The American Philosophical Association
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

2013 Central Division Meeting

The Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, LA
February 20-23, 2013    


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Papers to be presented

The following papers' authors have given permission for their papers to be published on the APA website until the end of the conference. Click to download in PDF format. Please ignore the leading numbers; they are for administrative purposes only.


Accepted Papers

1176 Aesthetics and Religion in Schelling's Philosophical Letters • Jeremy Proulx • V-J • Friday PM

1178 Imagination and Film • Mark Wheeler • I-J • Thursday PM

1195 Can God Satisfice? • Klaas Kraay • V-J • Friday PM

1271 Descriptions and Comparison Semantics of Want • Yu Izumi • II-I • Thursday PM

1310 Molding Conscientious, Hard-Working, and Perseverant Students • Jennifer Morton • VII-I • Saturday PM

1319 Why Political Liberalism Can’t Handle the Truth • Caleb Perl • VII-K • Saturday PM

1332 How We Hurt the Ones We Love • Ingrid Albrecht • II-K

1395 Negotiation, Deliberation, and Reasonable Disagreement • Katharine Schweitzer • VII-K • Saturday PM

1421 An Empirical Perspective on Enlightened Self-Interest • Stephen J. Morris • VII-G • Saturday PM

1428 A Rejection of Colorblindness • Yolanda Wilson • VI-L • Saturday AM

1470 A Defense of Scott Soames’s Arguments for Millianism • Thomas W. Peard • II-I • Thursday PM

1472 Are Children Persons? • Amy Gilbert • VII-I • Saturday PM

1476 Why Is Kant’s Transcendental Deduction So Difficult? • Justin Shaddock • VII-J • Saturday PM

1336 Parfit's Profoundest Problem • William Smith • VI-H • Saturday AM

1479 Unjust Situations • Kevin Houser • III-I • Friday AM