April 16-19, 2008
Palmer House Hilton Hotel

Wednesday, April 16

Placement Interview Area
5:00-10:00 p.m.
Placement Service
5:00-10:00 p.m.
Registration
5:00-10:00 p.m.
Executive Committee
7:00-11:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 17

Book Exhibits
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Group and Committee Sessions, Thursday Morning
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GI: 9:00 a.m.-Noon
GI-1: Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy
GI-2: William James Society
GI-3: Philosophy of Time Society
GI-4: Society for Student Philosophers
GI-5: Society for the Metaphysics of Science
GI-6: Society for the Philosophy of History
GI-7: Philosophy of Religion Group
GI-8: Radical Philosophy Association
GI-9: Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
GI-10: History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society
GI-11: American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy
GI-12: Bertrand Russell Society
GI-13: Max Scheler Society

Placement Interview Area
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

Placement Service
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

Registration
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

Group and Committee Sessions, Thursday Afternoon/Evening
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GII: 5:15-7:15 p.m.
GII-1: International Society for Environmental Ethics
GII-2: Society of Christian Philosophers
GII-3: Joint Session: Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the Profession and the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy
GII-4: Society for the Philosophical Study of Education
GII-5: Committee on Institutional Cooperation
GII-6: International Berkeley Society
GII-7: American Society for Value Inquiry
GII-8: Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
GII-9: Hume Society
GII-10: Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
Session GIII: 7:30-10:30 p.m.
GIII-1: Hegel Society of America
GIII-2: Karl Jaspers Society of North America
GIII-3: Society for the Philosophy of Creativity
GIII-4: Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
GIII-5: American Society for Value Inquiry
GIII-6: Conference of Philosophical Societies
GIII-7: Society for Analytical Feminism
GIII-8: Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
GIII-9: Concerned Philosophers for Peace
GIII-10: Society for the Metaphysics of Science
GIII-11: Society for Student Philosophers
GIII-12: Society for Arab, Persian, and Islamic Philosophy
GIII-13: Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust
GIII-14: Society for the Study of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy

I-A. Invited Session: The John Dewey Lecture
1:30-4:30 p.m., Crystal Room
Chair: Alison M. Jaggar (University of Colorado)
Speaker: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“Unnatural Lotteries and Diversity in Philosophy”
A reception sponsored by the John Dewey Foundation will follow the lecture.

I-B. Symposium: Is Terrorism Ever Justifiable?
1:30-4:30 p.m., Wabash Parlor
Chair: Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Speakers: Omar Dahbour (City University of New York)
Nicholas Fotion (Emory University)
Virginia Held (City University of New York Graduate School and Hunter College)
Commentator: Lionel K. McPherson (Tufts University)

I-C. Symposium: On Natural Kinds: From Metaphysics to Phylogenesis
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Lorraine Code (York University)
Speakers: Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire)
“Aristotle on Defective Kinds”
Giorgio Pini (Fordham University)
“Natural Kinds in the Later Middle Ages: The Case of Duns Scotus”
Joseph LaPorte (Hope College)
"Natural Kinds, Essences, and Contemporary Science"

I-D. Author Meets Critics: Lisa H. Schwartzman, Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Christian Miller (Wake Forest University)
Critics: Charles Mills (Northwestern University)
Elizabeth Secor Anderson (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Theresa W. Tobin (Marquette University)
Author: Lisa H. Schwartzman (Michigan State University)

I-E. Symposium: Libertarianism: For and Against
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Carl Cohen (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Speakers: Tibor Machan (Chapman University)
John Christman (Pennsylvania State University)
Commentator: Tara Smith (University of Texas–Austin)

I-F. Colloquium: Issues in Sexual Ethics
1:30-4:30 p.m.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Mark Sheldon (Northwestern University)
Speaker: Amy E. White (Ohio University–Zanesville)
“How Do You Like Your Eggs? The Morality of an Internet Market in Human Ova”
Commentator: Inmaculada De Melo-Martin (Weill Medical College, Cornell University)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Nathan Nobis (Morehouse College)
Speaker: Kurt Liebegott (Purdue University)
“Why the Responsibility Objection to Thomson’s Abortion Argument Must Fail”
Commentator: Bertha Alvarez Manninen (Arizona State University at the West Campus)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Daniel A. Campana (University of La Verne)
Speaker: Jeremy Garrett (Rice University)
“History, Tradition, and the Normative Foundations of Civil Marriage”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Christine Overall (Queen’s University)

I-G. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
1:30-4:30 p.m.
1:30-2:30 p.m
Chair: Timothy McCarthy (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
Speaker: Paul Saka (University of Houston)
“Speaking of the Unspeakable”
Commentator: Michael Kremer (University of Chicago)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Harry Deutsch (Illinois State University)
Speaker: Emil Badici (University of Florida)
“The Liar Paradox and the Inclosure Schema”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Graham Priest (University of Melbourne)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University)
Speaker: Ephraim Glick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“What is the Problem of Intentional Identity?”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Walter Edelberg (University of Illinois–Chicago)

I-H. Colloquium: Ancient Philosophy: Ethics
1:30-4:30 p.m.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Corinne M. Painter (Washtenaw Community College)
Speaker: Travis L. Butler (Iowa State University)
“Metaphysics and Ethics in Plato’s Republic”
Commentator: Franco V. Trivigno (Marquette University)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: S. Evan Kreider (University of Wisconsin–Fox Valley)
Speaker: May Sim (College of the Holy Cross)
“Whose Aristotle? Which Stagirite?”
Commentator: Thornton C. Lockwood (Boston University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Sharon E. Sytsma (Northern Illinois University)
Speaker: Anne Margaret Baxley (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Courage, Fear of Death, and the Silencing of Competing Reasons”
Commentator: Noell Birondo (Pomona College)

I-I. Colloquium: Epistemology I
1:30-4:30 p.m.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Carl Ehrett (Northwestern University)
Speaker: Leo Iacono (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
“Warranted Assertability Maneuvers and the Rules of Assertion”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Otávio A. Bueno (University of Miami)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Michael J. Shaffer (St. Cloud State University)
Speaker: Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay (Montana State University)
“The Duhem-Quine Thesis”
Commentator: Christopher Pincock (Purdue University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Benjamin Bayer (Loyola University of Chicago)
Speaker: William Roche (Texas Christian University)
“Coherentism and Truth”
Commentator: Richard Fumerton (University of Iowa)

I-J. Colloquium: Properties and Modality
1:30-4:30 p.m.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Gillian Russell (Washington University in St. Louis)
Speaker: Chris Tillman (University of Manitoba)
“Necessarily, Everything Necessarily Exists”
Commentator: Scott Berman (Saint Louis University)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Angel Pinillos (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Allen Gehring (Indiana University–Bloomington)
“Essentialism versus Essentialism: A Reply from a Naive Essentialist”
Commentator: Alicia Finch (Northern Illinois University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Nick Treanor (University of Toronto)
Speaker: Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa)
“Intrinsically/Extrinsically”
Commentator: Matthew Roberts (Whitworth University)

I-K. Colloquium: Responsibility and Autonomy
1:30-4:30 p.m.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chair: Julie Kirsch (Marymount University)
Speaker: Mikhail Valdman (Virginia Commonwealth University)
“Autonomy and History”
Commentator: Carol Hay (Bryn Mawr College)
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Anne Barnhill (New York University)
Speaker: Justin P. McBrayer (University of Missouri)
“Moral Responsibility, Coercion, and Guidance Control”
Commentator: Bradford Cokelet (Middlebury College)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Joseph Quinn Olechnowicz (Florida State University)
Speaker: Peter Brian Barry (Saginaw Valley State University)
“Saving Strawson”
Commentator: Kathryn J. Norlock (St. Mary’s College of Maryland)

I-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies: Ethics and Classical Chinese Philosophy
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Susan Blake (Indiana University)
Speakers: Yang Xiao (Kenyon College)
“Practical Wisdom as Moral Heuristics in Early Chinese Philosophy”
Steven F. Geisz (University of Tampa)
“Deliberation, Ritual, and Equality”
Brian J. Bruya (Eastern Michigan University)
“Between Reason and Reflex: Elements of a Nondeliberative Ethics”
Tongdong Bai (Xavier University)
“A Defense of a Decent (Confucian) People: A Criticism of Rawls’s Law of Peoples”

I-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine: Physicians at War: The Dual Loyalties Challenge
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Kevin McDonnell (Saint Mary’s College, University of Notre Dame)
Speakers: Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University/Australian National University)
“Physicians at War: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge”
Michael Davis (Illinois Institute of Technology)
“No Dual Loyalty: The Profession of Medicine Comes First”
Matthew Wynia (American Medical Association Institute for Ethics)
“Consequentialism and Harsh Interrogations: Dual Loyalties Aren’t Really the Issue”
Marcus Adams (Western Michigan University)
“Triage Priorities, Ethical Obligations, and Military Physicians”
Justin List (Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago)
“Professional Duties When Lives Are at Stake: Can Physicians Practice Medical Neutrality While Being Political Activists in Armed Conflicts Settings?”

Reception
8:30 p.m.-Midnight

Friday, April 18

Book Exhibits
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Placement Interview Area
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Placement Service
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Registration
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

II-A. Symposium: Leibniz’s Three-Tiered Ontology
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Laurence Carlin (University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh)
Speakers: Jan Cover (Purdue University)
Glenn A. Hartz (Ohio State University)
Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Timothy Crockett (Marquette University)

II-B. Symposium: Cheshire Calhoun’s Setting the Moral Compass
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)
Speakers: Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University)
Marcia Baron (Indiana University–Bloomington)
Robin Dillon (Lehigh University)
Michele Moody-Adams (Cornell University)

II-C. Author Meets Critics: Duncan Pritchard, Epistemic Luck
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Mylan Engel, Jr. (Northern Illinois University)
Critics: Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)
Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma)
Jonathan L. Kvanvig (Baylor University)
Author: Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling)

II-D. Author Meets Critics: Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit, Disadvantage
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Charles Mills (Northwestern University)
Critics: Richard J. Arneson (University of California–San Diego)
Lawrence Becker (Hollins University)
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
Authors: Jonathan Wolff (University College London)
Avner de-Shalit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

II-E. Symposium: The Innocent Eye: Seeing-As without Concepts
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Nicoletta Orlandi (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Commentators: Teresa Britton (Eastern Illinois University)
Robert Rupert (University of Colorado–Boulder)

II-F. Colloquium: Kantian Ethics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Mark Decker (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Speaker: Scott E. Forschler (Northland Community and Technical College)
“Kantian and Consequentialist Ethics: The Gap Can Be Bridged”
Commentator: Rebecca Stangl (University of Virginia)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Gary Levvis (University of Connecticut)
Speaker: Michael J. Cholbi (California State Polytechnic University–Pomona)
“Kantian Rigorism and Defensive Deception”
Commentator: Jake Noland (Virginia Commonwealth University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Jacob M. Held (University of Central Arkansas)
Speaker: Benjamin S. Yost (Harvard University)
“Kant’s Justification of the Death Penalty Reconsidered”
Commentator: Joseph M. Grcic (Indiana State University)

II-G. Colloquium: Ancient Philosophy: Epistemology and Metaphysics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Martin Henn (University of Wisconsin–Whitewater)
Speaker: Russell Jones (University of Oklahoma)
“Bivalence and Contradictory Pairs in Aristotle’s De Interpretatione 9”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Dean A. Kowalski (University of Wisconsin–Waukesha)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Alan Kim (Hamilton College)
Speaker: Naomi Reshotko (University of Denver)
“Is There an Intermediate Position between Knowing and Not Knowing? The Wax Block in Plato’s Theaetetus”
Commentator: Yancy Hughes Dominick (Seattle University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Elizabeth A. Hoppe (Lewis University)
Speaker: David Bronstein (Oxford University/University of Toronto)
“Understanding Meno’s Paradox in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics I.1”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Owen Goldin (Marquette University)

II-H. Colloquium: Agency and the Self
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: John Rowan (Purdue University–Calumet)
Speaker: Patricia A. Marino (University of Waterloo)
“Affective Evaluative Inconsistency and the Fragmented Self”
Commentator: Eugene Heath (State University of New York–New Paltz)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Steven W. Patterson (Marygrove College)
Speaker: Marc A. Cohen (George Washington University)
“Extending Charles Taylor’s Moral Psychology: Self-Interpretation, Desire and Rational Agency”
Commentator: Charles Starkey (Clemson University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: James Petrik (Ohio University)
Speaker: Kevin Toh (Indiana University–Bloomington)
“Agency and Enervation”
Commentator: David W. Shoemaker (Bowling Green State University)

II-I. Colloquium: Philosophy of Science
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Derek D. Turner (Connecticut College)
Speaker: Sarah Kenehan (University of Tennessee/Bern University)
“General Circulation Models and Severe Tests”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Nick Huggett (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: David W. Harker (East Tennessee State University)
“Explaining Past Scientific Successes Realistically (and without being Whiggish)”
Commentator: Geoffrey A. Gorham (St. Olaf College)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Angie Harris (University of Utah)
Speaker: Joel Velasco (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“The Biological Species Concept and Evolutionary History”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Matt Haber (University of Utah)

II-J. Colloquium: All about Objects
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Bruce P. Dutra (Mott Community College)
Speaker: Daniel Korman (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“Ordinary Objects without Overdetermination”
Commentator: Tom Riley (Clarke College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Adam C. Podlaskowski (University of Connecticut)
Speaker: Thomas Sattig (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Coincidence and Cardinality”
Commentator: Lawrence B. Lombard (Wayne State University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Ashley McDowell (Kalamazoo College)
Speaker: Cody S. Gilmore (University of California–Davis)
“An Argument Against Plenitude”
Commentator: Dana Lynne Goswick (University of California–Davis)

II-K. Colloquium: Descriptions and Substitution
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Peter W. Hanks (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities)
Speaker: Frank Pupa (The Graduate School and University Center–City University of New York)
“Descriptions, Understanding, and Anaphoric Chains: Russell’s New Challenge”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Gregory Landini (University of Iowa)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Mark Criley (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Speaker: Paolo Bonardi (University of Geneva and University of Sheffield)
“Kaplan on Quine’s Theorem”
Commentator: Michael McKinsey (Wayne State University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Heimir Geirsson (Iowa State University)
Speaker: Christina Conroy (University of California–Irvine)
“On an Alleged Refutation of Actually-Rigidified Descriptivism”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Michael Liston (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)

II-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Women: Reflections on Being a Woman Philosophy Student: Lessons for the Profession
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Erin McKenna (Pacific Luthern University)
Speakers: Christina Gould (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)
Sina Kramer (DePaul University)
Aisha Raees (Southern Illinois University)
Katie Padgett Walsh (Northwestern University)

II-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Hispanics: German Philosophy in the Americas
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Sean Kirkland (DePaul University)
Speakers: Claus Dierksmeier (Stonehill College)
Omar Rivera (University of Wisconsin–LaCrosse)
Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert (DePaul University)

Group and Committee Sessions, Friday Afternoon/Evening
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GIV: 7:00-10:00 p.m.
GIV-1: American Association of Philosophy Teachers
GIV-2: North American Society for Social Philosophy
GIV-3: Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
GIV-4: Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
GIV-5: Society for the Philosophical Study of Education
GIV-6: International Society of Chinese Philosophy
GIV-7: Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
GIV-8: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
GIV-9: Society for the Study of Process Philosophies
GIV-10: Søren Kierkegaard Society
GIV-11: North American Kant Society
GIV-12: Society for Business Ethics
GIV-13: Max Scheler Society

Business Meeting
2:15-1:30 p.m.

III-A. Symposium: Autonomy and Women’s Bodies
1:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Patricia A. Marino (University of Waterloo)
Speakers: Amy Mullin (University of Toronto–Mississauga)
“Wanted Pregnancies and Women’s Autonomy”
Susan Brison (Dartmouth College)
Margaret Little (Georgetown University)

III-B. Symposium: Envisioning an Anti-Racist Future
1:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Clevis Headley (Florida Atlantic University)
Speakers: Michael J. Monahan (Marquette University)
Lucius T. Outlaw (Vanderbilt University)
Linda Martín Alcoff (Syracuse University)

III-C. Symposium: Formal Epistemology, Prospects and Challenges
1:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Gregory Wheeler (CENTRIA AI Center, New University of Lisbon)
Speakers: Vincent F. Hendricks (Roskilde University)
“Plethoric Formal Epistemology”
Horacio Arló-Costa (Carnegie-Mellon University)
“Formal Epistemology, New Philosophical Directions”
Branden Fitelson (University of California–Berkeley)

III-D. Symposium: Sententialism and Higher-Order Attitude Attributions
1:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Rod Bertolet (Purdue University)
Speaker: Kirk Ludwig (University of Florida)
Commentators: Stephen Schiffer (New York University)
James Higginbotham (University of Southern California)

III-E. Colloquium: Early Modern Philosophy
1:45-4:45 p.m.
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Jordi Cat (Indiana University)
Speaker: Bradley L. Sickler (Ouachita Baptist University)
“Kant and Newton on Forces and the Nature of Matter”
Commentator: K. David Yandell (Loyola University Chicago)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin)
Speakers: Glenn A. Hartz (Ohio State University) and Patrick K. Lewtas (American University of Beirut)
“Two New Cartesian Circles”
Commentator: David R. Cunning (University of Iowa)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Mark Waymack (Loyola University Chicago)
Speaker: Mark D. Collier (University of Minnesota–Morris)
“Hume’s Causal Psychology and the Limits of Associationism”
Commentator: Anastasia Panagopoulos (University of Minnesota)

III-F. Colloquium: Political Philosophy
1:45-4:45 p.m.
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Bernard Jackson (Washington and Lee University)
Speaker: Sonia Sikka (University of Ottawa)
“Liberalism, Multiculturalism and the Hardening of Religious Identity”
Commentator: Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Jeremy Green (Western Michigan University)
Speaker: Melissa Yates (Northwestern University)
“Respecting Religious Citizens as Reasoners”
Commentator: Jeremy Neill (Saint Louis University)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Bill Martin (DePaul University)
Speaker: Eunjung Kim (University of Washington)
“The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus and the Moral Enforceability of Human Rights”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Derrick Darby (University of Kansas)

III-G. Colloquium: Action, Agency, and Responsibility
1:45-4:45 p.m.
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Paul Mueller (Loyola University of Chicago)
Speaker: Michael Dean Hartsock (University of Missouri–Columbia)
“Omissions as Causes”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Evan Fales (University of Iowa)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois University)
Speakers: Felipe De Brigard (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) and Eric Mandelbaum (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“Neuroscience and Responsibility”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Thomas Nadelhoffer (Dickinson College)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Charles Koziol (City University of New York Graduate Center)
Speaker: Tracie Mahaffey (Florida State University)
“The Experience of Authorship and Automatic Action”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Neil Delaney (Georgetown University)

III-H. Colloquium: Metaethics
1:45-4:45 p.m.
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Jonathon David Jones (Wayne State University)
Speaker: Simon Rippon (Harvard University)
“In Defense of the Wide-Scope Instrumental Principle”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford University)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Daniel Groll (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Mark N. Jensen (Hope College)
“Can Group Agents Be Autonomous?”
Commentator: Jonathan F. Garthoff (Northwestern University)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Uri Leibowitz (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
Speaker: Mark LeBar (Ohio University)
“McKeever and Ridge on Practical Reasoning”
Commentator: Sean D. McKeever (Davidson College)

III-I. Colloquium: Continental Philosophy and Kierkegaard
1:45-4:45 p.m.
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Dean F. Moyar (Johns Hopkins University)
Speaker: David T. Vessey (University of Chicago)
“On a Recent Husserlian Criticism of Gadamer’s Account of the Subject”
Commentator: Lauren Swayne Barthold (Gordon College)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Matthew Shockey (Indiana University–South Bend)
Speaker: Joseph K. Schear (California Polytechnic State University–San Luis Obispo)
“Heidegger’s Critique of Husserl’s Theory of Meaning”
Commentator: Corey McCall (Elmira College)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Kenneth Itzkowitz (Marietta College)
Speaker: R. Zachary Manis (Southwest Baptist University)
“Kierkegaard on the Problem of Abraham”
Commentator: Noel S. Adams (Marquette University)

III-J. Colloquium: Issues in Perception
1:45-4:45 p.m.
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Chair: Robert Stalnaker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Speaker: Derek H. Brown (Brandon University)
“Demonstratives and Indirect Perception”
Commentator: Cara Spencer (Howard University)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Chair: David Hilbert (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Speaker: Wayne W. Wu (Ohio State University)
“Attention and Its Phenomenology”
Commentator: James R. Genone (University of California–Berkeley)
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Joseph Thomas Tolliver (University of Arizona)
Speaker: Robert E. Briscoe (Loyola University New Orleans)
“Visual Shape Perception and Bodily Action”
Commentator: Alex Byrne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

III-K. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on International Cooperation: Is There an African Analytic Philosophy: A Discussion of Intuitions across Cultures
1:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Albert Casullo (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Speaker: Barry Hallen (Morehouse College)
“Folk Psychology, Experimental Philosophy, African Philosophy”
Commentator: Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana University–Bloomington)
Speaker: Kola Abimbola (University of Leicester)
“Reason and Culture: The Roles of Nomological Structures in Human Reasoning”

III-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy
1:45-4:45 p.m.

III-M. Joint Session Sponsored by the Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers: Evaluation of Teaching Demonstrations
1:45-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Bill Hartmann (St. Louis Community College–Forest Park College)
APA Panelists: Colleen Burns (Harper College)
Holly Graff (Oakton Community College)
David Zacker (Elgin Community College)
Donna Werner (St. Louis Community College-Meramec College)
AAPT Panelists: Betsy Newell Decyk (California State University–Long Beach)
Donna Engelmann (Alverno College)
A key component of the interview for community colleges and four year teaching institutions is the teaching demonstration. In hopes of improving interview performance, the co-sponsors are soliciting job candidates to present 15-20 minute demonstrations of their choosing or a topic assigned by the committee. This three hour session will conduct presentations and feedback for the first two hours and then an hour of general discussion. Space will be limited. Prospective presenters should contact Bill Hartmann (APA): bhartmann@stlcc.edu or Betsy Decyk (AAPT): bdecyk@csulb.edu

Presidential Address
5:00-6:15 p.m.
Introduction: Peter van Inwagen
Speaker: James P. Sterba
“Completing the Kantian Project: From Rationality to Equality”
A question period will follow the Presidential Address.

Presidential Reception
9:00 p.m.-Midnight

Saturday, April 19

Book Exhibits
9:00 a.m.-Noon

Group and Committee Sessions, Saturday Morning
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
GV-14: Journal of the History of Philosophy

Placement Interview Area
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Placement Quiet Interview Space
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Placement Service
9:00 a.m.-Noon

Registration
9:00 a.m.-Noon

IV-A. Symposium: Academic Freedom: Ideals and Illusions
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame)
Speakers: Ward Churchill ((Formerly University of Colorado))
Ellen Schrecker (Yeshiva University)
John K. Wilson (College Freedom Institute–Chicago)

IV-B. Symposium: Privacy, Community and Culture
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Scott A. Anderson (University of British Columbia)
Speakers: Anita L. Allen (University of Pennsylvania Law School)
Leslie Francis (University of Utah)
Geoffrey Brennan (Australian National University)
Chandran Kukathas (London School of Economics)

IV-C. Symposium: The Philosophical Feminism of Simone de Beauvoir
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Margaret A. Simons (Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville)
Speakers: Sara Heinamaa (University of Helsinki)
Karen Vintges (University of Amsterdam)
Nancy Bauer (Tufts University)

IV-D. Author Meets Critics: Robert Stainton, Words and Thoughts
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Jason Merchant (University of Chicago)
Critics: Anne Bezuidenhout (University of South Carolina)
Philip A. Robbins (Washington University in St. Louis)
Zoltán Szabó (Yale University)
Author: Robert Stainton (University of Western Ontario)

IV-E. Symposium: Consent and the Formula of Humanity
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: James Reid (Metropolitan State College of Denver)
Speaker: Japa Pallikkathayil (Harvard University)
Commentators: Tamra Frei (Michigan State University)
David Sussman (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)

IV-F. Colloquium: Decision Theory
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Barry M. Ward (University of Arkansas)
Speaker: Don T. Fallis (University of Arizona)
“Resolving Horgan’s Strengthened Two Envelope Paradox”
Commentator: Terence Horgan (University of Arizona)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht (Indiana University-Purdue University–Fort Wayne)
Speaker: Dale Dorsey (University of Alberta)
“Welfare and the Status-Quo Bias”
Commentator: Kimberley Brownlee (University of Manchester)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Irwin Goldstein (Davidson College)
Speaker: David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point)
“Denying Incomparability”
Commentator: Ruth Chang (Rutgers University)

IV-G. Colloquium: Epistemology III
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Sarah Black Jones (Northern Michigan University)
Speaker: Michael A. Rescorla (University of California–Santa Barbara)
“The Dialectical Regress of Justifications”
Commentator: Juan Comesaña (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Matthew Mullins (Northwestern University)
Speaker: E.J. Coffman (University of Tennessee)
“Reliability and Warranted Assertion”
Commentator: Patrick Rysiew (University of Victoria)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: A. Minh Nguyen (Eastern Kentucky University)
Speaker: Ted L. Poston (University of South Alabama)
“Know How to Be Gettiered?”
Commentator: Marc A. Alspector-Kelly (Western Michigan University)

IV-H. Colloquium: Virtue Ethics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: William O. Stephens (Creighton University)
Speaker: Mark Piper (Saint Louis University)
“Hursthouse’s Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, the Slide into Consequentialism, and the Problem of Instrumentally Successful Vice”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: John Elia (Wilson College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Larry J. Waggle (Illinois State University)
Speaker: Luke Gelinas (University of Toronto)
“Is Agent-Based Virtue Ethics Circular?”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Jason R. Kawall (Colgate University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Thomas M. Tuozzo (University of Kansas)
Speaker: Macalester C. Bell (Columbia University)
“Globalist Attitudes and Special Relations”
Commentator: Amy Coplan (California State University–Fullerton)

IV-I. Colloquium: Egalitarianism and Global Inequality
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Marcus Adams (Western Michigan University)
Speaker: Idil Boran (York University)
“The Paradox of Resources: Global Inequalities and Resource Distribution”
Commentator: Gillian Brock (University of Auckland)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat (Lewis University)
Speaker: Todd C. Calder (University of Victoria)
“Shared Responsibility, Structural Injustice, and Restitution”
Commentator: Tracy A. Edwards (Michigan State University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Margaret Atherton (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Speaker: Martin O’Neill (University of Manchester)
“What Should Egalitarians Believe?—Beyond Telic and Deontic Egalitarianism”
Commentator: Rodney C. Roberts (East Carolina University)

IV-J. Colloquium: Physicalism and Realization
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Thomas D. Senor (University of Arkansas)
Speaker: Douglas Keaton (University of Cincinnati)
“And Never the Twain Shall Meet: A Critique of Carl Gillett’s Dimensioned Realization”
Commentator: Eric M. Funkhouser (University of Arkansas)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Fritz McDonald (Oakland University)
Speaker: Jared G. Bates (Hanover College)
“Kim on the Explanatory Argument for Physicalism”
Commentator: Gerald Vision (Temple University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Mark B. Couch (Seton Hall University)
Speaker: Kelly Trogdon (University of Massachusetts)
“Physicalism and Sparse Ontology”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Ronald Loeffler (Grand Valley State University)

IV-K. Colloquium: Moral Realism and Moral Responsibility
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: B. Scot Rousse (Northwestern University)
Speaker: William Rehg (Saint Louis University)
“Moral Realism and Autonomy in Discourse Ethics”
Commentator: Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Mark P. Jenkins (Johns Hopkins University)
Speaker: Matthew Pianalto (University of Arkansas)
“Moral Realism and Ways of Life”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Andrew M. Cullison (State University of New York–Fredonia)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Katie Padgett Walsh (Northwestern University)
Speaker: Matthew Brophy (Minnesota State University–Mankato)
“Moral Judgments: Etiologies and Credibility”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Michael W. Austin (Eastern Kentucky University)

IV-L. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on International Cooperation: Contemporary Philosophy of Mind in Latin America and Spain
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: David Sosa (University of Texas–Austin)
Speaker: Diana Pérez (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Commentator: Peter Simons (University of Leeds)
Chair: Marcelo H. Sabatés (Kansas State University)
Speaker: David Pineda (Universidad de Girona)
Commentator: Robert Stalnaker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Chair: Susana Nuccetelli (St. Cloud State University)
Speaker: Ángeles Eraña (Universidad Autónoma de Mexico)
Commentator: John Heil (Trinity University)

IV-M. Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Black Philosophers: Philosophical Readings/Interpretations of bell hooks
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: George Yancy (Duquesne University)
Speakers: Maria D. Davidson (University of Oklahoma)
“bell hooks and the Move from Marginalized Other to Radical Black Subject”
Kathryn T. Gines (Vanderbilt University)
“Black Looks: Objectification, Subjectivity, and ‘Looking Back’”
Donna D. Marcano (Trinity College)
“bell hooks, Black Feminism, and Philosophy”

Saturday Afternoon/Evening, April 19

Group and Committee Sessions, Saturday Afternoon/Evening
(See Group Meeting Program for details)
Session GV: 12:15-2:15 p.m.
GV-1: American Society for Aesthetics
GV-2: International Association for the Philosophy of Sport
GV-3: International Society for Environmental Ethics
GV-4: Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
GV-5: Society for the Philosophy of History
GV-6: Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism
GV-7: Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
GV-8: Society for the Study of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy
GV-9: Society for Empirical Ethics
GV-10: North American Nietzsche Society
GV-11: North American Kant Society
GV-12: Joint Session: Josiah Royce Society and the Personalist Discussion Group
GV-13: Society for Philosophy and Technology

V-A. Symposium: What Are Variables?
2:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Tomis Kapitan (Northern Illinois University)
Speakers: George Bealer (Yale University)
Kit Fine (New York University)
Joshua Dever (University of Texas–Austin)

V-B. Symposium: Responsibility for Resisting Oppression
2:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Ann E. Cudd (University of Kansas)
Speakers: Bernard Boxill (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Thomas E. Hill, Jr. (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Jean Harvey (University of Guelph)
Commentator: Sarah Buss (University of Michigan)

V-C. Author Meets Critics: Jean-Louis Dessalles, Why We Talk
2:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Walter Edelberg (University of Illinois–Chicago)
Critics: Jason McKenzie Alexander (London School of Economics)
Fiona Cowie (California Institute of Technology)
Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
Author: Jean-Louis Dessalles (École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications)

V-D. Symposium: Sculpting Character: Aristotle’s Voluntary as Affectability
2:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: George Anagnostopoulos (University of California–San Diego)
Speaker: Audrey L. Anton (The Ohio State University)
Commentators: Paula L. Gottlieb (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Lawrence J. Jost (University of Cincinnati)

V-E. Colloquium: Finks and Zombies
2:30-5:30 p.m.
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Hugh J. McCann (Texas A&M University)
Speaker: Charles M. Hermes (University of Texas–Arlington)
“Finks, Masks, Mimics, and Freedom”
Commentator: Kevan Edwards (University of Kansas)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Joseph Owens (University of Minnesota)
Speaker: Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
“Access Denied to Zombies”
Commentator: Stephen Biggs (University of Toronto)

V-F. Colloquium: Epistemology II
2:30-5:30 p.m.
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Anthony Gillies (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Speaker: Nicholaos Jones (The Ohio State University)
“Belief Revision and Coherence without Foundations”
Commentator: Joseph Moore (Amherst College)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Michael B. Horton (University of South Alabama–Mobile)
Speaker: Jay M. Newhard (John Carroll University)
“Circularity in Ordinary Language Arguments for Epistemic Contextualism”
Commentator: Baron Reed (Northwestern University)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Jennifer Woodward (University of Kentucky)
Speaker: Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)
“Knowledge Ascriptions and the Psychological Consequences of Thinking about Error”
Commentator: Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University)

V-G. Colloquium: Metaphysics and Physics
2:30-5:30 p.m.
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Albert Casullo (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Speaker: Daniel M. Johnson (Baylor University)
“Making Co-instantiation Primitive: Consequences for the Bundle Theory’s Commitment to the Identity of Indiscernibles”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Charlie Tanksley (University of Virginia)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Robin Smith (Texas A&M University)
Speaker: Mark Wheeler (San Diego State University)
“Aristotle on the Signification of Natural Kind Terms: Narrow or Wide Content?”
Commentator: Herbert Granger (Wayne State University)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Kevin Davey (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Jeffrey Dunn (University of Massachusetts)
“Counterfactual Dependence, Thermodynamics, and the Special Sciences”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Valia Allori (Northern Illinois University)

V-H. Colloquium: Issues in Ethical Theory
2:30-5:30 p.m.
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Julie McDonald (Saint Joseph’s University)
Speaker: Lisa S. Rivera (University of Massachusetts–Boston)
“Worthy Lives”
Commentator: Susanne E. Foster (Marquette University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Monica L. Gerrek (University of Kansas)
Speaker: Daniel J. Callcut (University of North Florida)
“Mill, Sentimentalism, and the Problem of Moral Authority”
Commentator: Margaret A. Crouch (Eastern Michigan University)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Anthony J. Rudd (St. Olaf College)
Speaker: Charles Huenemann (Utah State University)
“Valuing from Life’s Perspective”
Commentator: Daw-Nay Evans (DePaul University)

V-I. Colloquium: Kant
2:30-5:30 p.m.
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Adrian Switzer (Emory University)
Speaker: Brett Fulkerson-Smith (University of Kentucky)
“On the Apodictic Proof of Kant’s Revolutionary Hypothesis”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Claudia Schmidt (Marquette University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Russell Ford (Elmhurst College)
Speaker: Bryan Hall (Indiana University Southeast)
“A Dilemma for Kant’s Theory of Substance”
Commentator: Clinton Tolley (University of California–San Diego)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Christopher Johns (Saint Xavier University (Chicago))
Speaker: Helga Varden (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“Kant’s Non-Absolutist Conception of Political Legitimacy”
Commentator: Kyla Ebels Duggan (Northwestern University)

V-J. Colloquium: Representation
2:30-5:30 p.m.
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Mitchell S. Green (University of Virginia)
Speaker: James John (University of Toronto)
“Thau on Qualia and Representational Content”
Commentator: Brie Gertler (University of Virginia)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Sean J. Allen-Hermanson (Florida International University)
Speaker: Daniel L. Corbett (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
“Teleofunctionalism and the Swampman”
Commentator: Jack C. Lyons (University of Arkansas)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Marian David (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Clayton Littlejohn (Dedman College)
“On the Coherence of Inversion”
Commentator: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)