaker: | Nathan Kowalsky (University of Alberta) | |||||
| “The Metaphysics of Crisis: Maintaining Moral Contingency in Environmental Philosophy” | ||||||
| Commentator: | John Basl (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | |||||
| Speaker: | Bob Sandmeyer (University of Kentucky) | |||||
| “An Existential Interpretation of Aldo Leopold’s Concept of Land” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Dylan Trigg (University of Sussex) | |||||
| Speaker: | Tim Christion (University of North Texas) | |||||
| “Nature’s Agency or Nature’s Response? What It Is for the Natural World to Relate to Us?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Avram Hiller (Portland State University) | |||||
| GV-E. | North American Nietzsche Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Nietzsche and Antiquity | |||||
| Chair: | R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Nickolas Pappas (City College of New York and City University of New York–Graduate Center) | |||||
| Joel E. Mann (St. Norbert College) | ||||||
| Wilson H. Shearin (Stanford University) | ||||||
| GV-F. | North American Spinoza Society, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Steve Barbone (San Diego State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Forrest Williams (University of Colorado–Boulder) | |||||
| “Urgent Recommendations on How Not to Read Spinoza” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Brandon Look (University of Kentucky) | |||||
| Speaker: | Eugene Garver (College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University) | |||||
| “Enough Is Enough: Spinoza on the Desire for Self-Preservation and the Desire for More Power” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Steve Barbone (San Diego State University) | |||||
| GV-G. | North American Wittgenstein Society, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Jeff Johnson (St. Catherine University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Paul Livingston (University of New Mexico) | |||||
| “Wittgenstein and Turing” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jack Woods (Princeton University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Simo Säätelä (Universitetet i Bergen) | |||||
| “Wittgenstein on Aesthetics, Mathematics, and Philosophical Method” | ||||||
| Commentator: | John W. Powell (Humboldt State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | George Wrisley (George Washington University) | |||||
| “Truth, Nonsense, and the Meaningfulness of Ostensive Gestures” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Joshua Kortbein (Luther College) | |||||
| GV-H. | Society for German Idealism, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | J. M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College) | |||||
| Speaker: | John McCumber (University of California–Los Angeles) | |||||
| “Hegel and the History of ‘Idealism’” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Victoria I. Burke (University of Toronto) | |||||
| Speaker: | Tatiana Patrone (Ithaca College) | |||||
| “Making Sense of Hegel’s Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Brady Bowman (Pennsylvania State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Martin Donougho (University of South Carolina) | |||||
| “Performing Hegel” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Daniel Kirchner (Centre College) | |||||
| GV-I. | Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Speakers: | Otávio Bueno (University of Miami) | |||||
| “Scientific Modeling and Scientific Representation: The Peculiar Case of Applied Mathematics” | ||||||
| Robert Batterman (University of Western Ontario) | ||||||
| “Singularities and Explanation” | ||||||
| Jody Azzouni (Tufts University) | ||||||
| “The Role of Mathematics in Scientific Modeling” | ||||||
| GV-J. | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Graduate Student Section | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Pragmatic Methodology, Self-cultivation, and Social Transformation | |||||
| Chair: | Jessica Soester (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | |||||
| Speakers: | Carl Dull (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | |||||
| “A Pragmatic Confucian Apprehension of Norms: Virtue, Imagination, and Social Flourishing” | ||||||
| Clancy Smith (Duquesne University) | ||||||
| “Critical Pragmatism: C.S. Peirce and Herbert Marcuse on the Artificial Stagnation of Human Development in Advanced Industrial Societies” | ||||||
| Aaron Rodriguez (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| “Hanging by a Narrative Thread: Dewey and Rorty on Aesthetic Self-Creation” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Benjamin Craig (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | |||||
| Ravi Doshi (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | ||||||
| Aisha Raees (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | ||||||
| GV-K. | Society for Women in Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Falguni Sheth, Towards a Political Philosophy of Race | |||||
| Chair: | Christina M. Bellon (California State University–Sacramento) | |||||
| Author: | Falguni A. Sheth (Hampshire College) | |||||
| Critics: | David Kim (University of San Francisco) | |||||
| Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York–Stony Brook) | ||||||
| Mickaella Perina (University of Massachusetts–Boston) | ||||||
| GV-L. | Society of Christian Philosophers | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Daniel Speak (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Jonathan D. Jacobs (St. Louis University) | |||||
| Timothy O’Connor (Indiana University–Bloomington) | ||||||
| “Emergence and the Resurrection” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Rebekah L. H. Rice (Seattle Pacific University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Michael Pace (Chapman University) | |||||
| “Faith and Intellectual Virtue” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Daniel Speak (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Group Session GVI — 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GVI-A. | American Society for Aesthetics | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Christopher Williams (University of Nevada–Reno) | |||||
| Speakers: | John Brown (University of Maryland–College Park) | |||||
| Glenn Parsons (Ryerson University) | ||||||
| GVI-B. | Sartre Circle | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Sartre, Althusser, and the Humanism Debate Revisited | |||||
| Chair: | Ronald E. Santoni (Denison University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Bill Martin (DePaul University) | |||||
| Respondent: | Tom Jeannot (Gonzaga University) | |||||
| GVI-C. | Society for Natural Religion, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Natural Religion after Hume | |||||
| Chair: | Owen Anderson (Arizona State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | David M. Holley (University of Southern Mississippi) | |||||
| “A Different Form of Natural Religion” | ||||||
| Kristen Irwin (Biola University) | ||||||
| “Epistemic Authority and Certainty in Bayle’s Conception of Religious Belief” | ||||||
| Lee Hardy (Calvin College) | ||||||
| “Hume’s Defense of True Religion” | ||||||
| Surrendra Gangadean (Paradise Valley Community College) | ||||||
| “On the Necessity for Natural Religion” | ||||||
| Thursday Evening, April 1 | ||||||
| Group Session GVII — 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GVII-A. | International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | ‘The Moral Fool:’ A Debate on Negative Ethics | |||||
| Chair: | Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California–Riverside) | |||||
| “Fooling Oneself?” | ||||||
| Ellen Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University) | ||||||
| “How to Avoid Speaking Morality: Denials” | ||||||
| Jennifer Lundin Ritchie (University of British Columbia) | ||||||
| “The Morality of Amorality: Did the Daoists Have It Right?” | ||||||
| Respondent: | Hans-Georg Moeller (University College, Cork) | |||||
| GVII-B. | Radical Philosophy Association, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Cheyney Ryan, The Chickenhawk Syndrome: War, Sacrifice, and Personal Responsibility | |||||
| Chair: | Jose Jorge Mendoza (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Author: | Cheyney Ryan (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Critics: | Anatole Anton (San Francisco State University) | |||||
| Michael Philip Brown (Michigan State University) | ||||||
| Harry van der Linden (Butler University) | ||||||
| GVII-C. | Society for Empirical Ethics | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Disadvantage | |||||
| Chair: | William A. Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Gillian Brock (University of Auckland) | |||||
| “Disadvantage” | ||||||
| Jonathan Wolff (University College London) | ||||||
| “Disadvantage: The Genuine Opportunity for Secure Functionings View” | ||||||
| Polly Vizard (London School of Economics) | ||||||
| “Multidimensional Deprivation and the Capability Approach: A Framework for Selecting Domains” | ||||||
| GVII-D. | Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Film, Video, and Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Julie C. Van Camp (California State University–Long Beach) | |||||
| Speakers: | Dan Shaw (Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| “Nietzschean Themes in the Films of Charlie Kaufmann” | ||||||
| Dylan Trigg (University of Sussex) | ||||||
| “The Return of the New Flesh: David Cronenberg and Body Memory” | ||||||
| Fay Zika (Athens School of Fine Arts) | ||||||
| “Video Art Time” | ||||||
| GVII-E. | Society for the Study of Process Philosophy | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Climate Change and Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Daniel A. Dombrowski (Seattle University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Susan Armstrong (Humboldt State University) | |||||
| Brian G. Henning (Gonzaga University) | ||||||
| GVII-F. | Society for Women in Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | A History of Women in Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Alice Sowaal (San Francisco State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Jessica Davis (San Diego State University) | |||||
| “Ann Conway Beyond You and Me” | ||||||
| Lysane F. A. Fauvel (State University of New York–Stony Brook) | ||||||
| “Edith Stein’s Legacy: The Phenomenology of Empathy” | ||||||
| Steve Barbone (San Diego State University) | ||||||
| “Gabrielle Suchon (1631-1703): A Third Way Beyond Gender: A Play in Three Acts” | ||||||
| Group Session GVIII — 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GVIII-A. | History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society and Bertrand Russell Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Rosalind Carey (City University of New York–Lehman College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Russell Wahl (Idaho State University) | |||||
| “Analysis and Acquaintance” | ||||||
| Reshef Agam-Segal (Auburn University) | ||||||
| “Anscombe’s Criticism of Kantian Self-Legislation” | ||||||
| Peter Baumann (Swarthmore College) | ||||||
| “Fulfillment or Satisfaction? Russell and Wittgenstein on the Content of Desires” | ||||||
| Peter Stone (Stanford University) | ||||||
| “Russell on Mathematical Education” | ||||||
| GVIII-B. | International Hobbes Association, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Moderator: | Martin Bertman (Hobbes Studies) | |||||
| Speakers: | Peter Vanderschraaf (University of California–Merced) | |||||
| “Hobbes’ Scientific Natural Law” | ||||||
| Marcus Adams (University of Pittsburgh) | ||||||
| “Hobbes, Definitions, and Simple Conceptions” | ||||||
| James Martel (San Francisco State University) | ||||||
| “Reading Hobbes and Spinoza: Scriptural Interpretation and Political Authority in Early Modern Thought” | ||||||
| Gordon Schochet (Rutgers University) | ||||||
| “Tending Toward the ‘Dissolution of a Commonwealth:’ Hobbes on Judgment, Will, and the Changing Meaning of Conscience” | ||||||
| GVIII-C. | International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Roles and Responsibilities of the Superior in the Analects | |||||
| Chair: | Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | |||||
| Speakers: | Stephen C. Walker (University of Chicago) | |||||
| “‘Though I Exhaust My Capacities, Still Something Looms Up Before Me’—Effort, Emulation, and Enquiry in the Analects” | ||||||
| Alexus McLeod (University of Dayton) | ||||||
| “Ambivalence Toward Children and the Ethics of Fatherhood in the Analects” | ||||||
| Manyul Im (Fairfield University) | ||||||
| “Gentlemen Prefer Bronze: Aesthetic Sensibility as Moral Sense in the Analects” | ||||||
| Nhat Long Vu (University of Connecticut) | ||||||
| “Is It Possible to Know Who Is the Superior Man?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | |||||
| GVIII-D. | North American Kant Society, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Kant’s Political Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Pablo Muchnik (Siena College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Susan Shell (Boston College) | |||||
| ”’Nachschrift eines Freundes’: Kant on Language, Friendship, and the Concept of People” | ||||||
| Pauline Kleingeld (Universiteit Leiden) | ||||||
| “Kant on Political Cosmopolitanism and Moral Dispositions” | ||||||
| Werner Stark (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | ||||||
| GVIII-E. | Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Mark Wheeler (San Diego State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | John Bowin (University of California–Santa Cruz) | |||||
| “Aristotle on Learning in De Anima II 5” | ||||||
| Joel E. Mann (St. Norbert College) | ||||||
| “Causation, Agency, and Law in Antiphon: On Some Subtleties in the Second Tetralogy” | ||||||
| John Thorp (University of Western Ontario) | ||||||
| “Intelligible Matter in Aristotle” | ||||||
| GVIII-F. | Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Speakers: | Henry Jackman (York University) | |||||
| “‘Truth’ and Objectivity” | ||||||
| Patrick Greenough (University of St. Andrews and University of Sydney) | ||||||
| “Indeterminacy, Truth, and Reality” | ||||||
| Kevin Scharp (Ohio State University) | ||||||
| “Truth, Objectivity, and Realism” | ||||||
| GVIII-G. | Society for the Metaphysics of Science, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Decomposing the Mind: From Functional Analysis to Mechanistic Explanation | |||||
| Chair: | Cory Wright (California State University–Long Beach) | |||||
| Speakers: | David M. Kaplan (Washington University in St. Louis) | |||||
| “Decomposition, Description, and Explanation in Visual Neuroscience” | ||||||
| Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri–St. Louis) | ||||||
| “Functional Analyses as Mechanism Sketches” | ||||||
| Mark B. Couch (Seton Hall University) | ||||||
| “Mechanisms and Explanatory Relevance” | ||||||
| Daniel Weiskopf (Georgia State University) | ||||||
| “Mechanisms and Models in Psychological Explanation” | ||||||
| Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa) | ||||||
| “What Is a Piece of Mind?” | ||||||
| GVIII-H. | Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 1 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Meaning in History | |||||
| Chair: | Naomi Choi (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Speakers: | Robert Lamb (University of Exeter) | |||||
| “Beliefs, Desires, and Weak Intentionality” | ||||||
| Johannis Bin Abdul Aziz (University of California–Berkeley) | ||||||
| “History, Holism, and Wittgenstein” | ||||||
| Petri Koikkalainen (University of Lapland) | ||||||
| “Should the History of Political Theory Be Written as a History of Concepts or as a History of Beliefs?” | ||||||
| GVIII-I. | Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Joseph J. Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Matthew Pike (University of Colorado–Boulder) | |||||
| “Aikido and the Role of the New Warrior” | ||||||
| Tonya Warren (San Diego State University) | ||||||
| “Bear and Sparrow: Using the Diamond Sutra to Cut Through Duality in the Martial Arts” | ||||||
| Richard Schubert (Cosumnes River College) | ||||||
| “On the Alleged Uniqueness of the Martial Arts” | ||||||
| Alan Bäck (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania) | ||||||
| “Strength and Qi” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Craig K. Ihara (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| Joseph J. Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) | ||||||
| GVIII-J. | Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Introspection and Consciousness: East and West | |||||
| Chair: | David Lawrence (University of North Dakota) | |||||
| Speakers: | Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti (Davis and Elkins College) | |||||
| “Introspection” | ||||||
| Chandana Chakrabarti (Davis and Elkins College) | ||||||
| “Pure Experience: East and West” | ||||||
| Matt Mackenzie (Colorado State University) | ||||||
| “Reflexive Awareness: Luminosity, Temporality, and the Living Present” | ||||||
| Sthaneshwar Timaisina (San Diego State University) | ||||||
| “Self Awareness in Advaita” | ||||||
| David Lawrence (University of North Dakota) | ||||||
| “The Pratyabhijna Theory of Self-luminosity (svapraksatva)” | ||||||
| Group Session GIX — 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GIX-A. | Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement | |||||
| Chair: | Wanda Teays (Mount St. Mary’s College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Dale Turner (California State Polytechnic University–Pomona) | |||||
| “You’re Not an Idiot or Evil, But You Are Wrong: Some Reflections on the Epistemic Significance of Disagreement” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Jerry Cederblom (University of Nebraska–Omaha) | |||||
| Zenon Culverhouse (Mount St. Mary’s College) | ||||||
| Michael Scriven (Claremont Graduate University) | ||||||
| GIX-B. | David Kellogg Lewis Society | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Inaugural Meeting | |||||
| Speakers: | Richard Hanley (University of Delaware) | |||||
| “Counterfactuals, Back-tracking, and Time Travel” | ||||||
| Terry Horgan (University of Arizona) | ||||||
| “Quantification with Crossed Fingers” | ||||||
| GIX-C. | Society for Natural Religion, Session 2 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Natural Religion and Special Revelation | |||||
| Chair: | Owen Anderson (Arizona State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Aaron Rizierri (City University of New York–LaGuardia) | |||||
| “High Stakes Miracles and Knowledge” | ||||||
| David Hunt (Whittier College) | ||||||
| “Hume, Theological Minimalism, and the Problem of Evil” | ||||||
| Majid Amini (Virginia State University) | ||||||
| “Philo Revisiting Revelation” | ||||||
| GIX-D. | Society for Student Philosophers, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Ethics and Action | |||||
| Speakers: | Tara Rhoades (University of Delaware) | |||||
| “A New Solution to the Ducking Problem” | ||||||
| Kory DeClark (University of Southern California) | ||||||
| “Reasons of the Obligation Sort” | ||||||
| Grant J. Rozeboom (Stanford University) | ||||||
| “Thinking and the Unforgivable” | ||||||
| Jesse Summers (University of California–Los Angeles) | ||||||
| “What Happens When J. David Velleman Acts?” | ||||||
| GIX-E. | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Judith Green, Pragmatism and Social Hope: Deepening Democracy in Global Contexts | |||||
| Chair: | Brendan Hogan (New York University) | |||||
| Author: | Judith Green (Fordham University) | |||||
| Critics: | Mark Van Hollebeke (Pacific Lutheran University) | |||||
| Noelle McAfee (George Mason University) | ||||||
| Scott L. Pratt (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| GIX-F. | Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Bill Martin, Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation | |||||
| Chair: | Anne F. Pomeroy (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey) | |||||
| Author: | Bill Martin (DePaul University) | |||||
| Critics: | Tom Jeannot (Gonzaga University) | |||||
| Anne F. Pomeroy (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey) | ||||||
| Friday Evening, April 2 | ||||||
| Group Session GX — 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GX-A. | Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Art, Architecture, and Value | |||||
| Chair: | Dan Shaw (Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| Speakers: | Edward Winters (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| “Art and Value: Civilisation and the Altermodern” | ||||||
| Jennifer McMahon (University of Adelaide) | ||||||
| “Before Art Ended: Reuniting Art with Metaethics” | ||||||
| Timothy Dzimiri (National University of Sciences and Technology) | ||||||
| “The Relationship of Architecture and Music” | ||||||
| Group Session GXI — 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GXI-A. | Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Political Realism Chinese and Western (Han Fei Zi, Machiavelli, and Hobbes) | |||||
| Chair: | Tongdong Bai (Xavier University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Philip J. Ivanhoe (City University of Hong Kong) | |||||
| “Hanfeizi and Moral Self-Cultivation” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Henrique Schneider (Universität Wien) | |||||
| Speaker: | Markus Fischer (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| “The Book of Lord Shang Compared to Machiavelli and Hobbes” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Eirik Harris (Santa Clara University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Wei Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) | |||||
| “Advising the Tyrant and Advising the Prince: Aristotle and Machiavelli on Political Manipulation” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Owen Flanagan (Duke University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Eirik Harris (Santa Clara University) | |||||
| “Han Fei on Morality in Politics” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Michael Green (Pomona College) | |||||
| GXI-B. | International Association for Computing and Philosophy | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Authors-Meet-Critics: Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen, Moral Machines | |||||
| Chair: | John P. Sullins (Sonoma State University) | |||||
| Authors: | Colin Allen (Indiana University–Bloomington) | |||||
| Wendell Wallach (Yale University) | ||||||
| Commentators: | Mark Coeckelbergh (Universiteit Twente) | |||||
| James H. Moor (Dartmouth College) | ||||||
| Thomas M. Powers (University of Delaware) | ||||||
| Carson Reynolds (University of Tokyo) | ||||||
| Robin Zebrowski (Beloit College) | ||||||
| GXI-C. | International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Comparative Philosophical Methodology | |||||
| Chair: | Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | |||||
| Speakers: | Wai Wai Chiu (University of New South Wales) | |||||
| “A Critique of ‘Neutral’ Knowledge in Zhuangzi” | ||||||
| Karyn Lai (University of New South Wales) | ||||||
| “Knowing and Thinking in the Confucian Analects” | ||||||
| Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee (University of Hawaii–West Oahu) | ||||||
| “Political Authority and Care-giving in Confucianism” | ||||||
| Ranie Villaver (University of New South Wales) | ||||||
| “Zhuangzi’s Skeptical Method in Light of Yangism” | ||||||
| Sandra A. Wawrytko (San Diego State University) | ||||||
| “Prajna Wisdom in Buddhist Philosophy: Transcending Human Nature and Human Reason” | ||||||
| GXI-D. | International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Moral Responsibilities to Nature | |||||
| Chair: | Christina M. Bellon (California State University–Sacramento) | |||||
| Speaker: | Toby Svoboda (Pennsylvania State University) | |||||
| “Natural Goods and the Moral Considerability of Non-humans” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Lisa Kretz (Dalhousie University) | |||||
| Speaker: | David Wood (Vanderbilt University) | |||||
| “In the Face of Anthropogenic Climate Change, How Strong Is the Case for Voluntary Human Extinction?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jeff Sebo (New York University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jennifer Welchman (University of Alberta) | |||||
| “A Defense of Environmental Stewardship” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Chris Cuomo (University of Georgia) | |||||
| GXI-E. | Karl Jaspers Society, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Suzanne Kirkbright, Karl Jaspers: A Biography—Navigations in Truth | |||||
| Chair: | Alan M. Olson (Boston University) | |||||
| Author: | Suzanne Kirkbright (University of London) | |||||
| Critics: | Elena Bezzubova (University of California–Irvine) | |||||
| Stephen Erickson (Pomona College) | ||||||
| Gregory Walters (Saint Paul University) | ||||||
| GXI-F. | North American Kant Society, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics | |||||
| Chair: | Charles Parsons (Harvard University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Daniel Sutherland (University of Illinois–Chicago) | |||||
| “Cardinality and Ordinality in Kant’s Philosophy of Arithmetic” | ||||||
| Ofra Rechter (Tel Aviv University) | ||||||
| “Intuition and the Formality of Arithmetic in Kant” | ||||||
| Daniel Warren (University of California–Berkeley) | ||||||
| “The Role of Infinitesimals in Mathematics and in the Metaphysics of Corporeal Nature” | ||||||
| GXI-G. | North American Spinoza Society, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Adequacy in Spinoza | |||||
| Chair: | Steve Barbone (San Diego State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Tad Robinson (Muhlenberg College) | |||||
| “Recognizing Adequacy” | ||||||
| Christopher Martin (University of Wisconsin–Green Bay) | ||||||
| “Spinoza’s Clunky Clumps” | ||||||
| Julie Klein (Villanova University) | ||||||
| “Truth and Adequacy in Spinoza” | ||||||
| GXI-H. | Society for Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Cognitive Phenomenology | |||||
| Chair: | David Woodruff Smith (University of California–Irvine) | |||||
| Panelists: | Michelle Montague (University of Bristol) | |||||
| David Pitt (California State University–Los Angeles) | ||||||
| Charles Siewert (University of California–Riverside) | ||||||
| Galen Strawson (University of Reading) | ||||||
| Dallas Willard (University of Southern California) | ||||||
| GXI-I. | Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Global justice and Equality: Three Views | |||||
| Chair: | Shelley Wilcox (San Francisco State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Gillian Brock (University of Auckland) | |||||
| “How Should Equality Matter?” | ||||||
| Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego State University) | ||||||
| “Human Dignity and Global Equality” | ||||||
| Richard W. Miller (Cornell University) | ||||||
| “What Global Inequalities Are Too Much?” | ||||||
| GXI-J. | Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Philosophy of Art and Film in the Contemporary World | |||||
| Chair: | Travis T. Anderson (Brigham Young University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Bryan Benham (University of Utah) | |||||
| “Aesthetics for Philosophizing: Inhabiting Bio-social Futures in Code 46” | ||||||
| Stephen Brown (Briar Cliff College) | ||||||
| “Choosing Goodness: The Many Moralities of A Clockwork Orange” | ||||||
| Leonard Kahn (United States Air Force Academy) | ||||||
| “The Valence of Aesthetic Reasons” | ||||||
| Scott Woodcock (University of Victoria) | ||||||
| “Why Some Horror Films Are Immoral” | ||||||
| GXI-K. | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Dewey and Foucault | |||||
| Moderator: | Giles Gunn (University of California–Santa Barbara) | |||||
| Speakers: | Paul Rabinow (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| “Dewey and Foucault: What’s the Problem?” | ||||||
| Colin Koopman (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| “Problematization and Reconstruction: Reciprocities and Tensions” | ||||||
| Brad Elliott Stone (Loyola Marymount University) | ||||||
| “The Praise and Critique of Experience in Dewey and Foucault” | ||||||
| GXI-L. | Society for the Metaphysics of Science, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Role of Abstraction in Causal-Mechanical Explanation | |||||
| Chair: | Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri–St. Louis) | |||||
| Speakers: | Stuart Glennan (Butler University) | |||||
| “Building and Explaining Mechanisms: Some Lessons on the Role of Abstraction” | ||||||
| James Tabery (University of Utah) | ||||||
| “Mechanisms and Difference Mechanisms” | ||||||
| Cory Wright (California State University–Long Beach) | ||||||
| “The Role of Abstraction in Generalizations about Mechanistic Phenomena” | ||||||
| Michael Strevens (New York University) | ||||||
| “Toward a Quantitative Theory of Idealization” | ||||||
| GXI-M. | Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Empathy, Rationality, and Explanation | |||||
| Chair: | Mark Bevir (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Speakers: | Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes University) | |||||
| “Empathy and Detachment in Historical Understanding” | ||||||
| Stephen Turner (University of South Florida) | ||||||
| “Narrative or Verstehen Plus Cause? Weber and Collingwood vs. Mink” | ||||||
| Karsten Stueber (College of the Holy Cross) | ||||||
| “On a Supposed Difference Between the Human and the Natural Sciences: Rethinking the Distinction Between Understanding and Explanation.” | ||||||
| GXI-N. | Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Intersex: Bodies, Norms, and Identities | |||||
| Chair: | Patricia Marino (University of Waterloo) | |||||
| Speakers: | Sharon Sytsma (Northern Illinois University) | |||||
| “Being True to Oneself: Intersexuality and the Quest for Authenticity” | ||||||
| David Ozar (Loyola University Chicago) | ||||||
| “Intersex and the Inadequacy of Stable Binary Norms” | ||||||
| Ellen Feder (American University) | ||||||
| “Normalizing Medicine: Between ‘Intersexuals’ and Individuals with ‘Disorders of Sex Development’” | ||||||
| Saturday Evening, April 3 | ||||||
| Group Session GXII — 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GXII-A. | North American Society for Social Philosophy | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Sexuality and Justice | |||||
| Chair: | Jeff Gauthier (University of Portland) | |||||
| Speakers: | Susan Brison (Dartmouth College) | |||||
| “Justice and Gender-Based Violence” | ||||||
| Robin L. West (Georgetown University) | ||||||
| “Religious Rights as Protected Wrongs: The Case of Homeschooling” | ||||||
| Elizabeth Brake (University of Calgary) | ||||||
| “Special Treatment for Lovers: Law, Sexual Orientation, and ‘Amato-normativity’” | ||||||
| GXII-B. | Radical Philosophy Association, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Economic Crisis: Philosophical Investigations into Its Root Causes, Consequences, and What Can Be Done | |||||
| Chair: | Jose Jorge Mendoza (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Speakers: | Naomi Zack (University of Oregon) | |||||
| “The Value of Disadvantage” | ||||||
| Miles Hentrup (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| “Thinking Through the Crisis: Late Capitalism and the Logic of Indemnification” | ||||||
| David Schweickart (Loyola University Chicago) | ||||||
| “Why Is This Happening? What Is to Be Done? A Marxian-Keynesian Reflection on the Economic Crisis” | ||||||
| GXII-C. | Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Philosophy of Literature in the Contemporary World | |||||
| Chair: | Leonard Kahn (United States Air Force Academy) | |||||
| Speakers: | Katherine Hazzard (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| “Bidart’s Pragmatism: A Prosody of Processes in Ellen West and The War of Vaslav Nijinsky” | ||||||
| Travis T. Anderson (Brigham Young University) | ||||||
| “Levinas and McCarthy: Paternity and Justice in The Road” | ||||||
| Michael Koch (State University of New York–Oneonta) | ||||||
| “Saving Alcibiades: Chaos and Delight in A. S. Byatt’s Babel Tower” | ||||||
| GXII-D. | Society for Student Philosophers, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Mind, Language, and Epistemology | |||||
| Speakers: | Sarah McCulley (Ohio University) | |||||
| “Davidson’s Semantical Primitives and Why They Cannot Work” | ||||||
| Jeff Dauer (University of Missouri–St. Louis) | ||||||
| “Relativism, Epistemic Modals, and Contextual Projection” | ||||||
| Said Saillant (Rutgers University) | ||||||
| “The Logic of Mentalistic and Physicalistic Language” | ||||||
| Jonathan Spelman (University of Missouri–St. Louis) | ||||||
| “Virtue Epistemology and the Problem of Environmental Luck” | ||||||
| Group Session GXIII — 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GXIII-A. | Ayn Rand Society | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Authors-Meet-Critics: Essays on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged | |||||
| Chair: | Fred D. Jr. Miller (Bowling Green State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Robert Mayhew (Seton Hall University) | |||||
| “From the Editor: Aims and Structure of the Volume” | ||||||
| Christine Swanton (University of Auckland) | ||||||
| Lester Hunt (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | ||||||
| William Glod (Institute for Humane Studies) | ||||||
| Respondents: | Onkar Ghate (Ayn Rand Institute) | |||||
| Allan Gotthelf (University of Pittsburgh) | ||||||
| Gregory Salmieri (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) | ||||||
| GXIII-B. | International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Political Realism in Chinese and Western Philosophy (Han Fei Zi, Machiavelli, and Hobbes) | |||||
| Chair: | Andrew Dell’Olio (Hope College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Alexus McLeod (University of Dayton) | |||||
| “A Reconstruction of Wang Chong’s Argument Against Han Feizi’s Legalism in His Essay Fei Han” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Gordy Mower (Brigham Young University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Henrique Schneider (Universität Wien) | |||||
| “Han Fei and Constitutionalism” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Chris Naticchia (California State University–San Bernardino) | |||||
| Speaker: | Gordy Mower (Brigham Young University) | |||||
| “Realism and Virtue: Han Feizi, Machiavelli, and Confucianism” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Markus Fischer (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| Speaker: | Martin Bertman (Hobbes Studies) | |||||
| “Freedom in a Hobbesian State” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Alexus McLeod (University of Dayton) | |||||
| GXIII-C. | Karl Jaspers Society, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | World Philosophy and the Axial Age Thesis | |||||
| Chair: | Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Joanne Miyang Cho (William Paterson University) | |||||
| “Karl Jaspers on Rudolf Bultmann and Paradigmatic Individuals in Asia” | ||||||
| Tomoko Iwasawa (Reitaku University) | ||||||
| “Philosophical Faith as the Will to Communicate: The Case of Helen Mears and Japan as Mirror for Americans (1948)” | ||||||
| Lydia Voronina (Independent Scholar) | ||||||
| “Philosophy of History in the Age of Globalization: Karl Jaspers, Walter Benjamin, and Taoist Metaphysics” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Alan M. Olson (Boston University) | |||||
| GXIII-D. | North American Wittgenstein Society, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Ordinary Language Philosophy | |||||
| Speaker: | Avner Baz (Tufts University) | |||||
| “Must Philosophers Rely on Intuitions?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jeff Johnson (St. Catherine University) | |||||
| GXIII-E. | Philosophy of Religion Group | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Religious Toleration | |||||
| Chair: | Michael Murray (Franklin and Marshall College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Edwin Curley (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor) | |||||
| Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame) | ||||||
| Kristen Irwin (Biola University) | ||||||
| Commentator: | James Bruce (John Brown University) | |||||
| GXIII-F. | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Topics in Chinese Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Edward Slingerland (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| Speakers: | Edward Slingerland (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| “Body and Mind in Early China” | ||||||
| Bongrae Seok (Alvernia University) | ||||||
| “Character or Situation? A Confucian Response to Situational Social Psychology” | ||||||
| Daniel Coyle (Birmingham–Southern College and Our Lady of the Lake University) | ||||||
| “Early Yinyang Cosmology as a Praxiology of Efficacy” | ||||||
| Valerie Oved (Loyola Marymount University) | ||||||
| “The Problem of Naming: A Case for Philosophy of Language in the Daodejing” | ||||||
| GXIII-G. | Society for German Idealism, Session 2 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Stephen Engstrom, The Form of Practical Knowledge: A Study of the Categorical Imperative | |||||
| Chair: | Aaron Bunch (Washington State University) | |||||
| Author: | Stephen Engstrom (University of Pittsburgh) | |||||
| Critics: | William Bristow (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) | |||||
| Richard Dean (California State University–Los Angeles) | ||||||
| Jeanine Grenberg (St. Olaf College) | ||||||
| GXIII-H. | Society for Skeptical Studies | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Richard Greene (Weber State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Otávio Bueno (University of Miami) | |||||
| “Is the Pyrrhonist an Internalist?” | ||||||
| Gavin Enck (University of Tennessee) | ||||||
| “Live Skepticism and Genius Testimony” | ||||||
| Eric Thompson (University of Tennessee) | ||||||
| “Pragmatic Invariantism and External World Skepticism” | ||||||
| Joel Buenting (University of Alberta) | ||||||
| “Some Epistemics of Skeptical Questions” | ||||||
| GXIII-I. | Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 3 | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Empathy, Rationality, and Explanation | |||||
| Chair: | Mark Bevir (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Speakers: | Karim Dharamsi (Mount Royal University) | |||||
| “Collingwood and the Second Person” | ||||||
| David K Henderson (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) | ||||||
| “Silly Me” | ||||||
| Axel Seemann (Bentley University) | ||||||
| “Why I Did It: Narratives, Selves, and Action Explanation” | ||||||
| GXIII-J. | Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Bolzano’s New Anti-Kant | |||||
| Chair: | Sandra Lapointe (Kansas State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Timothy Rosenkoetter (Dartmouth College) | |||||
| “Intuitions and Concepts in Kant and Bolzano” | ||||||
| Nick Stang (University of Miami) | ||||||
| “Kant, Bolzano, and the Nature of Arithmetic” | ||||||
| Waldemar Rohloff (University of Missouri–St. Louis) | ||||||
| “Ordinary Language in Bolzano and Kant” | ||||||
| Clinton Tolley (University of California–San Diego) | ||||||
| “The Place of Subjectivity in a Wissenschaftslehre” | ||||||
| GXIII-K. | Western Phenomenology Conference | |||||
| 6:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Articulating the Imperceptible | |||||
| Chair: | Jason Winfree (California State University–Stanislaus) | |||||
| Speakers: | James Risser (Seattle University) | |||||
| “On the Imperceptible” | ||||||
| Daniela Vallega-Neu (California State University–Stanislaus) | ||||||
| “The Fabric of Machination” | ||||||
| Respondents: | David Kangas (Santa Clara University) | |||||
| Ben Pryor (University of Toledo) | ||||||
| Group Session GXIV — 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| GXIV-A. | Josiah Royce Society | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Feminism and Idealism | |||||
| Chair: | Scott L. Pratt (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Speakers: | Amrita Banerjee (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Kimberly Garchar (Kent State University) | ||||||
| John Kaag (University of Massachusetts–Lowell) | ||||||
| GXIV-B. | Philosophy of Time Society | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Ned Markosian (Western Washington University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University) | |||||
| “Presentism and the Structure of the Space-Time Manifold” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Joseph Keim Campbell (Washington State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Joshua Mozersky (Queen’s University) | |||||
| “Three-dimensionalism” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Michael Tooley (University of Colorado–Boulder) | |||||
| GXIV-C. | Society for Business Ethics | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Marvin Brown, Civilizing the Economy: A New Economics of Provision | |||||
| Chair: | Carlo Carrascoso (University of Redlands) | |||||
| Author: | Marvin Brown (University of San Francisco) | |||||
| Critics: | Andrew Gustafson (Creighton University) | |||||
| Jessica Ludescher (Seattle University) | ||||||
| James O’Toole (University of Denver) | ||||||
| GXIV-D. | Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy and the APA Committee on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the Profession | |||||
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Richard Nunan (College of Charleston) | |||||
| “Same-Sex Marriage in California: Direct Democracy vs. Constitutional Integrity” | ||||||
| Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) | ||||||
| “Some Thoughts on the Ethics of Racial Desires” | ||||||
| Annika Thiem (Villanova University) | ||||||
| “What Does the Breast Want from Me? Transerotics Queering Heterosexuality” | ||||||