2017 APA Central Division Meeting Program

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The American Philosophical Association
CENTRAL DIVISION
O N E H U N D R E D F O U R T E E N T H
A N N UA L M E E T I N G
P RO G R A M
SHERATON KANSAS CITY HOTEL
AT CROWN CENTER
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
MARCH 1 – 4, 2017
CoNfuCiaNism aNd
ameriCaN PHilosoPHy
Mathew A. Foust
tHe good is oNe,
its maNifestatioNs maNy
Confucian essays on metaphysics,
eNCouNters morals, rituals, institutions,
of miNd and genders
luminosity and Robert Cummings Neville
Personhood
in indian and uNderstaNdiNg tHe
Chinese thought ANAleCTS of CoNfuCius
Douglas l. Berger a New translation of lunyu
with annotations
Peimin Ni
PaNel sessioN:
Personalist discussion group: Plato’s STATeSMAN
douglas l. Berger, illumination dialectic, myth, and Politics
and Person in indian and John Sallis, editor
Chinese Philosophy
thursday, march 2  5:30–7:30 pm eNtaNglemeNts
a system of
Philosophy
Neo-CoNfuCiaN
Crispin Sartwell
eCologiCal HumaNism
an interpretive engagement with
CeNteriNg aNd
Wang fuzhi (1619–1692)
exteNdiNg
Nicholas S. Brasovan
an essay on
available in may metaphysical sense
Steven G. Smith
Just War aNd HumaN
rigHts
edgar allaN Poe,
fighting with right intention
euReKA,
Todd Burkhardt
aNd sCieNtifiC
imagiNatioN
ZHuaNgZi’s Critique
David N. Stamos
of tHe CoNfuCiaNs
Blinded by the Human
Kim-chong Chong
tHe extraordiNary
iN tHe ordiNary
seven types of everyday miracle
Donald A. Crosby
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IMPORTANT NOTICES FOR
MEETING ATTENDEES
SESSION LOCATIONS
Please note: this online version of the program does not include session
locations. The locations of all individual sessions will be included in the
paper program that you will receive when you pick up your registration
materials at the meeting as well as in the meeting app beginning the first
day of the meeting.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT REGISTRATION
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including the time of the meeting itself, but please note that the advance
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15, 2017.
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at the meeting.
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provide quality services and resources to members.
Thank you for your support and cooperation.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
Wednesday, March 1, Noon–2:00 p.m.
PRIZE RECEPTION
Thursday, March 2, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
RECEPTION
Thursday, March 2, 9:00 p.m.–midnight
BUSINESS MEETING
Friday, March 3, Noon–1:00 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Friday, March 3, 4:30–5:45 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS RECEPTION
Friday, March 3, 5:45–6:45 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION
Friday, March 3, 8:30 p.m.–midnight
APA MENTORING THE MENTORS WORKSHOP
Saturday, March 4, 9:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
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Wednesday Afternoon, 2:00–5:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1
REGISTRATION
1:00–8:00 p.m., Terrace (mezzanine level)
PLACEMENT INFORMATION
1:00–8:00 p.m., Terrace (mezzanine level)
EXHIBITS
1:00–8:00 p.m., Terrace (mezzanine level)
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
Noon–2:00 p.m., Van Horn C (mezzanine level)
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 2:00–5:00 P.M.
MAIN PROGRAM SESSIONS
I-A. Invited Symposium: Feminist Critique of the Libertarian Ideal of
Self-Ownership
Chair: Karen E. Stohr (Georgetown University)
Speaker: Ann E. Cudd (Boston University)
“Feminist Critique of Libertarian Self-Ownership”
Commentators: Peter Vallentyne (University of Missouri–Columbia)
Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire)
Andrea Westlund (University of Wisconsin–
Milwaukee)
I-B. Author Meets Critics: Jeffrey Speaks, The Phenomenal and the
Representational
Chair: Colin McLear (University of Nebraska)
Critics: Adam Pautz (Brown University)
Casey O’Callaghan (Washington University in St.
Louis)
Janet Levin (University of Southern California)
Response: Jeffrey Speaks (University of Notre Dame)
I-C. Invited Symposium: Alternative Epistemologies
Chair: Melissa M. Kozma (University of Wisconsin Colleges)
Speakers: Andrea Pitts (University of North Carolina at
Charlotte)
Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr. (Miami University)
Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University)
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Wednesday Afternoon, 2:00–5:00 p.m. (cont.)
I-D. Invited Symposium: Persons and Their Selves
Chair: Daniel R. Kelly (Purdue University)
Speakers: Jenann Ismael (University of Arizona)
Title TBA
Don Ross (University College Cork)
Title TBA
Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois at Chicago)
“From Many One: Persons, Selves, and a Strange
Kind of Unity”
I-E. Invited Symposium: Teleology and Reason
Chair: Kathryn Lindeman (Saint Louis University)
Speakers: Rachel E. Zuckert (Northwestern University)
E. Sonny Elizondo (University of California, Santa
Barbara)
Commentator: Jeremy Schwartz (Texas Tech University)
I-F. Author Meets Critics: José Zalabardo, Representation and Reality
in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Chair: Peter W. Hanks (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities)
Critics: Michael Kremer (University of Chicago)
Ian Proops (University of Texas at Austin)
Response: José Zalabardo (University College London)
I-G. Author Meets Critics: Justin Smith, Nature, Human Nature, and
Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy
Chair: Julia Jorati (Ohio State University)
Critics: Koffi Maglo (University of Cincinnati)
Magali Bessone (Université de Rennes)
Lucy Allais (University of California, San Diego)
Response: Justin Smith (Université Paris Diderot)
I-H. Colloquium: Circularity, Closure, and Meno Problems
Chair: Sharon Mason (University of Central Arkansas)
2:00–3:00 p.m. “Tame and Vicious Circularity”
**Graduate student travel stipend recipient**
Speaker: Everett C. Fulmer (Saint Louis University)
Commentator: Ted Parent (Virginia Tech)
3:00–4:00 p.m. “Contrastivist Closure”
Speaker: Pamela Robinson (Rutgers University)
Commentator: Richard N. Manning (University of South Florida)
4:00–5:00 p.m. “The Other Value Problem for Knowledge”
Speaker: Kenneth A. Boyd (University of Toronto)
Commentator: Irena Cronin (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Wednesday Evening, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
I-I. Colloquium: Moral Obligation
Chair: Susan Castro (Wichita State University)
3:00–4:00 p.m. “Refusing to Take Up the Slack”
Speaker: Sameer Bajaj (University of Arizona)
Commentator: Paul Hurley (Claremont McKenna College)
4:00–5:00 p.m. “The All Or Nothing Problem”
**Graduate student travel stipend recipient**
Speaker: Joe Horton (University of Southern California)
Commentator: Rebecca Stangl (University of Virginia)
5:00–6:00 p.m. “Skepticism about Associative Obligation”
Speaker: Ryan Davis (Brigham Young University)
Commentator: Victoria I. Burke (University of Guelph)
This session will run from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
I-J. APA Committee Session: At Risk Departments: Learning from
Experience
Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status and Future of the
Profession
Chair: Peter Graham (University of California, Riverside)
Speakers: Gordon L. Pettit (Western Illinois University)
“How to Respond When Your Philosophy Program
Is Threatened”
David Beisecker (University of Nevada–Las Vegas)
“Notes from a Department That Survived the
Existential Crisis”
Laura Bernhardt (Buena Vista University)
“Exile in Old Main: Prioritization, Program
Elimination, and Philosophy”
WEDNESDAY EVENING, 5:00–7:00 P.M.
MAIN PROGRAM SESSIONS
II-A. Submitted Symposium: Explaining Moral Testimony: A Different
Appeal to Understanding
Chair: Stephen R. Grimm (Fordham University)
Speaker: Laura Callahan (Rutgers University)
“Explaining Moral Testimony: A Different Appeal to
Understanding”
**Graduate student travel stipend recipient**
Commentators: Peter Graham (University of California, Riverside)
Regina Rini (New York University)
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Wednesday Evening, 5:00–7:00 p.m. (cont.)
II-B. Submitted Symposium: On the Old Saw That ‘Supervenience Is
Not an Explanatory Relation’
Chair: Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Speaker: David Mark Kovacs (Bilkent University)
Commentator: Terence Horgan (University of Arizona)
II-C. Submitted Symposium: Denoting and Disquoting
Chair: Adrian Switzer (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
Speaker: Michael Rieppel (Syracuse University)
Commentator: Devin Frank (Fort Lewis College)
II-D. Submitted Symposium: How to Defend the Phenomenology of
Attitudes
Chair: Steven Wagner (University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign)
Speaker: Jared Peterson (Northwestern University)
Commentator: Andrew Melnyk (University of Missouri)
II-E. Colloquium: Practical Reason
Chair: Fritz J. McDonald (Oakland University)
5:00–6:00 p.m. “Practical Deliberation and Background Conditions
on Normative Reasons for Action”
Speaker: Rachel Johnson (Trinity University)
Commentator: Ting Cho Lau (University of Notre Dame)
6:00–7:00 p.m. “Expressivism as Quasi-defeasible Internalism”
Speaker: William Bell (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
Commentator: Camil Golub (New York University)
II-F. Colloquium: Formal Epistemology
Chair: Julia Staffel (Washington University in St. Louis)
5:00–6:00 p.m. “The Brier Score, Misleading Evidence, and
Versimilitude”
Speaker: Jeffrey S. Dunn (DePauw University)
Commentator: Jennifer Jhun (Lake Forest College)
6:00–7:00 p.m. “Credal Omniscience and Relevance Confirmation”
Speaker: Joel Pust (University of Delaware)
Commentator: Konstantin Genin (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Wednesday Evening, 7:00–10:00 p.m.
II-G. Colloquium: Shared Agency
Chair: Andrea Westlund (University of Wisconsin–
Milwaukee)
5:00–6:00 p.m. “Can the Master and Slave Work Together?”
**Graduate student travel stipend recipient**
Speaker: Allison Massof (Ohio State University)
Commentator: Randall Harp (University of Vermont)
6:00–7:00 p.m. “Unplanned Shared Agency”
Speaker: David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin–Stevens
Point)
Commentator: Caroline Arruda (University of Texas at El Paso)
II-H. Colloquium: Quine and His Quiddities
Chair: Daniel Z. Korman (University of Illinois)
5:00–6:00 p.m. “Accounting for Quine’s Robust Realism”
**Graduate student travel stipend recipient**
Speaker: Paul Goldberg (Boston University)
Commentator: Paul Gregory (Washington and Lee University)
6:00–7:00 p.m. “Caring for Quine’s Don’t Cares”
Speaker: James Pearson (Bridgewater State University)
Commentator: Matt Carlson (Wabash College)
II-I. APA Committee Session: Professional Development Workshop for
Black Doctoral Students
Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Black
Philosophers
Session details TBA.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, 7:00–10:00 P.M.
GROUP PROGRAM SESSIONS
GI-1. American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
Topic: Political Legitimacy I
Speaker: Anna Stilitz (Princeton University)
Commentators: Ekow Yankah (Cardozo Law School)
Jonathan Quong (University of Southern California)
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Wednesday Evening, 7:00–10:00 p.m. (cont.)
GI-2. North American Spinoza Society
Speakers: Idit Dobbs-Weinstein (Vanderbilt University)
Title TBA
Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University)
“Leibniz and Spinoza on Common Ground about
Faith as the Genuine Basis of Religion”
Jack Stetter (Université Paris 8)
“In What Sense is Spinoza’s Free Man Religious?”
Rodolfo Garau (Max-Planck-Institute and University
of Pennsylvania)
“Spinoza’s Anti-Anthropocentric Idea of Divine
Providence”
GI-3. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Speakers: Sheron Fraser-Burgess (Ball State University)
“Neo-liberalism, Black Rage, and White Identity
Convergence: Can Deweyan Social Inquiry Help?”
Marilyn Fischer (University of Dayton)
“Addams’s Analysis of Political Corruption”
Commentator: Steven A. Miller (Ripon College)
GI-4. Philosophy of Time Society
Chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)
Speakers: Sayid Bnefsi (Northern Illinois University)
“Do Ontologies of Time Have Rational Significance?
Yes”
Travis Matthew Figg (Wayne State University)
“How to Understand Presentism”
Nicholas Rimell (University of Virginia)
“Persistence on the Edge”
GI-5. Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy
Topic: Women and Minorities in the History of Analytical Philosophy
Chair: Marcus Rossberg (University of Connecticut)
Speakers: Molly Kao (University of Montreal)
“Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum”
Aude Bandini (Université de Montréal)
“Hector-Neri Castañeda: On Returning What One
Received”
Teresa Kouri (Ohio State University)
“Susan Stebbing and Common Sense Metaphysics”
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