Proceedings and Addresses
February 2008 (Volume 81, Issue 4)
Group Meeting Program
Group Session GI: Thursday, April 17, 9:00 a.m.-Noon
GI-1. Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: The International Eye: Race, Representation, and Reason
Chair: Jana McAuliffe (DePaul University)
Speakers: Meryl Altman (DePauw University)
“Beauvoir and Blackness”
Penelope Ingram (University of Texas–Arlington)
“Bodies, Veils, and the Ethics of Representation”
Namita Goswami (DePaul University)
“What’s Postcolonial about Spivak? Native Informants and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason”
GI-2. William James Society
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: William James as Social and Political Philosopher
Chair: Peter Hare (University at Buffalo)
Speakers: John Kaag (Harvard University)
“A Call to Arms? William James on Militarism and Political Unity”
Colin Koopman (University of California–Santa Cruz)
“Pragmatism’s Pluralism”
Andrew F. Smith (State University of New York–Stony Brook)
“Communication and Conviction: James’s Contribution to Deliberative Democracy”
Commentator: Noelle McAfee (George Mason University)
GI-3. Philosophy of Time Society
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: L. Nathan Oaklander (University of Michigan–Flint)
Speaker: Timothy W. Schoettle (Messiah College)
“Whatever Happened to John McTaggart?”
Commentator: M. Joshua Mozersky (Queen’s University (Ontario))
Speaker: Kris N. McDaniel (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
“Ways of Being and Time”
Commentator: James Harrington (Loyola University)
Speaker: Bradford Skow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Why Does Time Pass?”
GI-4. Society for Student Philosophers
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Matthew Congdon (New School for Social Research)
Speakers: Matthew Congdon (New School for Social Research)
“Phronesis and Justice: Rewriting the Law in Aristotle’s Sociality”
Adam Glover (University of Kentucky)
“Aquinas and Marion on Naming God”
Andrew Huddleston (Princeton University)
“The Consolations of Art: Transfiguration and the Promise of Theodicy”
Chad Vance (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Atoms without Inanity: The Problem of Individuation for Atomism in the 17th Century”
GI-5. Society for the Metaphysics of Science
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Metaphysics, Science, and the Social World
Speakers: Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
“The Folk Concept of Race”
Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta)
“Normalcy and Sociality”
GI-6. Society for the Philosophy of History
9:00 a.m.-Noon
GI-7. Philosophy of Religion Group
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Jeffrey H. Green (University of Notre Dame)
Speakers: Jonathan Matheson (University of Rochester)
“Skeptical Theism and Having Evidence”
Bradley N. Seeman (Taylor University)
“Moral Objectivity, Internal Reasons, and God’s Prescriptive Voice”
Jacob W. Evans (Wheaton College)
“A Critique of John Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis as a Viable Approach within the Theology of Religions”
GI-8. Radical Philosophy Association
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice: On Ideology and Identity
Chair: Sarah Hansen (Vanderbilt University)
Speakers: Matt Whitt (Vanderbilt University)
“The Borders of Subjection: Political Identity and Post-Territorial Sovereignty”
Rohan Quinby (Massey University)
“Negri and the Contemporary City: Subject, Production and Resistance”
Michelle Switzer (Whittier College)
“Pluralist Explanation: Reclaiming the Theory of Ideology”
Elan Liss Ohayon (University of Toronto)
“Sustainable Cultures: Heterogeneity and Autonomy in Social Networks”
GI-9. Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Virtue, Human Nature, and Moral Development
Chair: Tongdong Bai (Xavier University)
Speaker: Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University)
“Is There a Virtuous Body? Qi and One’s Ethical Life”
Commentator: Kelly Clark (Calvin College)
Speaker: John Ramsey (University of California–Riverside)
“Xunzi on Human Nature and Its Development”
Commentator: Franklin T. Perkins (DePaul University)
Speaker: Ta-Lun (Linus) Huang (University of California–Riverside)
“Moral Psychology and Moral Development of Xunzi”
Commentator: Tongdong Bai (Xavier University)
GI-10. History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Twardowski and Polish Analytic Philosophy
Chair: Sandra Lapointe (Kansas State University)
Speakers: Robin Rollinger (University of Salzburg)
“Twardowski as a Student of Brentano”
Peter Simons (University of Leeds)
“Twardowski on Truth”
Ryan Hickerson (Western Oregon University)
“Twardowski and Representationalism”
Arianna Betti (Free University of Amsterdam)
“Twardowski and the Discovery of States of Affairs”
GI-11. American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Samuel Zinaich (The Institute for Critical Thinking)
Speaker: Matt G. Kushner (University of Minnesota–Minneapolis)
“Stoicism in the Roots and Practice of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: From Aurelius to Ellis and Beyond”
Commentator: Samuel Zinaich (The Institute for Critical Thinking)
Speaker: Michael Grosso (University of Virginia Health System)
“William James on Immortality Exemplar of Philosophical Practice”
Commentator: Amy E. White (Ohio University–Zanesville)
Speaker: Nan-Nan Lee (St. Xavier University at Chicago)
“Philosophical Counseling or Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Philosophical Assumptions and Implications”
Commentator: Carolyn Jones (Purdue University–Calumet)
GI-12. Bertrand Russell Society
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Michael Garral (Lehman College–City University of New York)
Speaker: Montgomery Link (Suffolk University)
“Russell and Wittgenstein on Logic and Mathematics in their August [1919] Correspondence”
Commentator: Rosalind Carey (Lehman College–City University of New York)
Speaker: Kevin C. Klement (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
“Re-reading A.J. Ayer’s Russell and Moore: The Analytic Heritage”
Commentator: John Ongley (Edinboro University)
Speaker: Michael Garral (Lehman College–City University of New York)
“Russell v. Hume, Atheist or Agnostic”
Commentator: To be announced
GI-13. Max Scheler Society
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Speakers: Raymond Henker (Northeastern Illinois University)
“Scheler and Kant: The Categorical Imperative, Ethics of Values, and the Influence of Einfühlung”
Eric Mohr (Duquesne University)
“Is the ‘Body-Subject’ a Person?: A Schelerian Critique of Phenomenology of Perception”
Gregory B. Sadler (Ball State University–Indiana State Prison)
“Virtue Epistemology and Moral Conditions of Knowledge: Contributions from Phenomenology”
Eugene Kelly (New York Institute of Technology)
“Phenomenological and Metaphysical Buddhism in Scheler”
Group Session GII: Thursday, April 17, 5:15-7:15 p.m.
GII-1. International Society for Environmental Ethics: Ronald L. Sandler, Character and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Speaker: Allen Thompson (Clemson University)
Critics: William B. Bradley (Syracuse University)
Katie McShane (North Carolina State University)
Author: Ronald L. Sandler (Northeastern University)
GII-2. Society of Christian Philosophers
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: The Kenneth Konyndyk Memorial Lectures
Chair: Bruce Ellis Benson (Wheaton College)
Speakers: John D. Caputo (Syracuse University)
“The Weakness of God”
R. William Hasker (Huntington University)
“The Openness of God”
GII-3. Joint Session Sponsored by the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy and the APA Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the Profession
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Chair: Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Speakers: John Corvino (Wayne State University)
“Hume, Homosexuality, and the Challenge of Relativism”
Richard Nunan (Philosophy and Religious Studies, College of Charleston)
“Channeling Augustine: John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and the Emergence of Homoerotic Kantianism”
Christine Pierce (North Carolina State University)
“Heteronormativity and (Sartre on) Anti-Semitism”
GII-4. Society for the Philosophical Study of Education
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Logic, Method, and Critical Thinking
GII-5. Committee on Institutional Cooperation
5:15-7:15 p.m.
GII-6. International Berkeley Society
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Chair: Margaret Atherton (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Speaker: Georges Dicker (State University of New York–College at Brockport)
“Another Whack at Berkeley: A Critical Analysis of Principles 1-7”
Commentator: John Troyer (University of Connecticut)
Speaker: Richard J. Brook (Bloomsburg University)
“Berkeley, the Space of Our Lives and the Space of Physics”
Commentator: Shoshanna Brassfield (Colgate University)
GII-7. American Society for Value Inquiry
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Virtue Ethics
Chair: G. John M. Abbarno (D’Youville College)
Speakers: Judith Andre (Michigan State University)
“Cosmopolitan Virtue: On Becoming Citizens of the World”
Frank Scott McElreath (Peace College)
“Virtue Ethics and Action-Guiding Objections”
GII-8. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Reason and Validity in Indian and Buddhist Epistemologies
Chair: J.N. Mohanty (Temple University)
Speakers: Bina Gupta (University of Missouri–Columbia)
“The Place of Reason in Advaita Vedanta”
Matthew Kapstein (University of Chicago Divinity School)
“A Fly on the Monastery Wall: Debates on the Cognitive Object in Some Newly Discovered Tibetan Pramana Texts”
Sara McClintock (Emory University)
“Buddhist Epistemology and the Bugaboo of True Belief”
Christopher G. Framarin (University of Calgary)
“Cittavrttinirodha: The Restraint and Cessation of Mental Events in the Yogasutra”
GII-9. Hume Society
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Hume on Skepticism and Moral Distinctions
Chair: Karánn Durland (Austin College)
Speaker: Brian Ribeiro (University of Tennessee–Chattanooga)
“Hume’s Changing Views on the ‘Durability’ of Skepticism”
“Hume on the ‘Reality’ of Moral Distinctions”
GII-10. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts: Thomas E. Wartenberg, Thinking On Screen: Film as Philosophy
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Chair: Anne Eaton (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Critics: Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore College)
Cynthia Freeland (University of Houston)
Andrew R. Light (University of Washington)
Author: Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College)
Group Session GIII: Thursday, April 17, 7:30-10:30 p.m.
GIII-1. Hegel Society of America
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Hegel and Kant’s Third Critique
Chair: Philip Grier (Dickinson College)
Speakers: Angelica Nuzzo (City University of New York)
John McCumber (University of California–Los Angeles)
Sally Sedgwick (University of Illinois–Chicago)
GIII-2. Karl Jaspers Society of North America
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychopathology
Chair: Andrew Gluck (Independent Scholar)
Speakers: Richard Feist (Saint Paul University–Ottawa)
“Jaspers and Whitehead: Experience as the Source for Philosophical Concepts”
Gregory J. Walters (Saint Paul University–Ottawa)
“Alcoholism, Depression, and the Heredity-Environment Question: A Comparison of the DSM-IV-TR and Jaspers’s General Psychopathology”
Hugh Kelly (New York University)
“Judgment: Imagination, Creativity, and Delusion”
GIII-3. Society for the Philosophy of Creativity
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: John Cogan (Eckerd College)
Speaker: Donald Crosby (Colorado State University)
“Causality, Time, and Creativity: The Crucial Role of Novelty”
Commentators: Pete A.Y. Gunter (University of North Texas)
Stephen H. Bickham (Mansfield University)
GIII-4. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: Ingvild Torsen (Florida International University)
Speakers: Mark R. Huston (Schoolcraft College)
“The Conversation, Film, and Philosophy”
Robin M. James (University of North Carolina–Charlotte)
“Good Girl Gone Bad”
William C. Pamerleau (University of Pittsburgh–Greensburg)
“Existential Religiosity in the Films of Ingmar Bergman”
Kevin Stoehr (Boston University)
“Film Makers as Philosophers of Film”
GIII-5. American Society for Value Inquiry
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Values and Justice
Chair: Frank Scott McElreath (Peace College)
Speakers: Thomas Magnell (Drew University)
“Social Justice and Individual Responsibility”
Carlo Felice (State University of New York–Geneseo)
“A Just Society”
GIII-6. Conference of Philosophical Societies
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: G. John M. Abbarno (D’Youville College)
Speakers: G. John M. Abbarno (D’Youville College)
David Schrader (APA Executive Director)
GIII-7. Society for Analytical Feminism
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College–Norco Campus)
Speaker: Asha Bhandary (University of Connecticut)
“Dependency in Justice: Kittay’s Critique of Rawls”
Commentator: Sarit Smila (Washington University in St. Louis)
Speaker: Susanne Sreedhar (Boston University)
“Thomas Hobbes as Feminist?”
Commentator: Tamela Ice (Kansas City Community College)
Speaker: Amanda Roth (University of Michigan)
“‘But You Don’t Respect Me’: Second Personal Respect and Gendered Perception”
Commentator: Tamra Frei (Michigan State University)
The session will be followed by a brief business meeting.
GIII-8. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Topics in Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Chair: Marthe Chandler (DePauw University)
Speakers: Daniel Stephens (University of Hong Kong)
“On the Value of Comparative Philosophy in a Rortian Reading of Rorty”
Bongrae Seok (Alvernia College)
“Confucian Error: Emotion in Confucian Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Moral Psychology”
Marthe Chandler (DePauw University)
“How Should I Feel about a Foreign Religion? Buddhist Art in the Northern Wei”
Eric S. Nelson (University of Massachusetts–Lowell)
“Perplexing Words: Language and the Unsayable in Heidegger and Chan Buddhism”
GIII-9. Concerned Philosophers for Peace
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: Harry van der Linden (Butler University)
Speakers: Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo)
“Security Measures: How Much Buck for (Saving the) Bang?”
Greg Moses (Independent Scholar)
“Spinoza’s World and M.L. King, Jr.: On the Ethics of Transforming All Our Sorrows into Joys”
Tracy Nicholls (Lewis University)
“Peace, Politics, and Enlightenment”
GIII-10. Society for the Metaphysics of Science
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Speakers: Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
“Mechanistic Functionalism”
Ronald Endicott (North Carolina State University)
“Improving Nonreductive Functionalism by Taking Mechanisms Seriously: Causal versus Total Nomic Roles”
Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois University)
“The Third Way for Functionalists”
GIII-11. Society for Student Philosophers
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: Ryan Pflum (Western Michigan University)
Speakers: Ryan Pflum (Western Michigan University)
“Testimony and Epistemic Priority”
Michael F. Martin (Ohio State University)
“Rehabilitating the Ability Hypothesis”
Errol Lord (University of Nebraska-–Lincoln)
“On Maximal Rationality”
Jordan Kiper (Colorado State University)
“Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Minds, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness”
GIII-12. Society for Arab, Persian, and Islamic Philosophy
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Reflections on Academic Freedom
Chair: Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Speakers: Mehrene Larudee (DePaul University)
“Academic Freedom, Truth, and Power”
Mark Lance (Georgetown University)
“Freedom and Alienation: The Role of Academics in a Time of Political Crisis”
GIII-13. Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Chair: André Mineau (University of Quebec–Rimouski)
Speakers: Colleen Murphy (Texas A&M University)
“The Role of Trust in Political Reconciliation”
Matthew Nesvet (Chicago)
“Rousseau after Auschwitz”
André Mineau (University of Quebec–Rimouski)
“The Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union: Ethics and the Jews”
GIII-14. Society for the Study of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Yogacara Philosophy in Tibet
Speakers: Marie Friquegnon (William Paterson University)
“How Does the Cittamatra View on the Relative Level Function as a Path to Enlightenment in Santaraksita’s Philosophy?”
Douglas Duckworth (Florida State University)
“Buddha-Nature and the Two Truths”
Dan McNamara (University of Chicago Divinity School)
“‘What Else Remains’ in Dharmakaya: Alaya-Vijnana and Asraya-Paravrtti in Vasubandhu’s Soteriology”
Toy Tung (John Jay College–City University of New York)
“Longchenpa’s View of the Mind Only School”
GIII-15. Association for the Development of Philosophy Teaching
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: Refuting Postmodernism
Group Session GIV: Friday, April 18, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
GIV-1. American Association of Philosophy Teachers
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Teaching Kant to Undergraduate Students
Chair: Adrianne McEvoy (Mansfield University)
Speakers: Jeanine M. Grenberg (St. Olaf College)
“Kant’s Ethics for Majors and Non-Majors”
Robert Hanna (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“Back to Kant: Teaching the First Critique as Contemporary Philosophy”
Nils Rauhut (Coastal Carolina University)
“Are There Necessary Conditions for the Possibility of Teaching Kant to Undergraduate Students?”
George MacDonald Ross (University of Leeds)
“Translating the Critique of Pure Reason for Undergraduate Students”
GIV-2. North American Society for Social Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy
Chair: Lisa H. Schwartzman (Michigan State University)
Speakers: Paul H. Benson (University of Dayton)
“Desiderata for Feminist Accounts of Personal Autonomy”
Carolyn McLeod (University of Western Ontario)
“Serious Harm or Mere Inconvenience? Denying Women Emergency Contraception”
Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut)
“Affect, Corporeity, and Practical Intelligence”
Marina Oshana (University of Florida)
“A Commitment to Autonomy is a Commitment to Feminism”
GIV-3. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Ancient Moral Psychology
Chair: Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)
Speakers: Dylan Futter (Fordham University)
“Elenchus and Belief-Formation”
Courtney E. Oakes (Saint Louis University)
“The Interpersonal Dimensions of the Personal Sphere: The Need for a Supplement to Plato’s Developmental Psychology”
Myrna Gabbe (University of Dayton)
“Themistius and His Many Intellects”
GIV-4. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Desire and Morality
Chair: David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point)
Speakers: Lorraine L. Besser-Jones (University of Waterloo)
“The Efficacy and Plausibility of Aristotelian and Kantian Accounts of Moral Motivation: Is It Really Better to Enjoy What We Do?”
Danielle Bromwich (University of Toronto)
“Belief, Desire and Motivation”
Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College)
“Changing What We Value”
Tyler Stephen Paytas (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
“Acknowledged Desire Fulfillment Theory”
GIV-5. Society for the Philosophical Study of Education
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Ethics In and Beyond the Classroom
GIV-6. International Society of Chinese Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Kelly Clark (Calvin College)
Speaker: Ryan T. Nichols (California State University–Fullerton)
“Confucius, Impartiality, and Evolution”
Commentators: Brian J. Bruya (Eastern Michigan University)
Michael Bradie (Bowling Green State University)
Susan Blake (Indiana University)
GIV-7. Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion: “Computer-Assisted Argument Mapping”
Panelists: Maralee Harrell (Carnegie Mellon University)
Andrew Norman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Douglas Walton (University of Winnipeg)
Mark Daley (California State University–Northridge)
Claudia Alvarez Ortiz (University of Melbourne)
Panel Discussion: “The Perils and Promises of Teaching Critical Thinking Online”
Panelists: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)
Jerry Voltura (University of Alaska–Anchorage)
Michael Malone (Northern Arizona University)
David Hitchcock (McMaster University)
GIV-8. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Issues of Pluralism, Gender, and Literature in Pragmatism
Chair: Roger Ward (Georgetown College)
Speaker: Colin Koopman (University of California–Santa Cruz)
“Pragmatist Public Pluralism through William James, John Dewey, and Nancy Fraser”
Commentator: Stuart Rosenbaum (Baylor University)
Speaker: Adam Glover (University of Kentucky)
“Rorty Goes to Puerto Rico”
Commentator: Douglas R. Anderson (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
Speaker: Stacey Ake (Drexel University)
“Gender as Joker, or Playing the Hand You’re Dealt”
Commentator: Erin McKenna (Pacific Luthern University)
GIV-9. Society for the Study of Process Philosophies
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Whitehead’s Empiricism: How Radical?
Speakers: George Allan (Dickinson College)
“Transforming Whitehead’s Eternal Objects into Transient Empirical Possibilities”
Gary L. Herstein (Muskingum College)
“Irreducible Extension in the Unity of Whitehead’s Thought”
Commentator: Randall E. Auxier (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
GIV-10. Søren Kierkegaard Society
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Kierkegaard and German Idealism
Chair: Daniel M. Johnson (Baylor University)
Speakers: Ulrich Knappe (University of Copenhagen)
“To Kant and Kierkegaard’s Conceptions of Theoretical Truth” (Keynote Address)
Antony Aumann (Indiana University)
“Kierkegaard’s Case for the Irrelevance of Philosophy”
Shannon Nason (Purdue University)
“Contradiction, Opposition, and Mediation in Hegel and Kierkegaard”
Michael Matthis (Lamar University)
“Autonomy and Heteronomy: Kant and Kierkegaard and Freedom”
Commentator: Noel S. Adams (Marquette University)
GIV-11. North American Kant Society: Rachel E. Zuckert, Kant on Beauty and Biology: An Interpretation of the Critique of Judgement
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)
Critics: Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania)
John Zammito (Rice University)
Author: Rachel E. Zuckert (Northwestern University)
GIV-12. Society for Business Ethics
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Topic: Do Philosophers Have Something Unique to Contribute to Business Ethics?
Chair: Mollie Painter-Morland (DePaul University)
Speakers: Patricia Werhane (University of Virginia)
Christopher Michaelson (New York University)
Stephen Meinster (DePaul University)
Paul Harper (University of Virginia)
Sina Kramer (DePaul University)
GIV-13. Max Scheler Society
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Speakers: Michael Gabel (Universität Erfuhrt)
(Keynote Address)
Manfred Frings (DePaul University)
“What Is the Meaning of Saying that the Place of the Human Is ‘Outside’ the Cosmos?”
Christina Gould (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
“Toward an Irreplaceable Solidarity: Accepting the Uniqueness of the Other”
Zachary Davis (St. John’s University)
“Erotic Solidarity: Scheler’s Environmental Ethic”
Group Session GV: Saturday, April 19, 12:15-2:15 p.m.
GV-1. American Society for Aesthetics
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Chair: Angela Curran (Carleton College)
Speaker: Carl Plantinga (Film Studies, Calvin College)
Commentators: Cynthia Freeland (University of Houston)
Aaron Smuts (Temple University)
GV-2. International Association for the Philosophy of Sport
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Topic: Philosophy of Sport
Chair: Jeffrey P. Fry (Ball State University)
Speakers: Michael W. Austin (Eastern Kentucky University)
“Magnanimity, Modafinil, and Moral Theory”
Heather Reid (Morningside College)
“Sport as Philosophy”
Nicholas Dixon (Alma College)
“Trash Talking as Irrelevant to Athletic Excellence: Response to Summers”
Jeffrey P. Fry (Ball State University)
“Underdogs, Upsets, and Overachievers”
GV-3. International Society for Environmental Ethics
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Speakers: Jen Everett (DePauw University)
“Sustainability in Higher Education: Philosophical Implications”
Robert Figueroa (University of North Texas)
“Relocating Environmental Heritage: Cultural Sustainability and Environmental Refugees”
GV-4. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Topic: Double Effect and War
Chair: William O. Stephens (Creighton University)
Speakers: Joseph Boyle (University of Toronto)
“Discriminating among ‘Indiscriminate’ War Acts: Intended Damage, Unacceptable Side Effects and Rationalizing Descriptions of Targets”
David Rodin (Oxford University)
“Double Effect and Proportionality”
David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point)
“Who Uses the Doctrine of Double Effect?”
GV-5. Society for the Philosophy of History
12:15-2:15 p.m.
GV-6. Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Topic: Globalization, Capital, and World Poverty
Chair: Forrest Perry (Vanderbilt University)
Speakers: David Schweickart (Loyola University Chicago)
“Global Poverty: Alternative Perspectives on What We Should Do—And Why”
Howard Engelskirchen (Iowa State University)
“Transforming Property”
Tony Smith (Iowa State University)
“Technology and Globalization: A New Stage in World History?”
GV-7. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Topic: New Books in the Field: Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius (Cambridge, 2007) by May Sim
Critics: Peimin Ni (Grand Valley State University)
Virginia Osborn (Belmont University)
Alasdair Macintyre (University of Notre Dame)
Author: May Sim (College of the Holy Cross)
GV-8. Society for the Study of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Topic: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Karma
Speakers: Owen Flanagan (Duke University)
“Karma Naturalized”
Philip Richman (Independent Scholar)
“Western Interpretations of Karma in Buddhism”
Joe Loizzo (Columbia University)
“Personal Agency across Generations: Evolutionary Psychology or Religious Belief”
GV-9. Society for Empirical Ethics
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Topic: Moral Cognition
Chair: Jennifer Cole Wright (University of Wyoming)
Speakers: Darcia Narvaez (University of Notre Dame)
“Triune Ethics: A Theory of Multiple Moral Motivations”
John Mikhail (Georgetown University)
“Moral Grammar: Clarifications, Objections, Replies”
Geoffrey Goodwin (Princeton University)
“The Perceived Objectivity of Ethical Beliefs”
GV-10. North American Nietzsche Society
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Chair: James Conant (University of Chicago)
Speakers: Anthony K. Jensen (Xavier University)
“Philology and Genealogy”
Henrik Rydenfelt (University of Helsinki)
“Valuation and the Will to Power: Nietzsche’s Ethics with Ontology”
GV-11. North American Kant Society
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Topic: Kant and Cosmopolitanism
Chair: Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)
Speakers: Sharon Anderson-Gold (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
“A Cosmopolitan Peace”
Helga Varden (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“Kant on Global Justice”
Katrin Flikschuh (London School of Economics)
“(Recipient of the Mary Gregor Prize)”
GV-12. Joint Session Sponsored by Josiah Royce Society, Personalist Discussion Group
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Chair: Randall E. Auxier (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
Speakers: Jacquelyn Ann Kegley (California State University–Bakersfield)
“Race as a Factor in the Personal and Social Narrative of the Contextual Human Person”
Tommy J. Curry (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
“The Lil’ White Man Who Could: Josiah Royce’s Anti-Black Racism as Cultural Perpetuation of White Supremacy”
Commentator: Dwayne Tunstall (Grand Valley State University)
GV-13. Society for Philosophy and Technology
12:15-2:15 p.m.
GV-14. Journal of the History of Philosophy
10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.