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2012 Pacific Division Meeting Program
Draft of December 10, 2011.
| Group Program | ||||||
| Wednesday Evening, April 4 | ||||||
| Group Session G1 — 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G1A | Society for Analytical Feminism | |||||
| 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Feminist Metaphysics | |||||
| Chair: | Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire) | |||||
| Speakers: | Mari Mikkola (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) | |||||
| Asta Sveinsdottir (San Francisco State University) | ||||||
| Brit Brogaard (University of Missouri–St. Louis) | ||||||
| Group Session G2 — 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G2A | International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | ISCWP Tenth Anniversary Chinese-Western Constructive Engagements: Metaphysics, Naturalism, and Science | |||||
| Chair: | Yang Xiao (Kenyon College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Stephen C. Angle (Wesleyan University) | |||||
| “Moral Metaphysics: East and West” | ||||||
| Bo Mou (San Jose State University) | ||||||
| “Quine’s Naturalized Epistemology, Liberal Naturalism, and Daoist Naturalism: How It is Possible for Them to Constructively Engage Each Other?” | ||||||
| Sor-Hoon Tan (National University of Singapore) | ||||||
| “Science and Metaphysics in China’s Encounter with Pragmatism” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Xiaofei Tu (Appalachian State University) | |||||
| Ralph Weber (Universität Zürich) | ||||||
| Guo Yi (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) | ||||||
| G2B | North American Wittgenstein Society, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Jeff Johnson (St. Catherine University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Edward Crowell (Santa Rosa Junior College) | |||||
| “Bouwsma, Religious Language and Its Limits” | ||||||
| Craig Fox (California University of Pennsylvania) | ||||||
| “Making Sense of Wittgenstein’s ‘Lecture on Ethics’” | ||||||
| Robert Greenleaf Brice (Loyola University–New Orleans) | ||||||
| “Mistakes and Mental Disturbances: Wittgenstein, Action, and Moral Certainty” | ||||||
| G2C | Philosophy of Time Society | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Richard Gawne (Duke University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University) | |||||
| “What Is Absolute Time?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jonathan Tallant (University of Nottingham) | |||||
| Speaker: | Michael Sigrist (George Washington University) | |||||
| “Objections to a Naive Theory of Temporal Perception” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Joseph Keim Campbell (Washington State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Curtis Kehler (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| “Against the Argument from Experience to Presentism” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Richard Gawne (Duke University) | |||||
| G2D | Society for German Idealism, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critic: Katerina Deligiorgi, The Scope of Autonomy | |||||
| Chair: | Aaron Bunch (Washington State University) | |||||
| Author: | Katerina Deligiorgi (University of Sussex) | |||||
| Critics: | Carla Bagnoli (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia) | |||||
| Michael Morris (University of South Florida) | ||||||
| Susan Shell (Boston College) | ||||||
| G2E | Society for Natural Religion, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Speakers: | Gregory Goodrich (Arizona State University) | |||||
| “Clarity of Mind’s Existence and Nature” | ||||||
| Matt Nolen (Arizona State University) | ||||||
| “Contemporary Solutions to the Problem of Evil: Nothing New Under the Sun” | ||||||
| Owen Anderson (Arizona State University) | ||||||
| “Kierkegaard and Natural Religion: Must We Assume God’s Existence?” | ||||||
| G2F | Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Aesthetics and Ethics in the Contemporary World | |||||
| Chair: | William Stephens (Creighton University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Roger Paden (George Mason University) | |||||
| “Biological Paradigms and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Nature” | ||||||
| Travis T. Anderson (Brigham Young University) | ||||||
| “Elemental Beauty: Art, Nature and, Materiality at the Threshold of Aesthetics” | ||||||
| Tim W. Christie (University of British Columbia) | ||||||
| “Eugenics, Teleology and, Oppression: Past and Present” | ||||||
| Hannah Love (Pacific Lutheran University) | ||||||
| “Sex Selection and the Limits of Patient Autonomy” | ||||||
| G2G | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Insurrectionist Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Scott L. Pratt (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Presenters: | John Kaag (University of Massachusetts–Lowell) | |||||
| “From Hobomok to Chocorua: Lydia Maria Child as Insurrectionist” | ||||||
| Lee A. McBride III (College of Wooster) | ||||||
| “Insurrectionist Ethics and Pathos” | ||||||
| Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University) | ||||||
| “Towards Identifying a Proto-Black Feminist Insurrectionist Ethics” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Leonard Harris (Purdue University) | |||||
| G2H | Society for the History of Political Philosophy | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | History, Law, and the Divine | |||||
| Chair: | Steven Berg (Bellarmine University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Shawn Welnak (Long Island University) | |||||
| “Alfarabi’s Book of Religion” | ||||||
| Paul Wilford (Tulane University of New Orleans) | ||||||
| “History as Theodicy” | ||||||
| Seth Appelbaum (Tulane University of New Orleans) | ||||||
| “Maimonides’ Prophetology” | ||||||
| Steven Berg (Bellarmine University) | ||||||
| “Poetry and Philosophy on Trial Before the Court of Revelation” | ||||||
| G2I | Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Historicism and Social Science | |||||
| Chair: | Paul Roth (University of California–Santa Cruz) | |||||
| Speakers: | Jason Blakely (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| “Alasdair MacIntyre’s Narrative Social Science” | ||||||
| Serge Grigoriev (Ithaca College) | ||||||
| “History and Philosophy in Hume” | ||||||
| Jens Olesen (Oxford University) | ||||||
| “New Historicisms: Contextualizing Author and Reader” | ||||||
| G2J | Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Elizabeth Emens, “Monogamy’s Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence” | |||||
| Chair: | Patricia Marino (University of Waterloo) | |||||
| Author: | Elizabeth Emens (Columbia University) | |||||
| Discussants: | Elizabeth Brake (University of Calgary and Arizona State University) | |||||
| Jacob Hale (California State University–Northridge) | ||||||
| Laurie Shrage (Florida International University) | ||||||
| G2K | Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Joseph J. Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Todd Jones (University of Nevada–Las Vegas) | |||||
| “Martial Competitiveness – Hating Losing or Loving Uncertainty” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Joseph J. Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Johnathan Flowers (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | |||||
| “Martial Arts in the Current Era; Budo, Bugei, and Combat Sports: A Discussion of Teleological, Ontological, and Metaphysical Differences Between Modern Conceptions of the ‘Martial Arts’” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Todd Jones (University of Nevada–Las Vegas) | |||||
| Speaker: | Paul A. Swift (Bryant University) | |||||
| “Karate-Dough: The Purpose of Teaching in the Marketplace” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Tonya Warren (Florida State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | R. Shannon Duval (Mount Mary College) | |||||
| “What If Blanche DuBois Had Been a Martial Artist?: Empowering Women in Their Homes and Communities Through Martial Arts Principles” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Miroslav Imbrisevic (University of London) | |||||
| G2L | Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Pragmatism and Early Analytic Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Eric Dayton (University of Saskatchewan) | |||||
| “C.I. Lewis, the Pragmatic a Priori and the American Assimilation of Logical Positivism” | ||||||
| Henry Jackman (York University) | ||||||
| “James vs. Russell on the Nature of Acquaintance” | ||||||
| Alexander Klein (California State University–Long Beach) | ||||||
| “What (Use) Did Russell Make of Functionalist Psychology?” | ||||||
| G2M | Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Kisor Chakrabarti (Davis and Elkins College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Clint Jones (University of Kentucky) | |||||
| “A Zen Master and a Capitalist Walk into a Bar … How Integrating Interconnectivity Is Necessary for a Future Environmental Ethic” | ||||||
| Glen Pettigrove (University of Auckland) | ||||||
| Koji Tanaka (University of Auckland) | ||||||
| “Anger and Moral Judgment” | ||||||
| Joshua Anderson (St. Louis University) | ||||||
| “Character Consequentialism: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Mill” | ||||||
| Tista Bagchi (CSIR-NISTADS and University of Delhi) | ||||||
| “Ethical Principles Behind Policy on Reproductive Technologies in India” | ||||||
| Audrey L. Anton (Western Kentucky University) | ||||||
| “Flexible and Fixed Character States: Aristotle on the Permanence and Mutability of Distinct Types of Character” | ||||||
| Ervin Castle (Brock University) | ||||||
| “Losing the Wager: Desire and Duty in the Bhagavad Gita” | ||||||
| Marisol Brito (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) | ||||||
| “Releasing Arendtian Forgiveness: An Interfaith Approach” | ||||||
| Jonathan Miller (Bowling Green State University) | ||||||
| “The Role of Wu-Wei in Virtuous Activity” | ||||||
| Gordon Haist (University of South Carolina–Beaufort) | ||||||
| “Value Conflicts in Ethical Reasoning” | ||||||
| Group Session G3 — 9:00-11:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G3A | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 9:00-11:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Topics in Classical Chinese Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Henrique Schneider (Universität Wien) | |||||
| Speaker: | Sumner B. Twiss (Florida State University) | |||||
| Jonathan Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) | ||||||
| “Classical Confucianism, Punitive Expeditions, and Humanitarian Intervention” | ||||||
| Presenters: | Henrique Schneider (Universität Wien) | |||||
| “Hanfeizi and Welfare?” | ||||||
| Carl Dull (University of North Carolina–Greensboro) | ||||||
| “The Wandering Heart: Moral Psychology in the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi” | ||||||
| Bongrae Seok (Alvernia University) | ||||||
| “What Is Qing? A Situationist Interpretation” | ||||||
| Thursday Evening, April 5 | ||||||
| Group Session G4 — 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G4A | Charles S. Peirce Society | |||||
| 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Robert Lane (University of West Georgia) | |||||
| Speaker: | Risto Hilpinen (University of Miami) | |||||
| “Types, Tokens, and Words” | ||||||
| G4B | Josiah Royce Society | |||||
| 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Implications of Royce for Contemporary Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Scott L. Pratt (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Speakers: | Matthew Jacobs (University of Oregon) | |||||
| “Royce and Brandom on Inference: Will-Acts and Propositions” | ||||||
| Amrita Banerjee (Oregon State University) | ||||||
| “Royce and Contemporary Feminism” | ||||||
| Vincent Colapietro (Pennsylvania State University) | ||||||
| “Self, Other, World: Royce’s Anticipation of Davidson’s ‘Argument’” | ||||||
| G4C | North American Kant Society, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Robert Clewis, The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom | |||||
| Chair: | Guenter Zoeller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and McGill University) | |||||
| Author: | Robert Clewis (Gwynedd-Mercy College) | |||||
| Commentators: | Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| Melissa Zinkin (State University of New York–Binghamton) | ||||||
| G4D | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Topics in Indian and Tibetan Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Adrienne C. Cochran (Green River Community College) | |||||
| Presenters: | Malcolm Keating (University of Texas–Austin) | |||||
| “Lakṣaṇā and Sort-Shifting in Mukula Bhaṭṭa’s Abhidhāvṛttimātṛkā” | ||||||
| Adrienne C. Cochran (Green River Community College) | ||||||
| “Tibetan Buddhism in the West: The Next Generation” | ||||||
| Donna Dorsey (Grant MacEwan University) | ||||||
| “Transference of Merit and the Transformation of Karma” | ||||||
| G4E | Society for Business Ethics | |||||
| 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Rethinking Ethics in Business: Trust, Service, and the Social Contract | |||||
| Chair: | Jeffery Smith (University of Redlands) | |||||
| Speakers: | David Silver (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| “A Contractualist Approach to Business Ethics” | ||||||
| Sareh Pouryousefi (University of Toronto) | ||||||
| “Business as a Profession: Professional Ethics and the Ethics of Service” | ||||||
| Marc A. Cohen (Seattle University) | ||||||
| “Moral and Amoral Conceptions of Trust” | ||||||
| Group Session G5 — 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G5A | Experimental Philosophy Society | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Galen Baril (University of Scranton) | |||||
| Speaker: | Alfred Mele (Florida State University) | |||||
| “Free Will, Science, and Substance Dualism” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Kevin L. Timpe (Northwest Nazarene University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Tamler Sommers (University of Houston) | |||||
| “Free Will and Experimental Philosophy: A Match Made in Purgatory” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Christopher Evan Franklin (Biola University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jonathan Phillips (Yale University) | |||||
| “Manipulating Morality: Connecting Causation, Intention, and Moral Responsibility” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Eddy Nahmias (Georgia State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Chris Weigel (Utah Valley University) | |||||
| “Further Implications of Variance in Free Will Intuitions” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Thomas Nadelhoffer (Dickinson College) | |||||
| G5B | Hegel Society of America | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Hegel and the Conditions of Agency | |||||
| Chair: | Christopher Yeomans (Purdue University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Shannon Hoff (Institute for Christian Studies) | |||||
| “Hegel and the Legal Conditions of Action” | ||||||
| Christopher Yeomans (Purdue University) | ||||||
| “Hegel’s Dual Theory of Free Will” | ||||||
| David Ciavatta (Ryerson University) | ||||||
| “The World of Action: Hegel on Agency and Its Living Context” | ||||||
| G5C | International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Moral Psychology in Early Chinese Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Sor-Hoon Tan (National University of Singapore) | |||||
| Speakers: | Carl Dull (University of North Carolina–Greensboro) | |||||
| “Language, Speech Acts, and Moral Psychology in the Zhuangzi” | ||||||
| Tim Connolly (East Stroudsburg University) | ||||||
| “Sagehood and Supererogation in Confucius’ Analects” | ||||||
| Ryan Nichols (California State University–Fullerton) | ||||||
| “The Origins and Effects of Shame in Early Confucianism” | ||||||
| Deborah Mower (Youngstown State University) | ||||||
| “Understanding Rituals as Scripts: Confucianism Meets Western Psychology” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Stephen C. Angle (Wesleyan University) | |||||
| Henrique Schneider (Universität Wien) | ||||||
| Sor-Hoon Tan (National University of Singapore) | ||||||
| Lijun Yuan (Texas State University–San Marcos) | ||||||
| G5D | Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Tomoko Iwasawa, Tama in Japanese Myth: A Hermeneutical Study of Ancient Japanese Divinity | |||||
| Chair: | Alan M. Olson (Boston University) | |||||
| Author: | Tomoko Iwasawa (Reitaku University) | |||||
| Critics: | Purushottama Bilimoria (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Michael Palencia-Roth (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign) | ||||||
| Fabio Rambelli (University of California–Santa Barbara) | ||||||
| Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University) | ||||||
| G5E | North American Nietzsche Society | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Nietzsche as a Figure in the History of Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Jessica N. Berry (Georgia State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick University) | |||||
| Michael Steven Green (College of William and Mary) | ||||||
| Gary Shapiro (University of Richmond) | ||||||
| G5F | Society for Natural Religion, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Speakers: | Adam Omelianchuk (Biola University) | |||||
| “Ethical Contextualism” | ||||||
| Owen Anderson (Arizona State University) | ||||||
| Greg Malloy (Arizona State University) | ||||||
| “When Is Disagreement Rational?” | ||||||
| Horace Fairlamb (University of Houston–Victoria) | ||||||
| “When Particulars Are Scandalous: Thoughts on General and Special Revelation” | ||||||
| G5G | Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Kant, Frege, and the Science of Logic | |||||
| Chair: | Jeremy Heis (University of California–Irvine) | |||||
| Speaker: | Clinton Tolley (University of California–San Diego) | |||||
| “The Necessity of Receptivity in Logic: Frege’s Criticism of Kant” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Danielle Macbeth (Haverford College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Erich Reck (University of California–Riverside) | |||||
| “From Kant to Frege and Beyond: On the Objects of Modern Logic” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Joan Weiner (Indiana University–Bloomington) | |||||
| G5H | Society for Women in Philosophy | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Alexis Shotwell, Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding | |||||
| Chair: | Heather Battaly (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| Author: | Alexis Shotwell (Laurentian University) | |||||
| Critics: | Ann Garry (California State University–Los Angeles) | |||||
| José Jorge Mendoza (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| Darrell Moore (DePaul University) | ||||||
| Group Session G6 — 9:00-11:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G6A | American Association of Philosophy Teachers | |||||
| 9:00-11:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Craft of Structuring Writing Assignments: Progression, Feedback, and Groups | |||||
| Chair: | Nils Rauhut (Coastal Carolina University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Ronald Robles Sundstrom (University of San Francisco) | |||||
| “Democratic Disagreement as a Model for Collaborative Learning” | ||||||
| Bill Anelli (Modesto Junior College) | ||||||
| “Managing Writing Feedback in the Large Class: From Annotations to Paraphrasings to Critiques” | ||||||
| Ian Schnee (Western Kentucky University) | ||||||
| “Philosophy Writing as a Progression” | ||||||
| G6B | Ayn Rand Society | |||||
| 9:00-11:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Concepts and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge: The Case of “Temperature” | |||||
| Chair: | Allan Gotthelf (University of Pittsburgh) | |||||
| Speaker: | Travis Norsen (Smith College) | |||||
| Commentators: | Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge) | |||||
| James G. Lennox (University of Pittsburgh) | ||||||
| G6C | Concerned Philosophers for Peace | |||||
| 9:00-11:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Arab Spring/Western Autumn | |||||
| Chair: | James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame) | |||||
| Speakers: | Ovadia Ezra (Tel Aviv University) | |||||
| “Sanctions, Boycotts, and Embargoes: Means for Political Change” | ||||||
| Ron Hirschbein (Walden University) | ||||||
| “Three Generals: Three Generalizations” | ||||||
| G6D | International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 1 | |||||
| 9:00-11:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Ruiping Fan, Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking Morality after the West | |||||
| Chair: | Chenyang Li (Nanyang Technological University) | |||||
| Author: | Ruiping Fan (City University of Hong Kong) | |||||
| Critics: | Chenyang Li (Nanyang Technological University) | |||||
| Ronnie Littlejohn (Belmont University) | ||||||
| Lauren Pfister (Hong Kong Baptist University) | ||||||
| G6E | Society for Empirical Ethics | |||||
| 9:00-11:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Dan Kelly, Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust | |||||
| Chair: | William A. Rottschaefer (Lewis & Clark College) | |||||
| Author: | Dan Kelly (Purdue University) | |||||
| Commentators: | Joel Martinez (Lewis & Clark College) | |||||
| Jen Cole Wright (College of Charleston) | ||||||
| G6F | Society of Christian Philosophers | |||||
| 9:00-11:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Daniel Speak (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Rebekah L. H. Rice (Seattle Pacific University) | |||||
| “Robust Christian Materialism” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Friday Evening, April 6 | ||||||
| Group Session G7 — 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G7A | Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Ancient Chinese Values in the Context of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology | |||||
| Chair: | Owen Flanagan (Duke University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Kelly James Clark (Calvin College) | |||||
| “The Evolutionary Psychology of Chinese Religion: Pre-Qin High Gods as Punishers and Rewarders” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Steven Geisz (University of Tampa) | |||||
| Speaker: | Mingran Tan (University of Toronto) | |||||
| “A Comparative Study of Confucian Benevolence/ren and Darwinian Sympathy” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Weimin Sun (California State University–Northridge) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jennifer Lundin Ritchie (University of British Columbia) | |||||
| “Cognitive Science vs. Xunzi on Status and Authority” | ||||||
| Commentator: | JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| Speaker: | Qiong Wang (State University of New York–Oneonta) | |||||
| “The Sensibleness of an ‘Absolutistic’ Confucian Familial Morality” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Tim Connolly (East Stroudsburg University) | |||||
| G7B | Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Critical Reflection on Teaching Critical Thinking: Learning Outcomes, Course Content, and Assessment | |||||
| Chair: | Wanda Teays (Mount St. Mary’s College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Donald L. Hatcher (Baker University) | |||||
| “Assessing Critical Thinking: What Standard Program Assessments Are Not Telling Us” | ||||||
| Jerry Cederblom (University of Nebraska–Omaha) | ||||||
| “Problems with Teaching How to Reconstruct a Common Kind of Argument” | ||||||
| Paul Green (Mount St. Mary’s College) | ||||||
| “What Are the Learning Outcomes for a Critical Thinking Course?” | ||||||
| Dale Turner (California State Polytechnic University–Pomona) | ||||||
| “What Are We Assessing When We Assess Critical Thinking?” | ||||||
| G7C | International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | World Philosophy and Hermeneutics: Chinese and German Perspectives | |||||
| Chairs: | Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | |||||
| Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University) | ||||||
| Speakers: | Eric S. Nelson (University of Massachusetts–Lowell) | |||||
| “Interpretive Conflict and World-Formation: Dilthey, Heidegger, and Intercultural Hermeneutics” | ||||||
| Franklin Perkins (DePaul University) | ||||||
| “Leibniz and Intercultural Hermeneutics” | ||||||
| Martin Schonfeld (University of South Florida) | ||||||
| “World Philosophy and Climate Change: The German-Chinese Pathway to Civil Evolution” | ||||||
| Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | ||||||
| “World Philosophy and Hermeneutics: A Chinese Philosophical Perspective” | ||||||
| G7D | International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | New Reflections on the Significance and Application of Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic: A Roundtable Discussion | |||||
| Chair: | Mark Woods (University of San Diego) | |||||
| Speakers: | David Concepcion (Ball State University) | |||||
| “Grieving in the Classroom” | ||||||
| Jen Rowland (University of North Texas) | ||||||
| “Leopold’s Challenge to Environmental Philosophy: Politicizing the Issues” | ||||||
| Joan McGregor (Arizona State University) | ||||||
| “Was Leopold a Feminist?” | ||||||
| Kyle Powys Whyte (Michigan State University) | ||||||
| “What Reading Leopold Tells Us about Sustainability Ethics and Indigenous Peoples” | ||||||
| G7E | North American Kant Society, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Kant on Well-being and Happiness | |||||
| Chair: | Pablo Muchnik (Emerson College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Oliver Sensen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tulane University of New Orleans) | |||||
| “Kant on Happiness and Moral Obligation” | ||||||
| Jeanine Grenberg (St. Olaf College) | ||||||
| “Kant’s Understanding of Love Within Human Limits” | ||||||
| Anne Margaret Baxley (Washington University in St. Louis) | ||||||
| “The Conditional Value of Happiness in Kant’s Ethics” | ||||||
| G7F | North American Wittgenstein Society, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | John W. Powell (Humboldt State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Hao Tang (Wuhan University) | |||||
| “A Meeting of the Conceptual and the Natural: Wittgenstein on Learning a Sensation-language” | ||||||
| Thomas Raleigh (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) | ||||||
| “The Private Language Argument and ‘Burke’s Assumption’” | ||||||
| William Child (Oxford University) | ||||||
| “Wittgenstein and Phenomenal Concepts” | ||||||
| G7G | Radical Philosophy Association, Session 1 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Author-Meets-Critics: Naomi Zack, The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy | |||||
| Chair: | Rhea Muchalla (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Author: | Naomi Zack (University of Oregon) | |||||
| Critics: | Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University) | |||||
| Lewis R. Gordon (Temple University) | ||||||
| José Jorge Mendoza (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. (Vanderbilt University) | ||||||
| G7H | Society for German Idealism, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Hegel’s Science of Logic | |||||
| Chair: | J. M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Victoria I. Burke (University of Guelph) | |||||
| “Hegel and the Normativity of the Concept” | ||||||
| Commentator: | John McCumber (University of California–Los Angeles) | |||||
| Speaker: | Adam Moeller (Emory University) | |||||
| “Dialectic and Method: Rejections and Affirmations of the Organon Theory of Knowledge in Hegel’s Science of Logic” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jeff Gauthier (University of Portland) | |||||
| Speaker: | Christina Rawls (Duquesne University) | |||||
| “Presupposing/Positing Notions of Reverse Causality in Hegel’s Science of Logic” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves (Morgan State University) | |||||
| G7I | Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Reflections on Still Photography and Cinematic Art | |||||
| Chair: | Richard Nunan (College of Charleston) | |||||
| Speakers: | James B. South (Marquette University) | |||||
| “Veronica Mars — She’s a Marshmallow” | ||||||
| Edward Winters (Independent Scholar) | ||||||
| “What Moves at the Movies? The Priority of the Recognitional Fold” | ||||||
| Topic: | Aesthetic Tensions as Modes of Evaluating Films and Video Games | |||||
| Chair: | Richard Nunan (College of Charleston) | |||||
| Speakers: | Tad Bratkowski (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | |||||
| “Bullough’s Psychical Distance and the Aesthetic Experience of Grand Theft Auto IV” | ||||||
| Scott Clifton (University of Washington) | ||||||
| “Structural and Aesthetic Narrative Tension in Films” | ||||||
| G7J | Society for the Philosophy of Agency | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Current State and Future of Philosophical Research on Action and Agency | |||||
| Chair: | Joseph Keim Campbell (Washington State University) | |||||
| Panelists: | Jeanette Kennett (Macquarie University) | |||||
| Alfred Mele (Florida State University) | ||||||
| Thomas Nadelhoffer (Dickinson College) | ||||||
| Eddy Nahmias (Georgia State University) | ||||||
| Manuel Vargas (University of San Francisco) | ||||||
| G7K | Society for the Philosophy of History, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Function of General Laws in History at 70 | |||||
| Chair: | Paul Roth (University of California–Santa Cruz) | |||||
| Speakers: | Daniel Little (University of Michigan–Dearborn) | |||||
| “Disaggregating Historical Explanation: The Move to Social Mechanisms” | ||||||
| James Woodward (University of Pittsburgh) | ||||||
| “Hempel: Then and Now” | ||||||
| Noël Carroll (City University of New York–Graduate School) | ||||||
| “Narrative Explanation” | ||||||
| G7L | Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Joseph J. Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Miroslav Imbrisevic (University of London) | |||||
| “Sartrean Existentialism and the Martial Arts Teacher” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Paul A. Swift (Bryant University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Richard Schubert (Cosumnes River College) | |||||
| “On Being a Martial Artist: A Zhuangzian Account” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Carl Dull (University of North Carolina–Greensboro) | |||||
| Speaker: | Dennis Stevens (Randolph College) | |||||
| “Plato on the Morality of Self-defense” | ||||||
| Commentator: | R. Shannon Duval (Mount Mary College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Charles W. Wright (College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University) | |||||
| “Preserving Recognition in the Face of Aggression: Aikido as a Practice of Physical Intersubjectivity” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Michael J. Monahan (Marquette University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Koji Tanaka (University of Auckland) | |||||
| “Who’s There: On Self-awareness and Self” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Allan Bäck (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| G7M | Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Chandana Chakrabarti (Davis and Elkins College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Kisor Chakrabarti (Davis and Elkins College) | |||||
| “Major Ethical Theories (East and West): A Retrospect and Review” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Joshua Anderson (St. Louis University) | |||||
| Ervin Castle (Brock University) | ||||||
| Gordon Haist (University of South Carolina–Beaufort) | ||||||
| Jonathan Miller (Bowling Green State University) | ||||||
| Glen Pettigrove (University of Auckland) | ||||||
| Nancy E. Snow (Marquette University) | ||||||
| Speakers: | Ilana Maymind (Ohio State University) | |||||
| “Convergences and Divergences in East/West Ethics: A Case Study” | ||||||
| Joshua Horn (University of Kentucky) | ||||||
| “The Necessity of Freedom and the Possibility of the Good Life: Eastern Philosophy and the Rationalist Tradition” | ||||||
| Saturday Evening, April 7 | ||||||
| Group Session G8 — 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G8A | International Association for the Philosophy of Sport | |||||
| 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Douglas McLaughlin (California State University–Northridge) | |||||
| Speakers: | John Gleaves (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| Tim Lehrbach (University of San Francisco) | ||||||
| “A Series of Footnotes to Suits: Beyond an Analytic Definition of Games” | ||||||
| John S. Russell (Langara College) | ||||||
| “Does Metaethics Make a Difference in Philosophy of Sport?” | ||||||
| Daniel A. Dombrowski (Seattle University) | ||||||
| “Homer, Competition, and Sport” | ||||||
| G8B | North American Society for Social Philosophy | |||||
| 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Pornography, Liberalism, and Rights | |||||
| Chair: | Cindy Holder (University of Victoria) | |||||
| Presenters: | Abigail Levin (Niagara University) | |||||
| “The Marketplace of Ideas: Pornography, Liberal Neutrality, and State Power” | ||||||
| Rebecca Whisnant (University of Dayton) | ||||||
| “What (If Anything) Is Feminist Pornography?” | ||||||
| Lori Watson (University of San Diego) | ||||||
| “What Does It Mean to Say That Pornography Is a Form of Prostitution?” | ||||||
| G8C | Society for Skeptical Studies | |||||
| 7:00-9:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Rachel Robison (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) | |||||
| Speakers: | Otávio Bueno (University of Miami) | |||||
| “Disagreeing with the Pyrrhonist?” | ||||||
| Richard Greene (Weber State University) | ||||||
| “Proposition Sensitive Variantism” | ||||||
| Group Session G9 — 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G9A | American Society for Aesthetics | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Everyday Aesthetics | |||||
| Chair: | Elizabeth Scarbrough (University of Washington) | |||||
| Speaker: | Thomas Leddy (San Jose State University) | |||||
| “Are ‘Pretty’ and ‘Nice’ Aesthetic Qualities or Something Else?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Sally Markowitz (Willamette University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Yuriko Saito (Rhode Island School of Design) | |||||
| “Everyday Aesthetics and World-Making” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Thomas Heyd (University of Victoria) | |||||
| G9B | Association for Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Issues in Traditional Chinese Political Philosophy: Moral Cosmology and Theories of Just War | |||||
| Chair: | JeeLoo Liu (California State University–Fullerton) | |||||
| Speaker: | Liang Cai (University of Arkansas–Fayetteville) | |||||
| “Political Application of Moral Cosmology and Its Bankruptcy in Western Han China (206BCE—8CE)” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Weigang Chen (University of Macau) | |||||
| “Confucian Humanism and Theodicy” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Ronnie Littlejohn (Belmont University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Ellen Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University) | |||||
| “A Challenge to Just War Thinking: Why Laozi Would Say ‘No’ to Punitive Expeditions?” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Xiaofei Tu (Appalachian State University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Ping-cheung Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University) | |||||
| “Warfare Ethics in Sunzi’s Art of War? Historical Controversies and Contemporary Perspectives” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Sumner B. Twiss (Florida State University) | |||||
| G9C | Hume Society | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Early Criticisms of Hume | |||||
| Chair: | Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Antonia LoLordo (University of Virginia) | |||||
| Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis & Clark College) | ||||||
| Sean Greenberg (University of California–Irvine) | ||||||
| G9D | International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Managing Nature? | |||||
| Chair: | Geoffrey Frasz (College of Southern Nevada) | |||||
| Speakers: | Alexa Forrester (Franklin and Marshall College) | |||||
| “A Sensible Ecocentrism” | ||||||
| Joel MacClellan (University of Tennessee) | ||||||
| “Recreating Eden? Natural Evil and Environmental Ethics” | ||||||
| Thomas White (Loyola Marymount University) | ||||||
| “The Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans: Cetacean Culture and Harm” | ||||||
| Allen Thompson (Oregon State University) | ||||||
| “The Human Influence: Ecosystem Intervention, Design, and Novelty” | ||||||
| G9E | Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | The Hermeneutics of Jaspers, Sartre, and Heidegger | |||||
| Chair: | Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University) | |||||
| Presenters: | Kile Jones (Claremont Lincoln University) | |||||
| “All the Consequences of This: Why Atheistic Existentialism Is More Consistent Than Religious Existentialism” | ||||||
| David P. Nichols (Saginaw Valley State University) | ||||||
| “The God of the Existentialist Philosophers: Fate, Freedom, and Mystery” | ||||||
| Discussants: | Purushottama Bilimoria (University of California–Berkeley) | |||||
| Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa) | ||||||
| Eric Michael Dale (Emerson College) | ||||||
| Catharina Stenqvist (Lunds Universitet) | ||||||
| G9F | Marxism and Philosophy Association | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Marxist-Humanism in Dialogue with Contemporary Continental Philosophy | |||||
| Speakers: | Joe Anderson (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| “Badiou’s Militant Subject” | ||||||
| Tom Jeannot (Gonzaga University) | ||||||
| “Badiou, Dunayevskaya, and Marx” | ||||||
| Bruce Beerman (Gonzaga University) | ||||||
| “Foucault, Marx, and the Idea of Critique” | ||||||
| Craig Vander Hart (Wenatchee Valley College) | ||||||
| “Heidegger and Marxist-Humanism” | ||||||
| G9G | Molinari Society | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Explorations in Philosophical Anarchy | |||||
| Chair: | Roderick Long (Auburn University) | |||||
| Speakers: | David M. Hart (Liberty Fund) | |||||
| “Bastiat’s Distinction Between Legal and Illegal Plunder” | ||||||
| Kurt Gerry (Independent Scholar) | ||||||
| “On Political Obligation and the Nature of Law” | ||||||
| Commentators: | Charles Johnson (Molinari Institute) | |||||
| Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) | ||||||
| G9H | Radical Philosophy Association, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Solidarity with Those Most Vulnerable: Ethical and Political Responses to Immigration | |||||
| Chair: | Michelle Switzer (Whittier College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Dana Rognlie (University of Oregon) | |||||
| “A Response to José Jorge Mendoza’s ‘Neither a State of Nature Nor a State of Exception’” | ||||||
| Shelley Wilcox (San Francisco State University) | ||||||
| “Borders and Economic Vulnerability: A Relational Egalitarian Approach to Immigration” | ||||||
| Rhea Muchalla (University of Oregon) | ||||||
| “Brutality, Bodies, and Borders: Untangling Immigration, Illegality, and the Global Sex Trade” | ||||||
| Rita Manning (San Jose State University) | ||||||
| “Criminalizing Immigration” | ||||||
| Amelia Wirts (Boston College) | ||||||
| “The Duty of Restitution: Immigration and National Borders” | ||||||
| G9I | Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Mark Wheeler (San Diego State University) | |||||
| Speakers: | Keith McPartland (Williams College) | |||||
| “Aristotle on Negation and Falsity” | ||||||
| David Ebrey (Northwestern University) | ||||||
| “Making Room for Matter” | ||||||
| Christopher Buckels (University of California–Davis) | ||||||
| “The Republic’s Reluctant Rulers” | ||||||
| G9J | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Session 2 | |||||
| 7:00-10:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | John Dewey and the Anthropological | |||||
| Chair: | Charles A. Hobbs (Gonzaga University) | |||||
| Presenters: | Mike Jostedt (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) | |||||
| “Challenging Feminine Natures: Reconstructing Ideals of Woman with Dewey” | ||||||
| Shane Ralston (Pennsylvania State University) | ||||||
| “Dewey’s Political Technology from an Anthropological Perspective” | ||||||
| Cherilyn Keall (Ryerson University) | ||||||
| “The Paradox of Freedom: Dewey on Human Nature, Culture, and Education” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Terrance MacMullan (Eastern Washington University) | |||||
| Group Session G10 — 9:00-11:00 p.m. | ||||||
| G10A | David Kellogg Lewis Society | |||||
| 9:00-11:00 p.m. | ||||||
| Chair: | Richard Hanley (University of Delaware) | |||||
| Speakers: | Daniel Nolan (Australian National University) | |||||
| “It’s a Kind of Magic: Lewis, Magic, and Abstract Objects” | ||||||
| Andrea Brewer (Princeton University) | ||||||
| “Supervaluational Tricks: Can Lewisians Turn Many Objects into One?” | ||||||