Wednesday, March 31 |
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Wednesday Afternoon, March 31 |
| Session I — 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| I-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Russell T. Hurlburt and Eric Schwitzgebel, Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Charles Siewert (University of California–Riverside) |
| Critics: | Christopher Hill (Brown University) |
| | Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri–St. Louis) |
| | Mark Timmons (University of Arizona) |
| Authors: | Russell T. Hurlburt (University of Nevada–Las Vegas) |
| | Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California–Riverside) |
| I-B. | Invited Symposium: Existential Phenomenology in Latin America |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Jesus Ramirez (Ohlone College) |
| Speakers: | Alejandro Vallega (California State University–Stanislaus) |
| "A Latin American Philosophy Beyond Pernicious Knowledge” |
| | Carlos Sanchez (San Jose State University) |
| "Resistance and Ressentiment: Max Scheler and Jorge Portilla on Values and Their Fragility” |
| Commentators: | Omar Rivera (University of Wisconsin–La Crosse) |
| | Alejandro Strong (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale) |
| I-C. | Invited Symposium: Metaphysics |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | L. A. Paul (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) |
| Speakers: | Daniel Nolan (University of Nottingham) |
| | Achille Varzi (Columbia University) |
| | Ryan Wasserman (Western Washington University) |
| Commentator: | Jason Turner (University of Leeds) |
| I-D. | Invited Symposium: The Concept of Understanding in Epistemology |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Charles Griswold (Boston University) |
| Speakers: | Jonathan Kvanvig (Baylor University) |
| "Curiosity and the Response-Dependent Value of Understanding” |
| | Catherine Elgin (Harvard University) |
| "Understanding and Knowledge” |
| | Michael Strevens (New York University) |
| "Varieties of Understanding” |
| Commentator: | Brad Armendt (Arizona State University) |
| I-E. | Colloquium: Epistemic Norms |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Michael Trestman (University of California–Davis) |
| Speaker: | Gregory Wheeler (New University of Lisbon) |
| "Character Matching and the Envelope of Belief” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Jonathan Weisberg (University of Toronto) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Anthony Rudd (St. Olaf College) |
| Speaker: | Jason Kawall (Colgate University) |
| "Testimony, Epistemic Egoism, and Epistemic Credit” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Anne Baril (University of Arizona) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University) |
| Speaker: | Jerry Joseph Steinhofer (Brown University) |
| "Epistemic Desert and the Value of Knowledge” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Sarah A. Wright (University of Georgia) |
| I-F. | Colloquium: Freedom and Determinism |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Justin Coates (University of California–Riverside) |
| Speaker: | Kevin L. Timpe (Northwest Nazarene University) |
| "Revising Revisionism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Benjamin Vilhauer (William Paterson University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | David Vander Laan (Westmont College) |
| Speaker: | Garrett Pendergraft (University of California–Riverside) |
| "No (New) Troubles with Ockhamism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | David Hunt (Whittier College) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Benj Hellie (University of Toronto) |
| Speaker: | Paul R. Audi (University of Nebraska–Omaha) |
| "Freedom, Backtrackers, and the Fixity of the Past” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Marc Johansen (University of Arizona) |
| I-G. | Colloquium: Mental States |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Barbara Montero (City University of New York–Graduate Center) |
| Speaker: | Andreas Elpidorou (Boston University) |
| "Reasons, Causes, and Neuropsychology: An Essay on Geometrical Gerrymandering” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Anne Jacobson (University of Houston) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Alexander Klein (California State University–Long Beach) |
| Speaker: | Mitchell Herschbach (University of California–San Diego) |
| "Mirroring Is Not Always Simulation” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Felipe De Brigard (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Ray Rennard (University of the Pacific) |
| Speaker: | Alex Grzankowski (University of Texas–Austin) |
| "Are All Attitudes Propositional Attitudes?” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Ted Parent (Virginia Tech) |
| I-H. | Colloquium: Philosophy of Biology and Physics |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Johanna Wolff (Stanford University) |
| Speaker: | Jill North (Yale University) |
| "The Structure of a Quantum World” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Otávio Bueno (University of Miami) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Roberta L. Millstein (University of California–Davis) |
| Speakers: | Andrew Margenot (Connecticut College) |
| | Derek Turner (Connecticut College) |
| "Contingency and Relative Significance Debates in Biology” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Alan C. Love (University of Minnesota) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Scott Brophy (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) |
| Speaker: | Joel Velasco (Stanford University) |
| "Species, Genes, and the Tree of Life” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Angela Potochnik (Oklahoma State University) |
| I-I. | Colloquium: Plato - Mind and Metaphysics |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Matthew Darmalingum (Stanford University) |
| Speaker: | Kelly Arenson (University of Memphis) |
| "The Pleasures of Psychic Harmony in Plato’s Republic” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | William Prior (Santa Clara University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Anthony Ferrucci (San Francisco State University) |
| Speaker: | Brian Prince (Rice University) |
| "Plato’s Kinetic Theory” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Russell Jones (University of Oklahoma) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Ravi Sharma (Clark University) |
| Speaker: | David J. Yount (Mesa Community College) |
| "Emanation (or Lack Thereof?) in Plato and Plotinus” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Nalin Ranasinghe (Assumption College) |
| I-J. | Colloquium: Will, Responsibility, and Belief |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Christopher Williams (University of Nevada–Reno) |
| Speaker: | Eric Barnes (Southern Methodist University) |
| "Autonomy and Creative Responsibility” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College) |
| Speaker: | Laura W. Ekstrom (College of William and Mary) |
| "What Is the Will?” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Tamar Schapiro (Stanford University) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Dan Ryder (University of British Columbia–Okanagan) |
| Speaker: | Zachary J. Goldberg (Arizona State University) |
| "Van Inwagen’s Two Failed Arguments for the Belief in Freedom” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Oisin Deery (University of British Columbia) |
|
Wednesday Early Evening, March 31 |
| Session II — 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| II-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Jiyuan Yu, The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco) |
| Critics: | Lisa Raphals (University of California–Riverside) |
| | George Rudebusch (Northern Arizona University) |
| | Yang Xiao (Kenyon College) |
| Author: | Jiyuan Yu (University at Buffalo) |
| II-B. | Invited Paper: Feminism and Capitalism |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Samantha Brennan (University of Western Ontario) |
| Speaker: | Ann Cudd (University of Kansas) |
| "A Feminist Defense of Capitalism” |
| Commentators: | Nicole Hassoun (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| | Cynthia Stark (University of Utah) |
| II-C. | Invited Symposium: Aesthetics and Psychology |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Jeff Dean (Wiley-Blackwell) |
| Speakers: | Stephen Davies (University of Auckland) |
| | Mark Rollins (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| Commentators: | Tobyn De Marco (Bergen Community College) |
| | Dustin Stokes (University of Toronto) |
| II-D. | Invited Symposium: Content |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Jessica Rett (University of California–Los Angeles) |
| Speakers: | Sam Cumming (University of California–Los Angeles) |
| | Jeffrey C. King (Rutgers University) |
| | Angel Pinillos (Arizona State University) |
| II-E. | Invited Symposium: Nietzsche’s Relevance for Contemporary Ethics |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Nadeem J. Z. Hussain (Stanford University) |
| Speakers: | Paul Katsafanas (University of New Mexico) |
| "Grounding Ethics in Philosophical Psychology” |
| | Simon Robertson (University of Southampton) |
| "Nietzsche and Moral Obligation” |
| Commentator: | Reid Blackman (Colgate University) |
| II-F. | Colloquium: Actions, Intentions, and Slips |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Marcia Homiak (Occidental College) |
| Speaker: | John Hacker-Wright (University of Guelph) |
| "Ethical Naturalism as Transcendental Anthropology” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Emer O’Hagan (University of Saskatchewan) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Louise Antony (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) |
| Speaker: | Santiago Amaya (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| "Slips and Revealed Preference” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Dion Scott-Kakures (Scripps College) |
| II-G. | Colloquium: Modern Mind and Metaphysics |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Julian Wuerth (Vanderbilt University) |
| Speaker: | Ludmila Guenova (Harvard University) |
| "The Problem of Classification: Kant’s Reply to Locke” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Clinton Tolley (University of California–San Diego) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Brian Glenney (University of Southern California) |
| Speaker: | Shelley Weinberg (University of Illinois) |
| "Locke’s Internal Externalism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Antonia Lolordo (University of Virginia) |
| II-H. | Colloquium: Perception |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | James Stazicker (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Speaker: | Robert Briscoe (Ohio University) |
| "Spatial Content and Motoric Significance” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | James Genone (Stanford University) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Peter Ross (California State Polytechnic University–Pomona) |
| Speaker: | Berit Brogaard (University of Missouri–St. Louis) |
| "Do We Perceive Natural Kind Properties?” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Robert Howell (Southern Methodist University) |
| II-I. | Colloquium: Plato - State and Statecraft |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | John Myers (University of South Florida) |
| Speaker: | Matthew King (York University) |
| "The Plane of Republic 587d” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Byron Kaldis (University of California–Berkeley) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Judy Wubnig (University of Waterloo) |
| Speaker: | Mason Marshall (Pepperdine University) |
| "The Unity of Plato’s Timaeus-Critias” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Michael Griffin (University of British Columbia) |
| II-J. | Symposium: Epistemology of Induction |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Christopher Kulp (Santa Clara University) |
| Speakers: | Tim Perrine (Calvin College) |
| | Stephen Wykstra (Calvin College) |
| "Nozickean Sensitivity, Inductive Evidence, and Cornea” [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Paul Draper (Purdue University) |
| | Glenn Ross (Franklin and Marshall College) |
| II-K. | APA Committee Session: Best Placement Practices: Helpful Information for Graduate Students and Placement Directors |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement |
| Chair: | Leslie Pickering Francis (University of Utah) |
| Speakers: | Leslie Pickering Francis (University of Utah) |
| | Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri–St. Louis) |
|
Thursday, April 1 |
|
Thursday Morning, April 1 |
| Session III — 9:00-Noon |
| III-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: John Martin Fischer, Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Manuel Vargas (University of San Francisco) |
| Critics: | Ben Bradley (Syracuse University) |
| | Derk Pereboom (Cornell University) |
| | David Velleman (New York University) |
| Author: | John Martin Fischer (University of California–Riverside) |
| III-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Uriah Kriegel, Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Represenational Theory |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College) |
| Critics: | Brie Gertler (University of Virginia) |
| | Joseph Levine (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) |
| | Robert Van Gulick (Syracuse University) |
| Author: | Uriah Kriegel (University of Arizona) |
| III-C. | Invited Symposium: Discourse Relations |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Robert May (University of California–Davis) |
| Speakers: | Nicholas Asher (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| | Jerry Hobbs (University of Southern California) |
| | Andrew Kehler (University of California–San Diego) |
| Commentator: | Sonia Memetea (University of British Columbia) |
| III-D. | Invited Symposium: Nonideal Theory |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Michael Pendlebury (North Carolina State University) |
| Speakers: | Holly M. Smith (Rutgers University) |
| "The Moral Clout of Reasonable Beliefs” |
| | Christopher Freiman (University of Arizona) |
| "Nonideal Theory” |
| | Robert Hanna (University of Colorado–Boulder) |
| "Kantian Ethics and Nonideal Theory” |
| III-E. | Invited Symposium: Word and Object at 50 |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Janet Levin (University of Southern California) |
| Speakers: | Gary Ebbs (Indiana University–Bloomington) |
| | Michael Friedman (Stanford University) |
| | James Higginbotham (University of Southern California) |
| | Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh) |
| III-F. | Colloquium: Agents, Events, and Motives |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Paul Hughes (University of Michigan–Dearborn) |
| Speaker: | Carlo Filice (State University of New York–Geneseo) |
| "Libertarian Autonomy and Intrinsic Motives” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Robert Gressis (California State University–Northridge) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | John Maier (Australian National University) |
| Speaker: | Rebekah L. H. Rice (Seattle Pacific University) |
| "Agent Causation and Acting for Reasons” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Timothy O’Connor (Indiana University–Bloomington) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Luis Cheng-Guajardo (Stanford University) |
| Speaker: | Christopher Evan Franklin (University of California–Riverside) |
| "The Problem of Enhanced Control” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Scott Sehon (Bowdoin College) |
| III-G. | Colloquium: Kant |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Kory Schaff (Occidental College) |
| Speaker: | Michael Cholbi (California State Polytechnic University–Pomona) |
| "Kant on Moral Dilemmas” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Andrews Reath (University of California–Riverside) |
| Speaker: | Scott E. Forschler (Independent Scholar) |
| "Willing Universal Law vs. Universally Lawful Willing: What Kant’s Supreme Principle of Ethics Should Have Been” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Laura Papish (Northwestern University) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Elizabeth Brake (University of Calgary) |
| Speaker: | Aaron Bunch (Washington State University) |
| "The Body as Instrument and as ‘Person’ in Kant’s Moral Philosophy” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Jennifer K. Uleman (Purchase College, State University of New York) |
| III-H. | Colloquium: Plato - Philosophical Methods |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Antonio Chu (Metropolitan State College of Denver) |
| Speaker: | J. Clerk Shaw (University of Tennessee) |
| "Wisdom, Courage, and Natural Virtue at Protagoras 349d-351a” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Charles Young (Claremont Graduate University) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Lewis Pearson (Baylor University) |
| Speaker: | Chad E. Wiener (Portland State University) |
| "Plato’s Methodology in Republic I-IV” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Blake Hestir (Texas Christian University) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Daniel Schwartz (University of California–San Diego) |
| Speaker: | Brian Keady (University of Denver) |
| "Practical Dialectic in Plato’s Philebus” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Nils Rauhut (Coastal Carolina University) |
| III-I. | Colloquium: Probability Theory and Game Theory |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Kenny Easwaran (Australian National University) |
| Speakers: | Graciela Kuechle (Universität Witten/Herdecke) |
| | Diego Rios (Universität Witten/Herdecke) |
| "The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered: A Game-Theoretic Analysis” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Steve Downes (University of Utah) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | J. D. Trout (Loyola University Chicago) |
| Speaker: | Johannes Schmitt (University of Southern California) |
| "Can One Bet on One’s Own Ignorance?” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Geoff Pynn (Northern Illinois University) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Giacomo Sillari (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Speaker: | Darrell P. Rowbottom (University of Oxford) |
| "The Indispensability of Intersubjective Probability” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Robert Rupert (University of Colorado–Boulder) |
| III-J. | APA Committee Session: Beyond Blackboard: Teaching Philosophy with Technology |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers |
| Chair: | Renee Smith (Coastal Carolina University) |
| Speakers: | Renee Smith (Coastal Carolina University) |
| "Camtasia: Using Screen Capture to Teach Philosophy” |
| | Gregory R. Mayes (California State University–Sacramento) |
| "Clickers: Restoring Purpose, Focus, and Intensity in the Traditional Classroom” |
| | Garrett Pendergraft (University of California–Riverside) |
| "Teaching with Twitter” |
| | H. E. Baber (University of San Diego) |
| "Textbook Free: Taking Back Your Course” |
| | Mark Alfino (Gonzaga University) |
| "Using Wikis in Philosophy” |
| III-K. | APA Committee Session: Environmental Justice and Indigenous Peoples |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Indigenous Philosophers |
| Chair: | Thomas Norton-Smith (Kent State University) |
| Speakers: | Kyle Powys Whyte (Michigan State University) |
| "Environmental Justice and American Indian Communities: Political Not Traditional” |
| | Brian Yazzie Burkhart (Indiana University–Bloomington) |
| "On The Killing of Navajo Sheep in the 1930s: A Case Study in Environmental Justice” |
| | Robert Melchior Figueroa (University of North Texas) |
| "Risking Recognition: New Assessment Strategies for Environmental Justice and American Indian Communities” |
|
Thursday Afternoon, April 1 |
| Session IV — 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| IV-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Kathrin Koslicki, The Structure of Objects |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Gregory Janssen (University of Nevada–Las Vegas) |
| Critics: | Karen Bennett (Cornell University) |
| | Ned Markosian (Western Washington University) |
| | Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds and Cornell University) |
| Author: | Kathrin Koslicki (University of Colorado–Boulder) |
| IV-B. | Invited Symposium: Epistemic Expressivism |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University) |
| Speakers: | Klemens Kappel (Københavns Universitet) |
| "Epistemic Expressivism: An Evaluation” |
| | Michael Ridge (University of Edinburgh) |
| "Expressvism in Epistemology” |
| | Matthew Chrisman (University of Edinburgh) |
| "Is Epistemic Expressivism Compatible with Inquiry?” |
| Commentators: | Terence Cuneo (University of Vermont) |
| | Allan Gibbard (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor) |
| IV-C. | Invited Symposium: Recent Work of Anita Silvers: A New Theory of Justice for Difference |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Christie Hartley (Georgia State University) |
| "Response” |
| Speakers: | Lawrence C. Becker (Hollins University) |
| | Nancy Tuana (Pennsylvania State University) |
| | Jonathan Wolff (University College London) |
| Commentators: | Leslie Pickering Francis (University of Utah) |
| | Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University) |
| IV-D. | Invited Symposium: What Is Attention? |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Declan Smithies (Ohio State University) |
| Speakers: | Christopher Mole (University of British Columbia) |
| | Michael Tye (University of Texas–Austin) |
| | Wayne Wu (Ohio State University) |
| IV-E. | Colloquium: Moral Knowledge and Action |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Ann Davis (Pomona College) |
| Speaker: | Sarah Paul (Bowdoin College) |
| "Double Effect, Single Explanation” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Daniel Guevara (University of California–Santa Cruz) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Ali Niedbalski (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Speaker: | Lewis Powell (University of Southern California) |
| "Toward a Less Confident Cognitivism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Josh Earlenbaugh (University of California–Davis) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Kirk Ludwig (University of Florida) |
| Speaker: | Giovanni Mion (Southern Methodist University) |
| "Knowledge and the Action-Guiding Role of Assertions” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Joshua Schechter (Brown University) |
| IV-F. | Colloquium: Names, Negative Existentials, and Quotation |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Derrick Abdulhakim (San Francisco State University) |
| Speaker: | Joe Hedger (Arizona State University) |
| "New York Is Just New York: An Account of Genuine Proper Names in Fiction” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Peter Alward (University of Lethbridge) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Daniel Krasner (Metropolitan State College of Denver) |
| Speaker: | Greg Ray (University of Florida) |
| "The Problem of Negative Existentials Inadvertently Solved” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Nicole Wyatt (University of Calgary) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Melissa Fusco (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Speaker: | Paul Saka (University of Texas–Pan American) |
| "Quotation and Compositionality” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | John Collins (East Carolina University) |
| IV-G. | Colloquium: Skepticism |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Don Sievert (University of Missouri) |
| Speaker: | Jeremy Kirby (Albion College) |
| "G .E. Moore’s Epistemological Legacy” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Nathaniel Goldberg (Washington and Lee University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Kenneth Lucey (University of Nevada–Reno) |
| Speaker: | Clayton Littlejohn (University of Texas–San Antonio) |
| "Fallibilism and Concessive Knowledge Attributions” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Dylan Sabo (Auburn University) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Sarah Jones (Northern Michigan University) |
| Speaker: | Eric Thompson (University of Tennessee) |
| "Pragmatic Invariantism and External World Skepticism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Tim Black (California State University–Northridge) |
| IV-H. | APA Committee Session: California Dreaming: How Race Alerts and Alters the State, Now and Then |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies |
| Chair: | Kyoo Lee (City University of New York–John Jay College and Graduate Center) |
| Speakers: | Tommy Lott (San Jose State University) |
| | Gary Mar (State University of New York–Stony Brook) |
| | Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York–Stony Brook) |
| | John Pittman (City University of New York–John Jay College) |
| | Helena Soosan (State University of New York–Stony Brook) |
| | Eddie Wong (Independent Scholar) |
| | Helen Zia (Independent Scholar) |
| IV-I. | APA Committee Session: Experimental Philosophy in the Classroom |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy |
| Chair: | Alexandra Bradner (Denison University) |
| Speakers: | Emily Esch (College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University) |
| | Chris Weigel (Utah Valley University) |
| "Experimental Philosophy in Introduction to Philosophy: Opportunities and Challenges” |
| | Joshua May (University of California–Santa Barbara) |
| "Philosophy 101 and Experimental Philosophy” |
| | Kevin L. Timpe (Northwest Nazarene University) |
| "Polling as Pedagogy: Experimental Philosophy in a Metaphysics Course” |
| | Richard Kamber (The College of New Jersey) |
| "Teaching Aesthetics with Experimental Philosophy” |
| Commentator: | Eddy Nahmias (Georgia State University) |
|
Thursday Early Evening, April 1 |
| Session V — 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| V-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Iain Morrisson, Kant and the Role of Pleasure in Moral Motivation |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Erica Holberg (University of Chicago) |
| Critics: | Jeanine Grenberg (St. Olaf College) |
| | Holly Wilson (University of Louisiana–Monroe) |
| Author: | Iain Morrisson (University of Houston) |
| V-B. | Special Memorial Session: Myles Brand: In Memory of a Philosopher of Action |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Keith Lehrer (University of Arizona) |
| Speakers: | Peg Brand (Indiana University-Purdue University–Indianapolis) |
| | Robert M. Harnish (University of Arizona) |
| | Bence Nanay (Syracuse University and University of British Columbia) |
| | Christian Plunze (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) |
| V-C. | Invited Paper: Knowing How |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Amanda Greene (Stanford University) |
| Speaker: | Jason Stanley (Rutgers University) |
| "Knowing How” |
| Commentators: | Michael Devitt (City University of New York–Graduate Center) |
| | Yuri Cath (University of St. Andrews) |
| V-D. | Invited Symposium: Absent Desires, Present Reasons |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Anne Barnhill (Johns Hopkins University) |
| Speakers: | Caspar Hare (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| | Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University) |
| Commentator: | Lara Buchak (University of California–Berkeley) |
| V-E. | Invited Symposium: Connecting Ethical Theory and Environmental Ethics |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Jeff Sebo (New York University) |
| Speakers: | Alan Carter (University of Glasgow) |
| | Julia Driver (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| Commentator: | Robert Elliot (University of the Sunshine Coast) |
| V-F. | Colloquium: Hegel |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Jason Wilby (University of New Mexico) |
| Speaker: | J. C. Berendzen (Loyola University New Orleans) |
| "The Proto-Morality of Life: Primary Recognition in Axel Honneth’s Reading of Phenomenology of Spirit” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Phillip Williamson (University of New Mexico) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | S. West Gurley (Sam Houston State University) |
| Speaker: | Jeff Gauthier (University of Portland) |
| "Hegel’s Project of Reconciliation and Radical Political Criticism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Gino Signoracci (University of New Mexico) |
| V-G. | Colloquium: Meaning |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Erik Johnson (University of California–Davis) |
| Speaker: | Mark Phelan (Yale University) |
| "Linguistic Contextualism and Figurative Language” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Karen Lewis (Rutgers University) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | William Taschek (Ohio State University) |
| Speaker: | Claudine Verheggen (York University) |
| "Semantic Normativity and Naturalism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Matti Eklund (Cornell University) |
| V-H. | Colloquium: Properties and Possibilities |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Dustin Locke (Claremont McKenna College) |
| Speaker: | Ralf Bader (University of St Andrews) |
| "Being F Intrinsically and Extrinsically” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Lauren Ashwell (Bates College) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University) |
| Speaker: | Daniel Rabinoff (University of Manitoba) |
| "Object Theory and AR” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Raul Saucedo (Yale University and Australian National University) |
| V-I. | Symposium: Berkeley on Commonsense |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College) |
| Speaker: | Seth Bordner (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) |
| "Berkeley’s ‘Defense’ of ‘Commonsense’” [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Lex Newman (University of Utah) |
| | John Roberts (Florida State University) |
| V-J. | Symposium: Contextualism and Normative Disagreement |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Jason Raibley (California State University–Long Beach) |
| Speaker: | Janice Dowell (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) |
| "Flexible Contextualism about ‘Ought’ and Attitude-attributions” [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Gunnar Björnsson (Linköpings Universitet) |
| | Andy Egan (Rutgers University) |
| V-K. | APA Committee Session: From the University to the K-12 Classroom: Introducing Philosophy to Young People |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy |
| Chair: | Jana Mohr Lone (University of Washington) |
| Speakers: | Joshua Cottrell (Westview High School) |
| | Riley Keating (Westview High School) |
| "Bringing Philosophy to the Public High School Classroom” |
| | Susan Gardner (Capilano University) |
| "Ethics with Young People” |
| | Michael Burroughs (University of Memphis) |
| "Philosophy with Children and the Academy: Benefits and Challenges” |
| V-L. | APA Committee Session: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Possibility of Dialogue |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation |
| Chair: | Anat Biletzki (Tel Aviv University) |
| Speakers: | Mohammed Abed (California State University–Los Angeles) |
| | Ovadia Ezra (Tel Aviv University) |
| | Joseph Levine (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) |
|
Friday, April 2 |
|
Friday Morning, April 2 |
| Session VI — 9:00-Noon |
| VI-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Judith Jarvis Thomson, Normativity |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Niko Kolodny (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Critics: | Gilbert Harman (Princeton University) |
| | Thomas Scanlon (Harvard University) |
| | R. Jay Wallace (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Author: | Judith Jarvis Thomson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| VI-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Galen Strawson, Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Raymond Martin (Union College) |
| Critics: | Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool) |
| | Beatrice Longuenesse (New York University) |
| | John Perry (University of California-Riverside and Stanford University) |
| Author: | Galen Strawson (University of Reading) |
| VI-C. | Invited Symposium: Experimental Philosophy |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Ryan Nichols (California State University–Fullerton) |
| Speakers: | Bertram F. Malle (Brown University) |
| | Ron Mallon (University of Utah) |
| Commentators: | Anand Vaidya (San Jose State University) |
| | Jen Cole Wright (College of Charleston) |
| VI-D. | Invited Symposium: Political Authority and Human Nature in Historical Perspective |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Eirik Harris (Santa Clara University) |
| Speakers: | Michael Green (Pomona College) |
| "Rights and Political Authority in Hobbes” |
| | Al Martinich (University of Texas–Austin) |
| "The Sovereign in the Political Thought of Hanfeizi and Thomas Hobbes” |
| | Kinch Hoekstra (University of California–Berkeley) |
| "Hobbesian Naturalism” |
| | Owen Flanagan (Duke University) |
| "What Are Humans Like When Resources Are Scarce? European and Chinese Views” |
| Commentators: | Sharon A. Lloyd (University of Southern California) |
| | Justin Tiwald (San Francisco State University) |
| | Susanne Sreedhar (Boston University) |
| | Philip J. Ivanhoe (City University of Hong Kong) |
| VI-E. | Colloquium: Consent, Coercion, and Paternalism |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Deirdre Golash (American University) |
| Speaker: | William Glod (Institute for Humane Studies) |
| "Two Conceptions of Personal Responsibility” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Danny Scoccia (New Mexico State University) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Daniel Campana (University of La Verne) |
| Speaker: | Xiaofei Liu (University of Missouri-Columbia) |
| "A Hybrid View of the Ontology of Consent” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Joan McGregor (Arizona State University) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Marina Oshana (University of California–Davis) |
| Speaker: | Scott A. Anderson (University of British Columbia) |
| "Coercion, States, and the Practical Function of Principles of Responsibility” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Remy Debes (University of Memphis) |
| VI-F. | Colloquium: Counterfactuals and Causal Explanation |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College) |
| Speaker: | Jonathan A. Waskan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| "In Search of a Non-Counterfactual Foundation for Mechanistic Explanation” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | James Woodward (California Institute of Technology) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Christian Loew (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) |
| Speaker: | Michael Dean Hartsock (University of Missouri) |
| "Explaining Absences” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Sara Bernstein (University of Arizona) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Donovan Wishon (Stanford University) |
| Speaker: | Amy Karofsky (Hofstra University) |
| "A Necessitarian Account of Counterfactual Conditionals” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Dana Lynne Goswick (University of California–Davis) |
| VI-G. | Colloquium: Epistemtic Virtue and Moral Knowledge |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Fred Schueler (University of Delaware) |
| Speaker: | Patricia Marino (University of Waterloo) |
| "Moral Coherence, Value Fragmentation, and Epistemic Justification” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Heather Battaly (California State University–Fullerton) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | John Greco (St. Louis University) |
| Speaker: | Victor Kumar (University of Arizona) |
| "Virtue Epistemology Naturalized” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Joshue Orozco (Whitworth University) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Micah Lewin (Stanford University) |
| Speaker: | Erik J. Wielenberg (DePauw University) |
| "On the Evolutionary Debunking of Morality” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Knut Skarsaune (New York University) |
| VI-H. | Colloquium: Justification and Understanding |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Charles Wallis (California State University–Long Beach) |
| Speaker: | Christopher Lepock (University of Toronto) |
| "Reflection and Social Metacognition” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Don Fallis (University of Arizona) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Stephan Johnson (City College of San Francisco) |
| Speaker: | Adam Pelser (Baylor University) |
| "Emotion and the Value of Understanding” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Matthew Benton (Rutgers University) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Candice Shelby (University of Colorado–Denver) |
| Speaker: | Steven Reynolds (Arizona State University) |
| "Justification as the Appearance of Knowledge” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Joel Pust (University of Delaware) |
| VI-I. | Colloquium: Time |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Anjan Chakravartty (University of Toronto) |
| Speaker: | Bradford Skow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| "The Rate of Time’s Passage in the Moving Spotlight Theory” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Linda Wetzel (Georgetown University) |
| Speaker: | Alex Baia (University of Texas–Austin) |
| "Presentism, Eternalism, and Existence Simpliciter” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Satish Kumar Singh (Banaras Hindu University) |
| Speaker: | David McElhoes (University of Maryland–College Park) |
| "No Time Like the Present” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Douglas Cannon (University of Puget Sound) |
| VI-J. | Colloquium: Weakness of Will and Moral Maturity |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | J. M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark College) |
| Speaker: | Svetlana Beggs (University of California–Riverside) |
| "Tolstoy and Nussbaum on Innocence” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Matthew Noah Smith (Yale University) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (University of California–Riverside) |
| Speaker: | Philip Swenson (University of California–Riverside) |
| "In Defense of Nonsocratic Skepticism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Tiffany Teeman Blase (University of California–Los Angeles) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Richard Nunan (College of Charleston) |
| Speaker: | Joshua May (University of California–Santa Barbara) |
| "What in the World Is Weakness of Will?” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Jesse Summers (University of California–Los Angeles) |
| VI-K. | APA Committee Session: Practicing Public Philosophy: Reflection and Dialogue I |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy |
| Chair: | Sharon M. Meagher (University of Scranton) |
| Speakers: | John Lachs (Vanderbilt University) |
| | Noelle McAfee (George Mason University) |
| | Sharon M. Meagher (University of Scranton) |
| | Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York–Stony Brook) |
| | Elizabeth Minnich (Association of American Colleges and Universities) |
|
Friday Afternoon, April 2 |
| Session VII — 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| VII-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Charles Parsons, Mathematical Thought and Its Objects |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Robin Jeshion (University of California–Riverside) |
| Critics: | John Burgess (Princeton University) |
| | Erich Reck (University of California–Riverside) |
| | Richard Tieszen (San Jose State University) |
| Author: | Charles Parsons (Harvard University) |
| VII-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Jack Lyons, Perception and Basic Beliefs: Zombies, Modules, and the Problem of the External World |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Scott Hendricks (Clark University) |
| Critics: | Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University) |
| | Peter Graham (University of California–Riverside) |
| | Terry Horgan (University of Arizona) |
| Author: | Jack Lyons (University of Arkansas–Fayetteville) |
| VII-C. | Invited Symposium: Aristotle and Existence |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Gareth Matthews (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) |
| Speaker: | Alan Code (Rutgers University) |
| Commentators: | S. Marc Cohen (University of Washington) |
| | Frank Lewis (University of Southern California) |
| | Marko Malink (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) |
| VII-D. | Invited Symposium: Classical Compatibilism |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Joseph Keim Campbell (Washington State University) |
| Speakers: | Bernard Berofsky (Columbia University) |
| | Alfred Mele (Florida State University) |
| | Kadri Vihvelin (University of Southern California) |
| | Randolph Clarke (Florida State University) |
| VII-E. | Invited Symposium: The Use of Intuitions in Philosophy |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Krista Lawlor (Stanford University) |
| Speakers: | George Bealer (Yale University) |
| | Brian Talbot (University of Colorado–Boulder) |
| | Jonathan M. Weinberg (Indiana University–Bloomington) |
| Commentator: | Thomas Nadelhoffer (Dickinson College) |
| VII-F. | Colloquium: Epistemic Hope and Safety |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Leonard Kahn (United States Air Force Academy) |
| Speaker: | Adrienne Martin (University of Pennsylvania) |
| "Hoping Against Hope” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Christopher Hudspeth (United States Coast Guard Academy) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Avram Hiller (Portland State University) |
| Speaker: | Mark Makin (Yale Divinity School) |
| "Safety and Lotteries” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Wai-hung Wong (California State University–Chico) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Diana Palmieri (University of Western Ontario) |
| Speaker: | Matthew J. Kennedy (University of Nottingham) |
| "Safety Drills” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Peter Kung (Pomona College) |
| VII-G. | Colloquium: Intervention, Obligation, and Sovereignty |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Clair Morrissey (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) |
| Speaker: | David Lefkowitz (University of Richmond) |
| "On a Humanitarian Duty of Intervention” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Richard Vernon (University of Western Ontario) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Peter W Milne (Santa Clara University) |
| Speaker: | Bas van der Vossen (Independent Scholar) |
| "Can There Be Associative Political Obligations?” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Lori Watson (University of San Diego) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Gerald D. Doppelt (University of California–San Diego) |
| Speaker: | Matt Whitt (Vanderbilt University) |
| "Territory, Authority, and the People: Rethinking Modern Sovereignty Today” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Jeanne Morefield (Whitman College) |
| VII-H. | Colloquium: Liberalism |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Julie C. Van Camp (California State University–Long Beach) |
| Speaker: | Douglas Paletta (University of Pennsylvania) |
| "Rawls’ Problem with Assumptions” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Christina M. Bellon (California State University–Sacramento) |
| Speaker: | Paul Gomberg (Chicago State University) |
| "The Impossibility of Distributive Justice” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Alastair Norcross (University of Colorado–Boulder) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Ann Garry (California State University–Los Angeles) |
| Speaker: | Carol Hay (University of Massachusetts–Lowell) |
| "A Reconciliation Between Radical and Liberal Feminism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Amy Baehr (Hofstra University) |
| VII-I. | Colloquium: Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Character |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Brian L. Keeley (Pitzer College) |
| Speaker: | Bence Nanay (Syracuse University and University of British Columbia) |
| "Attention and Perceptual Content” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Bernard W. Kobes (Arizona State University) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | David Pitt (California State University–Los Angeles) |
| Speaker: | Emmett L. Holman (George Mason University) |
| "Phenomenal Concepts and the Mode of Presentation Problem” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | D. Gene Witmer (University of Florida) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Barry Maguire (Princeton University) |
| Speaker: | Vincent Picciuto (University of Maryland–College Park) |
| "Phenomenal Concepts and the Nature of Phenomenal Consciousness” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Michael Bruno (Lewis and Clark College) |
| VII-J. | Colloquium: The Ethics of Numbers and Consciousness |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Howard Nye (University of Alberta) |
| Speaker: | Tyler Doggett (University of Vermont) |
| "Saving the Few” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Veronique Munoz-Darde (University College London and University of California–Berkeley) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Emily Parker (Santa Clara University) |
| Speaker: | S. Matthew Liao (Oxford University) |
| "Saving the Neutrality Intuition from Broome” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Kent Hurtig (University of Stirling) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Piper Bringhurst (University of Arizona) |
| Speaker: | Thomas White (Loyola Marymount University) |
| "What Can We Know about What It Is Like to Be a Dolphin, and Why It Matters: Dolphin Consciousness and the Ethical Implications” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Kristen Andrews (York University) |
| VII-K. | Colloquium: The Status of Value |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Joseph Lee (University of California–Santa Barbara) |
| Speaker: | Rebecca Lynn Stangl (University of Virginia) |
| "Asymmetrical Virtue Particularism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Margaret Watkins (St. Vincent College) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes University) |
| Speaker: | Justin Jeffrey (University of Idaho) |
| "Contextualism about Intrinsic Value” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Dale Dorsey (University of Kansas) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Joshua Glasgow (Victoria University of Wellington) |
| Speakers: | John Park (Duke University) |
| | Hagop Sarkissian (City University of New York–Baruch College) |
| "Are the Folk Objectivists about Morality?” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Jonas Olson (Stockholms Universitet) |
| VII-L. | APA Committee Session: Practicing Public Philosophy: Reflection and Dialogue II |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy |
| Chair: | Ellen Feder (American University) |
| Speakers: | Linda Martín Alcoff (City University of New York–Hunter College) |
| | Ellen Feder (American University) |
| | Andrew Light (George Mason University) |
| | William Sullivan (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) |
| | Nancy Tuana (Pennsylvania State University) |
|
Friday Early Evening, April 2 |
| Session VIII — 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| VIII-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Peter Godfrey-Smith, Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis and Clark College) |
| Critics: | James Griesemer (University of California–Davis) |
| | Matt Haber (University of Utah) |
| Author: | Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard University) |
| VIII-B. | Special Memorial Session: Marjorie Grene |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Mary V. Rorty (Stanford University) |
| Commentators: | Roger Ariew (University of South Florida) |
| | Richard Burian (Virginia Tech) |
| | David Depew (University of Iowa) |
| | George Gale (University of Missouri–Kansas City) |
| | Jocelyn Hoy (University of California–Santa Cruz) |
| VIII-C. | Invited Paper: Kant’s Ethics |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame) |
| Speaker: | Ernesto V. Garcia (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) |
| "Kant on Supererogation: Four Views” |
| Commentators: | Jens Timmermann (University of St. Andrews) |
| | Samuel Kahn (Stanford University) |
| VIII-D. | Invited Symposium: The Experience of Agency |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University) |
| Speakers: | Tim Bayne (Oxford University) |
| | Eddy Nahmias (Georgia State University) |
| | Matthew Soteriou (Warwick University) |
| VIII-E. | Invited Symposium: The State and Prospects of Philosophical Research |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Bojana Mladenovic (Williams College) |
| Speakers: | Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University) |
| | Dale Jacquette (Universität Bern) |
| | Dermot Moran (University College, Dublin) |
| VIII-F. | Colloquium: Continental Philosophy |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Jennifer Gammage (University of New Mexico) |
| Speaker: | B. Scot Rousse (Northwestern University) |
| "Love of Living or Being-Towards-Death? Heidegger Contra Frankfurt” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Vernon Smith (University of New Mexico) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Bill Hutchison (University of New Mexico) |
| Speaker: | Joseph Swenson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| "Overcoming Opposites: Nietzsche’s Minimal Method of Revaluation” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Tyler Innis (University of New Mexico) |
| VIII-G. | Colloquium: Governments, Agents, and Property |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Suze Berkhout (University of British Columbia) |
| Speaker: | Helga Varden (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign) |
| "The Lockean ‘Enough-and-as-Good’ Proviso: An Internal Critique” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Daniel Silvermint (University of Arizona) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Rex Martin (University of Kansas) |
| Speaker: | Justin Weinberg (University of South Carolina) |
| "Is Government Supererogation Possible?” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Japa Pallikkathayil (New York University) |
| VIII-H. | Colloquium: Vagueness |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | David Ian Spencer (University of California–Davis) |
| Speaker: | Daniel Z. Korman (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign) |
| "Universalism, Vagueness, and the Argument from Borderline Hammers” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Megan Wallace (Oberlin College) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Kelly Glover (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Speaker: | David B. Barnett (University of Colorado, Boulder) |
| "Vague Entailment” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Bert Baumgaertner (University of California–Davis) |
| VIII-I. | Symposium: Externalism and the Knowledge Argument |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Michelle Montague (University of Bristol) |
| Speaker: | Torin Alter (University of Alabama–Tuscaloosa) |
| "Social Externalism and the Knowledge Argument” [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Derek Ball (University of St. Andrews) |
| | Martin Hahn (Simon Fraser University) |
| VIII-J. | Symposium: Spinoza on Causation |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Julie Klein (Villanova University) |
| Speaker: | Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University) |
| "Inherence-Causation-Conceivability in Spinoza or On Spinoza’s Well-Grounded Bifurcations” [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Steve Barbone (San Diego State University) |
| | Samuel Newlands (University of Notre Dame) |
| VIII-K. | APA Committee Session: Experiments in Teaching Introduction to Philosophy |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges |
| Chair: | Marc Bobro (Santa Barbara City College) |
| Speaker: | Ken Burak (Northampton Community College) |
| "Integrating Yoga into an Introduction to Philosophy Class: Experiments in Experiential Pedagogy” |
| VIII-L. | Dewey Lecture |
| 4:00-5:30 p.m. |
| Chair: | Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University) |
| Speaker: | John Perry (University of California-Riverside and Stanford University) |
| "Wretched Subterfuge” |
| Presidential Address |
| 6:00-7:00 p.m. |
| Introduction: | Michael Tooley (University of Colorado–Boulder) |
| Speaker: | Michael E. Bratman (Stanford University) |
| "Agency, Time, and Sociality” |
|
Saturday, April 3 |
|
Saturday Morning, April 3 |
| Session IX — 9:00-Noon |
| IX-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Sven Bernecker, Memory: A Philosophical Study |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | David Hunter (Ryerson University) |
| Critics: | Fred Adams (University of Delaware) |
| | Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University) |
| | Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois–Chicago) |
| Author: | Sven Bernecker (University of California–Irvine) |
| IX-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Ernest Sosa, Reflective Knowledge: Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume II |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Juan Comesaña (University of Arizona) |
| Critics: | Ram Neta (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) |
| | James Van Cleve (University of Southern California) |
| | Crispin Wright (New York University and University of Aberdeen) |
| Author: | Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University) |
| IX-C. | Author-Meets-Critics: Mark Schroeder, Slaves of the Passions |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | David Copp (University of California–Davis) |
| Critics: | Jonathan Dancy (University of Texas–Austin and University of Reading) |
| | Tristram McPherson (University of Minnesota–Duluth) |
| | Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
| Author: | Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California) |
| IX-D. | Invited Symposium: Exploitation |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Talbot Brewer (University of Virginia) |
| Speakers: | Allen Wood (Stanford University) |
| "Exploitation” |
| | Matt Zwolinski (University of San Diego) |
| "Exploitation and Neglect” |
| Commentator: | Andrew Jason Cohen (Georgia State University) |
| IX-E. | Invited Symposium: Non-visual Perception |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Geoffrey Lee (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Speakers: | Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow) |
| "Individuating the Senses” |
| | Casey O’Callaghan (Rice University) |
| "Lessons from Beyond Vision (Sounds and Audition)” |
| | Clare Batty (University of Kentucky) |
| "Smelling Lessons” |
| Commentator: | Austen Clark (University of Connecticut) |
| IX-F. | Invited Symposium: Virtue and Moral Character Across Traditions |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Chair: | Christina Chuang (University of California–Irvine) |
| Speakers: | Andrew Terjesen (Rhodes College) |
| "Joint Attention and Moral Charisma” |
| | James Harold (Mount Holyoke College) |
| "On the Idea that Music Shapes Character” |
| | Marion Hourdequin (Colorado College) |
| "The Limits of Empathy” |
| Commentators: | Christine Swanton (University of Auckland) |
| | Jan Szaif (University of California–Davis) |
| IX-G. | Colloquium: Ethical Constructivism |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Tamra Frei (Michigan State University) |
| Speaker: | Lee Shepski (University of Tennessee) |
| "What Constructivism Cannot Accomplish” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Carla Bagnoli (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Noell Birondo (Claremont McKenna College) |
| Speaker: | Dylan W. Murray (Georgia State University) |
| "Performative Constructivism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Mark LeBar (Ohio University) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Amy Coplan (California State University–Fullerton) |
| Speaker: | Jeffrey Brand-Ballard (George Washington University) |
| "Moral Constructivism and Evolutionary Psychology” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University) |
| IX-H. | Colloquium: Justification and Skepticism |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Jeremy Fantl (University of Calgary) |
| Speaker: | Yuval Avnur (Scripps College) |
| "Closure Reconsidered” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Anthony Brueckner (University of California–Santa Barbara) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Alexei Angelides (Stanford University) |
| Speaker: | Ali Hasan (University of Iowa) |
| "Escaping Bergmann’s Dilemma for Internalism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Ian Schnee (University of California–Berkeley) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Joseph Barnes (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Speaker: | Mark E. Wunderlich (Union College) |
| "A Defense of Epistemological Monism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Allen Coates (East Tennessee State University) |
| IX-I. | Colloquium: Moral Motives and Nativism |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Eugene Chislenko (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Speaker: | Danielle Bromwich (National Institutes of Health) |
| "Back to Stalemate: The Motivational Internalism/Externalism Debate” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Christian Miller (Wake Forest University) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Nancy E. Snow (Marquette University) |
| Speaker: | Ellie Hua Wang (Indiana University–Bloomington) |
| "Virtues as Robust Traits—An Analysis of Doris’s Situationist Challenge” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke University) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Margaret Bowman (University of Utah) |
| Speaker: | Theresa Lopez (University of Arizona) |
| "Statistical Learning in Language Acquisition: Implications for Moral Psychology and the ‘Linguistic Analogy’” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Bradford Cokelet (University of Miami) |
| IX-J. | Colloquium: Plato - Textual Intepretations |
| 9:00-Noon |
| 9:00-10:00 |
| Chair: | Mark McPherran (Simon Fraser University) |
| Speaker: | Dan Werner (State University of New York–New Paltz) |
| "Plato’s Cicadas” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | John Ferrari (University of California–Berkeley) |
| 10:00-11:00 |
| Chair: | Richard Galvin (Texas Christian University) |
| Speaker: | Yancy Hughes Dominick (Seattle University) |
| "Images for the Sake of the Truth in Plato’s Symposium” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Chris Tennberg (University of California–Santa Barbara) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
| Chair: | Marcus Arvan (University of Tampa) |
| Speaker: | Jerry Green (Texas Tech University) |
| "Protagoras Was Not a Relativist to Me” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Nathan Colaner (University of Kansas) |
| IX-K. | APA Committee Session: Author-Meets-Critics: Laurelyn Whitt, Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples |
| 9:00-Noon |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Indigenous Philosophers |
| Chair: | Lorraine Mayer (Brandon University) |
| Speakers: | Thomas Norton-Smith (Kent State University) |
| | Tommy Thomas (Brandon University) |
| | Kyle Powys Whyte (Michigan State University) |
| Commentator: | Laurelyn Whitt (Brandon University) |
|
Saturday Afternoon, April 3 |
| Session X — 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| X-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: John Carriero, Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes’s Meditations |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Lynn S. Joy (University of Notre Dame) |
| Critics: | Dennis Des Chene (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| | Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) |
| Author: | John Carriero (University of California–Los Angeles) |
| X-B. | Author-Meets-Critics: Michael Thompson, Life and Action: Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Andrew Hsu (University of California–Los Angeles) |
| Critics: | Philip Clark (University of Toronto) |
| | Anselm Winfried Mueller (Keimyung University) |
| | Candace Vogler (University of Chicago) |
| Author: | Michael Thompson (University of Pittsburgh) |
| X-C. | Invited Symposium: Interpreting and Assessing the Critique of the Power of Judgment |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University) |
| Speakers: | Brent Kalar (University of New Mexico) |
| | Jennifer McMahon (University of Adelaide) |
| | Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M University) |
| Commentators: | Randall Amano (University of California–Berkeley) |
| | Andrew Chignell (Cornell University) |
| | Pierre Keller (University of California–Riverside) |
| X-D. | Invited Symposium: On Words |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Ori Simchen (University of British Columbia) |
| Speakers: | John Hawthorne (Oxford University) |
| | David Kaplan (University of California–Los Angeles) |
| | Ernest LePore (Rutgers University) |
| Commentator: | Sylvain Bromberger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| X-E. | Invited Symposium: Plato’s Semantic Theory |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College) |
| Speakers: | Christine Thomas (Dartmouth College) |
| "Plato on the Unity of Logos” |
| | Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester) |
| "Plato on Words, Parts of Words, and Meaning” |
| Commentators: | Rachel Barney (University of Toronto) |
| | Michael Ferejohn (Duke University) |
| | Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College) |
| | Mark Wheeler (San Diego State University) |
| X-F. | Colloquium: Aristotle |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | David DeMoss (Pacific University) |
| Speaker: | Candice Delmas (Boston University) |
| "Conflict in the Aristotelian City: Desire for Equality and Competition for Power” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Gale Justin (California State University–Sacramento) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Richard Mohr (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign) |
| Speaker: | Ian Flora (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor) |
| "Aristotle on Belief and Rationality: Fiction, Response, Restraint” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Travis Butler (Iowa State University) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Phillip Horky (Stanford University) |
| Speaker: | Philip Corkum (University of Alberta) |
| "Aristotle on Reference and Generality” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Scott O’Connor (Cornell University) |
| X-G. | Colloquium: Ethical Blame and Forgiveness |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Robert Miner (Baylor University) |
| Speaker: | Kate Moran (Brandeis University) |
| "Moving on for Community’s Sake: A (Self-Respecting) Kantian Account of Forgiveness” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | William Peck (Reed College) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Brian Berkey (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Speaker: | Andrew Peter Ross (Queen’s University) |
| "Blame and the Moral Relationship” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Coleen McNamara (University of California–Riverside) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Joel Martinez (Lewis and Clark College) |
| Speaker: | Arash Farzam-Kia (Queen’s University) |
| "Is the Capacity to Understand Moral Norms a Precondition of Blameworthiness?” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Zac Cogley (Ohio State University) |
| X-H. | Colloquium: Mereology |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Emily Esch (College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University) |
| Speakers: | Ben Caplan (Ohio State University) |
| | Pat Reeder (Ohio State University) |
| | Chris Tillman (University of Manitoba) |
| "Parts of Singletons” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Monika Piotrowska (University of Utah) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Michael Rieppel (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Speaker: | Sean Drysdale Walsh (University of Minnesota–Duluth) |
| "Modal Supervenience and Modal Mereology” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Alexander Skiles (University of Notre Dame) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Mélanie Walton (Duquesne University) |
| Speaker: | Aladdin Yaqub (Lehigh University) |
| "Al-Ghazali on the Oneness and Simplicity of the Necessary Existent” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Ahmed Alwishah (Pitzer College) |
| X-I. | Colloquium: Properties and Relations |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| 1:00-2:00 |
| Chair: | Keith McPartland (Williams College) |
| Speaker: | Eric Hiddleston (Wayne State University) |
| "Second-Order Properties Can ‘Bring New Powers into the World’” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto) |
| 2:00-3:00 |
| Chair: | Xianduan Shi (University of Utah) |
| Speaker: | Daniel Giberman (Stanford University) |
| "Emergent Consciousness and Ontological Fundamentality” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Elanor Taylor (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
| Chair: | Paul Hovda (Reed College) |
| Speaker: | Cody Gilmore (University of California–Davis) |
| "Slots in Universals” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Chad Carmichael (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign) |
| X-J. | APA Committee Session: Ethics and the Nature of ‘Other:’ Analyzing European Philosophers in Comparison with Chinese Perspectives |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation |
| Chair: | Lijun Yuan (Texas State University–San Marcos) |
| Speakers: | Lijun Yuan (Texas State University–San Marcos) |
| "On the Confucian Golden Rule, Kant’s Categorical Imperative, and Beauvoir’s Reciprocal Claim” |
| | Jiang Yi (Beijing Academy of Social Sciences) |
| "The Expansion of ‘Other than Being:’ A Perspective of Political Philosophy on Levinas’s Ethics” |
| | Zhang Weiwei (Tsinghua University) |
| "The Thoughts of the Unity of the Universe and thHuman in Chinese Confucianism and the Catholic Human Person and the Right to Life: A Comparative Study” |
| X-K. | APA Committee Session: Neuromaging Techniques and Human Nature |
| 1:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine and the Society for Philosphy and Technology |
| Chair: | Inmaculada de Melo-Martin (Cornell University) |
| Speakers: | Patricia Churchland (University of California–San Diego) |
| | Mark Cohen (University of California–Los Angeles) |
| | Fabrice Jotterand (University of Texas–Southwestern) |
| | Robert Rosenberger (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
|
Saturday Early Evening, April 3 |
| Session XI — 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| XI-A. | Author-Meets-Critics: Mark Richard, When Truth Gives Out |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Michael Caie (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Critics: | John MacFarlane (University of California–Berkeley) |
| | Michael A. Rescorla (University of California–Santa Barbara) |
| Author: | Mark Richard (Tufts University) |
| XI-B. | Invited Paper: Emotion |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Troy Jollimore (California State University–Chico) |
| Speaker: | Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati) |
| "Music, Mood, and Misattribution” |
| Commentators: | Ronald De Sousa (University of Toronto) |
| | Derek Matravers (Open University) |
| XI-C. | Invited Paper: Ethics and Climate Change |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Geoffrey Frasz (College of Southern Nevada) |
| Speaker: | Stephen M. Gardiner (University of Washington) |
| "Jane Austen, Moral Corruption, and Climate Change” |
| Commentators: | Dale Jamieson (New York University) |
| | Ronald Sandler (Northeastern University) |
| XI-D. | Invited Symposium: Heidegger and Plato |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Susanne Claxton (Green Mountain College) |
| Speakers: | Mark Ralkowski (University of New Mexico) |
| "Heidegger’s Platonism” |
| | Francisco Gonzalez (University of Ottawa) |
| "Why Heidegger Needed to Reread Plato, and Couldn’t” |
| Commentators: | John Bussanich (University of New Mexico) |
| | Catherine Zuckert (University of Notre Dame) |
| XI-E. | Colloquium: Continental Philosophy |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Jaime Denison (University of New Mexico) |
| Speaker: | Nathan Ross (Oklahoma City University) |
| "On the Debt of Gadamerian Hermeneutics to Schiller’s Letters on Aesthetic Education” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Babette Babich (Fordham University) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Dan Briggs (University of New Mexico) |
| Speaker: | Matthew S. Haar Farris (Graduate Theological Union) |
| "Faith and Knowledge Fight and Make Up: Jacques Derrida’s Philosophical Proposal for the ‘Sources’ of Religion” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Tristram Dammin (University of New Mexico) |
| XI-F. | Colloquium: Epistemic Disagreement |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Edward Cushman (Lewis and Clark College) |
| Speaker: | Matthew C. Kopec (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
| "A Defense of Epistemic Permissivism” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Roger White (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Alex Bundy (University of California–Santa Barbara) |
| Speaker: | Michael G. Thune (Joliet Junior College) |
| "Does Disagreement Lead to Skepticism?” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Nathan King (University of Notre Dame) |
| XI-G. | Colloquium: Modern Mind and Metaphysics |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| 4:00-5:00 |
| Chair: | Lindsay Crawford (University of California–Berkeley) |
| Speaker: | Jennifer S. Marusic (Brandeis University) |
| "A Question Unthought of by Philosophers” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Angela Coventry (Portland State University) |
| 5:00-6:00 |
| Chair: | Patricia Easton (Claremont Graduate University) |
| Speaker: | Joseph W. Hwang (California State University–Chico) |
| "Sensations and Mind-Body Union in Descartes’s Philosophy of Mind” [abstract] |
| Commentator: | Kurt Smith (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania) |
| XI-H. | Symposium: Kant on Referential Thought |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Michelle Grier (University of San Diego) |
| Speaker: | Lucy Allais (University of the Witwatersrand) |
| "A Priori Concepts and ‘Relation to an Object’” [abstract] |
| Commentators: | James Hebbeler (St. Joseph’s University) |
| | Alexandra Newton (University of Pittsburgh) |
| XI-I. | Symposium: Metaphysics of Mereology |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Chair: | Byeong-Uk Yi (University of Toronto) |
| Speaker: | Patrick Monaghan (University of Iowa) |
| "The Largest Proper Parts of a Whole: A Mereological Reason Why the Thesis of Composition as Identity Is False” [abstract] |
| Commentators: | Roberta Ballarin (University of British Columbia) |
| | Theodore Sider (New York University) |
| XI-J. | APA Committee Session: Feminism and Humour |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women |
| Chair: | Sharyn Clough (Oregon State University) |
| Speakers: | Ingra Schellenberg (University of Washington) |
| "Killing Humour Dead” |
| | Cynthia Willett (Emory University) |
| | Julie Willett (Texas Tech University) |
| "Ridicule Against Morality” |
| Commentator: | Sharyn Clough (Oregon State University) |
| Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Women |
| XI-K. | APA Committee Session: Romanell Lecture |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Arranged by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research |
| Chair: | Peter Graham (University of California–Riverside) |
| Speaker: | Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University) |
| "Philosophical Naturalism and Intuitional Methodology” |